The Ben Shapiro Show - The Senate Impeachment Trial Begins | Ep. 1191

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00:01:31.000 Today, the Senate of the United States, led by Chuck Schumer, should have been led by Mitch McConnell, but now it's led by Chuck Schumer, is going to start the consideration on the conviction of President Trump for the impeachment charge that was brought against him by the House of Representatives.

00:01:31.000 Okay, so.

00:01:45.000 Remember, that single impeachment charge essentially suggested that Trump was responsible for inciting a riot at the Capitol building on January 6th.

00:01:52.000 That was the main part of the impeachment charge.

00:01:54.000 There were other ancillary parts, like his earlier call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, but the main part of the charge is that he was personally responsible for the incitement of the violence that happened on January 6th.

00:02:05.000 Now, the big problem with that charge is really that he is not by any legal definition responsible for incitement.

00:02:12.000 And it's very difficult to make the claim that he is responsible for incitement because of the colorful language that he used in the months leading up to January 6th.

00:02:20.000 But that other politicians who use similarly colorful language are not also guilty of incitement when violent breaks out from people who agree with them.

00:02:26.000 This is the biggest flaw in the entire Democratic argument with regard to impeachment.

00:02:30.000 Now, there are some Republicans who voted for impeachment in the House.

00:02:33.000 There are cases that Trump had abused his power, that he'd been lying about the results of the election, that he'd been telling lies about voter irregularity and voter fraud and whipping people into a frenzy, and that it was sort of a foreseeable effect of that, that something bad would happen.

00:02:45.000 But again, the wording of the incitement charge is pretty specific.

00:02:49.000 And beyond that, there is no neutral standard that applies across the board when it comes to an impeachable offense on the basis of this fact pattern.

00:02:56.000 And that is the case that Trump's defense is making.

00:02:58.000 So we're going to get to what Trump's defense looks like because that's going to start rolling out today.

00:03:02.000 The trial actually begins with a four-hour debate today on the constitutionality of bringing an impeachment charge against a person who is no longer in office.

00:03:10.000 Remember, he is former President Trump.

00:03:11.000 He is not actually President Trump.

00:03:13.000 And frankly, if you wanted what was best for the country, I think there's a solid case to be made that the country is better off just kind of moving on.

00:03:21.000 And the reason I say that is not because Trump shouldn't bear the political consequences of what he wrought over the couple of months after the election.

00:03:28.000 I think he is going to bear those political consequences in whatever way the American public sees fit to bring those consequences.

00:03:34.000 I mean, the number one consequence of his behavior over the past four years is that he's no longer president of the United States.

00:03:38.000 The simple fact of the matter is, if he had been as silent on social media during his presidency as he has been since he was banned from social media in the aftermath of January 6th, he would probably still be president.

00:03:48.000 So it's not as though consequences have not attended to Trump's behavior.

00:03:52.000 And the people who actually engaged in violence, those people will be tracked down.

00:03:55.000 Those people will be brought to trial.

00:03:56.000 Those people will spend time in jail, as well they should.

00:03:59.000 And if Democrats are ever willing to bring forth evidence of their most outrageous allegations, which is that there are members of Congress who are complicit in the attack, well then, members of Congress will end up in jail.

00:04:09.000 But when it comes to the question of whether it is good for the country as a broad matter for us to be re-litigating Trump's presidency after he lost an election in November, Or whether we ought to be focused on, you know, the crises at hand, namely COVID, the economy, and all the rest.

00:04:24.000 I think that increasingly, there's a reason both Democrats and Republicans want to move fast on this thing.

00:04:28.000 Republicans want to move fast on it because they think that it's basically just political gamesmanship, which is correct.

00:04:33.000 And Democrats want to move fast on this thing because I think they recognize that if this drags out for weeks and weeks, Americans are just gonna get tired of it.

00:04:40.000 Because this is what happens with virtually every impeachment trial.

00:04:42.000 At the very beginning of the impeachment trial over Ukraine, Americans were largely supportive of impeaching Trump by polling data.

00:04:49.000 And then, as the thing continued, Americans were like, what are we doing again?

00:04:52.000 Why are we doing this again?

00:04:54.000 What?

00:04:55.000 Seriously?

00:04:56.000 And you're going to get that even more now, because at least at that point, Trump was president.

00:05:00.000 Now, Trump's just some guy golfing in Mar-a-Lago.

00:05:02.000 So the idea for most Americans that we should be expending enormous quantities of time and not only time, by the way, cash.

00:05:09.000 You know, we're going to spend 500 million taxpayer dollars, 500 million taxpayer dollars to have troops all over Washington, D.C.

00:05:16.000 during this Senate impeachment trial.

00:05:18.000 You know that?

00:05:19.000 Now, honestly, I would love to hear members of the law enforcement community explain just why we need a completely militarized D.C.

00:05:26.000 right now.

00:05:27.000 Because there's been no violence since January 6th.

00:05:30.000 That's not to say there couldn't be.

00:05:31.000 That's not to say that maybe they don't have evidence that we haven't seen.

00:05:34.000 But Governor DeSantis in Florida, Governor Abbott in Texas, they already brought home their National Guard contingent.

00:05:38.000 They're like, we're not seeing a ton of fomenting violence.

00:05:41.000 We're not seeing giant rallies outside the Senate today.

00:05:44.000 So why exactly are we spending $500 million taxpayer dollars to keep Washington, D.C.

00:05:51.000 in a state of military lockdown?

00:05:52.000 I mean, just on the face of it, it's kind of bizarre.

00:05:55.000 So, here is how the trial is going to roll out today.

00:05:57.000 According to the Hill, Senate leadership announced on Monday they have reached a deal on the framework for former President Trump's impeachment trial. It'll start today. For the information of the Senate, the Republican leader and I, in consultation with both the House managers and former President Trump's lawyers, have agreed to a bipartisan resolution to govern the structure and timing of the impending trial, said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Apparently, they confirmed on the right side of the aisle that this was happening. The timeline would allow the trial to wrap up as early as next week if both sides agree not to call witnesses.

00:06:25.000 And this is the big question right now, is whether the sides are going to call witnesses.

00:06:28.000 Under the current deal, the Senate is going to debate and vote today on whether the trial is constitutional.

00:06:33.000 The effort to declare the trial unconstitutional will fall short.

00:06:35.000 Rand Paul folks were forced to vote on this issue late last month.

00:06:39.000 44 Republican senators supported that particular effort.

00:06:42.000 There were very few Republicans who sided with the idea that it was constitutional.

00:06:46.000 Now that was an easy procedural way out.

00:06:48.000 There are some Republicans who are making the case it's not constitutional to push forward with this.

00:06:51.000 Tom Cotton from Arkansas is one of those.

00:06:53.000 Here's Senator Cotton explaining the constitutional case against convicting a president of an impeachable offense after he has already left office.

00:07:01.000 I think it's beyond the Senate's constitutional authority to have an impeachment proceeding, the point of which is to convict and remove from office a man who left office three weeks ago.

00:07:09.000 I think it's also a set of misplaced priorities.

00:07:12.000 The Democrats continue to obsess about Donald Trump, when Donald Trump left office and went to Florida three weeks ago, when the Senate should be focused on things like how to expand vaccine production and distribute it more quickly.

00:07:23.000 Those are the priorities the American people want us to focus on, not an inquest into who is now a private citizen.

00:07:28.000 It's an interesting constitutional debate on the right side of the aisle.

00:07:30.000 Basically, the Republicans who say that it's unconstitutional to push forward with this, that's people like Tom Cotton or Rand Paul, their case is that it is an impeachment trial.

00:07:38.000 The purpose of an impeachment trial is to remove from office a person who apparently is now already out of office.

00:07:43.000 So what exactly is the point?

00:07:45.000 On the other side of the aisle, there are people who say, yes, he was impeached in the House, but the conviction is still part of the process.

00:07:50.000 That happens in the Senate.

00:07:52.000 And one of the possibilities is barring somebody from running for office in the future on the basis of a Senate conviction.

00:07:57.000 So here's Pat Toomey, who's a Republican senator from Pennsylvania, making the opposite case.

00:08:02.000 You did have 45 Republican Senators vote to suggest that they didn't think it was appropriate to conduct a trial, so you can infer how likely it is that those folks will vote to convict.

00:08:16.000 I disagreed with their assessment.

00:08:17.000 I think it is constitutional.

00:08:19.000 I think it's clearly constitutional to conduct a Senate trial with respect to an impeachment.

00:08:25.000 In this case, the impeachment occurred prior to the President's leaving office.

