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00:00:00.000As President Biden's plans become more and more radical, and as Andrew Cuomo goes down in flames, the media desperately keep the focus right where they want it, on Donald Trump, who hasn't been in office for a long time.
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00:02:03.000That was the question that was foremost on my mind in the middle of a global pandemic and in the immediate aftermath of a failed impeachment effort and, you know, with an economic downturn and maybe some foreign policy crises on the horizon.
00:02:14.000And what I was really worried about was how did Joe Biden spend President's Day weekend?
00:02:19.000You know, because I remember when Donald Trump went golfing, it was really, really bad because people were dying, man.
00:02:23.000But Joe Biden, that guy was playing Mario Kart.
00:02:26.000And because he was playing Mario Kart, that means he's cool.
00:02:28.000During his weekend retreat at Camp David, Biden and his granddaughter Naomi played the racing video game and he won.
00:02:38.000Naomi shared a video to Instagram and showed Biden competing against her on the arcade GPDX machines, complete with chairs and steering wheels.
00:03:01.000Biden told reporters on Friday that he and his family plan to relax during the long weekend.
00:03:05.000We're going to be up at Camp David for Valentine's Day, he said, adding they plan to just hang out with the family and do what we always do.
00:03:11.000Well, I mean, this is this is the important stuff, isn't it?
00:03:14.000I mean, I remember every single day on CNN, people focusing in on that COVID counter in the left hand side of the corner.
00:03:49.000It's called Inside the New President's Routine, Oval Office Fires and Early Bedtimes.
00:03:54.000So basically, this is just an attempt to spin the fact that Joe Biden is super old and goes to sleep right after the early bird dinner at 7.45 p.m.
00:04:09.000The man adds a log to the fire himself.
00:04:20.000As opposed to others who would have called in a full cadre of servants to add a log to the fire, Joe Biden is such a man of the people that he gets up, moves three feet, puts a log on the fire, sits down with his two magical dogs, and then goes to sleep at 7.30 p.m.
00:04:34.000I gotta tell you, I'm very impressed with this president.
00:04:36.000I don't even have to know what he's doing.
00:04:37.000All I know is that he beat his granddaughter at Mario Kart over at Camp David, and also that he adds logs to the fire sometimes before heading down to the Denny's and then going to sleep.
00:04:46.000It is really, really exciting stuff happening in our media.
00:04:49.000Now, there is some stuff that's actually happening here.
00:04:52.000Like, for example, the Biden administration is an actual governing administration.
00:04:55.000And I know that our media got unbelievably lazy during the Trump administration.
00:05:05.000They spent every waking moment focusing in on whatever dumb thing Trump tweeted that day.
00:05:09.000The amount of investigative journalism that they did that was outside of, like, the Russia stuff, which turned out to be a giant nothing burger.
00:05:16.000Outside of that, the amount of actual hardcore investigative journalism they did was relatively restricted.
00:05:22.000Because they had the easiest news beat in the world.
00:05:24.000You wake up in the morning, the president's tweeting something, you go out and you yell about it on TV.
00:05:28.000You go to the White House press briefing room, you yell at Kayleigh McEnany about it, you go home, and then the rest of the media talks about you talking about the president tweeting something about you.
00:05:36.000It's like the easiest beat in the entire world.
00:05:38.000And the truth is, journalism really died under Barack Obama because the journalists declared that Barack Obama was such an unbelievable, magical man that there was no reason ever to even cover the stuff that he was doing.
00:05:49.000In fact, it was considered bad form to cover the stuff that Barack Obama was doing.
00:05:53.000All you were supposed to do was cover the fact that he was the greatest human being who had ever walked planet Earth because he was the first black president of the United States.
00:06:09.000And then it was like, OK, well, we could do investigative journalism or alternatively, what we could do is we could Mentally masturbate about Russia for like four years.
00:06:17.000And also we could tweet, we could write a lot about his tweets and ask everybody.
00:06:39.000So yesterday I talked about the fact that there are so Many members of the media who are willing to overlook the fact that the Biden administration is completely gaming the CDC when it comes to school reopening.
