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00:00:00.000Adam Schiff finally gets his moment in the sun, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders savage each other, and world celebrities fawn over Greta Thunberg and Davos.
00:00:30.000Always wanted to be the guy in the spotlight who'd sit there at the talent shows and think to himself, but I'm so much smarter than those dolts up there playing guitar.
00:00:38.000And now, finally, Adam Schiff has got his moment to shine.
00:00:41.000And that's really what a lot of this is about, isn't it?
00:00:43.000Adam Schiff, who never could stay away from a television camera.
00:00:45.000Not for three years when he was claiming he had secret information that President Trump was in cahoots with the Russians.
00:00:50.000Well now Adam Schiff is the House impeachment manager after shepherding through an impeachment process based on insufficient evidence.
00:00:57.000Evidence so insufficient that now the Democrats are forced to try and pressure Republicans in the Senate to subpoena new documents and call new witnesses.
00:01:03.000Well now Adam Schiff is out there and for hours on end he is talking.
00:01:08.000Now, unsurprisingly, unsurprisingly, the ratings suck.
00:01:12.000And the ratings for this impeachment, they're not good.
00:01:14.000And you can tell the American public are extremely bored with it because the ratings are not very good.
00:01:18.000Day one, over the course of the entire day, apparently, there were 11 million viewers over the course of an entire day for an actual live impeachment.
00:01:26.000And just to put that by way of contrast, like one nightly primetime show on the networks will get like 10 million, 11 million viewers.
00:01:33.000That's not even an unbelievable rating.
00:01:34.000It's a fairly good rating for one primetime show in like half an hour.
00:01:38.000To say that over the course of the entire day, in terms of impeachment, you got like 11 million viewers means that not very many people are watching.
00:01:46.000And as Joe Concha from The Hill is reporting, The primetime numbers from the night one impeachment coverage are really not very good.
00:02:32.000And so they're just going to pound that table.
00:02:35.000There's an old saying that if you have the facts, you bang the facts.
00:02:39.000If you have the law, you bang the law.
00:02:41.000If you don't have either, you bang the table.
00:02:43.000Well, this afternoon we've seen a whole lot of table banging.
00:02:47.000And at the end of the day, we're in the same spot we were in when we began the day, which is the House articles of impeachment that were passed on a partisan basis.
00:02:56.000They don't meet the constitutional standard.
00:02:58.000Of course, Senator Cruz is right, although I do think that he should not say the phrase table banging in conjunction with United States senators because you just never know what he's talking about.
00:03:07.000We've seen too much Me Too in the Senate to use that sort of phrase.
00:03:11.000The House Democratic impeachment managers, according to the New York Times, began formal arguments in the Senate on Wednesday, presenting meticulous and scathing case for convicting President Trump.
00:03:20.000Don't you love that sort of honest, objective journalism from the New York Times?
00:03:24.000Meticulous and scathing, not insufficient, not fact driven, right?
00:03:30.000Meticulous and scathing, both at the same time.
00:03:33.000Oh, my gosh, this must be the greatest legal presentation since we saw the Scopes trial.
00:03:38.000I mean, really, it must be unbelievable.
00:03:41.000They made a meticulous and scathing case for convicting President Trump and removing him from office on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
00:03:47.000Representative Adam Schiff of California, the lead House prosecutor, took the lectern in the chamber as Senators sat silently preparing to weigh Mr. Trump's fate, speaking in an even-measured manner.
00:03:57.000I mean, my goodness, this is New York Times coverage.
00:03:59.000They may as well just get out the massage oils and just...
00:04:03.000He accused the president of a corrupt scheme to pressure Ukraine to help to cheat in the 2020 presidential election, invoking the nation's founders and the fears that a self-interested leader might subvert democracy for his own personal gain.
00:04:16.000Are you saying that a self-interested leader like Adam Schiff might subvert democracy for his own political gain?
00:04:21.000Mr. Schiff argued that the president's conduct was precisely what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they devised the remedy of impeachment, one he said was, quote, as powerful as the evil it was meant to combat.
00:04:33.000We're gonna get to what exactly Adam Schiff had to say, because Adam Schiff accidentally had to let the cat out of the bag last night.
00:04:40.000He basically said, we're not gonna allow democracy to weigh in on this because we cannot allow democracy to weigh in on this, which is just spectacular.
