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00:00:00.000Coronavirus continues to spread across the nation as the media decide Trump is to blame, Trump's niece provides comfort food for the Trump haters, and classical music is apparently racist.
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00:01:47.000Okay, so, big news continues to be the spread of coronavirus across the nation.
00:01:51.000On a day-to-day level, the deaths seem to be somewhat stable.
00:01:54.000We've seen around a thousand deaths for the last three days, as well as a lot of last week.
00:01:58.000We have seen hospitalizations starting to slightly decline in some places like Texas and Arizona, so it's possible that we've already hit peak there.
00:02:06.000In Florida, doesn't look like they've hit peak yet.
00:02:08.000Hospital capacity is not being threatened so far as I can tell from the statistics in places like Florida or Texas or Arizona, which means that the curve was indeed flattened, nor are we seeing the sorts of death rates that we saw in New York.
00:02:19.000In New York, we're seeing 600 to 700 deaths every single day in New York City alone.
00:02:23.000In Arizona and Florida and Texas and California, you're seeing on the upper end about 150 deaths a day, which obviously is tragic and horrifying.
00:02:30.000And that number, if it were to last the entire year, would be absolutely stunning, right?
00:02:34.000Then you would see 35,000 deaths in a lot of these places.
00:02:38.000But we have not reached New York epidemic levels as of yet.
00:02:41.000So the media continue to focus in on the fact that this thing is spreading uncontrolled across the country.
00:02:45.000I mean, the fact is, the number of positive cases continues to increase.
00:02:49.000shattered its single-day record for new cases with more than 75,600 cases.
00:02:54.000According to the New York Times, this was the 11th time in the past month that the record has been broken.
00:02:58.000The number has more than doubled since June 24th, when the country registered 37,014 cases after a lull in the outbreak had kept the previous record, 36,738, standing for two months.
00:03:09.000In reality, is it possible we saw many, many more infections like this in the early stages?
00:03:14.000But testing was not ramped up to nearly the extent that it is now.
00:03:17.000So it's quite possible that, for example, the death rates were exactly the same today as they were back during the New York days.
00:03:22.000It's just that the testing capacity was not nearly what it was.
00:03:25.000So the denominator in the deaths over infections rate was just not correct.
00:03:30.000It's possible the denominator was way larger than it was originally purported to be.
00:03:35.000The previous single-day record, 68,241 cases, was announced last Friday.
00:03:40.000Thursday's record included more than 5,000 cases in Bexar County, Texas, which contains San Antonio.
00:03:44.000There was a backlog in test reporting.
00:03:46.000One of the weird things about the stats here is there are these backlogs that sometimes get reported late, so you'll see occasionally a very odd day where a huge number of deaths are tallied.
00:03:55.000And you're like, whoa, did just a bunch of people die that day?
00:03:57.000It's like, no, that's a backlog and that's being reported.
00:03:59.000Now, you're seeing this with some of the cases that are being reported.
00:04:01.000You're also seeing cases Where possible, COVID is being reported as probable or real COVID.
00:04:06.000You've seen cases in Florida where hospitals are reporting only positive results, which ticks up the percent positive rate.
00:04:13.000Now, does any of this change the underlying narrative that COVID is actually quite prevalent across the country and is apparently rising in terms of case number?
00:05:01.000And when everyone else points to the fact that nobody really knows the answer to this, that we've seen the same policies adopted by Democrats and Republicans in different states to different outcomes, that Georgia opened the exact same time as Colorado.
00:05:13.000Colorado has seen a 40% decline in cases, while Georgia has seen a 200% increase in cases.
00:05:18.000And they pursued the exact same policy at the exact same time.
00:05:21.000Well, that says we don't understand the virus very much.
00:05:23.000We don't know the dynamics of the virus very much.
00:05:26.000When people in the media Point two, lockdowns work.
00:05:38.000The media, because they are seeking Epistemic closure here because they are looking for a scientific model where they can say follow the science and if you disagree with us, you're not following the science because the media are doing this.
00:05:49.000They're neglecting the fact that there are no great answers here.
00:05:59.000It is possible that there are antibodies in like 50 to 60 percent of certain populations in New York because the thing ran roughshod through the population.
00:06:07.000So comparing New York where they had a massive wave where everybody got infected with Texas or Florida where there was no massive first wave and they're now experiencing a first wave of cases is utterly foolhardy.
00:06:16.000The same thing is true when it comes to a wide variety of issues.
00:06:20.000For example, let's talk about masking for a second.
00:06:22.000So I have said many, many times that out of an abundance of caution, I'm in favor of masking.
00:06:27.000That if you're in a crowded place, it seems to me that the least you can do is put on a mask when you go into the Walmart.
00:06:35.000And if it's not 100% foolproof, but it's better than nothing, and if a lot of people do it, then you're reducing risk through a herd adoption of a measure that lowers risk by a certain percentage that we don't actually know.
00:06:48.000The evidence on masks is fairly divisive.
00:06:52.000Up until the last five minutes, the WHO suggested that if you were asymptomatic, you should not be wearing a mask.
00:06:56.000In fact, I believe the WHO still holds to that standard.
00:06:59.000And in fact, there are many countries that have done just fine with this thing that have not really done the masking thing.
00:07:05.000In fact, for example, there is a there's a chart showing whether Europeans are wearing masks.
00:07:11.000This was done just a couple of weeks ago.
00:07:14.000YouGov asked European citizens if they would wear a mask in public places.
00:07:16.000And what you can see in the chart is that under 10 percent of people from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden say they would wear a mask in public places.
