The Ben Shapiro Show - The Rittenhouse Trial And The Collapse Of American Institutional Trust | Ep. 1374

00:00:00.000 Kyle Rittenhouse's trial goes completely sideways for the prosecution.

00:00:03.000 Media respond by attacking the Rittenhouse judge.

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00:01:29.000 Okay, so, I just want to remind you, before we go through the details of the Britten House trial, which has just gone completely sideways for the prosecution.

00:01:36.000 It's a complete fail for the prosecution.

00:01:38.000 And honestly, it has created significant issues for me with institutional trust.

00:01:43.000 I think the last couple of years in particular have demonstrated that all of the institutional distrust that frankly drove Donald Trump to the presidency was well-founded.

00:01:52.000 It is deeply disturbing when you see that institutions that you are supposed to trust have been lying to you, are manipulatable, are not honest, they don't do their fundamental job.

00:02:04.000 And when you see trials like the Rittenhouse trial, you think to yourself, okay, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to trust that the system is apolitical.

00:02:12.000 We've seen this in nearly every area of American life.

00:02:14.000 We've seen bureaucracies that are designed to protect you at your workplace now being used to ram down vaccine mandates on 85 million Americans.

00:02:21.000 We've seen CDC A system that is supposed to prevent the spread of disease, telling homeowners that they're not allowed to evict renters.

00:02:30.000 We've had bureaucracies that have been completely twisted into what they were not supposed to be.

00:02:35.000 The FBI and the DOJ basically using Clinton oppo dump research in order to initiate investigations on allies of President Trump and then spend four years essentially propping up an investigation predicated on false nonsense that was propagated by the Clinton team.

00:02:52.000 You know, we've seen so many institutions in American life that have completely blown all credibility.

00:02:57.000 What we're now watching as the supposedly independent Federal Reserve takes its orders from the Biden administration.

00:03:03.000 What we're watching as the media, which was supposed to be the arbiter of truth, becomes essentially just a democratic left-wing talking points propaganda machine.

00:03:12.000 We've watched as Facebook and Google and all of our social media tech companies, the big tech companies, are batted about by the state so much that they essentially just become propagators of Democratic Party propaganda attempting to scuttle any outlet that doesn't mirror those positions.

00:03:27.000 All of this is super disturbing for people and the Rittenhouse trial is just one of those moments when the truth bobs its head above the waves and you say, oh, there's probably an iceberg under there.

00:03:37.000 There's definitely an iceberg under there.

00:03:38.000 So I just want to go for a walk down memory lane.

00:03:41.000 Grabian put out a supercut of all of the various pundits and commentators who had things to say about Kyle Rittenhouse in the immediate aftermath of what happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

00:03:50.000 Last year, you'll recall that Kenosha, Wisconsin was set on fire over Jacob Blake after the media promulgated a lie, which is that the police shot an unarmed man for no good reason.

00:04:00.000 It was not true about Jacob Blake.

00:04:01.000 Jacob Blake was a criminal, and Jacob Blake was carrying a knife, and the police shot Jacob Blake because he refused to put down the knife after they ordered him a million times to put down the knife.

00:04:09.000 And all of it was on tape, and the media ran with the false narrative anyway, and Kenosha burned.

00:04:13.000 And then Kyle Rittenhouse, Who apparently knew the people who were attempting to guard a car dealership, decided that he was going to go 20 minutes down the road, and he was going to help protect the car dealership, he was going to wipe away the graffiti, he was going to do some medical treatment on people who were injured in the riots that were happening, and then he got roped into a horrible situation in which he had to shoot three people.

00:04:36.000 And all of that was on tape.

00:04:37.000 The shootings were on tape.

00:04:38.000 And we could see from the get-go what happened.

00:04:40.000 And barring some sort of extraneous evidence that showed the contrary, and I always wait on these cases.

00:04:45.000 I really do.

00:04:46.000 I try to be considered about jumping in in the early moments of cases and giving you sort of preliminary thoughts without all of the evidence being available because sometimes you get more evidence that wasn't available.

00:04:56.000 I'd rather be late than be first and wrong.

00:04:58.000 Late and right is better than first and wrong.

00:05:00.000 But everybody in the media is incentivized to give an opinion on cases right from the get-go and without any provisos.

00:05:06.000 And so the media, in the face of the available evidence, suggested that Rittenhouse went there as a white supremacist to murder people.

00:05:12.000 Here is a supercut from Grabian, people making the suggestion, beginning with Jason Johnson over at MSNBC.

00:05:18.000 Rittenhouse is basically what you would have had in a school shooter.

00:05:22.000 He's a 17-year-old kid.

00:05:23.000 He shouldn't have had a gun.

00:05:24.000 He crossed state lines to supposedly protect property. 0.87

00:05:27.000 No, he was going out to shoot people.

00:05:29.000 Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old vigilante.

00:05:31.000 Kyle Rittenhouse, the vigilante.

00:05:33.000 Kyle Rittenhouse, the armed teenage vigilante. 0.95

00:05:37.000 A 17-year-old vigilante, arguably a domestic terrorist, picked up a rifle, drove to a different state to shoot people. 0.78

00:05:42.000 Kyle Rittenhouse. 0.61

00:05:44.000 A guy who's deeply racist went with weapons to a Black Lives Matter protest looking to get in trouble.

00:05:50.000 He did. 0.96

00:05:51.000 He murdered a couple of people. 0.81

00:05:52.000 Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old kid, just running around, shooting and killing protesters.

00:06:00.000 You see the 17-year-old, who was radicalized by Trumpism, took his AR-15 to Kenosha and became a killer.

00:06:08.000 Okay, so Kyle Rittenhouse is going to be a very, very rich man if the jury does what it obviously has to do in this case and acquits him.

00:06:15.000 Because Kyle Rittenhouse should have all, he should have his lawyers on speed dial.

00:06:19.000 This makes Covington Catholic look like nothing.

00:06:21.000 Covington Catholic was about the humiliation of a bunch of school kids for doing nothing but standing there. 0.92

00:06:26.000 You have commentators on these networks with the tape available calling him a domestic terrorist and a white supremacist.

00:06:33.000 These are prominent people.

00:06:34.000 These are people like Cenk Uygur and Steve Schmidt of the Lincoln Project, which has a habit of going after minors.

00:06:40.000 John Heilemann talking about he's a domestic terrorist.

00:06:43.000 Joe Scarborough suggesting that he's running around shooting and killing protesters?

00:06:47.000 You're not a protester once you go for somebody's gun, guys.

00:06:50.000 That ain't how that works.

00:06:52.000 And you'll remember that Facebook legitimately banned links to Rittenhouse's defense fund he had his lawyer on before the trial began.

00:07:01.000 And his legal team was saying they could not raise fund.

00:07:03.000 They couldn't crowdfund.

00:07:04.000 So you could have Kamala Harris bailing out rioters in the middle of the 2020 BLM riots. 1.00

00:07:09.000 But Kyle Rittenhouse could not raise a defense fund because the big tech companies essentially labeled him a domestic terrorist.

00:07:16.000 They labeled him somebody who is not worthy of being able to raise money for his legal defense.

00:07:20.000 The Blaze reported that just last year, Facebook has banned users from sharing a crowdfunding link to assist with the legal fees for 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who was charged with homicide last week following fatal shootings that occurred during a riot in Kenosha.

00:07:31.000 But the site allows posts asking for fundraising for several other individuals who have been charged with crimes, including murder.

00:07:39.000 So they basically singled out Rittenhouse.

00:07:42.000 The Washington Times reported online fundraisers were made for the teen's legal defense shortly after he was identified as the suspect, but they quickly vanished from GoFundMe.

00:07:50.000 GoFundMe said that campaigns for Rittenhouse violated its terms of service, but did not explain any further.

00:07:57.000 Facebook did allow links for other fundraisers, including Mark Wilson, a 21-year-old who was charged with felony murder after killing a 17-year-old girl.

00:08:05.000 There was a GoFundMe started by Michael Moore to support individuals prosecuted for tearing down monuments.

00:08:12.000 There's a Minnesota Freedom Fund promoted by Kamala Harris. 0.73

00:08:15.000 All of these people were able to raise money, not Kyle Rittenhouse, because Kyle Rittenhouse was prejudged by the media to be a domestic terrorist, guilty white supremacist.

