Ben Shapiro explains why both sides of the political aisle lack trust in the outcome of the 2020 election, and why this is a symptom of a deeper problem than just a lack of faith in the results of the 2016 election. He also points to the lack of trust in our political system as a root cause of the failure to trust the results from both sides. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, and other media outlets. He is a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and has been featured on CNN, NPR, and NPR, among other outlets, and is one of the most prominent conservative voices in the country. Don t like Big Tech? Don't like Big Government spying on you? Visit ExpressVPN.org/BenShapiroShow and use the promo code "ExpressVPN" to get $5 off your first month and up to $50 off the first month for the rest of the year. If you like what you hear on the show, you'll get 50% off for the entire year, plus an additional $5 when you sign up for ExpressVPN for the month of July, and you get 20% off the full year when you become a patron of the service starting July 1st through August 1st, 2020. You'll get access to all the best features and perks, including early access to the VIP membership offer, and early sign-up options, and access to VIP membership, plus a 20% discount, and a discount on all year-round pricing. and early-bird pricing for the full-up pricing, plus the ability to access early-membership and access all other VIP membership options, including VIP pricing, and much more! Click here to apply for the best deals, and get $50% off your choice of the entire service, including the best deal, plus early-access to VIP access, plus all other perks, and all the VIP access and VIP pricing throughout the world of ExpressVPN offers, plus they'll get $10% off of the world's largest service, plus 5% off, plus heaps of VIP membership and VIP membership offers, and more. Learn more about ExpressVPN membership offers. Subscribe to the show on the Apples and Vimeo, Vimeo and VaynerSpeaks, and how to get the show dropships, plus access to his entire VIP membership plan, plus more.
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00:01:40.000Now, they're treating this with a great deal of shock, which is kind of amazing, since as of, like, 2017, a vast majority of Democrats have suggested that the 2016 results have been actively warped by not only Russian meddling, but by Russian vote hacking.
00:01:53.000There is serious doubt as to the electoral veracity of the 2016 election from Democrats.
00:01:58.000And now it's 2020, and now Republicans have questions about the electoral veracity of the 2020 election.
00:02:04.000And some of that is based on bad information that's out there, and some of that is based on the fact That what we saw across the country, at least in a huge number of swing states, were vastly different voting procedures than we have ever seen before.
00:02:15.000Procedures changed to allow millions of mail-in votes, whereas before you actually had to request an absentee ballot, now it was just sent to your house in some of these states.
00:02:23.000We saw procedures changed to the effect that over 50% of votes in many of these states were actually coming in early.
00:02:29.000I'm not a fan of early voting because there is often late-breaking news that affects exactly how you are going to vote.
00:02:35.000I mean, there's a good shot that if, for example, the Moderna vaccine numbers had been announced the week before the election, and then people had been voting on Election Day, that might have made a difference.
00:02:42.000Okay, so a lot of the procedures change.
00:02:45.000There's a lot of ballot harvesting in various states.
00:02:51.000And more than that, when we really talk about the fact that both sides, and it really is a both sides thing, both sides don't trust election results that don't swing their way, that goes to the lack of trust that is now undergirding our political system.
00:03:03.000And that lack of trust pre-existed Donald Trump.
00:03:06.000There's something that's been going on in the United States for a very long time.
00:03:09.000And that is that one side of the political aisle has been castigating as evil the other side of the political aisle.
00:03:13.000And then the other side of the political aisle began to think, okay, if they're castigating me as evil, maybe they're the ones who are evil.
00:03:18.000There's some interesting poll statistics starting in the 1990s showing that while Republicans mostly saw Democrats as people they disagreed with, Democrats mostly saw Republicans as people who were morally bigoted and morally wrong.
00:03:29.000And then, around 2008-2009, you started to see Republican feelings about Democrats shoot up into the stratosphere.
00:03:35.000You saw them starting to match Democratic numbers with regard to how much they thought that Democrats were not just wrong, Democrats were morally wrong.
00:03:42.000And we've been there basically ever since.
00:03:44.000And that is the result of a long-time campaign to castigate one side of the political aisle as morally bereft.
00:03:51.000And so one of the things that has happened also is that a media infrastructure, which now insists that the election was absolutely pure and clean as the driven snow, and there was no voter fraud anywhere, which is not necessary in order for them to ensure that Joe Biden maintains the vote and becomes president-elect, right?
00:04:06.000All the Democrats have to show, really, and all the media have to say is, sure, there was voter fraud, sure, there was voter irregularity, but it doesn't amount to the sort of numbers that would shift the election.
00:04:14.000That is a fairly well-justified statement, given the facts that are currently on the ground, but they're not doing that.
00:04:19.000Instead, they are saying that there is no voter fraud and no voter irregularity.
00:04:23.000The same media who declared that the voting systems, the Diebold voting machines, were hacked in 2004 and took that absolutely seriously, they suggested for several years on end that President Trump was an illegitimate president.
00:04:35.000Paul Krugman called Trump illegitimate, and then like two days ago, he tweeted out, nobody ever called Trump illegitimate.
00:04:41.000That sort of gaslighting is apt to make people wary about trusting the system.
00:04:45.000See, when you think that your opponents are morally bad, and not only that, when you see the possibility of some sort of crime to shift the results of elections, you're going to start to get wary.
00:04:55.000And I think a lot of Republicans look at this election cycle.
00:04:58.000This is not to say that they are right about the results of the election.
00:05:02.000And as we will see, the evidence of voter fraud and voter irregularity, there's evidence that it has happened.
00:05:07.000There's not evidence to suggest that it overwhelms the numbers of vote differentials that we see in states like Michigan or Pennsylvania or Georgia or Arizona, for example.
00:05:15.000But when Republican voters, when conservatives look at the situation across the country and they say, here are a bunch of Democrats who have said that they want to remake the United States Senate, that they want to get rid of the Electoral College, that they want to stack the Supreme Court.
