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00:00:00.000Inflation hits the worst levels in 40 years as Joe Biden tries to play kissy face with Jimmy Fallon and Jen Psaki assures parents they really do want their children eating lunch off the floor.
00:00:23.000You may have noticed that inflation rates are wildly out of control.
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00:01:11.000You know one thing that has never been worth zero?
00:01:18.000The government is interested mostly in the government spending all of your money and then maybe grabbing some more of your money in order to pay for the fact that they've spent all your money already.
00:01:56.000And so people actually have a lot of money in their savings accounts right now.
00:01:59.000That is starting to dwindle as the unemployment benefits have run, and you're starting to see people go back into the workforce.
00:02:05.000But this has created a massive artificial shortage of labor.
00:02:09.000And because Democrats keep pushing to restructure the relationship between the individual and the government, there are a lot of people who are sort of waiting around thinking that the government is going to pick up their tabs at this point.
00:02:21.000But the government is treating that as solution because the unemployment rate is low.
00:02:24.000Also, there's a vast gap in the unemployment rate between some of the blue states and a lot of the red states.
00:02:29.000In fact, all of the states that are best on unemployment right now are red states.
00:02:32.000All of the states that are worst on unemployment are blue states.
00:02:35.000That's because the blue states continue to lock down over COVID because they've decided to panic their citizens with the promise that government would be able to solve this crisis when, in fact, government really cannot solve the crisis beyond making the vaccines available, which they did almost a year ago at this point, all the way back in February and March.
00:02:51.000So the Biden administration is facing down a lot of bad news.
00:02:54.000The polling data for them is really, really bad.
00:02:55.000So they started to put out this line that the economy... Actually, you don't know what's going on, guys.
00:03:15.000Increasing 6.8% over the same period a year ago as inflation continues to squeeze households and businesses nationwide and complicates the political environment for Congress and the White House.
00:03:24.000That's one way of saying that Democrats are in serious trouble according to the generic ballot.
00:03:28.000Republicans are up 10 points in the generic ballot right now.
00:03:31.000And those numbers rarely go the other way.
00:03:33.000When the party in power is already trailing in the mid-term elections, By the end of December of the year before, it almost never goes the other way.
00:03:44.000There are very few exceptions to that particular rule.
00:03:47.0002002 is one of those rules, and that's because of September 11th.
00:03:50.000But generally, the party in power doesn't do well in the midterms, and if they're trailing, it usually gets worse for them before the election.
00:03:56.000Consumer Price Index data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that prices rose 0.8% in November compared with October, with inflation spreading further throughout the economy, including to areas that had not been as affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
00:04:09.000The November data marked the largest 12-month increase since June 1982, during a period when inflation was more of a scourge on daily life than most millennials have ever known.
00:04:18.000Current inflation dynamics have been spurred by a devastating pandemic that roiled the global economy, upsetting the workforce and supply chains, etc., etc., etc.
00:04:24.000Okay, well actually, if you were to measure inflation by the same sort of consumer price index that we used in 1980, the inflation year-over-year in the United States is not 6.8%, it's like 14%.
00:05:01.000Americans are paying more for gas, food, clothing, and cars.
00:05:05.000Tonight, President Biden acknowledging it is squeezing many families across this country.
00:05:09.000He pointed to the pandemic, the supply issues, not just in the U.S., but around the world.
00:05:14.000But we know there are many moving parts on this.
00:05:16.000Okay, and again, it's not just David Muir.
00:05:20.000ABC's Rebecca Jarvis says this is not a bump in the road.
00:05:23.000And for all the talk about the Biden administration saying that this is merely temporary, they're saying temporary.
00:05:28.000Most economists do see these prices as more than a bump in the road.
00:05:32.000They expect inflation to persist through next spring.
00:05:35.000And remember, these supply chain issues are global, caused by the pandemic.
00:05:39.000But there are also, as you point to, labor shortages, issues of people, many Americans waiting to return to work until they see wages rise more significantly, having saved up $2 trillion throughout the course of the pandemic by not dining out, by not traveling, Expectations are now that the Federal Reserve will have to step in and hike interest rates next year in order to cool things up.