00:07:27.000I mean, that's Denmark and Finland and Norway as well.
00:07:30.000Meanwhile, you got 85% of the population in places like Italy saying they would wear a mask and Italy just got creamed.
00:07:37.000You've got other countries, like Spain, that have an uptick in the number of people who say that they would wear a mask.
00:07:42.000And you've got the UK, where a huge number of people say they would wear a mask.
00:07:45.000Those places have been really, really hard hit.
00:07:47.000So if it's just about the mask wearing, then why is it that some countries that have been really hard hit didn't do the masking, and some countries that did do the mask wearing have been really hard hit?
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00:09:29.000Okay, so as Jim Garrity points out, a study released last month by the Scripps Research Institute concluded that the strains of the virus spreading so quickly in Europe and the U.S.
00:09:37.000have a mutated S-spike protein that makes them about 10 times as infectious as the strain initially identified in Asia.
00:09:42.000So now you're comparing apples to oranges when you say, why isn't this thing spreading in Hong Kong or Taiwan the same way that it spread in the United States or Europe?
00:09:49.000Because it ain't exactly the same virus, as it turns out.
00:09:52.000is having a tougher time controlling the spread of coronavirus than Asian countries did in winter and early spring, that's partially because this version of the virus is tougher to stop from spreading.
00:10:01.000More and more researchers, says Jim Garrity, are contending that SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, is airborne, meaning it is not merely being dispersed by the bodily fluids of those who have it, but also floating about in aerosolized form.
00:10:12.000It's also possible the virus is not truly aerosolized, but it's floating in tiny droplets so light and small they can easily be carried long distances by air currents.
00:10:20.000The European Center for Disease Prevention and the World Health Organization are now taking the aerosolized possibility seriously and with good reason.
00:10:26.000An aerosolized virus would mean most of our current pandemic control policies, like remaining six feet apart, are not enough by themselves to prevent contraction of the virus.
00:10:35.000As Jim Garrity says, the scale and complexity of the problem should not be understated.
00:10:39.000The country enacted unprecedented sweeping lockdowns that kept most Americans at home at great cost to the economy.
00:10:46.000Preventing more infections is not just a matter of convincing the president to wear a mask consistently or shutting down beaches or subways or requiring quarantines for those who travel between states.
00:10:55.000At every level of government, the response to the virus has met with mixed success.
00:10:58.000But it's important to recognize no one is ignoring any simple or easy solutions because the solutions do not exist.
00:11:04.000Now, one thing that is true is that the death rate has been dropping fairly dramatically.
00:11:07.000The CDC currently estimates the death rate at between 0.6 and 0.7 percent, about seven times as deadly as the flu.
00:11:13.000A new study puts it between 0.5 and 0.8.
00:11:15.000If there are a lot of asymptomatic or unconfirmed cases, that means it could be 0.2.
00:11:19.000But as I say, even a 0.2 fatality rate with half of the American population adopting the virus would mean a lot of dead people.
00:11:27.000So we will see whether there is a big spike here.
00:11:30.000But the bottom line is that everybody who's sort of counting on a vaccine to save us, that is not a strategy either.
00:11:36.000And the fact is that if we rush out a vaccine and it's no good, then it's no good.
00:11:41.000It's also possible that a vaccine that is truly effective and mass-produced and mass-adopted won't happen until mid-time next year, even in the most optimistic scenarios.
00:11:50.000So the notion that you're just going to be able to sort of sit around and wait for good things to happen, just stay at home and wait for good things to happen, that's not true either.
00:11:57.000The reason I'm pointing all of this out is because this is all hard stuff.
00:12:03.000at a list from Worldometers, which compiles data from Johns Hopkins University, about COVID-19 deaths. And I'm going to give you the states that have the highest rate of deaths for 1 million population right now. OK, this is the list. New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, District of Columbia, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, then Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mississippi, Indiana, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, New Hampshire, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Alabama, Iowa, Virginia, Florida. Right.
00:12:33.000California is next on the list, by the way.
00:12:35.000Florida, South Carolina, Nevada, California.
00:12:37.000One thing that you will notice is if you're gonna talk about strategies that worked, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, the top nine states in terms of death per million population are all Democratic-governed.
00:12:50.000And nearly all of them were pro-lockdown.
00:12:52.000New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, D.C., Louisiana, Michigan.
00:12:56.000These were all very pro-lockdown states.
00:12:59.000Maryland is a Republican-governed state.
00:13:01.000Larry Hogan is the governor over there.
00:13:03.000And he's been widely praised for his response to the virus.
00:13:36.000There are no experts on an unprecedented disease.
00:13:39.000There are experts on disease generally, but there are not experts on this disease, which means that there's going to be a lot of conflicting evidence from experts.
00:13:46.000You can get Scott Atlas on the one hand saying, I'm not sure that masks are supremely useful.
00:13:49.000You can get Dr. Fauci saying masks aren't useful, and then masks are useful.
00:13:53.000You can get Fauci saying at one point, I'm not sure we can go back into full scale lockdown.
00:13:56.000And then you can have Fauci saying, well, we never should have let out a lockdown in the first place.
00:13:59.000If you just look at the statements of Fauci, who, by the way, I think is doing his best, just like everybody else in this situation.
00:14:04.000Fauci's statements contradict each other fairly regularly.
00:14:21.000It is true on whether this is aerosolized.
00:14:23.000It is true on whether kids should be in schools.
00:14:25.000On the one hand, you've got a fair bit of evidence that kids are not infecting their parents.
00:14:29.000There's good evidence from Iceland that this is the case.
00:14:31.000There's good evidence from China that this is the case.
