The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump’s Senate Impeachment Trial, Day 2 | Ep. 1192

00:00:00.000 Democrats succeed in a vote to uphold the constitutionality of impeaching President Trump after he has left office.

00:00:05.000 Democrats push the case that Trump incited violence, but try to avoid culpability for their own violent rhetoric.

00:00:10.000 And the Biden administration continues to push radical policy under the radar.

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00:00:28.000 Slash, Ben, we'll get to all of the news in just a moment because we are at the beginning of the Senate conviction trial for President Trump over impeachment, day two.

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00:01:52.000 Yesterday, a vote was held in the day one of the Senate conviction trial for President Trump's impeachment.

00:01:58.000 The Senate decided to proceed with the trial.

00:02:01.000 Basically, there was a vote held last week.

00:02:03.000 It showed that 55 to 45, the Senate believed it was constitutional to hold an impeachment trial, a conviction trial for Trump after he had left office.

00:02:10.000 This was sort of an open constitutional question because certainly it's never been used against a president this way.

00:02:15.000 The constitutional case in favor of the constitutionality of Trump being tried after leaving office is that the punishment is not merely being kicked from office.

00:02:23.000 It is also being barred from future office.

00:02:25.000 Not only that, but he was actually impeached while he was in office.

00:02:28.000 He's now being tried for conviction after he leaves office.

00:02:31.000 So that's the constitutional case in short.

00:02:33.000 In favor of the constitutionality.

00:02:34.000 The constitutional case against is he's already out of office.

00:02:38.000 So what exactly are you removing him from?

00:02:40.000 There's nothing to remove him from.

00:02:41.000 Plus, when it comes to how this particular process has been run, the Supreme Court Chief Justice is supposed to preside over the process.

00:02:48.000 Here, you don't have that.

00:02:49.000 Here you have Pat Leahy from Vermont, who's actually presiding over a trial in which he is going to vote.

00:02:55.000 The Republicans are claiming that this is unfair.

00:02:57.000 Bottom line is this.

00:02:58.000 They took a vote on this last week.

00:02:59.000 They took another vote on it yesterday.

00:03:01.000 The Democrats certainly had enough of a vote majority to push forward with the actual trial.

00:03:06.000 It was 55-45 last week.

00:03:08.000 Last night it was 56-44.

00:03:10.000 Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana switched his vote.

00:03:12.000 So this was the content of the trial yesterday.

00:03:17.000 The content was, can we even go forward with the trial?

00:03:21.000 The 44 Republicans who agreed with Trump's claim a former president cannot be subjected to an impeachment trial seemed to all but guarantee he would have the 34 votes he needs on the final verdict to avoid conviction, according to the New York Times.

00:03:32.000 To succeed, the House managers would need to persuade at least 11 Republican senators to find Trump guilty in a trial they have deemed unconstitutional.

00:03:38.000 So look, it's a fait accompli.

00:03:39.000 He's not getting convicted in the Senate.

00:03:40.000 We all know this.

00:03:41.000 The Democrats know this.

00:03:42.000 The Republicans know this.

00:03:43.000 That puts to the side the question of whether he should be convicted.

00:03:47.000 In my opinion, the answer is no, the reason being that the standard that is laid out in the impeachment article is not a neutral standard that can be applied across the aisle.

00:03:54.000 If you're going to say that he is responsible for incitement, as we're going to get to in just a moment, you're also going to have to say that reckless rhetoric by a variety of politicians, which results in action that was unforeseeable, is going to be attributable to them, and therefore they also can be kicked out of the chamber.

00:04:08.000 That's going to hit a lot of members of Congress, a lot of senators, and a lot of future and past presidents, by the way.

00:04:13.000 So, in any case, the arguments were laid out yesterday.

00:04:16.000 Trump's lawyers did not do a good job by virtually all accounts.

00:04:18.000 Trump's lawyers were pretty bad.

00:04:20.000 There was a fellow named Caster, Bill Caster, who was one of Trump's lawyers, and he was not particularly good.

00:04:25.000 Jamie Raskin was given wide plaudits for his presentation of the pro-trial argument.

00:04:33.000 Jamie Raskin is, of course, a representative from Maryland.

00:04:37.000 He said, if we don't impeach Trump, that would create a January exception to the Constitution.

00:04:41.000 The case he's making, constitutionally, is that basically what you're saying is if you can't impeach him after he's left office, then let's say the president does something super duper duper duper corrupt on January 15th.

00:04:51.000 Well, I mean, now you're basically making the case the president can do whatever he wants so long as it is close enough to him leaving office.

00:04:57.000 Now, that does leave aside a couple of major issues.

00:05:00.000 One is that That kind of is true already for second-term presidents, right?

00:05:06.000 If you are a second-term president, then you being convicted after having been impeached, after leaving office, makes no difference.

00:05:13.000 You are legally barred by law from running for president of the United States again.

00:05:16.000 So if Barack Obama were to be impeached and convicted now, there would be no actual penalty that attaches because he's not actually legally allowed to run for president again.

00:05:24.000 So for second-term presidents, it already exists, this sort of January exception that Raskin is talking about.

00:05:29.000 But the broader argument is not a terrible one, which is that you don't actually want to create a feeling that the president of the United States can do whatever he wants in the final month without having to worry about any consequence whatsoever from Congress.

00:05:40.000 What it does suggest is that the proper measure here would have been censure, which is something that I had suggested months ago.

00:05:44.000 Kevin McCarthy had suggested it months ago.

00:05:46.000 The Democrats turned it down flat because, of course, they wish to force Republicans to the mat.

00:05:51.000 The idea here is they want Republicans to vote for Trump's impeachment and conviction and nothing else.

00:05:55.000 They don't want the opportunity for Republicans to distance themselves from Trump's actions without also voting for impeachment.

00:06:01.000 Here is Jamie Raskin making the case yesterday.

00:06:04.000 This would create a brand new January exception to the Constitution of the United States of America.

00:06:15.000 A January exception.

00:06:18.000 And everyone can see immediately why this is so dangerous.

00:06:23.000 It's an invitation to the president to take his best shot at anything he may want to do on his way out the door, including using violent means to lock that door, to hang on to the Oval Office at all costs.

00:06:39.000 Okay, so a couple of things.

00:06:41.000 Okay, so now he's making a case that he has not yet made, right?

00:06:44.000 That's the case that they're gonna try and make today, which is that Trump tried to violently overthrow the United States government, which is not true.

00:06:49.000 Okay, but...

00:06:51.000 Let's talk for a second about this so-called January exception. 0.98

00:06:54.000 The reality is that presidents do bad crap on the way out all the time.

00:06:57.000 Bill Clinton pardoned a bunch of his political allies on the way out of office. 0.73

00:07:00.000 This is very, very common.

00:07:02.000 Barack Obama did a bunch of terrible political stuff on his way out of office, up to and including his administration, monitoring the incoming Trump administration and sticking law enforcement on them without any sort of cause.

00:07:12.000 And so it turns out the presidents fairly often do this sort of thing.

00:07:15.000 We're on the way out the door.

00:07:16.000 They do a bunch of stuff that they knew they couldn't get away with if there were still two years left in their terms.

00:07:20.000 That's not a particularly strong argument.

00:07:22.000 However, Bruce Castor is the name of Trump's attorney.

00:07:24.000 He did not make a particularly compelling case yesterday.

00:07:26.000 He was trying to make the case that the impeachment was unconstitutional.

00:07:31.000 Even Trump himself was apparently very angry with Bruce Castor's performance yesterday.

00:07:34.000 Virtually every Republican senator was like, I don't know where you picked this guy up.

00:07:37.000 I don't know if he was like a personal injury attorney in Dubuque and you sort of grabbed him off the line and decided to throw him up there in impeachment trial.

00:07:44.000 But he did not receive plaudits.

00:07:45.000 Not a lot of great reviews for Bruce Castor yesterday.

00:07:49.000 If we go down the road that my very worthy adversary here, Mr. Raskin, asks you to go down, The floodgates will open.

00:08:02.000 The political pendulum will shift one day.