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00:07:56.000The Democrats are trying to maintain that everything is fine.
00:08:00.000Or they're trying to blame the Federal Reserve.
00:08:02.000But the reality is that their policies are the big problem.
00:08:06.000There's an article from the Washington Post yesterday.
00:08:08.000It is titled, In Liberty County, workers who quit feel liberated, but the community discovers a powerful downside.
00:08:14.000Oh, you mean that paying people to stay home leads to price inflation and shortages?
00:08:19.000Who could have suspected such a thing, except for anyone with a functioning prefrontal cortex?
00:08:24.000According to the Washington Post, Maggie Town quit her job as a hotel front desk manager because the pandemic taught her she could squeeze by without her paycheck.
00:08:32.000Now home with her kids, Townes says her life is much improved.
00:08:35.000But at the La Quinta hotel she left, an exodus of housekeepers and front desk workers forced owner Hassal Patel to close the swimming pool and fitness center and sharply reduce room cleaning.
00:08:45.000Fannie Lou Bruton left her job as a cook because she didn't want to be around so many people anymore.
00:08:51.000She's delighted that the COVID pandemic drove her into retirement.
00:08:53.000But at Izola's Country Cafe, where the staff has plummeted from 42 to 12 workers, the owners had to eliminate breakfast, slash their hours, and shut entirely on Sundays.
00:09:03.000Liberty County, a 45-minute drive southwest of Savannah, is Quit Town, USA, one of the many places across the country where the pandemic slammed the brakes on propulsive job growth and startling numbers of people have quit their jobs this year, including more than 12 million Americans this fall alone.
00:09:17.000The result, according to business owners and county officials, is a place where people are thinking about work in new, sometimes revelatory ways, but also feeling the pain of reduced services, pinched bottom lines, and a diminished sense of community.
00:09:29.000Right, because it turns out that the left-wing dream that nobody ever works anymore and then we all get to sit home and finger-paint Jackson Pollock?
00:09:36.000People actually need work to feel fulfilled.
00:09:39.000Also, if you wish for there to be productive goods and services for you to trade with somebody else, you need to go to work.
00:09:45.000The left's dream, which is that everybody will basically stay home and the government will cut them a check while they watch soap operas, is a ridiculous and stupid dream.
00:09:52.000It undermines actual human flourishing.
00:09:55.000Workers who have stepped away from full-time jobs say the pandemic helped them discover they can survive on occasional gig work and government benefits.
00:10:09.000Gonna bring back the 1970s bumper stickers?
00:10:11.000Many Liberty County residents left minimum wage positions at restaurants, hotels, and retail outlets to take jobs at the county's burgeoning warehouses and distribution centers.
00:10:23.000Severe strains of the mom-and-pop businesses they quit and damaged or severed long-standing social bonds.
00:10:28.000So yeah, all the people who say they're for small businesses have basically wrecked small business across the country.
00:10:33.000There has never been a dichotomous split in wealth like we've seen during this pandemic.
00:10:38.000Probably throughout human history, basically the middle class split into people who are big corporations, which did pretty well during the course of the pandemic, and welfare.
00:10:48.000And if you're in the middle, if you're running a small mom and pop shop, if you're running a restaurant, if you took out your life savings and you try to build a business, And your business just wasn't large enough to survive the government shutdowns?
00:11:25.000The Biden administration is trying to downplay this, pretending that it's not really a big deal.
00:11:30.000In fact, here is the President of the United States, Joe Biden, trying to remain alive, saying that, you know, inflation is really not that big a deal.
00:11:49.000But the point is that has to do with supply chain as well, but it also has to do with the fact that not everybody's looking for a used automobile, but those who are, they're paying higher prices because there's fewer of them because of the COVID and what was sold out and the like.
00:12:05.000Okay, so cream of wheat for both mouth and brains, the President of the United States.
00:12:10.000Trying to downplay inflation as used cars is insane.
00:12:14.000At the beginning, used cars were driving some of the inflation stats.
00:12:39.000Given what Jerome Powell is now saying, does the administration, does the president acknowledge that inflation is more entrenched and not transitory?
00:12:47.000Well, Kristen, I would say that I can't speak, obviously, for Jerome Powell, but I think part of the point here is that it doesn't really matter what you call it.