00:06:52.000The school reopening standards are pretty clear.
00:07:00.000When you're talking about particularly about elementary schools, the amount of Safety precautions that need to be taken are significantly lower than you're talking about for middle or high school.
00:07:09.000And again, the data show that schools are not the chief modes of transmission to people who then die of COVID.
00:07:15.000This is increasingly true as the vaccines start to roll out.
00:07:18.000But here is how Politico is covering this.
00:07:21.000So the Biden administration rolled out a bunch of CDC standards that are completely anti-science.
00:07:26.000They suggest that, I kid you not, some 99% of all school children in the United States ought to be in hybrid or at-home learning only at this point in the pandemic.
00:07:39.000And, Rochelle Walensky, the head of the CDC, openly admitted that they created these standards specifically in order to please the teachers' unions.
00:07:57.000The story always and forever, as my friend Andrew Klavan has said, when Republicans do something bad, the headline is Republicans Did Something Bad.
00:08:14.000The headline is, are the Democrats doing a bad and stupid thing?
00:08:18.000Our media are so in the tank for the Democrats, it is beyond all recognition, but of course, we know this already.
00:08:24.000We'll get to more of this in just one second, because again, here is the dirty secret.
00:08:27.000The dirty secret that is not a secret at all is that Joe Biden is radical, that his administration is radical, and they are pushing forward radical policy that even they cannot keep up with.
00:08:44.000And then when you get to the front of the line, they ask you a bunch of specific questions, you don't really know the answers to them, you have to run out to your car to check, and then you come back in, and then the guy behind the counter's like, yeah, we don't have that part, we're ordering it online, and then we're gonna upcharge you.
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00:10:09.000Hey, if you walk around, my new home state, the best state in America from where I sit because, hey, the rest of you guys are getting hit with chill.
00:10:14.000Florida, it's like 80 degrees outside.
00:10:48.000And includes a bunch of crappy provisions.
00:10:50.000So there are a lot of economists and they're saying, um, you know, guys, we already, before this package, have spent 102% of our GDP.
00:10:57.000on government spending this year, which is the worst government spending binge since right after World War II, since 1946, since the decommissioning of the military in World War II.
00:11:06.000Okay, so we are spending way too much money.
00:11:10.000And Joe Biden wants to add on top of that another $1.9 trillion, which is nuts, right?
00:11:14.000According to the New York Times, even the New York Times is like, well, you know, we might be spending too much money here.
00:11:19.000Jim Tankersley and Gianna Smialek say, presidents who find themselves digging out of recessions have long heeded the warnings of inflation-obsessed economists.
00:11:27.000See, even there, they're like, yeah, you know, inflation might be a problem, but we'll pretend that those people are crazy.
00:11:32.000Who fear that acting aggressively to stimulate a struggling economy will bring a return to the monstrous price increases that plagued the nation in the 1970s.
00:11:39.000Now, as President Biden presses ahead with plans for a $1.9 trillion stimulus package, he and his top economic advisors are brushing those warnings aside, as is the Federal Reserve under Chair Jerome Powell.
00:11:49.000After years of dire inflation predictions that failed to pan out, the people who run fiscal and monetary policy in Washington have decided the risk of overheating the economy is much lower than the risk of failing to heat it up enough.
00:12:46.000The reason that the economy recovered unbelievably slowly under Barack Obama is because Barack Obama held back the economy with a regulatory thicket.
00:12:53.000It's because business owners understood that Barack Obama did not like them and that Barack Obama thought that the Regulatory infrastructure was necessary to hem them in, and so they kept money on the sidelines.
00:13:03.000Trillions of dollars were on the sidelines.
00:13:05.000A lot of that money was getting put in the stock market.
00:13:07.000Not a lot of that money was going to building new businesses.
00:13:10.000And then, Trump came into office, and the economy started to do really, really well.
00:13:14.000It started to do better than it was under Barack Obama.
00:13:16.000You could see it in terms of the wage increases.
00:13:19.000People started competing in the marketplace.
00:13:21.000Now you're going to see a slower recovery, not just because of COVID, but because you're going to see this regulatory infrastructure come back.