00:05:27.000And we've had situations in the past, in very narrow elections, where we know that Democrats have engaged in soft forms of voter irregularity, at the very least.
00:05:36.000The one that comes to mind here is Norm Coleman losing his Senate seat in Minnesota to Al Franken.
00:05:40.000That actually created the 60th Senate seat for Obamacare.
00:05:43.000When Republicans look at that and they say, okay, they had the motive, right?
00:05:46.000If they could cheat to stop Trump, would they cheat?
00:05:48.000See, there are poll statistics showing that actually about 40% of Democrats think that if Democrats could have cheated, they would have cheated.
00:06:03.000Well, maybe there's opportunity, given all of the shifting variables of the vote count, given the fact that you have these heavy mail-in votes, given the fact that we've never seen anything like this in terms of the mail-in voting and the universal balloting.
00:06:15.000We've never seen turnout like this, at least not for a century.
00:06:18.000So they have the motive and the opportunity.
00:06:20.000And the question is, did they have the means, right?
00:06:27.000And we don't know about the means and the opportunity yet.
00:06:29.000I think that what Team Trump is trying to show is they had the opportunity, but they really haven't shown the means and they haven't shown that the actual crime occurred to the extent necessary to reverse the results of these elections thus far, right?
00:06:40.000But the motive itself is the rationale for why you are seeing this vast political divide.
00:06:45.000Because if you believe that the other side is willing to cheat, wouldn't you be suspicious that they did cheat?
00:06:51.000And so when people kind of treat everybody who is suspicious about the election as a rube or an idiot, That seems to be missing the point to me.
00:06:58.000And the point here is that you have spent years on end suggesting that you're willing to break any rule.
00:07:03.000You're willing to do anything in pursuit of Donald Trump.
00:07:07.000So why exactly would you suspect that Republicans would suddenly buy into him losing legitimately, especially when the polls seem to be so wrong in so many states, and especially when Republicans overperform the polls everywhere?
00:07:17.000You can understand, on a personal level, why Trump would look and say, okay, hold on.
00:07:20.000Republicans did really well across the country.
00:07:26.000Now, listen, there's a countervailing logic here, which is that Trump is the most polarizing political figure of any of our lifetimes.
00:07:32.000That Donald Trump has probably more haters than he does people who absolutely love him, right?
00:07:38.000And so there's an alternative explanation, which is that, yes, he drove a lot of people to the polls, but he also drove a lot of people to the polls against him, right?
00:07:45.000But to understand why people are so invested in the election fight, you have to understand the gaslighting that has been going on for years and the moral consternation that has been directed at conservatives and Republicans for years.
00:07:57.000So to take an example, so Barack Obama, now considered widely by the media as a moderate unifying president, which is just insane because we are all old enough to remember Barack Obama being president.
00:08:06.000He was not moderate and he was not unifying.
00:08:10.000I think in many ways the 2012 election broke the country because I think that Barack Obama in 2004 campaigned as a moderate unifying figure.
00:08:20.000Even though he was campaigning for John Kerry, it sounds more like George W. Bush than it does like Barack Obama circa 2010.
00:08:24.000Go back to his 2008 campaign, and he was campaigning as Captain Unity.
00:08:28.000Then in 2010, he started to realize that if he could cast all of his political opponents as villains in a morality play, where he was standing for a new racially multicultural system and his opponents were standing for bigoted American racism, and he was the person who's gonna transform the system, then he could still win election, even though he had significant opposition and wasn't doing a particularly good job.
00:08:50.000And then he won in 2012 on that basis.
00:08:53.000Now that president, that very, very divisive president, a president who routinely disparaged the Constitution, and suggested the Constitution of the United States was a barrier to progress in the United States.
00:09:03.000A president who himself declared repeatedly that he did not have the constitutional power to simply not enforce immigration law and then decided, you know what, I'm just going to go ahead and do it anyway, and then declared he was not going to enforce immigration law with regard to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the DACA program.
00:09:16.000Now, Barack Obama is going on his book tour.
00:09:18.000This book includes a bunch of rips on the American system.
00:09:21.000It includes the basic idea that everyone who opposed him was a racist.
00:09:25.000And yet he is being propped up by the media as somebody who has nothing but moral leisure domain to say exactly what he pleases.
00:09:33.000He is a person with unending moral certitude and he's being granted unlimited moral capital by the media.
00:09:40.000So here is Barack Obama saying to Stephen Colbert, an absolute sycophant.
00:09:45.000He's no longer even a pretend comedian, Stephen Colbert.
00:09:47.000He's just an absolute democratic sycophant.
00:09:50.000I mean, he's no different than Brian Stelter at this point.
00:09:52.000Here is Stephen Colbert with Barack Obama, and Barack Obama saying that he should have known that the Constitution didn't have to be followed.
00:09:59.000Well, you did know that, which is why you consistently violated it, but it's this sort of stuff that drives Republicans up a wall to the point where they say, we don't trust the media, we don't trust the systems designed by Democrats, and we don't trust the media to talk about systems that are very often designed by Democrats or lauded by Democrats.
00:10:13.000Here is Barack Obama, again, driving people up a wall.
00:10:16.000We found out from your successor that there's a whole bunch of stuff you don't actually have to do.
00:10:20.000And people still can see you president.
00:11:01.000I wrote an entire book about how Barack Obama did not follow the Constitution over and over and over again.
00:11:07.000Barack Obama suggesting that I love that Stephen Colbert says to Barack Obama's face, you know, did you know that you didn't have to respond to subpoenas?
00:11:13.000He literally invoked executive privilege to stop Eric Holder from having to testify and turn over documents in Fast and Furious.
00:11:19.000Yes, Barack Obama was very well aware he did not have to respond to subpoenas.
00:11:22.000And by the way, In very many cases, it turns out constitutionally, the executive does not have to respond to all subpoenas that are put forth by the legislature.
00:11:29.000But the basic idea here that Barack Obama was a great defender of the Constitution, while Donald Trump is some sort of great underminer of the Constitution, is nuts!
