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00:00:00.000The heads of the big tech companies get grilled by Republicans, the author of an anonymous article from a high-ranking Trump official finally comes out, and violence continues in Philadelphia.
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00:01:34.000IRA today again text Ben to 474747 text Ben to 474747. Okay so when you look at the Real Clear Politics polling average what you see is that everything seems relatively stable.
00:01:48.000I mean, there are kind of minor moves in each direction, but overall, things are relatively stable.
00:01:53.000Biden has been somewhere between 10 and 7 points in the lead, really for probably 6 months, 7 months at this point.
00:02:00.000In the battlegrounds, you're starting to see a little bit of tightening.
00:02:03.000In Pennsylvania, Biden is up to about a 3.5% RealClearPolitics poll average lead in Pennsylvania.
00:02:08.000Pennsylvania is the key state, by the way.
00:02:09.000Assuming that Trump wins the states that he needs to win in the South, meaning he wins Florida, he wins Georgia, he wins North Carolina.
00:02:32.000I think that Trump is going to win Florida.
00:02:34.000In Georgia, there's new polling that suggests that Joe Biden is super competitive in Georgia.
00:02:38.000North Carolina is within margin of error.
00:02:40.000The margin in Arizona seems to have dropped just a little bit in Trump's favor.
00:02:44.000The latest polls in Arizona put Biden up somewhere between two points and Susquehanna has Trump up one point in the last week.
00:02:52.000So all of these battleground states are extremely, extremely close.
00:02:56.000And it'll be fascinating to watch on election night because after all, not all of these states are going to count ballots in the same way.
00:03:02.000If you have a really, really high count of absentee ballots or mail-in ballots, for example, Well, it takes a long time to count those.
00:03:08.000If you have a close race and the mail-in ballots are still coming in, we may not know for weeks what exactly happened in Arizona.
00:03:13.000We may not know for months what happened in Pennsylvania.
00:03:16.000In fact, The Supreme Court allowed longer deadlines for absentee ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, according to the New York Times on Tuesday.
00:03:25.000So, Republicans in both states opposed the extensions because they were saying, OK, we should not allow ballots that are coming in a week after the election to be counted because, I mean, what about when they were postmarked?
00:03:34.000What if somebody claims it was postmarked the day after the election, but they actually voted before the election?
00:03:39.000Why not just solve that problem now, that problem of uncertainty?
00:03:42.000Well, according to the New York Times, in a pair of decisions welcomed by Democrats, the Supreme Court on Wednesday let election officials in two key battleground states, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, accept absentee ballots for several days after Election Day.
00:03:52.000In the Pennsylvania case, the court refused a plea from Republicans in the state that it decides, before Election Day, whether election officials can continue receiving absentee ballots for three days after November 3rd.
00:04:02.000In the North Carolina case, the court let stand lower court rulings that allowed the state's Board of Elections to extend the deadline to nine days after Election Day.
00:04:09.000Up from the three days originally called for by the state legislature.
00:04:13.000The court's brief orders in the two cases were unsigned.
00:04:16.000Judge Amy Coney Barrett did not take part in either case.
00:04:19.000A court spokeswoman said Barrett did not participate because of the need for a prompt resolution and because she had not had time to fully review the party's filings.
00:04:25.000Now, this does not mean that there won't be litigation after the election.
00:04:28.000If these states are very close and the counts continue, and there's an early count and then the counts continue, well then it can be re-litigated at the Supreme Court level.
00:04:36.000There were no noted dissents in the Pennsylvania case, though three justices said the court might return to it after Election Day.
00:04:41.000In the North Carolina case, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Gorsuch said they would have granted requests from Republican lawmakers to block lower courts, allowing the longer deadline.
00:04:49.000Well, that makes sense because in the Pennsylvania case, it was done statutorily.
00:04:52.000In the North Carolina case, it was done by a lower court.
00:04:55.000The two cases involved broadly similar issues, but in Pennsylvania, the question was whether the state Supreme Court could override voting rules set by the state legislature.
00:05:03.000In North Carolina, the question was whether state election officials had the power to alter such voting rules.
00:05:08.000In Pennsylvania, at least, they say that they may come back to that case after the election, which, of course, is exactly the wrong thing.
00:05:15.000Chief Justice Roberts, who's just a disaster area.
00:05:17.000Chief Justice Roberts, in seeking to uphold the legitimacy of the court by staying out of these questions, is actually making it worse.
00:05:24.000Because now, let's say the thing is really close, you're going to end up with Bush v. Gore.
00:05:27.000This thing ends up in the Supreme Court again, which is a disaster.
00:05:29.000This is 2020, which means the Pandora's box could open, right?
00:05:33.000The mummy's tomb could be unsealed and all members of all sort of manifestations of horrific outcome could be possible here for the country.
00:05:41.000My favorite, personal, is that there's a 269-269 tie in the Electoral College.
00:05:46.000This is my personal nightmare scenario.
00:06:16.000So state delegation decides how to vote for the president.
00:06:20.000Right now, Republicans hold a 26-23 advantage in state delegations.
00:06:24.000I think there's one that's split, the state delegation split right down the middle.
00:06:27.000If Democrats were to pick up two of those three and Republicans hold one, then what you end up with is a 25-25 split in the House of Representatives with regard to who gets elected president.
00:07:00.000Biden, obviously, is a little bit worried about some of the states that he's supposed to be winning walking away.
00:07:04.000According to Mediaite, Biden has been heading to Florida.
00:07:07.000His campaign is afraid the Democratic turnout is lagging because a lot of the early voting is trending Republican, and Republicans are expected to outpace Democrats on Election Day.
00:07:16.000In other words, this election is not over yet.
00:07:19.000And while the statistics from FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics show that Trump is the heavy underdog, this remains a very, very close election.
00:07:27.000And it remains a close election for a couple of reasons.