00:04:47.000Also, he subtly broadened out the case for impeachment to include things that are blatantly unimpeachable.
00:04:52.000He actually suggested, for example, that it is an impeachable offense for the president to take any action that might benefit him in an upcoming election.
00:04:59.000That's called everything a president does.
00:05:01.000The question is whether it is illegitimate, not whether it benefits him in the upcoming election.
00:05:06.000When the president passes a tax cut, that is likely to benefit him in the upcoming election.
00:05:10.000When President Barack Obama says to the Russians that he can provide them flexibility after the election, that is likely to benefit him during the election.
00:05:18.000Presidents spend their entire tenures doing things that benefit them for their re-election processes.
00:05:23.000But the notion that that is in and of itself impeachable is, of course, far too broad.
00:05:27.000Instead, you have to actually charge something illegitimate, like, say, bribery, which they didn't.
00:05:32.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:05:34.000You'll see how insufficient Schiff's case is.
00:05:36.000The media still playing it up to the hill because Adam Schiff had his moment in the sun, and it was just like a butterfly spreading its wings, glorious and colorful.
00:05:45.000We'll get to all of that in just one second.
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00:07:11.000So the notion that Adam Schiff is pushing forward, which is that if you do something that benefits you politically, that that is in and of itself impeachable is, of course, Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at South Texas College of Law in Houston.
00:07:32.000He says the way things look, President Trump will almost certainly not be removed from office.
00:07:35.000The precedents set by the articles of impeachment, however, will endure far longer.
00:07:39.000And regrettably, the House of Representatives has transformed presidential impeachment from a constitutional parachute, an emergency measure to save the Republican freefall.
00:07:47.000Into a parliamentary vote of no confidence.
00:07:51.000That behavior does not amount to an abuse of power.
00:07:52.000Mr. Trump's lawyers responded, "...elected officials almost always consider the effect that their conduct might have on the next election." The president's lawyers are right.
00:08:03.000That behavior does not amount to an abuse of power.
00:08:05.000Politicians pursue public policy as they see it, coupled with a concern about their own political future.
00:08:09.000Otherwise legal conduct, even when plainly politically motivated, but without moving beyond a threshold of personal political gain, does not amount to an impeachable abuse of power." The House's short-sighted standard will fail to knock out Trump, but if taken seriously, threatens to put virtually every other elected official in peril.
00:08:26.000The voters, and not Congress, should decide whether to reward or punish this self-serving feature of our political order.
00:08:31.000Josh Blackman writes, The first article of impeachment turns on President Trump's request that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine announce an investigation of Hunter Biden's role with the energy company Burisma.
00:08:41.000Mr. Trump wanted to learn about potential financial corruption concerning Hunter.
00:08:44.000Realizing that such an investigation would perhaps yield greater scrutiny of Joe Biden, the House argues this request to potentially harm Trump's political rival was a quote-unquote abusive power.
00:08:53.000Mr. Trump's lawyers respond that the call was perfectly normal.
00:08:55.000Yes, that phrase actually appears in the brief.
00:08:58.000Regrettably, parts of the brief are written in a far too political tone, but the president's lawyers have raised an important threshold issue.
00:09:04.000In a representative democracy, they write, elected officials almost always consider the effect their conduct might have on the next election.
00:09:09.000Trump did not stand to receive any money or property from the Ukrainian president.
00:09:13.000The House didn't even bother to charge bribery.
00:09:15.000As a policy matter, I disagree with Trump's decision to ask for an investigation of the Bidens, even if warranted, it should have been avoided at all reasonable costs.
00:09:22.000The Republic would have been fine if we never learned more about Burisma, but receiving a personal political benefit does not transform an otherwise legal action into an impeachable conduct.
00:09:31.000And this, of course, is exactly right.
00:09:32.000This is why I've said all along, if this was all about 2020, then that's impeachable.
00:09:36.000If this was about 2016, that is not impeachable.
00:09:38.000Because the fact is that the 2016 interest is just the mirror of the Democrats' 2016 interest in Russia.
00:09:48.000Now, Trump's interest may be poorly based.
00:09:53.000All of his crowd-strike nonsense is a good example of the president believing conspiracy theories that back his pre-existing point of view.
00:09:59.000And the president is particularly likely to call it to fall into confirmation bias.