00:11:37.000And when you get told over and over again that things that are not true are true, and that people who violated the Constitution are actually constitutional defenders, and people who are deeply divisive, like Barack Obama, and sneer at the American people, like Barack Obama, are actually defenders of the common man and the Constitution, at a certain point, You, too, are going to say, to hell with all of this.
00:11:54.000I don't believe anything you have to tell me, up to and including your sudden belief in the American electoral system.
00:12:00.000Remember, just about six weeks ago, before the election, Democrats were the ones who were out there saying that the electoral system was rigged.
00:12:06.000They were saying that Donald Trump was going around burning mailboxes and removing them from street corners.
00:12:11.000And now they flip on a dime and they say the election is absolutely clean.
00:12:13.000You can see why people are a little suspicious.
00:12:16.000Now, listen, suspicion doesn't mean that the election gets overturned.
00:12:19.000You actually have to prove in court your case.
00:12:21.000But to pretend that people have no real emotional reason to be suspicious or concerned?
00:12:30.000Of course they have reason to be suspicious and concerned.
00:12:33.000To pretend that the American people are supposed to just accept on a dime the media's shift from Trump's going to steal the election to Trump definitely was unable to steal the election and Biden didn't steal the election.
00:12:45.000The shift from Barack Obama is the greatest, unifying, incredible figure of all time, a constitutional president, to Joe Biden will be exactly that, and Donald Trump was an outlier.
00:12:54.000Like, we all know that you people are lying.
00:12:56.000We know that you are lying, and we know Democrats are lying, and we know that the media are abetting those lies.
00:13:01.000We're gonna get to more of this in just one second, because this is my firm belief, is that Barack Obama drove the country insane, and that we've been basically insane ever since.
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00:14:54.000Susan Rice, who is a radical on foreign policy, radically anti-Israel, radically against American power exerted in the world.
00:15:02.000She certainly was no friend to transparency.
00:15:05.000Susan Rice, who wrote an outgoing document on the way out of the White House saying, and by the way, we did everything right on this Russia probe.
00:15:23.000The next Congress must shore up our institutions.
00:15:26.000It appears our democracy dodged a bullet, or more precisely, multiple concerted efforts by the president, To torpedo its very foundations.
00:15:33.000Now again, hearing from Democrats about torpedoing the foundations of the democracy after a three and a half year campaign to oust President Trump based on Russian collusion bullcrap is pretty rich.
00:15:46.000I mean, let's be lectured on democracy by Susan Rice.
00:15:49.000She says, while President Trump rages relentlessly about election fraud, many Republican leaders continue to parrot false denials of the validity of President-elect Joe Biden's clear victory.
00:15:57.000Yet, so far, our democracy has withstood the greatest stress test of our lifetimes.
00:16:01.000Okay, this is not the greatest stress test of our lifetimes.
00:16:02.000It's not even close to the greatest stress test of our lifetimes.
00:16:05.000I mean, seriously, I would say that COVID is a greater stress test of the democracy considering how many individual liberties have been violated by state and local actors than anything that Trump has done with regard to the election.
00:16:20.000This stress test has not been particularly compelling, frankly, in terms of the impact that it has done to the system itself.
00:16:27.000And when we were talking about stress to the Constitution of the United States, it seems to me that Obamacare, which mandated that you buy health insurance, the Obamacare mandate, which was unconstitutional in the extreme, was more of a stress test for the Constitution than anything that Donald Trump has done as President of the United States.
00:16:48.000And you should trust her, because she is trustworthy.
00:16:51.000She says Mr. Trump and his political allies have been employing nearly every weapon at their disposal to try to retain the White House, notwithstanding the will of the people.
00:16:58.000She says Trump supporters worked assiduously to suppress the vote by denigrating the legitimacy of mail-in ballots during a pandemic.
00:17:06.000These same people who keep saying that the vote was the cleanest ever, they're also saying that Trump was responsible for voter suppression.
00:17:12.000Remember, these are the same jackals who suggest that Stacey Abrams is the actual governor of Georgia, thanks to no information whatsoever of voter suppression in Georgia.
00:17:44.000She says Trump supporters work to denigrate mail-in balloting by saying that it's corrupt to send people mail-in votes without them requesting it.
00:17:51.000That doesn't seem like it's undermining democracy.
00:17:54.000That seems actually kind of plausible, does it not?
00:17:56.000I mean, I moved from California to Florida.
00:17:58.000My old address in California received mail-in votes.
00:18:07.000She says, third, some of Trump's most ardent supporters intimidated voters at the polls, heeding calls to stand by and go into the polls and watch very carefully.
00:18:14.000They deployed, sometimes armed, in black and brown communities under the guise of ensuring no fraudulent votes were cast.
00:18:19.000Okay, if you actually engage in voter intimidation, that's criminal activity and will be prosecuted.
00:18:24.000There are plenty of political people who are at the polls standing outside of the demarcated line beyond which you are not allowed to do politics.
00:18:29.000And then she goes forth, in the run up to election day, Trump dispatched an army of litigants to enlist the courts in curtailing access to the polls.
00:18:36.000Oh, you mean that he filed lawsuits, which is like the definition of doing a legal thing since you are now filing lawsuits.
00:18:41.000But she says, and this undermined democracy.
00:18:47.000She says the lesson we must learn is not a reassuring one.
00:18:49.000A determined autocrat in the White House poses a grave threat to our democratic institutions and can severely undermine faith in our elections, particularly when backed by partisans in Congress.
00:18:58.000I look forward to hearing how Democrats plan to alleviate this problem of autocrats in the White House overrunning the boundaries of the Constitution and perverting the American people's perspective on what the values of the United States are.
00:19:16.000To vote out Republican incumbent senators in Georgia.
00:19:20.000That's the answer, because then Congress can apply some of its lessons.
00:19:23.000So, for example, they could enact the For the People Act to combat corruption, strengthen ethics rules, and improve voter access, as well as the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore the protections of the 1965 legislation.