00:08:22.000 And none of it ended up being true.

00:08:24.000 None of it.

00:08:26.000 This case never should have been brought.

00:08:27.000 Again, my faith in the system is such that I figured if they're bringing a case, maybe they know something I don't.

00:08:32.000 Because that does happen in trial sometimes.

00:08:33.000 Sometimes they bring a case and then the case ends up being stronger than you thought it was going to be.

00:08:37.000 Or sometimes they bring a case and it ends up being weaker than you thought it was going to be.

00:08:41.000 And you don't know until the evidence is in the room.

00:08:43.000 And so I tend to withhold judgment in these cases until the evidence is in the room.

00:08:48.000 But when you see a case this bad being brought, this horrible being brought, you gotta think, the institution has now been gutted from the inside.

00:08:56.000 When prosecutors are bringing cases specifically because of political pressure, you cannot feel safe.

00:09:03.000 I'm talking about you.

00:09:04.000 You cannot feel safe in a system where prosecutors are bringing cases purely out of political pressure.

00:09:09.000 If you happen to be on the wrong side of the media in any particular conflict, you will end up in the prosecutor's crosshairs.

00:09:15.000 And it undermines my faith in the system when it comes to everything from the BLM rioters, most of whom were basically let off scot-free, to the sentencing of people on January 6th.

00:09:27.000 Again, I think criminals should go to jail.

00:09:29.000 If you commit a crime, you should go to jail.

00:09:32.000 But now, I want to see all the evidence in all these cases.

00:09:36.000 Because I gotta say, again, when you see a little bit of the iceberg above the waterline, you start to think, oh, maybe these institutions, maybe that iceberg is real.

00:09:45.000 And I don't want to rip on the institutions.

00:09:46.000 I'm a conservative.

00:09:47.000 I think the institutions are necessary and good, but only if they follow due process of law.

00:09:53.000 And prosecutorial discretion is part of due process of law.

00:09:55.000 And that prosecutorial discretion is supposed to be independent and not shaped by media pressure.

00:10:01.000 In one second, we'll get to the actual testimony yesterday because Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand, which is a unique and rare move in a defense of a murder trial.

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00:11:15.000 We know That the narratives that are formed in the lead up to criminal cases obviously have an impact on both juries and how prosecutions conduct their case.

00:11:23.000 We saw this in the Derek Chauvin trial, where without any evidence whatsoever, that case was made to face the bleeding edge of racism in the United States.

00:11:31.000 There was no evidence that Chauvin was racist.

00:11:32.000 It was not even alleged in the courtroom.

00:11:34.000 The media instead decided it was a referendum on all cops and a referendum on racism in the United States.

00:11:39.000 With Rittenhouse, they did the same thing.

00:11:41.000 They said this is a referendum somehow on racism.

00:11:44.000 Okay, now they're having a tough time with this one because Rittenhouse, number one, is not a white supremacist.

00:11:48.000 And number two, the people he shot were all white.

00:11:51.000 All three had criminal records. 0.98

00:11:52.000 One of them was a child molester. 0.94

00:11:55.000 So, this was not the best case to pick if you're a member of the media and you wish to talk about the evils of domestic terror, white supremacists running around. 0.94

00:12:05.000 But the goal, you have to remember, when this happened with Rittenhouse, was to posit that there was a great conflict in the nation between the morally just BLM rioters and Trump supporters who are evil.

00:12:14.000 That was the conflict they were trying to create.

00:12:16.000 This case didn't fit inside that conflict at all. 0.97

00:12:18.000 The conflict itself was stupid and didn't make any sense, but the media had a narrative and whatever the narrative had to be, they were going to cram this into it. 0.84

00:12:25.000 Well, this is where you would expect the system of justice to actually do its job and stand aside. 0.99

00:12:29.000 They didn't.

00:12:30.000 The system of justice decided that it was necessary to bring a criminal case against Kyle Rittenhouse because of the public pressure.

00:12:36.000 And at the time, again, I was willing to withhold judgment until I saw all the evidence.

00:12:39.000 Now we've seen all the evidence.

00:12:40.000 Let me just tell you, this prosecutor ought to be disbarred.

00:12:42.000 There is no way this case should have been brought.

00:12:44.000 It's insane that this case was brought based on the evidence.

00:12:46.000 So Kyle Rittenhouse, yesterday, takes the stand.

00:12:48.000 Now, as a lawyer, I gotta tell you, first-year criminal law, they tell you, if you got a client, do not let your client take the stand.

00:12:55.000 Because, especially, unless the evidence really runs against you, and you feel that it is definitely necessary, that you need your client to take the stand, you don't put your client on the stand, because you just don't know what's going to happen.

00:13:05.000 Courtrooms are unpredictable, juries are unpredictable, you don't know how they're going to react to particular testimony.

00:13:11.000 But, Rittenhouse decided to take the stand.

00:13:14.000 And again, that's kind of an incredible thing.

00:13:16.000 You got to remember, it's an incredible thing because the prosecutor had completely failed to make his case.

00:13:20.000 In the days leading up to this, I mean, I did a lot on the podcast Monday about this.

00:13:24.000 In the days leading up to yesterday, Rittenhouse's prosecutors did a horrible job.

00:13:28.000 They were calling witness after witness, the prosecution, and those witnesses were quickly turning into defense witnesses.

00:13:36.000 Gage Grossklutz, or whatever the guy's name is.

00:13:39.000 He was the guy who was shot in the arm by Rittenhouse.

00:13:43.000 He was asked by the prosecutor if he had dropped his gun, or what was going on.

00:13:48.000 And instead, he was like, oh yeah, yeah, no, I was pointing my gun at him.

00:13:51.000 I mean, he literally just made the defense case.

00:13:53.000 Forward to the defense.

00:13:54.000 It was incredible.

00:13:56.000 And that sort of testimony was very common.

00:13:58.000 The prosecutor would call a witness.

00:13:59.000 The witness would testify to Rittenhouse's innocence.

00:14:01.000 And then, the prosecutor would kind of throw up his hands.

00:14:05.000 So finally, Rittenhouse takes the stand yesterday.

00:14:07.000 And it didn't go great for the prosecution.

00:14:10.000 So let's begin with Clip 29.

00:14:13.000 So the prosecutor asks him about one of the people that he shot, a guy named Huber.

00:14:19.000 And this is the guy who, if you recall the footage, just to go through the timeline here, Rittenhouse was running away from a fire.

00:14:25.000 There was a big fire and Rittenhouse was running away from the fire.

00:14:28.000 And a man confronted him and started yelling at him.

00:14:32.000 Apparently, he had confronted him earlier in the night.

00:14:34.000 This would be Joseph Rosenbaum.

00:14:36.000 And started chasing him.

00:14:38.000 Rittenhouse ran away, even though he had a gun. 0.93

00:14:40.000 If he'd been there to kill, he just would've shot him there. 0.83

00:14:40.000 Right? 0.83

00:14:42.000 He wasn't.

00:14:42.000 He ran away.

00:14:44.000 Rosenbaum chased him down.

00:14:46.000 And Rittenhouse turned around, Rosenbaum grabbed for his gun, and Rittenhouse shot him.

00:14:51.000 Rittenhouse then stood there, as a reporter came over, a reporter from the Daily Caller came over, and tried to provide medical aid to Rosenbaum, who was bleeding out.

00:14:59.000 And a crowd started to gather and Rittenhouse didn't feel safe, so he started trying to run toward the cops.

00:15:04.000 As he was running toward the cops, he was pursued by a bunch of Antifa thugs.

00:15:10.000 One of those Antifa thugs was Huber, who jumped on him with a skateboard and started trying to clock him in the head with the skateboard.

00:15:17.000 Because he was now prone, he'd fallen down and tripped and fallen.

00:15:20.000 And Rittenhouse shot Huber.

00:15:23.000 And then Gage Grosskrutz decided that he was going to get.

00:15:28.000 What was so urgent?

00:15:28.000 Yes.

00:15:28.000 Why?

00:15:29.000 And he ran over with his pistol pointed at Rittenhouse and Rittenhouse shot him in the arm.

00:15:33.000 That is the timeline here.

00:15:36.000 So actually, let's start with with clip two.