00:10:03.000But that does not make it impeachable.
00:10:05.000If he in his own mind was like, well, we need to find out what happened in 2016 because the American public has an interest in finding out what happened in 2016.
00:10:11.000And that involves looking into Ukrainian corruption and bias toward the Obama administration and precedent of the Obama administration using leverage against the Ukrainians.
00:10:20.000Well, then why wouldn't Burisma be relevant in that context?
00:10:23.000OK, so with that as backdrop, we get to the arguments by Adam Schiff, who, again, he was it was just Amazing.
00:10:30.000It was like Taylor Swift suddenly realizing he was political.
00:10:33.000Adam Schiff having his moment on the floor of the Senate.
00:10:37.000Those Judge Doom eyes popping out of the head.
00:10:39.000Here's Adam Schiff explaining, this is where he lets the cat out of the bag.
00:10:43.000He literally says, we cannot let Trump sit for an election or he's going to steal it, which Democrats have been saying all along, but which is extremely dangerous.
00:10:51.000If you suggest that the failure of impeachment means that the next election is illegitimate, no matter what else happens, you have now raised the prospect of actual political violence.
00:10:59.000I mean, we heard this in 2016 from Democrats.
00:11:01.000We kept hearing that Donald Trump would not accept the results of the election, and that because he would not accept the results of the election, that would lead to political chaos.
00:11:08.000The Democrats are telegraphing a year in advance that if Donald Trump is not impeached, they're not going to accept the results of the election under any circumstances.
00:11:16.000Schiff says we can't let the people vote on this thing.
00:11:18.000We cannot let the people vote on this thing.
00:11:20.000Here's Adam Schiff explaining why democracy is bad.
00:11:23.000The president's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured That the vote will be fairly won.
00:11:35.000What he is saying right now is that the people of the United States should not be able to vote on whether the president is too corrupt to remain in office.
00:11:42.000Instead, if the election goes forward, Trump will cheat.
00:11:45.000And the cheating will mean that no matter what happens, the election is illegitimate.
00:11:49.000But not only should the American people not sound off, also Adam Schiff says, this matter cannot be decided in courts.
00:11:55.000So we also can't have courts adjudicating subpoenas.
00:11:58.000We can't have courts adjudicating Executive privilege.
00:12:01.000Instead, we just have to rush forward with this thing.
00:12:03.000Given the seriousness of the conduct at issue and its persistence, this matter cannot and must not be decided by the courts, which, apart from the presence of the Chief Justice here today, are given no role in impeachments in either the House or the Senate.
00:12:20.000Being drawn into litigation taking many months or years to complete would provide the president with an opportunity to continue his misconduct.
00:12:29.000He would remain secure in the knowledge that he may tie up the Congress in the courts indefinitely.
00:12:33.000Okay, so he says we can't even wait for the courts.
00:12:36.000So just to get this straight, Adam Schiff is now saying we can't wait for the people to weigh in.
00:12:40.000And we cannot wait for the courts to sound off, because then Trump will cheat.
00:12:44.000So this means that there's only one branch of government left, right?
00:12:46.000The executive can't sound off on itself.
00:12:48.000So that means there's only one branch of government, and that branch of government is the legislature.
00:12:52.000And that legislature cannot be ruled by the people who elected the legislature.
00:12:57.000Instead, it has to be Adam Schiff and his cronies deciding who gets to sit and who gets to go, based on this premonition that Trump is going to cheat in the next election.
00:13:05.000I mean, it's hard to think of a greater example of we need to burn the village in order to save it.
00:13:10.000So in order to save democracy, we have to say that democracy literally will not be able to function if Donald Trump remains as President of the United States up to the election.
00:13:18.000Which is a hell of a way to talk about the most durable democracy in the history of mankind.
00:13:23.000I mean, that really is a hell of a way to talk about it.
00:13:27.000But of course, the entire political agenda here is to suggest that it's the United States Senate that is abdicating its duty if they do not impeach President Trump.
00:13:35.000Now, Adam Schiff was not above mischaracterizing things.
00:13:38.000It was amazing to watch the media yesterday fact-checking everything that the Trump lawyers said, which is fine, and fact-checking nothing that Adam Schiff said.
00:13:44.000So Adam Schiff was saying things that were blatantly untrue.
