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00:01:43.000Alrighty, so the big news of the day is, of course, that the Supreme Court has not immediately enjoined a Texas state law that effectively prevents abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
00:01:55.000And the reason that the Supreme Court did this is because of procedural mechanics here.
00:01:59.000So basically, the Supreme Court ruled, and the ruling was, it was a 5-4 ruling with, of course, Chief Justice Roberts joining the dissenters.
00:02:07.000It was the Republican appointees on one side, and then Roberts with the liberals on the other.
00:02:12.000And the basic scheme of the Texas law is why the law was not immediately taken up by the Supreme Court.
00:02:17.000So normally, in order for you to have a lawsuit that is taken up by an appeals court or taken up by the Supreme Court, You have to have somebody to sue, right?
00:02:26.000Just because you see something wrong in life does not mean that you get to sue.
00:02:29.000And the person that you sue has to be the right person.
00:02:31.000And if you're suing over a law, presumably, if you sue, for example, the person who is enforcing the law, that person has to have the power to enforce the law.
00:02:40.000So, for example, in Roe vs. Wade, it was an official of government who was being sued in Roe vs. Wade because it was that person's responsibility to enforce the law, so that person ends up as the defendant.
00:02:49.000This is usually the case when you have a case that's appealed to the Supreme Court and it has to do with a law that is being enforced by the state.
00:02:56.000Usually there's some official whose name you don't know who ends up as the defendant in that particular lawsuit.
00:03:02.000Well Texas found a way around this, at least for the moment, it's sort of a creative way around this.
00:03:06.000The way that they wrote the law, it is not that the Texas state government is going to be enforcing the law.
00:03:12.000It's not like somebody comes to your door and takes you off to jail if you participate in the abortion process at 12 weeks of pregnancy.
00:03:20.000Instead, what the Texas state law basically did is it created a private right of action.
00:03:25.000The private right of action essentially allows anyone to sue a person in court who has participated in the facilitation of an abortion.
00:03:34.000According to Politico, individuals found to have violated that law would have to pay $10,000 to the person who successfully brings such a lawsuit.
00:03:40.000It's almost sort of a private bounty, in other words.
00:03:43.000So, let's say that there's a woman who wants an abortion.
00:03:46.000I know her abortion doctor is providing her an abortion.
00:03:49.000I can sue the abortion doctor for providing her an abortion at 10 weeks, and then he has to pay me $10,000 for his violation of the law.
00:03:57.000According to Politico, anti-abortion groups in the states such as Texas Rights Life have in recent weeks set up tip lines for people to anonymously report violators ahead of the law's implementation.
00:04:05.000Earlier on Tuesday, a federal district court issued a temporary restraining order Barring the group from filing suits against a small group of individuals and organizations that assist patients in obtaining an abortion, but both sides of the case acknowledge the order is very narrow and the anti-abortion group said it still plans to solicit tips and bring lawsuits against abortion providers now that the courts have given a green light to the law's implementation.
00:04:25.000So, the Supreme Court majority does not say whether the law is constitutional.
00:04:29.000They just say that it is not clear whether they can take up the case because there's nobody to sue yet, right?
00:04:34.000Nobody has actually brought a lawsuit along these lines as of yet.
00:04:38.000So the Supreme Court found, To prevail in an application for a stay or an injunction, an applicant must carry the burden of making a strong showing that is likely to succeed on the merits, and that will be irrevocably injured absent a stay, and that the balance of equities favors it, and that a stay is consistent with the public interest.
00:04:53.000The applicants now before us have raised serious questions regarding the constitutionality of the Texas law at issue, but their application also presents complex and novel antecedent procedural questions on which they have not carried their burden.
00:05:03.000So this is the Supreme Court saying, listen, we might not strike down Roe vs. Wade.
00:05:07.000We might, in fact, strike down this law.
00:05:08.000But first, you have to go through the actual procedure of somebody having been grievously harmed by a private actor in this particular way.
00:05:15.000Because this lawsuit was, again, directed at a person, Austin Reeve Jackson, who's a judge.
00:05:22.000It's directed at a person who actually does not have the power to even enforce the law, per se.
00:05:29.000Federal courts enjoy the power to enjoin individuals tasked with enforcing laws, not the laws themselves.
00:05:34.000It is unclear whether the named defendants in this lawsuit can or will seek to enforce the Texas law against the applicants in a manner that might permit our intervention.
00:05:40.000The state has represented that neither it nor its executive employees possess the authority to enforce the Texas law either directly or indirectly, nor is it clear whether under existing precedent this court can issue an injunction against state judges asked to decide a lawsuit under Texas law, which is the person who was sued in this particular case.
00:05:56.000Finally, the sole private citizen respondent before us has filed an affidavit stating he has no present intention to enforce the law.
00:06:02.000In light of such issues, we can't say the applicants have met their burden to prevail in an injunction or stay application.
00:06:09.000In the dissents, Justice Roberts didn't say that he would vote to uphold Roe v. Wade.
00:06:13.000He just said that if he put an injunction on the law pending Some sort of resolution of the underlying issues.
00:06:18.000There's the procedural issues, and then there's the underlying issue, which is really the one at the heart of the case, which is, is it constitutional to pass a law that bars abortion after week six?
00:06:27.000Now, look, from a pure constitutional perspective, the answer, of course, is it's fully constitutional.
00:06:34.000For the vast majority of America's history, there were abortion laws in virtually every state.
00:06:38.000And obviously, there is no right to an abortion in the Constitution of the United States.
00:06:42.000You can't point to anything that points to it.
00:06:44.000It is emanations and penumbras and an idiotic Supreme Court majority in Roe vs. Wade that literally created a right to abortion out of whole cloth.