00:14:32.000On the other hand, you saw a vast outbreak in Israel when they reopened the schools.
00:14:36.000Now, it turns out when they reopened the schools, it's quite possible one of the things that happened Is that a reason to keep schools closed?
00:14:46.000If they don't die from it, that's not that bad.
00:14:48.000The problem is if they pass it on to their parents, that's what happened in Israel.
00:14:52.000Kids gave it to each other, and then a couple of people got it, some of the adults, and then the adults started spreading it amongst themselves, particularly in religious communities.
00:15:00.000Is that a reason to keep schools closed?
00:15:10.000I know, for example, that it is a stupid answer for the New York City mayors to suggest that we're going to have mass-paid childcare, but not schools.
00:15:18.000Like, just on a commonsensical level, that's idiotic.
00:15:21.000New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday the city will provide free childcare to 100,000 students when schools reopen in September.
00:15:28.000Last week, the city released its plan for children to return to public school classrooms one to three days a week, depending on each school's capacity for social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
00:15:37.000Students will take classes remotely on the other days.
00:15:40.000The city aims to provide relief for working parents who either can't afford to stay home or can't find childcare for the days students aren't in school for in-person learning.
00:15:47.000The program will serve students from age 3 through 8th grade.
00:15:50.000There will be 50,000 available seats each day, with the idea that these seats will serve 100,000 students because of alternating in-person days at school.
00:15:57.000The city says it's trying to identify space in schools, community centers, libraries, and elsewhere.
00:16:00.000So basically they're going to have school, except the teachers don't have to show up and teach.
00:16:04.000It's just a stop to the teachers union by saying, okay, so we'll keep your kid locked up in the state care facility, but the teachers won't have to show up.
00:16:10.000So this is stupid because it's just as stupid as the anti-lockdown protests will spread COVID, but pro-George Floyd protests will not spread COVID.
00:16:18.000And saying that childcare is not going to spread COVID, but schools are gonna, like what, the teaching spreads the COVID?
00:16:24.000Like there's certain things that you can see done in policy that are dumb, right?
00:16:27.000Leaving the nursing homes open to COVID, stupid.
00:16:30.000Opening childcare, but not school, stupid, makes no sense.
00:16:34.000And, by the way, has some pretty dire secondary effect.
00:16:37.000I'm amused that the New York Times, the same New York Times that's saying we need to keep the schools closed for the sake of the teachers, is also observing that, by the way, a lot of private schools are coming back and rich parents can deal with kids being home and they can homeschool them.
00:16:49.000It's creating an actual more serious gap in education between poor and rich.
00:16:54.000My kids have done fairly okay in terms of education being home during this time.
00:16:58.000My six-year-old started off the pandemic reading at probably first grade level when she was in kindergarten.
00:17:04.000And now, before she enters first grade, she's reading at third grade level, right?
00:17:18.000The New York Times is recognizing this is exacerbating inequality.
00:17:21.000At the same time, they are cheering on the closing of the schools and shouting at President Trump for saying the schools should open.
00:17:26.000So we'll get to more of this in a second because if you believe that the media are objective and then you see the way that they weaponize uncertainty against Trump, it's pretty astonishing.
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00:19:07.000We were talking about My Kids' Perspective School, and they're going to have the kids check in, there are going to be temperature checks at the front door, they're going to be trying to socially distance the kids, they're going to have the kids stay in the room and the teachers move from room to room as opposed to having the kids move around in the hallways.
00:19:20.000But the idea that the schools can remain indefinitely closed, or they can close down all of American society forever, that's just not a realistic scenario.
00:19:28.000Everybody understands this, except the media, which says that anything Trump says is bad.
00:19:32.000So perfect example of media bias yesterday.
00:19:35.000So here's the New York Times headline, okay?
00:19:37.000The White House press secretary says science should not stand in the way of reopening schools.
00:19:42.000Okay, so that is their actual headline.
00:19:45.000That the science should not stand in the way.
00:19:47.000So that makes it sound like Kayleigh McEnany, who actually is quite good at her job, that Kayleigh McEnany was saying that we should ignore the science and send kids back to school.
00:19:54.000And this leads Rob Reiner, The director to tweet out, Donald Trump wants to murder your children.
00:20:00.000It's like, no, you're that's that's the Demogorgon from Stranger Things, Rob.
00:20:04.000No, Trump does not want to murder your children.
00:20:06.000And that's also not what Kayleigh McEnany said.
00:20:08.000Here's the actual clip of Kayleigh McEnany.
00:20:10.000She never says at any point that we should ignore the science.
00:20:13.000In fact, she's saying precisely the opposite.
00:20:15.000She's saying there's plenty of science to back the idea we should open the schools.
00:20:20.000The President has said, unmistakably, that he wants schools to open.
00:20:23.000And I was just in the Oval talking to him about that.
00:20:25.000And when he says open, he means open and full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school.
00:20:31.000The science should not stand in the way of this.
00:20:35.000And as Dr. Scott Atlas said, I thought this was a good quote, of course we can do it.
00:20:39.000Everyone else in the Western world, our peer nations, are doing it.
00:20:46.000Uh, that, you know, for instance, you look at the JAMA pediatric study of 46 pediatric hospitals in North America that said the risk of critical illness from COVID is far less for children than that of seasonal flu.
00:21:05.000They don't bother with the actual truth, which is that she's making a scientific case for reopening schools.
00:21:10.000And the scientific case, by the way, is fairly strong.
00:21:12.000The media are touting an article today by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who I think, you know, he's done his best during this pandemic.