00:19:34.000That would require, by the way, the federal government to give preclearance to redistricting in a variety of southern states.
00:19:41.000Democrats could now draw the districts, despite the fact that states are given the power to draw the districts.
00:19:44.000That would be the idea here from Susan Rice.
00:19:46.000Also, if you elect Democrats to the Georgia Senate.
00:19:50.000According to Susan Rice, you can fix all of the problems with the system, presumably by getting rid of the Electoral College, or moving to do so, by packing the Supreme Court, which is something the Democrats have been threatening to do, and by willy-nilly adding states like Puerto Rico and Washington DC to the Senate, thereby stacking the Senate in favor of Democrats.
00:20:05.000Yeah, all of that is definitely going to shore up democracy.
00:20:07.000Why do people have trust issues, guys?
00:20:11.000And meanwhile, the media continue to demonstrate why people have trust issues by defending literally everything that any Democrat will ever do.
00:20:19.000So, for example, the incoming Biden team, right?
00:20:23.000One of the people who is going to be joining that team is Jen Psaki.
00:20:28.000Okay, and Jennifer Psaki is a longtime Obama-era official.
00:20:34.000Then she went to CNN, which is basically just moving over to the PR department for the Democratic Party and the Obama administration.
00:20:39.000Now she's moving back into government because there's that revolving door again.
00:20:43.000Okay, so over the past... Why don't people trust the system, guys?
00:20:46.000So over the past 24 hours, a picture emerged that she tweeted out.
00:20:50.000It's her own damn fault because she's an idiot.
00:20:52.000She tweeted out a picture of herself meeting with Russian officials wearing one of those kind of furry Russian hats whose names I don't remember.
00:20:59.000And on the front of it was the Russian Red Star, like the Soviet-era Red Star with the hammer and sickle on the hat.
00:21:04.000It was a pink hat with the Soviet-era Red Star with the hammer and sickle.
00:21:09.000Okay, and USA Today, so people on the right started tweeting this out, saying, yeah, that sounds like not a person I want in charge of communications.
00:21:25.000The claim, a photo shows Jen Psaki, Joe Biden's pick for press secretary, wearing a hammer and sickle hat while posing with officials from Russia.
00:21:53.000Matt Wolking, a spokesperson for President Trump, took to Twitter and shared that photo.
00:21:58.000He said, here's Jen Psaki hugging Russia's foreign minister and Russia's chief foreign affairs propagandist while wearing a pink hammer and sickle hat.
00:22:05.000And apparently, so USA Today fact-checked this and they said, well, you know, it's missing context.
00:22:11.000The context is that she was pictured with then-Secretary of State John Kerry and officials from Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
00:22:19.000They just completed a diplomatic meeting in Paris as part of a run-up to peace talks.
00:22:23.000And they brought unusual gifts, like Kerry brought Idaho potatoes for Lavrov, and Lavrov had a gift for Psaki.
00:22:30.000I failed to see how this undermines the fact check.
00:22:37.000The fact that it never occurred to her, hey, maybe it's a bad idea to put on a hat with a logo that represents the murder of tens of millions of human beings.
00:22:44.000That should say something, but no, don't worry.
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00:24:03.000Okay, by the way, should mention, Jen Psaki responded to this photo of Jen Psaki posted by Jen Psaki of Jen Psaki wearing a hat with a hammer and sickle on it.
00:24:13.000By tweeting this, quote, Oh my God, this is so rich.
00:24:49.000You don't just get, like, this is, this is the part that's going to drive everybody up a wall, is that the media proclaim that Jen Psaki is actually a representative of truth.
00:24:56.000But according to Jen Psaki, Jen Psaki posting a photo of Jen Psaki posing, wearing a hat with a hammer and sickle on it is Russian disinformation.
00:25:04.000I mean, that's some real deep cover right there.
00:25:06.000The Russians somehow got to Jen Psaki several years ago to post disinformation that would be used against Jen Psaki later.
00:25:12.000The Russians are so good at this crap, they went back in time and they somehow turned Jen Psaki of 2014 so that Jen Psaki in 2020 would be in trouble now.
00:25:24.000Here's the New York Times' take on Jen Psaki.
00:25:27.000Mr. Biden's choice of Jennifer Psaki, 42, a veteran of the Obama administration, who is generally viewed by reporters as fair and accessible, as his chief spokeswoman embodies that return to normalcy approach.
00:25:38.000Mr. Biden, officials said, was particularly drawn to Ms.
00:25:40.000Psaki by her background at the State Department.
00:25:42.000There, she worked under Secretary of State John Kerry and grew comfortable delivering 90-minute briefings on foreign policy issues like a dispute over the South China Sea.
00:25:49.000At the White House, Psaki intends to bring back the daily press briefing, which has all but been phased out over the past four years.
00:25:55.000It is not clear, however, when those sessions might resume, given the constraints of the pandemic.
00:26:00.000Psaki views a central part of her job as restoring faith in the words spoken from behind the podium.
00:26:05.000The clown games are over, said Susan Rice, who went out on national TV and lied to the American people over and over about Benghazi.
00:26:11.000Jen will represent the professionalism and decency and commitment to transparency that has been a hallmark of Joe Biden's career.
00:26:16.000Yes, when I think of Joe Biden, I think of a transparent, a commitment to transparency, particularly with regard to MBNA and other credit card companies located in Delaware, who are basically helping to finance his real estate purchases in sweetheart deals.
00:26:29.000He's Captain Transparency, is Joe Biden.
00:26:57.000So Janet Yellen, she's been widely praised by the media as a consensus pick.
00:27:01.000Now she served under Barack Obama as the Federal Reserve chairperson.
00:27:06.000And there she was very much in favor of a sort of inflationary approach to the currency.
00:27:10.000She's very much in favor of lowering interest rates.
00:27:12.000Well, yesterday, she did a presser in which she talked about using the Treasury Department in order to promote certain goals.
00:27:19.000Now, last I checked, the Treasury Department was basically there to ensure the stability of the American currency.