00:08:08.000 This chamber and the chamber across the way will change one day.

00:08:17.000 And partisan impeachments will become commonplace.

00:08:22.000 Okay, so he's not wrong about that part, right?

00:08:24.000 The idea that there's going to be partisan impeachments all the way down.

00:08:27.000 He's not wrong about that.

00:08:28.000 Once you open the door to repeatedly impeaching a guy over and over and over, that does set a precedent.

00:08:33.000 Caster said, this was the most awkward moment, he sort of said, Jamie Raskin is doing an unbelievably good job here.

00:08:40.000 And we have responses to that stuff, but we'll get to that later.

00:08:42.000 It's like, okay, well, you know, you didn't need to do that.

00:08:44.000 That was not useful.

00:08:45.000 Here's Bruce Caster yesterday.

00:08:47.000 I'll be quite frank with you.

00:08:50.000 We changed what we were going to do on account that we thought that the House manager's presentation was well done.

00:08:59.000 And I wanted you to know that we have responses to those things.

00:09:05.000 We have counter-arguments to everything that they raised.

00:09:09.000 And you will hear them later on in the case from Mr. Van Der Veen and from myself.

00:09:15.000 So, um, not great.

00:09:16.000 Not great, Bob.

00:09:17.000 Meanwhile, Trump's other attorney, a guy named David Shane, he played tape of Democrats calling for impeachment since the very first days.

00:09:22.000 And this is a better case, right?

00:09:23.000 He's saying that when it comes to the constitutionality of impeaching Trump, that is one thing.

00:09:28.000 When it comes to the politics of impeaching Trump, it's pretty obvious the Democrats believe that Trump's illegitimate.

00:09:32.000 They've been after him since day one.

00:09:34.000 It was amazing to watch the media beclown themselves, by the way. 0.54

00:09:36.000 Just a quick side note as an Orthodox Jew.

00:09:38.000 The media, absolutely many in the media, beclowned themselves yesterday because Shane is an Orthodox Jew.

00:09:43.000 And there was one point where he took a swig of water.

00:09:45.000 And when he took a swig of water, he put his hand on his head.

00:09:47.000 And a bunch of people in the media were like, well, that's funny.

00:09:49.000 He put his hand on his head.

00:09:50.000 There's a leak, S.E.

00:09:51.000 Cupp from CNN.

00:09:51.000 She's like, does he have a leak up there?

00:09:53.000 No, that's not how that works.

00:09:54.000 Just so folks know, I wear a yarmulke.

00:09:56.000 Well, the reason that Jews wear a yarmulke, Orthodox Jews wear a yarmulke, is because you're supposed to cover your head when you make a blessing. 0.96

00:10:00.000 You're supposed to make a blessing every time you have food or drink.

00:10:03.000 He was not wearing a yarmulke, so this happens fairly frequently.

00:10:06.000 If you're not wearing a yarmulke, you've forgotten to put one on, or you're not wearing one, and you want to make a blessing, you put your hand over your head.

00:10:12.000 In lieu of a yarmulke.

00:10:13.000 That's what was going on yesterday.

00:10:14.000 In any case, side point, but our culturally sensitive media, ever culturally sensitive, they went nuts over that and then later had to walk that back.

00:10:22.000 In any case, Shane played tape of Democrats calling for impeachment since the very first days, and this of course is true.

00:10:27.000 Who I may well be voting to impeach.

00:10:29.000 Donald Trump has already done a number of things which legitimately raise the question of impeachment.

00:10:35.000 I don't respect this president and I will fight every day until he is impeached!

00:10:42.000 That is grounds to start impeachment proceedings.

00:10:44.000 Those are grounds to start impeachment.

00:10:46.000 Those are grounds to start impeachment proceedings.

00:10:48.000 Yes, I think that's grounds to start impeachment proceedings.

00:10:51.000 I rise today, Mr. Speaker, To call for the impeachment of the President of the United States of America.

00:11:01.000 So, yes, I mean, that happens to be right from Trump's attorney's team, which is, OK, you guys keep saying that he did something impeachable, but you've been saying he's been doing impeachable stuff since literally the day he arrived on the scene.

00:11:12.000 So take everything that you say with a grain of salt.

00:11:14.000 That said, was the case particularly compelling on a constitutional level?

00:11:18.000 Not particularly.

00:11:18.000 Bill Cassidy, the senator from Louisiana, he voted.

00:11:21.000 He switched his vote since last week.

00:11:22.000 He said, listen, Trump's legal team did a really crappy job on this particular issue.

00:11:26.000 Now, that doesn't mean Cassidy's voting for impeachment.

00:11:28.000 That means that he's voting in favor of the idea that it is constitutional to impeach.

00:11:32.000 Frankly, I tend to agree that it is constitutional to impeach a president after he has left office.

00:11:38.000 That doesn't mean I think that it should be done in this case, but as far as the actual legal constitutionality of the thing, I think there's a fairly strong case, fairly strong argument that it is constitutional to do that sort of thing after somebody has left office.

00:11:48.000 So if that is the standard that we are now going to apply, then I look forward to applying it into the future.

00:11:54.000 Here's Bill Cassidy making the case yesterday.

00:11:57.000 It was disorganized, random, had nothing.

00:12:01.000 They talked about many things, but they didn't talk about the issue at hand.

00:12:04.000 And so if I'm an impartial juror, and I'm trying to make a decision based upon the facts as presented on this issue, then the House managers did a much better job.

00:12:20.000 The issue at hand is, is it constitutional to impeach a president who's left office?

00:12:26.000 And the House managers made a compelling, cogent case, and the President's team did not.

00:12:35.000 All righty, so bottom line though is that it passes, but it doesn't pass with like flying colors.

00:12:40.000 The six senators who voted in favor of the constitutionality were the five from last week, plus Cassidy.

00:12:46.000 That is not going to be nearly enough to get Democrats across the finish line on actually convicting Trump in the Senate.

00:12:50.000 In just a second, we're going to get to what exactly is going to happen today in the impeachment trial, what is happening today in the impeachment trial in the Senate.

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00:14:21.000 Okay, so now we get beyond the sort of procedurals here and we get to the actual content of the impeachment trial.

00:14:26.000 Now, let's be frank about what this is all about.

00:14:28.000 What this is really all about for Democrats is political gamesmanship.

00:14:31.000 The New York Times essentially admitted as much today when they acknowledge that basically Democrats have a win-win scenario.

00:14:39.000 Either Trump is convicted, in which case they get a big victory, not going to happen, or Trump is not convicted, in which case they've had a chance for a couple of weeks to beat up on Republicans, and in the future they get to tie Republicans in PR fashion to what happened on January 6th, so they think.

00:14:54.000 There is one possibility that backfires, and that is the longer that it goes on, the less the American people seem to love it.

00:15:00.000 So here's what the polls show right now.

00:15:02.000 According to the New York Times, a majority of Americans support convicting Trump on an impeachment charge over his role in the Capitol riot on January 6th, only by a very slender margin, according to a range of recent polls.

00:15:13.000 While there's broad agreement Trump deserves at least some blame for the violence at the Capitol, the country remains more closely split over whether he deserves to be convicted by the Senate.

00:15:19.000 In fact, the views around this impeachment trial aren't very different from how things looked a year ago, when public opinion was tilted slightly in favor of removing Trump from office during his first impeachment trial.

00:15:28.000 Democrats have since gained control of the Senate, but they'd need a bunch of Republicans to vote with them. 0.77

00:15:32.000 Basically, the split is 56-44 in a CBS News YouGov poll.

00:15:37.000 56% of Americans saying that Trump should be convicted, 44% saying he should be acquitted.

00:15:41.000 But there are other polls that are way narrower.

00:15:43.000 There are 12% of Americans who said they have no opinion on this, and only 47% of Americans saying they're in favor of the impeachment, 40% opposed, according to the AP.

00:15:51.000 A Q poll, Quinnipiac University, found last week that 50% of Americans said the Senate should convict Trump, 45% said that it should not.

00:15:58.000 Okay, so bottom line is that Americans seem to be Pretty split on this particular issue.