00:21:18.000The fact, again, is that the rate of death per million population in Maryland is 556 per million population.
00:21:27.000The rate of death in Florida right now, the much maligned Florida, is 218, less than half, less than half of the death per million rate of Maryland.
00:21:37.000Hey, the rate in a lot of Republican states, as it turns out, is really, really, Texas, right, which is much maligned Texas, 130 per million, a lot, lot lower, like four times lower than Larry Hogan's Maryland.
00:21:48.000But according to Larry Hogan, it's all about Trump.
00:21:51.000He has a piece in the Washington Post, and this is the nice thing about having an unpopular president.
00:21:55.000You can always blame everything on the unpopular president.
00:21:58.000He says, I'd watched as the president downplayed the outbreak severity, and as the White House failed to issue public warnings, draw up a 50-state strategy, or dispatch medical gear or life-saving ventilators from the national stockpile to American hospitals.
00:22:08.000By the way, there was no shortage of ventilators.
00:22:10.000No one died for want of a ventilator in the United States.
00:25:42.000It didn't come to New York because you guys were busy.
00:25:45.000Talking about how everybody should go down to Chinatown for Chinese New Year.
00:25:49.000It didn't come to New York because you shipped all the old people with COVID back into the nursing homes.
00:25:53.000Trump is just such a convenient whipping post for the Democrats that it doesn't matter that they don't have a solution for this either because no one has a solution.
00:25:59.000How about we just recognize there are no good answers here?
00:26:02.000Okay, coming up, we're going to get into another aspect of the anti-Trump campaign, which is when he's not a fascist, it's because he's incompetent.
00:26:11.000And when he does something strong, then he's a fascist, right?
00:27:46.000They're wearing full-on military regalia with police on their military regalia and they're getting out of unmarked vehicles and they're arresting looters and rioters and people who are disobeying curfew laws and all of this.
00:27:56.000And they're not just quote-unquote peaceful protesters.
00:28:00.000That's what's been happening in Portland for well over a month.
00:28:03.000Ted Wheeler, who is the idiot mayor of Portland, has allowed this to go on for really years.
00:28:07.000He's allowed Antifa to stop people in the middle of the street.
00:28:09.000He's allowed Portland to become the repository of sort of Antifa centers.
00:28:14.000So there are videos that are emerging of federal forces and members of DHS who are walking up on guys who are dressed in this kind of cosplay Antifa military stuff and arresting people.
00:28:25.000And so there are all these reports emerging.
00:28:32.000Well, DHS basically announced what it was all about before.
00:28:35.000Let me read you how the media are covering this, and then we'll get to what's actually happening here.
00:28:39.000Because according to the media, this is basically Trump has authorized the jackboots to come in at night and just pick up peaceful protesters standing against racism.
00:28:47.000That is not what is happening here, guys.
00:28:49.000There's not a lot of evidence that the federal forces are just arriving to lock up the protesters.
00:29:10.000By protesting, they mean like firing things, breaking windows, and attempting to destroy.
00:29:14.000In the Mark Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Connor O'Shea decided to head home.
00:29:19.000It had been a calm night compared to most protesting downtown.
00:29:21.000By 2 a.m., law enforcement hadn't used any tear gas, and with only a few exceptions, both the Portland Police Bureau and federal law enforcement officers had stayed out of sight.
00:29:28.000A block west of Chapman Square, Pettibone and O'Shea bumped into a group of people who warned them that people in camouflage were driving around the area in unmarked minivans grabbing people off the street.
00:29:37.000So first of all, let's just be clear about this.
00:29:39.000Police routinely use unmarked vehicles.
00:29:41.000Because if you're in a marked vehicle, people run.
00:29:44.000If you want to arrest somebody, very often you use an unmarked vehicle.
00:29:47.000LAPD does not only use marked vehicles in my city.
00:29:50.000Federal forces are not required to only use marked vehicles.
00:29:54.000Now, you need probable cause to arrest somebody.
00:29:57.000It's not clear whether these arrests are arrests or detentions.
00:29:59.000Guys in camo, Shay said, four or five of them pop out, open the door and it was just like, oh bleep, I don't know who you are or what you want with us.
00:30:05.000Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14.
00:30:12.000Now, you need probable cause to arrest somebody.
00:30:14.000It's not clear whether these arrests are arrests or detentions.
00:30:18.000It's not like they're locking them up in Guantanamo Bay and leaving them there.
00:30:21.000There's probably, if I had to suggest a theory, here's my theory, that the feds have been monitoring a group of Antifa protesters for a long time.
00:30:29.000They have tape of them, and then they're going out and arresting them when they're violating curfew at night.
00:30:33.000Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested and driving off.
00:30:41.000The tactic appears to be another escalation in federal force deployed on Portland City streets as federal officers and President Donald Trump have said they plan to quell nightly protests outside the federal courthouse and Multnomah County Justice Center that have lasted for more than six weeks.
00:30:53.000Federal officers have charged at least 13 people with crimes related to the protests so far.
00:30:57.000They're not crimes related to the protests.
00:30:58.000They are crimes of looting and rioting and violating the law.
00:31:03.000Others have been arrested and released, including Pettibone.
00:31:05.000They also left one demonstrator hospitalized with skull fractures after shooting him in the face with so-called less lethal munitions on July 11th.
00:32:10.000Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf said in a statement earlier this week, the city of Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob, while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city.
00:32:20.000Each night, lawless anarchists destroy and desecrate property, including the federal courthouse, and attack the brave law enforcement officers protecting it.
00:32:26.000He said instead of addressing violent criminals in their communities, local and state leaders are instead focusing on placing blame on law enforcement and requesting fewer officers This failed response has only emboldened the violent mob as it escalates violence day after day.