00:07:29.000One is because the media have absolutely 100% refused to cover anything Joe Biden related.
00:07:37.000It is because the intervention of the media and the social media companies and corporations in this election has been absolutely overwhelming.
00:07:42.000I mean, it's been like nothing I've ever seen in American politics.
00:07:48.000President Trump yesterday, he said, listen, you know, if there's a story about me being corrupted everywhere in the media, if there's a story about Joe Biden being corrupted is nowhere in the media.
00:08:03.000Do you know you can't find it anywhere in the media other than the New York Post, which I'm very proud of?
00:08:08.000And they endorsed me the other day, too, by the way.
00:08:12.000But you can't find it anywhere in the media.
00:08:15.000Sleepy Joe Biden with all the corruption, all the theft, all the money they took out of these countries that we end up paying for in spades.
00:08:24.000You can't find it on Big Tech and you can't find it at the Washington Post and New York Times because they're crooked, they're dishonest, and we caught them.
00:08:33.000OK, and then Trump points out he's not just running against Biden, he's running against the mob and he's running against the media.
00:08:39.000And again, there's a lot of truth to this.
00:08:40.000The institutional obstacles to Trump are extremely high.
00:08:43.000The media have treated Trump with absolute disdain from the time he declared for the presidency.
00:08:47.000And then once he was president, they decided that they were just going to cover him in the most horrible possible way.
00:08:52.000Sometimes critical media coverage of Trump is justified.
00:08:55.000I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I think that every time the media criticizes Trump it's unjustified.
00:09:05.000It is also true the overwhelming majority of media coverage has been anti-Trump, and that extends to stories that are overt positives for the United States.
00:09:12.000When the economy is good, the story is framed as, well, the economy would be better if a Democrat were president.
00:09:16.000I'm not just running against Joe Biden, I'm running against the left-wing mob and the left-wing media, the big tech giants, and I'm also running against the rhinos.
00:09:43.000A rhino may be the lowest form of human life.
00:09:47.000OK, so he's going after, you know, the Lincoln Project characters there, which, of course, President Trump has his list of enemies and he's going to go down them.
00:09:57.000But when he says that he is facing overwhelming institutional obstacles.
00:10:28.000Then, they blamed the social media companies for allowing the Russians to skew the election.
00:10:33.000They suggested that Facebook was responsible for Hillary Clinton losing because, of course, Facebook allowed people to put up dissenting opinions about Hillary Clinton.
00:10:40.000Because Facebook had not shut down Russian interference.
00:10:49.000And then James Comey, in the last week of the election, dropped a bombshell suggesting a new laptop had been found with her hidden emails.
00:10:55.000And so it turns out that lost the election for Hillary, not a bunch of Russian scam artists putting up very poor, by the way, poorly trafficked memes on Facebook.
00:11:03.000The social media giants were brought to heel by the Democratic Party.
00:11:07.000They were told it is your fault if Donald Trump wins re-election.
00:11:10.000And thus, in the lead up to the election, you must prevent Donald Trump from winning by any means necessary.
00:11:16.000And that means playing up all bad Trump news and playing down any bad news for Joe Biden, up to and including suppressing actual full on stories from the New York Post.
00:11:25.000We'll talk about that in just a second because the big tech heads were called before Congress yesterday.
00:11:29.000It didn't go well for them, particularly for Jack Dorsey over at Twitter.
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00:12:50.000The social media companies, most obviously.
00:12:52.000I mean, there have been a lot of people on the right who have been complaining for a while that social media companies are utterly non-transparent.
00:12:58.000That many of the social media companies seem to downgrade information they simply do not like.
00:13:03.000That all broke out into the open over the last two and a half weeks after the New York Post ran the Hunter Biden emails.
00:13:07.000After the New York Post ran the Hunter Biden email story, suggesting that Hunter Biden's emails made reference to Joe Biden receiving money or interest held in escrow for him in case of a deal with a Chinese company after his vice presidency.
00:13:22.000When that story originally broke in the New York Post, it was immediately banned on Twitter, like outright banned.
00:13:29.000The New York Post account was shut down on Twitter, on Facebook.
00:13:33.000The head of content over there, Andy Stone, put out a tweet saying that the story had been suppressed on Facebook pending a fact check, even though there was no information to suggest that the story was false or that it was Russian disinformation.
00:13:45.000It was the most obvious example of election interference by the big tech companies I've ever seen.
00:13:57.000There has been a push from the left to curb big tech for a while.
00:14:01.000I've been very much opposed to that push.
00:14:04.000The reason is that the left would like to curb big tech by preventing them from posting material.
00:14:09.000What they would like is a reinstitution of the old fairness doctrine.
00:14:12.000The idea being that you have bosses at the federal government who tell you what kind of content you can and cannot post.
00:14:16.000And so I've been very much opposed to the government getting into the regulatory business with regard to big tech.
00:14:21.000On the right, there have been complaints that these big tech companies are being unfair and that they are not being transparent in their standards.
00:14:27.000There's particularly an objection to the Section 230 language.
00:14:30.000Section 230 suggests that platforms are not responsible for the content that is posted on those platforms and that they are allowed to content curate and content moderate in order to prevent the posting of pornographic, violent, Harassing or, and this is the phrase that matters, otherwise objectionable material.
00:14:46.000That catch-all phrase has been used by the companies to basically say, we can take down anything we don't like.
00:14:52.000And this has led some people to say, okay, well, now you have basically violated the compact with the American people.
00:14:56.000You said that we could post whatever we wanted, so long as it wasn't violent or harassment or incitement to violence, but otherwise objectionable is too broad.
00:15:04.000If you're just taking down my story because you don't like my story, Now you're essentially doing the same job that the New York Times would do, right?
00:15:10.000You're censoring content on the basis of political persuasion.
00:15:13.000And that really is not what Section 230 was written for.
00:15:16.000Section 230 was written in order not to disadvantage companies that wanted to take down violent or obscene material.
