Pro-Hamas protesters at Columbia University have reached a deal with the administration, but it's not a deal they were expecting. What's the difference between what's happening at Columbia and what's going on in the rest of America's colleges and universities? And who are the students who are making up the system, and why are they the ones with the leverage point in negotiations with the Administration? And why do they think they have the right to do so? Today's episode is brought to you by the Electronic Intelligencer, a media outlet that covers the intersection of journalism and politics, and is dedicated to exposing the lies and hypocrisy of the pro-Israel crowd. If you're a student at Columbia, you can join the conversation by using the hashtag , and tweet me to let me know what you think! if you have a story you d like me to get on the next episode. Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What are the differences between the two? 2:30 - Who's the real victim here? 3:15 - Why do they have a deal? 4:20 - Who are the real victims? 5:40 - Who is the real leverage point? 6:00 7:30 - What do the students have? 8:20 9:00 | Who are they fighting for? 11:30 | What do they want? 12:00 // Is there a deal ? 13: What are they getting? 15:00 / 16: How do they get to win? 16:10 17:10 | Who do they're fighting back? 18: What is the deal they got? 19:40 | How can they have any chance of winning? 21:40 22:20 | Where do they stand on the table? 26:40 // Is it possible? 27:30 // What do we have a chance to bargain? 25:00 @ what are they get out of this? 35:00 Is this deal better than the government going to do? 36: Is it better than that they can have it? ? 37: Is there any chance they're going to get more than they can negotiate? 39:30 / 40:00 Can they get more? 45:00 Are they going to be compensated? 47:00 Does the government have a choice?
00:00:00.000Well, folks, the protests that have broken out at America's college campuses don't look like they're going to stop anytime soon, at least not in the blue states, where all of the administrators and the government have decided to basically allow these puerile children, who are pro-terrorists, to continue their activities ad infinitum.
00:00:21.000NBC reporter Stephanie Gosk, she says that the protesters at Columbia University, for example, are not going anywhere despite the fact that the semester is coming to an end pretty soon.
00:00:31.000You know, Columbia University extended the deadline for the Tent Encampment here by 48 hours, but that deadline runs out tonight at midnight.
00:00:38.000And the students I have spoken with here say they aren't going anywhere.
00:00:42.000As you mentioned, tension around the country is growing, it's spreading, it's leading to dramatic confrontations with police and dozens of arrests.
00:00:52.000Well, as it turned out, the deadline for that deal passed and nothing happened because it turns out that the administrators are a bunch of cowards.
00:00:59.000They're running scared from their own faculty, they're running scared from themselves because they all agree with these students, obviously, and they are running scared from these students.
00:01:11.000The students who are doing this sort of stuff, 18, 19, 20-year-old students who are paying $80,000 a year or on scholarship to major in a useless field at a place like Columbia University, These are some of the richest, most privileged people in the history of the world by any stretch of the imagination.
00:01:27.000And yet there they are protesting, not just Israel, of course, not just in favor of actual honest-to-God terror groups, but against America.
00:01:35.000Because let's be real about what these people will like and what these people don't like.
00:01:38.000The thing they really don't like most of all is America and the West.
00:01:42.000The West that has given them extraordinary levels of privilege.
00:01:47.000They think that that West is the source of victimization.
00:01:50.000They think that West is exploitative, and they seek to tear it down.
00:01:54.000It's the only reason, as I've been saying for legitimately years at this point, that you would see something like Queers for Palestine, which is inherently self-contradictory.
00:02:42.000You don't have negotiations with students.
00:02:44.000The students pay their client to come to the university, but they're only a client under certain circumstances.
00:02:51.000Namely, they abide by the rules that apply to the clients in an establishment.
00:02:54.000If you walk into a restaurant, you're a client of the restaurant.
00:02:57.000If you proceed to take off your pants and underwear, they're going to have you arrested.
00:03:00.000You have now violated the rules of the establishment.
00:03:02.000Well, these students are in no position to quote-unquote bargain with the administration.
00:03:07.000They're not in a labor situation with the administration.
00:03:11.000They are not in any sort of forced relationship with the administration.
00:03:15.000So where exactly is the leverage point?
