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00:02:01.000The whole Russiagate scandal, the attempt by members of the intelligence community to target people who are members of the Trump campaign, and do so on the basis of extraordinarily thin evidence.
00:02:12.000All righty, so, the whole Russiagate scandal, the attempt by members of the intelligence community to target people who are members of the Trump campaign and do so on the basis of extraordinarily thin evidence, this is particularly true with, for example, Carter Page, who is targeted on the basis of, essentially, no evidence other than weird allegations made in the Steele dossier.
00:02:35.000This has been an ongoing scandal for a while, and I'll be honest with you, it was so complex and so confusing and so speculative at the beginning, I didn't cover it.
00:02:44.000I wasn't the first person to cover it.
00:02:45.000The person who I think covered it the best is probably Dan Bongino.
00:02:49.000He just announced that he has some sort of neck tumor and so we obviously are all praying for him.
00:02:52.000Dan covered this at length in his book Spygate.
00:02:54.000He's been covering it on his show, but It is now perfectly obvious that there were members of the intelligence community who simply wanted to see the Trump campaign targeted.
00:03:02.000That ranged from obviously Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to possibly James Comey, who was basically preventing information from being disseminated through the proper channels.
00:03:11.000He was not informing the incoming Trump administration of suspicions about members of the Trump campaign.
00:03:17.000He was going above and beyond the law in order to target Michael Flynn, so much so that now Attorney General William Barr has decided not to prosecute Michael Flynn.
00:03:25.000Well, now we have more evidence that members of the intelligence community were perverting the system in order to go after members of the Trump campaign.
00:03:32.000Yesterday, Catherine Herridge over at CBS reported.
00:03:35.000That according to the Durham report, John Durham is an attorney paid for by the federal government who is going through all of the sort of roots of the Russiagate investigation, trying to figure out where all this came from.
00:03:51.000Well, according to that Durham report, new information emerging, the primary subsource for the Steele dossier was deemed a possible national security threat and the subject of a 2009 FBI counterintelligence probe.
00:04:02.000Okay, so you have to remember the actual story here.
00:04:04.000The actual story here is that the Steele dossier was used as the predicate.
00:04:07.000It was used as the basis for the FISA warrants against Carter Page.
00:04:11.000It was used as sort of the central piece of evidence in pursuit of members of the Trump campaign because there was this compendium of nonsense and maybe not nonsense that was being disseminated throughout the federal government.
00:04:22.000It was compiled by a firm connected with Hillary Clinton.
00:04:25.000It was then laundered basically to the FBI and the FBI picked it up and started their investigation and used this heavily in their investigation in the FISA warrants for Carter Page, but also in sort of other areas of the investigation. Well, now Catherine Herridge is reporting that by December 2016, everybody knew that the Steele dossier was not only crap, it was probably deliberate disinformation.
00:04:45.000Because the person who is the chief source for the Steele dossier was deemed a possible national security threat and the subject of 2009 FBI counterintelligence probe.
00:04:54.000According to new records, those facts were known to the Crossfire Hurricane team as of December 2016.
00:04:58.000That did not stop the dissemination of the Steele dossier.
00:05:02.000Remember that BuzzFeed reported on the Steele dossier in January of 2017, specifically because they said that the President of the United States had been presented information about the Steele dossier.
00:05:10.000But we now know that the Intel community knew by December 2016 that the entire sort of primary basis for the Steele dossier was nonsense.
00:05:18.000There's always been a suspicion that the way that BuzzFeed and the media were reporting on the Steele dossier, which had been floating around, right?
00:05:24.000It went to John McCain, among other people.
00:05:26.000It had been floating around out there in Washington, D.C.
00:05:28.000That the basic hook upon which the media Decided to rely in order to report all of the garbage in the Steele dossier was this report that Trump had been informed about the Steele dossier.
00:05:38.000Well now it's newsworthy and now we get to report it.
00:05:51.000That the primary subsource was possibly a Russian spy.
00:05:55.000According to the document, there's an overview of the counterintelligence investigation of Christopher Steele's primary subsource.
00:06:01.000Between May 2009 and March 2011, the FBI maintained an investigation into the individual who later would be identified as Christopher Steele's primary subsource.
00:06:11.000The FBI commenced this investigation based on information by the FBI indicating that the primary subsource may be a threat to national security Specifically, the FBI received reporting indicating a research fellow for an influential foreign policy advisor in the Obama administration was at a work-related event in late 2008 with a co-worker when they were approached by another employee of the think tank.
00:06:31.000The employee reportedly indicated that if the two individuals at the table did get a job in the government and had access to classified information and wanted to make a little extra money, the employee knew some people to whom they could speak.
00:06:43.000The coworker did express suspicion of the employee and had questioned the possibility the employee might actually be a Russian spy.
00:06:48.000In December 2016, the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation identified the employee as Christopher Steele's primary subsource.
00:06:55.000So in other words, the intelligence community knew full well that this guy was full of crap, and then they proceeded to use this as the basis for launching the investigation into Carter Page, among others.
00:07:07.000According to this documentation, In September 2006, the primary subsource was in contact with a known Russian intelligence officer.
00:07:15.000In 2005, the subsource was making contact with a Washington, D.C.-based Russian officer.
00:07:21.000One individual indicated the primary subsource was not anti-American, but wanted to return to Russia one day.
00:07:25.000Another described the primary subsource as pro-Russia, indicated that he or she always interjected Russian opinions during foreign policy discussions.
00:07:33.000So the timeline of December 2016 is when they knew that basically the SEAL dossier was nonsense, they promulgated it anyway, they announced it to Trump, and then all of a sudden it finds its way into the press.
00:07:44.000All of which suggests that this was an attempt to subvert the incoming Trump administration at the very, very least.
00:07:49.000And now there are text messages that have been emerging from the FBI detailing the quote-unquote internal furor over the handling of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, as according to The Federalist, Sean Davidson and Molly Hemingway reporting.
00:08:01.000FBI agents tasked by fired former director James Comey to take down Donald Trump during and after the 2016 election were so concerned about the agency's potentially illegal behavior that they purchased liability insurance to protect themselves less than two weeks before Trump was inaugurated president.
00:08:17.000Previously hidden FBI text messages show the explosive new communications and internal FBI notes were disclosed in federal court filings today from Sidney Powell, the attorney who heads Michael Flynn's legal defense team.
00:08:27.000We all went and purchased professional liability insurance, one agent texted on January 10, 2017, the same day CNN leaked details that then-President-elect Trump had been briefed by Comey about the bogus Christopher Steele dossier.