00:27:24.000That's what the Treasury Department is there to do.
00:27:26.000Not according to Janet Yellen, it's not.
00:27:28.000According to Janet Yellen, a moderate figure well-beloved by Wall Street, according to your mainstream media, she says that she's going to use the Treasury Department to resolve racial inequality and climate change.
00:27:40.000She doesn't explain how, but sure, grab control of the nation's monetary supply and use it to press forward your particular brand of radical politics.
00:27:49.000That sounds like a real moderate thing to me.
00:27:51.000Here's Janet Yellen being a quote-unquote moderate.
00:27:54.000Out of our collective pain as a nation, we will find collective purpose to control the pandemic and build our economy back better than before.
00:28:06.000To rebuild our infrastructure and create better jobs.
00:28:34.000And why exactly would we have doubts about electoral veracity when it comes to the fact that we still have, we are now over a, about a month away from the election, right?
00:28:50.000And it's getting pretty dicey in these vote counts.
00:28:52.000According to Politico, a month after Election Day, razor-thin congressional elections in an open Southeast Iowa seat and the upstate New York seat held by Democratic Representative Anthony Brindisi are still unresolved, with Democrats barely trailing in both districts.
00:29:04.000The implications are unusually serious in a tightly divided House.
00:29:08.000The latest blow for Democrats came Monday, when Iowa officials certified Republican Marionette Miller-Meeks as the winner of her race after a recount found her leading Democrat Rita Hart by just six votes out of 394,000 cast.
00:29:22.000When we began this recount, Rita Hart was down by 47 votes.
00:29:26.000Hart campaign manager Zach Munier said in a statement Monday, Hart of course says that she is going to launch a legal challenge.
00:29:41.000Meanwhile, a recount has yet to begin in New York, where the disorganized, decentralized election system has muddled the outcome of a close rematch between Brindisi and former GOP representative Claudia Tenney, currently separated by roughly a dozen votes.
00:29:52.000There's still a thousand ballots remaining in dispute or uncounted, including large numbers of provisional ballots, and these ballots are suspiciously trickling in just in time to be counted.
00:30:02.000Our campaign is committed to seeing that all and only legal votes count, said Sean Kennedy, a Tenney spokesperson.
00:30:07.000The voters' will must be respected and the integrity of the election process maintained.
00:30:12.000So what exactly is happening in New York?
00:30:14.000A New York state judge is reviewing updated county vote totals on Monday afternoon before setting the next steps, which could include a re-canvas.
00:30:34.000Meanwhile, over in Iowa, Hart has two days to contest under state law.
00:30:38.000Now that Iowa's Board of Canvas certified, Miller makes his win.
00:30:40.000Her challenge would be referred to a judicial panel that would include the Iowa State Supreme Court Justice to determine the victor of the election.
00:30:47.000Meanwhile, the House could simply refuse to seat Miller-Meeks and create a committee to review the matter.
00:30:51.000So, Politico's already paving the way for election results not to be respected in Iowa.
00:30:56.000Wow, you mean Nancy Pelosi might actually set aside election results with the help of her Democratic friend so as to ensure that a seat remains Democratic in Iowa?
00:31:04.000Does that count as undermining democracy or not?
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00:34:10.000♪ Okay, so here is where things currently stand.
00:34:18.000So, over the last 24 hours, the head of the DOJ, A.G.
00:34:21.000Barr, he has said that he has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.
00:34:26.000Now, what he didn't say is there is no voter fraud.
00:34:28.000Because, obviously, in a country of 158 million voters, which is how many people voted in this last election cycle, there will be some voter fraud and there will be some voter irregularity.
00:34:36.000He has said that we have not seen evidence that would overcome the barriers The electoral barriers for Trump in places like Michigan, 150,000 vote differential, or in Pennsylvania, about an 82,000 vote differential, or Wisconsin, about a 20,000 vote differential, or Georgia, about a 13,000 vote differential, right?
00:34:54.000And, you know, I would take Barr at his word on that, given the fact that Barr is not exactly a Trump opponent, right?
00:34:59.000I mean, Barr has done a good job as AG following the law.
00:35:04.000So Barr, Immediately drew criticism from the Trump attorneys.
00:35:09.000The Trump attorneys put out a statement in which they said, with all due respect to the AG, there hasn't been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation, which is kind of fair.
00:35:16.000I mean, the DOJ has not been doing a full-scale investigation.
00:35:19.000We have gathered ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states, which they've not examined.
00:35:22.000We have many witnesses swearing under oath they saw crimes being committed in connection with voter fraud.
00:35:26.000As far as we know, not a single one has been interviewed by the DOJ.
00:35:28.000The Justice Department also hasn't audited any voting machines or used their subpoena powers to determine the truth.
00:35:33.000Nonetheless, we will continue our pursuit of the truth through the judicial system and state legislatures and continue toward the Constitution's mandate and ensuring that every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is not.
00:35:43.000That is Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, Trump's legal team.
00:35:47.000If they wish to actually overturn the results of the election, it's not going to be enough to be doing these sort of public-facing press conferences with members of state legislatures.
00:35:55.000Those state legislatures are not going to vote to overturn the results of the election.
00:36:01.000The idea that Republican legislatures in places like Arizona or Michigan or Pennsylvania are going to disenfranchise what people think is the current counts in these places without evidence that all those votes are that without real evidence that the votes themselves have been tampered with.
00:36:18.000What we have right now from the Giuliani-Ellis team really is a lot of allegations of the possibility of vote hampering.
00:36:24.000And we have certain allegations that people think they have seen things, but they have not provided any supportive evidence to back that up.
00:36:29.000If you think that Republican legislatures in those states are, like just as a realistic descriptive matter, not what they ought to do, what they are going to do.
00:36:35.000If you think the Pennsylvania legislature or the Michigan state legislature is going to disenfranchise millions of its own voters, In order to throw out the purported results of those elections on the basis of these sort of press conferences?