00:08:28.000 Okay, so how is this actually going to roll out?

00:08:31.000 The way that this is actually going to roll out is the opening arguments then start on Wednesday.

00:08:35.000 So under the current deal, the House impeachment managers and Trump's team will have 16 hours over two days each to present their case to the Senate, which is actually a faster pace than the first Trump trial.

00:08:44.000 Both sides got 24 hours in that Trump trial.

00:08:46.000 At that point, Chuck Schumer was like, we're rushing this thing even now.

00:08:49.000 Because Mitch McConnell was in charge.

00:08:50.000 Now, Chuck Schumer wants to rush this thing so much that both sides get 16 hours to present their case.

00:08:55.000 And you can bet money that if the Democrats start calling witnesses, like if they start calling up AOC to testify to how terrified she was in the building that was, you know, 0.3 miles away from the Capitol building, protected by police and was never under assault from rioters.

00:09:08.000 If they want to call people like AOC, then you can certainly bet Republicans will then call AOC to rebut AOC and ask her about her own violent language with regard to Republicans and riots and all of the rest. 0.68

00:09:18.000 The way this is going to work is if one side opens that can of worms with regard to impeachment witnesses, you can bet the other side certainly will as well.

00:09:25.000 The deal does leave open the door to calling witnesses.

00:09:29.000 The House impeachment managers previously invited Trump to testify under oath.

00:09:33.000 His attorneys rejected that because if you are Trump's attorney, the last thing you ever want is Donald Trump in a legal proceeding saying anything.

00:09:39.000 It is the worst job in the world being Donald Trump's attorney.

00:09:42.000 You can tell because of the churn.

00:09:43.000 I mean, seriously, that is a bad job.

00:09:45.000 Because the first rule of lawyering is that you get your client to shut up.

00:09:48.000 And then you are the one who is the mouthpiece for your client.

00:09:51.000 But that is not Donald Trump's forte, is shutting up.

00:09:55.000 And so being Donald Trump's lawyer is always difficult.

00:09:57.000 Although there are reports out today that Donald Trump shockingly has finally learned that actually his best PR tactic may be to not say things.

00:10:05.000 Apparently he's like off on the golf courses and people around him are telling him, you know, people are still paying attention to you and you using your social media sparingly as opposed to using it like You know, just word vomit?

00:10:16.000 Like, that's actually an effective tactic, and Trump seems to have learned that, which is why he's making so few public statements.

00:10:21.000 Would to God that he had learned that in the first year of his presidency.

00:10:25.000 Both sides are going to end up with two hours for closing arguments.

00:10:28.000 Chuck Schumer says, as in previous trials, there will be equal time for Senator questions and for closing arguments and an opportunity for the Senate to hold deliberations if it so chooses.

00:10:35.000 And then we're going to vote on the articles of impeachment.

00:10:38.000 So that is the procedure as it is going to play out.

00:10:40.000 In a second, we're going to get to what the content is likely to be in the actual Senate trial for President Trump on this impeachment charge. 0.98

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00:12:16.000 Okay, so what exactly is the content likely to be?

00:12:19.000 Well, from the Democrats, what you're likely to hear is how terrified they personally were and also All of their other arguments, which is that the riots were white supremacy. 0.98

00:12:27.000 Trump is a white supremacist. 0.81

00:12:29.000 You're likely to hear about how close we were to losing our democracy in the words of representative Jackie Speier from California Democrat. 0.97

00:12:34.000 She says, you know, we have to hear during this trial how close we were to losing our democracy.

00:12:37.000 Now, let's be frank about this.

00:12:39.000 We were not close to losing our democracy.

00:12:41.000 We weren't.

00:12:41.000 I mean, we just weren't as a factual matter.

00:12:45.000 A bunch of yahoos, idiot criminal yahoos, evil yahoos, running into the Capitol building and putting their feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk. 1.00

00:12:53.000 It's ugly, and it's terrible, and it's bad, and it's horrible for the country. 1.00

00:12:57.000 That was not us being close to losing our democracy.

00:12:59.000 You know what losing a democracy looks like?

00:13:01.000 It sort of looks like what happens in countries all over the world when the military just marches into presidential palaces and starts arresting officials, right?

00:13:07.000 That's what it looks like.

00:13:09.000 At no point was this a coup. 1.00

00:13:10.000 A coup is not a bunch of idiots dressed in buffalo horns running into a government building and sitting in somebody's chair. 1.00

00:13:17.000 That is not a coup. 1.00

00:13:18.000 By the way, it's not even a coup if somebody goes and tries to murder members of Congress.

00:13:22.000 That is an act of evil, a criminal act of evil.

00:13:25.000 Okay, by the way, we've seen it before.

00:13:27.000 It is not even a coup when, God forbid, a president is assassinated.

00:13:31.000 We've had that in American history before.

00:13:33.000 That's not a coup either.

00:13:34.000 A coup, specifically speaking, is when one regime is exchanged for a more legitimate regime through the mechanisms of institutional power generally.

00:13:43.000 That's when you have the military that intervenes on the behest of one political party, for example, and then else a sitting democratically elected person, for example.

00:13:51.000 That is the nature of a coup.

00:13:52.000 This was not a coup.

00:13:54.000 We were not close to losing our democracy.

00:13:55.000 How not close were we to losing our democracy? 1.00

00:13:57.000 Within hours of these morons jumping into the Capitol building to make trouble and videotape themselves for their Instagram. 0.99

00:14:04.000 Congress was back in session. 1.00

00:14:06.000 Ratifying the election and making Joe Biden the president of the United States.

00:14:10.000 So yeah, we were not close to a coup.

00:14:11.000 But again, the lie has... What's amazing is that you don't actually have to do this.

00:14:16.000 I mean, seriously, Democrats don't have to do this.

00:14:18.000 I said this the day of.

00:14:19.000 This could have been a unifying moment that lies are bad and people believing lies is really bad and people then acting on those lies to do violence and terrible damage.

00:14:28.000 is really, really bad.

00:14:29.000 We can all be on the same side of all those questions, but instead it's, well, you know, Donald Trump tried to launch a coup and he almost, he was barely thwarted.

00:14:35.000 No, he wasn't.

00:14:36.000 He was not barely thwarted.

00:14:37.000 You know how I know he wasn't barely thwarted?

00:14:40.000 Because on January 20th, he didn't attend the inauguration and Joe Biden became President of the United States.

00:14:44.000 So that's how I know he wasn't barely thwarted.

00:14:46.000 It's just...

00:14:48.000 The exaggeration is unnecessary, and it really does demonstrate that what this really is about for a lot of folks, as always, is the PR.

00:14:55.000 We have a Congress that doesn't actually do anything for a living.

00:14:58.000 We have a Congress that tweets things and goes on cable news.

00:15:00.000 They have the same job that I do, except that I'm not paid by taxpayer money.

00:15:04.000 Nor am I your elected representative, right?

00:15:07.000 We have a Congress that does not pass bills.

00:15:09.000 We have a Congress that does not negotiate.

00:15:10.000 We have a Congress that does nothing, except every once in a while, they vote on some giant omnibus spending package.

00:15:17.000 They toss all power over to the executive branch.

00:15:19.000 A bunch of unelected bureaucrats govern your life. 0.95

00:15:21.000 And then Congress goes on Twitter and talks jack about other people.

00:15:24.000 That's pretty much what Congress does for a living these days. 0.99

00:15:26.000 So here's Jackie Speier doing just that.

00:15:28.000 Again, there's no wonder why people hate the American legislature.

00:15:32.000 There's a reason the legislature does not legislate.

00:15:34.000 Our elected officials do not represent us.

00:15:37.000 All they do all day long is just yell on cable news for power.

00:15:41.000 It's pretty crazy.

00:15:43.000 I intend, like so many of my colleagues, to put into words that every American can hear for decades to come how close we came to losing our democracy.

00:15:56.000 This is a man that intended to overtake this government.

00:16:02.000 And it's astonishing to me that so few of my colleagues on the Republican side, even after witnessing that, even after being part of that insurrection, are unwilling to do their jobs and protect the Constitution and protect the democracy.

00:16:19.000 OK, again, the democracy was not under threat.

00:16:22.000 There were people who were threatening to do bad things.

00:16:25.000 At no point was the institutional democracy of the United States under threat.

00:16:29.000 To pretend otherwise is to ignore the realities on the ground.

00:16:32.000 The military would not have participated in anything like that.

00:16:35.000 Republican members of Congress voted to ratify the election.

