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00:01:35.000Okay, so late last night, President Trump tweeted out that he was going to allow Emily Murphy, who is the head of the General Services Administration, to move forward with the transition for Joe Biden.
00:01:44.000This doesn't mean he has dropped his legal challenges.
00:01:46.000It does mean that he is not going to be, as I have suggested before, holing up in the Oval Office, snorting blow and firing machine guns through the door, A la the most fevered fantasies of the members of the media.
00:01:58.000Members of the media were under the grave misimpression that President Trump was going to string barbed wire around the White House, and they were going to get the glorious image of people with uniforms and guns going in and frog-marching Trump out of the White House.
00:02:10.000This was always wish fulfillment by Democrats.
00:02:38.000Nevertheless, in the best interest of our country, I'm recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and have told my team to do the same, which of course is the appropriate move, right?
00:02:47.000He gets to move forward with all of his legal challenges.
00:02:50.000This thing doesn't get voted on until December 14th.
00:02:52.000He gets to move forward and show whatever evidence he has in court.
00:02:55.000The cases are not going well so far, but theoretically they could reverse.
00:02:58.000But in the meantime, he is not holding up the transition of power that is supposed to happen.
00:03:03.000Now the way the Washington Post suggests is that Emily Murphy had done something deeply wrong by not starting the transition earlier.
00:03:09.000The problem, of course, is that none of the states had certified their votes as of last week.
00:03:12.000Now the states are starting to certify their votes.
00:03:14.000The electors don't even meet until the middle of December.
00:03:17.000So she really did not have any legal grounds to do so without the formal concession of the President of the United States in the race.
00:03:23.000She is a person who holds a government office and she is bound by the law.
00:03:28.000And until the president concedes, which basically makes everything else a formality, she can't start the transition.
00:03:32.000Trump giving her permission to start the transition allows the process to go forward.
00:03:35.000The Washington Post, of course, plays this as though she had done something deeply wrong by not unilaterally starting the transition, even though she really does not have the power legally to do so.
00:03:44.000According to the Washington Post, Murphy, a by-the-book expert in federal procurement policy, consulted with her senior staff and her attorneys, the transition law dating to 1963 that was supposed to guide her in determining when a candidate had won, had little to offer in the current case, with the president refusing to concede and a Republican party standing by him.
00:04:00.000Well, no, actually, it's just that the legal process Moving forward was just supposed to be that the votes get certified and none of the states had certified their votes yet.
00:04:08.000So again, if Trump had conceded, then she would have moved the transition forward.
00:04:10.000Now he's given her permission, and so she's moving the transition forward.
00:04:13.000The media are trying to play this as though Trump was trying to stop her from moving the transition forward.
00:04:18.000He just was not giving her the permission to move the transition forward, which was Necessary, because she doesn't have any other legal authority.
00:04:23.000She does work for the executive branch.
00:04:25.000She did write a letter to Joe Biden, and she said, She said she received a lot of threats.
00:04:28.000adult life to public service. I've always strived to do what is right. Please know I came to my decision independently based on the law and available facts.
00:04:34.000I was never directly or indirectly pressured by any executive branch official, including those who work at the White House or GSA with regard to the substance or timing of my decision.
00:04:41.000To be clear, I did not receive any direction to delay my determination. She said she received a lot of threats. She said I always remained committed to upholding the law. Of course, it is her job to make sure that post-election resources and services are available to assist in the event of a presidential transition.
00:04:56.000But of course, the media declaring somebody president-elect does not formally make them, by law, president-elect of the United States.
00:05:02.000So in any case, the transition is beginning to move forward.
00:05:06.000In the meantime, President Trump continues to move forward with his legal challenges.
00:05:12.000Last night, the Michigan State Board of Canvassers voted to certify the state's election results.
00:05:15.000That is a board that is made up of two Republicans and two Democrats.
00:05:20.000One of the two Republican members of the Michigan State Canvassing Board, Aaron Van Langeveld, joined the two Democrats to vote to certify the election results.
00:05:29.000The state's highly anticipated certification was the latest in a series of episodes over the past week that have reinforced Biden's victory, even as Trump has refused to concede.
00:05:38.000Also in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court.
00:05:42.000Rejected the Trump campaign's effort to block the counting of certain absentee ballots, clearing the way for votes to be certified in multiple counties, including Philadelphia.
00:05:49.000The county that includes Philadelphia did certify its vote last night and of course last week.
00:05:54.000The Republican governor and secretary of state in Georgia certified the state's election results, although there will be another recount that is going to happen in Georgia.
00:06:01.000As well, the Georgia secretary of state's office, according to Daily Wire, announced the additional recounts on Monday evening during a press conference.
00:06:07.000The Trump campaign criticized Georgia's first recount, which took place over the course of last week.
00:06:11.000and uncovered two errors worth thousands of votes each on Saturday.
00:06:15.000The Trump campaign is legally entitled to a recount upon request with the cost of such an operation covered by Georgia state and local governments, according to Politico.
00:06:22.000The Trump campaign is calling for some sort of re-examination of the ballots based on the signatures on the mail ballot envelopes.
00:06:29.000That's going to be kind of difficult because originally, when you look at the mail ballot envelopes, the signatures are compared and then the envelopes are thrown away.
00:06:35.000So it's not like that evidence still exists at this point.
00:06:38.000Georgia's going to end up certifying the election.
00:06:41.000Meanwhile, the Trump campaign continues to try and move forward with its own legal theory.
00:06:48.000Rudy Giuliani spelled out that legal theory a little bit yesterday.
00:08:29.000Rudy Giuliani is struggling to sort of explain the legal strategy moving forward.
00:08:34.000So obviously the Trump legal team dumped Sidney Powell the other day because Sidney Powell had been making wilder and wilder accusations about the hacking of voting machines and the suggestion was that millions of votes were switched.
00:08:45.000Trump had won 80 million votes, not 73 million votes.
00:08:47.000That the Dominion voting machines had actually been hacked because Smartmatic was originally a Venezuelan company.