00:07:06.000So, as a matter of just what's in the Constitution on the underlying issue, the answer is, of course, Texas can pass this law.
00:07:13.000And California can also pass a law that allows abortion up till a particular point.
00:07:18.000Maybe beyond, depending on what exactly California is doing and whether the 14th Amendment and the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause applies to the unborn.
00:07:28.000There's a strong pro-life case that the Equal Protection Clause, that everyone is entitled to equal protection of the law, so far as life, liberty, and due process, for example.
00:07:39.000That should include the unborn, right?
00:07:46.000You're protected by the Constitution of the United States.
00:07:48.000But putting that aside, if that is not the argument that is going to be accepted by the Supreme Court, for example, which it seems would be unlikely, if that's not going to be the argument accepted by the Supreme Court, The overturning of Roe v. Wade would not lead to a vast national ban on abortion.
00:08:02.000It would lead to significant restrictions in places like Texas, places like Georgia, places like Florida.
00:08:06.000It would lead to no restrictions in places like California, because it would just get kicked back to the states.
00:08:11.000That was the situation before Roe v. Wade.
00:08:13.000There were very few restrictions on abortion in blue states, and there were lots of restrictions on abortion in red states.
00:08:19.000Okay, so Chief Justice Roberts says, you know, I'm not going to even tell you how I'm voting on the underlying issue here.
00:08:24.000By the way, the majority said the same thing here.
00:08:25.000Roberts just says that he would enjoin it anyway.
00:08:27.000So Roberts says, the statutory scheme before the court is not only unusual but unprecedented.
00:08:32.000The legislature has imposed a prohibition on abortions after roughly six weeks and then essentially delegated enforcement of that prohibition to the populace at large.
00:08:39.000The desired consequence appears to be to insulate the state from responsibility for implementing and enforcing the regulatory regime.
00:08:45.000The state defendants argue they cannot be restrained from enforcing their rules because they're not enforcing them in the first place.
00:08:50.000I would grant preliminary relief to preserve the status quo ante before the law went into effect so that the courts may consider whether a state can avoid responsibility for its laws in such a manner.
00:09:00.000Defendants argue existing doctrines preclude judicial intervention and they may be correct.
00:09:05.000But the consequences of approving the state action, both in this particular case and as a model for action in other areas, counsel at least preliminary judicial consideration before the program devised by the state takes effect.
00:09:15.000So, Roberts is fully admitting, in his own dissent here, that defendants may be right, that they are allowed to avoid culpability here because they're not the actual defendants, but Justice Roberts says, I'm gonna intervene anyway because I prefer the status quo ante, which is pure Roberts, right?
00:09:29.000Roberts is mostly interested in preserving what he perceives as judicial legitimacy, At the expense of actual judicial accuracy.
00:09:36.000This is why he'll rewrite the Obamacare law in order to ensure that Obamacare remains the law of the land despite the fact that it clearly violates constitutional provisions and separation of powers.
00:09:46.000Because Justice Roberts is always thinking of the legitimacy of the institution.
00:09:49.000By the way, because he thinks like this, he has completely undermined the legitimacy of the institution.
00:09:53.000It turns out the only way to uphold the legitimacy of your institution is to strictly interpret the rules under which we are all supposed to live so that there's predictability to those rules.
00:10:03.000You're not supposed to be thinking with your finger in the wind, how do I best uphold the legitimacy of my institution?
00:10:08.000That is what undercuts your legitimacy.
00:10:10.000At least it's true as a human being as well.
00:10:12.000If you're constantly vacillating because you're trying to please people, people don't like you as much.
00:10:18.000And this is certainly true when it comes to institutions, which is why Justice Roberts is actually a terrible, terrible justice.
00:10:23.000In any case, he continues, I would accordingly preclude enforcement of SB 8 by the respondents to afford the District Court and the Court of Appeals the opportunity to consider the propriety of judicial action and preliminary relief pending consideration of the plaintiff's claims.
00:10:38.000Because basically, his argument is that it upsets life too much.
00:10:43.000If we don't intervene, it upsets life too much.
00:10:45.000Then, there are the actual liberals on the court, and their dissent is basically, we love abortion, and abortion's in the Constitution, and this is a bad law, and so we should strike down the law.
00:10:52.000Forget about the procedure, the law needs to go, because the reality is that imminent and serious harm are on their way, and we need to make sure that the quote-unquote right to abortion is preserved.
00:11:07.000There's another one from Justice Sotomayor.
00:11:09.000Sotomayor, of course, is the most vocal, ardent, and screed-like.
00:11:15.000She writes the most screeds on the left of the court.
00:11:17.000She's sort of replaced Justice Ginsburg in that respect.
00:11:20.000She says the court's order is stunning.
00:11:22.000Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law, engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand.
00:11:34.000Okay, it's not flagrantly unconstitutional.
00:11:36.000Roe v. Wade is flagrantly anti-constitutional.
00:11:38.000It is a made-up law, out of whole cloth, pulled directly from the colons of the justices in that case, particularly Harry Blackmun.
00:11:44.000But she says this is blatantly unconstitutional, which is a laugh since her actual care about the Constitution is basically zero.
00:11:51.000She says, last night, the court silently acquiesced in a state's enactment of a law that flouts nearly 50 years of federal precedents.
00:11:57.00050 years of bad federal judicial precedent has been overturned?
00:12:01.000Well, somebody sound the alarm because it turns out the court has routinely done that in cases where they've made bad mistakes before, namely Plessy v. Ferguson or Dred Scott.
00:12:09.000She says, Okay, so that is where things stand.