00:15:22.000It was not written in order to provide advantage for publishers masquerading as platforms.
00:15:27.000Right, that was the basic idea behind Section 230.
00:15:30.000So right now there's a push in the United States Senate to make clear the otherwise objectionable standard, the otherwise objectionable standard in Section 230.
00:15:36.000So that's been the push from the right.
00:15:38.000So all of this comes to a head yesterday in this hearing with Big Tech.
00:15:41.000Now normally, hearings with Big Tech, they go very poorly for the Congress people.
00:15:45.000And the reason they go poorly for the congresspeople is because congresspeople tend to be, on average, about 55 to 60 years old, which means that they have to call their grandchildren in order to actually install AOL on their computer, because they still have a dial-up modem.
00:15:56.000The fact is that, unfortunately, our congresspeople are not particularly in touch when it comes to technology, and so the questions they ask are very often quite silly.
00:16:04.000However, the questions yesterday were very easy to answer.
00:16:06.000And they were, why are you downgrading particular political content?
00:16:09.000What is the excuse for downgrading, for example, that New York Post story?
00:16:12.000There is no plausible explanation other than a political drive to censor material from the left.
00:16:19.000Okay, so Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook was asked about this.
00:16:22.000He was asked specifically, you know, this originally was put on, the article was basically, it was, essentially reduced in its reach because you were suggesting that maybe it was fact-checked false or it would be fact-checked or it was Russian disinformation or something like that.
00:16:39.000So they asked Zuckerberg, like, do you have any evidence whatsoever that this thing was Russian disinformation or that actually there was that there was anything false in the story? And Zuckerberg was like, no, we don't have any of that information. Is that also your answer, Mr. Zuckerberg, that you have no information at all to indicate that that Russia was the source of this New York Post article? Senator, I would rely on the FBI to make that assessment.
00:17:03.000But you don't have any such information, do you?
00:17:14.000Okay, so Zuckerberg took a few licks, but the person who really took some hits yesterday was Jack Dorsey, which makes sense.
00:17:19.000At least Zuckerberg has paid lip service to the idea of the First Amendment mattering.
00:17:24.000At least he has a tendency to gravitate toward more free speech rather than less free speech.
00:17:28.000That doesn't mean I agree with all Zuckerberg's policies on Facebook.
00:17:31.000I mean, right now, Daily Wire is being dramatically downgraded in traffic For some unknown reason by Facebook in the lead up to the election.
00:17:37.000This I do not find particularly surprising.
00:17:38.000It's been happening for weeks on end and we never get any transparency from Facebook.
00:17:42.000OK, but when it comes to Twitter, OK, Twitter is perfectly obvious in its political bias, like perfectly and clearly obvious in its political bias.
00:17:49.000So in a second, we're going to get to the testimony of Jack Dorsey.
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00:19:21.000I was testifying before Congress and made perfectly clear what social media's agenda is.
00:19:25.000And the thing is, when you exist in a bubble like Jack Dorsey is, like in a cave in Malaysia being bitten by mosquitoes and smoking dope, and all your liberal friends are telling you you're doing some good for the world by suppressing content, then you literally do not understand why people would be so upset at you.
00:19:38.000Jack Dorsey did not understand why people were so upset at him.
00:19:40.000This, by the way, is the same guy who was so apolitical he hired DeRay McKesson at one point.
00:19:58.000I can't imagine why Republicans don't trust you when you literally barred the New York Post from posting for three weeks because they put up a story that was true.
00:20:06.000Here is Jack Dorsey, apparently straight from Treasure Island.
00:20:12.000Section 230 gave Internet services two important tools.
00:20:15.000The first provides immunity from liability for users' content.
00:20:19.000The second Provides good Samaritan protections for content moderation and removal, even of constitutionally protected speech, as long as it's done in good faith.
00:20:31.000That concept of good faith is what's being challenged by many of you today.
00:20:36.000Some of you don't trust we're acting in good faith.
00:20:39.000That's the problem I want to focus on solving.
00:20:42.000How do services like Twitter earn your trust?
00:20:48.000How about you know why you ban material?
00:20:49.000How about you don't downgrade material and then keep downgrading the material and keep banning the outlet because you don't like the political content?
00:20:57.000Dorsey himself acknowledged there is no evidence that the New York Post story was disinformation.
00:21:16.000Why did you prevent that from being disseminated on your platform that is supposed to be for the free expression of ideas, and particularly true ideas?
00:21:25.000We believe to fill a foul of our hacking materials policy.
00:21:28.000Okay, so it's not their hacked materials policy.
00:22:10.000You don't believe Twitter has any ability to influence elections?
00:22:16.000No, we are one part of a spectrum of communication challenges people have.
00:22:21.000So you're testifying to this committee right now that Twitter, when it silences people, when it censors people, when it blocks political speech, that has no impact on elections?
00:22:31.000People have choice of other communication channels.
00:23:01.000In some cases, it's a pairing of the two.
00:23:04.000There are numerous examples of blue checkmarks that are spreading false information that So, Twitter must have some kind of list of priority accounts that it maintains.
00:23:27.000Okay, so basically it's all arbitrary, but why don't you trust us?
00:23:30.000Well, maybe one of the reasons that we don't trust you is because you will ban the New York Post, but then you will suggest that Holocaust denial is not misinformation worthy of banning.
00:23:38.000That's something Jack Dorsey also said.
00:23:49.000Straight from Castaway Island, Jack Dorsey.
00:23:52.000Somebody denying the murder of millions of people or instigating violence against a country as a head of state is not categorically falling in any of those three misinformation or other categories Twitter has?
00:24:05.000Not misinformation, but we do have other policies around incitement to violence.
00:24:09.000So somebody denies the Holocaust has happened is not misinformation?
00:24:14.000It's misleading information, but we don't have a policy against that type of misleading information.