00:08:52.000It was a bit of an extreme theory, and then she got even more extreme, suggesting that basically candidates were paying Dominion in order to hack into the machines, or they'd been paid by Dominion to allow the hacking of the machines.
00:09:03.000And so just a couple of days ago, the Trump campaign dumped Sidney Powell on the side of the road, and they said, we are no longer working with her.
00:09:10.000And then she said she's still going to release a Kraken.
00:09:11.000This time the Kraken is going to be taking steroids, as well as presumably some other form of analgesic.
00:09:22.000I think it's because we're pursuing two different theories.
00:09:26.000Our theory of the case, to get to the Supreme Court, now in four places, and it's soon going to be in two others, and there'll be an overall lawsuit, is basically misconduct of the election by state officials in at least five or six different states, in which the misconduct of the election involves deprivation of constitutional rights for the president.
00:09:50.000Okay, he then added that they still have a legal strategy.
00:09:53.000That strategy is looking at the various voter irregularities and voter fraud cases.
00:09:57.000The big problem, again, as it was in Pennsylvania, is going to be proving that the voter irregularities, the voter process, the voter fraud cases, that those amount to enough of a problem that state election results, as currently counted, should be overturned.
00:10:09.000Or a couple of affidavits in which people said that their ballots weren't properly counted.
00:10:12.000The proper remedy would be to have their ballots counted, not to invalidate millions of votes.
00:10:15.000This is what the judge in that particular case said.
00:10:17.000They have the same problem in Michigan.
00:10:19.000Presumably they'll have the same problem in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada, wherever else they decide to file these lawsuits.
00:10:24.000You have to show that the voter fraud and voter irregularity, the proper remedy would be to set aside the election results and instead have the state lawmakers select the electors to the electoral college.
00:11:12.000One fair decision, one good hearing, and this will turn all around.
00:11:15.000Okay, so the legal process continues to work.
00:11:17.000This is why the Trump team has filed a lawsuit with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals asking for leave to amend their original complaint in that district court and then be remanded back to district courts.
00:11:27.000It's going to go back down before it goes back up.
00:11:29.000All of the states are going to certify by December 8th, so obviously the timeline here is quite short.
00:11:33.000Meanwhile, there have been calls from some people, like Lynn Wood in Georgia, for Republicans in Georgia to somehow boycott the Georgia senatorial election, which is the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my entire life.
00:11:42.000If you're a Republican in Georgia, and you're angry about President Trump's treatment, and you believe that President Trump was somehow jobbed in Georgia, Okay, I don't see how the solution is for you to boycott an election in which two Democrats could be elected.
00:11:54.000John Ossoff, a radical progressive, and Raphael Warnock, who's an actual nut.
00:11:58.000They could be elected, and they could theoretically, if one of them, if both of them were elected, Democrats would then have a 50-50 split in the Senate of the United States, and if Joe Biden ends up taking office on January 20th, which Right now, it appears he probably will.
00:12:11.000If that happens, then Joe Biden ends up presiding over a Democrat-run Senate with Kamala Harris breaking the tie.
00:12:17.000If you are a Republican in Georgia, get your ass out and vote.
00:12:31.000He's saying, if you think that you're helping my dad somehow by not voting in the Georgia senatorial elections, you're falling for a scam.
00:12:38.000Trump said, I'm seeing a lot of talk from people who are supposed to be on our side telling GOP voters not to go out and vote for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
00:13:22.000Okay, so regardless of what you think happened in the presidential election, please do not stay home in some sort of fit of pique and hand the Senate of the United States to the Democrats.
00:13:31.000That is like the dumbest thing that you can do.
00:13:34.000Now, the dumbest take from the media this morning has come courtesy of friends on the never-Trump left as well as the actual left.
00:13:43.000These are people who have now suggested that because Donald Trump has allowed the GSA to move forward with some of its transitional processes, they stopped the coup.
00:13:50.000So understand, These were people who were shouting from the rooftops that a coup was in progress, that America was in the midst of a constitutional crisis.
00:14:04.000250 years of American history was all going to stop because Donald Trump would refuse to leave the office and we'd have a constitutional crisis and then we'd have to deploy the A hundred and first airborne to the White House in order to read.
00:14:16.000It'll be White House down, except it'll be Trump in the role of the baddies.
00:14:36.000Now, as I said all along, the reason they had to keep saying this over and over and over, despite the fact that it was pretty obvious there was a legal process and that, in fact, it is not unconstitutional, nor is it illegal for a president to avail himself of the legal process.
00:15:02.000And as I said all along, the process will play out.
00:15:04.000But the media were fully invested in the line that the entire republic was going to come to a crushing halt because President Trump was such an evil bad man.
00:15:12.000The reason they had to say that is because they have blown all of their credibility for years on the principle that Donald Trump is an evil, nefarious fascist.
00:15:24.000It would completely undermine their narrative.
00:15:26.000It would undermine the excuse they've been using for years to come out of the closet as full-scale leftists while pretending that they are still acting in objective defense of the United States from this incipient Thorn Chitler.
00:15:36.000So they had to continue maintaining that myth.
00:15:37.000It was necessary for them to continue maintaining the myth.
00:15:40.000So how do they maintain the myth in face of the fact that President Trump has now authorized the GSA to begin transitional processes in lieu of final legal outcome?
00:15:48.000How do they actually maintain the myth that Trump is a Hitlerian fascist?
00:15:51.000Who is going to seize power, the reins of power?
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00:17:48.000I mean, there's no other way to put this.
00:17:49.000The man, he is fully committed to a peculiarly radical style of American politics in which all of his opponents are badly motivated, which is, it's both morally corrupt and idiotic in the extreme.
00:18:02.000Anyway, Jamal Bowie, he got angry because Zaid Jalani, who is a commentator on Twitter, pointed out, what was predicted?
00:18:10.000Mass election, violence, chaos, and the end of democracy.
00:18:23.000Now, we all know what was going to happen if Trump won, right?
00:18:25.000I mean, if Trump won, there are going to be riots in the streets.