00:12:58.000Well, we've seen costs increase in some areas, and we've seen them move in a good direction in some areas as well.
00:13:03.000What we need to do now is think about what we're going to do about rising costs.
00:13:07.000in some areas and we've seen a good direct that move in a good direction in some areas as well. What we need to do now is think about what we're going to do about rising costs. What is our plan to address rising costs?
00:13:21.000And what is their plan to address rising costs?
00:13:35.000So over the weekend, Joe Biden said, We've never had this kind of growth in 60 years, but inflation is affecting people's lives.
00:13:41.000The reason why economists think Build Back Better is going to, in fact, diminish the impact on inflation is because it's reducing costs for ordinary people.
00:13:53.000Larry Summers, who has been the voice of reason throughout this entire inflationary spiral, you remember that he was the Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, and he was saying early on when the Biden administration was pushing $1.9 trillion quote-unquote bailout package that was absolutely unnecessary in the aftermath of vaccine distribution.
00:14:10.000He said, we're going to hit an inflationary spiral.
00:14:12.000And everybody laughed at him because we truly have not had a major inflationary spiral in the United States for 40 years.
00:14:20.000And here is Larry Summers saying, yeah, if Joe Biden got his spending plans through, there would be more inflation, not less.
00:14:25.000I think the inflation rate would be slightly higher in 2022 and 2023 with the Build Back Better than it would be without the Build Back Better.
00:14:38.000I think over the longer term, there might be some effects that go the other way.
00:14:43.000But I think over the next couple of years, what economists say, ceteris paribus, other things equal, it would raise the inflation rate.
00:14:55.000Okay, now here's the problem for the Democrats.
00:14:57.000They can't get out of this without one of two things happening.
00:15:01.000Either Joe Biden stopping the spending and allowing things to get back to normal, which they can't do because his entire agenda is reliant on the idea that he has to do something big and he has to keep pushing big things, or the Federal Reserve has to taper and taper in really short order.
00:15:15.000And when that happens, you will see a spike in the unemployment rate.
00:15:17.000This is what happened back when Paul Volcker did this in the early 1980s.
00:15:21.000Paul Volcker had actually been appointed to the Federal Reserve By Jimmy Carter.
00:15:25.000And he waited until the Reagan administration and he really started to raise interest rates.
00:15:28.000And when that happened, you saw a sharp spike in the unemployment rate in the United States.
00:15:33.000Because these two things tend to happen.
00:15:35.000When the Federal Reserve makes it more difficult to borrow money for banks, banks start giving it out at higher interest rates.
00:15:39.000That means fewer people borrow, means less spending, and that means fewer jobs.
00:15:43.000So now that you're trapped in this cycle, it's very difficult to get out of that cycle without some form of pain.
00:16:10.000This is a problem, by the way, that is, to a certain extent, bipartisan.
00:16:13.000We should not have blown $7 trillion into Americans' pockets last year.
00:16:17.000It's something we should not have done.
00:16:18.000But at least you could excuse that by saying there were no vaccines available, so we have to try and keep people away from crowded areas and whatnot.
00:16:25.000By the time the vaccines were available, they were available in January.
00:16:28.000Once that started to become widely available, February-March, there was no excuse for what Joe Biden did.
00:16:32.000And we're going to get to the Federal Reserve and what they are probably going to do in just one second.
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00:19:11.000It's a choice for which the Fed is chiefly responsible.
00:19:14.000The risk of an inflationary spiral arises when policymakers first dismiss the problem and then cast blame elsewhere.
00:19:19.000Inflation becomes embedded in the price formation process when the central bank acts belatedly or with insufficient conviction.
00:19:24.000To date, the Fed has acted as an enabler.
00:19:27.000The sure sign of a problem when a president gives voice to the scourge of inflation and takes executive action well before the central bank acknowledges the severity of the situation.
00:19:36.000Supply chain bottlenecks is the popularized rationalization for the surge in prices, but the supply chain story sheds more shade than light.
00:19:42.000Consumer prices are higher because prices are rising at the point of production, assembly and transportation.