00:16:38.000 Vice President Pence was the vice president under Donald Trump, lest we forget.

00:16:41.000 He was the person leading the ratification.

00:16:43.000 Mitch McConnell was the head of the Senate.

00:16:45.000 Like...

00:16:47.000 All of this overwrought hysteria is, in fact, overwrought hysteria.

00:16:50.000 I'm not saying it's hysteria to have been worried or concerned or freaked out at what happened at the Capitol.

00:16:55.000 It is overwrought hysteria to say that America was on the brink of turning into a dictatorship on January 6th. 0.93

00:16:59.000 That's just silly. 0.98

00:17:00.000 It's silly. 0.99

00:17:00.000 On its face, it's silly. 0.99

00:17:02.000 In just a second, we're gonna get to more silly, because again, this is really not about anything to do with Trump.

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00:18:49.000 Alrighty, so, again, what this trial is really about for the Democrats is ratcheting up the amount of ire at Republicans more generally.

00:18:56.000 Which is why you see Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez clinging to the patently absurd notion that Ted Cruz tried to have her murdered.

00:19:02.000 Because the goal here is not to castigate Trump for the lies that he told about the election and the aftermath of the election.

00:19:07.000 The goal of this is to castigate all Republicans who she doesn't like.

00:19:12.000 All of them.

00:19:13.000 Because, listen, I was not a fan of what Ted Cruz did in objecting to electors.

00:19:18.000 But does that mean that Ted Cruz was trying to kill Alexander Ocasio-Cortez?

00:19:22.000 Of course not.

00:19:23.000 And everybody knows this. 0.92

00:19:25.000 This hysterical nonsense is hysterical nonsense.

00:19:28.000 Here's Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:19:30.000 Again, this is supposed to be the Congress that is representing us and is going to do the people's work?

00:19:34.000 Sure.

00:19:35.000 Or, alternatively, they're just a bunch of complete nincompoops on social media who are putting out tweets and little videos for lols.

00:19:46.000 There's no difference between the memesters who drove up the GameStop stock and our Congress members at this point.

00:19:51.000 Except that the people who are on Reddit are significantly more clever and funny, I think, is basically what I'm coming away with here.

00:19:56.000 Here's Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the respected, wonderful congressperson from New York, leader of the Democratic Party.

00:20:00.000 party.

00:20:18.000 That is the exact, that is the quote.

00:20:19.000 I mean, the actual tweet that she sent said that Ted Cruz tried to have her murdered at the Capitol.

00:20:26.000 I mean, come on, come on.

00:20:28.000 Meanwhile, Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo Starr of the squad, she was on national TV suggesting that January 6th was about white supremacy.

00:20:34.000 See, all the narratives get forwarded by every individual instance.

00:20:38.000 It's a thing about politics that once you see it, you can't unsee it, and it's so irritating.

00:20:41.000 It's really just a point of high irritation.

00:20:43.000 There are a bunch of preset narratives.

00:20:45.000 Facts very often do not fit into those narratives.

00:20:48.000 And most people are unwilling to shift their narrative even after the facts disprove the narrative.

00:20:52.000 January 6th, there is so little evidence that it had anything to do with race.

00:20:57.000 Seriously, what is the evidence that it had to do with race specifically?

00:21:01.000 As opposed to being about people who were just pissed that Trump had lost the election.

00:21:05.000 For a wide variety of reasons.

00:21:07.000 And yet somehow it was about white supremacy to Ayanna Pressley because she thinks literally everything on earth fits into the white supremacy narrative.

00:21:13.000 Student loan.

00:21:14.000 student loan issues, those are a white supremacy narrative.

00:21:17.000 Housing, it's about white supremacy.

00:21:19.000 And of course, January 6th, about white supremacy.

00:21:21.000 When everything is about white supremacy, then you have now bought into a false narrative and you are using that false narrative as a cudgel to wield against your political enemies, which is ugly stuff.

00:21:29.000 Here's Ayanna Pressley doing that. 1.00

00:21:31.000 As a black woman, to be barricaded in my office, using office furniture and water bottles, on the ground, in the dark, that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me.

00:21:50.000 And. 0.83

00:21:51.000 And I want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge that is white supremacy in this nation. 0.99

00:22:01.000 The hell is she talking about? 0.98

00:22:03.000 I mean, really, what the hell is she talking about? 1.00

00:22:05.000 The majority of members of Congress are white. 0.99

00:22:08.000 The majority of them are white. 0.83

00:22:09.000 They were also hiding in their- Mitch McConnell is the whitest person to ever white. 0.90

00:22:14.000 Mitch McConnell was hiding in his office. 1.00

00:22:19.000 All of this stuff is, it's so stupid. 1.00

00:22:21.000 Our politics is just so stupid. 1.00

00:22:22.000 I've like run out of patience with the stupidity of our politics. 1.00

00:22:24.000 It's unreal how stupid our politics is. 1.00

00:22:27.000 Okay, so Trump's response to all of this is a very long trial memorandum test. 1.00

00:22:31.000 78 page trial memorandum talking about the charges against him.

00:22:35.000 It's sort of a mix of decent argumentation together with a bunch of Trumpian flourishes because if Trump looks, because of course Trump is going to look over the final document.

00:22:44.000 And so it references Trump's Arrangement Syndrome on like the very first page of the trial memorandum.

00:22:48.000 What Trump's team understands is that this is all just a PR effort.

00:22:51.000 That the trial is not about holding him legally responsible.

00:22:55.000 He is not going to be held legally responsible via conviction in the Senate.

00:22:58.000 It's just not going to happen.

00:22:59.000 They don't have the votes and everybody knows it.

00:23:01.000 So that means that Trump's team is basically going to present the countervailing case.

00:23:04.000 And the countervailing case, according to the memorandum, is pretty obvious, which is Trump didn't incite anything on January 6th, that by all available evidence, the action was pre-planned, which is correct, by the way.

00:23:15.000 Virtually everyone has already reported that this was pre-planned.

00:23:20.000 Apparently, you know, the Democrats had started their impeachment effort before they'd even conducted an investigation.

00:23:26.000 That during the actual rally before the riots, Trump talked about peacefully protesting at the Capitol building, that the riots started in the middle of his speech.

00:23:36.000 They didn't actually start after his speech.

00:23:37.000 It wasn't like he finished and then they went over.

00:23:39.000 They started in the middle of his speech.

00:23:40.000 Now critics are saying, oh yeah, he'd already said the inflammatory part.

00:23:43.000 But he called for peaceful protest in the speech.

00:23:43.000 All right.

00:23:46.000 I know we're all trying to avoid that, but that happens to be a fact.

00:23:48.000 It's on tape.

00:23:50.000 And, they are correct, law enforcement had reports of a potential attack on the Capitol several days before Trump's speech itself, which suggests that it was not the speech that actually triggered the violent events of January 6th.

00:24:01.000 You can say that Trump's rhetoric contributed to the attitude of the people who stormed the Capitol, but if the argument is incitement, that means that you incited the violence with the speech of January 6th, that's the impeachment charge.

00:24:12.000 So all of those are fairly good defenses, and those will be brought to bear.

00:24:16.000 The Democrats, the more rabid Democrats are saying that they want to bring witnesses.

00:24:21.000 I think they're unlikely to do so.

00:24:22.000 They're going to get what they want to get out of this thing.

00:24:23.000 They'll get all the headlines they want and then we'll all move on.

00:24:26.000 But does this have anything to do in reality?

00:24:29.000 Like making the country a better place at this point?

00:24:31.000 Trump's out of office.

00:24:31.000 No.

00:24:33.000 Presumably he will remain out of office.

00:24:35.000 And all Democrats are doing, the real reason they're focusing on Trump is because they don't want him to go away.

00:24:38.000 That's the reality.

00:24:39.000 Democrats in the media do not want Trump to go away.

00:24:41.000 They want Trump there so they can use him as a foil.

00:24:43.000 Without Trump there as a foil, they have to find some other Republican, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a first-term backbencher from Georgia that they can use as the face of all Republican evil.

00:24:52.000 So they're going to try and keep this alive as long as possible.

00:24:54.000 The American people are bored with it, and I think they're going to want to move on ASAP.

00:24:57.000 Okay, in just one second, we are going to get to everything COVID-related, because The team of science ain't following the science.

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00:26:28.000 Okay, so meanwhile, the COVID numbers in the United States are actually getting significantly better.

00:26:34.000 COVID cases are now at their lowest level since October, which is definitely a good thing.