00:18:27.000There are businesses boarding up in LA, DC, New York.
00:18:30.000Okay, but then Biden appeared to win, and suddenly everybody calmed down, and so they had to come up with a new crisis to focus in on, and the crisis was the crisis of democracy.
00:18:38.000Okay, so Jamel Bui responds to this obvious truth, which is that everybody was preemptively panicking for no reason.
00:18:43.000By saying this, The earnest attempt to subvert and overturn the election didn't pan out, so the people who urged vigilance were being hysterical.
00:18:49.000Is probably going to be conventional wisdom for the professional contrarian set.
00:18:53.000Well, um, hold up, um, well, no, you were being hysterical.
00:19:00.000So instead, I guess the argument is that, according to Jamel Bui, the coup was going to happen except that Jamel Bui tweeted about it and then it didn't happen.
00:19:07.000Which is really exciting news, is that people on Twitter tweeting about things, it makes change happen.
00:19:12.000It's very flattering to the To the commentary set to believe that if you tweet loudly enough about things, they magically occur.
00:19:18.000So the coup was about to happen, but then Jamal Bowie tweeted and wrote in the New York Times about how the coup was about to happen, and then Trump uncouped.
00:19:25.000Or, alternatively, you guys are radical morons.
00:19:28.000Hey, David Frum, another radical moron.
00:19:30.000And not radical in politics, just radical in his stupidity at this point.
00:19:33.000He tweeted out, perhaps some excited person did overreact to something.
00:20:19.000Federal judges struck down lawsuits that they didn't think had an evidentiary basis.
00:20:22.000You saw Republicans saying that votes were going to be certified, and the votes were certified.
00:20:28.000So wasn't David Frum and his cadre of malcontents sitting there and rage-tweeting through the night about how this was an assault on democracy and it was the end of everything and this was going to be like Pinochet taking power?
00:20:40.000Okay, all of that was crap and you guys got humiliated because it was crap and now you're insisting that the only reason it didn't happen is because you were rage-tweeting about it.
00:20:53.000He tweeted out, The idea that people who predicted the very worst outcomes are actually just vigilant is insane.
00:20:58.000In the days before the election, I had multiple people tell me Biden would win, but that it would be stolen and that armed militias would kill thousands of people in the streets.
00:21:08.000Has it ever been in doubt that Biden would be inaugurated on January 20th?
00:21:11.000Literally for months before the election, media made it seem that actual revolutions and bleep were possible.
00:21:18.000He says that there's a radio lab from right before the election, which you can dig up yourself, where they say it might come down to who the military thinks should get the nuclear codes.
00:21:24.000Like what the eff game of pretend is this?
00:21:26.000People believe this bleep because media places say it.
00:21:30.000He says, one man's paranoid catastrophizer is another man's just being vigilant.
00:21:52.000Trump was never at any point going to seize power in a coup requiring the military to kick him out.
00:21:58.000That was always something that the left wanted to see because it would have fulfilled their picture of who Trump was and who Trump's supporters are by extension.
00:22:04.000Because, you see, for the left, they have not been doing particularly well in these elections.
00:22:09.000He only won because the media spent four years basically consigning Trump to the bowels of hell while ignoring Joe Biden's actual record on every available issue and the media lying about every available narrative and Trump shooting himself in the foot a lot.
00:22:48.000If you paint Trump as the world's deepest threat, that means that you also get to paint his voters as the world's deepest threat.
00:22:54.000And you get to paint half the country as terrible, terrible people, which of course makes leftists feel better about not being able to win over those people.
00:23:01.000And you hear Sonny Hostin saying this.
00:23:04.000I think Trumpism is here to stay, quite frankly.
00:23:07.000Like you said, Whoopi and Joy, over 70 million people voted for him in spite of the fact that they knew that he was racist and misogynist, transphobic, homophobic.
00:23:23.000Um, and it just, it just seems to me that that, uh, people's hearts and minds don't change that quickly.
00:23:29.000And if we stop talking about President Trump, then, you know, I'm always fearful that past becomes prologue, right?
00:23:36.000Ah, so they're just gonna continue talking about President Trump because of course, it allows them a prism to castigate all of Trump's supporters as ignorant bigots.
00:23:43.000And that's really the end goal here, isn't it?
00:23:45.000The longer you can portray Trump as a dictator, even though he started the process of transition with the GSA, without having conceded the election even, the longer you can continue to portray everybody who disagrees with you as a morally benighted fool.
00:23:57.000Really solid stuff here from the media and from the left.
00:23:59.000We'll get to more of that in just one second because this is sort of media conventional wisdom.
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00:25:17.000Okay, so the entire media has jumped into this narrative that even though Trump has started the sort of transitional process, And this means that he was going to be a dictator, and he should never work with Republicans because Republicans are bad.
00:25:28.000Don Lemon on CNN, a very objective journalist, starts journalism-ing everywhere.
00:25:32.000The journalism was getting pretty much all over the place here.
00:25:34.000Here he was with block of wood Chris Cuomo explaining there should never be any unity with Republicans because Republicans are bad because they were going to be complicit in a coup that never happened and was never going to happen.
00:25:45.000How do you come to some sort of compromise or an agreement with a person who doesn't believe in science, a person who doesn't believe in facts, a person who doesn't believe in reality?
00:25:55.000How do you come to some sort of agreement that you don't care enough about maybe yourself or you don't care enough about someone else that you just can't put a little piece of cloth over your face?
00:26:05.000I don't know where the compromise and the come-togethering, I know that's not where that's going to come from.
00:26:11.000You can't compromise with these people.
00:26:16.000Again, the idea here from the media is that everybody who disagrees with them is morally bad, is morally bankrupt.
00:26:22.000And the way you can tell this is because Trump is morally bad and morally bankrupt.
00:26:25.000As Trump said, and it was the truest thing that he said in all of his years in politics, they don't hate him.
00:26:31.000They don't hate you because they hate Trump.
00:26:32.000If you support Trump, they don't hate you because they hate Trump.
00:26:34.000They hate Trump because they hate you.