00:15:39.000 So Rittenhouse was asked by the prosecutor why he was running.

00:15:43.000 And he says, because there was a fire.

00:15:44.000 You decided you need to run because the fire in the Duramax?

00:15:49.000 Yes. Why?

00:15:50.000 What was so urgent?

00:15:51.000 It was a fire.

00:15:53.000 There's fires all over the place.

00:15:55.000 So I was getting to the fire to put it out.

00:16:00.000 Well...

00:16:01.000 We'll get back to that in a second.

00:16:05.000 Okay, so... Great job here.

00:16:08.000 Great job.

00:16:10.000 Good job, prosecutor.

00:16:11.000 Why were you running to a fire?

00:16:12.000 Well, there are fires everywhere!

00:16:14.000 Why are you running to that fire?

00:16:16.000 Excuse me?

00:16:18.000 I have a question.

00:16:18.000 Is that also how you, like... Well, if a firefighter gets a phone call and he says, go to a fire, Would you say to him, there are many other fires in the city, sir.

00:16:27.000 Why aren't you going to those as well?

00:16:29.000 Like that, what are you even talking about?

00:16:31.000 What are you talking about?

00:16:33.000 Okay.

00:16:34.000 Then the prosecutor asks, you know, why did you shoot this Anthony Huber character?

00:16:39.000 This 26 year old who is swinging a skateboard at him.

00:16:42.000 And Rittenhouse gives the obvious answer because he was trying to hit me in the head with his skateboard, which could kill me. 0.84

00:16:48.000 And when you shoot him, he's got his skateboard in his hand? 0.97

00:16:54.000 Yes. 0.61

00:16:55.000 You didn't see any gun in his hand, correct?

00:16:58.000 No.

00:16:58.000 You didn't see a knife?

00:17:00.000 No.

00:17:00.000 You didn't see a bat?

00:17:01.000 No.

00:17:02.000 You didn't see a club?

00:17:03.000 No.

00:17:03.000 All he's got is the skateboard, right?

00:17:06.000 That he's hit me in the head with twice, yes.

00:17:08.000 Okay.

00:17:11.000 That he's hit me in the head with twice!

00:17:12.000 Okay, as it turns out, under American law, I don't have to wait for you to hit me in the head with a skateboard the third time. 0.98

00:17:19.000 Once you've hit me in the head with a skateboard the first time, I can- By the way, if you come at me with a skateboard, and you swing back, and you are about to hit me in the head, I can shoot you before you hit me!

00:17:28.000 Self-defense is still a part of American law. 0.64

00:17:31.000 And by the way, all Western common law- And by the way, all non-Western law!

00:17:36.000 Okay, like, I'm unaware of any state, anywhere, where self-defense is not a thing.

00:17:41.000 Where if somebody swings a skateboard at your head, you're supposed to just stand there and take it.

00:17:46.000 Okay, and then the prosecutor suggests that Rittenhouse is just out to shoot people.

00:17:50.000 And Rittenhouse is like, uh, I didn't want to shoot people.

00:17:53.000 I mean, you can see in the tape that he's holding back from shooting people.

00:17:57.000 You just assumed that he was going to use it, that he was going to try and take it from you, first of all.

00:18:03.000 And then you assumed he was going to try and use it on you.

00:18:06.000 If I would have let Mr. Rosenbaum get my gun, he would have killed me.

00:18:11.000 But you had already pointed your gun at him.

00:18:14.000 Yes, because he was chasing me.

00:18:16.000 Did you want him to think that you were going to shoot him?

00:18:20.000 No, I never wanted to shoot Mr. Rosenbaum.

00:18:23.000 Why'd you point it at him if you didn't have any intention of shooting?

00:18:26.000 He was chasing me.

00:18:27.000 I was alone.

00:18:29.000 He threatened to kill me earlier in that night. 0.60

00:18:32.000 I didn't want to have to shoot him.

00:18:38.000 Okay, I love how the prosecutor suggests that if you point a gun in the vicinity of a person who is chasing you with violent intents who would threaten to kill you, that this means- and then you don't shoot!

00:18:47.000 This means you meant to shoot.

00:18:48.000 Okay, and then Rittenhouse is asked about the third character who attacked him, Gage Grosskreutz, and he says to him, you know, you had a rifle, he had a pistol, so what made you think you had to shoot him?

00:19:02.000 I don't understand, does this prosecutor not understand how guns operate?

00:19:08.000 This is not a video game.

00:19:10.000 A pistol can kill you just as easily as a rifle can, particularly when you're about 8 feet apart as they are in the video.

00:19:17.000 They are on top of one another.

00:19:20.000 This is not Kyle Rittenhouse, out at sniper distance, and Gage Grosskreutz walking around the perimeter carrying a pistol.

00:19:27.000 This is Gage Grosskreutz pulling a gun out, raising it up about 10 feet away from Kyle Rittenhouse, who's prone on his back.

00:19:35.000 Here's the prosecutor. 0.97

00:19:36.000 This prosecutor's a mockery. 1.00

00:19:37.000 He's just a mockery. 1.00

00:19:39.000 He's got a pistol not aimed at you. 0.99

00:19:42.000 You've got an AR-15 aimed at him.

00:19:44.000 Why is he more of a threat to you than you are to him?

00:19:49.000 Because he was moving at me with a gun in his hand.

00:19:53.000 This is right after you've killed Anthony Huber, correct?

00:19:57.000 Yes.

00:19:57.000 Right after you fired two shots at almost point-blank range at the man running towards the camera right now and missing him, correct?

00:20:05.000 Yes.

00:20:08.000 And you're telling us Gage Grosskreutz is the real threat at this moment?

00:20:14.000 Yes.

00:20:17.000 I mean, yeah!

00:20:19.000 Have you seen the video? 0.80

00:20:20.000 I don't know how ass-backwards you have to be not to be able to watch that video and come away with the idea that gauged road scoots is not a lethal threat.

00:20:30.000 If you fall on your back, you're running away from people, you fall on your back, you got your rifle here, somebody approaches you with his pistol, he's withdrawing it to shoot you, and the prosecutor's like, why would you feel like you were in dire threat? 0.90

00:20:44.000 You mean he wasn't coming to give you a Christmas present?

00:20:46.000 He wasn't coming over there to give you a nice shoulder.

00:20:48.000 How do you know?

00:20:49.000 Maybe he was going to drop the pistol and come over there and give you a bear hug.

00:20:51.000 Maybe he was going to give you a foot massage.

00:20:54.000 Like, what in the world?

00:20:55.000 What in the actual?

00:20:56.000 So Rittenhouse is asked, why were you trying to get to the cops after the first shooting?

00:21:01.000 Why are you trying to get to the cops?

00:21:02.000 And he says, because I was defending myself.

00:21:04.000 Like, what do you not understand about the English language, sir? 0.99

00:21:08.000 People were saying cranium him and get him, kill him. 0.95

00:21:12.000 People were screaming and I just was trying to get to the police running down Sheridan Road. 0.97

00:21:17.000 And you say I'm trying to get to the police.

00:21:19.000 Why were you trying to get to the police?

00:21:21.000 Because I didn't do anything wrong.

00:21:23.000 I defended myself.

00:21:26.000 Okay, so, this testimony goes very, very poorly for the prosecution.

00:21:31.000 Like, super poorly for the prosecution.

00:21:33.000 But, the left has to have its narrative. 0.92

00:21:34.000 Because remember, they've doubled down on the notion that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist murderer who went out that night to shoot people.

00:21:40.000 The evidence is precisely the opposite. 0.84

00:21:42.000 It does not matter.

00:21:43.000 They have to have their victim.

00:21:45.000 They have to have their blood here.

00:21:47.000 And Rittenhouse has to go down.

00:21:49.000 So, they need something to hang their hat on.

00:21:51.000 And what they decide to hang their hat on is the fact that Rittenhouse cried yesterday at the trial.

00:21:56.000 That is what they've hung their hat on.

00:21:57.000 Okay, so yesterday, Rittenhouse is getting beat up by the prosecutor.

00:22:02.000 He's being asked over and over about shooting people.

00:22:04.000 He's 18 years old, so he's a young man.

00:22:07.000 Now, the reason I use the term young man here is because I want to be consistent, right?

00:22:10.000 Michael Brown was also a young man when he attacked a police officer and when he was shot for his trouble.