00:26:37.000 They've dropped precipitously since the beginning of the year.

00:26:41.000 When it comes to deaths, deaths are also starting to level off in the United States and drop.

00:26:47.000 Some of that is due to vaccination.

00:26:48.000 A lot of that is due to the fact that we've seen this pattern before.

00:26:51.000 Basically, you have variants of COVID or waves of COVID.

00:26:55.000 They burn through a community, they run out of people to burn through, and then they wane.

00:27:00.000 So hopefully, by the time we move forward with this thing, by the time the next variant hits, a lot of people are vaccinated.

00:27:06.000 And we are rolling out vaccines at a fast pace, and that is largely thanks to the Trump administration, which the Biden administration has denied over and over and over again.

00:27:06.000 That'd be great.

00:27:14.000 And yet, we are still hearing this sort of panic to tone from our media.

00:27:17.000 It's all panic all day, all the time from our media.

00:27:21.000 Because there has to be some bogeyman that Team Biden can use in order to jack through their agenda.

00:27:26.000 To understand that the Biden team, when it comes to their economic plans, those economic plans are not in a vacuum popular.

00:27:32.000 If it were not for COVID, first of all, Trump probably would have been reelected if it were not for COVID.

00:27:37.000 The economy was just too good.

00:27:38.000 But if it were not for COVID, do you think Americans would be on board with spending $1.9 trillion with AT?

00:27:44.000 Do you think Americans would be on board with a $15 national minimum wage, which is more than significant percentages of people in less wealthy states earn?

00:27:55.000 Like, do you think that that makes a lot of sense?

00:27:57.000 People would not be up for this.

00:27:59.000 A lot of the Biden agenda rests on the specter of COVID in the background.

00:28:03.000 And so they're going to continue to play this thing up. 0.87

00:28:06.000 And they will do so in hypocritical fashion. 0.69

00:28:07.000 It'll be the media and the Democratic Party doing this.

00:28:10.000 And so you'll end up with a CNN reporter looking at Tampa.

00:28:14.000 And I was down in Tampa, or up in Tampa, rather, for the Super Bowl.

00:28:18.000 And there were a lot of people who were unmasked in Tampa.

00:28:21.000 I mean, that is true.

00:28:21.000 It is also true that in the actual Super Bowl Stadium, because you had to, everybody was masked up.

00:28:26.000 But these CNN reporters are very selective in when they get outraged about lack of masks.

00:28:31.000 If it's happening in New York, they're really not all that concerned about it.

00:28:33.000 If it's happening in Florida, they are super concerned about it, despite the fact that Florida has performed admirably, given the fact that Florida has, by far, the oldest population in America.

00:28:42.000 Not close.

00:28:43.000 But here is a CNN reporter absolutely aghast at the fact that there were young people who are healthy not wearing masks in Tampa.

00:28:50.000 Let me show you a scene from last night in an area called Ybor City.

00:28:55.000 We have some video to show you.

00:28:57.000 You can see on the streets of Ybor City this massive crowd.

00:29:02.000 Again, not many of them wearing a mask.

00:29:05.000 This is a very popular spot where people go to bars and restaurants.

00:29:09.000 There were some police there, but we're unsure about citations.

00:29:14.000 I spoke to the Tampa police and I asked them, what are you doing about this?

00:29:17.000 Because a lot of people were very concerned.

00:29:19.000 Okay, there's one thing that you will notice, primarily above all, in these crowds.

00:29:23.000 There's not a person over 30.

00:29:25.000 I mean, if you look at these pictures, you cannot spot a person over the age of 30 years old in these pictures.

00:29:30.000 So, the very basic notion that this poses a massive health risk to the United States because a bunch of 25-year-olds are walking around without masks.

00:29:37.000 25-year-olds are not dying of COVID.

00:29:40.000 So unless they're going home and they're infecting granny, this really is not a huge issue, frankly. 1.00

00:29:45.000 Because again, 25-year-olds, not dying of COVID.

00:29:48.000 Nonetheless, this drove Tampa, when I say not dying, like, in massive numbers.

00:29:52.000 We're in outsized numbers. 0.99

00:29:53.000 Just to be very specific for the idiot fact-checkers who don't understand the English language or how it works. 0.99

00:29:57.000 The reality is, there are a few people who are 25 who will die of COVID. 0.98

00:30:00.000 It is vastly disproportionate to the actual number of people who are at risk from COVID.

00:30:04.000 Here is Tampa's mayor, Jane Castor.

00:30:06.000 She saw this CNN report, obviously, and now she's like, everybody who is maskless at the Super Bowl is going to be identified by law enforcement.

00:30:11.000 Yes, this sounds like a tremendous use of resources.

00:30:15.000 My favorite part of this is the cop standing directly behind her who's got the mask on under his nose.

00:30:20.000 You know, we had tens of thousands of people all over the city.

00:30:25.000 Downtown, out by the stadium, Ybor City, down here in Channelside, and very, very few incidents.

00:30:33.000 So, I'm proud of our community, but those few bad actors will be identified, and the Tampa Police Department will handle it.

00:30:42.000 Now, the media want to sort of have it both ways, because one of the things that has been happening, and it is a reality, is that populations mask up or associate at different rates.

00:30:50.000 So you've seen that the media are very, very down on Orthodox Jews in New York and New Jersey, right?

00:30:55.000 They've been very down on them since the beginning of the pandemic.

00:30:58.000 I think there's some justification to the idea that if you're getting together in closed spaces without masks and then you are transmitting the virus at high rates, that has to do with personal behavior.

00:31:05.000 But the media completely ignore that when it comes to people who are also getting the virus at disproportionate rates.

00:31:11.000 At no point have they suggested, for example, that disproportionate rates of COVID in the black community in New York, which is a thing, that maybe that has to do with personal behavior as well.

00:31:20.000 It's either personal behavior or systemic racism for each.

00:31:24.000 But the way that it works is if a bunch of Jews get it in New York, that is called personal behavior. 0.80

00:31:27.000 And if a bunch of black folks get it in New York, then it is all about systemic racism is the way that this works. 0.93

00:31:32.000 Well, now you have the New York Times justifying black people refusing to get the vaccine. 0.77

00:31:36.000 Now, if this were a bunch of white people refusing to get the vaccine, it would be about QAnon and Trump support, right? 0.51

00:31:41.000 But Charles Blow over at the New York Times has an entire piece about why it is that many black Americans are not getting the vaccine, and he's attempting to justify or excuse it. 0.53

00:31:49.000 Which is crazy, okay?

00:31:51.000 Because the people who need the vaccine the most, presumably, are the people who are getting it at the highest rates.

00:31:55.000 This is what we have been told.

00:31:56.000 And the people getting it at the highest rates are people of color in the United States.

00:32:01.000 So why would you be making excuses for people opting out of that?

00:32:04.000 This is like the fifth editorial from the New York Times making this case.

00:32:10.000 He says that black Americans are justified in not getting the vaccine because they don't trust the government.

00:32:16.000 Which is a weird way for... That's a weird argument given that black Americans are voting in a 92-8 clip for a party that wants to expand the size, scope, and reach of government. 0.90

00:32:26.000 If you don't trust the government, it seems like a weird indicator how much you distrust the government to vote for the party that vows to expand it in every area of your life.

00:32:34.000 But in any case, here's what Charles Blow says.

00:32:36.000 He says, the distrust in the healthcare system is real in the black community.

00:32:40.000 Perhaps most notably, at least in the last century, was the Tuskegee experiments, in which hundreds of black men were told they were being treated for syphilis, when in fact, they were not.

00:32:48.000 They were being observed to see how the disease would progress.

00:32:50.000 Those men suffered under this experiment for 40 years.

00:32:52.000 Yes, it happened in the 1930s.

00:32:55.000 30s!

00:32:55.000 Okay, the people today who are denying vaccines and are 30 years old, their grandparents were not alive when the Tuskegee experiments happened.

00:33:03.000 The Associated Press exposed the program in 1972, but the black people in the age group most resistant to the vaccine weren't alive when that experiment was conducted, as Charles Bull acknowledges.

00:33:11.000 Indeed, older men, those who might have been alive at that time, are more likely to want the vaccine.

00:33:16.000 Yes, because they're the people who are most vulnerable to COVID, generally.

00:33:20.000 He says it occurs to me something bigger might be contributing to those numbers, an overall mistrust of a government that has repeatedly disappointed, disrespected, and dehumanized black people.