00:13:27.000And it doesn't matter how much money you blow into the system the way that Joe Biden is doing.
00:13:31.000Right now, what we have is not a lack of demand.
00:13:34.000Okay, what we have is, well, I mean, we do have a lack of demand, but it's an artificially created lack of demand.
00:13:40.000It is not a problem of people have a bunch of money they are not willing to spend, and so we need more money in the system.
00:13:46.000The problem right now is people are afraid to go to the store because of COVID, and when that ends, the economy will go back to normal, and everybody knows this.
00:13:53.000But in the meantime, Joe Biden is using this as a lever in order to push his favorite economic policies.
00:13:58.000Nonetheless, according to the New York Times, we shouldn't worry about inflation at all.
00:14:00.000Just dumping money into the system has no impact, according to the New York Times.
00:14:03.000Democrats in the House plan to spend this week finalizing Biden's plan to pump nearly $2 trillion into the economy, including direct checks to Americans and more generous unemployment benefits with the aim of holding a floor vote as early as next week.
00:14:16.000The Senate is expected to quickly take up their proposal.
00:14:19.000As soon as it clears the House in the hopes of sending a final bill to Biden's desk early next month, Fed officials have signaled they plan to keep holding rates near zero and buying government-backed debt at a brisk clip to stoke growth.
00:14:29.000So we're going to keep borrowing money, effectively speaking, and pumping money into the economy.
00:14:32.000We're going to keep that Fed rate at zero, and we're going to toss $2 trillion into the economy.
00:14:39.000The only reason that inflation may not happen right now is, again, because demand is artificially suppressed.
00:14:45.000But when demand stops being suppressed, you're going to start seeing price inflation at a fairly radical clip.
00:14:51.000The Fed and the administration are staying the course despite a growing outcry from some economists across the political spectrum, including Lawrence Summers, a former Treasury Secretary and top advisor in the Clinton and Obama administrations who say Biden's plans could stir up a whirlwind of rising prices.
00:15:04.000Nobody better embodies the sudden break from decades of worry over inflation in Washington and elite circles of economics than Janet Yellen.
00:15:10.000Yellen spent the bulk of her career fighting in a war against inflation, but at a time when the American economy remains 10 million jobs short of its pre-pandemic levels and millions of people face hunger and eviction, she appears ready to move on.
00:15:21.000Yellen said, I've spent many years studying inflation, worrying about inflation.
00:15:23.000We face a huge economic challenge here and tremendous suffering in the country.
00:15:48.000Hey, this is pretty obvious to everyone, which is why if you look at the unemployment rate in states like North Dakota, which really never shut down, the unemployment rate by state right now, you can see which states shut down and which states did not shut down.
00:16:00.000Here are the states that have very low unemployment rates.
00:16:02.000Nebraska, which hasn't really shut down.
00:16:52.000Is it because we need more government interventionism in California and New York, or less government interventionism in California and New York?
00:16:59.000You want to know why business has been leaving those places for places like Florida?
00:18:02.000They're just getting the Grubhub delivered to the door as opposed to going to the local bistro.
00:18:05.000That is the only thing that has changed for them.
00:18:07.000Meanwhile, low-wage workers across America can't go back to work because of all the lockdown politics.
00:18:13.000And the solution for Democrats is to raise the minimum wage so as to throw half of them out of work.
00:18:19.000So Bernie Sanders tweets out, a $15 minimum wage is not a radical idea.
00:18:22.000Well, if Bernie Sanders says it's not radical, I take him at his word.
00:18:25.000He says, what's radical is the fact that millions of Americans are forced to work for starvation wages while 650 billionaires became over $1 trillion richest during a global pandemic.
00:19:45.000A point that Thomas Sowell has made over and over again.
00:19:48.000When you set a minimum wage, you're not actually setting a minimum wage.
00:19:50.000You're setting a minimum wage of zero for most of the people who are out of work, and a minimum wage of, say, $15 for the people who get to retain their jobs.
00:19:57.000The other thing that's going to happen, obviously, Is that people are going to start implementing technologies.