00:16:05.000 And as time goes on, and as it becomes apparent that Trump is no longer in office, and as Congress continues to basically just posture, I think more and more Americans are going to say this is kind of a waste of time.

00:16:16.000 That's the reason why Chuck Schumer is rushing this thing forward.

00:16:18.000 He had an interest in getting this thing done fast.

00:16:20.000 He wants a quick strike, PR hit, gets to use this for the rest of time to smear the Republican Party with.

00:16:26.000 That is his goal here. 0.95

00:16:28.000 Then, of course, he says he's doing this in the name of unity, which, of course, is very, very silly.

00:16:31.000 Here is Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader, saying that, you know, we can't move on because that's not going to bring unity.

00:16:37.000 Yes, apparently only unity can be achieved by trying to lump every Republican in with the January 6th rioters, which is really what, from a PR level, from a comms level, communications level, that's what this trial is really all about.

00:16:48.000 It's not about Trump.

00:16:49.000 Trump is a background figure almost in this trial at this point.

00:16:52.000 Here is Chuck Schumer saying, hypocritically, that it's not going to bring unity to move beyond the trial.

00:16:56.000 Listen, I don't think that unity is the highest value.

00:16:59.000 I really don't.

00:17:00.000 But if your case is that in order for us to achieve unity, we have to push forward with an impeachment that half the country doesn't support, that's a weird way to achieve unity.

00:17:07.000 Here is Chuck Schumer.

00:17:10.000 Those who say let's move on, that brings unity, are false.

00:17:14.000 When you had such a serious invasion of the Capitol, Insighted by a president.

00:17:24.000 When you have such a serious charge, sweeping it under the rug will not bring unity.

00:17:30.000 It will keep the store open.

00:17:33.000 Okay, so here is my favorite part of the constitutional argument being made by Democrats.

00:17:39.000 So, one of the things they are now considering is blatantly unconstitutional.

00:17:43.000 If the impeachment trial fails, one of the things that they are currently considering is the possibility of invoking the 14th Amendment.

00:17:50.000 Which could be done by pure majority vote to bar Trump from running for office ever again.

00:17:53.000 They included that in the impeachment charge itself, but Trump did not quote-unquote engage in insurrection.

00:17:57.000 from holding office if they have quote unquote engaged in insurrection.

00:17:59.000 They included that in the impeachment charge itself, but Trump did not quote unquote engage in insurrection.

00:18:05.000 He left office as provided by law on January 20th with no sort of official support.

00:18:11.000 To bar him from office at this point would be pretty obviously a constitutional bill of attainder as Ed Morrissey writes over at Hot Air.

00:18:17.000 Nothing in the language of the 14th Amendment confers authority on Congress to do anything except waive a particular prohibition.

00:18:23.000 It prohibits people who have committed certain crimes from holding federal office.

00:18:27.000 Nothing in this denies these people from having due process in a court of law to make that determination of guilt in the first place, because the fact of the matter remains that you have to have due process of law in order to punish somebody this way.

00:18:38.000 Congress is not a court in any mode other than impeachment.

00:18:43.000 Democrats know it, by the way.

00:18:45.000 The fact is, Democrats know this, but they don't really care.

00:18:48.000 Steve Cohen is a Democrat from Tennessee, and he said, I know there's some concern about it being a bill of attainder.

00:18:53.000 I'm not concerned about that, because what he did was horrific.

00:18:56.000 This is the way the Democrats tend to think.

00:18:58.000 I don't really care about the constitutionality argument.

00:19:02.000 Two things can be true at once, as very often is true.

00:19:04.000 It can be constitutional to hold an impeachment trial after a person has left office.

00:19:07.000 Also, the people who are arguing that cannot care very much about the Constitution.

00:19:11.000 That can certainly be a possibility.

00:19:12.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to the actual argument being made by Democrats, and that is the incitement argument.

00:19:19.000 We'll get to why that falls short as well in just one second.

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00:20:34.000 Alrighty, so the Democrats actually started laying out their impeachment case yesterday.

00:20:38.000 Not just the constitutional case, the impeachment case.

00:20:40.000 That's really what Trump's lawyer was referring to earlier.

00:20:43.000 Castor was referring to the idea that, I thought this trial was supposed to be separated into the constitutional argument and then the content argument.

00:20:50.000 Democrats know this is a PR ploy, basically.

00:20:54.000 So they led off the bat with this 13-minute video.

00:20:58.000 effectively edited that showed Trump speaking and juxtaposed it with footage from the Capitol riot.

00:21:03.000 Here's a little bit of what that sounded like.

00:21:05.000 We're gonna walk down.

00:21:08.000 We're gonna walk down to the Capitol.

00:21:12.000 We are going to the Capitol, where our problems are.

00:21:23.000 It's that direction.

00:21:28.000 Fight like hell.

00:21:29.000 And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.

00:21:37.000 Okay, well, there's only one problem with this particular video.

00:21:39.000 And again, the juxtaposition is ugly.

00:21:41.000 What happened on January 6th was really, really ugly.

00:21:44.000 But the Democrats have to make the argument that Trump foreseeably incited a riot at the Capitol building, an unprecedented event in American history.

00:21:51.000 Right, so here's the thing with things being unprecedented.

00:21:53.000 Usually, they're not super foreseeable.

00:21:55.000 The part of this that made it foreseeable, in fact, was the fact that the FBI apparently was keeping tabs on people who were openly talking about storming the Capitol building in days prior, which means the January 6th events weren't the spurring event.

00:22:06.000 You can make the argument that Trump's overall argument was ginning people up.

00:22:10.000 That's true.

00:22:11.000 But you cannot make the argument, I think, in all good conscience, that Trump's January 6th speech itself incited the riot.

00:22:19.000 I mean, the man did say, peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol building, right?

00:22:24.000 That is what he said.

00:22:25.000 Okay, I have to say, this is pretty amazing.

00:22:27.000 Newsweek fact-checked this.

00:22:28.000 It just shows you again how corrupt the fact-checkers are.

00:22:30.000 They did a fact-check.

00:22:31.000 Did Trump say to peacefully and patriotically march to the Capitol?

00:22:34.000 Fact-check.

00:22:34.000 Mostly true.

00:22:36.000 Mostly true.

00:22:36.000 That's literally a direct quote of what he said.

00:22:38.000 But that never appeared in that Democratic video.

00:22:41.000 Instead, they just showed Trump saying, fight like hell and all this.

00:22:43.000 I mean, that is typical ramped up political rhetoric.

00:22:46.000 Democrats have said that sort of stuff from time immemorial.

00:22:48.000 So have Republicans.

00:22:50.000 Fighting politically is not the same thing as go invade the Capitol building and hit a bunch of police officers with polls.

00:22:56.000 That is not the same thing in any way, shape or form.

00:22:58.000 So basically what Democrats are attempting to do at this point is simply ramp up the emotional rhetoric.

00:23:03.000 That makes sense, again, for a PR trial, which this basically is.

00:23:06.000 David Cicilline, a Democrat, I believe he's from Louisiana, he was saying that January 6th was a national tragedy and Trump incited it.

00:23:12.000 This is their argument.

00:23:14.000 This was a national tragedy.

00:23:19.000 a disaster for America's standing in the world.

00:23:23.000 And President Trump is singularly responsible for inciting it.

00:23:28.000 As we will prove, the attack on the Capitol was not solely the work of extremists lurking in the shadows.

00:23:35.000 Indeed, does anyone in this chamber honestly believe that but for the conduct of President Trump, Okay, so here is the thing.

00:23:51.000 The standard that Ciceline is using right there, he says, does anyone believe that but for Trump's activity, that wouldn't have occurred?

00:23:57.000 The but for standard of causation is very rarely used in law.

00:24:00.000 Because the reality is, but for many things, this wouldn't have occurred.

00:24:04.000 But for Trump losing the election, this wouldn't have occurred.

00:24:06.000 But for universal mail-in balloting, this wouldn't have occurred.

00:24:09.000 Are those things responsible for the riot?