00:03:18.000The leverage point is simply the weakness of the administration.
00:03:20.000So here is Kaimani James announcing that he, she, they has had communications with the Columbia administration and has achieved concessions from the Columbia administration again.
00:03:32.000There's a large-scale difference between the administrations at universities like Columbia and what's happening down at University of Florida, for example, where you're also seeing some pro-Hamas protesters, but they've all been issued with rules, and the rules are you can use free speech, but you can't violate the following statutes.
00:03:48.000If you do, if you violate these statutes, you will be thrown out of the university, which is the way that universities ought to treat protests.
00:04:18.000Our negotiation team has committed not to participate in a bargaining process so long as the university attempts to extract concessions by police or military force.
00:04:29.000After forcing students, the majority of whom are Palestinian, Black, Brown, and Jewish students, From marginalized backgrounds to wait in the cold overnight to find out if they would be attacked and arrested by the NYPD or National Guard, early this morning we won the concession that the university will not call law enforcement on our peaceful protest.
00:04:54.000So, who are people like Kaimani James?
00:04:57.000Well, here's what we know about Kaimani James.
00:04:58.000This is a person who's been featured in the pages of the Boston Globe since his youth.
00:05:02.000Okay, so the Boston Globe actually ran a piece about Kaimani James in 2021, talking about this incredible activist.
00:05:10.000Quote, as a global pandemic raged last fall and battles over school reopening plans turned bitter, a 17-year-old high school senior named Kaimani James was sworn in as the student representative on Boston's school committee.
00:05:21.000From the confines of his bedroom, where he logged into marathon school committee meetings on Zoom and peppered Twitter with his sharp critiques and pointed questions, James became an unlikely force in Boston politics last winter as he advocated for the city's 50,000 students.
00:05:34.000Outspoken and relentless in his quest for answers, the teenager's direct approach at times contrasted starkly with the more cautious, guarded takes of his school committee elders, all of them political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the mayor.
00:05:45.000You know that expression defies the laws of physics?
00:05:47.000I defy the laws of politics, James said.
00:05:49.000I answer to the students, and not to anyone else.
00:05:53.000Known for his scathing critiques of Boston schools, James is also a sterling example of the system's potential.
00:05:59.000A young black man raised by a single immigrant mother in a South Boston housing development, nurtured by teachers who recognized his potential, accepted by one of the city's best public high schools, and then by a prestigious Ivy League college, Columbia University.
00:06:08.000So in other words, the system worked to help a person from an impoverished background get ahead, and he proceeds to attack the system.
00:06:17.000Because this is what makes you famous in America today as a young person.
00:06:20.000If you wish for attention, the best way to attain attention, if you're a young person at this point, is aggressive victimhood, an aggressive sense of aggrievement, even from a society that is helping you along at every step, that wants to see you succeed.
00:06:33.000And the best shield you have against a claim that you are not in fact being victimized, you are being helped, is your intersectionality.
00:06:39.000Because no matter how many times you say, the system has helped you get ahead, the system has helped you go from impoverished single mom background to Columbia University, you can say, ah, but I am still a victim of that same system.
00:06:50.000Because after all, I am fill in the blank, black, gay, trans, Palestinian, queer, whatever term you want to use.
00:06:59.000We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:08:02.000This entire Boston Globe piece, which again, is about a 17 year old, is about a person who has been cultivating professional victimhood for his entire teenage lifetime.
00:08:12.000There's a picture of him, for example, chanting with a crowd during a March for Our Lives rally in 2018.
00:08:30.000According to the Boston Globe, just a little later, quote, a high school senior resigned as Boston School Committee's student representative Thursday, saying administrators had silenced students' voices and that he has deep concerns about a nonprofit group that oversees the district-wide student council.
00:08:45.000Kaimani James, a senior at Boston Latin Academy, said he stepped down after concluding that the district's leaders, including administrators, staffers, and school board members, were racist and adultist in overlooking concerns by him and his fellow students, most of whom are Black and Latino.
00:08:59.000Another dozen students with similar complaints resigned from the Boston Student Advisory Council, according to a district-wide student government board, according to James.
00:09:07.000He said, I had no choice but to resign.
