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00:01:19.000The most horrifying thing that I have seen in American politics in my lifetime.
00:01:22.000It was absolutely horrific on every possible level.
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00:01:28.000Okay, so yesterday was one of the, was, no, bar none, not one of the, the most horrifying thing that I have seen in American politics in my lifetime.
00:01:34.000It was absolutely horrific on every possible level.
00:01:37.000And we're gonna go through today, the entire, the entire string of events.
00:01:42.000We're going to go through the reaction to the events, which also has been quite terrible.
00:01:45.000So I guess the synopsis of today's show is that everything is terrible.
00:01:58.000When you have rioters taking over the U.S.
00:02:01.000building, the seat of American democracy.
00:02:04.000And when you have those rioters saying that they are doing so in the name of the president of the United States, and when you have them doing that to the legislative branch of the government, and when you have those people, they are rioters, they are not protesters, okay?
00:02:16.000As soon as you commit an act of vandalism or violence, you are no longer in the category of protester, you are now a rioter.
00:02:20.000And unlike some folks who have justified riots based on the perspective of the rioters.
00:02:26.000If you're a criminal, you're a criminal, and you should go to jail.
00:02:29.000And this was an attempted act of insurrection.
00:02:32.000I mean, technically speaking, that's what it was, considering that the reason that this happened is because Congress was simply there doing their constitutional duty and tabulating the state-certified electoral count.
00:03:37.000Obviously, a very different sort of thing, considering that 9-11 was a foreign terror attack ending with mass carnage and mass death.
00:03:44.000But the grave damage done to the sense of democracy, to the propriety of a republic, and to the functional workings of our government yesterday, It was pretty awful.
00:03:55.000Now, the American system is robust and bounced back within hours, thank God.
00:03:59.000But that does not diminish the importance of what happened yesterday, which, again, was bad on every single level.
00:04:06.000So, let's start from the very beginning, because that's a very good place to start, as Julie Andrews might say.
00:04:10.000So, yesterday, there was a lot of lead up.
00:04:13.000There's a lot of lead up to yesterday.
00:04:14.000Remember, the big news story in the morning was that the Republicans had lost the Senate and the Democrats now had unified control of the government.
00:04:21.000And there had been lead up for weeks to the January 6th vote by Congress to simply count the votes.
00:04:30.000There is not a legal basis for the Vice President of the United States To overturn electoral vote counts.
00:04:35.000There is not a legal basis for Congress to simply throw out electoral vote counts it doesn't like in the absence of overwhelming evidence of voter fraud or voter irregularity, especially because all of these states had already certified their vote counts within the statutorily provided safe harbor provisions.
00:04:50.000If you were going to make the arguments, you had to make them in court.
00:04:53.000The Trump team did not make those arguments in court.
00:04:54.000In fact, the Trump team repeatedly refused to make fraud arguments in, for example, Pennsylvania, which was the most hotly fraught of the states.
00:05:00.000And as it turns out, pretty much nobody in Congress yesterday was even willing to challenge the vote count in Georgia, right, after all of the hubbub and after all the to-do.
00:05:09.000But in the lead-up, President Trump was suggesting publicly, openly, and repeatedly that the January 6th vote was going to overturn the results of the Electoral College and the results of the election itself, and that he was going to be reinstalled as president if only, if only the Republicans in Congress could find the guts to do so.
00:05:39.000He has the right to believe whatever he wants to believe about whether the election was stolen or whether the election was not stolen.
00:05:45.000However, the President of the United States should not be doing this, obviously, especially when he has not provided the evidence to back his move.
00:05:52.000He has not provided the overwhelming evidence the election was stolen.
00:05:55.000The reality is the certified vote counts from a wide variety of states, including two that were traditionally red states, Arizona and Georgia, went for Joe Biden.
00:06:04.000The electoral vote count here was the same as the electoral vote count Trump against Hillary Clinton, which he himself called the landslide.
00:06:10.000In that case, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
00:06:12.000Here, Trump lost the popular vote by some 7 million votes.
00:06:16.000I know that there are a lot of questions about voter irregularity.
00:06:18.000I know there are real serious questions about voter procedures, right?
00:06:21.000Voter ID and universal mail-in balloting.
00:06:25.000A lot of the voting procedures are really bad and need to be redone.
00:06:28.000I am not comfortable with people voting months in advance in universal mail-in balloting without serious examination of the voter rolls, to purge people who have moved out of state, et cetera.
00:06:39.000But that is not what Trump was talking about.
00:06:40.000Trump kept saying over and over and over, the president, he kept saying over and over and over that the election had been stolen from him.
00:06:47.000And also, he had refused repeatedly to commit to a peaceful transition of power.
00:06:52.000This goes all the way back to 2016, when he had refused to say that he would concede if he lost.
00:06:57.000Now, as you'll see, yesterday he actually did say that there would be a peaceful transition of power, but that should have been, obviously, the first word out of his mouth after the election.
00:07:05.000It should have been, I'm gonna go through all the legal challenges, I believe I won, but of course, if the Electoral College votes, we have a process in this country, there will be a peaceful transition of power.
00:07:12.000In any case, President Trump gave a speech to a very, very large march, tens of thousands of people gathering in Washington, D.C., to what they call Stop the Steal.