00:19:47.000This is a description of the state of affairs, not its source.
00:19:50.000The Fed's inertia in withdrawing extraordinary monetary policy amid full employment is the proximate cause of surging prices.
00:19:56.000When monetary policy is too tight, it slows aggregate demand.
00:19:59.000When monetary policy is too loose, it damages aggregate supply.
00:20:02.000Extraordinarily aggressive monetary policy, namely quantitative easing, discourages investments in real assets like capital equipment relative to financial assets like stocks.
00:20:12.000Because it takes a long time to see the beneficial net effect of buying a really expensive piece of equipment that upgrades your business, as opposed to just buying stock, which is running up in price.
00:20:21.000That's why non-residential capital investment in the real economy, things like port modernization, is running 7% below the pre-pandemic trend and 25% below trend since the advent of quantitative easing.
00:20:31.000A more exuberant stock market and a less resilient real economy are both consequences of the Fed's extant policy regime.
00:20:38.000By August 2020, the Fed became impatient with the purported low inflation rate of Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen.
00:20:44.000Chairman Jerome Powell called low inflation the preeminent economic challenge of our time.
00:20:48.000So the Fed bet on a new policy regime to get inflation higher.
00:21:35.000You raise the interest rates, and one of the things that happens is you've now raised the rates on the federal deficit.
00:21:41.000If you're going to pay off the debt, it's now more expensive to pay off the debt.
00:21:46.000And again, there are secondary effects to the Federal Reserve's monetary policy here.
00:21:49.000According to the Wall Street Journal, this year's inflation surge has had a sometimes overlooked side effect.
00:21:54.000It means the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy is providing even more fuel to a hot economy.
00:21:59.000The Fed influencing borrowing costs by controlling a short-term lending rate called the federal funds rate to stimulate the economy has been holding that rate near zero since last year.
00:22:07.000But in economic models, it's the inflation-adjusted or real interest rate that matters most because inflation reduces the value of future repayments.
00:22:15.000Like if I buy a bond and then you're going to pay me off at a low interest rate in the future, if inflation eats the complete interest rate, I'm now paying you for the benefit of having the bond, which is really not what you're looking for.
00:22:28.000So it's going to be difficult and painful to get out of this.
00:22:32.000And meanwhile, you have the Biden administration continuing to push radical policy.
00:22:36.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Janet Yellen is still pushing climate politics from the Treasury Department, which of course means more spending.
00:22:47.000Meanwhile, the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, an arm of the Treasury, plans to issue a framework of its expectations for how large banks should be managing climate risk, with detailed guidance to follow next year.
00:22:57.000Again, all of this is not geared toward good monetary policy.
00:23:00.000It's not geared toward good fiscal policy.
00:23:01.000And Joe Biden is going to pay the price from this.
00:23:04.000And then on top of that, of course, you have all of this, which has been excused by the government pointing to COVID.
00:23:10.000But there's no excuse for that, as we'll get into in just one second.
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00:25:00.000Build back better was a bunch of garbage.
00:25:02.000You have no idea how to build an economy.
00:25:05.000An economy rests on fundamental precepts about human nature.
00:25:08.000A well-planned economy is an economy in which nothing is planned.
00:25:13.000A well-planned economy, ironically enough, is an economy in which you understand that the disparate sources of knowledge outweigh any particular person's expertise.
00:25:22.000So having one person at the top of the economy dictating how funds are to be spent is a complete waste of time and a waste of money.
00:25:30.000Countries that have centralized economies learn this in all the areas where they actually have centralization.
00:25:36.000This is why social welfare countries, like the Scandinavian countries, rely on a capitalistic framework in order to actually make the money.
00:25:43.000Then they proceed to tax the money and blow the money.
00:25:45.000But you have to have disparate sources of knowledge providing for economic progress and production in order to have a growing economy.
00:25:51.000But Joe Biden wasn't interested in that.
00:25:53.000He thinks the economy distributes resources unfairly because they should be distributed according to race or according to victimization status in the victim hierarchy or whatever.
00:26:04.000Joe Biden believes that he is the great master of fairness, and so he has intervened in the economy in dramatic ways.
00:26:10.000And he has done so on the basis of blaming COVID.