00:13:47.000To take an example, Adam Schiff in the middle of this impeachment hearing, Adam Schiff gets up and he just mischaracterizes the Mick Mulvaney press conference.
00:13:54.000So Mick Mulvaney is the head of the Office of Management and Budget, he's also the President's Chief of Staff, and you remember that he did this press conference at which he said that quid pro quos happen all the time, that Americans are constantly attempting to pressure other countries to do things, and that's perfectly fine, that's nothing we should worry about.
00:14:09.000Okay, what he did not say is that it would be perfectly fine for the United States to attempt bribery on behalf of the President of the United States, right?
00:14:18.000But Adam Schiff, who cannot help but embellish, because here's the thing, he has to embellish beyond the evidence, because the evidence is not sufficient to sustain a conviction in the Senate.
00:14:26.000So he simply has to embellish beyond what exactly people are saying.
00:14:28.000So here he is completely mischaracterizing the Mick Mulvaney oppressor.
00:14:33.000Mulvaney didn't just admit that the President withheld the crucial aid appropriated by Congress to apply pressure on Ukraine to do the President's political dirty work.
00:14:42.000He also said that we should just get over it.
00:14:47.000Should the American people just come to expect that our Presidents will corruptly abuse their office to seek the help of a foreign power to cheat in our elections?
00:15:13.000Adam Schiff just gets up there and he makes up conversations in his own head, conversations that sustain his picture of what exactly went on.
00:15:20.000This is, by the way, what was going on when he gave that sort of fake transcript of the Zelensky phone call.
00:15:25.000And it was not that he was getting up there and he was doing a parodic reading of the phone call.
00:15:29.000He was just filling in the gaps in the phone call with what he hopes Trump was actually doing.
00:15:35.000He's going to mischaracterize the picture and he mischaracterizes all the time.
00:15:39.000We had that story from Politico within the last 48 hours that he was completely mischaracterizing inofficial documentations in letters to other members of the House to Jerry Nadler over at the House Judiciary Committee.
00:15:51.000Correspondence including Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani to suggest that Parnas was setting up a meeting with Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, and that was not what the documents actually said.
00:16:00.000So Adam Schiff is a dishonest human being.
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00:17:45.000Okay, back to, back to, Okay, so back to Adam Schiff.
00:17:50.000So Schiff gives this long, meandering explanation of everything that Trump did and he fills in all the gaps with everything that he wishes that he could prove that Trump did without actually proving that Trump did any of those things.
00:18:01.000And then Chuck Schumer emerges to sum up the testimony and he says, how could anyone listen to Adam Schiff and not demand more witnesses and documents?
00:18:08.000And it's like, well, Hold up a second, dude.
00:18:10.000You really, really need to explain why it is that if you thought this was so sufficient in the House, you are now calling for more witnesses and documents in the Senate.
00:18:17.000This is the big question that the Democrats will never answer.
00:18:20.000Because the fact is, they could have done a complete investigation.
00:18:23.000And their answer is, in the end, they don't want Trump to stand for election because they believe that Trump was illegitimately elected in 2016, and that if he wins in 2020, it will also be illegitimate.
00:18:32.000That's a lot more dangerous to democracy than anything Trump did on that phone call with Vladimir Zelensky.
00:18:37.000Having one party, and they do this over and over.
00:18:42.000They do this with Stacey Abrams, who's supposedly the legitimate governor of Georgia.
00:18:45.000You got Hillary Clinton wandering around the woods of Chappaqua explaining she's the actual president of the United States.
00:18:50.000When one party refuses to accept the results of elections, like I really do not remember Republicans in widespread fashion refusing to accept the results of 2008 or 2012 with Barack Obama.
00:19:47.000The documents, right before the days of the 24th, 25th, and 26th, which we've requested, July, very, very important.
00:19:57.000Okay, if they're so important, then why didn't your buddies in the House just wait for it?
00:20:00.000And I am amused by the Democrats claiming that we need all of these documents, but no, under no circumstances should we hear from Hunter Biden, whose conduct was at the center of this entire debacle.
00:20:09.000Here's Adam Schiff, while maintaining that Republicans should be open to all witnesses and all documents.
00:20:14.000Here's Adam Schiff saying, no, why would we call Hunter Biden, who's at the center of this whole thing?