00:12:11.000explains, it declined to grant relief because of procedural complexities of the state's own invention. Because the court's failure to act rewards tactics designed to avoid judicial review and inflicts significant harm on the applicants and on women seeking abortion in Texas. I dissent.
00:12:24.000Okay, so that is where things stand. Now, a lot of people in the media are reading this as though the Supreme Court of the United States is now going to knock down Roe v. Wade.
00:12:35.000I have serious doubts whether the Supreme Court of the United States is going to knock down Roe vs. Wade.
00:12:38.000I think what they may do is rewrite the Planned Parenthood vs. Casey standard.
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00:14:11.000The actual standard that may be curbed here is the so-called undue burden standard under Planned Parenthood vs. Casey.
00:14:17.000So, the Roe vs. Wade decision sets up this ridiculous anti-scientific trimester system, right, where the idea is that you could have some restrictions in the last trimester, maybe a few restrictions in the second trimester, and no restrictions in the first trimester.
00:14:32.000And then it sets up a standard of viability, and it says, well, until the baby's viable, you can basically do what you want.
00:14:37.000None of this is in the Constitution, of course.
00:14:41.000Then, in the early 90s, there's a case written by Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy and that whole clan.
00:14:48.000And the basic idea of the case is that the woman must never be unduly burdened.
00:14:56.000That is the undue burden standard that a woman cannot have to face down an order that has the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking the abortion of a non-viable fetus.
00:15:11.000I mean, that decision is a complete, absolute mess.
00:16:10.000It basically came full-blown from the heads of a bunch of left-leaning justices on the Supreme Court.
00:16:15.000But it has now become a rote part of sort of leftist theology, and it really is a theology at this point, that abortion is an inerrant good.
00:17:30.000Structure is necessary to the formation of the eyes and ears develop small buds appear that will soon become arms your baby's body begins To take on a c-shaped curvature in week seven the baby's head develops The baby's brain and face are growing Depressions that eventually give rise to nostrils become visible.
00:18:35.000And of course you get the obligatory... This just amuses me.
00:18:39.000You get the obligatory photo of the women in the Handmaid's Tale outfits.
00:18:44.000Okay, now, just quick note, you can get an abortion pretty much anywhere in the country that ain't Texas.
00:18:49.000Also, quick note, the woman in the photo is wearing a Pride Progress face mask, a transgender rights face mask with a gay Pride flag, rainbow flag, over her face in the New York Times photo that has been chosen.
00:19:06.000And this has become part of the broader left-wing rubric where they just create mad libs that don't make any sense when it comes to these issues.
00:19:14.000So what they like to say, the original left-wing argument was safe, legal, and rare.
00:19:19.000It's sad, but it's necessary in some cases.
00:19:21.000We'd like to make those cases less necessary.
00:19:23.000You know, where a woman is having a really tough time, we can't burden her.
00:19:27.000It was a bad argument, but at least had some semblance of morality attached to it.
00:19:31.000Then we went from safe, legal, and rare to abortion is the greatest thing that ever happened.
00:19:36.000And now we've moved all the way to abortion is a woke issue that affects the intersectional coalition.
00:19:41.000Which is like the weakest pro-abortion argument of all.
00:19:43.000At least the secondary argument that a woman needs to abort her baby so she can be successful in her career.
00:19:47.000Which is sort of the argument you'll see made routinely by pro-abortion advocates.
00:19:54.000acknowledges the logical consistency of, I need to kill this baby so that I can get the promotion.
00:19:59.000That's pretty cruel and terrible, but at least it acknowledges it.
00:20:03.000When it gets enmeshed in the entire intersectional woke rhetoric, it makes no sense at all.
00:20:06.000It just starts to be self-contradictory and very silly.
00:20:08.000When you're declaring that men can be women, and it's very difficult to explain how this is a woman's right issue.
00:20:14.000When you're calling women pregnant people, very difficult to explain why this is a quote unquote women's issue as opposed to just a broad issue that affects both women and men and all the rest.
00:20:22.000My favorite line of this, and this is why I point out the gay pride flag this person is wearing while wearing the Handmaid's Tale outfit, is, again, once it gets enmeshed in the left-wing mad lib, it starts to make no sense.
00:20:33.000So Cori Bush, this is just a great example of this, she tweets out yesterday, the congresswoman from Missouri, the Black Lives Matter congresswoman from Missouri, she says, I'm thinking About the black, brown, low-income, queer, and young folks in Texas.
00:20:46.000The folks this abortion healthcare ban will disproportionately harm.
00:20:50.000Wealthy white folks will have the means to access abortion care, our communities won't.
00:20:53.000Okay, so, one of the arguments that is consistently made by people on the left is that black and brown women need to have lots of abortions.
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00:23:49.000So again, the left is fighting mad about this because abortion has now become a sacrament and now it's become a sacrament in the higher woke catechism.
00:24:00.000Okay, Hillary Clinton is tweeting out about this as well.
00:24:03.000She says, Under the cover of darkness, by choosing to do nothing, the Supreme Court allowed an unconstitutional abortion ban in Texas to go into effect last night.
00:24:11.000Their decision doesn't change the fact that reproductive rights are human rights.
00:24:15.000By the way, the euphemisms, the euphemisms.
00:24:18.000If you just read that out loud, but instead of reproductive rights, you just said killing the unborn in the womb, you'd realize how self-contradictory and silly this is.
00:24:45.000Here's Wendy Davis doing the same exact thing.
00:24:48.000So this is a law that's going to hit, as is the case so many times, women who are lower income It's amazing.
00:25:08.000The left is actually making its own agenda less popular by using the equity talk.
00:25:12.000Instead of saying that this damages women because women need the right to abortion broadly, instead they have to go to this hurts black, brown, low-income, queer women.