00:20:02.000Right now, there are many stores out there that are thinking, okay, well it costs maybe a thousand bucks to put in a machine.
00:20:07.000Instead of spending the thousand bucks, I hire somebody at low wage, teenager at low wage, who needs a job, and I have that person do the job.
00:20:13.000It's cheaper than putting in the machinery.
00:20:16.000If you want to replace the entire restaurant business with robots, this is a pretty good way to do it, is to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks.
00:20:22.000You want to know why, over the past decade, you have seen grocery stores that now have self-checkout counters?
00:20:27.000The reason that you have grocery stores with self-checkout counters is because unionized labor drove up the price of labor for people who do the checkouts.
00:20:36.000So the stores were like, okay, well, either I could deal with this union, or I could just pay a machine.
00:20:59.000According to Vox.com, in early June 2019, Bernie Sanders traveled to Walmart's annual shareholder meeting to confront company executives over their moral culpability for the low incomes of many of the company's employees.
00:21:10.000Walmart is the largest private employer in America and is owned by the Walton family, the wealthiest family in the United States, Sanders said.
00:21:16.000And yet, despite the incredible wealth of its owner, Walmart pays many of its employees starvation wages, wages that are so low, many of these employees are forced to rely on government programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing.
00:21:27.000So, quick note there, he's actually got the chain of events backwards.
00:21:31.000When you create government incentive programs that pay people, What you end up doing is artificially lowering the wages because companies no longer have to pay $10 an hour.
00:21:41.000They know the government's filling in $5 an hour, so instead they pay the other $5 an hour.
00:21:47.000But here's the problem for Bernie Sanders.
00:21:49.000Sanders's campaign paid many of its staffers in the 2020 campaign, primarily in the traditionally low-paid field department, less than $15 per hour.
00:22:01.000As per our usual arrangement, folks on the left, they have a standard that they wish that everybody else would uphold, but they have no interest in upholding it themselves.
00:22:08.000In just a second, we're gonna get to more radical policy from the Biden administration that we should ignore because Joe Biden is putting another fire on the log and playing his Luigi, which, by the way, is a form of cultural appropriation, as far as I'm concerned.
00:22:19.000We'll get to more of this in a moment.
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00:23:21.000Okay, so, meanwhile, there is the race policy that will undoubtedly follow this administration.
00:23:28.000We've already seen it implemented at the local level.
00:23:30.000The Biden administration has repeatedly suggested that equity is to guide all of its decisions.
00:23:34.000As we have talked about at length on this program, when folks on the left say equity, they do not mean equality.
00:23:39.000What they mean is that any program that does not achieve equal outcome on the basis of group, any program that does not achieve that is considered racist.
00:23:48.000And to be anti-racist, whenever you see somebody saying, I'm doing the work, I've become an anti-racist.
00:23:53.000It doesn't mean I've become a not-racist.
00:23:54.000It means I've become a person who wants to tear down all existing structures of power, castigating them as systemically discriminatory.
00:24:04.000So this is the stuff that the Biden administration has been pushing.
00:24:06.000They've been pushing it in vaccine policy.
00:24:07.000They've been pushing it in educational policy.
00:24:09.000They've been pushing it in economic policy, in environmental policy.
00:24:12.000They literally said that Ibram X. Kendi's idea of how the world should work is the way they are going to govern, which is scary as all hell.
00:24:19.000Because first of all, in many cases, it is violative of the basic principle of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, which is that people ought not be treated on the basis of group or race.
00:24:27.000They ought to be treated instead on the basis of their individual identity.
00:24:31.000Instead, this is not what is happening, and we are seeing it crammed down in our educational system primarily.
00:24:38.000So, Christopher Rufo, who writes for City Journal, and he is the director of a group called Discovery, the Center on Wealth and Poverty.
00:25:11.000So let's take a look at this for just a second, because while the Biden administration, I keep mixing them up because this is just Obama administration part three, because the Biden administration has embraced the basic equity playbook here, this is what they mean.
00:25:26.000They haven't gone all the way yet, but they will, don't worry.
00:25:30.000So they have been distributing at the school the eight white identities by a person named Barnor Hess, And the eight white identities stretch from white supremacist in the red to white abolitionist in the green.