00:33:28.000 Ah, so, when black Americans refuse to get the vaccine, then it's because of justified distrust of the government from a population that overwhelmingly votes for the party of government. 0.99

00:33:38.000 When white people refuse to get the vaccine, it's because they are doing something dumb. 0.99

00:33:42.000 The media double standard is pretty amazing there. 0.99

00:33:45.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:33:46.000 Okay, meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to ratchet up.

00:33:49.000 It's a one-way ratchet in terms of how worried we're supposed to be.

00:33:51.000 We're never supposed to get less worried.

00:33:53.000 We're always supposed to get more worried.

00:33:54.000 So now we have Anthony Fauci saying that he was asked by Brett Baier, so when can the masks come off?

00:34:01.000 Like, you know, we're now rolling out these vaccines.

00:34:03.000 Over a million a day, people are getting the shot.

00:34:05.000 When can the masks come off?

00:34:08.000 Fauci's answer is so bizarre and disturbing.

00:34:10.000 Here it is.

00:34:12.000 If we can get, and I have used this as an estimate, it's not definitive, that if we can get 70-85% of our population vaccinated and get to what we would hope would be to a degree of herd immunity, which really is an umbrella or a veil of protection against the community, Where the level of virus is so low, it's not a threat at all, then at that point you could start thinking in terms of not having to have a uniform wearing of masks.

00:34:42.000 Okay, it's that last, it's that last sentence that's insane.

00:34:45.000 When the virus, the risk of it, does not exist, then you can take off the mask.

00:34:50.000 Okay, so when we have learned to defeat death generally, you can leave your house. 1.00

00:34:54.000 When the risk of the virus does not exist, Are you out of your damned mind? 0.99

00:34:59.000 We've shut down the entire world economy for a year for a disease that mainly kills people over the age of 70. 0.99

00:35:04.000 And you can make the argument that that's a good idea.

00:35:07.000 You can make the argument that's a bad idea. 1.00

00:35:08.000 I will tell you what is an absolute crap, idiotic, anti-scientific idea. 1.00

00:35:11.000 The idea that the virus is going to have a 0% risk rate. 1.00

00:35:14.000 A 0% risk rate.

00:35:15.000 And that's when you can take off the mask.

00:35:17.000 You know when people are going to take off the masks?

00:35:19.000 People are going to take off the masks after they get the shots.

00:35:19.000 Seriously?

00:35:21.000 It is that simple.

00:35:22.000 On a practical level, once people have the shots, they're going to say, I am done with this and I'm taking off the mask.

00:35:27.000 And I'm not going to stay away from grandma.

00:35:28.000 I'm not going to stay away from parties I want to go to.

00:35:32.000 If grandma's at a particular risk, like a super high risk, maybe, if I'm really worried, I might stay away.

00:35:37.000 But generally speaking, people have to live their lives.

00:35:39.000 And this idea that we live in a bubble where risk does not exist, and the risk from COVID is gonna go down to zero before we all start taking off our masks?

00:35:46.000 Nuts.

00:35:47.000 It's not gonna happen.

00:35:47.000 Nuts.

00:35:48.000 I mean, you can see what's happening in Tampa right now.

00:35:50.000 People who don't believe they're at risk are not wearing masks.

00:35:52.000 People who believe they are at risk are wearing masks.

00:35:54.000 People who believe they're at risk are getting vaccinated.

00:35:56.000 People who believe they're not at risk are not getting vaccinated.

00:35:58.000 Turns out people have individual judgment.

00:36:00.000 But this notion that we're going to cram down mask wearing on people until the end of time, when the risk is zero, is insane.

00:36:06.000 It's insane.

00:36:07.000 And by the way, counterproductive.

00:36:09.000 Because if I have to wear a mask forever, why would I bother getting vaccinated?

00:36:12.000 As soon as I'm 37, I'm healthy.

00:36:14.000 Why bother getting vaccinated?

00:36:15.000 If I have to wear a mask forever and the mask is supposed to protect the people around me from the risk of transmission, I can just skip the shot and wear the mask if we're all going to be wearing masks until the end of time anyway. 1.00

00:36:25.000 It's idiotic PR. 1.00

00:36:26.000 It is anti-scientific. 1.00

00:36:27.000 It is ridiculous. 0.92

00:36:28.000 And this guy is the greatest doctor in the land. 0.91

00:36:29.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:36:30.000 He's the second greatest doctor in the land.

00:36:31.000 We also heard from the very, very scientific Dr. Joe Biden, the greatest of all doctors.

00:36:36.000 It goes in order.

00:36:38.000 From least great doctor to greatest doctor.

00:36:41.000 It goes like Jonas Salk, Dr. Pepper, Dr. J, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Jill Biden, who has a doctorate in education from the prestigious University of Delaware after writing a dissertation about the importance of junior college.

00:36:54.000 Here is Dr. Jill Biden informing you how you should live your life when it comes to masking.

00:37:00.000 Hi there, I'm Jill Biden here at the White House with our two dogs, Champ and Major.

00:37:05.000 For a lot of us during this pandemic, our pets have been such a source of joy and comfort, and maybe a bark or two on a video conference.

00:37:14.000 The unconditional love from a dog is one of the most beautiful things on earth, and we owe it to them to keep ourselves healthy.

00:37:21.000 So please keep wearing your mask, even when you're out walking your dog.

00:37:26.000 Right, guys?

00:37:30.000 By the way, if you're walking your dog away from people, don't wear your mask.

00:37:33.000 Seriously.

00:37:34.000 If you're 100 feet from somebody, and you're walking along on a park path, and you're wearing a mask, I don't know why you are.

00:37:42.000 There's no purpose to it.

00:37:43.000 But Dr. Jill says so, and I have been informed that she is the greatest of all doctors.

00:37:46.000 And on the list of doctors, she is the top doctor. 0.96

00:37:49.000 Like, in all of human history.

00:37:52.000 She's a more important figure in medical history than Hippocrates.

00:37:55.000 Just unbelievable importance.

00:37:59.000 The science!

00:37:59.000 Oh, the science.

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00:40:47.000 So that Biden administration really big on the science.

00:40:54.000 Speaking of which, is Joe Biden with us?

00:40:55.000 We always have to ask this because usually he's kind of not.

00:40:59.000 They can kind of get him up and wheel him around Weekend at Bernie style for like a short period of time before he starts to babble nonsense.

00:41:07.000 So yesterday he was on a COVID call with a registered nurse and he creepily started babbling about how young she looked, which by the way, if Donald Trump had done that, endless headlines about his sexism and all the rest.

00:41:17.000 But Joe Biden doesn't, he's just a charming older fellow.

00:41:19.000 Here was Joe Biden.

00:41:21.000 Saying weird things about a registered nurse.

00:41:24.000 I know that I'm trying to do everything to make this safe and efficient.

00:41:30.000 So, support, yeah.

00:41:34.000 Are you a freshman at the university?

00:41:37.000 No, no.

00:41:40.000 You look like a freshman.

00:41:45.000 She's been a registered nurse for nine years.

00:41:47.000 She's probably 30. 1.00

00:41:48.000 So no, she does not look like a 17-year-old girl. 0.99

00:41:50.000 Joe Biden, you weirdo. 0.99

00:41:52.000 You big old weirdo. 0.99

00:41:54.000 We only elect weird people to be president now. 0.98

00:41:56.000 It's just a thing.

00:41:57.000 America.

00:41:57.000 It's just a thing.

00:41:59.000 Well, speaking of the Party of Science and the Biden administration's Party of Science, so I'm just gonna note here.

00:42:04.000 So Biden's CDC director, right?

00:42:06.000 She came out yesterday and she said, you know, when Donald Trump was president, There were a few COVID guidelines, minority of COVID guidelines, that were politically impacted.

00:42:16.000 Rochelle Walensky said that Anne Schuchat, the CDC's principal deputy director and career civil servant, is in charge of the review of those regulations.

00:42:24.000 She said a vast minority of the public health agency's guidelines on how the nation should respond to the coronavirus pandemic have been, quote unquote, politically swayed by former President Donald Trump's appointees and that the agency is in the process of updating those.

00:42:34.000 So the headline became, Biden's CDC director says that a minority of COVID guidelines were politically swayed.

00:42:41.000 I'll just remind you that this week, Joe Biden completely undercut his own CDC director because she said schools can reopen without teachers being vaccinated.

00:42:49.000 And then Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, was like, well, she was just speaking in her personal capacity.

00:42:55.000 Obviously, politics no longer matter when it comes to the CDC.

00:42:57.000 They are just following to science.