00:24:19.000Ah, there's no policy with regard to misleading information with regard to Holocaust denial.
00:24:23.000But if the president of the United States put something up about COVID that Twitter doesn't like, then they put a warning on the information. I can't imagine why people don't trust Twitter.
00:24:30.000Why don't people trust Twitter? My favorite thing here is when Dorsey says that the New York Post is allowed to tweet their story.
00:24:41.000Second of all, he says what New York Post has to do is they have to delete their original tweet with the story, and then they'll be reinstated, and then they can retweet the same link over again.
00:24:53.000Here's the worst member of ZZ Top explaining.
00:24:57.000The New York Post is still blocked from tweeting two weeks later.
00:25:01.000Yes, they have to log into their account, which they can do at this minute.
00:25:05.000Delete the original tweet, which fell under our original enforcement actions, and they can tweet the exact same material from the exact same article and it would go through.
00:25:15.000Okay, so the New York Post is supposed to delete its original true tweet and then retweet the same thing so that Twitter will let them back in.
00:25:23.000Now, the best part about the Orwellian nonsense is all of our media vetters, the same people who declare that Donald Trump is a threat to the free press, a threat to the First Amendment, the press wants this.
00:25:31.000The press wants the big tech bros to shut down all other methods of dissemination of information that are not mainstream media.
00:26:56.000The left, generally, is very, very happy with this.
00:26:59.000There are people like Kevin Roos at the New York Times, and Kara Swisher at the New York Times, and Juglegum, who spend all day just trying to pressure social media into preventing the dissemination of information they don't like.
00:27:11.000These are quote-unquote free speech activists who spend their day trying to suppress free speech and free dissemination.
00:27:19.000Okay, and this is how you end up with a tweet from Charlie Warzel over at the New York Times who covers information wars.
00:27:24.000He tweeted out yesterday, the New York Post leaving a violating tweet up in order to stay locked out of an account in order to use it as a political cudgel is a classic tactic, but it's usually one you see from individual MAGA influencers.
00:27:35.000Oh, so what you see here is that the New York Post refuses to take down a true story because they want Twitter to actually just reinstate them.
00:27:46.000And that's the fault of the New York Post.
00:28:13.000Not one Democrat on this Senate committee questioning big tech.
00:28:17.000Asked for consistent standards on what is banned and what is not banned.
00:28:21.000Instead, they just sought to ban material they don't like.
00:28:24.000Make no mistake about it, when it comes to First Amendment values, not First Amendment as a matter of law, which of course is about government compulsion.
00:28:30.000A First Amendment value system that values free speech, that values free and open debate, the left has no part of it.
00:28:35.000The mainstream Democratic Party is now rejecting it.
00:28:37.000Ed Markey, Senator from Massachusetts, he says the problem isn't that you're taking too many posts down over Twitter.
00:28:43.000The problem is you're leaving too many posts up over Twitter.
00:28:45.000Ed Markey wants to make sure that everything he doesn't like is taken down over at Twitter.
00:28:50.000The big tech business model, which puts profits ahead of people, is a real problem.
00:28:55.000Anti-conservative bias is not a problem.
00:28:59.000The issue is not that the companies before us today are taking too many posts down.
00:29:05.000The issue is that they're leaving too many dangerous posts up.
00:29:09.000In fact, they're amplifying harmful content so that it spreads like wildfire and tortures our democracy.
00:29:18.000OK, so yes, the left has no interest in free speech.
00:29:22.000So here's Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat from Hawaii and full-fledged idiot, trying to suggest that these social media companies require more protection from conservatives.
00:29:31.000Conservatives are trying to force Twitter to allow material about Hunter Biden.
00:29:36.000And that means that they're trying to make all these social media companies into weapons against Joe Biden.
00:29:43.000What's happening here is a scar on this committee and the United States Senate.
00:29:48.000What we are seeing today is an attempt to bully the CEOs of private companies into carrying out a hit job on a presidential candidate by making sure that they push out foreign and domestic misinformation meant to influence the election.
00:30:06.000Again, I am enjoying the specter of Democrats suggesting that the problem here is conservatives bullying corporations.
00:30:13.000Literally, the entire Democratic Party right now is trying to bully corporations into doing things that they want.
00:30:17.000They're trying to bully corporations into putting up black squares.
00:30:20.000They're trying to bully corporations into hiring Ibram X. Kendi for $20,000 diversity training sessions.
00:30:25.000They're trying to bully corporations into not opening... Chick-fil-A isn't supposed to open in Chicago or Boston or a variety of other Democratic cities because the founder, Dan Cathy, supported traditional marriage.
00:30:38.000But now apparently they're very much in favor of private corporations being able to run businesses as they see fit, unless you're a baker who just doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding, in which case you should go to jail or your business should be shut down.
00:30:48.000The hypocrisy of these folks knows no bounds.
00:30:51.000All of this prompted Ted Cruz to finally go off on the big tech bros, particularly Jack Dorsey, saying, you know, who the hell elected you?
00:30:57.000Like, who made you in charge of What material the American people can and cannot see.
00:31:01.000Literally the exemption that is provided to you is dependent on you not being an editorial oversight board for the American people.
00:31:13.000Presumably, you can censor the New York Times or any other media outlet.
00:31:17.000Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear?
00:31:27.000And why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic super PAC, silencing views to the contrary of your political beliefs?
00:32:31.000I mean, this wouldn't be like a low-level official because the New York Times wouldn't just print some missive from a low-level Trump official and then call them a senior official in order to get at Trump.
00:32:39.000It would have to presumably be someone very high-level.
00:32:41.000There was speculation Melania Trump did it.
00:33:27.000I understand why some people consider it questionable to levy such serious charges against a sitting president under the cover of anonymity, but my reasoning was straightforward and I stand by it.
00:33:35.000Issuing my critiques without attribution forced the president to answer them directly on their merits, or not at all.