00:08:38.000That briefing of Trump was used as a pretext to legitimize the debunked dossier, which was funded by the DNC and the Clinton campaign and compiled by a foreign intelligence officer who was working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
00:09:00.000I think the concern, when we got it, was that there was a big leak at DOJ and the New York Times, among others, was going to do a piece.
00:09:06.000While the names of the agents responsible for the texts are redacted, the legal filing from Powell, quoting communications from the DOJ, states, The latest document production included handwritten notes and texts from Peter Strzok, who led up all of these investigations, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, an FBI analyst who worked on the FBI's investigation of Flynn.
00:09:23.000Agents also said they were worried about how a new attorney general might view the actions taken against Trump during the investigation.
00:09:31.000Then we all get screwed, one agent wrote.
00:09:33.000FBI agents also discussed how the investigation's leadership was consumed with conspiracy theories rather than evidence.
00:09:38.000I'm telling you, man, if this thing ever gets FOIA'd, there are gonna be some tough questions asked, one agent wrote, and a great deal of those will be related to Brian having a scope way outside the boundaries of logic.
00:09:47.000Redacted, so they took out the name, is one of the worst offenders of the rabbit holes in conspiracy theories.
00:09:52.000The guy traveled with that guy, who put down the third guy as his visa sponsor.
00:09:55.000Third guy lives near a Navy base, therefore, Several texts show the order to close the criminal investigation against Michael Flynn came as early as November 8th, 2016, the same day as the 2016 presidential election.
00:10:06.000It was later reopened in early January of 2017 on the thin read that it was a Logan Act violation for Mike Flynn to be talking with the Russians, when in fact it was not.
00:10:16.000We all need to meet to discuss what to do with each case.
00:10:18.000One agent texted referring to the operation called Crossfire Razor, which was the FBI's codename for the investigation of Michael Flynn.
00:10:26.000The new disclosures made by the DOJ also show the FBI used so-called national security letters to spy on Michael Flynn's finances.
00:10:33.000Unlike traditional subpoenas, which do require judicial review and approval before authorities can seize an innocent person's property and information, NSLs are never independently reviewed by courts.
00:10:44.000One of the agents noted in a text message that these particular form of surveillance were just being used as a pretext by the FBI leadership to buy time to find dirt on Flynn after the first investigation of him yielded no derogatory information.
00:10:58.000The decision to finalize, the decision to NSL finances for Razor bought him time, one agent said two weeks after the initial order to shut down the anti-Flynn case.
00:11:19.000So a lot of the agents were deeply suspicious that all of this was basically bullcrap.
00:11:24.000And as it turns out, it was in fact bullcrap.
00:11:28.000These agents were deeply upset at the fact that the agency was now being used as a way to launch anti-Trump intel into the public or to target President Trump.
00:11:40.000On January 15th, on January 5th, they could not believe that the Intel report was going to stay open.
00:11:47.000Razor's gonna stay open, an agent wrote on January 5th.
00:12:12.000So, all of this is obviously deeply disturbing and undermines fundamental institutions of the American Republic.
00:12:19.000Kimberly Strassel has a good thread on this over at the Wall Street Journal.
00:12:22.000She says, Breaking, per Catherine Herridge, an extraordinary.
00:12:25.000So Christopher Steele's main source for the dossier, he was the subject of nearly two year long FBI counterintel investigation under suspicion of being a Russian spy and a threat to national security.
00:12:34.000Early in the Obama administration, the subsource reportedly attempted to recruit two individuals connected to an influential foreign policy advisor to Obama, said if they got jobs in the administration and access to classified info, he could help them make a little money.
00:12:46.000FBI says he had previous contact with the Russian embassy and Russian intelligence officers.
00:12:51.000Thanks to Paul Sperry, we know the name of this subsource and that he, for a period at this time, was at Brookings, a Democratic think tank.
00:12:58.000The FBI knew about this prior CIA investigation into the source in December of 2016.
00:13:02.000It knew it was relying on information from a suspected Russian spy.
00:13:06.000The same FBI said to be concerned about Russian interference in the election was using information from a suspected Russian spy to probe a presidential campaign.
00:13:13.000The same FBI claiming Carter Page was a Russian agent was making that case based on info from a suspected Russian agent.
00:13:19.000Most importantly, it never told the FISA court about this CIA investigation.
00:13:22.000It withheld that information and continued re-upping its applications to surveil Carter Page on the campaign.
00:13:27.000It vouched for information supplied by a suspected Russian agent.
00:13:31.000The realization of the FBI's prior suspicions should have ended the entire probe.
00:13:34.000Instead, the FBI doubled down, hid things from the court, and kept going.
00:13:37.000This again raises an urgent need to know who knew what and when.
00:13:41.000And people wonder why John Durham is looking into all of this?
00:13:43.000Also, extra credit question, wasn't it Mueller's job to find sources of Russian disinformation?
00:13:47.000How do you miss the guy potentially feeding it directly to the FBI?
00:13:51.000And the fact that this went as far as it did is an astonishing breach of the nation's ability to trust its intelligence community.
00:14:01.000And I've been very skeptical of a lot of the criticisms made of the intelligence community.
00:14:05.000I didn't like it when President Trump talked badly of the intelligence community.
00:14:08.000I thought that he painted with too broad a brush at the very least.
00:14:11.000But it is perfectly obvious there were actors inside the FBI who were engaged in bad activity in order to target President Trump and his campaign.
00:14:20.000It is perfectly obvious at this point that that was what was going on.
00:14:22.000I think we're going to find out some more damning info as the Durham investigation makes its way forward through the DOJ.
00:14:28.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to the continuation of violence across the country, actually, over the death of Breonna Taylor and the exoneration of the officers in that case, except for one officer who was charged with wanton Discharge of a firearm?
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00:15:57.000The chaos continued across the country.
00:15:59.000Every time there is a controversial race case in which the media completely ignore the underlying facts in order to achieve what they want to achieve, which is further racial conflagration, further racial tension, this stuff breaks out every single time.
00:16:12.000I do not think it's going to end if Joe Biden becomes president, because who exactly is going to be sanguine about the octogenarian, the octogenarian barely awake Longtime senator who did nothing, making sure that all racial tensions in the country are quelled.
00:16:27.000Also, the Democratic Party and the media have set a goal that is unobtainable.
00:16:35.000That goal is the end of all racism whatsoever.
00:16:38.000And not just the goal to end all racism, but the goal to end all situations in which racism could possibly be attributed to the situation, even if there's no racism evident from the situation.