00:24:10.000 No.

00:24:11.000 The answer, of course, is no.

00:24:12.000 So Democrats are really not making a legal case.

00:24:14.000 They're really not making even a particularly convincing, I would say, political case.

00:24:19.000 But they are making an emotionally laden one.

00:24:21.000 And that, of course, is the entire point here.

00:24:22.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:25:44.000 Okay, so the case that is being made by Democrats over and over and over again is that it is Trump's violent rhetoric that drove what happened on January 6th, that he is responsible for incitement.

00:25:54.000 That is the argument that continually is made here.

00:25:57.000 And the media, of course, are backing this one to the hills.

00:26:00.000 And the media love this argument.

00:26:01.000 So CNN's Anderson Cooper, from a network that routinely made excuses for violence during the actual Black Lives Matter riots of the summer.

00:26:09.000 They had people like Chris Cuomo getting on air and talking about how it was just like the Boston Tea Party to burn down your local Walmart.

00:26:15.000 Anderson Cooper, it's like, you know, Trump supporters can't claim they love law and order.

00:26:17.000 Well, what if I hate what happened on January 6th?

00:26:20.000 Can I still claim I love Law & Order?

00:26:21.000 Because I do hate what happened on January 6th.

00:26:24.000 I thought that it was an act of evil.

00:26:25.000 But apparently, according to Anderson Cooper, unless you are willing to say that Trump is responsible for incitement of the riot, and people are deprived of their agency, and him saying peacefully and patriotically march on the Capitol, and then a riot ensuing, that those two things are so directly linked that he must be impeached.

00:26:42.000 If you're unwilling to vote how Anderson Cooper wants you to vote, in other words, this means you can't say you love Law & Order anymore.

00:26:47.000 The former president of the United States cannot claim to be a law and order president.

00:26:51.000 When you have the crowds chanting, kill the blue, you saw the hurling insults and fists and objects and the American flag and a hockey stick at officers, as you said, gouging out an eye.

00:27:04.000 An officer lost three fingers.

00:27:07.000 You know, one officer was killed, two others have died by suicide.

00:27:11.000 Any claim by them that they are lovers of law and order, it rings hollow, certainly after seeing that.

00:27:18.000 Okay, who is they?

00:27:20.000 Is it like everybody who doesn't, the 44% of Americans, 40% of Americans, who think that Trump is not directly responsible for what happened during the January 6th Capitol riots, which again, were unprecedented in American history.

00:27:31.000 When everybody watched with their jaw to the floor, it's because that hasn't happened before.

00:27:35.000 So saying that this was completely foreseeable by Trump is a stretch.

00:27:39.000 It is also true that you see from the Democrats over and over, they keep saying, new evidence is gonna drop and it's gonna show you just how involved the White House was.

00:27:46.000 Okay, anytime.

00:27:47.000 Like seriously, this is an impeachment trial, anytime.

00:27:50.000 They've been saying for weeks that Republican members of Congress were complicit in the attack.

00:27:54.000 They've been saying that members of Congress were scoping the hallways for the Capitol rioters.

00:27:59.000 I mean, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez accused Ted Cruz of being an accomplice to attempted murder.

00:28:04.000 Like, any time you guys want to show this evidence, it would be fan-freaking-tastic.

00:28:07.000 Because you know what convinces me?

00:28:09.000 Not your ramped-up rhetoric.

00:28:10.000 What convinces me, actually, is the evidence.

00:28:12.000 So let's see the evidence.

00:28:14.000 If Trump was planning the January 6th riots, then...

00:28:17.000 Let's see it.

00:28:18.000 And him tweeting out that it's gonna get wild on January 6th.

00:28:22.000 Okay, everybody tweets that it's gonna, like seriously, a lot of people tweet things like, it's going to get wild at my rally.

00:28:27.000 They don't mean that we are going to go storm the Capitol building and attack police officers as a general rule.

00:28:34.000 And when it comes to Trump's tweets and him tweeting wild things, we're supposed to believe that that is what is directly responsible for a bunch of nuts and evil people storming the Capitol building of the United States?

00:28:47.000 But again, this is the goal here.

00:28:49.000 And the standard that is being used here essentially is, if a bad thing happened, and it did, And the people who did the bad thing credit Trump, then we have to take them super duper seriously.

00:28:58.000 This is what Philip Bump at the Washington Post is arguing, quote, Over and over and over, arrested rioters say what spurred them?

00:29:03.000 Trump.

00:29:04.000 And Philip Bump says, It's been a month since an armed mob stormed the U.S.

00:29:07.000 Capitol to try to prevent Congress from counting the electoral votes cast after the 2020 presidential election.

00:29:12.000 The riotous mob was largely made up of supporters of President Donald Trump, who called on his base to come to Washington on January 6th for a wild protest of election results he'd spent months trying to discredit.

00:29:21.000 That morning, he encouraged those who had made the trip to fight for their country and to march for the Capitol.

00:29:24.000 They did.

00:29:26.000 It's worth putting a fine point on two things.

00:29:28.000 The first is that the effects of the day's violence are still tangible.

00:29:31.000 Second, its proximate cause is no less murky.

00:29:33.000 Hours before the impeachment trial began in the Senate on Tuesday, federal law enforcement officers in Georgia arrested Benjamin Torrey, one of those accused of breaching the Capitol that day.

00:29:41.000 Like so many others who have already been arrested, Torrey left a wide trail on social media pointing to his participation in the day's events.

00:29:47.000 Tory's only most recent person to be arrested, but he may not be by the time you read this.

00:29:51.000 Nearly every day since January 6th, law enforcement officials have arrested someone allegedly involved in storming the Capitol.

00:29:56.000 By the way, this is a quick note. 0.98

00:29:57.000 The entire media ran with the blatantly stupid line that law enforcement was biased against black people because they weren't arresting people for the Capitol riot. 0.99

00:30:05.000 They've been arresting people every single day for the Capitol riot. 0.99

00:30:08.000 They were understaffed at the time, which was the entire problem.

00:30:11.000 But, says Philip Bump over at the Washington Post, from those who have already been arrested, we hear a consistent refrain, they were there to support Trump, or in their view, there at his behest.

00:30:21.000 Okay, so I have a question.

00:30:23.000 The congressional baseball shooter literally quoted Bernie Sanders while shooting people.

00:30:29.000 If he said I'm here because I believe this is what Bernie would have wanted me to do, does that mean that we would have to charge Bernie Sanders with incitement or see him as an accomplice to attempted murder?

00:30:38.000 I don't think so.

00:30:40.000 During the Black Lives Matter riots, if you had asked Black Lives Matter rioters why you were doing this, they would articulate the exact same arguments made by people like Nicole Hannah-Jones over at the New York Times.

00:30:48.000 Who, by the way, tweeted that she was very excited that people were calling the riots the 1619 riots.

00:30:55.000 Is she responsible for the... I don't think she's responsible for the riots.

00:30:57.000 I think she's responsible for all the stupid crap that comes out of her mouth and pen, but I don't think that she's responsible for the riots. 0.99

00:31:02.000 Using the argument that people who committed criminal acts cite this person as the inspiration for those criminal acts does not mean that a rational mind would say that the activity of politically Ramping up the rhetoric, politically being inflammatory the way that Trump often is, or even politically saying things that are not true, as I think Trump was doing during the post-election cycle. 1.00

00:31:25.000 That that is responsible for people doing something unprecedented in American history.

00:31:28.000 And here's the thing.

00:31:29.000 Here's the thing.

00:31:30.000 People on the left know this.

00:31:31.000 They know this.

00:31:33.000 Right?

00:31:33.000 This is why they are very much afraid of the argument that is being made by people on the right, which is, you guys, you use rhetoric like this all the time.

00:31:40.000 So to take an example, Jimmy Kimmel, obviously a supporter of conviction, impeachment, and loading Trump onto a trebuchet and launching him into space.

00:31:51.000 Jimmy Kimmel, a great moral arbiter, Pope Kimmel over here.