00:33:40.000Rather than creating distractions through petty insults and name-calling, I wanted the attention to be on the arguments themselves.
00:33:45.000No, actually, what had started was a mole hunt inside the Trump administration.
00:33:49.000That was a complete waste of time for everybody involved.
00:33:51.000By the way, Miles Taylor's a damn liar.
00:33:53.000He went on CNN and overtly denied that he was anonymous not all that long ago on air with Anderson Cooper.
00:33:59.000CNN has announced he will retain his slot because lying about this is apparently of no consequence.
00:34:03.000I mean, if you're in the media and you're in the good graces of the media, you're basically unfireable.
00:34:08.000I mean, Jeffrey Toobin could literally pull out his There was an op-ed, there was a book by someone calling themselves anonymous.
00:34:13.000it to New Yorker and the guy was suspended, right? He was not fired. Miles Taylor goes on CNN and lies about him being anonymous and then he reveals on CNN that he is in fact anonymous and they're like, oh, okay, well, all right, no problem. We here at CNN, we know an apple is an apple and a banana is a banana. So here is Anderson Cooper with Miles Taylor, not all that long ago, Miles Taylor denying that he was anonymous. There was an op-ed, there was a book by someone calling themselves anonymous. Are you aware of who that is? I'm not.
00:34:43.000Look, and that was a parlor game that happened in Washington, D.C.
00:34:46.000of a lot of folks trying to think of who that might be.
00:34:50.000I've got my own thoughts about who that might be.
00:34:52.000But, you know, I'm not a president and I certainly don't want to.
00:34:57.000I wear a mask for two things, Anderson, Halloweens and pandemics.
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00:39:01.000So when President Trump has been saying that he is up against not just Joe Biden, but also up against social media and big tech and the media, he is not lying.
00:39:16.000The latest indicator of a media that does not wish to cover stories it does not wish to cover is what's happening in Philadelphia.
00:39:21.000So you've had massive rioting over the past three nights over the shooting of Walter Wallace.
00:39:25.000Walter Wallace is being portrayed by Democrats as a very nice guy, a very, very nice guy.
00:39:30.000Here's Bernie Sanders's tweet on Walter Wallace.
00:39:32.000So Bernie tweeted out, Walter Wallace would be alive today and our thoughts are with his loved ones.
00:39:38.000The police responsible for murdering him in front of his mother, instead of getting him the medical attention he needed, should be arrested, investigated, and prosecuted by the Justice Department.
00:39:46.000Okay, so Bernie Sanders says this guy was murdered.
00:39:50.000like in cold blood, like they should be prosecuted federally by the Justice Department, says Bernie McSanders.
00:40:02.000Also, it turns out that Walter Wallace was not the world's nicest man.
00:40:06.000I know that we have this duty every time a black man is killed by the police to portray that black man as the font of all good, innocence and wonder.
00:40:16.000We got this with Jacob Blake, who turns out was an alleged rapist.
00:40:20.000We got this with George Floyd, and it turns out that George Floyd literally held a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman a few years prior.
00:40:25.000So that does not mean that what happened to George Floyd should have happened to George Floyd.
00:40:29.000It does mean that it does not require you to treat people who are shot by the police or killed by the police or die in police custody.
00:40:35.000As wonderful, wonderful people in order to make your point about police brutality with regard to George Floyd.
00:40:40.000It certainly means in the case of Jacob Blake that.
00:40:43.000You know the Democratic candidates calling up Jacob Blake personally.
00:40:47.000to offer their condolences to him on being shot after he resisted arrest, went for a knife in his car, and had been called to the scene by a woman who alleged rape against him previously.
00:41:10.000Guns are a central theme as he rhymes about shooting people, including police.
00:41:13.000But his videos also include songs about social causes and police injustice.
00:41:17.000See, this has always been weird to me.
00:41:19.000If you cut a song about how you're shooting the police, and then you're like, but the police are mean to me!
00:41:24.000I feel like the police might have a reason to be mean with you if you're talking literally about how you want to shoot them and murder them.
00:41:30.000In any case, it's not just about his rap, obviously.
00:41:38.000Court records show Wallace was currently awaiting trial for allegedly threatening to shoot a woman and her house up.
00:41:43.000In 2017, he pled guilty to robbery, assault, and possessing an instrument of crime after kicking down the door of another woman and putting a gun to her head.
00:41:51.000He was sentenced to 11 to 23 months behind bars.
00:41:54.000In 2013, he pled guilty to assault and resisting arrest after punching a police officer in the face.
00:42:02.000Okay, but all of this resulted in massive riots in Philadelphia, And our media covered it in exactly the way you have become accustomed to our media covering riots.
00:42:41.000Just remarkable how conservatives want to elevate it.
00:42:44.000I feel like it's more remarkable how the media want to downplay it.
00:42:48.000Massive riots in which a thousand people loot a Walmart.
00:42:51.000After the justified shooting of a person trying to attack police with a knife, it seems to me like that should be more newsworthy than the top story that the New York Times and everybody else was covering yesterday, which was Trump held a rally in Omaha, and the transportation was not good, and some old people were stuck in the cold.
00:43:07.000That was literally the top story on Twitter all day yesterday.
00:44:13.000One witness said though he had mental health issues.
00:44:16.000The district attorney said a report this was a medical call was consistent with what they know so far.
00:44:24.000So could these officers have escalated the situation?
00:44:28.000They obviously could have used tasers if they had tasers, but they didn't have tasers.
00:44:32.000But why shoot to kill as opposed to shoot to injure and just prevent anything from going further?
00:44:39.000OK, because you're an idiot, Wolf Blitzer.
00:44:41.000I mean, the answer is because that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
00:44:43.000But again, more important to cover the evils of cops who didn't actually do anything wrong than to cover what's actually happening in the city.