00:16:49.000There's still no evidence that, number one, Breonna Taylor was shot on purpose.
00:16:52.000Number two, that Breonna Taylor was shot because she was black.
00:16:55.000There's no evidence this had anything to do with racism.
00:16:58.000It's seen as an element of the racist justice system, the racist policing system.
00:17:02.000The predictable result of all of this is the insanity that we have been seeing in our cities.
00:17:07.000And again, I think that you are going to see such flight from urban centers.
00:17:11.000I think it's going to be as bad as it was in the 1970s when the crime rates really, really began to spike.
00:17:16.000And it's because of incidents like this.
00:17:18.000We currently live in Los Angeles, not for long.
00:17:21.000And one of the reasons that we do not want to live in Los Angeles is because of incidents like this.
00:17:25.000So yesterday, down in Hollywood, last night, there were protests over Breonna Taylor.
00:17:29.000About 350 people apparently showed up at these protests.
00:17:32.000And cars were attempting to get through because these are public streets.
00:17:36.000There are no permits taken out for these protests.
00:17:38.000You know, you can see the spray paint on the sidewalks and in the middle of the street and all this.
00:17:42.000You can see a huge crowd of people who are gathered in the middle of the street, again, protesting in the middle of a pandemic without any permit or anything else.
00:17:49.000But, you know, this is all good because we need this moment of racial reckoning, as Joe Biden has suggested.
00:17:53.000And what you'll see is a person in a white Prius simply trying to get through.
00:17:56.000This is obviously not somebody who's attempting to harm members of the crowd.
00:17:59.000This is a person who's probably trying to get home.
00:18:01.000Hey, this is not somebody who's ramming their cars deliberately into protesters or anything like this.
00:18:05.000You can see they're driving very, very slowly, just trying to get through.
00:18:07.000They're driving maybe five miles an hour, really, really slowly.
00:18:11.000And then once they get through, then they take off in the car, right?
00:18:59.000The police pull the driver over and force the driver to get out of his car with his hands raised.
00:19:05.000Like, this is why people are going to leave cities.
00:19:08.000Because it turns out that when you refuse to allow the police to enforce the law... You know how you could have enforced the law here?
00:19:15.000Large gatherings in the middle of a pandemic without a public permit should not be allowed.
00:19:19.000How is it that you can lock, I'm not kidding you, tens of millions of people across the country in their homes during a lockdown, but the minute there's a protest in the street of 350 people in LA, you're not allowed to break up the protest, even as they take over public property and threaten people's lives and property.
00:19:59.000There was also my friend Ami Horowitz, friend of the show.
00:20:02.000Ami Horowitz showed up in Louisville and he was shouted at and he was intimidated into putting down his camera.
00:20:08.000These are all folks who care deeply about civil rights to the point where they tell you literally are not allowed to tape them in public place as they commit acts of violence.
00:20:16.000The good news is that our Democratic leadership is really talking these things down.
00:20:19.000I mean, they're really trying to calm the waters here.
00:20:21.000So Kamala Harris, the vice presidential candidate who's gone about as missing as it is possible for a VP candidate to go, she, along with Biden, are just hiding in the bunker.
00:20:28.000So Biden, I believe, called another lid today, I believe, which means that he has now been absent from the campaign trail like 10 of the last 13 days.
00:20:35.000And the media are like, oh, he's probably prepping for debate.
00:20:38.000It doesn't take 13 days to prep for a debate.
00:20:41.000He's just hiding in the basement, hoping that Donald Trump's innate unpopularity with the American people lets Joe Biden sort of coast into office without having to get off his gurney.
00:20:49.000In any case, Kamala Harris tweeted out, No, you don't.
00:20:51.000Americans don't need to be reminded that inequity runs deep in our country.
00:21:17.000When you say, keep saying Breonna Taylor's name, what exactly about saying Breonna Taylor's name is going to be effective in effectuating change that will be useful?
00:21:26.000It's one thing if you're talking about revising some of the laws regarding no-knock warrants, although in this particular case, if they'd actually effectuated the no-knock warrant, Breonna Taylor might well be alive.
00:21:33.000The problem was that they knocked, and then they announced themselves, and then that allowed her boyfriend, Walker, to get up out of bed, grab a gun, and then shoot at the door, which is what caused the entire crossfire situation to happen.
00:21:45.000But beyond that, if you're talking about the horrors of the Breonna Taylor situation, the suggestion tacitly and implicitly there is that the police were in the wrong and that the police should have been prosecuted in the killing of Breonna Taylor.
00:21:57.000Which again, there is no legal evidence to back this idea.
00:22:14.000Hey, but when she says that we have a plan to end systemic racism, no you don't.
00:22:17.000The entire use of the term systemic racism means that there is no plan.
00:22:22.000There is no way to end systemic racism except to tear down systems.
00:22:26.000That's why the term systemic racism includes the word systemic.
00:22:31.000If your plan to end systemic racism does not include tearing down systems, it in fact is about you being elected in order to run those systems, then you're not ending systemic racism, you are perpetuating systemic racism.
00:22:41.000And herein lies the problem, as I've been pointing out for a long time here.
00:22:45.000The chief proponents of so-called institutional or systemic racism suggest that the way you can tell systemic or institutional racism exists is by disparate impact, is by looking at the outcome of a particular law, and if it does not affect all communities equally, statistically speaking, it is a racist law and must be ended, or it's a racist system and must be torn down.
00:23:03.000Well, once you say systemic racism, and then you say, I have a plan to end it, unless you are tearing down the system, you do not have a plan to end it.
00:23:36.000When Kamala Harris says systemic racism, what she means is, I'm speaking your language, but I'm not going to actually do what I say I'm going to do.
00:23:42.000I'm just going to hold out there the prospect that you're going to be able to tear down the system if you elect people like me.
00:23:49.000It's truly radical and it's truly ugly.
00:23:51.000Then of course you have Kamala Harris saying violence isn't the answer.
00:23:53.000She tweeted that out last night as well.
00:24:01.000She said, Joe Biden and I are keeping the police officers who were shot in Louisville in our hearts, wishing them a swift and speedy recovery.
00:24:32.000If the system is worthy of being torn down, it's worthy of being torn down.
00:24:34.000And that means the people who serve the system are the bad guys.
00:24:37.000You can't say all cops are good people, or most cops are good people, but really they are brown-shirted servants of a systemically racist system.
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00:26:18.000Alrighty, so the Trump administration is taking a bit of a different tack here, and that tack is that we are going to defend law enforcement.