00:20:19.000This isn't like some fantasy football trade, as I said yesterday.
00:20:23.000This isn't, we'll offer you this if you'll give us that.
00:20:26.000We'll offer you a witness that is irrelevant and immaterial, who has no relevant testimony, but a witness that will allow us to smear a presidential candidate if you want to get a legitimate witness.
00:20:45.000Um, well, why is it that you get to pick the witnesses?
00:20:48.000You got to do that in the House, and then you didn't call the ones you wanted, so now you don't get to determine who the witnesses are who are called.
00:20:55.000The Democrats are so out to protect Hunter Biden and Joe Biden that they're basically willing to watch this impeachment go down in flames simply because they're not willing to do a witness trade.
00:21:04.000Now, my feeling is, call whoever you want.
00:21:10.000I don't care if Hunter Biden gets called.
00:21:12.000I'm for all of it coming out because I'm always in favor of all of it coming out.
00:21:15.000And I don't have a lot of concerns at this point that John Bolton is, and even if I did, I wouldn't care, that John Bolton is going to get up there and say Trump did X, Y, or Z. I think John Bolton is going to say exactly what his aide Fiona Hill said.
00:21:25.000But bottom line is that the Democrats want to protect their witnesses and yet they're out there saying that it is utterly corrupt for Republicans not to call the witnesses the Democrats want.
00:23:05.000But you can certainly read it the way the Democrats are trying to read that.
00:23:07.000Val Demings, the House impeachment manager, one of the House impeachment managers for the Democrats, said that's that's real time obstruction.
00:23:13.000Well, no, again, you could take him to court.
00:23:44.000But the reality is that as you approach your death, every minute of every day, you might be thinking, how can I insure against this on behalf of my family?
00:25:01.000The media just enjoying the spectacle of manly man, Adam Schiff.
00:25:07.000This is really a I am Spartacus moment where, you know, people really need to stand up.
00:25:12.000And I do think I wrote the same thing, which was that this was a speech really aimed at the better angels.
00:25:18.000And I think Adam Schiff did a really great job.
00:25:21.000What I really thought was just amazing about Schiff's presentation is he was speaking not just to the 100 people in the room, he was speaking to 100 years in the future.
00:25:29.000This is a speech that kids are going to be given in 2060 at university projects.
00:25:34.000There are people in the Senate that call themselves lawyers.
00:25:37.000They are admiring him, even if they will never admit it publicly.
00:25:42.000A very, very powerful and forceful speech.
00:25:46.000Almost two and a half hours, if he was listening, he heard a very, very strong case from Adam Schiff, why he, the President of the United States, should be convicted and removed from office.
00:25:58.000Well, I mean, I haven't seen the media.
00:25:59.000This says, and Chris Matthews got a tingle up his leg by Barack Obama.
00:26:33.000I thought the way he wove through both the facts of the case and the historical context was really remarkable.
00:26:40.000It was the second best courtroom address, since it's like a courtroom, that I ever heard.
00:26:46.000The argument that the president extorted, or bribed, or whatever criminal term you want to use, the president of Ukraine to get His political dirt on Joe Biden in return for the $390 million of taxpayer money.
00:27:05.000I mean, it's there if you want to see it.
00:27:08.000And the question is if you want to see it.
00:27:39.000If you can make that strong a case, the most brilliant legal case he's ever heard, as you heard Jeffrey Toobin say, the second most ever, ever.
00:27:46.000The first most was the time that Jeffrey Toobin was in third grade and he argued in mock trial.
00:28:28.000And he tweets that out, and then about 10 minutes later, he tweets out, okay, maybe I made up the conversation, but you know that's exactly what they're thinking.
00:28:38.000So you're just making up conversations now, in your own mind, about what Republicans are thinking watching this thing?
00:29:52.000There are some sketch artists in the room who are actually drawing some pictures of what senators are doing, including senators who are sleeping.
00:30:00.000But it is a little bit weird that we all thought it was within the rules that they had to be there.
00:30:09.000If you find it too annoying or frustrating or uncomfortable to sit for eight hours and listen, you can resign tomorrow and go get another job.
00:30:18.000Oh, well, I mean, you could get a job on MSNBC like Claire McCaskill after you lose your Senate seat.
00:30:22.000I mean, you could do that and sit right next to Chris Hayes.