00:07:21.000Here was President Trump yesterday saying he would never concede under any circumstances.
00:07:26.000All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical left Democrats, which is what they're doing, and stolen by the fake news media.
00:07:37.000That's what they've done and what they're doing.
00:08:08.000You can go back in time, you can look at how I've applied this standard.
00:08:11.000Okay, it's a very, very strict standard when it comes to saying that someone is directly responsible for violence done by another adult human being.
00:08:18.000And that is, if you didn't tell somebody to do the violence, you're not Technically responsible for the violence, right?
00:08:22.000I said this about Barack Obama when a Black Lives Matter supporter shot six police officers in Dallas after months of Obama suggesting that the police were systemically racist.
00:08:39.000He is not responsible for the actual shooting.
00:08:41.000I said the same thing about Bernie Sanders.
00:08:42.000Bernie Sanders claimed for months, for years on end, that Republicans were killing old people.
00:08:47.000And that Republicans were attempting to have people die for lack of health care.
00:08:50.000And then, a Bernie Sanders supporter went and shot a bunch of Congress people, including Steve Scalise, who almost died.
00:08:55.000I did not say that Bernie Sanders was responsible for that, because Bernie Sanders was not responsible for that.
00:08:59.000Bernie Sanders did not tell the guy to go shoot members of Congress.
00:09:02.000I have a very strict standard, and I have applied it on every single side of this particular issue.
00:09:07.000With that said, when you raise the temperature, when you keep raising the temperature, when you keep boiling the pot, then eventually it's going to bubble over.
00:09:15.000And when you keep saying over and over that the election is stolen and that we, and he makes big statements, we are not going to stand for it.
00:09:20.000We're not going to let this happen in our country.
00:09:23.000When you suggest that members of Congress are acting treasonously, I mean, it is, it is an accusation essentially of acting seditiously.
00:09:29.000If you know that the election was stolen and you vote for it anyway, then it is not entirely unpredictable that people are going to act out in this way.
00:09:37.000So two things can be true at once, as always.
00:09:39.000One, you are not guilty of somebody else's direct violent conduct unless you directed them to do that direct violent conduct, but you are guilty for the language that you speak.
00:09:48.000You are responsible for the promulgation of untruths.
00:09:51.000You are responsible for the raising of the temperature.
00:09:55.000You're responsible for misleading people about the proper response to something like this.
00:10:01.000And the president eventually came around to the legal processes last night, at least publicly, But we'll get to more of this in just one second, because obviously, that was just the beginning of the day, yesterday, and much more happened from there.
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00:11:40.000Okay, well, now that we've gotten beyond happy thoughts, we'll get back to Less happy events happening in the United States.
00:11:45.000As President Trump continued his speech yesterday, again this is in front of tens of thousands of people, fairly early yesterday morning.
00:11:51.000Here is President Trump slamming his own Supreme Court appointees who he said he was disappointed in for not overruling the state electoral counts in these various areas.
00:12:00.000And again, there is no indicator that the Supreme Court saw any evidence sufficient to overturn election results.
00:12:06.000They turned down the Pennsylvania case on the basis that there was a serious problem with the federal court adjudicating what was, in fact, a state legislative matter.
00:12:16.000But even there, I believe it was a 7-2 ruling, even there, the two who voted in favor of taking the case suggested pretty openly that does not mean that they would have voted in favor of overturning the electoral results from Pennsylvania.
00:12:29.000In any case, President Trump slammed his own Supreme Court appointees in front of this very large crowd yesterday.
00:13:25.000I mean, when the president suggests that the Supreme Court is going out of the way to rule against him, even though I got them through and they owe me an oath of personal loyalty, that's not how the government works.
00:13:33.000That is not how the government was ever designed to work.
00:13:35.000It is a government of laws, not of men.
00:13:36.000It is not a personal loyalty test to any one person.
00:13:38.000It never should be a personal loyalty test to any one person, Democratic, Republican, black, white, or green.
00:13:43.000Okay, so then President Trump finishes this rally by saying that he's going to lead all these people on a march down to the Capitol building.
00:13:51.000Okay, so as this is happening, by the way, Congress is meeting to discuss the state electoral results.
00:13:58.000And again, the way that process works, as we'll discuss, is the vice president opens the votes, he counts the votes, he does not have the power to throw out the votes.
00:14:04.000The Congress of the United States, if you get one congressperson and one senator, they can then challenge any state electoral result on the basis of either illegal certification, or they can say there was bribery that happened, something like that.
00:14:17.000Okay, then there is a separate debate for each house of Congress.
00:14:20.000They come back together, they vote on it.
00:14:22.000It was a foregone conclusion that that tactic was going to be a failure.
00:14:26.000The Congress is just not given the sort of responsibility.
00:14:28.000The federal government does not have the ability to simply overrule state electoral college results for the 1000th time.
00:15:12.000The march on the Capitol then proceeded.
00:15:14.000Okay, so while all of this is happening, I mean, it's like something out of a horrible B-film.
00:15:19.000While all of this is happening, the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, releases a statement saying, no, I'm not going to simply overthrow an election and simply hand the election to my boss.
00:15:29.000Like, that's not a thing that I'm going to do.
00:15:31.000He put out a letter earlier yesterday In which he said, our founders created the electoral college in 1787.