00:09:10.000I can't be part of a system that tells kids, oh, we're listening to you,
00:09:12.000but their actions are the complete antithesis.
00:09:15.000Okay, well, here's the thing about Kaimani James.
00:09:18.000Again, this is a person who has cultivated victimhood his entire lifetime, and you can see the apotheosis of this approach in a disciplinary hearing that was held with Kaimani James and the Columbia University administration.
00:09:31.000I'm using him as an example because he's a stand-in for literally tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of idiot students the country over.
00:09:39.000So Kaimani James was called on the carpet by Columbia's administration a few months ago.
00:11:16.000today. Do you see why that's problematic in any way? No. Do you think that there's a serious
00:11:22.000weight in taking someone's someone else's life? I think there is a serious weight in taking
00:11:28.000someone's life. Um, and And at the same time, I think that taking someone's life in certain case scenarios is necessary and better for the overall world.
00:11:41.000And so I personally have never killed anyone.
00:11:43.000Thank the Lord that no one has put me in that position.
00:11:51.000Everyone looks back at that time period and said that Hitler needed to die because he was exacting an immense amount of harm against the world.
00:12:03.000And so just like that, during Okay, pause it right there.
00:12:06.000Okay, this is... Okay, so, here is the line of argument from this radical who has been pampered by the system.
00:12:11.000masters in order to gain their independence. These were masters who were white supremacists.
00:12:17.000What is a Zionist? A white supremacist. And so let's be very clear here.
00:12:23.000Okay, pause it right there. Okay, this is, okay, so here's the line of argument from
00:12:27.000this radical who has been pampered by the system. Boston Latin Academy, Boston Public
00:12:35.000School Board, Columbia University, and now has been adding on the various armorial protections
00:12:43.000of intersectionality in order to act as a shield against his own radicalism.
00:12:47.000I'm not being attacked because I'm wrong or terrible or pro-Hamas or promoting actual murder.
00:12:52.000I'm being attacked because I'm gay, trans, queer, non-binary, black, right?
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00:14:05.000So, this person says, this person put out a statement saying that he wanted to kill Zionists.
00:14:10.000Not gonna come to fight, I'm gonna come to kill.
00:14:13.000And then this person goes further and says that, basically, there have been justified deaths in history.
00:14:19.000Among the justified deaths, according to Kaimani James, are the deaths of Hitler, and also, apparently, all the violence of the Haitian Revolution.
00:14:27.000Now, the Haitian Revolution, we should point out at this point, was the most violent uprising in The history of slave uprisings.
00:14:36.000About 75,000 white people died during the Haitian Revolution, including the mass killing of families.
00:14:41.000So, there are a lot of problems with the actual activities of the Haitian revolutionaries.
00:14:46.000Even if you agree with their cause, which I think everyone does.
00:14:52.000He then says that just like French white people deserve to be killed during the Haitian Revolution, just like Hitler deserved to die, because Hitler did deserve to die, so too do Zionists, who are in fact just white supremacists.
00:15:05.000Now again, this is a nonsensical argument.
00:15:08.000Zionists as white supremacists makes zero sense.
00:15:10.000First of all, you are assuming Under this rubric that every Jew is white, which is not true.
00:15:16.000Second, you are assuming that Jews fit within white in the intersectional hierarchy, which again is weird since if you're talking about historically victimized peoples, the Jews rank number one on the list.
00:15:30.000You don't have to do comparative victimhood, though, for Jews, because, again, Jews also are disproportionately successful, which is why they're quote-unquote white supremacists, right?
00:15:37.000The viewpoint here that is being promoted by Kaimani James is that because Jews are disproportionately successful both in the Middle East and in the United States, they are white supremacists.
00:15:45.000And calling for a Jewish state, which is what Zionism is, just that the Jews deserve a state just like there are Christian states and Muslim states, that is a form of white supremacy, even though more than half of the Jews in Israel are brown.
00:16:01.000In any case, Kaimani James then continues.
00:16:03.000So basically he's making the case that every person who is for a Jewish state should be killed because they're like Hitler or like the white people who were killed during the Haitian Revolution.