00:22:15.000 Okay, so when you're 17 years old, 18 years old, I'm hesitant in a criminal justice context to use different terminology for different people based on the age, right?

00:22:25.000 If you're 17, 18 years old, you are now a young man.

00:22:27.000 So Rittenhouse, if you were a kid, then not only should he not have been out on the street, there would have been no excuse for him to be out on the street.

00:22:35.000 If he's 14 years old, 13 years old, but he's 17 years old, he's out there, he's a young man.

00:22:40.000 Okay, so.

00:22:41.000 That does not mean that it's not rather an emotional thing when you're on trial for your life for having shot three career criminals, essentially.

00:22:48.000 So Rittenhouse is being beat up by the prosecutor and he starts crying.

00:22:53.000 And it was pretty intense testimony.

00:22:56.000 He essentially has a panic attack.

00:22:59.000 That's basically what happens on the stand.

00:23:01.000 And frankly, I can't really blame him. 0.97

00:23:04.000 I mean, if you were called to testify for your life in a trial that was so ridiculous on its face, And you knew that you'd had to shoot three people. 0.93

00:23:14.000 You hadn't wanted to shoot going out there. 0.95

00:23:15.000 You brought the gun to defend yourself and you had to defend yourself.

00:23:18.000 That's not an easy thing.

00:23:19.000 And now you're on trial for your life with a prosecutor who's attacking you for shooting people, attempting to hit you in the head with a skateboard and approaching you to grab your gun and alternatively trying to point a pistol at you.

00:23:30.000 You might have a panic attack on the stand too.

00:23:31.000 And that's essentially what happened with Rittenhouse yesterday.

00:23:34.000 Here's what that sounded like.

00:23:36.000 Once I take that step back, I look over my shoulder and Mr. Rosenbaum.

00:23:43.000 Mr. Rosenbaum was now running from my right side.

00:23:50.000 And I was cornered from in front of me with Mr. Zeminski.

00:23:59.000 And there were...

00:24:01.000 There were three people right there.

00:24:11.000 Okay, so the media's response to this,

00:24:41.000 in large part is he's lying. 0.86

00:24:43.000 This shows he's a fake. 0.68

00:24:44.000 There are people who are tweeting out photos of him next to, of course, Brett Kavanaugh, because all white people who cry are apparently the same. 0.67

00:24:52.000 And not only that, also Brett Kavanaugh, we know, was lying because he got upset too.

00:24:56.000 It turns out that when you are accused of a thing you did not do, you tend to get upset.

00:25:00.000 But apparently, according to the media, your tears are some sign of guilt. 0.99

00:25:05.000 So you have, for example, LeBron James, who tweeted out, I mean, LeBron is just, I'm sorry, LeBron is just kind of a garbage human. 0.99

00:25:14.000 I mean, he's just a bad person. 1.00

00:25:15.000 He's just a bad person. 0.96

00:25:18.000 A person who spends all day whining about how America is deeply racist while he becomes one of the wealthiest people in the country. 0.93

00:25:24.000 Who bullies people into saying nothing about Chinese human rights violations, but he has time to suggest that Kyle Rittenhouse is lying, and this is all false.

00:25:35.000 Here's what LeBron James tweeted, quote, what tears?

00:25:38.000 Five question marks.

00:25:40.000 I didn't see one.

00:25:41.000 Man, knock it off.

00:25:43.000 That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court.

00:25:46.000 And then three emojis of laughing, crying.

00:25:50.000 Yeah, I mean, coming from a guy who acts like a soccer player on the court frequently, I will not take acting lessons from LeBron James.

00:26:03.000 And I've noticed that, again, LeBron has a lot to say when it comes to defending the Chinese government and pretty much nothing to say when it comes to the question of due process for people he doesn't particularly like.

00:26:17.000 What a godsend LeBron James is.

00:26:19.000 He has every right to speak his mind, and frankly, I'm glad he does, because he demonstrates what kind of person he is pretty much every time he goes on Twitter.

00:26:25.000 You'll recall that this is not the first time LeBron James has had to do this.

00:26:30.000 You remember that just back in April, he had to delete a tweet about a police shooting of Makia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.

00:26:38.000 You'll remember that Makia Bryant was a 16-year-old black girl who was attacking another black girl with a knife.

00:26:42.000 And a cop drove up and had to shoot her.

00:26:44.000 And LeBron James tweeted out in giant letters, your next, all caps, your next, hashtag accountability and an hourglass emoji. 0.98

00:26:53.000 And then added, I'm so damn tired of seeing black people killed by police. 0.92

00:26:56.000 I took the tweet down because it's being used to create more hate. 0.97

00:26:59.000 It's about the entire system.

00:27:00.000 They always use our words to create more racism.

00:27:03.000 I'm so desperate for more accountability.

00:27:05.000 Yeah, sure, LeBron.

00:27:08.000 What a delight he is.

00:27:09.000 We need more of LeBron's insightful political commentary to make the world a better place, really.

00:27:15.000 In Space Jam 3, I look forward to him maligning an innocent person.

00:27:19.000 I mean, he maligns an innocent cop for saving a black person, and now he's maligning Kyle Rittenhouse as a guy who eats lemon heads before going into court while he's on trial for his life.

00:27:28.000 Space Jam 3 should just be about an innocent person being victimized and LeBron James standing on them and spitting.

00:27:35.000 That's what Space Jam 3 should be about.

00:27:37.000 What a genius he is.

00:27:38.000 Meanwhile, Merriam-Webster got into the act.

00:27:41.000 You want your local dictionary to get into the act on these things.

00:27:43.000 It's very, very important.

00:27:44.000 So, Merriam-Webster tweeted out, the term crocodile tears, a superficial display of anguish, comes from a medieval belief that crocodiles shed tears of sadness when killing their prey.

00:27:55.000 They tweeted that out in the middle of the trial.

00:27:58.000 Because Merriam-Webster is now run, their Twitter account at least, is run by wokesters. 1.00

00:28:02.000 So people who literally are defining the words you use in English are sounding off this way in the middle of a trial.

00:28:11.000 Hakeem Jeffries, a progressive congressman from New York.

00:28:15.000 He gets in on the act.

00:28:17.000 He tweets out, lock up Kyle Rittenhouse and throw away the key.

00:28:20.000 Based on what, exactly?

00:28:21.000 Based on what?

00:28:23.000 Ana Navarro.

00:28:25.000 You're a supposed in-house Republican in places like CNN and The View.

00:28:27.000 She tweets out, Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and injured Gage Grosskreutz, now 27.

00:28:34.000 Think about how much their loved ones have cried real anguish and grief, not crocodile tears.

00:28:39.000 And by the way, you can see in this picture the actual tears on his face. 1.00

00:28:44.000 So LeBron is not only stupid, he's blind apparently. 0.98

00:28:48.000 But Ana Navarro here saying that you have to think about the families of Joseph Rosenbaum, who was a child molester, a serial child molester, and Gage Grosskreutz, who was attacking a 17-year-old who was thrown on the ground with a pistol, and Anthony Huber, Who had a criminal record and was swinging a skateboard at this guy's head. 0.99

00:29:07.000 Think about how much their loved ones have cried real anguish and grief, not crocodile tears.

00:29:11.000 See, he cried.

00:29:11.000 That was as big a problem as he cried.

00:29:13.000 Benjamin Dixon, another blue check on Twitter, tweeted out similarly, proud boys is trending.

00:29:17.000 Not looking so proud now.

00:29:19.000 Are you, boy?

00:29:24.000 The language here is really quite a delight.

00:29:26.000 Quite a delight.

00:29:27.000 Ryan Grimm from The Intercept joins.

00:29:28.000 He says, what people could do with anger about the Rittenhouse trial is advocate for a law that says that if you bring a weapon to a public place where you know violence is basically guaranteed, you lose any self-defense grounds.

00:29:39.000 That makes a lot of sense.

00:29:41.000 So basically, if you bring a weapon to defend yourself to any unsafe area in the United States and someone attacks you, you can now be murdered at whim.

00:29:52.000 Great job, everyone.

00:29:52.000 That makes perfect sense.

00:29:54.000 Great job, everyone.

00:29:56.000 And so, you can see, with this sort of climate, that's the reason the prosecutor brought this thing.