00:15:37.000With the advent of political parties, the electoral college was amended in 1804 to provide that electors vote separately for president and vice president.
00:15:43.000Congress spent a decade after 1876, establishing rules and procedures to govern the counting of electoral votes and the resolution of any objections.
00:15:50.000During the 130 years since the Electoral Count Act was passed, Congress has, without exception, used these formal procedures to count the electoral votes every four years.
00:15:58.000Given the controversy surrounding this year's election, some approach this year's quadrennial tradition with great expectations, others with dismissive disdain.
00:16:05.000Some believe that as vice president, I should be able to accept or reject electoral votes unilaterally.
00:16:09.000Others believe electoral votes should never be challenged in a joint session of Congress.
00:16:13.000After a careful study of our Constitution, our laws, our history, I believe that neither view is correct.
00:16:18.000The presidency belongs to the American people and to them alone.
00:16:21.000When disputes concerning a presidential election arise under federal law, writes Vice President Pence, it is the people's representatives who review the evidence and resolve the disputes through a democratic process.
00:16:32.000And then he continues, vesting the vice president with unilateral authority to decide presidential contests would be entirely antithetical to that design, which of course is exactly right.
00:16:42.000He said that he would gather, he would do his duty, and then he would do it in a manner consistent with our Constitution laws and history, so help me God.
00:16:50.000So Pence announces that I am not going to be overturning the results of the election.
00:16:57.000Senator Ted Cruz is one of the leaders of the efforts to challenge electoral results.
00:17:03.000And Senator Cruz gets up and he explains why he is doing this.
00:17:07.000We have seen and no doubt will continue to see A great deal of moralizing from both sides of the aisle.
00:17:16.000But I would urge to both sides, perhaps, a bit less certitude and a bit more recognition that we are gathered at a time when democracy is in crisis.
00:17:32.000Recent polling shows that 39% of Americans believe the election that just occurred, quote, was rigged.
00:17:43.000You may not agree with that assessment, but it is nonetheless a reality for nearly half the country.
00:17:51.000I would note it is not just Republicans who believe that.
00:17:56.00031% of independents agree with that statement.
00:18:02.00017% of Democrats believe the election was rigged.
00:18:07.000Okay, this is a very, very, very poor argument.
00:18:10.000It is a bad argument that because a lot of people believe a thing, therefore we are going to misuse the legal process in order to, in order to what?
00:18:19.000Make excuses for the thing that's not going to end with anything changing?
00:18:22.000Okay, the reality is, as I've said again, I have very consistent standards when it comes to this sort of stuff.
00:18:27.000Allegations must be substantiated by evidence.
00:18:29.000We have over 50 court cases in which these allegations were not properly substantiated by evidence.
00:18:34.000We have had open legislative hearings in a variety of purple states, in states that went from Trump to Biden.
00:18:45.000We have we've had a series of hearings in which the evidence presented has been has been put forth.
00:18:51.000It has not been particularly convincing.
00:18:53.000Hey, just because a lot of people believe a thing does not mean that you should grant legitimacy to the thing they believe when the evidence is simply not there.
00:18:59.000So Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, he gets up and he says exactly this.
00:19:24.000They did several recounts of the vote in Georgia.
00:19:28.000They investigated all the allegations in Georgia, up to and including the allegations that dead people were voting, up to and including the allegations at the State Farm Arena.
00:19:36.000Here's Mitch McConnell saying the evidence is not there.
00:19:40.000Nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale, the massive scale That would have tipped the entire election.
00:19:56.000And McConnell then continued, he said, you know, one of the things that's happening in this country, and it's pretty egregious, is we cannot have separate sets of facts that are being put forth.
00:20:02.000We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a separate set of facts and separate realities.
00:20:15.000With nothing in common except our hostility towards each other and mistrust for the few national institutions that we all still share.
00:20:27.000And then finally McConnell concludes and he says if the election were actually overturned, if some of these folks got what they wanted, we would basically be in a civil war, which is of course correct.
00:21:27.000Okay, so McConnell was right about all of that.
00:21:30.000So as this is happening, President Trump tweets out against Mike Pence.
00:21:35.000We now know, by the way, that the president apparently has banned Mark Short, the vice president's chief of staff, from even entering the White House at this point.
00:21:43.000So this is, the fit of peak has not yet ended.
00:21:44.000So Trump tweeted out Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify.
00:21:56.000USA demands the truth. Okay well this is where again are you responsible for raising the You damn sure well are when you do that sort of stuff.
00:22:06.000I mean, what exactly does he think the remedy is at this point?
00:22:08.000He's taken it to every court in the land.
00:22:10.000All the courts have said he didn't provide the evidence.
00:22:35.000Now again, that doesn't mean he is calling for violence.
00:22:38.000It does mean that he is responsible for radically raising the temperature, as he has been for the last couple of months, based on allegations that have been unverified and unproven and in many cases overtly debunked.
00:22:49.000And none of this is to say voter fraud and voter irregularity didn't take place or that we shouldn't have investigations into criminally serious criminal allegations.
00:22:55.000I said that every single day since the election.
00:22:58.000None of this means that we shouldn't take a look at the voter laws that govern in a lot of these states, which in fact are not good.