00:26:25.000So Vice President Mike Pence said this yesterday.
00:26:27.000He said, our angle here is that law enforcement is good, which seems like it should be fairly inarguable since there is one tried and true solution to crime, and that is more police officers.
00:27:14.000The Trump administration also sent forth Kayleigh McEnany to point out that the media have been fostering violence.
00:27:19.000Now, this does not mean that if you say things that are bad ideologically, you are responsible for the violence.
00:27:24.000It does mean that if we are going to have this argument, which we repeatedly have, about turning up the climate of hostility in the country and making excuses for people who do bad things, that is a fair conversation to have.
00:27:49.000I do blame them for raising the temperature by suggesting that their political opponents are the root of all evil and need to be destroyed.
00:27:55.000Kayleigh McEnany makes the same point about Breonna Keillor from CNN, who's been making excuses for the rioters and looters over on CNN, apparently.
00:28:35.000It has everything to do with the value of human life.
00:28:39.000She is right about that, of course, but it doesn't matter.
00:28:42.000People got very, very angry because they're saying that, well, if we keep turning up the rhetoric in the media, how are we to blame for all this?
00:28:47.000These are the same people who have suggested that Trump's rhetoric is to blame for everything bad that has ever happened in the history of mankind.
00:28:52.000Meanwhile, the rhetoric continues to rise over at our networks.
00:28:55.000CNN's Bakari Sellers said yesterday, Black lives obviously don't matter in America.
00:29:00.000Which is a weird take, considering that, again, 15 black Americans were shot unarmed by the police all of last year.
00:29:33.000I think it's pretty clear that black lives do not matter.
00:29:37.000I think it's pretty clear that justice is fleeting, that if you are a person of color, particularly a black woman in this country, you know, the quest for justice and the road to get justice is longer and harder than most.
00:29:51.000You know, being black is a perpetual state of grieving in this country.
00:30:00.000I've laughed to prevent myself from crying.
00:30:03.000It just hurts sometimes, and here we are again at another moment.
00:30:06.000Being black in America is not a perpetual state of grieving.
00:30:09.000Grieving in America means that you're grieving.
00:30:11.000Race does not decide whether you grieve in a system that does not discriminate against you.
00:30:15.000The Breonna Taylor case is not a case of discrimination.
00:30:19.000There has yet to be an allegation that these officers are racist.
00:30:22.000I mean, again, it is amazing how we immediately jumped to racism and no supporting evidence needs to be presented at any point along the way.
00:30:28.000We still, by the way, don't have evidence that the George Floyd death was racist, let alone the Breonna Taylor death.
00:30:34.000We have no evidence that virtually any of these cases have anything to do with race.
00:30:38.000The only case I can think of in the past year that there was some evidence presented for the actual thesis that racism was involved is the Ahmaud Arbery case where the guy's getting tried for first degree murder.
00:30:48.000So I'm wondering exactly why it is that we are supposed to believe that Bakari Sellers, who gets paid to be on CNN every day and spout this sort of nonsense, is in a perpetual state of grieving over his race.
00:30:58.000That is not the country that people in America are now occupying.
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00:32:51.000Okay, so it is not enough, apparently, to suggest without evidence that this entire Breonna Taylor situation is indicative of deeper American racism.
00:33:01.000We now have calls to release grand jury decision-making.
00:33:04.000Now, typically, to take, for example, federal grand juries, there's a reason that we do not release grand jury decision-making information.
00:33:10.000The reason is, if a grand jury is deciding whether or not to indict somebody, what you don't want is they make a decision not to indict, and then all the information is spilled into the public eye, and the person is basically smeared With that information for the rest of their life.
00:33:25.000This is typically why you don't release grand jury information.
00:33:28.000In the same way that let's say that the police or prosecutors look into you and then they decide not to prosecute.
00:33:33.000We don't just put those files online for anybody to see because you didn't commit a crime and frankly it's nobody's business.
00:33:38.000You do have a right against not only unreasonable search and seizure but against being smeared by the public authorities.
00:33:45.000If you are not going to be tried for a crime.
00:33:47.000Well, in this particular case, these particular officers are not being tried.
00:33:50.000And that means that grand jury proceedings, testimony therein, revealing who was on the grand jury, right?
00:33:58.000Nonetheless, this is exactly what some people are calling for.
00:34:00.000Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the Taylor family.
00:34:03.000He's the attorney for all of these families.
00:34:05.000And by the way, a person who lies a lot.
00:34:06.000Okay, Benjamin Crump is a dishonest human being.
00:34:09.000He lied about the facts of the case in the Michael Brown shooting.
00:34:11.000He lied about the facts of the case with George Floyd.
00:34:13.000He has lied about the facts of the case repeatedly in a variety of these cases.
00:34:17.000Well, now Benjamin Crump is on TV suggesting that they should release all the transcripts of the grand jury investigation, saying, quote, if you did everything you could do on Breonna's behalf, you shouldn't have any problem whatsoever.
00:34:29.000He said that the very fact that the officers were not charged with some degree of murder means there seem to be two justice systems in America, one for black America and one for white America.
00:34:43.000And then he implied that the Attorney General of Kentucky, a black man, Daniel Cameron, decided that he was going to exonerate these officers against the evidence.
00:34:52.000He said, did he present any evidence on Breonna Taylor's behalf?
00:34:55.000Or did he make a unilateral decision to put his thumb on the scales of justice?
00:35:33.000Benjamin Crump also happens to be the attorney for the Jacob Blake family.
00:35:36.000Jacob Blake was shot after the police were called to the site of a situation where a woman who had alleged rape, digital rape, against Jacob Blake called the cops because Blake showed up again.
00:35:47.000A few months earlier, she had called the cops because Jacob Blake, according to her, had digitally penetrated her against her will with a child in the room.
00:35:55.000Jacob Blake then showed up at her house.
00:36:21.000Because it seems to me like if you wanted to respect a black woman, one thing you might do is believe her after she repeatedly asserts that a man digitally raped her instead of, you know, defending the guy who digitally raped her and suggesting wrongly that he was there as some sort of as some sort of good Samaritan breaking up a fight.
00:36:44.000When you are so concerned with the narrative that America is evil that you decide to ignore the underlying facts, it tears apart the country.
00:36:49.000And honestly, it's being done on purpose.
00:36:53.000Now, meanwhile, speaking of tearing apart the country, we have seen an incredible news cycle in which the media are now alleging that Donald Trump is going to hole up in the White House like Al Pacino at the end of Scarface and snort coke in giant lines from a table and then fire a submachine gun and say, say hello to my little friend.