00:25:44.000They say there is a regime of whiteness and there are action-oriented white identities.
00:25:48.000People who identify with whiteness are one of these.
00:25:50.000It's about time we build an ethnography of whiteness since white people have been the ones writing about and governing others.
00:25:55.000Okay, what the hell does any of that mean?
00:25:57.000Well, let's get a little more specific.
00:25:59.000Here are the eight white identities according to Barnor Hess.
00:26:02.000Again, this is being taught now at schools in New York.
00:26:06.000And by the way, at schools that are liberal in LA, same kind of thing.
00:26:09.000You're gonna see this brought into public education with a vengeance over the course of the next few years.
00:26:59.000Maybe you critique supremacy, but a deep investment in questions of fairness and equality under normalization of whiteness and the white rule, sworn goal of diversity.
00:27:07.000So, now if you say that you like diversity, but you also believe in things like fairness and equality on an individual level, this means that you are suffering from white privilege.
00:27:15.000Because of course the entire system is white.
00:27:18.000And so if you say that you want everybody to be treated equally on an individual level, this means you're upholding a system that has been supremacist in the past and is supremacist today, so you're actually just privileged.
00:27:51.000So if you're a black person, but you don't speak in or act in solidarity with whiteness in public, Or against whiteness in public, this means that you're of white benefit.
00:28:01.000Actually, according to these folks, Candace is probably a white supremacist.
00:28:16.000White confessional is some exposure of whiteness takes place, but as a way of being accountable to people of color after you're seeking validation from people of color.
00:28:23.000Okay, so this is all the people who marched in the Black Lives Matter protests but are white, who posted a black square on Instagram.
00:28:29.000You're a white confessional because you can see your own whiteness, But you're only seeking validation from people of color.
00:28:35.000Now you might think to yourself, okay, like, that should be about as radical as it gets here.
00:28:39.000You're basically saying that the system, you're conceding all the points.
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00:32:44.000So again, the reality here is that the Biden administration is pursuing radical policy across the board.
00:32:54.000And I got to say, it is incredible to see how when a Democrat is in power, everybody just sort of comes out of the closet with their true agenda.
00:33:02.000Here I'm speaking of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the greatest of all doctors, except for Dr. Jill Biden, who indeed is the most wonderful of all doctors.
00:33:08.000So Dr. Anthony Fauci, and for months and months and months and months, he was supposedly the most knowledgeable person in politics, completely apolitical.
00:33:19.000Sure, he was on the cover of InTouch magazine.
00:33:21.000Sure, they were creating votive candles of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:33:24.000And sure, he's flipped his mind about 83 times on masking and not masking and schools and not schools.
00:33:30.000And sure, now he's come back and he's like, you know what?
00:33:32.000We need a stimulus package, which is a perfectly politically driven idea.
00:33:35.000We need a stimulus package in order to reopen schools.
00:33:38.000By the way, you know how you know that's not true?
00:33:40.000Because if you actually look at the Biden package, this $1.9 trillion package that they are now pushing, if you look at the funding for schools, you will notice something very, very weird.
00:33:50.000Hey, would you like to hear the weird thing?
00:33:51.000The weird thing is, here is the spending by year for the schools.
00:34:38.000We won't keep the focus on any of the incompetence among the Democrats who are actually in power in most of the major institutions across our nation.
00:34:54.000I think you'd have to be oblivious not to consider the fact that if you get infected, that you are already in a category of someone who has a high risk of having a serious outcome.
00:35:06.000I didn't fixate on that, but it was in the back of my mind because I had to be out there.
00:35:11.000I mean, particularly when I was going to the White House every day, when the White House was sort of a super spreader location.
00:35:20.000I mean, that made me a little bit nervous.
00:35:23.000Well, you know, and there he is smiling at this.
00:35:25.000It's good to have scientific sources like Dr. Fauci talking about this stuff.
00:35:28.000By the way, Dr. Fauci, the all-sacrificing Dr. Fauci, who, by the way, has the highest salary of anyone in the federal government, apparently, he was awarded a $1 million prize for speaking truth to power.