00:28:26.000Because planes are not the chief vector of transmission.
00:28:29.000In fact, staying in your home with your family is the chief vector of transmission.
00:28:32.000If you get COVID, there's a good shot your spouse will get COVID and your kids will get COVID.
00:28:36.000If you're on a plane, they've got HEPA filters.
00:28:39.000Throughout the pandemic, I've been corresponding with heads of major airline industries and they've been providing me their data.
00:28:45.000Airplanes were never a main vector of transmission.
00:28:47.000In fact, I'm unaware that there are any cases in which a plane became a super spreader event.
00:28:52.000Even though you are in a flying steel capsule in the sky that is filled with farts, even though that, you're still not going to get COVID flying in a plane compared to being in your own apartment or your own house with your family.
00:29:06.000But they're still calling for more measures.
00:29:53.000You can still pass COVID if you are vaccinated.
00:29:57.000And yet they're still going to keep pushing.
00:29:58.000Here's the NIH's Francis Collins saying, give yourself a Christmas present, get a booster.
00:30:01.000Okay, unless you're over the age of 50, the data on getting a booster is pretty skimpy as far as lowering hospitalization and death.
00:30:08.000Now, it may help you prevent in the short term, getting it in the same way that a flu vaccine might help you be prevented from getting a particular strain of the flu.
00:30:16.000But it is not going to last forever because your antibodies wane over time.
00:30:21.000Here is the NIH still pushing boosters, presumably for everybody.
00:30:25.000When you look at the evidence that boosters do really give your immune system a chance to resist Delta and also very new data from the UK also resist Omicron.
00:30:43.000That sounds like a, that sounds, um, why are we, honestly, why are we focusing on boosters at the expense of the original vaccine?
00:30:49.000The 17% who are unvaccinated are unvaccinated.
00:30:52.000Everybody who's had two shots and is not particularly vulnerable, just like with the original COVID variant, those people are not in serious trouble.
00:31:00.000Everybody who is over the age of 50, 65 maybe, particularly 65, you should think about getting a booster because apparently the effectiveness against hospitalization and death dropped from the 90s down into the 70s.
00:31:11.000But again, you're talking about marginal decreases considering that a 70% reduction in hospitalization and death is still pretty good.
00:31:18.000And beyond that, if you are young, you might get COVID.
00:31:20.000You ain't gonna get hospitalized or die after you've been vaccinated.
00:32:07.000And then Joe Biden wonders why his approval ratings are garbage.
00:32:09.000Maybe it's because you made a promise and that promise cannot be fulfilled.
00:32:13.000You promised you could fix the economy and you would change how economics works for everyone.
00:32:17.000And it turns out all you did is just blow things up.
00:32:19.000And you promised that you could get rid of COVID and you can't.
00:32:22.000Now, listen, I'm not blaming you for not getting rid of COVID.
00:32:25.000I'm blaming you for making a stupid promise, and you should be held to that stupid promise.
00:32:29.000If I promise somebody that I'm literally going to buy the moon, and then I'm going to present the moon to them as a birthday gift, the big problem is not that I didn't present them the moon as a birthday gift.
00:32:39.000The problem is that I'm an idiot for promising them the moon.
00:32:41.000Joe Biden promised people impossible crap is what Democrats do routinely.
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00:33:59.000We're going to get into more from the COVID crazy left because it's getting worse and worse.
00:34:03.000And again, it's not boding well for Joe Biden.
00:34:05.000First, all over the country, people are waking up to the tyrannical nature of Joe Biden's vax mandates.
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00:35:04.000So the COVID panic being driven by the left is again, not rooted in any data at all.
00:35:15.000There were reports over the course of the last week from people like Michelle Goldberg, who's a left-wing columnist for the New York Times, that kids in New York City were being forced in public schools to sit on the floor separate from each other while eating lunch.
00:35:26.000I don't know why sitting on the floor would prevent COVID.
00:35:29.000I don't know the scientific rationale behind any of this.
00:35:31.000But Jen Psaki over at the White House, she says that parents really do appreciate these increased restrictions.