00:44:49.000So the Pennsylvania governor, Tom Wolf, he called the rioting peaceful protests.
00:44:57.000I'm and my staff have been in constant communication since last night with the folks in Philadelphia and the hope is that that doesn't escalate into anything more than the peaceful protests that I think this kind of situation brings out.
00:45:14.000Oh, well, you know, we all have hopes, don't we?
00:45:19.000Also, as it turns out, it turns out the police were told to let the looters loot.
00:45:23.000According to Jazz Shaw, writing over at Hot Air, the mayor of Philadelphia imposed a curfew last night in an attempt to quell the ongoing rioting and looting.
00:45:29.000Shockingly, many of the people who were already in the process of breaking any numbers of laws did not follow the orders and set out to continue the mayhem.
00:45:35.000So why would the looters continue emptying the shelves of all the city stores after they'd been put on notice by the municipal government?
00:45:42.000Perhaps it's because they'd heard that the cops had been ordered not to arrest any looters.
00:46:11.000Hey, as you may recall, Daniel Outlaw, who is the current Philadelphia police chief, took the office of police commissioner on a promise to put an end to the incarceration nation that we all supposedly live in.
00:46:21.000She's been one of the biggest proponents of the Empty the Jails movement in the country.
00:46:24.000In case you weren't aware of her history prior to coming to Philadelphia, she was prior the chief of police in Portland, Oregon.
00:46:30.000So, yes, it turns out that these major cities being left to the predations of local officials who do not care about rioting and looting, or see the rioting and looting as justified response to the systemic evils and racism of America, that is a big story, and it's a big story in its swing state, so naturally the media don't want to cover it.
00:46:45.000And Joe Biden will be asked no tough questions about it.
00:46:47.000So Joe Biden, the basic part that Joe Biden is being asked by the media is, will you condemn rioting and looting?
00:46:53.000Sure, he'll condemn rioting and looting.
00:46:59.000Ask him if he'll condemn the end to the incarceration movement that calls for the non-arrest of people who are engaged in rioting and looting.
00:47:48.000And that allegation is extraordinarily weak, considering he was carrying a gun and refusing to put carrying a knife and refusing to put it down while approaching police officers.
00:47:59.000I mean, what we're watching right now is a bad time for the country.
00:48:00.000It's not a bad time for the country specifically because of Donald Trump.
00:48:03.000It is a bad time for the country because we have a media that is utterly compliant in a narrative that suggests that America is so systemically racist that we ought not cover actual newsworthy events.
00:48:12.000We have to downplay newsworthy events simply to stop Trump because everybody on the right is just that bad.
00:48:17.000The social pressure not to back anything remotely conservative is extremely heavy.
00:48:28.000It may not materialize in support for Trump, but the pressure is there.
00:48:32.000There is going to be a backlash at some point to the social pressure that suggests that if you want to stand up to this stuff in any serious way, you're a bad person.
00:48:39.000Because the social pressure is becoming overwhelming.
00:48:41.000Just a slight example over the last 24 hours.
00:48:43.000The Girl Scouts put up a social media post congratulating Amy Coney Barrett.
00:48:51.000It said, And then they put up a picture of female Supreme Court justices that included all of the various Supreme Court justices who have been female.
00:49:01.000Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan.
00:49:06.000This drove a bunch of Democrats to immediately start yelling at the Girl Scouts.
00:49:41.000The claim is that Joe Biden is going to restore an era of normalcy.
00:49:44.000That Joe Biden is going to bring things back under control.
00:49:46.000That things are bubbling out of control because of Trump, and Joe Biden is going to put back a sense of normalcy.
00:49:50.000I don't think that's going to happen at all.
00:49:51.000I don't think that's going to happen at all.
00:49:53.000And the reason I don't think that's going to happen at all is because too many liberals have decided to make common cause with the radical left rather than simply assuming that they can win a majority on the basis of their own ideas, on the basis of their own policies.
00:50:05.000See, liberals in America, they have a choice right now.
00:50:07.000The choice is they can stand for open conversation, whether it's big tech, whether it's on social platforms, whether it's in the media.
00:50:13.000They can stand for more information being disseminated, not less information.
00:50:17.000They can stand for having discussions with people on the right, or they can make common cause with the folks on the radical left.
00:50:23.000The folks who are on the right may share with them certain presumptions, the liberals, about freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
00:50:30.000The folks on the left share political presumptions about what they want utopia to look like.
00:50:34.000Liberals have to decide whether they prefer a country where they may not always get their way in terms of policy, but at least don't undermine fundamental principles they supposedly believe in, like freedom of speech and tolerance for others' opinions, or whether they are so attached to the policy agenda of utopian democratic socialism that they would rather make common cause with a censorious left that hates everybody on the right so much they'll just call them racist.
00:50:54.000And it's pretty obvious which way the liberals are moving.
00:50:57.000They're not moving in the direction of open conversation.
00:50:59.000They're not moving in the direction of having open discussion with people with whom they disagree.
00:51:06.000Excellent indicator of this yesterday from Jonathan Chait.
00:51:08.000So people have asked me before, who are people who are liberal, who I enjoy reading sometimes, and I've said from time to time Jonathan Chait.
00:51:14.000Jonathan Chait would never say anything similar about me.
00:51:16.000This is the rule on social media, which is that if you're a person on the right and you're nice to somebody on the left, That's basically OK.
00:51:24.000But if you're a person on the left and you are you're nice to somebody on the right, you are immediately excoriated.
00:51:28.000If you're the Girl Scouts and you say something nice about Amy Corny Barrett, then you are immediately excoriated.
00:51:33.000OK, so Jonathan Chait, I think, can fairly be assumed to be a mainstream Democratic liberal.
00:51:38.000He's somebody who supposedly believes in the evils of cancel culture.
00:51:41.000He's somebody who supposedly believes in the First Amendment and freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
00:51:46.000He wouldn't be somebody who would just make common cause with the radical left, right?