00:23:05.000But the president has been making unverified, unverifiable, and in some cases overtly falsified allegations about the nature of this election.
00:23:11.000And he has whipped people up into such a fervor By suggesting over and over and over again that there are remedies available to them that are simply not available to them.
00:23:20.000And then what happens when they run out of remedies?
00:23:23.000What happens when there are no more remedies available?
00:23:26.000So, in a second we'll get to what then happened, what happened next, which of course is the dramatic event of yesterday and one of the worst things that I have seen in my political life.
00:23:34.000And downplaying it is not worthy of conservatives.
00:23:37.000Downplaying it is not worthy of people who call themselves protectors of the Constitution, protectors of civil liberties and civil rights.
00:23:45.000And by the way, the sort of whataboutism that is now applying, the reason that it is bad when the left greenlit Antifa and BLM riots during the summer is because that is bad.
00:23:56.000And it's just as bad if you are greenlighting stuff like that from people that you have sympathy for.
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00:25:11.000Okay, so all of this culminates In a riot at the Capitol building and Congress itself being put under siege.
00:25:21.000I spoke to several Congress people yesterday who were rushed into safe spots in the Capitol building.
00:25:25.000Senators were all being housed together.
00:25:27.000Various Congress people were being sheltered in their offices, protected by Capitol police, and in some cases, Secret Service.
00:25:34.000Lawmakers, staff members, according to the AP, were hiding under tables, hunkered in lockdown, saying prayers, seeing the fruits of the country's divisions up close and violent.
00:25:44.000The guns were drawn in the Capitol chamber.
00:25:46.000They're barbarians, literally people dressed as barbarians, taking over the Capitol chamber, sitting in the vice president's seat.
00:25:51.000You can see this image, Secret Service agents pointing guns at one of the doors as people try to break into the doors of the Capitol building.
00:26:14.000The three other people apparently died in various medical emergencies around the periphery of the riot.
00:26:23.000According to the AP, the pro-Trump mob took over the presiding officer's chair in the Senate, the offices of the House Speaker, and the Senate dais, where one yelled, Trump won the election.
00:26:31.000They posed for photos in the office of House Speaker Pelosi, one with his feet propped on a desk in her office, another sitting in the same seat Vice President Pence had occupied only moments before during the proceedings to certify the electoral college vote.
00:26:44.000The rioters began by mobbing the media, right?
00:26:46.000So they actually just started tearing away cameras.
00:26:50.000All these people should spend time in jail.
00:27:25.000Here you can see this man dressed as a barbarian.
00:27:28.000The writers of this season are really too on the nose, I think.
00:27:31.000When you have actual people dressed as actual barbarians trying to break into the U.S.
00:27:35.000Capitol building, the seat of the most long-lasting and powerful democracy in the history of the world, having the guy dressed as a barbarian is a little bit on the nose.
00:27:44.000So people simply just bust through the gates and move their way into the Capitol.
00:27:49.000People waving Trump flags, people shouting, carrying American flags.
00:27:52.000A couple carrying Confederate flags, which is always a great look.
00:28:36.000Okay, and this did, this did raise serious questions, which we'll get to in a moment, about the nature of the Capitol Police response, and where the hell were they, and where was the National Guard, and how was this, like if terrorists had known it would be this easy to take over the U.S.
00:28:47.000Capitol building, ISIS had to be sitting there going, man, what morons are we?
00:28:52.000Okay, so the Republican, so the response across the board is absolute shock, horror, and it should be shock and horror, because I've never seen anything like this.
00:29:01.000Have you ever seen anything like this?
00:29:04.000The only things that I've seen that are remotely like this, even in any remote way, there's a situation back in 2011 when some protesters took over the Capitol building in Wisconsin during a union fight.
00:29:17.000There were Kavanaugh protesters who banged on the doors of the Supreme Court, but the full-scale takeover of the Capitol building, and the destruction of property wholesale, and the wounding of police officers, two are in the hospital, the shooting of a rioter in the halls of Congress, Egregious, egregious stuff.
00:29:36.000Okay, so Vice President Pence tweets his response to all of this.
00:29:42.000Vice President Pence tweeted out, Okay, so strong condemnation, of course.
00:29:44.000taking place at the U.S. Capitol must stop and it must stop now.
00:29:46.000Anyone involved must respect law enforcement officers and immediately leave the building.
00:29:50.000Okay, so strong condemnation, of course. Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, Republican leader in the House, he said yesterday, this is un-American, which of course it absolutely is.
00:30:28.000Okay, then Joe Biden gets up, they activate him from the basement in Wilmington, and he gets up and he gives what I thought honestly was a fairly decent statement.
00:30:37.000The president-elect, he gets up and he says, the democracy is under assault, which again, it was.
00:30:42.000I mean, these were people overtly attempting to disrupt democratic procedures from taking place in an attempt to prevent him from being president in some addle-brained way.
00:31:41.000He said that he called on President Trump to go on TV and call for an end to this, because while this was going on, President Trump had not gone on TV.
00:31:48.000As we'll see, Trump had tweeted a couple of times.
00:31:49.000We'll get to Trump's response in just one moment.
00:32:39.000And regardless of what you think of his characterization of Trump's remarks, the reality is that these folks were proclaiming themselves Trump followers.