00:35:40.000Like anytime in here, you could actually speak to some American parents and ask whether they think it's a great idea to incessantly mask their five-year-old children and force them to sit on the floor amidst the dirt in order to eat their food.
00:35:54.000I will tell you, I have a three-year-old who goes to school, sits outside for snacks and lunch, wears a mask inside, and it's no big deal to him.
00:36:01.000I'm not saying that's the case for everybody, but these are steps that schools are taking to keep kids safe.
00:36:06.000And I think the vast majority of parents appreciate that.
00:36:15.000Which is why you're seeing populations fleeing from the Northeast.
00:36:18.000I can't tell you how many people I've talked to, even in the past couple of months, who are looking at the insanity that is breaking out in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, when they're saying, I'm leaving.
00:36:26.000I'm going to a free state where things aren't crazy.
00:36:29.000And meanwhile in LA, hundreds of people are fired, online learning is set to return amid vaccine resistance at LAUSD.
00:36:36.000So as a graduate of LAUSD, one of the worst school districts in America, I can safely say that this is a bad idea.
00:36:42.000According to the Washington Post, the second largest school district in the United States is facing mounting woes over its COVID vaccine mandate, recently terminating hundreds of employees who refused to comply and failing to put thousands of unvaccinated students into online classes.
00:36:55.000Board members of LAUSD voted Tuesday to terminate 496 employees who failed to get vaccinated ahead of the deadline.
00:37:02.000We care deeply about all of our employees, said Interim Superintendent Megan Riley.
00:37:06.000Parting ways with individuals who choose not to be vaccinated is an extremely difficult but necessary decision to ensure the safety of all in our school communities.
00:37:15.000Explain scientifically why it is necessary to fire people who have not complied with your vaccine mandate when we know that vaccinated people can pass COVID and we know that Obacron is coming, which is resistant in terms of vaccine transmission.
00:37:28.000In addition, some 34,000 students are in violation of the requirements.
00:37:33.000Per the district's vaccine policy, students 12 and older must be fully vaxxed by the start of the second semester in January.
00:37:39.000Those who fail to do so will not be allowed on school campuses and will be referred to an online independent study program.
00:37:44.000Which means, of course, that we are going to see some 35,000 kids just lost into the system.
00:37:49.000Because, again, I'm not a fan of LUSD.
00:37:52.000I think our public school systems are a giant failure.
00:37:56.000You're now talking about kids who lost a full year of school last year and are going to lose another full year of school at a time when vaccines are not only widely available, but kids never suffered from this thing and the schools never should have been closed.
00:38:07.000President Biden wants more people to do this.
00:38:09.000He has called on state governors to impose COVID vaccine mandates for all teachers and staffers as school districts across the country have been requiring the shots in an effort to slow the virus's spread.
00:38:19.000Such requirements are already established in Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington State, and D.C.
00:38:50.000The only reason I'm angry about it is because there are a lot of parents out there who are paying a lot of tax money so their kids can go to public school.
00:38:56.000And other kids can't even go to school because the morons in LAUSD have decided that your kid is at wild risk of COVID.
00:39:02.000By the way, you see people on TV saying this kind of crap all the time.
00:39:05.000You see commentators on TV, well, I have a three-year-old and I'm really afraid for my three-year-old.
00:39:48.000If you look abroad, you can see how crazy they've gone.
00:39:50.000In Australia, they're rounding people up who are not vaccinated.
00:39:53.000In Germany, there was tape that emerged over the weekend of the German police measuring the distances between people outside with folding rulers to make sure that you were a proper space away from people.
00:40:05.000They're literally walking around with sticks trying to measure the distance between individuals to ensure that you are far enough away from others.
00:42:04.000Again, they're trying to prop up this old man because they got nothing, nothing.
00:42:08.000So here's Jimmy Fallon praising Joe Biden for no reason anyone can discern.
00:42:13.000A lot of Republicans and Democrats used to get really on well together.
00:42:16.000For example, one of the reasons I'm a little bit late coming on is because, not coming on, but to do the taping here, is because I did Bob Dole's eulogy today.
00:42:26.000He asked me in his deathbed whether I would do his eulogy.
00:42:32.000We gave you a standing ovation because I go, here he is, he's bringing class back.