00:42:59.000 Speaking of which, Norah O'Donnell did ask Joe Biden over the last couple of days, why exactly are the schools closed at this point?

00:43:05.000 And Joe Biden did not have a good answer.

00:43:07.000 About 20 million American children have not been in the classroom for nearly a year.

00:43:15.000 There's a mental health crisis happening.

00:43:17.000 There really is.

00:43:18.000 Women are dropping out of the workforce. 1.00

00:43:20.000 Is this a national emergency?

00:43:22.000 It is a national emergency.

00:43:24.000 It generally is a national emergency.

00:43:26.000 Okay, so it's a national emergency, but Joe Biden, I have a question.

00:43:29.000 If it's such a national emergency, when are we going to reopen?

00:43:32.000 Well, the answer is we're going to reopen when other teachers unions say that we can reopen, because Joe Biden does not run his own administration.

00:43:40.000 Do you think it's time for schools to reopen?

00:43:42.000 I think it's time for schools to reopen safely.

00:43:45.000 Safely.

00:43:46.000 You have to have fewer people in the classroom.

00:43:49.000 You have to have ventilation systems that have been reworked.

00:43:52.000 Our CDC commissioner is going to be coming out with science-based judgment within, I think, as early as Wednesday, as to lay out what the minimum requirements are.

00:44:02.000 Really?

00:44:03.000 You guys didn't have this ready?

00:44:04.000 Like months ago?

00:44:05.000 I was informed you were the party of science.

00:44:07.000 By the way, the Trump administration did have reopening guidelines.

00:44:10.000 They did exist.

00:44:10.000 For schools.

00:44:11.000 So I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about.

00:44:14.000 Schools in Florida, they never closed.

00:44:16.000 Schools in Europe, many of those never closed.

00:44:19.000 Schools in Israel, largely never closed.

00:44:21.000 All over, all over the world, particularly for elementary school children, the risk of transmission in elementary schools is extraordinarily low.

00:44:30.000 Very, very low.

00:44:31.000 And yet here you still have this guy because he's in hock to the teachers' unions pretending that he's speaking on behalf of the science.

00:44:35.000 It's just a lie.

00:44:37.000 Who's he really speaking on behalf of?

00:44:38.000 Randy Weingarten and the American Federation of Teachers.

00:44:41.000 There are a lot of great teachers out there, teachers who want to be in school, teachers who are doing a great job for kids. 0.74

00:44:45.000 And then there are the teachers' unions, which are bags of flaming garbage and should be illegal if they are public sector unions.

00:44:51.000 They should be illegal. 1.00

00:44:52.000 It is ridiculous.

00:44:53.000 The teachers are allowed to bargain against the interests of students and taxpayers. 0.93

00:44:58.000 And the fat cats at the top, who are earning million-dollar salaries and building giant monuments to themselves in Washington, D.C., in order to prevent children from learning, are doing nobody any favors.

00:45:08.000 The New York Times, nonetheless, has a SOP piece on Randi Weingarten from just the other day, from yesterday, talking about how she is going to work with Joe Biden to reopen schools.

00:45:19.000 Randi Weingarten.

00:45:20.000 Yeah, sure she is. 0.98

00:45:22.000 Teachers, said Ms.

00:45:23.000 Weingarten, have good reasons to be anxious.

00:45:25.000 They don't trust soap and running water will always be available in schools because sometimes they haven't been.

00:45:29.000 They don't trust that extra funding will materialize for masks, hand sanitizer, and nurses because in so many other years, budgets were cut.

00:45:35.000 Oh, probably it's that.

00:45:36.000 It can't just be that these unions are taking advantage of a really bad situation in order to bargain for more things.

00:45:42.000 By the way, undercutting the demand for their services.

00:45:44.000 The number of people who are opting for homeschooling is at record rates, record rates.

00:45:48.000 But one of the things that we have to understand about what is going on right now is that in order to gin up panic, ginning up panic about COVID is largely at this point, when vaccines are right around the corner from millions of Americans.

00:45:59.000 Millions of Americans already had them.

00:46:01.000 Ginning up panic is all about pushing the concomitant political agenda.

00:46:05.000 More power to the teachers' unions and more spending.

00:46:09.000 So you've got Jen Psaki over at the White House saying it's time to roll out these giant economic plans, $1.9 trillion in stimulus.

00:46:15.000 Now again, recognize that by most economic standards, people believe that the economic spending shortfall due to COVID this year is going to be about $450 billion.

00:46:23.000 So they're spending about four times that amount of money in order to quote unquote rectify the breach.

00:46:30.000 And in order to do this, they're now claiming that they also want to kill a bunch of jobs.

00:46:34.000 So Jen Psaki was specifically asked about fossil fuel workers because one of the things that Joe Biden has been pushing in the middle of a pandemic is new restrictions on fossil fuel development and fracking.

00:46:44.000 And Jen Psaki was asked about that. 0.95

00:46:46.000 She was asked, okay, so you want a bunch of people, Keystone XL, you want a bunch of people to lose their jobs in the middle of a pandemic.

00:46:51.000 And her answer was, how dare you, sir?

00:46:54.000 So much, how refreshing, so much transparency and factual accuracy coming from Jen Psaki.

00:47:00.000 When is it that the Biden administration is going to let the thousands of fossil fuel industry workers, whether it's pipeline workers or construction workers, who are either out of work or will soon be out of work because of a Biden EO, when it is and where it is that they can go for their green job?

00:47:19.000 And that is something the administration has promised.

00:47:22.000 There is now a gap.

00:47:24.000 So I'm just curious when that happens, when those people can count on that.

00:47:28.000 Well, I'd certainly welcome you to present your data of all the thousands and thousands of people who won't be getting a green job.

00:47:35.000 Maybe next time you're here, you can present that.

00:47:38.000 What the hell does that mean?

00:47:40.000 Well, seriously, he's asking you.

00:47:43.000 That's the question, lady.

00:47:44.000 Can you show anybody who's gotten a green job?

00:47:46.000 Because you keep saying that when somebody is laid off from a fracking job, when somebody loses their job in the Keystone XL pipeline, don't worry, they'll get a green job.

00:47:52.000 And Ducey's like, OK, so can you name them?

00:47:53.000 Like, who got a green job?

00:47:54.000 And she's like, maybe you can tell me who got a green job.

00:47:58.000 What?

00:47:59.000 I mean, I can tell you all the people who just lost their jobs at Keystone XL.

00:48:02.000 We can look up their names, and we can ask them if they are now working on windmills.

00:48:05.000 That is a possibility.

00:48:07.000 But that's not the only great Biden economic plan that is going to be propped on the back of COVID.

00:48:12.000 She says that Joe Biden wants to make sure that in this $1.9 trillion package, the national minimum wage is raised to $15.

00:48:17.000 Where did they come up with $15? 0.98

00:48:19.000 Out of Shama Sawant's butt. 0.99

00:48:22.000 Shama Sawant is a socialist from Seattle. 0.99

00:48:23.000 She's been preaching $15 minimum wage in Seattle. 0.53

00:48:26.000 Seattle, you may have noticed, is not Birmingham, Alabama.

00:48:29.000 In fact, they are two very, very different places.

00:48:30.000 And $15 minimum wage drove a lot of small businesses out of business in Seattle.

00:48:35.000 Here is Jen Psaki, however, saying it is vital in the middle of a pandemic, with unemployment at extraordinary rates, for us to raise the minimum wage to throw people out of work and create lower margins for businesses to operate.

00:48:46.000 Brilliant, brilliant stuff.

00:48:49.000 The president remains firmly committed to raising the minimum wage to $15.

00:48:54.000 That's why he put it in his first legislative proposal.

00:48:57.000 And he believes that any American who is working a full-time job, trying to make ends meet, should not be at the poverty level.

00:49:04.000 And it's important to him that the minimum wage is raised.

00:49:08.000 Okay, by the way, just legislating that somebody be paid more money does not mean that they will actually be paid more money.

00:49:13.000 Many of those people, their minimum wage will now be zero because they will be laid off, or people are just gonna put a bunch of self-checkout lines in grocery stores, which is what Kroger is going to do.

00:49:21.000 They're now experimenting with getting rid of all checkout specialists, like all of them, and they're just gonna put machines in place.

00:49:26.000 By the way, if you're not worried about any of this, Anthony Pompliano, the investor, he tweeted out, within the last 12 months, we have increased the US dollar supply by 40%, by 40%.

00:49:34.000 There will be consequences for that sort of stuff.

00:49:38.000 Okay, meanwhile, the culture wars continue apace.