00:37:18.000This is again the media spinning their wheels in an attempt to justify any and all action against the Trump administration or any and all preparations up to and including maybe violent protests and looting since they've been so in favor of it in the past few months in the aftermath of the election.
00:37:32.000If there's any confusion at all, which unfortunately Thanks to everything going on, there's probably bound to be.
00:39:00.000We're going to get back into this this latest furor over the supposed willingness of President Trump to engage in a coup.
00:39:08.000OK, honest to God, the president does not have the capacity to plan beyond his next tweet, but he's apparently planning a deep and effective coup.
00:39:22.000Say the people who have refused to accept the results of the 2016 election so much so that they literally militarized the FBI in order to go after the Trump administration and went after Michael Flynn and then for several years touted the idea that the Russians had stolen the election in cahoots with the Trump administration.
00:39:37.000Yes, these are the people I trust when it comes to being very anti-coup.
00:39:41.000In just a second, we'll get to more of this.
00:39:43.000First, You don't want to miss another great episode of the Sunday Special coming up this weekend.
00:39:46.000Former Trump administration press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders comes on the show to discuss her time working for the president, her best and worst days as press secretary, which reporters are the worst off-camera.
00:39:55.000I think you probably know the answers.
00:39:57.000And the real question, do we need more teleprompter Trump?
00:40:01.000So go watch over at DailyWire.com or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever else you get your podcasts.
00:40:10.000We were in Japan walking into a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Abe and the president, who has every reason to be focused on the meeting in front of him and not concerned about, you know, my feelings or where I am, stops and says, hold on.
00:40:24.000He turns, he looks me straight in the eye and he said, Sarah, the only reason they come after you is because you're good at your job.
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00:41:54.000He had the Supreme Court nomination on his hands.
00:41:57.000Politically speaking, he had the Democrats once again providing tacit support to rioters and looters, as per their usual arrangement.
00:42:04.000This was a pretty solid political week for Trump, leading into the debates.
00:42:09.000And then Trump stepped in and he was asked a specific question about whether, win, lose or draw, which is a weird way to word it, win, lose or draw, would he concede the results of the election and accede to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost, was basically the idea.
00:42:38.000He's going to pee in jars like Howard Hughes.
00:42:41.000And that's going to be the new White House.
00:42:42.000And we're going to have to bust down the door.
00:42:44.000I mean, this is all their fever dream fantasies, right?
00:42:45.000This is all the things they want to happen, because they've always wanted to see Trump frogmarched out of the White House.
00:42:50.000So that's like their dream, is the Navy SEALs rappelling in through the top of the White House to capture President Trump, like White House down or something.
00:42:58.000This is what they have been fevered, masturbatorily thinking about for years.
00:43:36.000One, there's a report that came out several weeks ago now, in which the media reported that Democrats were preparing all sorts of post-election noise and chaos.
00:43:47.000That all these liberal progressive groups had gotten together and they were planning not only protests in the streets, but they were trying to figure out, you know, how rabid would they have to get?
00:43:56.000What sort of measures would they have to take in order to prevent Trump from stealing the White House?
00:43:59.000See, the thing is that if you generate a narrative that Trump's going to steal the White House, you have to take preventative measures, of course.
00:44:05.000We saw stories a month ago that John Podesta, part of the Biden campaign, war-gamed out what it would look like if Biden refused to concede in case of a close election.
00:44:14.000And that included things like the state of California seceding from the union.
00:44:31.000Point number two is they're trying to drive Trump off of his generalized point, which is if there are questionable practices in the election, then he should immediately ignore the questionable practices in the election and just concede the election.
00:44:42.000And that's going to be particularly true this year.
00:44:45.000What they want is for Trump to concede as fast as humanly possible, or if Trump spots evidence that bad stuff is happening, for him to ignore that so we can all move on with our lives as the Democratic president.
00:45:02.000How broad that possibility is has yet to be discovered.
00:45:04.000There is not a lot of data to suggest widespread voter fraud, meaning like tens of thousands of ballots, which it would take to swing some of these states, for example.
00:45:12.000Or hundreds of thousands of ballots nationally.
00:45:15.000The president has suggested repeatedly that there might be some sort of screwing around with the balloting process, which, again, is bad news.
00:45:23.000Democrats have been doing this, too, by the way.
00:45:24.000So this is not unique to one side of the aisle or the other.
00:45:27.000All of this undermines faith in the elections.
00:45:29.000But it's only bad when Trump does it, according to the left, because they expect that Biden is going to win.
00:45:32.000Now, this is getting really complicated because the Democrats made a very large strategic error here, which was, in the middle of the pandemic, they said to all of their voters, we want you to vote early.
00:45:42.000Right, we want you to get your mail-in ballot, we want you to vote early.
00:45:44.000The problem is, mail-in balloting is actually a lot harder than going to the polling place.
00:45:47.000You go to the polling place, out here in California anyway, as long as I have been voting, they have not digital voting, they have the actual paper ballots, and you punch out the chads, and they have kind of a system by which you can ensure that the chads have actually fallen out, so you don't end up with like the pregnant chad problem that you had in 2000.
00:46:07.000In Florida, in Miami-Dade County, and Palm Beach County.
00:46:10.000So, voting in person is actually a lot easier than voting by mail.
00:46:13.000Voting by mail, you get the ballot, then you have to fill in one envelope, then you put it in a second envelope, in a third envelope, you have to, in some areas, take it to a specific mailbox.
00:46:21.000Democrats realized that they were shooting themselves in the foot by basically telling everybody not to go to the polling places, so now they've reversed themselves, and they're like, everybody should go vote in person.
00:46:30.000But what they're afraid of is that on election day, it's going to look like Trump won, because everybody who votes in person is going to be a Republican, and everybody who votes by mail is going to be a Democrat.
00:46:37.000Conversely, by the way, Donald Trump suddenly realized about two months ago that it was a mistake to tell elderly people in Florida, who are the most likely people not to go to the polls, to not vote by mail.
00:46:51.000I mean, it's very obvious and transparently political what is happening right now, but The media's narrative here is that no matter what happens, Trump should concede.
00:47:00.000If Trump looks like he has won, he should concede.
00:47:02.000If Trump looks like he has lost, he should concede.
00:47:05.000The only situation in which Trump should not concede, presumably, is one in which it looks like he has won the popular vote, which is, of course, the most unlikely of all scenarios, considering he lost the popular vote by two and a half million last time.