00:35:39.000According to the Daily Wire, on Monday, the nation's top infectious disease official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, received a $1 million Israeli prize established by late Italian-Israeli philanthropist, Dan Daveed.
00:35:50.000Fauci was honored with the Dan Daveed Prize for his service in public health and speaking truth to power during the pandemic, according to NPR.
00:35:58.000As the COVID-19 pandemic unraveled, Fauci leveraged his considerable communication skills to address people gripped by fear and anxiety and worked relentlessly to inform individuals in the U.S.
00:36:06.000and elsewhere about the public health measures essential for containing the pandemic's spread.
00:36:10.000In addition, he has been widely praised for his courage in speaking truth to power in a highly charged political environment.
00:36:18.000Oh, yeah, that's what he's doing right now when he, you know, just starts repeating all of the Democratic talking points about COVID.
00:36:25.000Speaking of which, you may have noticed that Andrew Cuomo is completely falling apart.
00:36:29.000So there was a bit of odd juxtaposition yesterday.
00:36:30.000So Andrew Cuomo, over the last couple of days, was awarded an Emmy.
00:36:33.000He was given a television Emmy for his massively incredible performance during the COVID pandemic, which has ended with the second highest death per million ratio in America and currently the highest hospitalization rate in the nation, after he wrote a book about his amazing leadership.
00:36:46.000A bunch of Hollywood celebrities stopped by to talk about this.
00:36:49.000Because when we're talking about health, the people who know the most are obviously celebrities.
00:36:53.000So here is Spike Lee and Ben Stiller and the rest of the crowd praising Andrew Cuomo.
00:36:57.000To my governor, the governor of the Empire State, Andrew Cuomo.
00:37:04.000Congratulations, Andrew, on your much-deserved Founders Award.
00:37:09.000Governor Andrew Cuomo, you are the man.
00:37:12.000I was trying to think of something that I could say to you that would be funny.
00:37:18.000And so I called your brother, Chris, who could not understand why you were getting an Emmy since he's the one on television.
00:37:22.000In the darkest stage of the pandemic, Billy Crystal, your daily briefings live from New York gave us hope, gave us clarity, gave us the truth, and gave us something that we were not getting from Washington.
00:37:36.000All the celebrities came out and that same week, like within 48 hours, it turns out that Andrew Cuomo not only was lying about how many COVID patients had died in nursing homes, but that he was covering it up and he was lying to his fellow Democrats.
00:37:47.000And then he did in one of his trademark press conferences, like these Emmy award-winning press conferences, right?
00:37:53.000He did one yesterday in which he just lied blatantly, but he was very clear about lying.
00:38:44.000And now the media are getting around to reporting all of this.
00:38:47.000My favorite part of this press conference is where Andrew Cuomo says that he accepts responsibility for letting people think he did anything wrong, which is like the best apology ever.
00:40:03.000COVID did not get into the nursing homes by people coming from hospitals.
00:40:09.000COVID got into the nursing homes by staff walking into the nursing home when we didn't even know we had COVID.
00:40:19.000Staff walking into a nursing home even though they were asymptomatic because the national experts all told us you could only spread COVID if you had symptoms.
00:40:33.000The truth is, it was in the middle of a terrible pandemic.
00:40:35.000with this. It's possible that COVID was present in those facilities earlier. Also, you know, the way that you get rid of COVID? By not having the patients be in contact with other olds in the nursing homes. And then, of course, Andrew Cuomo suggested that if those old people were going to die, they were just going to die anyway. You know, that's just the way it's going to work.
00:40:53.000The truth is, it was in the middle of a terrible pandemic.
00:40:59.000The truth is, COVID attacks senior citizens.
00:41:05.000The truth is, with all we know, people still die in nursing homes today.
00:41:35.000As all this unspools, Biden's crappy economic policy, his crappy COVID policy, his crappy racial policy, as Andrew Cuomo falls apart, the media are focused in on what matters most, Donald Trump.
00:41:44.000And they're not going to let Donald Trump go away.