00:30:02.000 That's the reason the prosecutor brought this thing.

00:30:04.000 Because there's no other reason for him to have brought this case.

00:30:06.000 He's got nothing.

00:30:08.000 He's got less than nothing. 1.00

00:30:09.000 He made himself look like a fool. 1.00

00:30:10.000 This trial is a joke. 1.00

00:30:12.000 It's been a joke beginning to end.

00:30:13.000 I kept waiting.

00:30:14.000 Honest to God, I kept waiting for them to bring forth the piece of evidence that we hadn't seen already.

00:30:18.000 And then every additional piece of evidence was worse for the prosecution.

00:30:22.000 As somebody who generally wants to uphold institutional trust, as somebody who believes the criminal justice system is imperfect, but generally does a decent job, it is hard to watch trials like this and believe that sort of thing.

00:30:36.000 I'm going to chalk this one up to a bad apple in the prosecutor.

00:30:40.000 But it seems more and more often that criminal justice trials are now being brought simply because of public pressure brought by the media.

00:30:45.000 The media can whip up an outrage and then you just use the prosecutor as the head of the mob in order to go after somebody.

00:30:52.000 It's really disgusting.

00:30:55.000 By the way, the judge agrees.

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00:32:00.000 And this thing went super poorly for the prosecutor, not just according to people who are sort of watching the trial, but according to the judge.

00:32:07.000 So the prosecutor... I don't know how disbarment is not considered here.

00:32:13.000 Seriously.

00:32:14.000 The prosecutor, twice, essentially, got called on the carpet by the judge, who was very, very pissed off, and for good reason.

00:32:23.000 And the reason that the judge was pissed off is, in the first instance, The lawyer attempted to make the argument during cross-examination.

00:32:34.000 about why he had remained silent after his arrest.

00:32:38.000 So when he was arrested, he didn't talk to the police.

00:32:40.000 Now, it is a well-established rule.

00:32:43.000 I mean, literally going back centuries, that silence is not an admission of guilt.

00:32:47.000 Okay, this goes all the way back to like the Thomas More trial.

00:32:50.000 The belief that if you are silent on a particular topic, this means that you are guilty, as well as the notion that if you take the Fifth Amendment, that this is an implication of guilt in a courtroom, you're not allowed to even bring that up if you're a lawyer in a courtroom.

00:33:03.000 You're not allowed to.

00:33:04.000 And it's like black letter again, first-year law.

00:33:07.000 And the judge just reams the prosecutor for attempting to do that.

00:33:10.000 I mean, the prosecutor did that.

00:33:11.000 He's like, why did... You're really attempting to make the argument that Kyle Rittenhouse not talking to the cops means that he's guilty?

00:33:19.000 By the way, again, quick lawyer rule, guys.

00:33:22.000 If you are ever arrested for a crime, call your lawyer and say nothing to the cops.

00:33:26.000 If you're ever arrested for a crime, call your lawyer, say nothing to the cops.

00:33:29.000 Again, first-year basic law.

00:33:33.000 And it doesn't mean you're guilty.

00:33:34.000 It means that you need to talk to your lawyer because the police are there to do their job.

00:33:38.000 And that job might involve asking questions that implicate you in crimes you didn't commit, for example.

00:33:43.000 So you always want to work with your lawyer.

00:33:45.000 But one thing that's not allowed to happen is in the courtroom, the opposing lawyer isn't allowed to say, because you didn't talk to the cops, this means you're guilty.

00:33:53.000 That gets rid of the purpose of the Fifth Amendment in the first place. 0.87

00:33:55.000 Here's the prosecutor just getting ringed by the judge for this one.

00:33:59.000 You are already, you were, I was astonished when you began your examination by commenting on the defendant's post-arrest silence.

00:34:10.000 That's basic law, it's been basic law in this country for 40 years, 50 years.

00:34:15.000 I have no idea why you would do something like that.

00:34:17.000 I said I had heard nothing in this trial to change any of my rulings.

00:34:21.000 That was before the testimony, Your Honor.

00:34:23.000 Pardon me?

00:34:24.000 That was before the testimony.

00:34:25.000 Don't get brazen with me.

00:34:26.000 You're an experienced trial attorney and you're telling me that when the judge says, I'm excluding this, you just to take it upon yourself to put it in because you think that you've found a way around it?

00:34:37.000 Come on! 0.61

00:34:40.000 Okay, and then the judge says, I don't believe that you're acting in good faith.

00:34:43.000 Okay, the second thing he's commenting on there is that there was a piece of evidence that was ruled out pre-trial.

00:34:48.000 Okay, that piece of evidence has nothing to do with the case.

00:34:51.000 It comes from like a month after Hal Rittenhouse got out on bail to talking about months after the initial incident.

00:34:57.000 And he was photographed in a bar with members of the Proud Boys wearing a shirt that said, free as F. Okay, that is not relevant to his state of mind on the day that he shot people.

00:35:08.000 That is not relevant, okay?

00:35:09.000 That was declared out of evidence by the judge because when it comes to criminal trials, you have to weigh prejudicial evidence against the probative value of the evidence.

00:35:18.000 What that means is that, for example, in a criminal trial, you're generally not allowed to bring up the criminal history of the person who is on trial because that does not go into the calculation as to whether the person committed this particular crime. 0.98

00:35:31.000 So, if something happens three months after an incident, In which you're wearing a shirt that's offensive and stupid. 0.78

00:35:37.000 Does that have anything to do with whether you committed the particular crime that is in question three months earlier? 0.92

00:35:43.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:35:45.000 It does not.

00:35:46.000 And the judge had already ruled that out.

00:35:47.000 He'd already said, I'm ruling that out.

00:35:50.000 If you want to, like, approach me later and ask about it, you can, but it's out for now.

00:35:54.000 Right?

00:35:54.000 I'll leave the door open to myself, but not to you.

00:35:56.000 This prosecutor just started bringing up the evidence that had already essentially been ruled out in the first place.

00:36:01.000 And the judge is like, you can't do that.

00:36:03.000 I know what you're doing here.

00:36:05.000 I mean, this prompted, by the way, the defense to ask for a mistrial without the ability of refiling.

00:36:11.000 A mistrial of prejudice, saying, just end the case right now.

00:36:14.000 By the way, I wouldn't be surprised if this trial never goes to the jury.

00:36:17.000 That's how bad this is.

00:36:20.000 He says the judge just went after him.

00:36:23.000 And then, according to the Associated Press, The defense asked for a mistrial over what appeared to be an out-of-bounds question asked of Rittenhouse by the chief prosecutor.

00:36:31.000 The judge did not immediately rule on the request.

00:36:34.000 The judge did say that the kind of activity that the prosecutor engaged in here essentially was bordering on mistrial.

00:36:45.000 It was certainly grounds for an appeal if Rittenhouse were to be convicted.

00:36:51.000 It was so weak.

00:36:53.000 How weak was the prosecution's case?

00:36:54.000 I mean, this one sums it up.

00:36:55.000 How weak was the prosecution case?

00:36:57.000 The prosecutor tried to link Kyle Rittenhouse and his self-defense claim with plain call of duty.

00:37:04.000 I kid you not.

00:37:04.000 This is a thing that happened in real life in a courtroom.

00:37:07.000 Did this lawyer get his degree from a Cracker Jack box?

00:37:11.000 Did he just mail in a bunch of box tops and they sent him a lawyer's degree?

00:37:17.000 Honestly, God, I want to know where he went to law school because he apparently went to law school at like the Fisher-Price School of Law or something.

00:37:24.000 Here we go.

00:37:26.000 Isn't it true when you would hang out with Dominic Black, you'd play Call of Duty and other first-person shooter video games?

00:37:34.000 Sometimes.

00:37:35.000 And those are games in which you use weapons like AR-15s to pretty much shoot anybody who comes at you, correct?

00:37:43.000 It's a video game where two players are playing together.

00:37:48.000 I don't really understand the meaning of your question, to be honest.

00:37:54.000 Isn't one of the things people do in these video games, try and kill everyone else with your guns?

00:37:59.000 Yeah, in the video game it's...

00:38:05.000 It's just a video game.

00:38:06.000 It's not real life.

00:38:09.000 So I love that Kyle Rittenhouse now has to explain to him that video games are not real life.