00:31:55.000 He says that when Trump was using this sort of language, then he should have known that there were people who would have gone and done this because you can't expect people to understand hyperbole.

00:32:05.000 Here was Jimmy Kimmel.

00:32:07.000 His lawyers are saying he's not responsible because people should have known he was using hyperbole when he told them to fight like hell.

00:32:16.000 And then they ran down the street.

00:32:18.000 The guy in the Viking costume and the lady with the words Camp Auschwitz printed on her XXXL sweatshirt should know what hyperbole is.

00:32:28.000 Okay, but that's the entire point.

00:32:29.000 Now you're making my point.

00:32:30.000 So we are going to judge whether somebody was using hyperbole or not by nut cases?

00:32:35.000 That's how we're going to judge this?

00:32:37.000 So when Bernie Sanders... I cite this case because this was a case where people were actually shot and somebody was nearly murdered.

00:32:43.000 Okay, so that's a case where actual violence ensued.

00:32:46.000 If that shooter was shouting, this is for healthcare, right after Bernie Sanders had suggested repeatedly and openly that Republicans' healthcare plan was for you to die, That is a hyperbolic statement, is it not?

00:33:00.000 That Republicans' healthcare plan was for you to die?

00:33:02.000 That was not a true statement.

00:33:03.000 It's hyperbole.

00:33:05.000 The vast majority of rational human beings understand that that is political hyperbole.

00:33:09.000 But according to Jimmy Kimmel's argument, we can now say that Bernie Sanders should have known that it would impact nut cases in such a way that they would probably go and shoot other fellow members of Congress.

00:33:18.000 That's not the way any of this works.

00:33:20.000 We don't judge whether rhetoric is responsible for activity by taking people who are the nuttiest among us and then saying, well, we should have known that those nuts were going to go do something terrible.

00:33:30.000 If we use the nuttiest and their behavior as the standard for what we can and cannot say, there's gonna be very little we can and cannot say because it turns out that people who do evil, crazy things very often do not need an excuse to do evil or crazy things and or misinterpret things on a regular basis because they are evil and crazy.

00:33:47.000 So Jimmy Kimmel knows this.

00:33:48.000 You know who else knows this?

00:33:49.000 Yamiche Alcindor over at PBS.

00:33:51.000 So Yamiche Alcindor, who is not a journalist, right?

00:33:52.000 She's a pseudo-journalist. 0.85

00:33:53.000 She's an activist. 0.55

00:33:55.000 She says, you know, when Republicans cite rhetoric from like Maxine Waters and Kamala Harris, you know, there wasn't a storming of the Capitol after Maxine Waters and Kamala Harris spoke.

00:34:03.000 Here she was making this case.

00:34:05.000 The Trump team, as you've reported, also is going to be bringing out this video, trying to say, here are what Democrats said.

00:34:11.000 Here's why they're just like President Trump.

00:34:13.000 But I think the thing that's going to be so obvious is going to be that there wasn't a storming of the Capitol after Maxine Waters or Senator Harris, then-Senator Harris, had fiery speeches.

00:34:25.000 Senator Harris literally tweeted out support for rioters in the middle of the riot.

00:34:30.000 Senator Harris tweeted out a link to a bail fund for people who'd been arresting for looting and rioting in Minneapolis.

00:34:37.000 So, yeah, that does have something to do with the violence.

00:34:40.000 In fact, it has more directly to do with the violence than what Trump said on January 6th.

00:34:45.000 So Democrats know that this argument is not a winning argument.

00:34:48.000 They just understand that if they show the video of January 6th over and over and over again, that people are justifiably upset about January 6th, and they hope to link all Republicans to it.

00:34:55.000 That is the purpose of this entire exercise.

00:34:57.000 That's the purpose of this entire exercise.

00:34:59.000 They tried to do this yesterday with Mike Lee, and full disclosure, Senator Lee is a friend of mine.

00:35:04.000 I think that he's maybe the most honest guy in Congress, and he was making the case that when it comes to Democrats, he's not even talking about Trump here, he says Democrats say inflammatory stuff all the time, and we don't, We don't pretend that the inflammatory rhetoric used by Democrats is responsible for incitement.

00:35:19.000 Everybody gets a mulligan, right?

00:35:20.000 That's what he was saying.

00:35:21.000 He was talking about Democrats.

00:35:22.000 The media immediately took this and suggested that what he meant is that Trump should get a mulligan for his rhetoric, which is not what he was saying in the first place.

00:35:28.000 In any case, here was Senator Lee.

00:35:30.000 These are outgrowths of the same natural impulse that exist from time to time among anyone in this business and in many other businesses.

00:35:40.000 Look, everyone makes mistakes, everyone's entitled to a mulligan once in a while and I would hope I would expect that each of those individuals would take a mulligan on each of those statements, because in each instance, they're making it deeply personal.

00:35:54.000 They're ceasing to make it about policy.

00:35:56.000 Instead, they're talking about getting up in people's faces and making individuals feel perfectly uncomfortable.

00:36:04.000 And that's not helpful.

00:36:06.000 Okay, so there he's explicitly referencing Maxine Waters and Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.

00:36:11.000 And he's giving the standard that I think most rational people give, which is people use inflammatory rhetoric in politics all the time.

00:36:17.000 It is bad.

00:36:18.000 It does not mean that you're responsible for incitement necessary that you should be removed from office.

00:36:22.000 Here's the thing.

00:36:22.000 The Biden administration does this too.

00:36:24.000 Jen Psaki was specifically asked whether Democrats using incendiary rhetoric was different from Trump.

00:36:28.000 And she dodged the question, of course.

00:36:31.000 The former president's lawyers argue, based on the briefs that they have filed, that some Democrats have used incendiary rhetoric.

00:36:38.000 How does the White House view that as any different?

00:36:43.000 Look, Joe Biden is the president.

00:36:44.000 He's not a pundit.

00:36:45.000 He's not going to opine on the back-and-forth arguments, nor is he watching them, that are taking place in the Senate.

00:36:53.000 Mm-hmm.

00:36:53.000 So yeah, we're gonna skip right over that one.

00:36:55.000 Which makes perfect sense, right?

00:36:57.000 Of course they're gonna skip over that one, because that is not an argument that Democrats even want to deal with.

00:37:01.000 There were widespread riots that resulted in $2 billion in damage.

00:37:05.000 They were the most damaging riots in American history.

00:37:07.000 And they happened this summer.

00:37:09.000 And there were Democrats actively cheering it on.

00:37:11.000 They don't want this argument.

00:37:13.000 This is why they tried to disappear it off the front pages in real time.

00:37:15.000 This is why they lied to you in the media, suggesting that these were quote-unquote mostly peaceful protests.

00:37:20.000 And they were mostly peaceful in the sense that the vast majority of protests did not result in massive property damage.

00:37:25.000 But that is no standard for whether a movement is peaceful or not.

00:37:31.000 Most of the stuff lots of movements do is peaceful.

00:37:34.000 And then there's, you know, the part where they're not so peaceful.

00:37:37.000 But Democrats don't want to talk about any of that because then, of course, we get into very uncomfortable territory.

00:37:40.000 So understand what this impeachment trial is and what it is not.

00:37:43.000 It is really not.

00:37:44.000 There are some members of Congress who I think are honestly trying to determine whether Trump did something impeachable.

00:37:49.000 And then there are Democrats who are really just attempting to make political hay out of one of the most vile events in American politics of my lifetime on January 6th.

00:37:59.000 And I'm not talking about Trump's speech.

00:38:00.000 I'm talking about the actual storming of the Capitol building.

00:38:02.000 And by the way, the reaction to that has also been extraordinarily bad.

00:38:05.000 I mean, the reaction, which is lockdown DC under essentially military occupation all the way until March and spend half a billion dollars doing it.

00:38:12.000 The reaction, which is knock parlor off the internet and tell all the social media companies to clamp down on traffic to sites that you don't like.

00:38:19.000 The reaction, which is free speech itself should be put under attack.

00:38:23.000 That does no credit to Democrats at all.

00:38:27.000 It's pretty astonishing stuff, in fact.