00:26:35.000He's just a stand-in for their hatred of you because you think differently.
00:26:39.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden has started selecting his cabinet and it's amazing to watch how the media in real time switch from Donald Trump is awful and he's a swamp creature and he's corrupt and he's compromised to, you know, it'd be great again like the old Washington parties with the schmoozing and everything.
00:26:56.000Because basically Joe Biden is just the swamp.
00:26:58.000And we've known this for a very long time.
00:26:59.000He's a conventional politician going back 50 years.
00:27:34.000The aristocracy of the city is ready to move on, daring to hope that the last four years was a fever that finally broke and life can get back to normal.
00:27:40.000Now, a lot of us are thinking to ourselves, back to normal means the same cast of liars who occupied high positions of power and in flowered and honeyed language spoke soft promises into our ears that were never fulfilled, sold out the interests of the United States to powers adverse to the interests of the United States.
00:28:03.000Trump didn't fix all of those problems, but he did blow up a lot of the conventional wisdom that dominated, particularly in the foreign policy circles of Washington, D.C., and that was quite good because it ended with China feeling more confronted than ever.
00:28:47.000They're looking back to life getting back to normal, the aristocracy of the city.
00:28:50.000Normal, as in a respect for experience and expertise.
00:28:53.000Normal, as in civility and bipartisan cooperation.
00:28:55.000Normal, as in not wanting to punch someone in the face.
00:28:58.000At the center of this hope is President-elect Biden, moderate by nature, attuned to the rhythms of the town, eager to bring people back together.
00:29:30.000Joe Biden was saying that he wanted to re-enslave black people just eight years ago.
00:29:34.000As far as not wanting to punch somebody in the face, you may have noticed that the people who are largely doing the punching in the face are the people who say it's time to punch Nazis and then declare that all Trump supporters are Nazis.
00:29:43.000But it's back to normal, guys, and the media have decided that it's time to stop worrying and be happy and love the swamp.
00:29:51.000According to the Washington Post, at the heart of this optimism is the belief that politicians on both sides of the aisle get more accomplished when they like each other.
00:29:58.000And the other business of Washington, the cultural institutions, the diplomatic core, the gala fundraisers, the hundreds of historical traditions need bipartisanship to really thrive.
00:30:06.000They struggled during the Trump administration when everything became a test of loyalty and the notion that good people could disagree without being disagreeable was laughable.
00:30:12.000Again, Donald Trump did not create those conditions in Washington, D.C.
00:30:17.000Donald Trump was the coroner of American politics.
00:30:19.000Bipartisanship died during the Obama era.
00:30:22.000George W. Bush pursued No Child Left Behind.
00:30:25.000He pursued Medicare Part D. George W. Bush actually did pursue bipartisan cooperation, and then the Democrats spat in his face from 2006 on and suggested that he was evil, nefarious Bush-Hitler who wanted to destroy the economy and murder Iraqis.
00:30:38.000And then Obama came in and proceeded to never do a single piece of serious bipartisan legislation, not one.
00:30:44.000You cannot name a serious piece of bipartisan legislation that Barack Obama did.
00:30:47.000The only thing you can name that he did with Republicans was sequestration, which ended with the gutting of the American military.
00:30:53.000That is the only major thing that Obama ever did.
00:30:56.000And he spent his entire career castigating the other side as covert racist.
00:31:00.000If you read his stupid autobiography, his latest 1 million page tome about how wonderful he is and how disappointed he is in you and the rest of America, The entire book is about how everybody who opposed him is either stupid or racist or both.
00:31:12.000The Tea Party was just a bunch of racists.
00:31:14.000And yet we're being told by Washington, we're going to go back to that normal.
00:31:17.000That normal was a time when you all got along, don't you know?
00:31:19.000That normal was a time when bipartisanship thrived.
00:31:22.000If you can explain to me how bipartisanship thrived when Barack Obama literally declared he couldn't get anything done, so he was going to use a pen and a phone to overwrite his constitutional powers, then more power to you because it doesn't make any sense.
00:31:45.000Typically, a night of mutual goodwill between the administration and the press that covers it became an awkward defense of the First Amendment.
00:31:50.000Sometimes tense when comedian Michelle Wolf eviscerated Sarah Sanders.
00:31:53.000Well, I mean, actually, she called her ugly.
00:31:55.000Sometimes lackluster when Ron Chernow was recruited to speak the following year.
00:31:58.000Oh, you mean the White House Correspondents Dinner that spent its time making jokes about how wonderful Obama was and how terrible Bush was?
00:32:06.000It means more state dinners, a prestigious, glamorous way of reestablishing global ties.
00:32:10.000Oh, you mean the aristocrats are back and they get to have black tie dinners with foreign dignitaries while people in the United States can't go back to work because Democrats are locking down their cities.
00:32:21.000It also means that Washington events traditionally attended by the President and First Lady, the Honors, the Alfalfa Dinner, the Gridiron, Ford Theater's Gala, the Correspondents' Dinner, will likely return to their former glory.
00:32:45.000We'll get to more of this because this is how Biden is staffing his cabinet as well.
00:32:49.000If you thought that the old normal was great, then I'm sure you will enjoy a Joe Biden administration.
00:32:53.000If you thought the old normal sucked, get ready for more of it because here it comes down the pike.
00:32:57.000The fully corrupt, fully establishment, bad conventional wisdom.
00:33:02.000Hang out with all of your bipartisan cronies in pursuing bigger government and violating the rights of individual Americans.
00:33:08.000That's exciting stuff because the really important thing is that we have the veneer of nicety atop the roiling The roiling chaos of American politics.
00:33:17.000Not that we'd be honest about our actual divisions in the country.
00:33:19.000We can never be honest about our actual divisions.
00:33:20.000Instead, we'll go back to a time when the President of the United States subtly suggested that everybody who opposed his big government agenda was a sick, a sick bastard.
00:33:29.000But that'll be good because, I mean, then it'll be, you know, back to nicety.
00:33:32.000I mean, then you'll have like Joe Biden who speaks with like a bit more flowery tone.