00:37:02.000There are legal penalties and legal sanctions brought for attorneys who make false claims in court.
00:37:06.000There are legal sanctions that can be brought for people who are going to be saying false things in court.
00:37:11.000So if you're going to swear under oath and you do that in some sort of hearing with the state legislature, yes, theoretically, they could go after you for perjury.
00:37:17.000The likelihood of that is extraordinarily low.
00:37:19.000If you do it in court, the likelihood is higher.
00:37:20.000That means that you actually have skin in the game.
00:37:25.000Listen, I would love nothing better than for Trump to retain the White House come January.
00:37:28.000But you're gonna need to actually bring the evidence in court at this point.
00:37:32.000So right now, the Trump campaign is bringing some of these cases in court in Wisconsin.
00:37:36.000They filed a petition on Tuesday challenging Wisconsin's presidential vote results with the state Supreme Court.
00:37:41.000The petition was submitted as Trump appointed U.S.
00:37:43.000Attorney General William Barr said the DOJ didn't find evidence of widespread voter fraud sufficient to overturn the election.
00:37:49.000The petition alleges that Wisconsin election officials were directed to fill in missing information on ballot envelopes, issued absentee ballots without receiving applications, and allowed people to improperly claim a confined absentee voting status.
00:38:00.000The petition takes issue with election officials in Madison hosting an event where officials collected and checked ballots in city parks, not polling stations.
00:38:08.000Election law experts said the case might have a better chance than other recent lawsuits.
00:38:11.000The court is highly unlikely to grant the campaign's request to invalidate 221,000 absentee ballots.
00:38:15.000Biden won Wisconsin by about 20,000 votes.
00:38:17.000This is one of the cases where there's actually a pretty good case here that election law was violated.
00:38:23.000But the question is, is the proper remedy to disenfranchise all of the absentee voters?
00:38:28.000So Trump team says, yeah, because we don't know how many of those absentee voters were actually victimized.
00:38:33.000We don't know what the numbers here are.
00:38:35.000And the courts have basically said, we're not going to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters based on the speculative possibility that some of these people voted illegitimately.
00:38:43.000So the fact that the case is legally well predicated, which the Wisconsin case appears to be better predicated, or the fact that, for example, the Pennsylvania case that is being pushed by Team Trump is well predicated, does not mean the remedy that is sought is going to be the remedy that is actually provided by a court.
00:39:01.000So for example, in Pennsylvania, again, there are grounds for these lawsuits.
00:39:05.000The problem is that the remedy that the Trump team wants, which is to overturn the election results, I mean, frankly speaking, courts are unlikely to grant it.
00:39:12.000OK, but here is Senator Ted Cruz pointing out that the Supreme Court should take up an emergency appeal filed in the Supreme Court challenging election results in Pennsylvania.
00:39:21.000He points out the Pennsylvania Constitution requires in-person voting, except in narrow and defined circumstances.
00:39:25.000Late last year, the Pennsylvania legislature passed a law that purported to allow universal mail-in voting, notwithstanding the Pennsylvania Constitution's express prohibition.
00:39:32.000This appeal argues Pennsylvania cannot change the rules in the middle of the game.
00:39:35.000If Pennsylvania wants to change how voting occurs, the state must follow the law to do so.
00:39:49.000So, you know, the case that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and some of the federal courts have made is this is an internal Pennsylvania issue.
00:39:56.000The Pennsylvania Supreme Court gets to determine the voting procedures along with the legislature.
00:40:00.000This really is not up to the federal Supreme Court.
00:40:04.000But, with that said, a well-predicated lawsuit, right, a lawsuit that has some legit claims, that does not necessarily mean that the remedy that you seek is going to be the remedy that you actually get.
00:40:15.000Meanwhile in Arizona, there was a small victory for the Arizona Republican Party.
00:40:19.000According to the Arizona Mirror, Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelly Ward's attempt to invalidate nearly 1.7 million votes for Joe Biden will begin with 200 ballots.
00:40:27.000She and her attorneys searched for evidence of election fraud or misconduct they have thus far been able to show.
00:40:34.000Ward is asking a Maricopa County Superior Court judge to declare Trump the rightful winner of Arizona's 11 electoral votes, even though Trump is down in the count by about 10,000 votes.
00:40:42.000She says election workers didn't allow Republican observers to get close enough to ensure signatures weren't mistakenly verified.
00:40:48.000She has yet to provide evidence that there were duplicated ballots or that ballots were changed, but she is asking a judge to allow them to inspect tens of thousands of ballots to see whether election workers actually intervened on a one-to-one level.
00:41:01.000Now, as Doug Ducey of Arizona has said, that is highly unlikely.
00:41:03.000We have Democrats and Republicans in the room verifying these signatures.
00:41:07.000With that said, the judge did agree to let Ward look at 100 envelopes and 100 duplicated ballots to see if there were any red flags.
00:41:14.000So they'll have until Thursday to see whether that drags up any information.
00:41:18.000And again, it's not as though the team Trump is not putting forward some people who are claiming voter regularity and voter fraud.
00:41:25.000For example, they had one of these hearings in front of Republican state legislators in Michigan yesterday.
00:41:31.000A Michigan poll watcher explained that he saw Republicans being ejected from rooms throughout the day.
00:41:37.000I am an unaffiliated Michigan voter who was trained by the GOP to be a poll challenger on Wednesday, November 4th, beginning in the late morning until around 8 p.m.
00:41:45.000because I was told that they needed help.
00:41:49.000I witnessed the room erupt in thunderous applause and derogatory cheering as Republican poll workers were picked off one by one and ejected from the room repeatedly by police escort throughout the day.
00:41:59.000By the end of the day, they had picked off so many GOP poll workers that there were probably only a few dozen left to monitor all of the processing stations in the room, which I'm told was between 130 and 160.
00:42:10.000Okay, so again, he would need some supporting evidence to demonstrate this.