00:16:16.000I'm not saying that I'm gonna go out and start killing Zionists.
00:16:23.000What I'm saying is that if an individual who identifies as a Zionist threatens my physical safety in person, i.e. puts their
00:16:34.000hands on me, I am going to defend myself.
00:16:37.000And in that case scenario, it may come to a point where I don't know when to stop.
00:16:43.000Does that make sense? I understand what you're saying.
00:16:50.000There should not be Zionists anywhere. Zionists are Nazis.
00:16:56.000For my identity as a black queer woman in New York City, obviously if I'm on a train and I'm
00:17:02.000sexually assaulted or harassed in some way, I may send the right slaps on, right?
00:17:07.000Doing and saying that versus saying that, you know, you fight to kill and you made a comment earlier where you stated that you may not know your own strengths behind why or you may not have the resistant to stop, right?
00:17:24.000That is kind of like what I'm taking from what you were sharing, that it could get to that point.
00:17:30.000Okay, both of them have taken a break, everyone.
00:18:38.000I just wanted to throw that out there.
00:18:40.000So I'm not too keen on going to, but yeah, these are two black women in the meeting, just in case y'all couldn't tell already, But these are two black women.
00:19:28.000A lot of people agree that Hitler needed to die in order for world order to move forward and in order to establish some inkling of world peace.
00:19:41.000And so if we can agree as a society, as a collective, that people, that person, some persons need to die if they have an ideology that results in the deaths of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions.
00:20:02.000If there are people like that who exist, shouldn't they die?
00:20:08.000Why would we want people who are supporters of genocide to live?
00:20:41.000Kaimani James was accepted to Columbia after being called into a school committee meeting and saying, quote, I hate white people in 2021, and then ended up at Columbia.
00:20:54.000So when you wonder what's going wrong with the next generation, understand that people like Haimani James have been pampered.
00:21:00.000They've been bred by an entire ideology that suggests that power lies in aggressive statements of victimhood that allow you to literally call for wiping entire groups of human beings off the planet Earth based on ideology.
00:21:14.000That is That's what these protesters are.
00:21:19.000And the reason I spend so much time with this person is because it's indicative of something broader and deeper.
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00:22:24.000Whenever people try to box in what's happening on these college campuses, they say, well, it's just about Hamas, or it's just about Israel.
00:22:31.000Do you want the future of the West to look like this?
00:22:33.000Do you want it to look like a bunch of mewling children who have been pampered by the system, have been given every opportunity by the system, and then wish to tear that system down in the name of some sort of transgressive value cult?
00:22:48.000People with murderous intent toward people of other groups, like whites and Jews, Does that seem like the kind of future you want to build here?
00:22:58.000And why precisely is the administration humoring all of this?
00:23:04.000Why is the administration humoring all of this?
00:23:05.000And the answer is the administration is humoring all this because the administration at a root level agrees with all of this.
00:23:10.000They do not like the system that they themselves are purveying.
00:23:15.000This is what happens when the revolutionaries end up running the system.
00:23:21.000Remember, every administrator, every college president in the country right now, there's huge swaths of them.
00:23:27.000These are all people who came up during the 60s and 70s when all of the good classical liberals were thrown out and the wild leftists came in.
00:23:35.000And now they don't know what to do with the next generation of wild leftists.
00:23:38.000And so they're allowing the wild leftists to basically run the campus.
00:23:41.000So, for example, USC has now canceled its main commencement ceremony after protests and arrests.
00:23:47.000According to Axios, USC is the first known major university to cancel a graduation ceremony over the demonstrations, potentially opening the door for other schools with campus protests to follow suit.
00:23:58.000The main ceremony usually brings 65,000 people to USC, but they're freaked out because they are deeply afraid that many of their own students are going to cause trouble.
00:24:09.000Meanwhile, at Northwestern University, faculty, according to Guy Benson, are allowing people to miss classes to attend the Hamas Solidarity Rally encampment that the university has clearly stated violates policy and is not permitted.
00:24:21.000One class has actually been moved to the site of the illegal protest.
00:24:27.000Meanwhile, the authorities are arresting some people across the country, but certainly not enough.