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00:35:44.000It's so tiresome to go from Donald Trump is the font of all evil to all the people who sucked at politics for decades on end.
00:35:50.000I mean, John Kerry has not just been wrong on every major political decision of his entire career.
00:35:55.000He also happens to be, going all the way back to his lying testimony during the Vietnam War, a very not good person.
00:36:02.000John Kerry is a historic figure according to CNN.
00:36:05.000If you trust CNN, honestly, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
00:36:09.000And if you don't trust CNN, cut your damn cable and get Daily Wire, or go get The Blaze, or go get a subscription to some other news service because, I mean, these people are just awful.
00:36:18.000A historic first at the Department of Homeland Security.
00:36:22.000President-elect Biden is saying he will indeed nominate Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:36:27.000He'll be the first immigrant and Latino, if confirmed, to serve as the head of DHS, as well as the Director of National Intelligence.
00:36:35.000Another historic pick there, Avril Haines.
00:36:37.000Biden has whittled down the list to former Fed Chair Janet Yellen or current Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard.
00:36:46.000Now, both of these women would make a historic appointment, the first woman Treasury Secretary.
00:36:53.000OK, so I'm just just going to point out here that there have been Hispanic people who have served in high positions in the Trump administration.
00:37:01.000And by the way, painting Janet Yellen as historic is absurd.
00:37:05.000I mean, Janet Yellen headed the Federal Reserve for years and years and years.
00:37:08.000Okay, is she significantly more powerful if we appoint her the head of the Treasury Department?
00:37:40.000I mean, you won't have Donald Trump to beat up on, so your ratings are going to decline markedly, but still, you'll have your happy day.
00:37:45.000Your happy day, where you can just go and hang out with Joe Biden and ask him softball questions, and he can mumble his way through an answer that doesn't make any sense and start talking about corn pop, and then you can have yourself a great, great time.
00:38:01.000Well, according to Politico, it's a team of careerists.
00:38:04.000Oh, yeah, you mean all the old people.
00:38:06.000All the people who they had, like, five minutes ago.
00:38:09.000The most prominent appointment President-elect Joe Biden, according to Politico, has made for his new White House team is Chief of Staff Ron Klain, a longtime Biden advisor who went to Harvard Law School and won a prestigious Supreme Court clerkship.
00:38:18.000The most prominent appointment he has made so far to his cabinet is Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken, a longtime Biden advisor who went to Harvard as an undergrad and then moved through the Washington Foreign Policy Establishment.
00:38:29.000How about Jake Sullivan, the choice to lead the National Security Council, a previous Biden advisor who went to Yale?
00:38:34.000And then there's Bruce Reed, who's been talked about.
00:38:38.000His choice for Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, is not a longtime Biden advisor, but she served as head of the Federal Reserve throughout the entirety of the Obama administration.
00:38:46.000So basically, he's bringing back all of these people and people are, oh, wow, it's transformational, isn't it?
00:39:06.000OK, so let's go through some of the people that that Biden has now selected for his cabinet.
00:39:11.000So some of the people that Biden has selected for his cabinet, it is basically the same old faces who blew it the first time around, who sucked at their jobs the first time around.
00:39:20.000OK, Antony Blinken, he's better than Susan Rice because a bag of flaming hot dog crap is better than Susan Rice would be as Secretary of State.
00:39:27.000I mean, Susan Rice lied repeatedly to the American people about Benghazi.
00:39:31.000She happened to be radically anti-Israel.
00:39:32.000She's been wrong on every major foreign policy issue, and she has scorned for half the American population.
00:40:24.000And we know they're right all along because they are the conventional wisdom.
00:40:27.000I mean, they wouldn't be called the conventional wisdom if they weren't wise, right?
00:40:31.000I mean, Antony Blinken in 2012 spoke at the J Street conference.
00:40:33.000J Street is a radically anti-Israel group opposing as a pro-Israel group simply so that Democrats can pretend they're pro-Israel by speaking to J Street, which again has opposed every element of Israeli security since its inception.
00:40:44.000It was specifically created as a counter to AIPAC because the Democrats thought that AIPAC was It was also conventional wisdom.
00:40:49.000this bull crap group of people who really don't like Israel very much. So Blinken spoke to them and he suggested that Israelis and Palestinians could only make peace if they actually started making peace agreements between themselves. The Arabs would never make peace without the Israelis making peace with the Palestinians. That of course was absolutely false. It was also conventional wisdom. It was absolutely false. Blinken in 2017 was still maintaining the Iran deal was absolutely fantastic. Even though Iran has spent
00:41:17.000the better part of all of its time since the Iran deal fostering terrorism.
00:41:21.000And it was only the renewed sanctions against Iran that undercut its economy and helped create the impetus for an alliance in the Middle East between Arab states and Israel, including Saudi Arabia.
00:41:30.000Benjamin Netanyahu went and visited Saudi Arabia yesterday.
00:41:32.000Here's Antony Blinken being absolutely wrong about the Iran deal.
00:41:36.000If you ask the Israeli military or intelligence community today whether we should pull out of the deal, you will get a resounding no.
00:41:45.000And in fact, many of them have acknowledged to us, some will actually say this publicly, others won't, that it has removed a significant concern for them, at least far into the future.
00:41:55.000Everything we've seen and our intelligence community has seen and has said publicly is that the overwhelming bulk of the proceeds that they've managed to get back have gone into the economy, not He's just saying absolute crap.
00:42:07.000And this guy's going to be secretary of state.
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00:45:11.000Okay, so the establishment is back in with its conventional wisdom like Iran is great and the Iran deal is great and the Israelis will never be able to make peace with the Arab states without the Palestinians being involved.
00:45:27.000You also had Tony Blinken, circa 2017, talking at Goldman Sachs, which shows you how establishment insidery the entire Biden team is, saying we should have done more militarily in Syria.
00:45:35.000Yeah, that would have been a great idea, is to dump more American troops into Syria.
00:45:39.000Those of us involved in the diplomacy at various points thought that it might make a difference if we showed a little bit of muscle as a way of leveraging the diplomacy.