00:38:14.000 Well done here, sir.

00:38:16.000 Well done.

00:38:16.000 And Michigan University, the University of Michigan Law School should be extraordinarily proud.

00:38:21.000 By the way, Binger ran as a Democratic candidate for the position of District Attorney in Racine County and was appointed Kenosha County DA about 18 months ago.

00:38:30.000 Just really well done here.

00:38:32.000 So, the media are now reacting to this with their usual aplomb.

00:38:36.000 They're attacking the judge.

00:38:39.000 That's the problem here.

00:38:40.000 The judge is now going to come under fire.

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00:40:35.000 So when the media aren't attacking Kyle Rittenhouse for the great sin of crying on the stand, you know, while he's on trial for murder in a clear self-defense case, they're very upset about that.

00:40:51.000 Steven Crowder, I thought, made an excellent point about this.

00:40:53.000 The same people who will tell you that it should be verboten in American life to call people by their biological pronouns because it might hurt their feelings are the exact same people who are laughing at Kyle Rittenhouse for crying on the stand in a murder trial where he's being wrongly accused of murder.

00:41:08.000 Yeah, these people are...

00:41:11.000 Not great, people.

00:41:12.000 Not great, Bob.

00:41:13.000 Okay, so the media have now taken a new tack.

00:41:16.000 The new tack is that the judge is real bad.

00:41:19.000 That's the new tack. 0.97

00:41:20.000 The judge is a meanie, bad meanie who's bad.

00:41:23.000 According to the New York Times, the judge who has clashed with prosecutors has been in this business for 50 years.

00:41:29.000 That's according to the New York Times piece.

00:41:30.000 They have a long piece about this.

00:41:31.000 Bruce Schrader, the longest serving circuit judge in Wisconsin, is presiding over the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:41:38.000 At times during Rittenhouse's testimony on Wednesday, he took a strict line with prosecutors, clashing with them over a reference to Rittenhouse's silence in the months before the trial and an attempt to introduce testimony on a previous incident the judge had ruled inadmissible.

00:41:49.000 Judge Schrader, 75, who has said he believes he has seen more homicide trials than any other judge in the state, graduated from Marquette Law School in 1970, worked as a prosecutor, and began serving as a circuit judge in 1983.

00:42:01.000 His longevity is a subject of frequent conversation in the courtroom.

00:42:04.000 In Kenosha legal circles, Judge Schrader has a reputation for strictness in sentencing.

00:42:09.000 He's known for delivering lectures to prospective jurors about their civic duty, which in this trial he likened to serving as an American soldier in Vietnam.

00:42:15.000 He frequently complains about media bias and the impact news coverage can have on prospective jurors.

00:42:20.000 As Judge Schrader quizzed prospective jurors, he said he's read news articles on the Rittenhouse case, has asked himself whether he was in the same courtroom that was described in the articles.

00:42:28.000 He has also acknowledged that some of the topics raised in pre-trial hearings are new to him.

00:42:32.000 Until this case, Judge Schrader said in a hearing he'd never heard of the Proud Boys.

00:42:36.000 The first time I saw it, or a version of it, was Chef Boyardee on a can of spaghetti because of the OK hand signal, is what he's talking about.

00:42:42.000 In one of the judge's highest profile cases, the 2008 murder trial of Mark Jensen, who was accused of poisoning his wife with antifreeze and smothering her, a conviction was overturned when appellate courts and the state Supreme Court ruled that Schrader had improperly allowed evidence in the trial.

00:42:56.000 The judge allowed the prosecution to present a letter that Julie Jensen had written and given to a neighbor, as well as a voicemail message she left for a police officer, suggesting if anything happened to her, her husband would be responsible.

00:43:04.000 So in other words, the only case that they can find on this judge that was overturned is because he was too favorable to the prosecution.

00:43:13.000 But apparently this means he's very bad.

00:43:14.000 So the New York Times is going after the judge.

00:43:17.000 You've got the Washington Post.

00:43:19.000 Saying, as Kyle Rittenhouse trial nears end, judges' decisions from the bench come under scrutiny.

00:43:24.000 Regardless of how he is viewed, Judge Bruce Schrader is indisputably a man with fixed rules for how trials in his Kenosha County courtroom will be run.

00:43:32.000 Some are basic.

00:43:32.000 Some unorthodox.

00:43:34.000 All reflect the experience of a jurist who believes trials can be too easily manipulated, particularly by the prosecution.

00:43:40.000 For a jury trial, if you get him, you're happy as a defense attorney, said Michael Cecchini, a criminal defense lawyer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

00:43:47.000 He's appeared before Schrader numerous times, including earlier this year.

00:43:49.000 In that case, he won an acquittal for his client, who was charged with battery.

00:43:53.000 Schrader's reputation has summoned Kenosha worried.

00:43:55.000 The 75-year-old judge is running the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:43:59.000 The defense has already logged some wins in Schrader's courtroom.

00:44:02.000 Gage Grosskreutz, the man who survived Rittenhouse's gunfire, took the witness stand for the prosecution but acknowledged he was pointing his gun at Rittenhouse when the teenager fired at him.

00:44:10.000 Then, as the prosecution resisted its case, Schrader dismissed a charge for his alleged failure to comply with curfew.

00:44:16.000 The judge said he agreed with defense attorneys the prosecution had not entered sufficient evidence to prove a curfew was even in effect.

00:44:22.000 And then he got sharp with the prosecutor.

00:44:26.000 It seems like he's aiming to let this man out of his courtroom scot-free.

00:44:29.000 We're not gonna let that happen, said Justin Blake, whose nephew Jacob Blake was shot by the police last year, triggering nights of unrest.

00:44:34.000 By the way, if he's friendly to the defense, I'm finding it kind of hysterical that the same people who are all in on defending career criminals are like, yeah, but we can't have a judge who's pro-defense.

00:44:47.000 That'd be scary.

00:44:48.000 So in other words, exactly the kind of judge you would be looking for if Jacob Blake was on trial and you were an ally of Jacob Blake, you don't want for Rittenhouse.

00:44:54.000 I've noticed a slight difference in how you're treating prospective criminal cases.

00:45:00.000 I've just noticed.

00:45:01.000 I've just noticed.

00:45:02.000 So basically, he's too liberal.

00:45:04.000 He's too liberal is the rap against him.

00:45:07.000 So now that's bad, according to the Washington Post.

00:45:10.000 He's too liberal with defendants.

00:45:13.000 I'm, again, getting the impression that the media are mostly interested in a verdict that they like.

00:45:24.000 According to the Washington Post, while generally respected, Schrader is not universally loved and has been accused of overstepping his authority.

00:45:30.000 He once ordered a woman convicted of shoplifting to inform an employee of any retail store she entered she was under supervision for her theft.

00:45:37.000 In another case from the 1980s, Schrader ordered a babysitter accused of molesting a child to submit to an AIDS test.

00:45:42.000 AIDS test.

00:45:43.000 He began requiring sex workers who appeared before him to do the same.

00:45:46.000 There's no statutory authority for him to do that.

00:45:49.000 But he's been on the cutting edge of a lot of cases.

00:45:51.000 Wow, what a terrible man. 0.98

00:45:52.000 What a terrible, horrible man. 0.99

00:45:54.000 Clearly, he will be to blame if the prosecutor brought a crappy case and the media went completely over its skis in order to push a false narrative about what was happening in Kenosha and used Kyle Rittenhouse as their case in point to prove American white supremacy. 0.99

00:46:07.000 For a white guy who shot a bunch of other white guys, Really, genius, genius stuff.

00:46:13.000 Again, faith in institutions has been shaken here, and it should be shaken.

00:46:17.000 And I would recommend that everybody take the same attitude when it comes to these criminal trials as we should all be taking, I think, which is wait to see how the evidence shakes out before you immediately assume the institutions are doing their job, because of late, they have not been.

00:46:31.000 Okay, meanwhile, Inflation hit a 30-year high, according to reports yesterday.

00:46:37.000 By the way, it just missed.

00:46:39.000 If it had been slightly higher, it would have been maybe a 50-year high, since the late 1970s.

00:46:44.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.

00:46:45.000 inflation hit a three-decade high in October, delivering widespread, sizable price increases to households for everything from groceries to cars due to persistent supply shortages and strong consumer demand.