00:38:28.000 Okay, in just a second, we're gonna get to the stuff that's actually happening in Politics That Matters.

00:38:32.000 You know, like the policy that's happening while everybody is distracted over here with the impeachment trial?

00:38:36.000 That makes no difference, because Trump's been out of office, and they're not going to convict him, nor are they gonna ban him from running in the future.

00:38:42.000 Nor, by the way, have I seen him have any inclination to run in the future at this point.

00:38:47.000 There's actual stuff going on with the other hand.

00:38:49.000 Okay, we're gonna get to that in just one second.

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00:41:10.000 All righty, so meanwhile, as this impeachment trial continues and reaches its preordained end, because it's very obvious which way this is going, Joe Biden continues to do stuff that if Donald Trump did it and when he did it was considered the worst stuff that has ever happened.

00:41:30.000 So, let's just take a quick example.

00:41:33.000 The Biden administration has now asked for resignations from every Trump-appointed U.S.

00:41:36.000 attorney.

00:41:36.000 So remember that time that Trump did this with Preet Bharara?

00:41:39.000 The New York AG, or the New York DA, rather.

00:41:42.000 Remember this?

00:41:42.000 And it was like the biggest deal in the world.

00:41:43.000 How dare he fire the holdovers from the last administration?

00:41:47.000 Joe Biden does it, and it's like, well, isn't that nice?

00:41:49.000 That's pretty great.

00:41:50.000 Like, it's totally fine now.

00:41:51.000 Here's the Washington Post reporting that Biden administration on Tuesday asked the remaining U.S.

00:41:55.000 attorneys appointed by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate to submit their resignations, sparing only two federal prosecutors who are conducting politically sensitive probes, including of President Biden's son, according to a DOJ news release and officials.

00:42:07.000 The resignations won't take effect immediately.

00:42:09.000 The U.S.

00:42:09.000 attorneys were told on a conference call they would be allowed to stay until February 28th and transition out.

00:42:13.000 People familiar with the matter said.

00:42:15.000 The move generated some criticism from both sides of the political aisle.

00:42:19.000 Illinois' two Democratic senators, Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, said in a joint statement they were disappointed they were not consulted before the administration asked for the resignation of U.S. 0.99

00:42:27.000 Attorney John Lausch, whose office has been pursuing a corruption case that has raised questions about a powerful state's Democratic lawmaker.

00:42:33.000 The senators say, while the president has the right to remove U.S.

00:42:35.000 attorneys, there's precedent for U.S.

00:42:37.000 attorneys in the Northern District of Illinois to remain in office to conclude sensitive investigations.

00:42:41.000 Some conservatives question the move's timing, which came just as impeachment proceedings against Trump began.

00:42:46.000 Ian Pryor, a former Justice Department spokesman in the Trump administration, who now tracks moves in the Biden Justice Department, noted that when Jeff Sessions did this, everybody went crazy.

00:42:54.000 He said the Biden administration, like the Trump administration before it, has the absolute right to request resignations of incumbent U.S.

00:43:00.000 attorneys.

00:43:00.000 What will be frustrating to conservatives is that Democrats, pearl-clutching columnists, and cable news pundits tried to spin it as a threat to democracy when Trump did it, but now will say all is well since it's Biden sending the pink slips.

00:43:09.000 That, of course, is absolutely true.

00:43:11.000 Meanwhile... 1.00

00:43:12.000 Joe Biden continues to use COVID as an excuse to do a bunch of stupid crap. 0.99

00:43:17.000 COVID relief does not need to be $1.9 trillion, nor does it need to include things like a $15 minimum wage, hundreds of billions of dollars dedicated to bailing out blue states from their own crappy pension deals. 0.99

00:43:27.000 It doesn't need to include any of that stuff.

00:43:29.000 It doesn't need to include billions more in funding for schools that are not open, right?

00:43:32.000 That stuff does not need to happen.

00:43:33.000 And yet, Joe Biden is basically using COVID as an excuse to do all of this, because every crisis is an opportunity.

00:43:40.000 The reality is we are now in the homestretch when it comes to COVID.

00:43:42.000 The vaccinations are rolling out.

00:43:44.000 Americans can smell it. 0.61

00:43:45.000 Americans can see it.

00:43:46.000 Americans can see that everyone above the age of 65 who wants to get the vaccine is going to have the vaccine, and that's going to happen in fairly short order.

00:43:53.000 And people who are below the age of 65 are going to have access to the vaccine before the summer.

00:43:57.000 And yet Democrats continue to trot out the idea that we are going to be in a mode of COVID crisis all the way until essentially Thanksgiving.

00:44:05.000 Hey, that's nuts.

00:44:06.000 That is crazy.

00:44:07.000 Team Biden is now trying to drive this crisis to epic proportions, even though we are now really clearly on the downslope of COVID infections and of COVID deaths and vaccinations are taking place at record rates.

00:44:19.000 According to the Daily Beast, top members of President Joe Biden's COVID response team are warning internally the U.S.

00:44:24.000 may not reach herd immunity until Thanksgiving or the start of winter.

00:44:28.000 In an interview with CBS News this week, Biden hinted at some of these concerns, saying it would be very difficult to reach herd immunity much before the end of the summer with the current daily rate of approximately 1.3 million vaccine doses.

00:44:38.000 Other top officials working on the federal government's COVID-19 response say they are uneasy about vaccine supply long-term and the impact on herd immunity.

00:44:45.000 Okay, so here's the thing about herd immunity when it comes to vaccines.

00:44:48.000 Okay, for the people who have already had the vaccine, If you have, say, the Pfizer vaccine, you have well over 90% immunity to the virus, just by rates, okay?

00:44:55.000 The second shot is providing you something like 95% immunity.

00:44:58.000 What I mean by that is 95% shot that if you are exposed to the virus, you don't get infected with it, and if you are, the amount of damage that the virus does to you is extraordinarily minimal once you have these shots, right, by percentages.

00:45:13.000 Then there's the question of people who can't get the shot.

00:45:15.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:45:16.000 When it comes to people who can't get the shot, we're really talking essentially about a couple of groups of people.

00:45:20.000 People who have a pre-existing condition, let's say that they have some sort of leukemia or something, that it would endanger their life to have the shot, although this is being given to people who have cancer right now, so I don't know the impact on people who have leukemia.

00:45:33.000 The two groups of people I know it is not safe for at this point, or it has not been deemed safe for, are pregnant women and children.

00:45:38.000 Children are not vulnerable to the disease.

00:45:40.000 Kids are not experiencing serious damage from the disease, as a general rule.

00:45:44.000 The number of children who have died from this disease is, I believe, still in double digits in the United States, out of literally tens of millions of people who have had it.

00:45:52.000 When it comes to pregnant women, they're now doing trials on whether pregnant women will be able to have the vaccine.

00:45:58.000 Beyond that, if the idea is we're supposed to lock down the entire society forever because there are a few vulnerable people who cannot have the vaccine, that's not going to happen.

00:46:07.000 Realistically speaking, it's not going to happen.

00:46:08.000 And you're not going to be able to encourage a bunch of young, healthy people to have the vaccine if that comes along with the idea that you still have to socially distance and wear a mask until every single person in the country has had the vaccine.

00:46:18.000 And we're going to lock this thing down.

00:46:19.000 It is now February.

00:46:20.000 It's it's February 10th.

00:46:21.000 We're going to lock this thing down until next November. 0.99

00:46:24.000 Are you insane? 1.00

00:46:25.000 Are you crazy? 1.00

00:46:26.000 And yet that is what Biden is pushing. 0.64

00:46:28.000 And one of the reasons that Team Biden is pushing all of this instead of a transition back to regular life, which is what things are.

00:46:34.000 I mean, frankly, that is what is already happening in places like Florida to Florida's credit.

00:46:39.000 And it should get better and better as vaccines roll out.

00:46:42.000 There is a there's another purpose here.

00:46:44.000 OK, the other purpose here is to give an excuse for why you need to pour money into the system, why you need to restructure systems of power.

00:46:51.000 Covid is an opportunity, according to people like Joe Biden.