00:32:41.000The DHS then released an extensive list of violence caused by leftist protesters since basically the end of May.
00:32:49.000I mean, there's tape literally last night of Antifa dragging fencing over toward the federal courthouse to try and set up their own Chop Chaz.
00:33:30.000Literally, Trump is a fascist was trending on Twitter today.
00:33:34.000So if Trump enforces the law, he's a fascist.
00:33:37.000If Trump doesn't take over all aspects of America's lockdown policies, then he is an incompetent.
00:33:43.000You guys are gonna have to pick one, or you're gonna have to pick the other.
00:33:46.000But again, it all comes down to the cops are the bad guys, except the cops aren't the bad guys.
00:33:50.000There's one black officer from Portland who, I mean, this is pretty moving stuff, talked about the situation in Portland.
00:33:56.000He said, basically, I want to have conversations with some of the people who are protesting, and these white woke jackasses keep coming between me and the people that I'm talking to, and then calling me racist names.
00:34:05.000Here is this black police officer from Portland.
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00:38:16.000Alrighty, so the argument about the cops in Portland and the law enforcement in Portland, when it has just been run by Antifa for a month and a half, it's...
00:38:31.000It's really insane and really it's driven by the broader American narrative that the police are the bad guys.
00:38:36.000And the narrative here is based on an extraordinary reading of history.
00:38:41.000Ayanna Pressley, who is the representative from Massachusetts, she is the Ringo star of the squad.
00:38:45.000She actually said yesterday that our policing system emerged from slave catching.
00:38:53.000The idea that the cops right now are trying to stop black people from being murdered are an extension of a system that was designed to catch black people and bring them back to slavery is patently crazy.
00:39:04.000The cops are just all of history is just one unified blob.
00:39:08.000Nothing has progressed over time, and so the cops are just mere outgrowths of that, according to Ayanna Pressley.
00:39:14.000While Juneteenth is meant to be a day of celebration and of freedom and emancipation, again we must take stock of this moment and be sobered about the work that lies ahead.
00:39:25.000Mr. Crenshaw, is it fair to say that the policing system in our nation grew out of the practice of capturing and often murdering individuals trying to escape from slavery?
00:39:37.000Could you speak to the history of our policing system and how you see that influencing modern-day policing?
00:39:48.000How do you see it influencing modern-day policing?
00:39:50.000That in 1832 there were slave-catching bands that were going around and they were called police and they were going around catching slaves?
00:40:00.000And this also ties into the narrative that the way you make your city safer is by getting rid of the cops, despite all evidence to the contrary.
00:40:04.000This is how you can have moron mayor Bill de Blasio literally say yesterday that for seven years we've made the city safer.
00:40:10.000Except for, you know, the doubling of the murder rates in New York City over the past month and a half.
00:40:14.000Here is moron, giant weirdo, groundhog murderer Bill de Blasio.
00:40:20.000For seven years, we have made this city safer and safer by working with communities, by recognizing the leadership of community leaders, organizations, clergy, elected officials, seeing what people can do to build peace in their own community, and building a different and better relationship between communities and the NYPD.
00:41:05.000And so the idea must be that the people who voted for him are not only in league with the Russians, which was the argument for two years, they're vicious racists.
00:41:12.000And you can see this in some of the media coverage, right?
00:41:16.000The actual heads of the New York Times, and Dean Baquette, he suggested that as soon as the Russia stuff was over, before the whole Ukrainian nonsense, that he was going to have to staff up on racial issues.
00:42:47.000Yeah, I know for a fact that he's got a kid in a cage in the back of the White House and he feeds that child to fatten them up and then he eats them.
00:42:54.000So Rachel Maddow last night on MSNBC asks Mary Trump whether Trump uses the N-word and anti-Semitic slurs and she's like, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
00:43:01.000Where were you five years ago if this was the case?
00:43:05.000That seems like something that would have been relevant when he was running for president the first time.
00:43:08.000But apparently, Mary Trump, here to clean up all the cash.
00:43:16.000I have to press you on it a little bit.
00:43:18.000Just to ask if the president, if your uncle was an exception to that in your family, or if you ever heard him express, either use anti-semitic slurs, or the n-word, or other racist slurs, or other sentiments like that.
00:43:56.000Now, breaking news as I'm selling a book, Trump used that.
00:43:59.000By the way, that would have been the kill shot in 2016, would it have not?
00:44:04.000There are not a lot of people in America in 2020 who are fond of people using the N-word.
00:44:09.000But here's Mary Trump, look, emerging from the woodwork, and Democrats are like, oh well, you know, because that links with the American racist system, and Trump is just the face of that giant American racist system.
00:44:17.000Now, color me a little bit skeptical on this, just a little bit skeptical, that a man who's been in the public eye for nearly all his life, and who has sought the public eye for nearly all his life, routinely uses the N-word, and somehow nobody else has ever said that he uses the N-word.
00:44:32.000Like, this is the first person in human history who said this.
00:45:51.000According to the Washington Post, however, The late great soprano Jessye Norman reserved just one chapter of her 24-hour memoir, Stand Up Straight and Sing, for discussion of the discrimination she faced so often throughout her career, even as one of the most decorated performers on the international opera stage.
00:46:04.000But it's safe to assume race was a running theme in her magnificent life, a dissonant motif that emerged again and again in the form of careless slurs and slights from conductors, TV roles that would have reduced her from ditto on stage to a maid on screen, offensive questions from bumbling critics, nosy security guards challenging her right to exist in the hotel pool.