00:45:50.000And there are various things that we thought about that I couldn't tell you today whether they in fact would have made a difference.
00:45:56.000But at the time we thought they would be worth trying.
00:46:00.000The military was very concerned, understandably, about getting into a slippery slope.
00:46:08.000Because Tony Blinken says things like, leverage, and we're going to leverage diplomacy using other assets, which is code for we're going to bomb places and kill people, then we're supposed to believe that he's actually like a nice guy.
00:46:19.000Because Democrats are nice people while they're droning people and bombing places and launching unconstitutional wars in Libya.
00:46:49.000It means he gets to stay at, as Tom Cotton says, he gets to stay at wonderful luxury hotels while negotiating deals that are bad for America.
00:46:57.000John Kerry was the architect of the crappy Iran deal.
00:46:59.000He then proceeded to become a PR flak for the nation of Iran, and more importantly for the mullahs that rule Iran, suggesting that their pursuit of terrorism in the region was really no big deal.
00:47:09.000John Kerry, wrong about every major issue of his entire lifetime.
00:47:13.000Here was John Kerry suggesting just a few years ago that peace in the Middle East would literally be impossible if Israel did not make concessions to the Palestinians.
00:47:19.000Here he was being as wrong as a human being can be.
00:47:21.000But don't worry, the good news is that if you are a member of the government, you always just keep failing up.
00:47:27.000If you suck at something, you will end up as president one day because you will just keep failing up.
00:47:31.000Here is John Kerry, who nearly became president There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world.
00:47:36.000Here he was being totally wrong about everything.
00:47:38.000Good news, he's got a new slot where he gets to talk about climate change, presumably making the American economy worse to no apparent effect.
00:47:45.000There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world.
00:47:51.000I want to make that very clear to all of you.
00:47:54.000I've heard several prominent politicians in Israel sometimes saying, well, the Arab world's in a different place now.
00:48:02.000We just have to reach out to them and we can work some things with the Arab world and we'll deal with the Palestinians.
00:48:32.000He is the stupidest person in American foreign policy, and he's going to be in charge of America's climate change policy, which already is rife with stupidity and a complete disconnect between actual meaningful action on climate change and what Democrats are talking about.
00:48:44.000Paris agreements don't do a bleeps worth, okay?
00:49:05.000Also, President Biden is bringing President-elect Biden, as they are now designating him.
00:49:09.000He is not formally President-elect yet.
00:49:11.000He plans to nominate Janet Yellen, former Federal Reserve Chairwoman.
00:49:14.000She's transformational too, except for the fact that she was the Federal Reserve Chairwoman for years and years and years and years.
00:49:19.000Her basic philosophy is that you keep pumping money into the economy until you get unemployment down.
00:49:26.000She's also not super warm on capitalism.
00:49:28.000Here's what she said recently, there really is a new kind of recognition.
00:49:31.000You've got a society where capitalism is beginning to run amok and needs to be readjusted in order to make sure that what we're doing is sustainable and the benefits of growth are widely shared in ways they haven't been.
00:49:50.000Alejandro Mallorca, a former Deputy Homeland Security Secretary, is now going to lead the Homeland Security Department.
00:49:56.000Now, that's not really a particularly big deal.
00:49:59.000He would take the lead on enforcing immigration and border law, also providing a coordinated response to terrorism, maritime, aviation, and cyber security threats.
00:50:06.000He's supposed to be a stabilizing force inside the Biden administration.
00:50:09.000There's only one problem, which is that he has faced barriers and a path to confirmation before.
00:50:13.000After he was nominated to serve as Deputy Homeland Security Secretary, the department's inspector general investigated him for intervening to help expedite visa reviews for foreign investors.
00:50:24.000He was found not to have broken the law, but the Inspector General released a report in 2015 that found he managed cases for EB-5 visas in a way that led employees to believe he was giving special consideration to investors aligned with Democrats.
00:50:36.000Ah, the swamp is back and better than ever!
00:50:58.000And here he was suggesting that Trump created the Iranian crisis and that Iran was so much better before Donald Trump got involved, which neglects the fact that Iran was killing American soldiers in the field while Barack Obama was president of the United States.
00:51:12.000Here's Jake Sullivan sucking at his job, but don't worry, he's back too.
00:51:16.000We are in the midst of a crisis with Iran today because Donald Trump decided to tear up the Iran nuclear deal, to walk away from the agreement.
00:51:24.000Now he went out and said it's because of the deal that we're in this crisis, when in fact it's exactly the opposite.
00:51:29.000Donald Trump has spent the last three years trashing Our NATO allies telling the rest of the world that they can basically go take a hike.
00:51:37.000And now those very same allies and partners are putting out statements where they're calling on both Iran and the United States to de-escalate, where they're saying a pox on both your houses, where they're basically putting Iran and the United States on the same plane.
00:51:59.000I hope you enjoyed that four-year interregnum between the continuing rule of the American aristocracy of wrongness, between new Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who again has been wrong on every major issue, pushed the Iran deal, pushed softness on China, between John Kerry, who is back and worse than ever.
00:52:16.000He's going to be heading up the climate change Nonsense.
00:52:19.000You got Janet Yellen for Treasury Secretary, who has been suggesting that the Federal Reserve should be buying long-term bonds and mortgage-backed securities to prop up the market, and has suggested her antipathy to certain elements of what she calls kind of dog-eat-dog capitalism.
00:52:34.000You've got Alejandro Mayorkas for Department of Homeland Security, who of course was investigated for the possibility of engaging in EB-5 immigration form fraud in order to benefit democratic donors.
00:52:45.000It turned out that he did not violate the law according to the investigation, but he did provide the appearance of violating the law.
00:52:51.000You got Jake Sullivan for NSA, former Hillary Clinton guy.
00:52:55.000And just to spice things up, just to spice things up a little bit, Joe Biden is also adding a person named Rima Dodin, as well as Shuan Zagaf, they were each named.
00:53:05.000named Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs.