00:42:14.000You would need a bunch of the poll workers at that particular station to say that, and you would presumably need somebody inside the room saying that the remaining poll workers were actually changing the outcomes of the ballots.
00:42:24.000And presumably, you could do a hand recount the way they did in Georgia, and you could actually see whether the printed-out ballots in person, for example, measured up to Dominion voting machines, which is what happened in Georgia.
00:42:34.000So what is true and what is false here?
00:42:36.000The truth is there are people who are making pretty significant allegations.
00:42:40.000What has to happen is they need to make them in court where they can actually be properly adjudicated.
00:42:43.000Again, if you don't just want this to be a PR campaign, then you actually need the process to play out and you need to do this in court.
00:42:51.000Doing these things in front of the Oversight Committee at the Michigan Legislature is not going to accomplish Trump's goal of getting the Michigan election overturned.
00:42:58.000Just being realistic with you, that's not going to happen.
00:43:00.000The only thing that is going to happen here is if you can bring evidence in court sufficient to prove your case.
00:43:06.000The Wall Street Journal Point out at least some of the claims that are being made are being overstated, for example.
00:43:13.000So, for example, they point out that, you know, there's a lot of talk about ballot dumping, like late night ballot dumping.
00:43:18.000But the fact is, a lot of these states didn't follow Florida's procedure.
00:43:21.000So Florida allowed the tabulation of mail-in balloting before the actual election day.
00:43:26.000That meant that instead of you getting these late night ballot processing dumps, Instead of that, you actually had everything tabulated up front, and then the mail-in ballots came in early, and then you had the actual day of balloting, and that came in, and within like an hour and a half, we knew exactly what was going on in Florida.
00:43:39.000Unfortunately, it was Republican legislatures in these areas that actually stopped the early tabulation of mail-in voting, presumably because they were afraid that the numbers would leak and it might discourage Republican votes.
00:43:50.000When it comes to poll watching, according to the Wall Street Journal, judges have dismissed affidavits submitted by the Trump camp as rife with speculation and guesswork and inadmissible as hearsay.
00:44:00.000Other claims made in public circulate largely without being tested.
00:44:03.000A poll watcher from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, alleged last week that 47 USB cards used in the election are missing and they're nowhere to be found.
00:44:09.000Lorraine Hagan, the chief elections clerk in Delaware County, said we're aware of the allegations, but all votes on scanners have all been accounted for.
00:44:16.000Meanwhile, people who continue to claim that Dominion was hacked and that Dominion voting systems are the problem, the evidence on that is really, really scanty because the totals from Georgia's hand recount using Dominion systems were basically exactly right.
00:44:31.000Also, it just happens to be true that Dominion is not a Venezuelan creation.
00:44:36.000The claims that were being made by Sidney Powell were so crazy that even the Trump legal team decided we are just not going to be complicit in them, right?
00:44:42.000I mean, Sidney Powell got tossed off the team after the big Kraken speech just last week.
00:44:47.000There's an editorial in the Wall Street Journal by a person named John Polis, who is one of the people, he's the president and CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, talking about some of the claims with regard to Dominion Voting Systems and rebutting some of them.
00:45:14.000Third party test labs chosen by the Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission accredited by a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology perform complete source code reviews on every federally certified tabulation system.
00:45:24.000States replicate the process for their own certifications.
00:45:27.000Post-election canvassing and auditing also exist to provide additional assurance of the vote total accuracy.
00:45:33.000He also points out the tabulation machines are tested publicly before bipartisan witnesses before and right after election day.
00:45:45.000In-person voters use ballot marking devices.
00:45:47.000In both cases, voters verify the marked paper ballot before casting it in a secure ballot box through an air-gapped scanning tabulator.
00:45:53.000I know because they use Dominion Systems, I believe, here in Florida.
00:45:56.000And so when I voted, this was how the system worked.
00:45:59.000Okay, so if we're going to get any sort of election change here, then you're going to actually have to show widespread evidence, not just speculative possibility.
00:46:07.000So if we're going to get any sort of election change here, then you're going to actually have to show widespread evidence, not just speculative possibility.
00:46:16.000The speculative possibility leads to a lot of incredulity about the results in public.
00:46:22.000Maybe that's the point, maybe that's not the point.
00:46:25.000But if you want the election results overturned, what you actually need is to show the evidence in court.
00:46:31.000And I will say that everybody on both sides of the aisle should be pretty unified in the basic idea that, can we, like, there are people who are nuts out there, like, really nuts.
00:47:00.000Number two, are we going to suggest that Trump is responsible for that because he's casting doubt on the elections?
00:47:04.000Again, I have a very hard time with all of the rhetoric suggesting that when a president says something, he is then directly responsible for people doing bad things with the things that he says.
00:47:12.000So Georgia's voting systems manager, I got him, Gabriel Sherman, yesterday in a press conference where he went after Trump, suggesting that threats of violence are due to Trump.
00:47:20.000Okay, unless Trump is threatening violence, that's not due to Trump.
00:47:23.000Trump can be saying things that I disagree with.
00:47:25.000He can be saying things I think are not true.
00:47:27.000And that does not mean that he is responsible for violence any more than Bernie Sanders, who routinely says untrue things about the American healthcare system, is responsible for acts of violence done to Republican Congress people.
00:47:55.000We need you to step up, and if you're going to take a position of leadership, show some.
00:48:01.000Okay, I mean, has anybody defended the language?
00:48:03.000Like, seriously, who's defending the language?
00:48:06.000If they are, they should not be, obviously.
00:48:09.000Okay, meanwhile, in other big news, William Barr, the AG, he has appointed John Durham's special counsel.
00:48:17.000This is a real troll move, and it's pretty awesome.
00:48:19.000So John Durham is, of course, the special counsel who has been investigating the Operation Crossfire Hurricane beginning, right?
00:48:26.000That is the FBI investigation into Trump-Russia collusion.
00:48:28.000And Durham has been investigating the origins to look at the FBI conduct.