00:24:33.000In red states, these things are not continuing, because in red states, it turns out that the government is in fact stepping in and arresting people who are violating the law, and if they keep violating the law, they will keep getting arrested.
00:24:44.000It is only in blue states, where they continue to foster flag-burning, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah, anti-Western radicals taking over these campuses, and then they negotiate with them.
00:24:54.000And here's the thing, Joe Biden is going to continue to allow all of this to happen.
00:24:58.000So Republicans have been calling for a cut to federal funding for universities that allow for the violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which is, in fact, the proper response by the federal government to universities violating federal law.
00:25:11.000Now, again, you want to argue with the content of the Civil Rights Act with regard to what sort of speech is protected on campus and all the rest?
00:25:41.000There is no point at which the revolution is actually achieved.
00:25:45.000According to Politico, there are a few bars that you have to pass in order to get the federal funding out of these universities.
00:25:51.000First, an investigation from the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights.
00:25:56.000That can take a while, but there's no reason it has to take a while.
00:26:01.000Also, antisemitism has not been defined under civil rights law in the same way that, for example, anti-black activity has, but if you are shouting, if you are shouting about the Yehud, that's a pretty good indicator that antisemitism is being engaged in.
00:26:16.000Again, an environment of anti-Semitism has clearly been created on campuses like Columbia University.
00:26:22.000And Joe Biden has refused to even consider the possibility about pulling funds.
00:26:28.000The White House say they are closely monitoring the campus protests unfolding.
00:26:32.000Bates says, while every American, this is Andrew Bates, the spokesperson for the White House, while every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly anti-Semitic, unconscionable, and dangerous.
00:26:45.000They have no place on any college campus or anywhere in the United States of America.
00:26:48.000Yeah, but you're not doing anything about it, I noticed.
00:26:50.000And the reason they're not doing anything about it, they want the votes.
00:27:17.000There's not a person within five blocks.
00:27:19.000They have more police here than, and I call them New York spiders because that's what they are, and they don't want to be doing this either.
00:27:27.000They'd like to be straightening out conditions, and they'd like to be at the colleges and making sure that they don't have what's happening, because what's happening at the colleges is a disgrace.
00:27:37.000All over the world, People are laughing at us.
00:27:40.000This is the worst run country right now, probably anywhere.
00:27:56.000Statistically speaking, he is correct.
00:27:58.000You're talking about tens of thousands of students all across the country who are engaged in pro-Hamas rallies waving Hezbollah and Hamas flags.
00:28:06.000As opposed to a couple of hundred morons at the Unite the Rally, Unite the Right Rally.
00:28:10.000That was the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
00:28:12.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
00:29:17.000Trump put out a statement on Truth Social saying Crooked Joe Biden would say constantly that he ran because of Charlottesville.
00:29:22.000Well, if that's the case, he's done a really terrible job because Charlottesville is like a peanut compared to the riots and anti-Israel protests happening all over our country right now.
00:29:29.000And it's Crooked Joe's fault because he sends the wrong message every single time.
00:29:32.000The fact is that Crooked Joe Biden hates Israel and hates the Jewish people.
00:29:36.000The problem is that he hates the Palestinians even more and he just doesn't know what to do.
00:29:42.000I'm not sure exactly what he means by that.
00:29:45.000What is clear, however, is that Joe Biden is weak in the face of all of this, because he is, in fact, unbelievably weak in the face of all this.
00:29:52.000So the White House then blasted Trump for saying that Charlottesville was penis compared to this, but the White House won't even make clear statements.
00:29:59.000Joe Biden has made one statement so far, and in that statement, he has condemned the anti-Semitic activities on campus and also condemned people who, quote-unquote, don't understand the plight of the Palestinians, which is both sides in it, if ever there was some.
00:30:14.000Meanwhile, they've deployed the second gentleman, Douglas Emhoff, the only Jew they could find, to go speak with the Columbia University Hillel director, along with an Orthodox rabbi affiliated with the school.
00:30:27.000He called up the Hillel director, Brian Cohen, and Orthodox Union JLIC rabbi, Ellie Buckler, And he recognized that while every American has the right to freedom of speech and to protest peacefully, hate speech and calls for violence against Jews is both anti-Semitic and unacceptable.