00:51:49.000He would be somebody who is for free and open discussion, except that he is now engaged, Shade, in a campaign to basically call everybody he disagrees with a racist, which is a way of endorsing the program of the left.
00:51:59.000Once you have labeled somebody as a racist, there is no reason to have a conversation with them.
00:52:03.000Now they are in the untouchable class.
00:52:05.000Now they have been put in the basket of deplorables with whom you may never have a conversation.
00:52:12.000This is what they are attempting to do.
00:52:13.000So yesterday, Jonathan Chait tweeted out, conservatives like Charles Cook, who's the editor of National Review, and Ben Shapiro used to find Trump's racism embarrassing.
00:52:27.000So, he argues that Charles Cook, who, by the way, didn't even say that he's voting for Trump, and I, because I say that I'm voting for Trump, even though I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, we now embrace and love Trump for being a racist.
00:52:37.000Now, there's not a statement Trump has made that I think is racist that I have defended.
00:52:41.000In fact, I've called him out on any statement that I think that he has made that is racist.
00:52:45.000So, for example, when he suggested that a Mexican judge was incapable of judging a case on Trump University because of his Mexican heritage, He was not, in fact, Mexican.
00:52:57.000I've ripped Trump up and down when I think he has said something that it doesn't matter.
00:53:00.000According to Jonathan Chait, anybody who is going to vote for Trump, anybody who disagrees with Jonathan Chait that Trump overall is a racist, anybody who disagrees with any of that stuff is, in fact, a racist.
00:53:11.000The liberals in this country, the people like Joe Biden, they're not going to make common cause with people on the center right.
00:53:15.000They're not going to make common cause with people who are in favor of free speech.
00:53:18.000They're not in favor of strengthening the protections of the First Amendment.
00:53:21.000They're not in favor of strengthening the ability to disseminate information.
00:53:24.000They're very much in favor of the social media campaigns that turn every corporation, every press outlet, into an instrument for their utopian goals.
00:53:33.000That's the choice that's been put to mainstream liberals and mainstream liberals are failing that choice.
00:53:36.000And Joe Biden is a great indicator of a person who is failing that choice.
00:53:39.000Do I think that Joe Biden is going to defend the rights of conservatives to be heard on social media?
00:53:46.000I can name off the top of my head a thousand conservatives who are going to defend the right of liberals to disseminate their informations on Twitter.
00:53:52.000But I can't name a single Democrat who right now is willing to actually stand up and say anything about this in a position of power.
00:54:01.000The woke have taken over the party, not because the woke represent a majority of the Democratic Party, but because all it takes is a radical minority that is willing to sit out elections, a radical minority that is willing to use its power in concerted ways to convince the liberals that they ought to side with that radical minority rather than building some sort of bridges with people with whom they disagree and getting half a loaf rather than the entire loaf.
00:54:23.000That is the math that the liberals are doing right now, and it's an ugly, ugly, ugly math.
00:54:27.000Okay, meanwhile, there is a piece of good news for the Trump administration going into the election five days out from the election.
00:54:41.000Now we are still down net on the year, but that is a very, very good number, right?
00:54:46.000I mean, the GDP stat jumping 33%, it's the highest jump in GDP in the history of the United States.
00:54:51.000That is because as lockdowns began to alleviate, people started to go back to work, people started to go back to business, people started to live their lives again.
00:54:58.000And as people start to live their lives again, infections start to spread.
00:55:02.000The best way to limit infections is to socially distance from people, not to be in a room for 15 minutes, in an air-conditioned room for 15 minutes with people.
00:55:09.000And if you are going to be in close contact with people, then wear a mask, right?
00:55:48.000We have some therapeutics that are now being trotted out.
00:55:51.000There's a good study that came out on Regeneron today.
00:55:53.000That study shows that the rate of hospitalization has been reduced by around 50 to 60% for people who take Regeneron early.
00:56:01.000That's the monoclonal antibody treatment that you've heard Dr. Mari Makkari talk about on this program from Johns Hopkins University.
00:56:08.000So there are therapeutics that are being used.
00:56:09.000They're bringing down the death rate fairly radically.
00:56:11.000Still, we have to get the hospitalization rate down.
00:56:14.000That means that young people cannot infect old people, so we have to be careful.
00:56:17.000But what we are seeing now, in Britain, there's talk about literally having the police break into people's homes and break up family gatherings.
00:56:25.000We've heard the same thing about Thanksgiving gatherings from Gavin Newsom in the state of California.
00:56:29.000We are treating COVID like it is airborne Ebola.
00:56:33.000The current statistics on COVID from the CDC.
00:56:36.000The latest CDC estimates of infection fatality rate by age.
00:56:40.000If you are age 0 to 19, your chance of dying from COVID is 3 in 100,000.
00:56:43.000For every 100,000 infections for people under the age of 20, there will be 3 people who die.
00:56:50.000If you're between the ages of 20 and 49, by the way, this is for all populations, right?
00:56:53.000This is not separating off the healthy from the unhealthy.
00:56:55.000So if you're healthy, your chances are way lower than this, right?
00:56:58.000If you're unhealthy, if you have clinical obesity, if you have diabetes, if you have serious heart issues, obviously your chances are much higher.
00:57:04.000So this doesn't striate by health condition, it's just by age.
00:57:09.000If you're between the ages of 20 and 49, then your death rate, your infection fatality rate from COVID is one in 5,000.
00:57:30.000Once you hit above the age of 70, everything kills you, right?
00:57:33.000Once you hit above the age of 70, then there'll be 5.4 deaths per 100 infections.
00:57:37.000Because basically, once you're above the age of 70, then the flu can kill you also, right?
00:57:40.000I mean, there's very, like, it's more deadly than the flu for people who are above the age of 70.