00:32:47.000Trump needed to do something, and Trump did a couple of things.
00:33:32.000You're allowed to do whatever you want.
00:33:34.000When the President of the United States keeps raising the temperature by suggesting that the election was stolen and that every avenue of legal recourse has been closed, that does create the impetus for people to do some pretty nasty things.
00:33:47.000But here is the President's statement.
00:33:48.000He did, in fact, call for people to stand down and stop this.
00:34:59.000There's no legal recourse for us to reclaim that.
00:35:02.000No one has ever been screwed like I've been screwed.
00:35:03.000No one's being screwed like you're being screwed.
00:35:05.000You saw how they treated everybody with kid gloves when they rioted back during the summer, and now how they're treating you and they're gonna use it as an excuse.
00:35:14.000Those mixed messages were exacerbated by one more tweet that President Trump sent, which, as we will see, resulted in him being suspended from Twitter entirely.
00:35:22.000Which, of course, is the wrong response by Twitter.
00:35:24.000Trump tweeted out, these are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long.
00:35:38.000That does not sound like the opposition to criminals committing acts of vandalism and violence against federal buildings that he had against Antifa or BLM back during the summer.
00:35:51.000He promulgated an executive order looking to prosecute anybody who destroyed a federal monument for 10 years in prison.
00:35:58.000I mean, this was a major issue during the summer.
00:36:00.000Regardless of whether he whipped Remember this day?
00:36:02.000into a frenzy. I mean, the fact is, if he wants to say that he is not responsible for the violence, which I don't think that he is, then why exactly is he saying that? Well, why exactly? He should not be. Remember this day? These are great patriots who are committing acts of vandalism and violence, and they're doing so because they're angry.
00:36:39.000And people who are trying to twist that into, well, he's just calling for peace there.
00:36:43.000Calling for peace at the same time that you suggest overtly and repeatedly that the election was stolen, a landslide election was overtly stolen, which is a subversion of the democratic process.
00:36:54.000That is not likely to fall on ears that are likely to hear that as, oh yeah, what you're doing is really bad right now.
00:37:02.000President Trump finally, this morning, came out and pledged an orderly transfer of power, which this should have happened again literally the day before the- It should have happened years ago, right?
00:37:11.000He said, even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election and the facts bear me out, nevertheless, there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I've always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to make America great again. So he says there will be an orderly transition.
00:37:31.000Would have been nice if he had been saying that repeatedly and overtly and over and over and over again for the last two months, minimum, even as he pursued his legal recourses, which again, I said he had the right to pursue.
00:37:43.000I said every day on this program, every legal recourse is open to him.
00:37:46.000Once those are exhausted, the process has played out and it's over.
00:37:49.000Okay, we'll get to the narratives that are gonna be drawn from this because the narratives are gonna be what you have to live with after this, right?
00:37:56.000After this horrible, horrible day is over, And it is, after the tear gas has dissipated, after the Senate is put back in working order, and all the papers are restored, and all the desks are rebuilt.
00:38:10.000After the mourning is done for the woman who was shot and killed at the Capitol building?
00:38:13.000After all that is over, then we're going to have to deal with the fallout.
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00:39:36.000Alrighty, so in just one second, we'll get to the narratives that are gonna be drawn from this, and that's the stuff you're gonna have to live with.
00:39:42.000It's gonna shape the country for the next several years minimum.
00:39:45.000And these narratives are wrong, thoroughly wrong.
00:39:49.000In many cases, they are extraordinary, like factually wrong, quite ugly, and they're gonna have real consequences for the way that we live politically and live with each other in the country.
00:40:02.000First, as you'll see, a lot of this is going to be tied into the narratives that the left has about conservatives.
00:40:08.000The big point that they are going to make coming out of this is that all conservatives are responsible for the actions of an egregious few who have committed an act that is roundly condemned by every conservative of any size, scope, or following.
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00:41:18.000♪♪ Alrighty, so there are three narratives and one set of overt actions that are gonna be taken now that are really, truly horrifying for the republic.
00:41:30.000So there are three narratives that started to make the rounds around Twitter and then of course filtered their way into the media and now will become part of the broad public debate.
00:41:36.000One was the attempt to make this about race, which is unbelievable.
00:41:39.000I mean, literally you had A white woman who was shot to death, right?
00:41:43.000I mean, she died at the hands of the Capitol Police in the United States Capitol Building after rioting and entering that building illegally.
00:41:51.000And the takeaway from the media is that if these were black protesters or rioters, that everyone would have been shot, right?
00:41:56.000This is the take of Jemele Hill, who can reliably make anything into a racial comment.
00:42:00.000So, Jamel Hill says, let's just be clear about something.
00:42:02.000The reason the Capitol Police were slow to respond is because they gave these white people the benefit of the doubt and treated it like a joke.
00:42:07.000The reaction isn't the same because they see black people as a threat that needs to be eliminated.
00:42:11.000Well, I'm gonna go through exactly why Capitol Police responded the way they did in just one second.
00:42:43.000We can't walk down the street with our hoodies up without being killed, but they can do this.
00:42:47.000That of course, this is the case that's made, is that because the Capitol Police and National Guard didn't put this thing down with prejudice, that that is an indicator of generalized American white supremacy.