00:46:54.000 He's admitting that here is Joe Biden admitting that Covid is an opportunity.

00:46:57.000 As you know, I've met for a long time with my Republican colleagues.

00:47:04.000 I've been exchanging correspondence with them and telephone calls as well to see if there's any way we can follow up beyond where we are.

00:47:12.000 I'm meeting with the members of the House and the Senate as well.

00:47:17.000 And I think we're in a position to think big and move big and move in a direction that can be not only Get the economy back on its feet, but we have to get people well before we get people on their feet.

00:47:34.000 Okay, so again, we're just going to continue to pour money into the system and the more we can drive up the feeling of crisis, the more we will be able to use that as an excuse to push forward horrible, horrible policy.

00:47:44.000 And by the way, this is horrible policy.

00:47:46.000 Okay, that $1.9 trillion package that Biden wants to sign into law would include things like a boost to the minimum wage, Of $15 an hour by 2025.

00:47:56.000 According to the Congressional Budget Office, he's trying to do this right now via reconciliation.

00:48:00.000 It would cut employment by 1.4 million jobs in 2025 and increase the budget deficit by $54 billion over the next 10 years.

00:48:08.000 It would lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty.

00:48:10.000 It would put 1.4 million Americans just that year out of a job.

00:48:14.000 And this is considered good policy by the Democrats.

00:48:17.000 Really well done here.

00:48:18.000 All because of COVID.

00:48:20.000 Of course, it really has nothing to do with COVID at this point.

00:48:22.000 What this really has to do with is a bunch of pre-existing democratic priorities, and now they have an excuse to push that stuff forward.

00:48:29.000 This is the party of science speaking here.

00:48:33.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:48:34.000 Okay, meanwhile, the party of science continues to push forward with a bunch of other nonsense as well.

00:48:41.000 So, Jen Psaki continues to make the case that we are going to push toward opening classrooms.

00:48:46.000 But then, she was asked specifically, what do you mean by opening classrooms?

00:48:48.000 You know, when you say that you want classrooms open in 100 days, what exactly would your standard for open be?

00:48:52.000 Because is it open if you have the classrooms open one day a week?

00:48:55.000 What percentage of classrooms would have to be open in order for you to deem the classrooms open?

00:48:59.000 Here was Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, explaining.

00:49:02.000 His goal that he set is to have the majority of schools, so more than 50%, open by day 100 of his presidency.

00:49:12.000 And that means some teaching in classrooms.

00:49:14.000 So at least one day a week, hopefully it's more.

00:49:17.000 And obviously it is as much as is safe in each school and local district.

00:49:21.000 When you say some teaching, you didn't use the same majority qualifier there.

00:49:25.000 You just have to have some teaching in school, some teachers in school, not the majority of teachers in school and the majority of classrooms.

00:49:32.000 Well, teaching at least one day a week in the majority of schools by day 100.

00:49:37.000 By day 100?

00:49:38.000 In-person teaching.

00:49:39.000 In-person teaching, yes.

00:49:41.000 In-person teaching one day a week in some schools, 50% of schools, by day 100?

00:49:45.000 There are a couple of problems with this.

00:49:47.000 One, the data suggests that for young kids, the transmissibility is not high, and there is no additional risk to teachers, vis-a-vis the general public, from being in school with young children.

00:49:57.000 That's problem number one.

00:49:58.000 This is completely anti-science.

00:49:59.000 Like, completely anti-science.

00:50:02.000 They're just doing this at the behest of the teachers unions.

00:50:04.000 Let's be perfectly frank about this.

00:50:05.000 It is perfectly obvious what is happening.

00:50:07.000 This is about the teachers unions.

00:50:08.000 Perry Stein of the Washington Post.

00:50:11.000 She says the DC Teachers Union and AFT President Randy Weingarten have now called on Washington DC to close entire schools for cleaning for at least 24 hours if one COVID case is detected.

00:50:22.000 And kids who are grouped in cohorts must quarantine for 14 days if a case is detected.

00:50:28.000 Okay, like for...

00:50:30.000 Everyone in the class has to quarantine for 14 days if a case is detected?

00:50:35.000 Even if they test negative?

00:50:36.000 They don't have to quarantine for like three and then test negative?

00:50:39.000 Okay, this is crazy towns.

00:50:41.000 Okay, this is being run by the teachers' unions.

00:50:42.000 It has nothing to do with science.

00:50:43.000 Okay, so that's problem number one.

00:50:44.000 It has nothing to do with science.

00:50:45.000 The science suggests it is open, it is safe to open schools.

00:50:48.000 Okay, particularly for kids who are under the age of 10.

00:50:51.000 Okay, then there is the second problem, which is she says that her goal here is that within 100 days, 50% of the schools will be open.

00:50:59.000 With at least one day of teaching a week.

00:51:03.000 One problem.

00:51:04.000 As per the usual arrangement, the Biden administration is setting expectations so low that they are already being achieved.

00:51:10.000 Just like they said we want 100 million doses out within the first 100 days, and we were already doing a million doses a day.

00:51:16.000 So they were essentially lying about what was already happening.

00:51:18.000 Now they're doing the same thing with school reopenings.

00:51:20.000 Here is the reality.

00:51:21.000 Right now, about 40% of schools in the United States are open, and then when it comes to the hybrid model, meaning some in classrooms, some out of classroom, that's another 25% of schools.

00:51:29.000 So well over 60% of schools in the United States already meet the standard that she is saying 50% of schools should meet within 100 days.

00:51:37.000 Hey, those are the current stats.

00:51:40.000 The current stats suggest we are already there.

00:51:43.000 And yet there she is saying, look at the amazing progress we are going to make.

00:51:46.000 So basically, I guess they're going to have to close more schools in order to achieve this particular purpose.

00:51:50.000 They're actually going to have to close schools in order to get back to 50% because we are over 60% last time I checked from the currently available statistics.

00:52:00.000 So this has nothing to do with science.

00:52:02.000 This is all about alarmism and serving the purposes of the teachers' unions.

00:52:06.000 Speaking of serving purposes that have nothing to do with the interests of students, so Jen Psaki was specifically asked about trans girls competing in high school sports. 0.87

00:52:13.000 Again, the Biden administration is just getting more and more radical, and we're supposed to pretend they're moderate because Trump.

00:52:18.000 Sure, Trump's been out of office for a while here.

00:52:21.000 Sure, he's not the president, but Trump.

00:52:23.000 But Trump is gonna be the rallying call of the media and the Democratic Party.

00:52:28.000 For the rest of this administration.

00:52:29.000 That's not rare.

00:52:30.000 Obama did it with Bush.

00:52:32.000 Now it's gonna be but Trump.

00:52:33.000 So, it might be kind of a problem that the federal government of the United States is now essentially mandating that biological boys race against biological girls.

00:52:42.000 And that biological boys be allowed to go into locker rooms with biological girls so long as they say they are female. 0.92

00:52:49.000 I mean, that's kind of a problem, just on a logical level.

00:52:51.000 It also happens to violate girls' rights. 0.55

00:52:53.000 Girls do have a right not to have to compete with boys.

00:52:56.000 Girls do have a right to be private from biological boys. 0.96

00:52:59.000 That seems like the same people who declared it a right to privacy to kill a baby in her womb say that it is not a right to privacy for a 16-year-old girl not to want to be gazed upon by a biological male in the locker room.

00:53:09.000 The right to privacy just doesn't apply there.

00:53:12.000 In any case, Jen Psaki was asked this question and she reverts to type, which is, she is just going to say bumper stickers.

00:53:17.000 Bumper stickers are the way that we avoid all problems in this country right now.

00:53:21.000 Does the president have a message for local school officials on dealing with these kind of disputes that are already starting to arise?

00:53:32.000 I would just say that the president's belief is that trans rights are human rights, and that's why he signed that executive order.

00:53:45.000 And in terms of the determinations by universities and colleges, I would certainly defer to them.

00:53:49.000 Okay, I just have a question.