00:30:43.000It was Kamala Harris's husband who shows up for asinine announcements about Hanukkah every year.
00:30:51.000Like, that's the official Jewish emissary, the envoy to the college kids who are Jewish and who are being intimidated off of campus.
00:30:59.000By the way, it's such, here's the thing, Joe Biden and his campaign, they're morons.
00:31:03.000You know how many points they could win with the American people for saying, people who burn American flags and fly Hamas flags and shout, from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free, and shout about the killing of Jews, that those people are disgusting and we don't want their votes?
00:31:14.000You know how many more votes you would win by doing that?
00:31:17.000Young people don't even care about this.
00:31:20.000There is a new poll out from the Harvard Youth Poll 2024.
00:31:27.000What are the issues that people actually care about?
00:31:30.000The major issues facing America, which is most important, at the very bottom of the heap of all the issues, number 16 of 16 is student debt, which Joe Biden has been trying to push out there, right?
00:31:41.000He's been saying, I'm going to alleviate all your student debt, now all the youngs will vote for me.
00:32:16.00034% among Democrats only 37% it is nearly last on the list And that is where Joe Biden is putting his focus because he has been completely captured by his idiot aides.
00:32:30.000Meanwhile, by the way, it should be worthwhile noting here that there is in fact a conflict in the Middle East in which Israel is in fact correct and Hamas is in fact wrong.
00:32:38.000But again, because Joe Biden wants to win those dearborn Michigan voters, he keeps trying to both sides it.
00:32:43.000Despite the fact that apparently, yesterday, remember, the United States is idiotically, in asinine fashion, now trying to build a humanitarian aid pier in the Mediterranean.
00:33:06.000Israel's been allowing hundreds of trucks of aid into the Gaza Strip every day for months.
00:33:11.000But now, Hamas is literally firing mortars at the humanitarian aid peer because they want the human suffering.
00:33:19.000They want the Palestinians to suffer, specifically so idiots on the left will continue to pretend that it's Israel doing it.
00:33:26.000UN officials were touring the site with Israeli troops at the time and they had to be rushed to a shelter by the Israeli troops.
00:33:32.000So once again, the Israelis protecting the UN and Hamas firing at the UN and the UN targeting the Israelis.
00:33:38.000Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court, which is just a wretched hive of scum and villainy, right?
00:33:43.000Again, the ICC is a pseudo court set up by the United Nations that supposedly has the power of international law behind it.
00:33:51.000But really what it is, is it's just a bunch of far left And evil states that combine to target whomever they seek to target in the ICC.
00:33:59.000It has no real enforcement power unless you can get another one of the states, particularly in Europe, to enforce the rulings of the ICC.
00:34:06.000They're now attempting to bring individual cases against the Israeli prime minister, the Israeli defense minister, and the head of the Israeli army.
00:34:13.000They're literally criminalizing the existence of the State of Israel at the International Criminal Court.
00:34:18.000The United States should pull its money forthwith.
00:34:20.000The ICC has always been a stupid idea, just like the UN.
00:34:23.000Both the ICC and the UN ought to be disbanded.
00:34:25.000The United States ought to pull all funding from both of these organizations because they are in fact trash.
00:34:29.000By the way, how do we know they're trash?
00:34:30.000The United States won't even make itself subject to the ICC.
00:34:34.000The United States has laws on the books that prevent its military from being dragged into the ICC.
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00:37:16.000Meanwhile, Democrats were hoping that Jack Smith's January 6th case was going to take Trump out of contention for the presidency, that they get a conviction really quick up in Washington, D.C., and this would allow Donald Trump to be convicted federally, and then he would be in a federal prison for the election.
00:37:33.000He still has a state trial going on in New York over this dumb hush money case.
00:37:44.000The real question is whether he changed the outcome of the 2016 election illegally by paying hush money to a couple of ladies he had allegedly shtooped.
00:37:55.000But the other case that's very dangerous for him obviously is the January 6th case.
00:38:00.000Well, Jack Smith has brought this case, and the Trump defense suggested that Trump has presidential immunity for his activities leading up to and on January 6th.