00:46:54.000 The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index, which measures what consumers pay for goods and services, increased in October by 6.2% from a year ago.

00:47:02.000 That was the fastest 12-month pace since 1990.

00:47:03.000 Again, it just missed since like 1978.

00:47:07.000 And the fifth straight month of inflation above 5%.

00:47:09.000 The core price index climbed 4.6% in October from a year earlier.

00:47:15.000 On a monthly basis, the consumer price index increased to seasonally adjusted 0.9% in October from the prior month.

00:47:20.000 That is a sharp acceleration from 0.4 in September and the same as June's 0.9.

00:47:27.000 Remember, the Biden administration was suggesting 2% inflation across the year.

00:47:30.000 We are now talking about 6% inflation across the year.

00:47:33.000 Well over 6% annualized inflation.

00:47:37.000 That is scary as all hell for many people who are attempting to just live in the country.

00:47:42.000 And by the way, inflation has completely wiped out all wage gains.

00:47:46.000 Wage gains in the United States no longer exist because inflation is just too high.

00:47:52.000 All of the wage gains have now been taken away, according to CNBC.

00:47:56.000 The Labor Department reported on Friday the average hourly earnings increased 0.4% in October, but top-line inflation was 0.9%, which means you might have been earning more, but you were spending way more than you were earning.

00:48:07.000 Real average hourly earnings when accounting for inflation actually decreased 0.5% for the month.

00:48:14.000 So when Joe Biden brags about how wages are rising, understand that in real terms they are falling.

00:48:20.000 Wages have swelled since the beginning of the year.

00:48:22.000 Average hourly earnings are up 4.9% year over year in October.

00:48:26.000 But, compared with inflation, which is what you actually care about, real hourly wages have declined more than 1.2% during the same time frame, according to the Labor Department.

00:48:35.000 So you're like, oh look, a 5% raise.

00:48:38.000 Oh wait, all of the products are 6% more expensive.

00:48:45.000 Sad music from the prices right there.

00:48:47.000 Even CNN is slamming Joe Biden for this inflationary spiral.

00:48:51.000 And remember, when they say transitory, they said transitory.

00:48:53.000 It's not transitory.

00:48:55.000 It has not been transitory.

00:48:57.000 Once it's there, it's there.

00:49:00.000 Here is CNN's Anna Cabrera slamming Biden for his inflationary policy. 0.97

00:49:06.000 If you feel like your dollar is being stretched thin, you are not alone.

00:49:09.000 And the latest inflation data just today is sobering proof.

00:49:14.000 Consumer prices are surging more than they have in 30 years.

00:49:18.000 And to make matters worse, there's no sign it'll get better anytime soon.

00:49:21.000 We knew that this inflation report would be brutal, but this was much worse than expected.

00:49:26.000 New vehicle prices were up by nearly 10% year over year.

00:49:30.000 That is the biggest increase that we've seen since 1975.

00:49:32.000 It is never a good sign when you're making inflation comparisons with the 1970s.

00:49:40.000 Okay, meanwhile, Politico is reporting surging gas and grocery prices are constant reminders of inflation.

00:49:45.000 But another creeping trend spells more trouble for people's wallets and Democrats' political fate.

00:49:51.000 Rising rents.

00:49:52.000 Housing costs just posted one of their largest monthly gains in decades.

00:49:55.000 Many economists expect them to loom large in inflation figures over the next year heading into the 2022 midterm elections.

00:50:01.000 It's not just economists.

00:50:02.000 The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in research released Monday that Americans on average expect rents to rise 10 percent over the next year, the highest reading in the history of the survey.

00:50:12.000 Robert Dietz, the chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders, says, quote, We could face an economy a year from now where some of the supply chain disruptions are going to ease and price growth will ease.

00:50:21.000 But housing is likely to be the one where we are going to continue to see cost growth, and that will have an impact on households.

00:50:29.000 63% of Americans in a recent poll say they are very concerned about the rising cost of food and consumer goods in a poll of more than 10,000 adults conducted by Pew.

00:50:38.000 That's one reason why Joe Biden's failed policies are having a real impact on his approval ratings.

00:50:44.000 He's down in the high 30s, low 40s.

00:50:47.000 Even Joe Biden seems stunned by what Joe Biden has unleashed.

00:50:50.000 So Joe Biden did a presser yesterday in which he was stunned to learn that he's president of the United States and things are bad.

00:50:56.000 We got higher demand for goods at the same time we're facing disruptions in the supplies to make those goods.

00:51:03.000 This is a recipe for delays and for higher prices.

00:51:07.000 And people are feeling it.

00:51:08.000 They're feeling it.

00:51:09.000 Did you ever think you'd be paying this much for a gallon of gas?

00:51:13.000 In some parts of California, they're paying $4.50 a gallon.

00:51:17.000 That's why it's so important that we do everything in our power to stabilize the supply chain.

00:51:25.000 Okay, so I love that.

00:51:26.000 Did you ever think you'd be paying this much?

00:51:29.000 Well, no, but that's your fault.

00:51:32.000 I'm pretty sure it was you.

00:51:34.000 I mean, aren't you the president?

00:51:36.000 And right now, I love this.

00:51:37.000 He's out there in Baltimore, that's where he is, touting the infrastructure plan.

00:51:42.000 which just tossed $1.2 trillion more into the spending hopper.

00:51:46.000 So inflation is spiraling out of control. He just tossed over a trillion dollars in new spending out there with the help of some idiot Republicans and many, many idiot Democrats. And that's what he's touting in the middle of an inflationary spiral. And he continues along these lines, admitting that everything costs more. 1.00

00:52:04.000 Man, he's just making campaign ads for Republicans now.

00:52:07.000 Today's economic reports showing unemployment continue to fall, but consumer prices remain too high.

00:52:15.000 Tell us, the American people, in the midst of this economic crisis, that recovery is showing strong results.

00:52:22.000 But not to them.

00:52:23.000 They're still looking out there.

00:52:25.000 Everything from a gallon of gas to a loaf of bread costs more.

00:52:28.000 And it's worrisome, even though wages are going up.

00:52:35.000 So this senile old man is going to jabber at you about how he will save everything by spending more money.

00:52:41.000 So he's touting the bipartisan infrastructure plan.

00:52:44.000 And for some odd reason, he started jabbering about how people get their internet from McDonald's.

00:52:47.000 Now, I don't know if this is a major thing, I will admit.

00:52:50.000 It has been a rare circumstance where I've been in the car and I haven't had internet and I have to pull over someplace and try and leech onto somebody else's Wi-Fi.

00:52:57.000 But I'm just wondering, is this like a major thing that lots of people do?

00:53:00.000 And also, why would that justify $1.2 trillion in spending in the middle of an inflationary spiral?

00:53:00.000 Really?

00:53:05.000 Here's Joe Biden being incoherent as per his usual arrangement with reality and words.

00:53:11.000 Those of you who have kids in school, when we've been going this hybrid thing, some in class, some out of class, how many times, if you don't live in an area where you have high-speed internet you can afford, how many times you've driven your kids to the parking lot of McDonald's and sat there going off the McDonald's internet so you could hear?

00:53:28.000 No, I'm not joking.

00:53:30.000 Think of this.

00:53:31.000 United States of America, for God's sake.

00:53:36.000 Uh-huh.

00:53:40.000 When you're going to Zoom school and it's hard. 0.93

00:53:41.000 When you're going to Zoom school and it's a little hybrid and you're at McDonald's and you like their hash browns but their fish sandwich is kind of soggy and you're like, I don't even think the kids are around. 1.00

00:53:49.000 You need to hear it.

00:53:50.000 You're stealing your kid's Zoom class at McDonald's in the parking lot.

00:53:53.000 Billbook butter!

00:53:55.000 And by the way, he's not done yet.

00:53:57.000 Then he says he wants much, much more spending.

00:54:00.000 That's the solution.

00:54:00.000 More spending.

00:54:02.000 Magical green jobs at $45 an hour.

00:54:05.000 Yes, yes.

00:54:06.000 Artificially inflate the price of labor.

00:54:09.000 That will have no impact on the costs that are passed down to consumers, thereby driving up inflation even more.