00:46:22.000Those who would imagine that the rarefied realms of classical music or opera are somehow removed from the rancor of racism would be, as Norman put it, mistaken.
00:46:30.000And so too would those who imagine that our nation's intensifying reckoning with racial injustice merely marches past the concert hall.
00:46:36.000Yes, I'm sure that when most protesters looked at an officer Brutally treating George Floyd.
00:46:43.000What they were thinking was, you know what, we need to go down to the Metropolitan Opera House right now and solve racism in Dido and Anais.
00:46:50.000Front and center, we need to go after the Rossini operas.
00:46:54.000Data collected from 500 American orchestras for a 2016 study by the League of American Orchestras paints a starkly white picture when it comes to diversity in classical organizations.
00:47:03.000The proportion of non-white musicians represented in the orchestra workforce, and of African-American and Hispanic-Latino musicians in particular, remains extremely low.
00:47:45.000It's so absurd that, again, this brings us to the second piece from the New York Times.
00:47:48.000They want to get rid of blind auditions.
00:47:50.000So there was a theory a while ago that the reason there weren't enough musicians of color in orchestras, and these are really female musicians, there weren't enough female musicians in positions of power in orchestras, is because when women were trying out, there were sort of these evil sexist directors of orchestras who would not give them the time of day.
00:48:05.000And so orchestras started using blind auditions.
00:48:08.000And counter to public perception, what actually happened is the number of women in positions of power in orchestras went down.
00:48:12.000It turned out that women were actually being kind of slightly favored in some of those things.
00:48:16.000Well now, it turns out that the New York Times wishes to get rid of blind auditions.
00:48:21.000They literally want to make the orchestras worse.
00:48:23.000They want to have worse musicians so long as the diversity photo looks appealing.
00:48:28.000If ensembles are to reflect the communities they serve, the audition process should take into account race, gender, and other factors, according to Anthony Tomasini over at the New York Times in the Critics' Notebook.
00:48:40.000Blind auditions, as they became known, proved transformative.
00:48:43.000The percentage of women in orchestras, which hovered under 6% in 1970, grew.
00:48:47.000Today, women make up a third of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
00:48:49.000They are half the New York Philharmonic.
00:48:51.000Blind auditions changed the face of American orchestras.
00:48:53.000So, by the way, I'm not sure the data actually support this, but he's now counting against his own argument.
00:48:58.000He's saying blind auditions were good because they allowed people who had historically been discriminated against to get into orchestras.
00:49:03.000But now, we need to get rid of the blind auditions and have worse musicians so that we can have more faces of color in the orchestra.
00:49:11.000Again, I really look forward to these standards being applied to the NBA.
00:49:14.000I think that we need to get rid of blind auditions for the NBA.
00:49:19.000We need to specifically seek out more Jewish players in the NBA.
00:49:23.000We need to seek out more Asian players in the NBA.
00:49:24.000We need more people who are 5'5 in the NBA.
00:51:28.000It is a misread of the idea that America is uniquely evil.
00:51:32.000That the American system is uniquely evil.
00:51:35.000To be so myopic that you focus only on America when truly evil things are happening around the world and when America really provides the only bulwark against that true evil.
00:52:34.000So let's talk about the biggest thing on a lot of Republicans' minds these days, the campaign.
00:52:38.000So obviously, the campaign has an uphill climb here.
00:52:41.000I mean, the polling data right now so far is not great.
00:52:44.000What does the campaign plan to do to turn this thing around?
00:52:46.000It seems like you've kept a lot of ammunition in store.
00:52:48.000It seems as though the campaign really hasn't gotten started thanks to a variety of factors.
00:52:51.000What do you think the campaign is going to do to push forward in the coming months?
00:52:55.000Well, I think first and foremost, we're not going to pay any more attention to the polls in this election than we did in 2016.
00:53:00.000I just saw a poll come out this morning that That had us down double digits.
00:53:06.000And a friend reminded me that the exact same poll had the president down double digits about this time in 2016.
00:53:13.000So, look, elections are about choices.
00:53:17.000I can't wait to get out on the campaign trail.
00:53:20.000I'll be in Wisconsin tomorrow talking about everything that we were able to accomplish in the first three years of this administration, the president's leadership through this extraordinary pandemic.
00:53:33.000We continue to move the nation forward.
00:53:35.000We continue to meet the needs of the American people, of families, and making sure hospitalization, healthcare workers have the support they need.
00:53:44.000And we continue to see America opening up.
00:53:46.000You know, we lost 22 million jobs at the height of this pandemic.
00:53:51.000But given the foundation, the strength of the American economy, the foundation this president poured in the first three years, Ben, we've already seen nearly 8 million jobs return.
00:54:02.000We're going to continue to open up America, open up America's schools, even while we work every single day to put this coronavirus in the past.
00:54:10.000That's the record we're going to take to the American people.
00:54:13.000And that record of leadership and accomplishment built on principles, free-market principles of growth, will contrast so dramatically with the more taxes, more regulation, big government, social, liberal agenda that Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer are going to take to the American people.
00:54:42.000We're going to talk about the contrast.
00:54:44.000We're going to deliver a great victory for the American people.
00:54:47.000And Vice President Pence, one of the most difficult things that the administration's had to deal with literally since day one and before day one has been the media bias against the administration, the media obviously militating in favor A variety of causes, none of which are particularly good for the United States.
00:55:03.000After President Trump gave what I thought was an excellent speech at Mount Rushmore, they simply labeled it racist.
00:55:06.000They labeled it a defense of Confederate monuments when he didn't make a single reference to Confederate monuments.