00:42:59.000First of all, the Capitol Police should have put this thing down with prejudice.
00:43:03.000Second of all, the National Guard should have been there, and they should have been doing something.
00:43:06.000As we will see, it was local politicians and federal politicians who decided and federal bureaucrats who decided they didn't want enough law enforcement there, partially as a response to criticism that they received back in the summer that they were too harsh with the protesters. And you have Joy Reid, a reliable source of insanity who says the exact same thing. Here is Joy Reid.
00:43:24.000White Americans aren't afraid of the cops. White Americans are never afraid of the cops.
00:43:29.000Even when they're committing insurrection.
00:43:32.000Even when they're engaged in attempting to occupy our capital to steal the votes of people who look like me.
00:43:39.000Because in their minds, they own this country.
00:44:36.000Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, and Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy to be clear, the District of Columbia is not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel and discourages any additional deployment without immediate notification to and consultation with MPD if such plans are underway.
00:44:54.000According to Bowser, DC's Metropolitan Police Department, in coordination with Park Police, Capitol Police, and Secret Service, were well-equipped to handle whatever problems could come up during the Trump rallies planned for Wednesday.
00:45:04.000She said the District of Columbia government has not requested personnel from any other law enforcement agencies. To avoid confusion, we ask that any additional requests for assistance be coordinated using the same process and procedures.
00:45:14.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Capitol Police were not prepared for the rioters. Apparently, federal authorities had planned to deal with the protests this week with a relatively small, minimally visible presence, according to law enforcement officials, hoping to avoid inflaming tensions as a show of force had done during the unrest last year in Portland, Oregon and other cities.
00:45:32.000So remember, the entire left suggested that the violence in Portland was due to federal authorities being in Portland.
00:45:38.000So now, in response, the feds were like, we're not going to put people at the Capitol.
00:46:20.000They let this go on in L.A., in D.C., in New York, in Seattle, in Portland.
00:46:24.000Regardless of Antifa, white Antifa, jackasses or BLM rioters, they let it go on.
00:46:32.000Making it about race is crappy narrative number one.
00:46:34.000Crappy narrative number two is, of course, the media spending months and months and months declaiming that rioting was fine so long as they agreed with the rioters.
00:47:33.000By the way, if you're on the right and you are now looking at this and going, well, it's okay what happened at the Capitol, you're doing the same thing in reverse.
00:47:38.000Okay, but the left did this across the entirety of the media.
00:48:18.000Why is everybody so upset about protests making people... There were full essays about why rioting and looting were justified back during the summer.
00:48:25.000So that's narrative number two, is that when pro-Trump people riot, that it's uniquely bad, as opposed to BLM people rioting.
00:49:11.000Every single, every single major Republican politician, every single conservative commentator looked at what happened yesterday in absolute horror.
00:49:21.000The takeaway from the media and from the left, and I repeat myself, is that every conservative is responsible for this.
00:49:31.000Just as not every Democrat is responsible for BLM riots.
00:49:36.000Just as not every Democrat is responsible for the congressional baseball shooting.
00:49:40.000Just as people who voted for Joe Biden are not responsible for people who burn down storefronts.
00:49:48.000To suggest that every single one of the 73 million people who voted for Donald Trump is responsible for a bunch of violent jackass thugs taking over the Capitol building.
00:49:59.000To suggest that is patently absurd, offensive, ridiculous, and deliberately motivated.
00:50:04.000Because the left constantly does this, right?
00:50:07.000The constant suggestion is when a bad thing happens, it is attributable to conservatives speaking their minds freely.
00:50:14.000And this is where the rubber is going to meet the road.
00:50:15.000This is going to be the culture for the next few years, is that everybody on the right is going to be cuddled into silence based on them pointing at somebody who does something clearly violative of conservative principles, like storming the Capitol building.
00:50:27.000So once again, I quote the id of the Democratic Party, Joy Reid.
00:50:31.000She says, no, no, all conservatives are responsible.
00:50:34.000Doesn't matter if you think this is crazy.
00:50:36.000Doesn't matter if you even stood If you stood against the attempts to overturn the election, if you stood against what some of the members of Congress were doing in their election challenges, right?
00:50:58.00095% of the country looks at jackasses on the fringes and thinks, hey, look, jackasses on the fringes.
00:51:03.000But, not the members of the Democratic media.
00:51:06.000For them, the jackasses on the fringe, those are used to paint every Republican, and this has been the constant practice of the media for literally years on end.
00:51:13.000The constant practice of the media has been, find a Republican saying something bad, then ask every single Republican in America what they think about the person saying something bad.
00:51:21.000Meanwhile, no Democrat has ever had to answer for anything radical ever said by any Democrat.
00:51:27.000But every Republican will be made responsible for something that, it doesn't matter if you overtly condemned it, Doesn't matter if you thought it was horrifying what happened yesterday?
00:51:36.000According to Joy Reid, you're complicit too.
00:51:38.000The elected officials who had a job today that's in the Constitution that they were supposed to do, to officially and ceremonially install the new president, to show that we believe in this peaceful transfer of power, were completely thrown over today.
00:51:52.000Josh Hawley should resign in ignominy.
00:51:54.000It is absolutely ignominious what he did, sparking this.
00:52:13.000Mitch McConnell, who condemned this, who stood against the Electoral College attempts, Mitch McConnell is responsible.