00:25:46.000The fact that she's still trotted out as a legit figure because she once made a long speech on the floor of the Texas state legislature while wearing pink sneakers is astonishing to me.
00:25:53.000The levels of accomplishment you need in order to achieve fame in this society are not particularly high.
00:25:58.000Speaking of which, Jeffrey Toobin, who is most famous for masturbating on camera in front of his work colleagues, he wrote, quote, Midnight in Austin.
00:26:06.000For the first time since 1973, a state has banned abortion.
00:26:09.000The great conservative legal project has succeeded.
00:26:14.000Now, first of all, his mouth to God's ears.
00:26:16.000But, second of all, Roe vs. Wade has not yet been overheard.
00:26:20.000Also, Jeffrey Toobin commenting on this?
00:26:23.000I understand there's some people... I will say at least Jeffrey Toobin has a stake in it.
00:26:26.000Jeffrey Toobin famously impregnated the daughter of one of his friends and then tried to pressure her to have an abortion and then tried to avoid his paternity payment.
00:26:36.000So he feels like a really good source on this sort of thing.
00:26:38.000By the way, CNN brought him on like four or five times yesterday to talk about this because the media have no shame whatsoever.
00:26:44.000But they're very objective, very journalism-ing.
00:26:46.000In fact, speaking of the journalism-ing, Chris Cuomo tweeted out a Graphic of Carlos Chapman, a law professor at Washington and Lee University from Occupy Democrats.
00:26:57.000Nothing says journalism-ing like tweeting out graphics from Occupy Democrats.
00:27:02.000This woman said, quote, if a fetus is a person at six weeks pregnant, is that when the child support starts?
00:27:06.000OK, so first of all, sure, I'm cool with that.
00:27:11.000In fact, Utah, I believe, passed a law exactly along those lines, saying that when a woman is pregnant, men have to start paying child support.
00:27:17.000Also, quote, is that also when you can't support the mother because she's carrying a U.S.
00:27:31.000Just figuring if we're going there, we should go all in.
00:27:33.000So, this is one of my favorite kinds of arguments that the left makes, which is, they'll say, well, if a fetus is a person, will you do all these things?
00:27:40.000Okay, and if I say yes, are you now going to acknowledge a fetus is a person, or are you just being an idiot?
00:27:44.000Are you just playing stupid semantic word games?
00:27:47.000Chris Cuomo, fond of stupid semantic word games, and also covering for his lying, cheating, and horrifying brother.
00:27:56.000Just hot, sticky journalism getting everywhere over at the CNN studios.
00:28:00.000Speaking of which, Areva Martin on CNN, she decided to link the pro-life position to not wanting to wear masks.
00:28:07.000Now, last I checked, if I don't wear a mask and you have the capacity to protect yourself, that is not the same thing as me putting a needle into a woman and poisoning the fetus inside and then cutting them up in the womb and sucking the baby in the sink.
00:28:21.000I don't really see the resemblance, I'll be honest with you.
00:28:23.000I'm vaccinated, and if you get a transmissible disease from me that you could have protected yourself from, I don't see exactly how there's any relationship between that and you forcibly killing a child, but Maybe she's just too sophisticated for me here.
00:28:40.000At this moment, it is not clear to me that women will be able to continue to make reproductive choices about their bodies because men, primarily men, but legislatures like those in Texas and other states have decided that they know better as it relates to what women should be able to do with respect to their body.
00:28:59.000And as Laura said, the hypocrisy is just nauseating.
00:29:04.000You can't wear a mask, but you can decide that a woman can't make choices about her body.
00:29:10.000This is a wake-up call for women and men all over this country.
00:29:16.000By the way, it works in reverse as well.
00:29:17.000If you believe that women ought to have pure choice over their body, why are you telling them there need to be vaccine mandates and mask mandates?
00:29:23.000I noticed there's some inconsistency there from the left.
00:29:25.000And then, of course, there's the bottom line call here, which is, of course, that American conservatives are like the Taliban because they want to protect unborn life.
00:29:31.000You have Amy Siskind, who is a radical activist, tweeting out, sigh, hashtag Texas Taliban.
00:29:37.000And then a cartoon from Mike Lukovic, From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who is, of course, of the radical left, saying it's a picture of two women in full burqa, living under the Taliban, saying, pray for Texas women.
00:29:56.000By the way, I've noticed that there are a few ways that you don't need to get pregnant that are available to women throughout American life.
00:30:02.000And that abortion is actually not supposed to be a form of birth control.
00:30:06.000Again, this is a shift in the democratic argument.
00:30:08.000It used to be safe, legal, and rare because the idea was there might be some terrible circumstances where the baby has some sort of deep malformation where you don't want to live with that.
00:30:15.000I think that's immoral, but That is the argument Democrats were making.
00:30:19.000People are literally making that argument online today.
00:30:22.000You know how many Down Syndrome babies will be born in Texas now?
00:30:25.000It's like, well, yeah, I mean, better than killing them, it turns out.
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00:32:20.000Okay, we'll get to everything Afghanistan in just one second because it turns out that shock of shocks, Joe Biden is a damned liar.
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00:33:38.000All righty, meanwhile, the Afghanistan situation continues to fall completely apart.
00:33:49.000It is a disaster area, but the good news is that the Biden administration, their arm has grown to three feet long so that they can really tap themselves on the back, pat themselves on the back, stroke themselves in every way possible, tubing all over themselves.
00:34:04.000They can do all of these things now, physically.
00:34:06.000They've pretzeled themselves in order to make all of this happen.
00:34:09.000Ron Klain, Was the shadow president for Joe Biden and who spends all day on Twitter retweeting things.