00:30:24.000He was wearing the glasses of outrage.
00:30:26.000She wasn't wearing the glasses of outrage, so she was more slightly perturbed, but he was wearing the glasses of MSNBC outrage, so he was very perturbed yesterday.
00:30:40.000Even if people want Trump impeached, they know this is going nowhere.
00:30:42.000And so this has become just a foregone conclusion.
00:30:45.000And you guys can can You guys can just revel in your own fantasy world where all of this deeply matters, but the reality is that while you are micturating about all of this, while you are just sitting there and you are obsessed with every little detail, most Americans have jobs and lives, and most Americans are not all that interested in any of this.
00:31:08.000And that's bad news for the Democrats, because as we move toward 2020, that means that the focus is going to shift from this whole impeachment silliness to the actual 2020 race.
00:31:15.000And right now there is an open battle breaking up between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.
00:31:19.000We're going to get to that in just one second.
00:31:20.000First, if you know anything about me, you most likely heard me talk about my ardent support for the pro-life cause.
00:31:25.000You may also remember that last year I streamed my podcast live from the March for Life in D.C., gave a speech to the hundreds of thousands of people.
00:31:32.000By the way, President Trump will be the first sitting president to speak at the March for Life this year, which is just fantastic.
00:31:40.000It's how much grief this caused The Daily Wire from our political opponents, adversaries, leftist censors.
00:31:45.000Our advertisers were targeted by left-wing quote-unquote media watchdogs or left-wing hacks.
00:31:50.000We lost a bunch of revenue for no reason because I didn't say anything wrong and I would say every single word that I said at that march over again a thousand times.
00:31:57.000That was not the first time nor will it be the last time that we are attacked in an attempt to shut down pro-life voices.
00:32:01.000That is why we are teaming up with live action.
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00:32:56.000So as we draw nearer to the 2020 election, it becomes obvious that this whole impeachment thing is going absolutely nowhere.
00:33:09.000To the great disappointment of many people, both right and left, there's actually a group out there today that had pushed out an ad suggesting that President Pence is gonna be a thing, that Mike Pence is actually going to be President of the United States.
00:34:02.000This is a constitutional issue, and we're not going to turn it into a farce, into some kind of political theater.
00:34:10.000They're trying to turn it into political theater, but I want no part of being any part of that.
00:34:16.000And I have no problem, as you'll find out the rest of this campaign, debating Trump, debating the majority leader.
00:34:24.000Well, no, they actually did not have any problem debating you, which is why you've been a failed presidential candidate 82 times.
00:34:37.000But Joe Biden saying that he will not sit, again, it's not going to look great for him in 2020 when President Trump dumps on the Hunter Biden story, right?
00:35:39.000It is not a defined contribution plan, which means that my grandmother paid in like 50 bucks a month 40 years ago, and she's receiving a couple thousand dollars a month from Social Security.
00:36:01.000And now Bernie Sanders is going after him, because in Bernie Sanders' world, anytime you say you're going to lower benefits, this means that you are evil, because money grows on trees, and Bernie Sanders can simply pull it directly out of his rather elderly posterior.
00:36:12.000Here is Bernie Sanders going after Joe Biden.
00:36:15.000When I argued if we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well.
00:36:46.000Now, what Biden is saying is he's saying that particular quote is taken out of context.
00:36:49.000But the reality is that Biden has said in the past that he would be interested in revising Social Security because this is what any practical politician in history has said.
00:37:49.000In the past, Joe Biden has made statements talking about how we do need to restructure Social Security because he is not a completely insane human being.
00:37:54.000Bernie happens to be completely insane.
00:37:57.000And so he can just keep saying that we are going to sign endless checks to people without any source of funding for those endless checks.
00:38:03.000But all of this is beginning to get to old Joe's.
00:38:06.000So old Joe yesterday was on the campaign trail and he was approached by a reporter, not sure for which outlet, and this reporter started asking about Joe Biden, about Bernie Sanders.
00:38:16.000And Joe Biden turns around and basically goes nuts on the reporter.
00:38:19.000Now, if this had been Donald Trump, it would have been, look at his attack on the press.
00:39:53.000The New York Times is reporting that Sanders has opened up the guns.
00:39:55.000Mr. Sanders' newly combative posture has been met with some relief inside his campaign.