00:49:41.000 So if you think that things weren't falling apart fast enough, the culture wars definitely continue apace.

00:49:46.000 The New York Times is very angry at the Super Bowl.

00:49:49.000 So every time there's a Super Bowl, and the Super Bowl is not sufficiently woke, people get super ticked off.

00:49:55.000 So Ken Belson has a long piece of the New York Times about the evils of the Super Bowl.

00:49:58.000 He says, But when it comes to topics like race, health, and safety, the league's certainty dissolves into a series of mixed messages.

00:50:02.000 First downs are measured in inches.

00:50:04.000 Air Force jets fly over stadiums just as the Star Spangled Banner reaches its peak.

00:50:08.000 But when it comes to topics like race, health, and safety, the league's certainty dissolves into a series of mixed messages.

00:50:15.000 That was the case on Sunday at the Super Bowl, the NFL's crowning game, typically watched by about 100 million viewers in the United States.

00:50:21.000 The championship game provides the league a massive platform each year to promote itself as America's corporate do-gooder with the best interests of its enormous fan base at heart.

00:50:30.000 That was harder to do this year.

00:50:32.000 On Sunday, the NFL trumpeted its support for the fight against social injustice.

00:50:35.000 The national anthem was performed by two musicians, one black and one white.

00:50:38.000 The poet Amanda Gorman, who wowed the country with her recitation of President Biden's inauguration, read an ode to three honorary captains.

00:50:45.000 It was fine.

00:50:46.000 I was like, eh, okay.

00:50:48.000 The TV announcers spoke often of the work that the league and players have done to battle racial inequities.

00:50:52.000 Yet, moments later, says the New York Times, when the Kansas City Chiefs took the field, the NFL played a recording in the reduced-capacity stadium of the made-up war cry that is a team custom.

00:51:02.000 The prompts got fans to swing their arms in a tomahawk chop, an act many find disrespectful and a perpetuation of racist stereotypes of the nation's first people.

00:51:12.000 I mean, just the brutality of the NFL.

00:51:14.000 Brutal.

00:51:14.000 Plus, no one mentioned Colin Kaepernick.

00:51:17.000 I mean, frankly, I have to admit, like Matt Walsh, I was appalled that no one mentioned Colin Kaepernick because, yes, Tom Brady cemented his status as the greatest quarterback ever to play football, but He was the second greatest quarterback to ever play football because we all know that the true greatest is the person who has been denied a slot in the NFL for years after backing up the immoral Blaine Gabbard in San Francisco, Colin Kaepernick.

00:51:39.000 We needed more Colin Kaepernick talk.

00:51:40.000 We needed more of that.

00:51:42.000 I mean, after all, Mariah Carey did tweet out, Happy Colin Kaepernick Appreciation Day.

00:51:47.000 There was no talks, says the New York Times, of the league's abysmal record hiring people of color as head coaches and general managers, or even as television cameras showed, the Chiefs' successful offensive coordinator Eric Bename, who is black, had been unable to land a head coaching position in multiple hiring cycles.

00:52:01.000 Before the game, CBS Sports showed a segment that featured Viola Davis saluting Kenny Washington, a black player who in 1946 reintegrated the NFL, which had an unofficial color barrier for 13 years.

00:52:10.000 But there was no discussion of a lawsuit brought by two former NFL players who accused the league of rigging the concussion settlement.

00:52:16.000 Well, I mean, probably that's what they should have led with at the Super Bowl.

00:52:19.000 You know, as a piece of marketing, probably they should have led with, also, we're secret racists.

00:52:22.000 I will say the NFL did its best to buy into woke nonsense.

00:52:26.000 So the NFL ran a commercial.

00:52:28.000 After the end of the Super Bowl, in which it just basically poured out a bunch of woke slogans.

00:52:36.000 So it showed one of the referees, one of the female referees, wearing a hat that said, End Racism. 0.88

00:52:40.000 That hat, by the way, did end racism.

00:52:42.000 In the history books, it will go down that in 2021, racism was ended by the hat of an NFL referee.

00:52:47.000 So lots of racism being ended right here.

00:52:50.000 Here is the NFL ad promising to end, they promised they were gonna spend $250 million to end systemic racism.

00:52:56.000 $250 million to end systemic racism.

00:52:58.000 What an amazing contribution by the NFL.

00:53:00.000 In fact, I think the NFL has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to quote-unquote ending systemic racism considering a huge percentage of the league's players are black and people in the league are being paid an exorbitant amount of money far above the average American.

00:53:12.000 So that seems like that's a good way to end systemic racism.

00:53:14.000 Nonetheless, here is the NFL pledging to do more because corporate wokeness is now a thing, gang.

00:53:21.000 To fulfill the promise of one nation, To be part of the solution.

00:53:29.000 Be part of the change.

00:53:31.000 To try harder.

00:53:34.000 Show up.

00:53:35.000 Dive in.

00:53:37.000 And stay at it.

00:53:41.000 Wow.

00:53:42.000 Amazing.

00:53:42.000 Amazing, by the way.

00:53:43.000 I'll tell you what is true.

00:53:45.000 And they've got people kneeling and saying, while the season is over, while the season is over, the fight isn't.

00:53:50.000 Ooh, yes, yes.

00:53:51.000 And it's got people raising the black power fist and all of this. 0.93

00:53:54.000 Okay.

00:53:55.000 Our fight for social justice is not.

00:53:57.000 So in any case, the NFL is doing its best to do the corporate wokeness routine, but nothing is enough for the New York Times.

00:54:02.000 Here's the reality.

00:54:03.000 The reason people watch the Super Bowl for many, many, many people, including me, the only game I watched all season was the Super Bowl.

00:54:10.000 And maybe they did the wokeness routine in the commercials.

00:54:12.000 I can tell you in the stadium, it was not really a thing.

00:54:14.000 In the stadium, the NFL really did not play that stuff up.

00:54:18.000 And they didn't play that stuff up because guess what?

00:54:19.000 When you call the American system systemically racist, and suggest that America is a deeply offensive place, and suggest that NFL players are victimized by systemic racism on a regular basis, most people sense the bullcrap in that.

00:54:32.000 Yet the culture wars continue apace.

00:54:35.000 Meanwhile, Google is running ads.

00:54:38.000 You want to talk about systemic racism?

00:54:40.000 Google is now running ads, touting their ability to search for black-owned businesses.

00:54:45.000 Now imagine for just a second that Google touted the ability to search for white-owned businesses.

00:54:52.000 Do you think that'd be something they'd be championing?

00:54:53.000 I'm seeing this on Amazon also right now.

00:54:55.000 If you go to Amazon, they will try to link you to black-owned businesses because it's Black History Month. 1.00

00:55:00.000 That's racist.

00:55:02.000 Just in its purest form, it is racist to suggest that you should shop at a business because of the skin color of its owner.

00:55:06.000 That is a racist thing.

00:55:08.000 And yet, this is something that all of corporate America is now buying into, including these social media bros who are disseminating their own information and policing how dissemination of information actually works.

00:55:19.000 Here was Google's ad touting the fact that you can now search for who owns a business by race, unironically believing that they are fighting racism in the process.

00:55:29.000 The 4-Way is a destination place.

00:55:38.000 Right here, between these walls, is a lot of history.

00:55:41.000 To have a place where you have dignity and belong, that's the legacy of the 4-Way.

00:55:51.000 identifies as Black-owned. I do like identifies as Black-owned is what pops up because that means they're not actually checking. That's what it means. They say identifies, not Black-owned, identifies as Black-owned means that somebody checked that box that it's a Black-owned business.

00:56:04.000 But I also love the implication, which is that Black-owned businesses are a place where Black people belong, but apparently white-owned businesses are not.

00:56:13.000 I mean, that's what's said in that commercial?

00:56:15.000 I mean, this is what you saw during the BLM riots, by the way.

00:56:19.000 We saw it in LA.

00:56:20.000 We saw people who were boarding up their businesses and writing on the plywood, black-owned business, which is the most racist Passover story ever, basically.

00:56:29.000 I was like, oh, maybe they will pass over my store if I just write black-owned business on the front of the store. 0.67

00:56:35.000 They're only gonna target people who are not of a particular race.

00:56:37.000 The fact that corporate America has, like, where's the unity?

00:56:40.000 Is this unity?

00:56:41.000 Really, is that unity?

00:56:43.000 I think people should patronize black-owned businesses, and white-owned businesses, and Asian-owned businesses.

00:56:47.000 In fact, I think people should patronize all of the businesses that they think are good.