00:52:21.000And by the way, here was Mitch McConnell on the floor yesterday after they reconvened, right?
00:52:24.000Remember, he is overseeing the electoral vote count.
00:52:28.000He's one of the people overseeing this because he's the Senate Majority Leader.
00:52:31.000And he's counting into the presidency Joe Biden, a person he opposed.
00:52:35.000Here was Mitch McConnell yesterday, apparently responsible for what happened when he was thrown out of his own chamber by a bunch of thugs and rioters.
00:52:41.000But Joy Reid says he's responsible, too.
00:52:44.000The United States Senate will not be intimidated.
00:52:49.000We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs, Or threats.
00:53:21.000Anyone who voted for Trump, anyone who considered voting for Trump, you're all responsible.
00:53:24.000If you're in conservative media and you said, as I did, that Trump has all available legal challenges to him, but everything has a legal process and you have to show proof of allegation, you're still responsible.
00:53:55.000If you think that I'm exaggerating this, let me just point out that Cori Bush, a member of Black Lives Matter, that's how she started off, was an activist at Black Lives Matter.
00:54:04.000She introduced a resolution calling for the expulsion of any Republican member of Congress Who challenged any of the Electoral College results.
00:54:13.000Now, I disagreed with their challenges to the Electoral College results.
00:54:16.000I don't believe they had a legal basis for their challenges to the Electoral College results.
00:54:20.000But you cannot expel members of Congress for voting a particular way on a particular question.
00:54:27.000That is a violation of the First Amendment.
00:54:29.000It is a violation of basic principles of free speech.
00:54:32.000I disagree with Cori Bush on everything.
00:54:34.000I can't vote to... She shouldn't be expelled from Congress.
00:54:37.000I mean, what in the hell are we talking about?
00:54:40.000But again, understand that for a lot of people, what happened yesterday is a brick bat to be used against anyone they disagree with.
00:54:47.000Chuck Todd in the media doing the same thing.
00:54:48.000So Chuck Todd yesterday, he was pointing out that a lot of Republicans who were on board for the electoral challenge were also condemning the violence.
00:54:57.000Again, this is coming from somebody who disagreed with the electoral vote challenge.
00:55:01.000But to say that Josh Hawley is somehow responsible for people climbing into the US Capitol building Because he was promulgating what I think are untruths about voter fraud and the legitimacy of the election?
00:56:17.000Two, that riots are okay when the left does it, but they're very bad when people on the right do it.
00:56:21.000And three, that all conservatives are responsible for stuff they overtly condemn.
00:56:26.000Hate and despise, because after all, conservative rhetoric, this has a long history, okay?
00:56:31.000Going all the way back to like the assassination of JFK, when the media tried to blame right-wingers for JFK's assassination, despite the fact that he was killed by a communist.
00:56:38.000I mean, this goes all the way back to the media trying to blame Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
00:56:42.000So this is just part and parcel of a Democratic talking point, but now it has picked up significant momentum.
00:56:48.000Barack Obama, of course, complicit in this.
00:56:49.000So Obama put out a statement saying pretty much this, right?
00:56:52.000He says, Let me find the exact verbiage because it's pretty incredible.
00:56:58.000says, history will rightly remember today's violence at the Capitol incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election as a moment of great dishonor and shame for our nation. But we'd be kidding ourselves if we treated it as a total surprise. For two months now, a political party and its accompanying media ecosystem has been largely unwilling to tell their followers the truth.
00:57:16.000truth that this was not a particularly close election and that President-elect Biden will be inaugurated on January 20th.
00:57:21.000Their fantasy narrative has spiraled further and further from reality and it builds upon years of sown resentments.
00:57:27.000Now we're seeing the consequences whipped up into a violent crescendo.
00:57:30.000First of all, that's not what a crescendo is, but that's a side point.
00:57:33.000Right now, Republican leaders have a choice made clear in the desecrating chambers of democracy.
00:57:40.000They can continue down this road and keep stoking the raging fires, or they can choose reality and take the first steps toward extinguishing the flames.
00:58:13.000And it is horrifying and it is disgusting.
00:58:15.000Chuck Schumer jumped on this yesterday.
00:58:16.000Okay, so Chuck Schumer in the Senate chamber, the Senate minority leader, after comparing this to Pearl Harbor, which again, that was a sneak attack by a military power against the United States, ending with thousands of American deaths.
00:58:28.000But Chuck Schumer, Now January 6th will go down as one of the darkest days in recent American history.
00:58:35.000A final warning to our nation about the consequences of a demagogic president.
00:58:39.000who voted for Trump. This is on you. Way to bring the country together here, Senate Minority Leader.
00:58:43.000Now, January 6th will go down as one of the darkest days in recent American history.
00:58:50.000A final warning to our nation about the consequences of a demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrots his lies, and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.
00:59:13.000Okay, so again, the idea here, this could be a unifying moment, right?
00:59:16.000There was this kind of wonderful moment for America.
00:59:18.000After all this horror happened yesterday, after all these terrible images went out to the world, it's disgraceful, disgraceful stuff.
00:59:27.000After all that happened, there was this moment of unification.
00:59:30.000All the senators were ushered back into the chamber.