00:55:11.000And that's sort of been the theme of the media throughout this campaign, and frankly throughout the last few years, has been the idea that everything the president does is evil and wrong.
00:55:20.000It was all about how the president wasn't providing ventilators when he was, and then once the ventilators were provided, that sort of just went away.
00:55:25.000It was all about how the president was involved with Russia, and when that went away, then they just moved on to the next topic.
00:55:31.000How do you fight back against a narrative in the media that is so overwhelming and dominant?
00:55:35.000And how do you fight back, especially when they are fear-mongering about COVID-19, which is a very dangerous virus, but that doesn't mean that we can all live in our basements from now until a vaccine.
00:55:43.000I think we just continue to tell the American people the truth.
00:55:46.000We tell the American people the truth about what we accomplished in our first three years.
00:55:50.000I mean, this president, I actually think, Ben, this president kept more promises than he made to the American people in 2016.
00:56:01.000We renewed the constitutional foundation under our courts.
00:56:05.000More than 200 conservatives confirmed to our federal courts.
00:56:08.000And on the economy, this president cut taxes, rolled back regulation, unleashed American energy, fought for free and fair and better trade deals for the American people, and we saw 7 million jobs created.
00:56:21.000And as I said, that laid a foundation even with this pandemic striking our nation from China.
00:56:29.000The president was able, again, to marshal the resources not just of the government, But a whole-of-America response, where we saw American ingenuity, American businesses stepping up.
00:56:42.000We saw the creation of more than 100,000 ventilators in 100 days.
00:56:48.000No American who required a ventilator was ever denied a ventilator.
00:56:51.000Hundreds of millions of medical supplies that we continue to surge.
00:56:56.000As we see outbreaks and an increase in cases along the Sun Belt.
00:57:02.000And then you saw the news this week with the advent of new vaccines that are moving through clinical trials at a record pace.
00:57:14.000I have to tell you, Ben, from where I've sat in this process, despite the criticism, not just over the last three and a half years, but over the last four months, from the media.
00:57:27.000I say only with this president and only in America.
00:57:30.000And I have every confidence as we go forward, we're going to continue to take that case.
00:57:35.000And I truly do believe that there's greater enthusiasm for the president and his agenda today than there was at this time in the election in 2016.
00:57:45.000So we're going to keep dealing with this pandemic.
00:57:49.000We're going to make sure every state has everything they need to provide for their citizens that are impacted by the coronavirus, the same level of healthcare you or I would want for any member of our family.
00:58:00.000But we're gonna keep opening up, we're gonna open up our schools, we're gonna keep telling the American people the truth.
00:58:05.000And you're gonna see this president and this team back in the winner's circle on November 3rd.
00:58:10.000Vice President Pence, the other aspect of our politics that seems to be so dominant over the last few months is this extraordinarily radical vision of the United States as a place steeped in racism and bigotry in which all of our institutions have been thoroughly corrupted from inceptions resulting in.
00:58:26.000Everything up to and including tearing down statues of Thomas Jefferson, defacing statues of George Washington, I think connected to larger scale rioting and looting.
00:58:34.000The Democratic Party seems completely feckless in the face of this sort of behavior.
00:58:38.000How do you and the president plan to take the message on the road that there really is a threat to some of the fundamental ties that bind us in the United States?
00:58:44.000Well, Ben, I think, as you said, I think that's what the Mount Rushmore speech was all about.
00:58:49.000And to some extent, the July 4th speech from the South Lawn of the White House reiterated that.
00:59:00.000From the founding of this country, we expressed a set of ideals, and every day in the long history of this country, we have marched toward a more perfect union.
00:59:12.000And the American people, I think, can be proud of the progress that we've made.
00:59:15.000We can celebrate that progress, even while we continue.
00:59:19.000We continue to aspire to make those ideals more real for more Americans.
00:59:25.000And with regard to the cancel culture that we have in this country, you're going to continue to see the president and our entire team stand up for the ideals of this country and stand up for America.
00:59:40.000But with regard to the whole issue of law and order and law enforcement, I met yesterday with the leaders of the top law enforcement associations in America, Ben, and there is There's no excuse for what happened to George Floyd, and justice will be served.
00:59:58.000But there's also no excuse for the rioting and the looting and the destruction of property and violence against persons that followed that.
01:00:07.000And yet we still see everyone from Joe Biden on down.
01:00:15.000I mean, Joe Biden, in an interview just in the last week, was asked if he would support transferring funding out of police departments, and he said, absolutely, yes.
01:00:27.000And a lot of members of the mainstream media are denying that he said that, but it's what he said.
01:00:33.000And, you know, we're not going to defund the police.
01:01:06.000And that's why I know the president was so proud To receive the endorsement that he just received from a major police association.
01:01:13.000And I truly do believe that whether it's the economic record, whether it's standing on all of our best constitutional ideals, the courts, whether it's rebuilding our military, or whether it's standing for law and order and with law enforcement, that I believe the majority of the American people are with us and not with Joe Biden and the radical left.
01:01:33.000And we're going to carry that message all across this country every day between now and November 3.
01:01:38.000We're speaking with Vice President Pence.
01:01:40.000So, Vice President Pence, the President is unparalleled when it comes to characterizing his opposition.
01:01:45.000He's one of the best in the history of American politics at boxing in his opponents and certainly labeling his opponents.
01:01:51.000What is the strategy with regard to Joe Biden?
01:01:53.000Because it seems like there have been a couple of attacks that have been tried.
01:01:55.000One is obviously that Joe Biden is not what he used to be.