00:34:14.000I mean, he's basically like Trump on Twitter.
00:34:16.000He said yesterday that the Afghan pullout was handled as well as humanly possible.
00:34:24.000It's easy to second guess, but let's just be clear.
00:34:30.000And I think any effort to unwind that, any effort to bring our troops out, any effort to end our military presence in Afghanistan was going to be filled with heartbreaking scenes and difficulties.
00:34:42.000And I think the Biden administration has managed that as well as it could be managed under the circumstances we were placed in.
00:34:50.000Um, the circumstances you placed yourselves in.
00:34:52.000It was handled as well as could be managed.
00:34:54.000And then, Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, he came out, he said, this was historic!
00:35:40.000And I hope that all Americans will unite to thank our service members for their courage and their compassion.
00:35:48.000They were operating in an immensely dangerous and dynamic environment.
00:35:55.000But our troops were tireless, fearless, and selfless.
00:36:03.000My favorite is when he says things like, this is the biggest evacuation in American history, aren't we good at this?
00:36:07.000There wouldn't have been an evacuation necessary if you hadn't pursued an entirely garbage policy.
00:36:12.000By the way, when people say things like this is unprecedented, Dunkirk involved 340,000 troops being evacuated from the French coastline.
00:36:20.000So actually, it's pretty well historically precedented.
00:36:24.000In the aftermath of the 1948 war establishing the state of Israel, some 800,000 people, their journeys from Arab lands to Israel, Jews, had been expelled.
00:37:13.000In July, you were saying the government wasn't going to fall.
00:37:15.000Not only that, in July, the president of the United States called up the then Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, And some of the transcript has now been leaked.
00:37:28.000And he was telling Ghani to lie to everybody and say that everything was hunky-dory.
00:37:31.000How are you expecting people to take you seriously when you are actively encouraging the president of Afghanistan to lie about the situation being just fine?
00:37:39.000And there's only one reason that Joe Biden wanted that.
00:37:43.000The one reason that Joe Biden wanted that is to shore up his own domestic political failures.
00:37:47.000He didn't want people to know that things were collapsing that quickly.
00:37:50.000Because then everybody would have been like, whoa, maybe it was a bad idea to announce to your mortal enemy, the Taliban, what date you were going to leave, how you were going to leave, and then withdraw all air support.
00:38:01.000Remember, Donald Trump was impeached over a Ukraine phone call.
00:38:04.000There are some problems with that phone call.
00:38:06.000Nothing, to me, approaching the level of the president of the United States calling up the Afghan president and telling him to overtly lie to the world about the military situation on the ground in Afghanistan.
00:38:18.000Here's what Biden said, quote, you know, I'm a moment late, but I mean it sincerely.
00:38:23.000I'm not a military man any more than you are, but I have been meeting with our Pentagon folks and our national security people, as you have been with ours and yours.
00:38:29.000And as you know, and as I need not tell you, the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things aren't going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban.
00:38:37.000And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.
00:38:44.000There's a need to project a different picture.
00:39:01.000He did not continue to provide air support.
00:39:03.000He withdrew all military contractors from the country.
00:39:07.000He said, in addition to that, we're going to continue to fight hard diplomatically, politically, economically, make sure your government not only survives, but it's sustained and grows because it is clearly in the interest of the people of Afghanistan that you succeed and that you lead.
00:39:19.000I find you a brilliant and honorable man, but the perception is that things are falling apart.
00:39:25.000And we need that perception to change.
00:39:27.000It's not about the reality on the ground changing.
00:39:29.000Ghani replied, said, Mr. President, we're facing a full-scale invasion composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning, logistical support, at least 10 to 15,000 international terrorists, predominantly Pakistanis, thrown into this.
00:39:39.000So that dimension needs to be taken account of.
00:39:44.000This is Ghani speaking to Biden, right?
00:39:45.000This is a leaked transcript of a phone call that Biden will not be impeached over.
00:39:49.000What is crucial is that close air support.
00:39:51.000And if I could make a request, if your assistance, particularly to our air force, be front loaded, because what we need at this moment, there is a very heavy reliance on air power.
00:39:59.000We have prioritized that if it could be at all front loaded, we will greatly appreciate it.
00:40:05.000And so, and Biden didn't do any of that.
00:40:08.000And then he said, look, close air support works only if there is a military strategy on the ground to support.
00:40:13.000So he overtly, he said, we're going to give you the air support.
00:40:16.000And Ghani's like, okay, well, we'd like to see it.
00:40:17.000And he's like, well, you're not getting it.
00:40:19.000And then he says, well, why didn't people leave earlier?
00:40:23.000While I was encouraging the president of Afghanistan, what a, what a, what a dishonest piece of work the president of the United States is.
00:40:30.000So Jen Psaki was asked specifically about this pathetic phone call from the President of the United States urging the Afghan President to lie to the general public while withdrawing close air support.
00:40:39.000And she, of course, dodged the question.
00:40:43.000There's some reporting that we'd like to confirm regarding a call in July, rather, between President Biden and former Afghanistan President Ghani.
00:41:31.000I noticed that she had no problem speaking repeatedly about things like the SEAL dossier for four years.
00:41:37.000Meanwhile, we are learning that a majority of Afghans who had worked for the U.S.
00:41:40.000military and applied for special immigrant visas had not been successfully evacuated and remained in Afghanistan.
00:41:46.000A senior State Department official said it appeared that a majority, a majority are still there.
00:41:53.000According to the senior official, I don't have an estimate for you on the number of SIVs and family members who are still there.
00:41:57.000I would say it's the majority of them, just based on anecdotal information about the populations we were able to support.