00:39:59.000With the two men competing for an overlapping slice of working-class voters, some top aides have been quietly urging Mr. Sanders to draw more explicit contrast with the former vice president.
00:40:08.000Not only was such an offensive help Mr. Sanders whittle away at Mr. Biden's support, some advisors believe, it would also satisfy supporters and donors to Mr. Sanders who crave a fight.
00:40:16.000Some also think he pulled punches against Hillary Clinton in 2016 to his detriment.
00:40:20.000Since the fall, they've encouraged him to go after Biden aggressively on the debate stage, a strategy Sanders followed tepidly.
00:40:26.000During the debate last week in Des Moines, some advisors had prodded Sanders to confront Biden on social security and were frustrated the topic did not come up.
00:40:34.000Sanders seemed to telegraph his willingness to engage in rougher campaigning during a question and answer session with reporters this month in Iowa City.
00:40:42.000That is what a serious campaign is about.
00:40:45.000And his aides are saying that he's beginning to open up the guns.
00:40:48.000As I say, right now, the polling in Iowa does have Joe Biden significantly ahead.
00:40:53.000There are two polls with Joe Biden, six points ahead.
00:40:55.000The minute that Joe Biden wins Iowa, this thing is over for Bernie Sanders and Bernie Sanders knows it.
00:41:01.000Again, his entire campaign is based on pie-in-the-sky kind of nonsense, so why the hell would he not attack Joe Biden over restructuring Social Security, which is a thing that everybody knows has to get done at some point.
00:41:11.000Okay, meanwhile, President Trump is over in Davos, and he is not the celebrated voiceover in Davos.
00:41:16.000The celebrated voiceover in Davos is 17-year-old Greta Thunberg.
00:41:40.000It's on everybody who takes her seriously.
00:41:42.000And the fact that Greta Thunberg is propped up there as some sort of great intellectual force is truly astonishing because, again, her entire spiel is, I'm a child and I'm very angry.
00:42:32.000We put her on the cover of magazines because her entire agenda is to go around and scream at adults about how terrible the adults are because they are not doing what she wants them to do.
00:42:41.000So this sort of raises the question, what exactly does she want them to do?
00:42:46.000Right, because after all, if she is screaming at the adults aren't doing it, it would be good to know what exactly she wants them to do.
00:42:52.000So here's what Greta Thunberg wants the adults to do.
00:42:56.000And this has been again, the adult Al Gore shows up and he's like, I'm here.
00:44:03.000And lest you think that I'm exaggerating, what exactly she's calling for, here's Greta Thunberg, what she actually said at Davos, and she was praised by the media for this.
00:44:10.000The real reason she's getting praised, of course, is because she yells at the adults, and what the left loves to do is prop up children who yell at adults, and that way, if you attack what the children are saying, if you say, listen, seems like a nice enough young woman, like, I'm not arguing with her passion, that's fine, she has an agenda, that's fine too.
00:45:40.000Now, normally, when anybody tells you to panic, that's a bad idea.
00:45:43.000When a child tells you to panic, you're like, no, you're a child.
00:45:46.000I'm not going to panic over the possible increase in global temperature of, at maximum, 4 degrees Celsius, according to the IPCC, over the course of the next century.
00:45:55.000In fact, what we should be attempting is mitigation, right?
00:45:57.000We should be attempting is adaptation.
00:46:00.000This is not to say that we can't take measures that would lower carbon emissions.
00:46:03.000In fact, the United States fracking for natural gas has lowered our carbon emissions dramatically.
00:46:07.000Nuclear power lowers emissions dramatically.
00:46:10.000But her actual proposal, the one that's being praised, quote, We demand, at this year's World Economic Forum, participants from all companies, banks, institutions, and governments immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction, immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies, and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels.
00:46:30.000Every company is supposed to stop using fossil fuels.
00:46:33.000Every government is supposed to stop using fossil fuels.
00:46:35.000Every institution is supposed to stop using fossil fuels.
00:46:38.000She says, we don't want these things done by 2050, 2030, even 2021.
00:46:43.000It may seem like we're asking for a lot.
00:46:45.000And you will, of course, say that we are naive.
00:46:46.000But this is just the very minimum amounts of effort that is needed to start the rapid, sustainable transition.