01:01:59.000And then the second attack is that Joe Biden is a lot more radical than he is making it out.
01:02:03.000I think that, frankly, Biden is running a pretty smart campaign by staying in the basement and mouthing sort of platitudes that he thinks appeal to a broad range of Americans while sort of winking and nodding at the radical left.
01:02:13.000That makes it kind of hard to characterize him.
01:02:15.000How does the president plan on going after Joe Biden more specifically?
01:02:19.000Well, we're just going to talk about we're going to talk about the record, because, look, Joe Biden is a liberal, been in Washington, D.C.
01:02:30.000But the Democratic Party today has been overtaken by the radical left.
01:02:34.000And all you need to do is look at the fact that here in the middle of a pandemic, at a time when American businesses are starting to get back on their feet, people are going back to work, even as we continue to deal with the outbreaks across the sunbelt in this country.
01:02:51.000Joe Biden actually unveiled a plan To raise taxes by $4 trillion, raise taxes by nearly $2 trillion on American families, but $2 trillion on American businesses.
01:03:07.000And I have to tell you, we're going to carry that message everywhere, because at the end of the day, we're focused on two things right now in this administration, and that is saving lives.
01:03:23.000It's protecting the vulnerable, making sure our healthcare workers have everything they need to meet this moment, and bringing our country's economy back.
01:03:33.000I mean, what the President's understood from early on, Is that it's not a choice between the health of the American people and a growing economy.
01:03:41.000It's a choice between health and health.
01:04:10.000My kids are a little bit older than yours.
01:04:12.000But look, we know that the risk of serious illness from the coronavirus to Americans under the age of 18 is very low.
01:04:23.000And with the CDC's guidance, we know that we can safely bring young people back to school, back to our college and university campuses.
01:04:32.000And yet we're continuing to see Democrats around the country push back on that, and we're going to keep opening up.
01:04:37.000So it's about talking about a plan of the radical left that Joe Biden is standing on, a platform he's standing on.
01:04:46.000But also, don't leave out $4 trillion in tax increases, but a little bit later today we're going to be on the South Lawn talking about all the regulations that this president has cut in the last three and a half years that have unleashed the American economy.
01:05:00.000Joe Biden also announced his version of the Green New Deal, literally $2 trillion in green subsidies.
01:05:08.000And I don't think I have to remind you or your listeners about the Solyndra deal in the last administration, $500 million down the drain in a bankrupt solar company.
01:05:18.000Now they want to spend $2 trillion and bring back the whole regime of cap and trade to crush American energy, crush American energy independence.
01:05:29.000It is a pathway toward economic downturn.
01:05:34.000It will wage war on economic recovery.
01:05:38.000And that's the message we're going to take beyond all the other issues, having to do with the culture, having to do with our ideals, having to do with the right to life, a strong military and law enforcement.
01:05:49.000We're going to talk about our view for the economy, that work before is working again, and Joe Biden's view that'll hold this country back through higher taxes and more regulation.
01:06:02.000And Vice President Pence, one other area where there's a clear point of differentiation is obviously with regard to China, where Joe Biden has a very long record of being soft on China.
01:06:09.000What exactly is the administration doing, given the fact that the Chinese have now essentially reduced Hong Kong back into a state of tyranny?
01:06:17.000And meanwhile, there's video emerging today of the Chinese literally forcing Uyghurs onto trains, which obviously brings up some rather nasty imagery from the past.
01:06:25.000There are over a million Uyghurs who are living in concentration camps at this point.
01:06:28.000What is the administration doing to counter China these days?
01:06:31.000No president in my lifetime has been tougher on the Chinese Communist Party than President Donald Trump.
01:06:37.000I mean, when we took office after eight years of the Obama-Biden administration, half of our international trade deficit alone was with China, a country that had policies like forced abortion.
01:06:51.000And in the years that followed, we saw the oppression of the Uyghur population, people literally being marshaled into concentration camps.
01:07:00.000And then in recent days, we saw them break their word, not just to the U.K., but to the world about Hong Kong.
01:07:07.000They made a commitment for at least 50 years that they would respect the freedom, the democracy of the people of Hong Kong, and they unilaterally changed that.
01:07:20.000And that's why this president has taken strong stands to impose tariffs.
01:07:25.000On China, the vast majority of those tariffs, even with a phase one deal we did, continue to be in effect because China has not opened up their markets yet.
01:07:35.000But with regard to freedom of navigation, we have a battle group, two aircraft carriers in the South China Sea, and the Secretary of State just reaffirmed our nation's commitment The freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.
01:07:49.000We've taken a strong stand for human rights, spoken out against the oppression of the Muslim Uyghurs.
01:07:56.000And as you saw earlier this week, the president signed an executive order taking decisive action, changing the status of Hong Kong, which has been an economic Asset for China, because they had a separate status from China.
01:08:12.000He's taken dramatic steps to hold China accountable, and will continue to do that.
01:08:18.000All of that said, Ben, this is a president that believes in engagement in the world.
01:08:31.000But we're going to continue to stand strong.
01:08:32.000We're going to stand strong for basic human liberties and human rights in China, for freedom of navigation, and we're going to stand with the people of Hong Kong.
01:08:43.000Well, Vice President Pence, really appreciate your time and appreciate you serving the country the way that you do.
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01:09:53.000You know, the Matt Wall Show, it's not just another show about politics.
01:09:57.000I think there are enough of those already out there.
01:09:59.000We talk about culture, because culture drives politics, and it drives everything else.
01:10:03.000So my main focuses are life, family, faith.
01:10:08.000Those are fundamental, and that's what this show is about.