00:38:11.000And the argument, basically, is you can't prosecute a president after he leaves office, because if you prosecute a president after he leaves office, then you could prosecute him for literally anything.
00:38:20.000There are many circumstances in which a president does something that if you were not the president, it could have legal ramifications.
00:38:27.000And if you just start prosecuting presidents post-presidency for things they did while they were president, well, then you're going to create a horrible set of incentive structures.
00:38:37.000Number one, the president won't be able to do things he actually does need to do.
00:38:40.000Number two, the president's never going to want to not be president.
00:38:42.000He's not going to give up that power very easily.
00:38:45.000The argument that was made by Jack Smith and company is that there is no presidential immunity.
00:38:49.000Now, where the Supreme Court is likely to land on this case is there is some form of presidential immunity, but only for actions within the scope of presidential duty.
00:38:58.000That if you're talking about things that are outside the scope of presidential duty, then you could theoretically be prosecuted post-presidency for all of that.
00:39:06.000Like, Richard Nixon could have been prosecuted post-presidency, which is why he needed a pardon, after Watergate, for example, because that was done outside the scope of presidential duty.
00:39:14.000I have a feeling that's where the Supreme Court is going to land, but it's going to take months for the Supreme Court to rule on this case, and that may take us past the election, thereby taking this January 6th case off the table.
00:39:24.000According to the New York Times, The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared ready on Thursday to rule that former presidents do have some degree of immunity from criminal prosecution, a move that could further delay the criminal charge against Trump on charges he planned to subvert the 2020 election.
00:39:39.000Such a ruling would likely send the case back to the trial court, ordering it to draw distinctions between official and private conduct.
00:39:44.000Which, by the way, is the proper and correct answer, and you can see why.
00:39:49.000Justice Samuel Alito was the second best justice on the court after Clarence Thomas.
00:39:53.000He says, if the president doesn't have immunity, then won't you have a problem with presidents never wanting to leave office?
00:40:01.000I'm sure you would agree with me that a stable democratic society requires that a candidate who loses an election, even a close one, even a hotly contested one, leave office peacefully if that candidate is the incumbent.
00:40:20.000Now, if an incumbent who Loses a very close, hotly contested election.
00:40:29.000Knows that a real possibility After leaving office, is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement, but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent.
00:40:47.000Will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?
00:40:57.000Alito then made another argument, which was, well, if we are now going to basically say that presidents can be prosecuted for anything they did while they were president, wouldn't that mean, for example, that FDR could have been prosecuted post-World War II for many of the actions that he took during World War II?
00:41:11.000And the Justice Department actually said yes.
00:41:13.000They said yes, if there were no presidential immunity at all, that is what the predictable result would be.
00:41:18.000Mr. Sauer and others have identified events in the past where presidents have engaged in conduct that might have been charged as a federal crime, and you say, well, no, that's not really true.
00:41:50.000Today, yes, given this court's decision in Trump versus United States in which the, you know, Trump versus Hawaii, excuse me, where the court said Korematsu is overruled.
00:42:08.000Now, on the other side of the aisle, obviously you do not want the president to have a complete immunity for anything you might do as president.
00:42:13.000So, for example, let's say the president orders the assassination of a political rival.
00:42:17.000So Justice Sonia Sotomayor, she asked that question.
00:42:20.000She said, well, if the president decides that his rival is corrupt and wants the military to kill him, could he just do that and then be immune for that?
00:42:27.000Now, I think, and your answer below, I'm going to give you a chance to say if you stay by it.
00:42:38.000If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?
00:42:58.000It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act.
00:43:17.000Okay, so again, I think that where the Supreme Court is likely to come down on this, they're likely to send this back to a lower court and say, no, there is no such thing as no presidential immunity, but we need to make clear what exactly the rules of presidential immunity are, which by the way, is the proper response.
00:43:31.000But on a formal level, what this means is that the January 6th case is gonna get kicked beyond the election, which is in fact a legal win for President Trump.
00:43:39.000Meanwhile, the economy is actually going the wrong way for President Biden.
00:43:44.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the dream of a Fed rate cut is slipping away.