00:53:07.000Dodin currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff and Floor Director for Senator Dick Durbin, the Assistant Minority Leader.
00:53:12.000So she's historic because she was born to Arab-Israeli immigrants in North Carolina.
00:53:16.000She's also historic because she is incredibly radical.
00:53:20.000It turns out that in 2002, she justified suicide bombings as, quote, the last resort of a desperate people, talking about Palestinian suicide bombings.
00:53:29.000One year earlier, she took part in a demonstration at UC Berkeley, calling for the university to divest from Israel, according to the Berkeley Daily Planet.
00:53:36.000At that demonstration, protesters compared Israel to apartheid South Africa.
00:53:41.000She's in regular contact with the Radical Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:53:49.000Meanwhile, by the way, the radicals in the Democratic Party are displeased because there are so many establishment members of the Democratic Party.
00:53:54.000So the battle has just begun over there.
00:53:56.000The radicals in the Democratic Party are very upset because they wanted more radicals.
00:54:00.000So Rashida Tlaib, who ain't a friend of the Jews, you may have noticed, she tweeted out that she was deeply, deeply unhappy.
00:54:08.000Because Tony Blinken might be too pro-Israel, which is absurd, okay?
00:54:11.000Tony Blinken is not an extremely pro-Israel guy.
00:54:14.000He is like mainstream democratic party, which means ambivalent about Israel at this point.
00:54:18.000That did not stop Rashida Tlaib from tweeting, so long as he doesn't suppress my First Amendment right to speak out against Netanyahu's racist and inhumane policies, the Palestinian people deserve equality and justice.
00:54:28.000I wonder why she would tweet that about Tony Blinken.
00:54:30.000I can't imagine why she would tweet that about Tony Blinken.
00:54:33.000By the way, Susan Rice endorsed Tony Blinken.
00:55:00.000That is not the same thing as free market loving.
00:55:02.000There are many corporations that will take government subsidies.
00:55:04.000There are many corporations that in fact seek regulatory control.
00:55:07.000They engage in what's called regulatory capture where they help write the rules along with their buddies inside the government.
00:55:12.000Well now GM is demonstrating That it is ready to play ball with the Biden administration?
00:55:18.000GM, according to Reuters, said on Monday it was reversing course and will no longer back the Trump administration's efforts to bar California from setting its own emissions rules in an ongoing court fight.
00:55:26.000GM Chief Executive Mary Barra said in a letter to environmental groups it was, quote, immediately withdrawing from the preemptive, the preemption litigation and inviting other lawmakers, automakers to join us.
00:55:36.000Why, it's almost as though they are attempting to get a pat on the head from Joe Biden and company.
00:55:40.000Yes, corporations seeking special benefits from the federal government.
00:55:43.000If you enjoyed that when Obama was president, then you get it again.
00:55:49.000The dramatic rejection of Trump came as GM sought to work with President-elect Joe Biden, who has made boosting electric vehicles a top priority.
00:55:56.000The Detroit automaker has laid out an ambitious strategy to boost EV sales.
00:55:59.000Last week said it will increase spending on EVs and autonomous vehicles by 35% from previous disclosed plans.
00:56:04.000The announcement reflects corporate America's move to engage quickly with the incoming Democratic administration.
00:56:10.000In October 2019, GM had joined Toyota, Fiat, and other automakers in backing the Trump administration because California is trying to set its own statewide fuel efficiency rules and zero emissions requirements.
00:56:22.000The Trump administration said, hold up.
00:57:03.000So, CNN has a piece today titled, The number of COVID-19 cases reported each week in Florida has tripled since the state reopened.
00:57:11.000According to CNN, since Governor Ron DeSantis reopened Florida in late September, the number of reported COVID-19 cases per week in the state has tripled.
00:57:18.000On September 25th, DeSantis signed an executive order reopening the state, freeing restaurants and bars to operate at 100% capacity.
00:57:25.000In the week leading up to the order, Florida reported more than 17,000 new cases.
00:57:29.000In the past seven days, the state has reported more than 53,000, meaning three times more Floridians have tested positive in the past week than in the week before the reopening.
00:57:37.000See, Florida's really, really bad, according to the geniuses over at CNN.
00:57:41.000I mean, truly horrific, according to the geniuses over at CNN.
00:57:44.000There is only one problem with this particular take.
00:57:47.000If you look at how other states in the United States are doing, and they didn't do the reopening orders, you know what they're seeing, guys.
00:58:52.000Who would... No, no, that can't be the case.
00:58:56.000The bizarre nature of the media covering this stuff is that Republicans are always bad and Democrats are always good.
00:59:02.000New York cases have multiplied times five on a daily basis since September.
00:59:06.000I just gave you an October number, it was even lower in September.
00:59:09.000But don't worry, Democrats know what to do.
00:59:11.000They are setting new rules and it's exciting stuff.
00:59:13.000So, Andrew Cuomo, the idiot governor of New York, who's presided over one of the worst death per million rates in the nation, He said yesterday that officers must enforce COVID-19 laws.
00:59:24.000In fact, if you don't enforce a COVID-19 law and you're an officer and you refuse to do it, you're a dictator.
00:59:28.000So I think he doesn't understand a language that we call English, where dictators are people like, I don't know, who declare randomly that we should completely shut down an entire state's school district for no apparent reason.
00:59:40.000That seems more dictatorial than an officer saying, I'm not going to enforce mandates that seem to me to violate individual liberties.
00:59:45.000Nonetheless, according to Andrew Cuomo, it's the officers who are the dictators.
00:59:50.000I believe that law enforcement officer violates his or her constitutional duty.
00:59:57.000I don't consider them a law enforcement officer.
01:00:00.000Because you don't have the right to pick laws that you think you will enforce and you don't enforce laws that you don't agree with.
01:00:17.000A dictator is the person who decides he doesn't want to enforce particular... Somebody should talk to Barack Obama about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
01:00:23.000I'm old enough to remember when that guy declared that he could simply disregard immigration law because he was a magical, magical man, and he could use his pen and his phone to magically change law.