00:59:32.000There was video of them being accompanied by the FBI and members of the police brigade and SWAT.
00:59:39.000They were being sent back to the Senate chambers to complete their work.
00:59:44.000And they were just being paraded back in.
00:59:47.000And then, the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, who has served with Donald Trump, who refused Trump's request that he violate the law by decertifying electoral college votes.
00:59:57.000Mike Pence gave a brief statement to the applause of everyone in the chamber saying that we need to get back to work and do our constitutional duty because this is a constitutional republic, it is not a mobocracy.
01:00:08.000This could have been a moment when everybody, left, right, and center, said, that's true.
01:00:15.000Jackasses storming the Capitol building did not stop the system from working.
01:00:18.000Here was Mike Pence's statement yesterday.
01:00:21.000As we reconvene in this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and strength of our democracy.
01:00:31.000For even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at this Capitol, The elected representatives of the people of the United States have assembled again on the very same day to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
01:00:53.000So may God bless the lost, the injured, and the heroes forged on this day.
01:01:01.000May God bless all who serve here and those who protect this place.
01:01:08.000And may God bless the United States of America.
01:01:45.000I don't think they did nearly enough in tamping down what was happening or in telling his followers the truth, which is that the election has been called.
01:01:53.000And that, frankly, the allegations that he made have been largely unsubstantiated and almost entirely debunked when they have been actually pegged down to anything specific.
01:02:02.000So Twitter announced yesterday that they had suspended Trump for 12 hours.
01:02:39.000Then, Facebook took down Trump's video.
01:02:43.000Facebook suggested that Trump's video, the actual statement is that they were taking down Trump's video specifically because they thought it did more harm than good, which is a judgment call, right?
01:02:55.000I mean, I may even agree with that judgment, but that doesn't matter.
01:02:59.000He did call for peace in the video, even though he was saying a bunch of other stuff that I really disagree with.
01:03:03.000Guy Rosen is the VP of integrity at Facebook.
01:03:07.000He tweeted out, this is an emergency situation.
01:03:08.000We are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump's video.
01:03:12.000We removed it because on balance, we believe it contributes to, rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.
01:03:17.000So let me just point out, how many videos went around on Facebook during the BLM riots that actively encouraged the violence, justified the violence and said that it was okay?
01:04:08.000Calls for protests, even peaceful ones, if they violate the curfew in D.C.
01:04:12.000That certainly did not happen with the BLM riots and protests.
01:04:16.000Not for a second, not for a heartbeat.
01:04:17.000Facebook didn't say, okay, you know what, curfew's 6 p.m., we're taking down all the calls and organizational efforts for a peaceful protest in a park.
01:04:26.000As part of this, we removed from Facebook and Instagram the recent video of President Trump speaking about the protests and his subsequent posts about the election results.
01:04:32.000We made that decision that, on balance, the posts contribute rather than diminish the risk of ongoing violence.
01:04:37.000Okay, so this is going to be the talking point going forward.
01:04:40.000As your speech is diminished, right, what happened yesterday is terrible.
01:04:44.000What's going to happen in the future, if you start seeing an overt attempt to shut down free speech on the basis of what the Germans call strait-bared democracy, right, the protection of democracy requires that you not allow certain rhetoric, You bring that to the United States, you expand the definition of incitement, you expand the definition of damaging speech, and pretty soon, you have a complete shutdown of free speech and dissenting points of view.
01:05:06.000Because the left has a real tendency to expand the definition of harm.
01:05:11.000The speech that is free and does not call for violence, it could be incitement, it could be harmful, it could be damaging.
01:05:19.000The microaggression culture cultivated by the left Suggests that anything the right-wingers say, anything conservatives say, anything that Americans who simply are not woke say, is damaging in the extreme.
01:05:31.000If this becomes part and parcel of a broader attack on free speech, which it absolutely could, and there is every indicator that it will, That's a tremendous danger to the future of the Republic.
01:05:41.000The solution to all of this was, is, will continue to be the rebuilding of the social fabric.
01:05:50.000You condemn, in the strongest possible terms, actual violations of law.
01:05:55.000You condemn riots, no matter if you agree with the cause people are rioting for or you don't.
01:06:00.000You condemn rioting, you condemn violence.
01:06:02.000You say that it's disgusting because it is disgusting.
01:06:05.000You provide solidarity for people who are exercising their rights, but no solidarity for people who are violating the rights of others and violating the law.
01:06:16.000And yet all the political incentives are aligned in precisely the opposite direction.
01:06:20.000There are a lot of people who make bank off of telling you that things that are bad are good.
01:06:25.000There are a lot of people out there who make bank telling you that all of the people who you dislike politically, they're actually on the side of the devil.
01:06:33.000That they are morally evil, and that all the people who you like politically are actually on the side of the angels, no matter how bad they actually are.
01:06:43.000Look at your friends, look at your neighbors, look at your social groups.
01:06:45.000Realize that all of them, if they are good people, look at what happened yesterday with horror and shock.
01:06:51.000And that if we're all Americans, at least that much we should agree upon, and it doesn't matter if we're talking about violence done at the Capitol building or violence done in Kenosha, This kind of activity cannot go on in the United States of America.
01:07:01.000Yesterday was an egregious symbol of the state to which our republic has sunk.