00:42:03.000State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that of about 31,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan to the United States between August 17th and August 31st, roughly 23,000 were Afghan allies and family members considered at risk by the Taliban.
00:42:16.000The effort was hampered by the unpredictable role of the Taliban stationed along routes into the airport, the official said.
00:42:22.000The Taliban cooperated in some cases, but in other cases blocked Afghan nationals from proceeding to the airport, according to the official.
00:42:28.000On Tuesday, based on the initial figures then available from the Pentagon, NBC News reported 8,500 Afghan allies had been evacuated.
00:42:34.000It was not clear if all of those 8,500 were applicants for SIVs or other expedited visas.
00:42:39.000On Wednesday, the Pentagon then released new figures saying that about 20,000 Afghans had arrived at eight military bases in the United States.
00:42:47.000He said there were also another 40,000 Afghan evacuees but did not provide a breakdown on how many of these people were actually screened, who these people were, were they SIVs, were they translators?
00:42:56.000Basically what happened is that at the very beginning they just loaded people on planes and took them.
00:43:00.000That's probably what was happening at the very beginning.
00:43:03.000The reason I say this is because you could literally see the Afghans swarming the runway as all of this was happening.
00:43:09.000All of which has driven the Washington Post To correctly point out that this is a disaster area.
00:43:15.000They say this is, again, this is the Washington Post editorial board.
00:43:17.000quote, this is a moral disaster, one attributable not to the actions of military and diplomatic personnel, but to mistakes strategic and tactical by Mr.
00:43:28.000The Biden administration says the Washington Post says they will not be forgotten.
00:43:32.000Plans already are being developed, officials say, for continued efforts to extract people.
00:43:35.000Nearly 100 nations issued a statement, etc.
00:43:38.000Any assurances by the Taliban clash with statements their spokesperson made during the crisis that the United States was wrongly inducing Afghans to leave.
00:43:46.000So even the Washington Post is like, yeah, this is just nonsense.
00:44:17.000I still had hoped that we would leave.
00:44:19.000She said she repeatedly attempted to get through to Mercy Flights at Kabul, detailing how she was instructed to hold up an umbrella and shout out a code word, but nothing worked to get past the checkpoints and the thousands trying to flee.
00:44:29.000She says, if Americans couldn't help me when they were on the ground, what the hell do they expect to do now?
00:44:34.000She says that she is sheltering 37 people at her house, including 19 children, two of whom are disabled.
00:44:45.000The State Department spokesperson, Ned Price, who is basically the Baghdad Bob of this operation, he says, you know, so he's asked, so you guys said that there'd be other ways for Americans to escape.
00:44:55.000Are you aware of any Americans who have left since the United States abandoned Afghanistan a couple of days ago?
00:45:00.000Do you have a number for, have any Americans gotten out since that last flight?
00:45:07.000I don't have, I don't have data to provide on that front.
00:45:11.000Okay, now this is doing some pretty severe damage to Joe Biden, as well it should, according to Civics polls, right?
00:45:17.000So they have polls of presidential approval in every state.
00:45:20.000His approval rating has dropped by 11 points in Arizona, 4 in Colorado, 11 in Florida, 13 in Georgia, 9 in Michigan, 4 in Minnesota, 4 in Nevada, 7 in New Mexico, 12 in North Carolina, 12 in Pennsylvania, 25 in Texas, 6 in Virginia, and 6 in Wisconsin.
00:45:36.000Those are really bad numbers for the President of the United States.
00:45:39.000And heading into 2022, this looks like wipeout territory for the Democrats.
00:45:43.000So, of course, they are banking again on January 6th and the January 6th Commission.
00:45:46.000I just don't think that dog is going to hunt.
00:45:49.000There's only one group of people in power right now.
00:45:51.000There is one man who made this decision.
00:45:53.000He sits at the head of the United States government.
00:46:23.000Or, maybe, a couple weeks from now, ISIS will chop somebody's head off, he's an American citizen, and Joe Biden will be out front explaining how we're working with the Taliban in order to stop ISIS.
00:46:59.000The same administration that says that you, a law-abiding American citizen, cannot have an AR-15, says we should hand over probably hundreds of thousands of M4s to the Taliban, as well as helicopters and everything else.
00:47:09.000So, I said on the show, A while back, that was $83 billion in U.S.
00:47:13.000military equipment that had been handed over to the Taliban.
00:48:31.000And as far as our dealings with them at that airfield or in the past year or so, in war, you do what you must in order to reduce risk to mission and force, not what you necessarily want to do.
00:48:43.000Any possibility of coordination against ISIS-K?
00:50:10.000Which is more like over-the-rainbow capacity, but we have over-the-horizon capacity.
00:50:13.000Which is a nice way of saying we don't have anybody on ground anywhere near where we need to hit.
00:50:17.000So we're going back to the 1998 shoot-a-missile-into-a-camel's-ass strategy from Bill Clinton.
00:50:21.000That had no dire ramifications, right?
00:50:23.000I mean, if we just start from that 1998 strategy again and replay history with the exact same people in the exact same place, I wonder, might there be some ra- If we think historically, did anything happen after we did that?
00:50:34.000Like, you know, around September of 2001 or so.
00:50:51.000By the way, the media, who are just doing stenography for the Biden administration, half of them are tweeting out things like, we disabled some of our military equipment at the final bases we left.
00:51:00.000Oh, you mean like the last place we left, we disabled some of the military equipment?
00:51:03.000Because I'm noticing not a lot of disabled military equipment right there.
00:51:07.000And I noticed the Taliban flying around Blackhawk helicopters the other day.