00:43:48.000There was an economic report on Thursday.
00:43:51.000That economic report came in very weak.
00:43:53.000It showed a 1.6% GDP growth in the first quarter of the year, much weaker than expected.
00:44:00.000Not only that, Inflation continues to accelerate.
00:44:05.000The annualized GDP chain price, measuring how much prices have gone up or down in the economy, helping to track inflation, actually jumped up to 3.1% from 1.6%.
00:44:13.000So you're starting to see renewed inflation and worse economic growth, which is precisely what you'd expect to see from an overspending economy.
00:44:21.000Joe Biden has poured too much money into this economy.
00:44:42.000I'm trying to say, what are the range of possible outcomes?
00:44:45.000And last year and this year, I would put out the same issues.
00:44:48.000Huge amount of fiscal deficit, huge amount of QE, a lot of things in the future, inflationary, the green economy, the re-militarization of the world.
00:44:57.000Again, Joe Biden has run this economy really, really badly.
00:46:40.000So, our 47-minute review, you could watch almost three times and still spend about as much time as you would spend listening to Taylor Swift's latest album.
00:46:47.000Go check that out over at the YouTubes.
00:46:55.000Well now that Coachella has ended, it's second week has come to a close just last weekend, our Instagram timelines can finally be cleansed of a style that one can only call Hohemian.
00:47:07.000Style is usually front and center for the music festival, more important than the mostly horrible music from bands that are largely irrelevant.
00:47:14.000But this year, the cut has quite a take on the outfit scene.
00:47:23.000I was getting somewhat excited for this headline.
00:47:26.000Listen, I don't want to see Vanessa Hudgens dressing up as a bush or something and pretending it's a dress.
00:47:33.000I've assumed that most Coachella goers just walk into Urban Outfitters preparing and ask, sell me something that makes me look like a dirty homeless person.
00:47:40.000So I clicked the headline and looked to see if the outfits were too normal.
00:47:44.000And here are some of the actual photos that accompany the piece.
00:48:32.000Although I would never wear a New York Yankees hat.
00:48:35.000And meanwhile, A source has revealed to US Weekly in their newest issue that Megan Fox is currently re-evaluating her relationship with Machine Gun Kelly, which is interesting because I never evaluated it in the first place.
00:49:39.000But I'm not sure about this strategy for avoiding the stigma.
00:49:45.000I'm also curious about, like, so many elements of what went into the thinking here.
00:49:51.000First of all, if he went all the way up his face, then he's Justin Trudeau, right?
00:49:54.000But also, apparently, if you look at this tattoo more closely, I don't know how you would, but we're going to, if you did, you would see that there is a crouching homeless person in the tattoo with a sign that reads, I want change on his torso.
00:50:14.000I mean, I guess that's one way to get what you need at the supermarket.
00:50:18.000You go into the supermarket, give them a 20, I need change.
00:50:25.000Also, I mean, maybe he's worried about the cost of the breakup.
00:50:30.000The only good news about this tattoo is I suppose that you save money on clothing.
00:50:35.000Meanwhile, everyone's favorite rapping Hitler fan is back in the news.
00:50:40.000Kanye West, professionally known as Yeezy, or Ye, or Please Make This Stop, has decided to expand his empire into more than just underwhelming new music and overrated shoes.
00:50:51.000He is now jumping into the world of adult entertainment.
00:50:53.000I mean, he was married to Kim Kardashian, so I guess back into the world of adult entertainment?
00:50:58.000Ye has confirmed reports he is setting up his very own pornography studio.
00:53:55.000You realize how we've degraded as a society?
00:53:58.000We actually went from writing hieroglyphics on a wall, to human words, to actual plays of Shakespeare, and now we are back at emojis, and now we are losing the ability to speak language.
00:54:42.000What's funny about all of that is that he very famously, with all of his friends, left Twitter For another site called Mastodon that lasted for five seconds and now he is back on Twitter announcing it.
00:54:53.000As one would after being a giant failure.
00:54:56.000He also happens to be the world's most unfunny human being.
00:55:00.000So, so credit to McGill's for this fake onion headline.
00:55:04.000Man with no sense of humor inadvertently does the funniest thing.