00:47:15.000So President Trump was asked about it again yesterday.
00:47:17.000Are you going to concede if it's a close election?
00:47:21.000Will there be a peaceful transfer of power?
00:47:22.000Now, the normal answer to this question is, Of course, once all of the information is in and the election has been decided, there will be a peaceful transfer of power.
00:47:50.000There are unsolicited millions being sent to everybody, and we'll see.
00:47:54.000But if you remember, Hillary Clinton just a week ago or so told Joe Biden, do not accept the results of the election under any circumstances.
00:48:08.000Okay, he is right that they never asked Joe Biden the question as to whether he will concede the election and there will be a peaceful transfer of power.
00:48:14.000Of course, Biden doesn't step on that rake particularly.
00:48:16.000Like, he'll be a little bit more fluid with that.
00:48:18.000But it's perfectly obvious there will be a peaceful transfer of power.
00:48:20.000Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, was asked about this and he was like, of course there will be an orderly transition.
00:48:38.000Chuck Schumer on the Senate floor, ranting against Republicans, the Republicans are preparing to militarize in defense of President Trump seizing power or something.
00:48:48.000Here's Chuck Schumer being utterly and obviously and consistently dishonest as per our usual arrangement.
00:49:00.000And every constituent from every corner of the land, regardless of party or ideology, should be asking their Republican senators to speak out and demand that Donald Trump .
00:49:16.000Not be allowed to do what he says he's going to do and say they will join all of America in standing in the way if he tries.
00:49:26.000No one believes he's even going to try this.
00:49:28.000It is perfectly obvious he's not going to try this.
00:49:44.000The President will accept the results of a free and fair election.
00:49:49.000But I think that your question is more fitting to be asked of Democrats who have already been on the record saying they won't accept the results of an election.
00:49:57.000In fact, I have several of them here for you.
00:49:59.000South Carolina Democrat Jim Clyburn has said that Trump is not going to win fairly.
00:50:06.000And then you have that beautiful quote from Hillary Clinton that Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstance.
00:50:12.000So I think your fitting is more a fitting question for Democrats.
00:50:17.000But the media have generated a narrative because, again, the goal here is that if there's any confusion in the election, Trump should concede preemptively.
00:50:23.000And also that if there is chaos after the election, it's justified by Trumpian rhetoric, which has been their consistent position for quite a while.
00:50:30.000Now, meanwhile, there was a story yesterday that the FBI is investigating at least nine discarded military mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.
00:50:36.000Apparently all nine were marked for Donald Trump.
00:50:40.000The FBI announced on Thursday it was investigating issues with mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania's Luzerne County after covering at least nine votes that had been improperly discarded.
00:50:48.000Since Monday, FBI personnel working together with the Pennsylvania State Police have conducted numerous interviews and recovered and reviewed certain physical evidence, said the DOJ.
00:50:55.000At this point, we can confirm a small number of military ballots were discarded.
00:50:58.000Investigators have recovered nine ballots at this time.
00:51:01.000Some of these ballots can be attributed to specific voters.
00:51:04.000Pennsylvania has faced controversy over its mail-in voting process because of the issue of naked ballots, meaning ballots that are not inserted into a second secrecy envelope.
00:51:12.000The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Friday officials could reject ballots that do not arrive in the second envelope, which is aimed at preventing them from seeing how ballots are filled out.
00:51:19.000State election officials previously issued guidance telling counties to count the ballots.
00:51:23.000Now, the problem, of course, is that you want to make sure that people can't actually just look through the envelope, see who you voted for, and then just toss the ballot.
00:51:29.000Pennsylvania is one of 16 states that provides such envelopes.
00:51:32.000Philadelphia City Commission Chair Lisa Dealey warns in a letter Monday the issue could result in as many as 100,000 votes being lost.
00:51:38.000The FBI did not say whether it was related to the ballots discarded in Luzerne County.
00:51:42.000Trump won Pennsylvania by just 44,000 votes in 2016, and he won Luzerne County by 26,237 votes out of the more than 130,000 cast. Apparently, two of the discarded ballots had been resealed inside their appropriate envelopes by Luzerne election staff prior to recovery by the FBI.
00:52:23.000We take all election-related threats seriously, whether it's voter fraud, voter suppression, whether it's in person, whether it's by mail.
00:52:32.000And our role is to investigate the threat actors.
00:52:35.000Now, we have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise.
00:52:46.000We have seen voter fraud at the local level from time to time.
00:53:26.000Amy Coney Barrett, of course, is the other on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:53:29.000She's already been preemptively targeted by Democrats, who continue to maintain that Catholicism is some sort of barrier to serving in the government, which is hilarious.
00:53:37.000I mean, really, really funny, considering that Pelosi herself is a Catholic, and Joe Biden is a Catholic.
00:53:43.000I guess the way they mean this is that if you are an actual Catholic, meaning you follow the doctrines, and you follow the latest papal encyclicals, and you follow all of the rules and procedures of Catholicism, and actually take the views of the Catholic Church seriously, then you can't be in the government.
00:53:58.000So the only way you can be in the government and be a Catholic is if you are sort of a teatime Catholic, right?
00:54:02.000You only go to church once every so often, you kind of mouth the platitudes, you say a few, you say a little mumbo-jumbo in Latin, and then you go vote for abortion on demand.
00:54:12.000So in other words, you can't really hold Catholic values.
00:54:15.000Also, if you hold Catholic values, that inevitably is going to infuse your practice of the legal profession.
00:54:21.000So you have no capacity to separate off from your own personal convictions on the death penalty, for example.
00:54:25.000You instead are going to just vote against the application of the death penalty in every case because you're a Catholic.
00:54:31.000You have no capacity to actually enforce the law.
00:54:33.000Now, all of this is nonsense, but unfortunately, Democrats are promoting it.
00:54:37.000Nancy Pelosi yesterday was asked about essentially a religious test for the court, and she refused to say whether religion should be a barrier to being on the court.
00:54:48.000Article 6 which bans religious tests from being a qualification for office, do you think that that should apply to Supreme Court nominees as well?
00:54:57.000I'm not going to get into anybody's interpretation of one thing or another.
00:55:01.000The confirmation is the work of the Senate, and I trust the judgment of our Democrats.
00:55:10.000That's a no, she's not going to rule out a religious test for the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:55:15.000For her part, Dianne Feinstein is acknowledging full out that she just does not have the power to block any of Trump's nominees.
00:55:20.000According to USA Today, she said neither this committee nor the Senate should consider a nomination at this time.