00:56:50.000 That's pretty much it.

00:56:51.000 That is my, is that standard terrible?

00:56:53.000 It seems like a pretty good standard to me.

00:56:56.000 And yet we have an entire corporate infrastructure that is devoted to the idea of a racial segregation that we were supposed to abhor and should abhor.

00:57:06.000 Pretty impressive stuff.

00:57:08.000 Meanwhile, turmoil continues inside the newsroom over at the New York Times.

00:57:12.000 A great piece over at the Washington Free Beacon by Aaron Siberian.

00:57:15.000 We talked yesterday about this story from the New York Times.

00:57:18.000 When you talk about the complete takeover of institutions by the woke culture, The New York Times has been taken over.

00:57:23.000 It's been destroyed.

00:57:24.000 Nicole Hannah-Jones is the de facto editor over there.

00:57:26.000 As I said yesterday, Nicole Hannah-Jones is not a journalist.

00:57:28.000 She's an activist, and she's a bad person. 1.00

00:57:30.000 And Nicole Hannah-Jones basically just got a man fired for having said the N-word in the context of explaining a story in which the N-word was the key part. 1.00

00:57:40.000 By the way, she has tweeted out using the N-word before herself, right, in discussing a story, as we'll see.

00:57:45.000 So Aaron Siberian writes this over at the Washington Free Beacon.

00:57:48.000 The resignation of star New York Times science writer Donald McNeil Jr.

00:57:51.000 has sparked a furious back and forth among Times staffers, many of whom are outraged over the Gray Lady's handling of his departure.

00:57:57.000 The Washington Free Beacon reviewed a series of postings to a Facebook group for current and former Times staffers, where a tense debate is unfolding over McNeil's exit.

00:58:05.000 One camp asserts that his dismissal was justified, another asserts it sets a troubling precedent, which the New York Times union should have done more to prevent.

00:58:13.000 Whatever happens in the notion of worker solidarity to giving a fellow worker the benefit of the doubt, asked Stephen Greenhouse, who spent three decades covering labor issues for the New York Times.

00:58:20.000 Why didn't the News Guild, that's the union, do far more to defend and protect the job of a longtime Times employee, one who at times did tireless heroic work on behalf of the Guild to help improve pay and conditions for all New York Times employees?

00:58:33.000 Times crossword columnist Deb Amlin accused Greenhouse of an excessive focus on the perpetrator, arguing that he and others should shift their attention to the people McNeil had harmed.

00:58:43.000 By the way, there's no evidence that McNeil actually harmed anybody.

00:58:45.000 He was literally asked a question about whether a person in high school should be canceled for at 12 using the n-word, and he said, was the person saying bleep in the context of a rap song or not?

00:58:55.000 That is the sin that he was fired for, essentially.

00:58:59.000 When asked about this, Deb Amelin said, McNeil's ouster came nearly two years after the incident that precipitated it.

00:59:11.000 While chaperoning high school students on a pricey trip to Peru, the science reporter responded to a question from a student about whether one of her classmates should have been suspended for using the N-word.

00:59:19.000 In the process, he uttered the offending syllables himself.

00:59:21.000 An Internal Times investigation found his judgment wanting, but stopped short of firing him.

00:59:26.000 We talked about this yesterday.

00:59:27.000 What an absurd standard that is.

00:59:27.000 And we're not gonna look to the intent of language.

00:59:29.000 If you say a racial slur to say, the word bleep is bad and evil.

00:59:30.000 Neil pushed out.

00:59:31.000 We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent, said Dean Beckett.

00:59:35.000 We talked about this yesterday.

00:59:36.000 What an absurd standard that is.

00:59:37.000 And we're not going to look to the intent of language.

00:59:40.000 If you say a racial slur to say the word bleep is bad and evil.

00:59:44.000 If you say that, but you say the word that's racist language regardless of intent.

00:59:49.000 Which is nuts.

00:59:50.000 Nuts.

00:59:50.000 By the way, the pipeline for the Daily Beast, this is how the Daily Beast works, obviously.

00:59:54.000 They have a reporter over there named Maxwell Townie.

00:59:56.000 Whenever somebody in the media, a woke staffer, gets mad, they email Maxwell Townie.

01:00:00.000 Maxwell Townie then runs a piece about how the woke staffers are mad.

01:00:02.000 The editors at the offending paper start prostrating themselves before the woke staffers, and then the woke staffers stomp on their neck.

01:00:09.000 That's the way this process works.

01:00:12.000 McNeil's resignation on Friday and Baquette's post-hoc explanation that intent doesn't matter renewed the bitter debate among staff with reporters warring with each other in public and private, says the Free Beacon.

01:00:21.000 A Times spokeswoman muddied the waters further on Sunday, telling the Free Beacon that racial epithets had no, quote, place in the newspaper.

01:00:27.000 The paper, as the Free Beacon notes, printed the same epithet last week in a magazine profile of Princeton Classics professor Don L. Padilla-Peralta.

01:00:36.000 Even in ironic or self-mocking quotations about a speaker's own group in rap lyrics, for example, their use erodes the worthy inhibition against brutality in public discourse, said Danielle Rhodes-Ha.

01:00:45.000 That was the spokesperson for the paper.

01:00:47.000 She declined to say if that policy extends to social media, where other New York Times writers, including Nicole Hannah-Jones and Asted Herndon, have quoted the slur.

01:00:55.000 So, for example, back in 2016, Hannah-Jones wrote, Larry Wilmore did not say you did it, my n-word.

01:01:02.000 She said there's a linguistic difference between the N-word with an ER at the end and the N-word with an A at the end.

01:01:07.000 So the Washington Free Beacon asked Hannah Jones whether intent made a difference in her case, because of course this is the standard she's been pushing.

01:01:13.000 Racist language doesn't require intent.

01:01:15.000 If you say the N-word, it is racist. 0.66

01:01:17.000 You ought to be fired.

01:01:18.000 She responded by posting the reporter's inquiry, including his cell phone number on Twitter, in direct violation of the website's terms of service.

01:01:25.000 You think she's going to be suspended? 1.00

01:01:26.000 Yeah, I don't think so.

01:01:27.000 I don't think so.

01:01:30.000 Greenhouse argued staffers who went after McNeil, including Hannah Jones and race reporter John Elgin, had their priorities backward.

01:01:35.000 Many of them, he wrote, were, quote, far more willing to sympathize with these privileged 15- and 16-year-olds than with a longtime colleague who has done much great work for The Times over the years. 0.98

01:01:44.000 When one Times reporter posted a statement from a nonprofit literary organization called PEN calling McNeil's ouster chilling, What if they just think that you're a schmuck? 0.98

01:01:51.000 You personally. 1.00

01:01:51.000 Not people like you in terms of race, but maybe like you and people who act like you are schmucks. 1.00

01:01:54.000 How about that? 1.00

01:01:54.000 lovely to your face are actually thinking or saying about you or people like you behind your back. 1.00

01:01:59.000 What if they just think that you're a schmuck? 1.00

01:02:01.000 You personally, not people like you in terms of race, but maybe like you and people who act like you are schmucks. 1.00

01:02:06.000 How about that? 1.00

01:02:07.000 Because you are.

01:02:10.000 Apparently according to the free beacon, the lack of clear standards has generated frustration I don't think anybody feels like we have any clarity about what happened with this incident or other alleged incidents, said one New York Times reporter.

01:02:21.000 We demand transparency of other people.

01:02:23.000 We don't have it in our own processes, but this is the point.

01:02:25.000 When it comes to the woke, there is no standard to meet. 0.99

01:02:28.000 Understand?

01:02:29.000 There's no standard at all.

01:02:30.000 There's no neutral standard.

01:02:32.000 The point is the changing standard. 1.00

01:02:34.000 The point is that you can do everything right and still have it come back and bite you directly on the ass. 1.00

01:02:39.000 That is the standard. 0.99

01:02:40.000 The standard is, will you do all the things they want you to do at precisely the time they want you to do it?

01:02:45.000 And will you atone when they demand atonement?

01:02:47.000 And then will they continue to hold it over your head?

01:02:48.000 And if they do, you need more atonement.

01:02:50.000 That is the standard.

01:02:52.000 Because this has nothing to do with ideological consistency or even a consistent philosophy.

01:02:57.000 All this has to do with is sheer power.

01:02:59.000 Nikole Hannah-Jones has it at the New York Times, and nobody who's honest at the New York Times does.

01:03:03.000 It is that simple.

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The Senate Impeachment Trial Begins | Ep. 1191

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