00:41:52.000He will not be relevant to the political conversation for at least another couple of years if he decides to launch another campaign, which frankly, I don't think he's going to do, because if I were him, I'd be incredibly tired of this, wouldn't you?
00:42:03.000So, Trump is not the relevant political figure at this point.
00:42:06.000Where are the Democrats putting their chief focus?
00:42:09.000They're putting their chief focus exactly where you would think they're putting their chief focus directly on Donald Trump.
00:42:13.000So they're going to continue to drag this out.
00:42:15.000House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now pushing for the creation of a special panel to investigate the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol a day after several lawmakers called for a bipartisan commission and report similar to the one drafted in response to the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.
00:42:30.000Pelosi said, now as always, security is the order of the day.
00:42:33.000The security of our country, the security of our capital, which is the temple of our democracy, the security of our members.
00:42:41.000Our next step will be to establish an outside independent 9-11 type commission to investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6th, 2021 domestic terrorist attack on the US Capitol complex.
00:42:55.000Let's say that you wanted to do a full investigation of what happened on January 6th and call witnesses and everything.
00:43:00.000You could have done that, you know, and then maybe after that you could have had like an impeachment charge because apparently you can now bring impeachment after the person's out of office.
00:43:07.000And you could have done that, or you could even have done that investigation between the House impeachment charge and the Senate vote, but you didn't do any of that stuff.
00:43:15.000You rushed it forward for political purposes, and then you got it off the table for political purposes, and now you just want to keep this hanging around for political purposes for years on end so you can keep pretending that Donald Trump is the most relevant person to the political conversation.
00:43:28.000You're seeing this in the media today, by the way.
00:43:30.000Well, you know, this is still Trump's party.
00:43:41.000The Democratic Party was the party of Barack Obama until it was the party of Hillary Clinton in 2016 until it was the party of Joe Biden now.
00:43:47.000The Republican Party was the party of George W. Bush until it was the party of Mitt Romney until it was the party of Donald Trump.
00:43:53.000This is the way presidential politics works.
00:43:56.000There are a lot of people today being like, well, it's a Trump cult because you see all these people who are condemning Republicans for voting against Trump in this impeachment trial.
00:44:03.000No, Trump is just taken as a litmus for Republican solidarity.
00:44:07.000When you ask Republicans about how they feel about Trump, even those who are pretty uncomfortable with a lot of stuff that Trump did, even many of those people are not like, you know what?
00:44:15.000I think what would be great for the party is to completely divide it down the middle on the question of Trump because he's out of office.
00:44:22.000Democrats need the looming specter of Trump in order to justify all of the radicalism they are now pursuing.
00:44:27.000In order to justify the fact they are bad at their jobs and they are pursuing radical policy.
00:44:31.000And again, the media are addicted to this stuff because the media's ratings go down when they don't talk about Trump.
00:44:35.000If they talked about Joe Biden's budget or how Joe Biden likes to toss a log on the fire and that was all they were covering, you think anybody would click on Politico?
00:45:00.000A truth and reconciliation commission, like South Africa.
00:45:03.000This is what she told the most reliable of reliable sources, Brian Stelter.
00:45:07.000We need a truth and reconciliation commission in the United States, which is the most Orwellian garbage I've heard in at least 37 seconds.
00:45:13.000So here she is, Representative Sarah Jacobs from California, calling for a truth commission.
00:45:18.000You know, a truth commission, a lot of people will think of South Africa.
00:45:21.000We've used them in countries around the world.
00:45:24.000And basically what it is, is it's communities all the way up to the national level having conversations about both the glory and the glory of our history and what happened, both throughout the history of our country and leading up to and on January 6th, so that we can come to a common narrative moving forward of what we want our country to be.
00:45:46.000And all they have to do, the Democrats, is just keep shouting Trump, because the orange man will remain bad, and he will remain the focus and the locus of the entire democratic universe until such time as he is no longer convenient for those purposes.
00:45:57.000Meanwhile, while you and the media are distracted out here with Trump, this, with this other hand, that is where they are pursuing their radical policymaking, which again is going to make the country worse in a wide variety of ways, but the media have no interest in that.