00:51:11.000Matt Zeller, former CIA analyst who's on CNN and MSNBC, he says, yeah, you know, the Taliban are new friends.
00:51:17.000They're going to be So imagine if they had listened to us.
00:51:25.000Because in some alternate reality they did, and every single one of those Afghans is now here and alive.
00:51:32.000And so the reality is, is that the Taliban have already begun hunting these people down.
00:51:36.000I have video evidence of them doing it, of taking people that we were actively trying to assist, They're waiting to form a new government before they punish these people, but our fear is that you'll begin to see mass executions within the next couple of weeks.
00:51:54.000But don't worry, they'll still be our friends because Joe Biden needs them to be our friends for his PR proposal that he has actually done a masterful job throughout all of this.
00:52:57.000If you are a Democrat and you get COVID, that's just a tragedy, an unavoidable tragedy.
00:53:00.000If you're a Republican or a non-Democrat, or if you didn't take the vaccine and you get COVID, then we get to mock and laugh at you, which is a really interesting standard, morally speaking, because it turns out that people get health conditions on a routine basis that they could have avoided had they made different choices.
00:53:14.000I wonder if we're now going to apply the same logic to people who have STDs, for example.
00:53:18.000Like, if you get an STD, which you could have avoided because you didn't have to put your thing there, If you're not going to get vaccinated, you don't want to social distance, you don't want to wear a mask, then maybe you don't want to go to the hospital when you get sick.
00:53:27.000Don Lemon says, if you're unvaccinated, we just should not have hospitals care for you.
00:53:33.000If you're not gonna get vaccinated, you don't want a social distance, you don't want to wear a mask, then maybe you don't want to go to the hospital when you get sick.
00:53:40.000I know that sounds harsh, but you're taking up the space for people who are doing things the right way.
00:53:48.000Yes, again, as I've said before, I'm looking forward to that logic being extended to all sorts of avoidable health conditions that people don't take mitigation measures with regard to.
00:53:57.000So for example, if you get heart disease because you've been fat for 40 years, and your doctor has told you for 40 years that you should lose some weight and stop eating cheese every single day of your life, and then you get a heart clog, you get an arterial clog, maybe you should do what Don Lemon says, you just don't go to the hospital anymore.
00:54:12.000I mean, that's the way that this works now, right?
00:54:14.000You make a different decision than Don Lemon would make.
00:54:17.000And then, presumably, you have to bear the... Welcome to libertarian land, Don Lemon.
00:54:20.000It's really fascinating to see you here.
00:54:24.000I'm looking forward, as I say, to this being applied to all sorts of sexually transmitted diseases, which are completely avoidable if you just don't put that thing there.
00:54:31.000And yeah, we'll see how that works out for you.
00:54:34.000Also, the media have decided... They're doing this routine with regard to Rogan, because Rogan is very popular and he's very bad, because Joe Rogan has people like me on his show sometimes.
00:54:43.000So this means that he's a bad man, Joe Rogan.
00:54:46.000When he's a very rich bad man, who's rich and bad.
00:54:49.000And this means that Joe Rogan, who announced that he had been taking things like monoclonal antibodies, which by the way, are highly effective.
00:54:55.000And then he said that he had also been taking prednisone, which is a widely accepted steroid treatment.
00:55:03.000And then he also said that he had taken a vitamin drip as well as ivermectin.
00:55:08.000Okay, so what you've heard from the media is it is a horse deworming drug.
00:55:32.000It's the same thing as a fish tank cleaner.
00:55:33.000And then some idiot went and used fish tank cleaner to try and allegedly kill her husband.
00:55:38.000And then we were like, this is because of Trump telling people to take fish tank cleaner.
00:55:42.000So now they keep calling it a horse drug and so people who are interested in the possible impact of ivermectin are listening to the media and they're actually going out and trying to get like dosages of horse drugs.
00:55:52.000Because the media are just idiotic and they're liars.
00:56:02.000Nobel Prize winning drug ivermectin may fight malaria.
00:56:07.000Resurrecting old drugs for unmet medical needs, known more formally as drug repurposing, was an important message in the Nobel Prize for Medicine earlier this month.
00:56:14.000It came up today too, with the intriguing study showing that the antiparasitic drug ivermectin, it's an antiparasitic, appears promising for disrupting malaria transmission.
00:56:22.000This new finding was presented today at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting by researchers from Colorado State University.
00:56:29.000Ivermectin has been used for decades, given once per year as part of the Mass Drug Administration Program to reduce the disabling worm infections onchocerciasis, which causes river blindness, and filariasis, the cause of the hugely swollen legs, elephantiasis.
00:56:45.000Merck has generously donated the entire supply of the drug.
00:56:47.000In Sub-Saharan Africa, each year, a deadly malaria parasite kills 584,000 people per year, most of them kids.
00:56:54.000They started using ivermectin for the kids.
00:56:57.000And apparently, there is a serious reduction in childhood malaria episodes in these particular villages.
00:57:09.000Also, it has been used for many other purposes.
00:57:12.000And the Nobel Prize was awarded to researchers in ivermectin, some of whom have suggested that this thing might be effective against COVID.
00:57:20.000So, I have no view on ivermectin because I've seen no studies on the efficacy of ivermectin for use against COVID.
00:57:27.000I can tell you, it is deeply inaccurate for the media to continue just saying that Joe Rogan and company are taking horse deworming drugs for no apparent reason and no scientists... Guys, you did the same thing with hydroxychloroquine.
00:57:39.000It turned out that that might've had an impact, especially if taken early on.
00:57:43.000It's amazing to watch the media shift in real time on what works and what doesn't, based completely on politics.
00:58:21.000Now, the reality, breakthrough cases of COVID are extremely rare in terms of having significant symptoms.