00:55:25.000I recognize I don't have the power to carry that through, but I feel it very deeply.
00:55:29.000And because at least Dianne Feinstein has been in the Senate long enough to understand how the procedures work, this of course has led the Democrats, I'm not kidding you, to charge that she should be removed from the Senate Judiciary Committee because she is old and doddering.
00:55:41.000They're running Joe Biden, who is old and doddering and has declared a lid every day for the last seven years.
00:55:46.000And Dianne Feinstein is now not sufficiently with it to lead up the Senate Judiciary Committee because she points out, quite obviously, that the Democrats just don't have the votes in the Senate.
00:55:56.000Meanwhile, things are at a high pitch in this country, I think it is fair to say.
00:55:59.000So President Trump and Melania Trump visited the RBG Memorial.
00:57:12.000I'm a 40-something attorney and mother who lives in a quiet neighborhood with a yard and a garage full of scooters and soccer balls.
00:57:17.000I'm not the type of person who would normally consider becoming a Satanist, but these are not normal times.
00:57:22.000You might want to consider your life choices if your politics have now driven you to become a Satanist.
00:57:28.000Like so many other women in the United States, says this idiot columnist for the Huffington Post, when I learned of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing, my first reaction was not grief, but fear.
00:57:36.000I fear that Americans are inching closer to living in a theocracy or dictatorship, and the checks meant to prevent this from happening are close to eroding beyond repair.
00:57:43.000Again, even if Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, abortion is not going to be outlawed in California.
00:57:50.000That is not the way any of this works.
00:57:54.000We gotta pretend that we are on the verge of theocracy.
00:57:57.000We're on the verge of the Handmaid's Tale.
00:57:59.000Members of the Satanic Temple do not believe in the supernatural or superstition, which is weird because they call themselves members of the Satanic Temple, in the same way that some Unitarians and some Jews do not believe in God.
00:58:09.000Satanic Temple members do not worship Satan, and most are atheists.
00:58:12.000They are not affiliated in any way with the Church of Satan.
00:58:15.000Instead, the Satanic Temple uses the devil as a symbol of rebellion.
00:58:19.000Again, if you are using, you know, the symbol of Pure evil.
00:58:24.000In order to show that you are rebelling against the system, I don't think that you are a good person.
00:58:31.000According to this columnist, when Justice Ginsburg died, I knew immediately action was needed on a scale we've not seen before.
00:58:36.000Our democracy has become so fragile, the loss of one of the last guardians of common sense and decency in government, less than two months before our pivotal election, has put our civil and reproductive rights in danger like never before.
00:58:59.000I mean, if you're for abortion on demand, I kind of see it.
00:59:01.000Like other faiths, the Satanic Temple has a code their members believe in deeply and use to guide their lives.
00:59:07.000These seven fundamental tenets include that one should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
00:59:13.000And that the struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
00:59:18.000And that one's body is inviolable subject to one's will alone.
00:59:21.000Unless you're sticking a scalpel into, like, the head of an unborn fetus.
00:59:24.000That kid's body doesn't matter at all.
00:59:27.000Also, I do love, the struggle for justice is an ongoing necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
00:59:32.000As the laws and institutions are not, in many cases, founded on justice.
00:59:36.000They're not always founded on justice, but in many cases they are.
00:59:44.000RBG dies, so you go to a satanic temple.
00:59:48.000I have joined a community who will stop at nothing to safeguard my family's rights and all of our rights when they are at their most vulnerable.
00:59:54.000Jamie Smith is an attorney and mother who cares about civil rights and also worships Satan.
00:59:59.000But not really, because they're just facetious about it, you see.
01:00:08.000So we are seeing a surge in some states in COVID-19.
01:00:12.000We're seeing a sort of second wave happening in more rural areas of Arizona.
01:00:16.000There's some 22 states that have seen an uptick in coronavirus in the recent past.
01:00:21.000None of them are on the verge of being overwhelmed.
01:00:24.000The hospital system is not being overwhelmed in any of these states.
01:00:26.000We've seen a flattening out in many of the biggest states, Florida, Georgia.
01:00:31.000These are states where you've seen a flattening out in the number of active cases.
01:00:34.000And in fact, you're on the other side of active cases in Florida.
01:00:36.000The bell curve is already coming down the other side.
01:00:39.000The daily deaths tend to lag a fair bit.
01:00:43.000With that said, I've got bad news and I've got good news.
01:00:46.000So the bad news is that according to Jackie Salo reporting from the New York Post, a new COVID-19 mutation appears to be even more contagious.
01:00:53.000According to a study, experts say it could be a response by the virus to defeat masks and other social distancing efforts.
01:00:58.000Scientists in a paper published Wednesday identified a new strain of the virus, which accounted for 99.9% of cases during the second wave in the Houston, Texas area.
01:01:06.000The paper, which has not been peer-reviewed, said people with this strain, known as the D614G mutation, had higher loads of virus, suggesting it is more contagious.
01:01:15.000Though the strain isn't more deadly, researchers said it appeared to have adapted better to spread among humans.
01:01:20.000He said it's possible, David Morin's virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said it's possible that the virus had now evolved to resist efforts like hand washing and social distancing.
01:01:31.000Morin said wearing masks, washing our hands, all those things are barriers to transmissibility or contagion.
01:01:35.000But as the virus becomes more contagious, it statistically is better at getting around those barriers.
01:01:40.000In other bad news, by the way, the vaccination effort will not be complete until July, according to the CDC director.
01:01:46.000Robert Redfield told the Senate Health and Education Committee in a Wednesday hearing that it would take us until April, May, June, maybe July to get the entire American public completely vaccinated.
01:01:55.000So that means middle of next year at best.
01:01:58.000As we say, we've seen spikes around the country.
01:02:01.000Now, we are not seeing the deaths follow yet.
01:02:03.000The death rates in Europe remain actually extremely low despite massive increases in the number of cases.
01:02:10.000And it's important to note here that the massive increases in numbers of cases are not happening under Trump's watch.
01:02:20.000We're seeing massive spikes around Europe right now.
01:02:23.000In fact, in Israel, they've basically declared martial law.
01:02:26.000I mean, because Yom Kippur is coming up, which is a time when people go to synagogue and they tend to pray, they have like a big controversy over in Israel because the left wants people to be allowed to protest in certain numbers, and the right wants people to be able to pray in certain numbers, and the government is trying to shut down everything.
01:02:41.000Daily cases in Israel have spiked to nearly 7,000 apparently.