01:00:31.000Andrew Cuomo might want to talk to that guy about selective enforcement of law.
01:00:35.000Also, the good news for Andrew Cuomo is the rules don't apply to him.
01:00:37.000So, he announced, actually, on Monday, that he would be spending Thanksgiving with his 89-year-old mother and his two daughters.
01:01:21.000So he's got his 89-year-old mom and his two daughters, who last I checked, I believe are in their 20s, and they're all in the same room together, and they're sharing dinner.
01:01:46.000Later in the day, his office issued a statement clarifying the plans have changed.
01:01:49.000His senior advisor, rich as a party, told the Wall Street Journal, given the current circumstances with COVID, Cuomo will have to work through Thanksgiving.
01:02:26.000Governor Gavin Newsom in California, that dude can still go to the French Laundry for a $20,000 dinner, 400 bucks a plate, 22 people there, including the heads of the California Medical Association.
01:02:34.000You can eat in close contact and no masks.
01:02:51.000restaurant owner yesterday saying, these restrictions are going to literally destroy us.
01:02:55.000The biggest toll is going to, we're going to have to lay off the people that we just brought back, or we're going to have to furlough them, likely, as we downsize to a takeout only, which, you know, requires less kitchen, less front of house staff.
01:03:06.000So it's, this influx is just, it's about to break us all.
01:03:11.000OK, so we don't care about him, though.
01:03:30.000I also will say that many of these rules make no sense at all, obviously.
01:03:34.000So Pennsylvania has now banned the sale of alcohol at bars and restaurants ahead of Thanksgiving.
01:03:38.000The administration of Democratic Governor Tom Wolf announced Monday alcohol will be barred from being sold at restaurants and bars in Pennsylvania from Wednesday evening until Thanksgiving morning.
01:03:46.000An apparent edict intended to slow the spread of the China-originated novel coronavirus, this is according to DailyWire.com.
01:03:55.000Dr. Rachel Levine, the Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, most famous for suggesting that nursing homes were safe, only to remove mommy from a nursing home in the middle of the pandemic early on.
01:04:06.000Dr. Levine said, on Wednesday, November 25th, restaurants and bars are ordered to suspend alcohol sales at 5 p.m.
01:04:43.000There are also new mitigation measures in Pennsylvania, including targeted protections for businesses and gatherings.
01:04:47.000Orders already in place, and those announced today, will be enforced.
01:04:50.000Law enforcement and state agencies will be stepping up enforcement efforts, issuing citations and fines, and possible regulatory actions for repeat offenders.
01:05:00.000Small business transaction data collected by software and business services provider Womply show about one in five businesses open in January have stopped transacting entirely, according to the Wall Street Journal last month.
01:05:09.000Most of them have likely closed for good.
01:05:12.000But again, the good news is that, you know, if you're special, then probably you can ignore all of this.
01:05:18.000And meanwhile, I have to say the generalized perception that is put forth on COVID policy, the generalized line on COVID policy is so backwards.
01:05:26.000So Larry Hogan, the governor of Maryland, who is a Republican governor, I think that he has done a fairly good job as governor of Maryland, but he said yesterday something completely insane.
01:05:37.000He said that there is no constitutional right to walk around without a mask and that it's the equivalent of drunk driving.
01:06:09.000If you're walking around without a mask and you are not symptomatic and you are not known to have this thing, it's like driving around sober.
01:06:14.000And now if you get close to other people and you breathe on them, that is a different thing.
01:06:18.000But walking around without a mask, there is in fact a constitutional right to walk around without a mask.
01:06:24.000It is just that at all times in all places there are public health exceptions to constitutional rights.
01:06:30.000There is a right to freedom of assembly, for example.
01:06:32.000There is a constitutional right to freedom of assembly.
01:06:34.000But there can be time, place, and manner regulations that prevent that from becoming a public health threat, for example.
01:06:39.000To suggest that there is no actual right to walk around without a mask is to suggest that it's an argument that proves too much.
01:06:45.000It's to suggest the government has at any time and for any reason the ability to tell you to put on a mask.
01:06:50.000So by that standard, The standard that if you are walking around and you have the possibility of making anybody else sick, no matter how remote or no matter what the disease, we can tell you to put on a mask full time.
01:06:59.000I'm wondering, how do you put that genie back in the bottle?
01:07:02.000At what point do we all stop wearing the masks?
01:07:04.000Now, my presumption has been that we're basically going to be wearing masks in close quarters until the wide adoption of the vaccine.
01:07:12.000We can go back to our regular lives in March and April.
01:07:15.000And before then, we can go back to quasi-normal by going to work, socially distancing, wearing masks in close quarters with others.
01:07:21.000But the baseline notion that the government has the right under all circumstances to tell you what to do with cloth on your face seems wild to me.
01:07:30.000Especially when they're not abiding by their own rules.
01:07:33.000This is gone beyond the point of reason, especially with regard to a virus that in certain areas is not actually threatening the healthcare capacity of the state.
01:07:43.000The healthcare capacity of Florida, which is being ripped up and down, Florida, right?
01:07:48.000There is not an overwhelming of the healthcare system in Florida.
01:07:50.000I'm talking to doctors every day who are working in ERs.
01:07:53.000There is not an overwhelming of the healthcare system.
01:07:55.000I talked to an emergency room nurse just a couple of days ago.
01:07:57.000She said, it's getting worse than it was a month ago, but it's not nearly what it was, you know, during the summer when we had this vast uptick in Florida, for example.
01:08:05.000Nonetheless, there's this basic idea that is constantly being promoted by the media, and that is that government is the solution to all ills.
01:08:13.000Simply by interpolating particular regulations, they can stop things.
01:08:18.000Simply by ordering you to wear a mask, all problems will be solved.
01:08:21.000And if you refuse to comply with the ultimate power of government, it's because you are stupid, or because you are bad, or because you rely too much on individual freedom.
01:08:29.000Well, if you don't rely enough on individual freedom, I would say that is significantly more of a problem.
01:08:33.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
01:08:36.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.