00:46:52.000Um, well, since you are talking about the end of civilization as it currently exists, yeah, that seems like a lot.
00:46:59.000I'm just gonna put it out there that that seems like a lot and it does not seem justified by the available evidence.
00:47:03.000It is always easier to get people to rally around a problem than it is to get them to rally around a solution.
00:47:08.000When it comes to big problems, you should actually be providing real solutions, not nonsense, and then trotting out children to claim that if you don't embrace solutions that literally no one is willing to embrace, right?
00:48:09.000I used to have this argument with my producer, Senya, many a day.
00:48:12.000We would argue about the merits of Taylor Swift, and I would say she's overrated, and Senya would say, no, she's the greatest songwriter of the last 190 years!
00:48:21.000Senya, wherever you are today, I think we can both agree.
00:48:25.000That this particular documentary trailer is one of the greatest things in history and also one of the worst things in history.
00:48:31.000So Taylor Swift, you have to recognize that Taylor Swift's whole spiel is that she was the young girl who wrote her own songs and was charming and somewhat innocent.
00:48:40.000And then she had to feminist it up, gang, because she got pressure from the media.
00:48:45.000And the media said, where is Taylor Swift?
00:48:47.000Why won't Taylor Swift sound off about same-sex marriage?
00:48:51.000Taylor Swift's silence is deafening on transgender bathrooms.
00:48:54.000Why won't Taylor Swift comment on whether Fallon Fox should be able to fight women?
00:48:59.000Where is Taylor Swift when you need her discussing climate change?
00:49:04.000And Taylor Swift, after a few years of this and saying nothing, she decided, you know what?
00:49:30.000You can see all the years moving in real time.
00:49:32.000She's trying to show that this is the authentic Taylor Swift.
00:49:34.000All it shows is that she was always a media creation, and it is wonderful in every way.
00:49:38.000There's a movie, if you haven't seen it, and you don't mind like R-rated humor, like very R-rated humor.
00:49:43.000There's a movie called Pop Star, Never Stop, Never Stopping.
00:49:47.000And the basic plot of the movie is that there is a person who is a pop star played by Andy Samberg, and he cuts an album, becomes a big hit, and then he starts to lose popularity and he realizes that he has to go political.
00:50:01.000And one of the songs that he cuts is a song called Equal Rights, I'm Not Gay, and the entire song is about same-sex marriage and how wonderful it is, but he keeps having to interject and explain that he's not gay because he's uncomfortable with the fact that anybody might think he's gay, so he keeps talking about people should be able to marry each other.
00:54:48.000It's beyond everything I thought I knew.
00:54:50.000Well, see, what's weird about that is what I thought I knew is that she was a complete media creation and creation by her managers.
00:54:55.000And now what I think I know is that she's a complete media creation and a creation by her managers, except now they told her that she better get woke.
00:55:01.000And so she got woke, and now they produced an entire sop piece documentary about her to explain that she was always woke, it's just she was muzzled.
00:55:08.000Because nothing says muzzled quite like being a hundred million dollar singer.
00:55:13.000Who can say anything she wants at any time and say, like, literally anything.
00:55:35.000This is why Donald Trump is president.
00:55:36.000I'm sorry to tell you this, this is why Donald Trump is president.
00:55:38.000Because everyone who watches this thing, who has a semi-functional prefrontal cortex, understands how produced and stupid this is, and the fact that these are our cultural betters lecturing us all, and that we're supposed to take this seriously?
00:55:51.000And now when Taylor Swift says, I think Donald Trump is a sexist, we're supposed to be like, oh my god, you know what?
00:55:56.000She was muzzled before, but now she speaks only truth, Taylor Swift!
00:56:05.000I want that entire trailer on my wall so I can just hit that button and revel in the sophistry and the production value and the over-the-top self-congratulation of the celebrity class.
00:56:16.000Where is Ricky Gervais when you need him?
00:56:54.000They're doing it like in real time as the thing ends.
00:56:56.000They're putting together this podcast.
00:56:57.000So you get like this real time update on what's going on from Senator Cruz, who, of course, is watching this thing firsthand and is involved in everything.
00:57:03.000Michael Knowles being useful for once.
00:57:05.000Go check out Verdict on Apple podcast, Spotify, anywhere else you get your podcast is pretty cool and it is worth.