01:02:45.000Meanwhile, record infections in France and restrictions have sparked an outcry there too.
01:02:49.000So people are protesting restrictions there as well.
01:02:52.000Figures from the Public Health France show that 16,096 people had tested positive for COVID over the last 24 hours, which is a record.
01:02:58.000Even though experts advised that testing during the first coronavirus wave in March and April captured only a fraction of the cases.
01:03:04.000The centrist government of President Emmanuel Macron announced a series of new measures on Wednesday to try to slow the spread of the disease, including the closure of all bars and restaurants in Marseille and earlier closing times in Paris and elsewhere.
01:03:15.000Prime Minister Jean Castex called for responsibility and implied his opponents were playing politics.
01:03:20.000He said, what I don't want is that we go back to March, which is referring to the strict national lockdown that was used by the French government.
01:03:27.000Marseille has now been put on maximum alert.
01:03:29.000Paris and 10 other cities have been put on elevated alert as well.
01:03:34.000The question is, how long the hospitalizations are going to lag, according to the New York Times.
01:03:39.000The cases that are upticking in Spain and France and the UK means that more people are now being restricted to their homes.
01:03:47.000Boris Johnson and other European leaders, according to the New York Times, are dealing with a confusing, fast-changing situation with conflicting evidence on how quickly new cases are translating into hospital admissions and how severe those cases will end up being.
01:03:58.000In Spain, where new cases have surged to more than 10,000 a day, hospitals in Madrid are close to capacity.
01:04:03.000The government said it is preparing to open field hospitals and hotels and in the city's largest exhibition center.
01:04:07.000But in France, which reported 66,000 new cases over the last seven days, hospital admissions and deaths, they're rising, but they're going up much more slowly.
01:04:15.000There's also a divergence between infection rates and hospitalizations in Germany and Austria.
01:04:19.000In Britain, which reported over 6,000 new COVID cases on Wednesday, just 134 patients were admitted to hospitals.
01:04:25.000That's barely a 10th of those admitted in early May.
01:04:28.000Some experts argue this shows the virus has lost potency or that it is now infecting mostly younger people.
01:04:33.000Others say it's a testament to social distancing and face masks.
01:04:35.000See the problem is that the social distancing face mask thesis is really kind of unprovable.
01:04:43.000Because in certain places like northern Europe, they're doing social distancing but not face masks and they have not seen this massive uptick in death.
01:04:51.000By the way, Sweden has seen no uptick in caseload or death because they already got hit.
01:04:55.000Norway is seeing a pretty significant uptick in caseload but not death.
01:05:00.000Indiana, for what it's worth, is now moving toward total reopening.
01:05:04.000According to the Indianapolis Star, nearly three months after suspending Indiana's reopening plan, Governor Eric Holcomb on Wednesday announced the state will move to the final phase, stage five, as the statewide mask order remains in place indefinitely.
01:05:15.000That means restaurants, bars, fitness centers, and stores will now be able to operate at full capacity, but people will be expected to maintain social distance in these places and keep their masks on, except while eating and drinking.
01:05:25.000Holcomb led with the reopening, which is good news to some, then followed up with the continuation of the mask order.
01:05:29.000He acknowledged that his preference would be not to wear face coverings, but doing so is essential to allowing the state to move toward reopening.
01:05:37.000The only people who really should not be masking at this point are small children, who apparently are not spreading this thing in major numbers.
01:05:42.000K-12 schools across the world have been avoiding COVID surges thus far.
01:05:47.000According to Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, he said, everyone had a fear there would be explosive outbreaks of transmission in schools and colleges there have been.
01:05:57.000We have to say that to date, we have not seen this in younger kids.
01:06:00.000That really is an important observation.
01:06:01.000By the way, there's a good case to be made that at colleges, you should basically just shut the colleges to the outside and let the kids basically go about their daily lives.
01:06:09.000And if infection spread at colleges, the number of 20-year-olds who are going to die from COVID is very low, and then they can't be pathways for transmission.
01:06:17.000Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi has abruptly shifted her course and started pushing relief after shutting it down for several months on end.
01:06:36.000It turns out that Fauci is just not right on some of this stuff.
01:06:40.000They've developed enough community immunity that they're no longer having the pandemic because they have enough immunity in New York City to actually stop.
01:06:52.000Please, sir, I would like to be able to do this because this happens with Senator Rand all the time.
01:06:56.000You were not listening to what the director of the CDC said, that in New York, it's about 22%.
01:07:02.000If you believe 22% is herd immunity, I believe you're alone in that.
01:07:10.000Okay, well, nobody has suggested that herd immunity kicks in at 20%.
01:07:13.000What people have suggested, correctly, is that there is something called T-cell immunity and resistance.
01:07:18.000And that means that people who have pre-existing sort of immune response to COVID, because they had a cold a couple of years ago, they have a bit of a coronavirus response mechanism already in place, that they are not getting as serious forms of the disease.
01:07:30.000Anywhere from 20 to 50% of the population may already have that.
01:07:33.000You can't just add 20% fully immune to 20 to 50% partially immune.
01:07:38.000What you can suggest is that the vast majority of the population is not extraordinarily susceptible to COVID.
01:07:45.000But this has been true for a long time.
01:07:46.000The vast majority of the population is not extraordinarily susceptible to COVID.
01:07:49.000And by extraordinarily susceptible, I don't mean that this thing is on the par with the flu.
01:08:17.000But here is a Dr. Scott Atlas kind of debunking what Fauci says right there.
01:08:22.000The reality is that according to the papers from Sweden, Singapore, and elsewhere, there is cross-immunity, highly likely, from other infections, and there is also T-cell immunity.
01:08:33.000And the combination of those makes the antibodies a small fraction of the people that have immunity.
01:08:38.000So the answer is no, it is not 90% of people that are susceptible to the infection.
01:08:43.000I guess my question is, I'm not a doctor, I defer to your expertise on this, not to his, but so Americans hear one thing from the CDC director and another thing from you, who are we to believe?
01:08:52.000You're supposed to believe the science and I'm telling you the science.
01:08:56.000Hey, Alice happens to be correct about this.
01:09:08.000The only good news here, really, is that people are recognizing, sooner rather than later, that we're going to have to learn to live with the virus.
01:09:14.000And what that means... Europe has said this.
01:09:16.000Many Republican governors have been saying this.
01:09:17.000I've been saying this for a long time.
01:09:18.000That means if you are younger and healthier, you should be going back to work.
01:09:21.000It means that you should be wearing a mask and you should socially distance when possible.