00:53:51.000 When she says trans rights are human rights, when you don't define that, I mean, it's just, this is the way that we avoid all political conversation in this country. 1.00

00:53:58.000 You ask, should this person, does this person actually have the rights to go into, like, a girl's locker room? 0.98

00:54:04.000 And you just say, trans rights are human rights.

00:54:05.000 You can fill in that trans with literally anything.

00:54:08.000 You just say anything.

00:54:10.000 So you say, for example, okay, does a gay couple have a right to be married inside a traditional church?

00:54:15.000 Do they have that right?

00:54:17.000 Not should the church marry them on a moral level.

00:54:19.000 I think every church has the ability to make that decision for themselves.

00:54:22.000 There's plenty of biblical, scriptural precedent for churches not participating in activities they believe to be sinful.

00:54:27.000 And by the way, that is the precedent of American history.

00:54:30.000 But if you're a Democrat, all you have to do is say something like, gay rights are human rights.

00:54:34.000 Because once you say our human rights, then that ends the argument.

00:54:37.000 There's no discussion to be had about balancing people's rights, the rights of freedom of religion, or the right to, a supposed right to respect, which doesn't actually exist.

00:54:46.000 It is very easy to avoid all conversation about the complexities and trade-offs of particular policy when you just say something like, blank rights are human rights.

00:54:54.000 Thank you for that bumper sticker slogan, Biden administration, as you pursue unprecedentedly radical policy.

00:54:59.000 Speaking of unprecedentedly radical policy, Joe Biden has now signed 52 executive orders and actions in his first 20 days in office.

00:55:07.000 According to Ian Hayworth over at the Daily Wire, By February 1st, Biden had signed an unprecedented 42 executive orders in just the first few days of his administration.

00:55:16.000 Those included executive orders which look to expand socialized medicine, provide taxpayer funding for foreign abortions, destroy American energy jobs, rejoin meaningless and counterproductive international agreements and organizations, further the promotion of ahistorical mischaracterizations of the United States, and call for transgender rights in school sports, to name a few.

00:55:33.000 Since the beginning of February, Biden has signed an additional nine executive orders and actions.

00:55:38.000 He continues to add to the list.

00:55:39.000 His running tally is currently at 52 executive orders and actions after 20 days in office.

00:55:46.000 So this is all exciting, exciting stuff.

00:55:48.000 But believe me, it's all moderation, guys.

00:55:50.000 It is all moderation.

00:55:51.000 It is fine.

00:55:52.000 Because Joe Biden is doing it.

00:55:53.000 He can fire every single person who is appointed to a U.S.

00:55:57.000 attorney's office just the way Trump did.

00:55:59.000 And Trump was a radical trying to destroy the American way of life.

00:56:03.000 And Joe Biden is a moderate.

00:56:04.000 Joe Biden can sign more executive orders than all prior presidents of the last 40 years combined in his first month.

00:56:11.000 And that's okay, because after all, Joe Biden is a moderate.

00:56:14.000 If you just keep chanting, Joe Biden is a moderate, it's like Beetlejuice.

00:56:16.000 If you say it three times, he appears.

00:56:18.000 If you say Joe Biden is a moderate, Joe Biden appears, stumbles around a little while, says an incomprehensible sentence, and then falls over while signing an executive order.

00:56:26.000 And it's all fine.

00:56:27.000 It's all fine.

00:56:28.000 Because this is all moderate policy, right?

00:56:30.000 Like, for example, it's super moderate policy that the Biden administration has just dropped a Trump proposal to track Chinese influence in American schools.

00:56:37.000 According to Chuck Ross reporting over at the Daily Caller, The Biden administration quietly withdrew a rule proposed by the Trump administration that would have required American schools and universities to disclose their partnerships with Confucius Institutes, which some U.S.

00:56:49.000 officials allege are front groups for Chinese Communist Party propaganda.

00:56:53.000 The Trump administration submitted a proposed rule to the Department of Homeland Security on December 31, 2020.

00:56:57.000 It was entitled, Establishing Requirements for Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certified Schools.

00:57:02.000 to disclose agreements with Confucius Institutes and Classrooms.

00:57:05.000 In other words, we didn't want the Chinese government basically putting propaganda agents inside U.S.

00:57:10.000 schools.

00:57:11.000 Around 500 K-12 schools and 65 colleges in the U.S.

00:57:14.000 have partnerships with the Confucius Institute U.S.

00:57:16.000 Center, which is a U.S.-based affiliate of the Beijing-based Confucius Institute headquarters.

00:57:22.000 That institute is affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Education.

00:57:26.000 The Daily Caller has previously reported that many of the directors are members of the CCP.

00:57:31.000 The Trump-era proposal was withdrawn from consideration January 26th.

00:57:36.000 There's no information as to why this happened.

00:57:38.000 The website does say that at any point in the review process for a proposed rule, an agency can withdraw the rule from review and choose not to move forward with it or to resubmit it after further consideration.

00:57:48.000 First of all, Republicans in Congress should immediately, immediately take this up as a piece of legislation and try to push Democrats to vote up or down on it.

00:57:55.000 Because the amount of kowtowing that's about to happen to the Chinese government is astonishing. 0.61

00:57:59.000 It is large scale and astonishing.

00:58:02.000 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on August 13th, the Confucius Institute was quote, an entity controlled by the PRC that advances Beijing's global propaganda and malign influence campaign on US campuses and K through 12 classrooms.

00:58:14.000 But Biden is now walking back that rule, which is really excellent policy.

00:58:18.000 I mean, really, totally moderate.

00:58:20.000 Everything's moderate.

00:58:21.000 Speaking of moderate, the OMB nominee, so Joe Biden is nominating to the Office of Management and Budget Head, Neera Tanden.

00:58:28.000 Neera Tanden has a long history of really sort of bizarre and radical behavior on Twitter. 0.95

00:58:33.000 She spent a lot of time ripping people personally on Twitter. 0.60

00:58:36.000 But not only that, there was a big scandal for Neera Tanden.

00:58:39.000 She used to be at the Center for American Progress.

00:58:42.000 in which she overtly said the name of a woman who had apparently anonymously reported sexual harassment.

00:58:47.000 She said it in a meeting.

00:58:48.000 And people at the company were like, what are you doing right now?

00:58:52.000 So Neurotan and not particularly well liked on either side of the aisle, that's who he's decided to put forward for OMB.

00:58:56.000 Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma goes after OMB nominee yesterday in her hearing.

00:59:01.000 One statement that you made about people that have the personal religious convictions about contraception, like Little Sisters of the Poor and others, called them a successful political cudgel, helping isolate extreme advocates from the mainstream.

00:59:17.000 Thank you.

00:59:19.000 That one seems to cross a different line for me.

00:59:21.000 The context didn't seem to be about people that use religion as a cudgel.

00:59:25.000 It seemed to be that the personal beliefs of those individuals became the cudgel.

00:59:30.000 That's the part that threw me in that.

00:59:32.000 Okay, well, that's the sort of stuff that Neera Tanden routinely put out there. 1.00

00:59:35.000 Now, again, people are entitled to tweet whatever they want, but can we stop pretending that this is an administration staffed by moderates?

00:59:41.000 Joe Biden was not a moderate.

00:59:42.000 Joe Biden is not a moderate.

00:59:44.000 By personal sort of temperament, he may be more moderate because he is a bloviating blowhard who likes to talk a lot, but that doesn't mean that he is actually somebody who crosses the aisle on a regular basis.

00:59:53.000 He's a hard-nosed partisan.

00:59:54.000 He's been a hard-nosed partisan since he participated in the destruction of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.

00:59:59.000 I mean, there's nothing new here with Joe Biden.

01:00:02.000 The attempt to paint him as a moderate was a pure campaign ploy so that they could pretend there was going to be a return to normalcy.

01:00:07.000 Well, I guess there is a return to normalcy.

01:00:09.000 It's just the radicalism of the Democratic Party shielded by the media.

01:00:11.000 That's the normal.

01:00:12.000 That was always going to be the normal.

01:00:14.000 And it continues apace, even while the media focus their attention on an impeachment trial that is going absolutely nowhere.

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