00:54:14.000 Yes, if you helicopter cash to people, that will definitely help with the inflationary spiral we're in.

00:54:21.000 Here's what I'm gonna do.

00:54:22.000 I'm gonna create good-paying union jobs.

00:54:25.000 Union.

00:54:26.000 Not $12 an hour, not $15 an hour.

00:54:30.000 $45 an hour and up, with good benefits.

00:54:33.000 So you can raise the family on and build the middle class out.

00:54:37.000 And jobs that cannot be outsourced.

00:54:39.000 You can't outsource these jobs.

00:54:42.000 Um, okay.

00:54:44.000 So, my favorite thing about Joe Biden is the statement he put out yesterday on this.

00:54:49.000 Here's the statement he put out yesterday on inflation.

00:54:50.000 You ready?

00:54:52.000 Today, we received two pieces of economic news, which underscore that our recovery is continuing to progress, but that we also have more work to do before our economy is back to normal.

00:55:01.000 First, on employment, we learned that we have had six consecutive weeks of decline in new unemployment claims.

00:55:05.000 By the way, that dates back to, wait for it, wait for it, the end of unemployment benefits Democrats wanted to extend the rest of the year.

00:55:11.000 Then he says, on inflation, today's report shows an increase over last month.

00:55:15.000 Inflation hurts Americans' pocketbooks, and reversing this trend is a top priority for me.

00:55:20.000 So what is he going to do?

00:55:22.000 He says that he's directed the National Economic Council to pursue means to reduce costs.

00:55:26.000 He's asked the FTC to strike back at market manipulation or price gouging.

00:55:30.000 Yes, price and wage controls.

00:55:32.000 That's what we've been missing since the 70s.

00:55:33.000 We need those back.

00:55:34.000 Price and wage controls.

00:55:35.000 That'll definitely help things.

00:55:37.000 Also, his infrastructure bill is going to help things by spending lots of money following fewer goods.

00:55:44.000 And also, we need to build back better.

00:55:45.000 Isn't it incredible?

00:55:46.000 How all the circumstances point to him doing to all the things he already wanted to do.

00:55:50.000 Isn't that amazing?

00:55:51.000 He had a plan.

00:55:52.000 And then circumstances change.

00:55:54.000 And then the solution is still his plan.

00:55:57.000 Isn't that incredible?

00:55:58.000 He wanted to push trillions of dollars in new spending.

00:56:00.000 And then it turns out that we're in an inflationary spiral.

00:56:03.000 But magically, the way that we get out of the inflationary spiral is with trillions of dollars in new spending.

00:56:09.000 Incredible.

00:56:10.000 Now, CEOs of major American companies, they're starting to freak out.

00:56:13.000 We looked at the stock market yesterday, which declined even while the treasury yields started to go up, meaning that fewer people were invested.

00:56:19.000 The price of the bonds was going down, and so was the price.

00:56:21.000 People are like pulling their money out.

00:56:23.000 They're starting to freak out.

00:56:24.000 According to Politico, spiking inflation, underscored by two government reports this week showing the biggest price surges in decades, presents a powerful threat to the economy as it struggles to shake off the pandemic, executives say.

00:56:34.000 The CEO of one of the US's largest companies, who spoke on a condition of anonymity out of concern for over angering the administration.

00:56:42.000 Because that's what we do in this country now.

00:56:44.000 Our capitalist overlords are in complete cahoots with the Democratic Party so often these days.

00:56:50.000 They got corporate overlords.

00:56:51.000 Listen, I love laissez-faire.

00:56:53.000 Let me explain.

00:56:54.000 I'm more free market than nearly anyone in American public life.

00:56:57.000 And there is something deeply wrong with free markets when the heads of major corporations have to be afraid of mentioning that inflationary policies are bad for fear of pissing off the president who might then sick the government on them.

00:57:08.000 He says, I don't think the administration is on top of it at all.

00:57:11.000 How many people inside this White House really know what inflation is or how it impacts businesses?

00:57:14.000 It's not really their fault.

00:57:15.000 It's been so long since we had it.

00:57:18.000 Many executives are flying blind, growing increasingly worried that Washington politics, in which Democrats want to spend hundreds of billions more on Joe Biden's agenda and Fed Chair Jerome Powell wants to avoid denting the labor market while Biden weighs nominating him for a second term, will block any real steps to address inflation before it gets worse.

00:57:34.000 The executives would like to see less eye-popping spending proposals, stronger moves to boost supply chains, more pressure on Powell to speed up his efforts to choke off rising prices.

00:57:42.000 But they're all doing it with limited real world experience.

00:57:44.000 So CEOs are going, uh, you guys don't know what the hell you're doing, but we're afraid to say that directly to you because if we do, we're afraid you're going to punish us publicly because you guys are so anti-business.

00:57:52.000 Now, if you want to take a what should be the greatest gangbusters economy in human history and spiral it into recession, this is a great way to do it.

00:58:00.000 Meanwhile, I got Janet Yellen, who is as bright as a bag of bricks, explaining that inflation is no longer something that Americans should really worry about.

00:58:08.000 It's not that big a deal.

00:58:10.000 In the 1970s, we saw supply shocks turn themselves into endemic inflation.

00:58:19.000 We're not seeing that now.

00:58:20.000 I don't believe we will.

00:58:22.000 But if that were the case, the Federal Reserve would have a role to play to keep it under control.

00:58:28.000 That happened in the 1970s because people thought that policy makers wouldn't bring it to an end.

00:58:36.000 And inflation expectations became embedded in the American psyche.

00:58:42.000 That isn't happening now and the Federal Reserve wouldn't permit that to happen.

00:58:46.000 Oh, so the Federal Reserve will step in and help us.

00:58:51.000 So why aren't they tapering faster?

00:58:54.000 By the way, let me tell you, I have complete trust in the Federal Reserve.

00:58:57.000 You know why?

00:58:57.000 Because Janet Yellen used to run it.

00:59:00.000 I have complete trust that an institution that is so fungible that the head of the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to be independent of the President's policy, moves right over to the Treasury Department and is promoting exactly the same policy.

00:59:13.000 Isn't that magical?

00:59:14.000 Isn't that just magical?

00:59:15.000 I totally trust our institutions.

00:59:16.000 Our institutions are not broken in any serious way.

00:59:20.000 Just excellent, excellent stuff right there.

00:59:24.000 The Wall Street Journal, by the way, points out that his economic agenda, Joe Biden's, was not designed for shortages and inflation.

00:59:30.000 Greg Ip writes, But, President Biden's approval ratings are underwater.

00:59:31.000 politics that a strong economy is essential to winning elections. Today, jobs and wages are growing rapidly. The stock market is at records. The public is upbeat about jobs and financial prospects. But President Biden's approval ratings are underwater. Democrats just lost the governor's race in blue trending Virginia. That's because of an unusual economy, because of shortages, inflation, daily disruptions, a gen- Biden's agenda was not designed to address that sort of problem.

00:59:55.000 In some ways, it may make it worse.

00:59:56.000 Yeah, you think?

00:59:58.000 So, Joe Biden is a disaster area.

01:00:01.000 Americans are feeling it in their pocketbook.

01:00:02.000 They are cruising for a bruising.

01:00:03.000 The only thing that might save them, honestly, is Joe Manchin.

01:00:06.000 The person they are maligning as the great obstacle to progress might be the only thing that saves them.

01:00:10.000 So Joe Manchin came out yesterday and he said, yeah, we might want to wait on the spillback better nonsense.

01:00:14.000 We might want to wait on it.

01:00:16.000 According to Axios, red-hot inflation data validates the instinct of Senator Joe Manchin to punt President Biden's Build Back Better agenda until next year, potentially killing a quick deal on the $1.75 trillion package people familiar with the matter tell Axios.

01:00:30.000 Well, yeah, that would make some sense.

01:00:33.000 So all the people the Democrats are targeting and yelling at are the people who may be saving them from disaster.

01:00:39.000 Right now, Joe Biden's best bet is to move with Manchin, not to move with the rest of his caucus.

01:00:43.000 He should be pulling back.

01:00:44.000 Instead, it's all torpedoes, fire.

01:00:49.000 Because he's got to do something transformative before the old man falls off his rocker.

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The Rittenhouse Trial And The Collapse Of American Institutional Trust | Ep. 1374

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