00:58:27.000You can get a breakthrough case of COVID, it usually manifests as a flu or like a very mild flu or a cold.
00:58:33.000But there's an entire long piece in the Washington Post about a person named Andrew Kinsey who was vaccinated.
00:58:40.000For nearly a week after getting a breakthrough case, Kinsey felt like he'd been run over by a truck.
00:58:44.000He struggled to walk a few steps and to stay awake through episodes of the TV show Doomsday Preppers.
00:58:48.000He returned to work last Monday as a corporate litigator but needs midday naps.
00:58:53.000He says it's important for people to know that what they picture in their head of a bad cold isn't necessarily what will happen even if they get a mild course.
00:58:59.000Kinsey and other vaccinated people who develop breakthrough cases of COVID-19 are learning a mild case may not seem so mild to the person enduring the infection.
00:59:07.000Those cases can be modest as a few days of sniffles, but in other circumstances can spawn debilitating headaches and fatigue.
00:59:13.000Symptoms can persist longer than the usual cold.
00:59:16.000Now, um, I perused this entire article and what I noticed is that there is literally no data with regard to how many people are reporting, like, super serious symptoms.
00:59:30.000Also, if you get a really bad flu, there are no articles about that.
00:59:33.000Instead, it's just a bunch of anecdotal stuff about how people have gotten sick and they're feeling sick and stuff, which is true of the flu every single year and it is not a public health issue.
00:59:45.000The media's main narrative seems to be, do whatever you are told.
00:59:49.000And we're not going to present data to tell you why you should do what you're told.
00:59:53.000And then we'll just cherry pick data to push a particular regimen, a course of action.
01:00:01.000So for example, there's a big Bangladesh study that was touted yesterday.
01:00:05.000This big Bangladesh study, touted yesterday was, they followed like 360 people in Bangladesh.
01:00:10.000They had different villages that were assigned masks and not assigned masks.
01:00:13.000And what the study found is that where there were mask mandates, there tended to be social distancing.
01:00:19.000Where there was social distancing, there tended to be a drop in the virus.
01:00:23.000They said that surgical masks seem to make more of a difference than cloth masks, although there was some pretty, yeah, like some difference.
01:00:29.000Not a huge difference, but some difference.
01:00:31.000Okay, then they said that there was a pretty significant decrease in terms of the effect on symptomatic seroprevalence by age group, meaning symptomatic COVID by age group.
01:00:39.000If you're above the age of 60, there's about a 35% decrease in your symptomatic COVID attainment if you were in a village that had a surgical mask mandate.
01:00:49.000And if you're 50 to 60, same thing, right?
01:00:50.000There's a serious decrease, like 23% decrease.
01:00:53.000What's weird about this particular study is it shows no statistically significant decrease in the attainment of symptomatic COVID if you were below the age of 50.
01:01:09.000They're going to be saying from this study that mask mandates generally work, which of course ignores the fact that countrywide mask mandates really don't.
01:01:17.000We've not seen any significant evidence that countrywide mask mandates are particularly effective.
01:01:21.000So they're going to cherry pick the data, meaning that the upper age brackets here We're helped by a mask mandate.
01:01:57.000We're in the endless pandemic, and because we're in the endless pandemic, we have to continue talking about measures like masking that are way less effective than vaccines.
01:02:05.000And in order to push that, we have to have articles in the Washington Post about how even if you're vaccinated, you might get a bad, mean case of COVID, and it might feel like the flu, and you might feel yucky afterward for a while.
01:02:16.000And by the way, that happens with diseases all the time.
01:02:17.000When I was younger, I had a case of salmonella.
01:02:23.000But the idea here, again, is that they're gonna offer you all sorts of conflicting information, then out from the clouds will step Anthony Fauci, and you must listen to Anthony Fauci or you're anti-the science.
01:02:33.000Meanwhile, we will tell you that ivermectin is only used for horse deworming.
01:02:36.000We will tell you that even if you're vaccinated, You might get a really bad case of COVID.
01:02:40.000We won't give you any stats to back that up.
01:02:42.000We'll tell you without any evidence whatsoever that it is mandatory that you vaccinate, that you mask your three-year-old child with a cloth mask in the middle of Delta.
01:02:48.000By the way, this study here was not done with regard to Delta.
01:02:50.000The study was done with regard to the original variant.
01:02:55.000We'd love to see the stats on how effective surgical masks are with regard to a virus that has 300 times the viral load that the original virus had.
01:03:04.000You're just going to see the headlines.
01:03:06.000And so you end up with people acting irrationally, and people acting in great fear for their lives when this is not necessary.
01:03:12.000I mean, I know lots of people who are like this.
01:03:15.000What you end up with is a complete breakdown between two groups.
01:03:18.000One, people who are utterly paranoid about every single little thing, and people who think all of it's bullcrap and they're just going to take their chances.
01:03:25.000That's what you're seeing society break down into, right?
01:03:27.000People who are like, I'm triple vaxxed, right?
01:03:29.000I'm double vaxxed, I'm getting a booster, and I still will not go to a place where somebody could have a virus, including a child, because who knows?
01:03:47.000I'm taking my chances even though I'm 65 and fat.
01:03:50.000It's like, well, you know, what would have been great is if the institutions of our society had not completely destroyed their own credibility by declaring themselves so elite that they didn't have to actually, by telling platonic lies that were designed to protect the people from themselves.
01:04:04.000Because all you end up with is people who believe they are part of the platonic lying group, and therefore have to mask up as a model to everybody else, and people who say, you lied to me, why would I possibly trust you ever, ever again?
01:04:16.000Alrighty, we've reached the end of today's show, but we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
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