00:42:36.000He's a classy guy, and you're bringing class back to the office, and I thought it was amazing that you did that.
00:42:43.000It's so much class being brought back to the office.
00:42:46.000By the way, in the same interview, Joe Biden started ripping on Republicans and on his political opponents as anti-vax crazies and suggesting that everything that's going on is their fault.
00:43:11.000And now her team is fighting back by saying that everyone who points this out is a racist or sexist.
00:43:14.000Good luck with that particular line of argumentation.
00:43:17.000According to the New York Times, addressing reporters at a meeting of the Democratic Governors Association, Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina gave an emphatic answer when asked whether he expected Joe Biden to seek a second term and whether he believed that was in the best interest of his party.
00:43:30.000I fully expect him to seek reelection and I will support him.
00:43:32.000In fact, we're going to win North Carolina for him.
00:43:34.000But three minutes later, Cooper was sketching out what could be the makings of a Cooper for president primary message.
00:43:40.000He trumpeted his repeal of the state's so-called bathroom bill targeting transgender people, an executive order granting paid parental leave to state employees, another order putting North Carolina on a path to carbon neutrality by 2050.
00:43:51.000Publicly, Cooper and other Democrats are focused on what will be a difficult 2022.
00:43:55.000However, it's 2024 that's increasingly on the minds of a long roster of ambitious Democrats and their advisors.
00:44:02.000No one is interested in Kamala Harris.
00:44:20.000And many of the people who theoretically might be better for them, you know, the moderates who might replace Joe Biden, people like Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans.
00:44:28.000That dog is not going to hunt in a radicalized Democratic Party.
00:44:33.000So good luck guys. I mean, by the way, how bad are things for Harris? Jen Psaki was asked if Kamala Harris, who was, you remember, put in charge of Mexico policy, our border policy with Mexico, if she had ever been in contact with Mexico, ever. And Psaki was like, uh, no, I don't know.
00:44:47.000Is the administration reaching out to Mexico, to partners in Central America this morning?
00:44:54.000Does this cause for a certain re-evaluation of the strategy to deter migration?
00:44:59.000It would really come through the Department of Homeland Security, that kind of outreach.
00:45:02.000So I would point you to them for any more detail about a connection with the Mexican government.
00:45:17.000Again, the thing is this, the national policy the Democrats are pursuing, it's not that that national policy has created these crises all over the United States.
00:45:25.000On a broad level, it's facilitated them.
00:45:27.000But we don't have these crises down in Florida, right?
00:45:28.000We don't have an economic crisis down in Florida.
00:45:30.000We don't have a COVID crisis down in Florida.
00:45:32.000Things are going pretty well down here.
00:45:37.000But a lot of the problems that the Democrats have created are local in nature.
00:45:40.000The problem is that we can all see that the bad Democratic policy at the local level bled up to the national level, and then the Democrats at the national level attempt to impose it broadly.
00:45:50.000So, for example, we now see the murder rates skyrocketing in major cities all over the United States.
00:45:55.000Now, we don't live in a major city in the United States where we live.
00:46:00.000We live in South Florida, but we're not living inside a major city.
00:46:02.000We're not living in a major blue area, which means that we're not feeling the impact of this.
00:46:06.000But when you turn on the news and you see a radical uptick in crime nearly everywhere that blue government predominates, you start to think maybe these people shouldn't be in charge of government policy.
00:46:17.000By the way, how bad are things in Los Angeles, where I used to live?
00:46:19.000Things are so bad in Los Angeles that the LAPD is warning people to stay away.
00:46:24.000That's how bad things have become in Los Angeles, according to CBS News.
00:46:29.000Murder rates continue to soar nationwide.
00:46:32.000Portland, Oregon is grappling with a record number.
00:46:35.000Austin, Louisville, and Rochester have all seen homicides more than double in just a couple years.
00:46:41.000With violent crime rising in Los Angeles, the head of the police union warns, if you can, stay away.
00:47:08.000They can either continue to pursue the policies they like, to their own political detriment, and turn themselves into a joke, or they can abandon that stuff.
00:47:16.000I will give you one guess as to which way they're going to turn.
00:47:20.000All righty, we will be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
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