00:57:44.000But actually, there's less of a differential between death rates from flu and COVID between the ages of 70 and death than there is between the ages of 50 and 69, for example, because you're just more vulnerable when you are of that age.
00:57:56.000Nonetheless, we are talking about full-scale lockdowns nearly everywhere on Earth.
00:58:13.000It turns out, the heavier you locked down in the first place, the more you're getting a spike in COVID right now.
00:58:18.000France is now going to reimpose a nationwide lockdown.
00:58:20.000Germany will close bars and restaurants and impose other restrictions for a month in a last-ditch effort to protect hospitals from becoming overwhelmed with virus patients as Europe battles a second wave of the pandemic.
00:58:29.000Remember, Germany was the big success story.
00:58:31.000It turns out COVID comes for everybody sooner or later.
00:58:34.000For months, according to the New York Times, European countries have tried to slow the spread of the virus through targeted restrictions aimed at avoiding the tough nationwide lockdowns imposed in the spring.
00:58:42.000But the measures have not succeeded at halting the surge in cases and hospitalizations, putting more drastic limits on daily life back in play.
00:58:49.000Officials are prioritizing keeping schools and some economic activity open in stark contrast to the spring, when movement was severely limited.
00:58:56.000President Emmanuel Macron argues that officials had no choice but to impose another lockdown in the face of limited hospital capacity.
00:59:02.000He says much of Europe is facing a similar situation.
00:59:05.000He says that Europe is being overwhelmed by a second wave we now know will probably be harder and more deadly than the first.
00:59:10.000Most non-essential businesses will be closed again, including bars and restaurants.
00:59:13.000Movement outside the home will be strictly limited.
00:59:15.000Private and public gatherings will be banned.
00:59:17.000Universities will pivot to online classes.
00:59:20.000Some jobs will remain open, but the lockdowns are going to be in effect through at least December 1st.
00:59:35.000So you can either lock down forever, or you can acknowledge that there is a risk to living daily life, and then you can go out and live your life, and you can take precautions that are responsible.
00:59:43.000In the UK, they're going absolutely wild.
00:59:45.000In the UK, a police commissioner now says that officers may break into Christmas family dinners if they flout lockdown rules, which seems like a pretty grave violation of personal privacy for a disease that is extremely unlikely to kill people who are under the age of 50.
01:00:02.000Right now, the United States is experiencing a surge as well.
01:00:05.000Three dozen states have reported the average number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 rose by at least 5% over the past week.
01:00:12.000Admiral Brett Giroir, Assistant Secretary of Health, says we are at another critical point in the pandemic response.
01:00:17.000And of course, he encouraged people to avoid crowded gatherings and wash your hands a lot.
01:00:21.000The United States reported 73,000 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the seven-day average of new cases up to about 71,832.
01:00:30.000Right now, there's worry about hospitalizations, which are starting to climb pretty significantly.
01:00:34.000This is actually the third wave of hospitalizations that we've seen.
01:00:36.000We saw a giant wave at the beginning, then we saw that southern wave that happened during the summer when people went into air-conditioned areas, and now we are seeing a third wave.
01:00:44.000The places where we are seeing the highest rates of newly reported cases are exactly the places that didn't get hit hard the first time, right?
01:00:50.000Basically, everywhere that avoided it is now getting walloped.
01:00:53.000So North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, right?
01:00:58.000States that are actually not getting walloped right now include Florida, which got walloped before, and places like New York, which is not getting hit particularly hard.
01:01:06.000There's a spike there, but it's not a spike that is anywhere close to the caseload in places like North Dakota.
01:01:13.000So, bottom line is that this is what everybody thought it was, right?
01:01:17.000It is going to wave through the United States.
01:01:21.000You can take mitigating measures, and that's pretty much all you can do.
01:01:23.000The stock market took a dump yesterday because of all of this as the lockdowns approach.
01:01:27.000That, of course, is not a great shock.
01:01:29.000Anthony Fauci, who's been unleashed to be his pessimistic doom and gloom self, he says that it may be the end of 2021 and maybe beyond before we reach a sense of normalcy.
01:01:37.000By the way, that's not going to happen.
01:01:39.000If you think that the world is simply going to put everything on pause, For a disease that is not killing extraordinary rates of people under the age of 70?
01:01:47.000I mean it's killing... When I say not extraordinary, I mean like not Ebola.
01:02:14.000Already, you can see that people have basically said, okay, well, if I get it, I get it.
01:02:17.000And that's just the way it's going to work because you cannot prevent people from living their lives this way.
01:02:21.000Here's Anthony Fauci promoting Zoom and Gloom.
01:02:24.000I would imagine, at least in the United States, the way things are looking, that if we get a vaccination campaign and by the second or third quarter of 2021, we have vaccinated a substantial proportion of the people, I think it will be easily by the end of 2021 and perhaps even into the next year before we start having some semblances of normality.
01:02:50.000And it really depends on what you mean by normal.
01:02:53.000Okay, well, if by what we mean by normal is normal, that's not going to happen.
01:02:56.000And nobody's gonna stay home until the end of time by borrowing money from the future in order to stay home for a disease that, if you're under the age of 20, is killing you at a rate of 3 per 100,000, and if you are under the age of 50, is killing you at a rate of 2 per 10,000.
01:03:44.000Here's Eddie Glaude saying that the right keeps using freedom talk as an excuse for irresponsibility.
01:03:49.000Maybe the right is using freedom talk because I don't think it's appropriate for the government to break into my family Thanksgiving dinner because they want to protect grandma.
01:03:55.000I just don't think that's appropriate.
01:04:40.000And freedom and liberty does not mean I have the freedom and liberty to go cough in an old person's face.
01:04:44.000That's not what we're talking about here.
01:04:46.000The left is pro-lockdown because the left generally believes that freedom is not Freedom allows the freedom to do wrong, and therefore freedom itself is the threat.
01:04:54.000That is an ideology that should not sustain contact with reality.