00:48:33.000So William Barr, apparently, shortly before the election, He appointed John Durham as a special counsel so that he could complete his work without being easily fired.
00:48:43.000According to the AP, under the regulations, a special counsel can be fired only by the attorney general and for specific reasons such as misconduct, dereliction of duty, or conflict of interest.
00:48:51.000An attorney general must document such reasons in writing.
00:48:54.000So, believe it or not, Adam Schiff came out and he was like, we should fire John Durham.
00:48:58.000So remember that time when Adam Schiff was saying that Robert Mueller should never, ever, ever be fired, and that firing Robert Mueller would be the worst thing in the entire world?
00:49:06.000I agreed, by the way, that it would be a bad move for Trump to fire Robert Mueller, because I thought he would come up empty.
00:49:35.000Naturally, Jerry Nadler, Democrat of New York and head of the House Judiciary Committee, said the appointment erodes trust in the DOJ.
00:49:42.000He questioned how it was allowed under the special counsel rules.
00:49:44.000He said we should not lose sight of the larger picture.
00:49:47.000In the waning days of the Trump administration, the AG has once again used the powers of his office to settle old scores for the president.
00:49:53.000The special counsel rules say the appointed person should be outside of government, bar pointed to specific provisions in his memo that would allow him to go around that rule.
00:50:02.000A senior DOJ official told the AP, although the order details it is including but not limited to crossfire hurricane, the Durham probe has not expanded at this point.
00:50:08.000But hey, the rules are special counsel gets to do whatever he wants.
00:50:12.000Those rules were not created by the Republicans at this point.
00:50:15.000They were created by the Democrats with regard to Robert Mueller.
00:50:17.000So now Democrats are going to have to live with those consequences.
00:50:21.000Meanwhile, Democrats continue to hold up a COVID relief package.
00:50:35.000Pushing a new relief package that amounts to just under a trillion dollars.
00:50:39.000According to CNN, McConnell has been in private discussions with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and the White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, getting a clear sense of what President Trump is willing to sign into law in his final days in office.
00:50:50.000As McConnell drafts a new bill based on those conversations, Democratic leaders are making their own counteroffer to jumpstart the talks.
00:51:07.000I'd like to remind everybody, the way you get a result is you have a presidential signature.
00:51:12.000So meanwhile, McConnell has been pushing this $908 billion bipartisan plan a group of senators introduced on Tuesday. And some of the Democrats are on board. Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, he said, let's do it. Let's get this done.
00:51:27.000It's a really positive development. And this amount of money could get us through what is likely to be a very hard and very deadly winter.
00:51:38.000This isn't big enough to be able to get us to the point where the entire country is vaccinated, but it might be enough to make sure that millions of Americans don't go hungry, don't starve, don't die out on the streets this winter when their jobless benefits expire and when protections for evictions expire.
00:52:01.000Okay, so we have Democrats on board, and Mitt Romney is on board, right?
00:52:05.000Mitt Romney says this is a crisis, I'm not big on spending, but you have to pass something.
00:52:08.000So you have a 14-senator group that is proposing this bill, and Mitch McConnell is starting to push this bill too.
00:52:14.000The Democrats, or is Mitt Romney pushing it?
00:52:17.000We've got people unemployed, we've got businesses shutting down, we've got states and localities getting ready for layoffs of large numbers of people.
00:52:24.000It's simply unacceptable for us not to respond to help in this circumstance.
00:52:48.000Republican lawmakers, according to Fox News, condemned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after Democratic leadership announced a bill to federally legalize marijuana will hit the House floor on Wednesday.
00:52:56.000House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, said the chamber will be considering multiple more bills, including the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, the MORE Act.
00:53:05.000And voting will take place Wednesday through Friday.
00:53:07.000Also, there will be another bill reviewed seeking to ban breeding and private ownership of big cats.
00:53:12.000Because everybody watched Tiger King over the pandemic.
00:53:15.000Republicans were like, um, what are you doing now?
00:53:17.000Kevin McCarthy tweeted out this week your house majority Democrats.
00:53:20.000They are tackling the tough issues by holding a vote on legalizing pot and banning tiger ownership.
00:53:25.000Nothing for small businesses, nothing for reopening schools, nothing on battling the pandemic, just cannabis and cats. Steve Scalise, the house minority whip, he tweeted out, let me get this straight.
00:53:35.000Nancy Pelosi is blocking a bill to deliver unused Paycheck Protection Program funds to workers and small businesses.
00:53:40.000But she managed to find time for a vote on POT legislation this week.
00:53:43.000Retweet to tell Democrats to quit blocking aid for Americans in need right now.
00:53:46.000Remember, this has been held up by Democrats for months.
00:53:49.000Steve Mnuchin basically went to Pelosi and he was like, you know what, whatever you want, I am happy to give it to you.
00:53:55.000I'm just going to ignore you right now until the election is over.
00:53:57.000It did not pay off to her benefit, by the way.
00:53:59.000Democrats did really, really poorly in the House.
00:54:02.000Nonetheless, they're still holding this thing up.
00:54:05.000So just remember, when you hear Democrats talking about how Republicans are responsible for all of the harms of COVID-19, it is Democrats who are holding this thing up.
00:54:12.000This is why when Joe Biden says help is on the way for the economy, I don't believe you.
00:54:17.000In fact, the best hope for Joe Biden, should he, God forbid, take office in January, if Joe Biden is deemed president-elect on December 14th by the electors, if Joe Biden takes office, the only thing that will cut in Joe Biden's favor, if I were Joe Biden, honestly, I would be rooting for Republicans to win those two Senate seats in Georgia.
00:54:34.000Because that way, I could proclaim that I was all for these progressive priorities that wreck the economy, and then I would never be able to implement them.
00:54:40.000And then I would be considered bipartisan because the economy would be good.
00:54:43.000Right, that would be your best, like Joe Biden has to be rooting for his own interests to basically be cut against by the presence of Republican Senate.
00:54:51.000Here was Joe Biden yesterday saying help is on the way for the economy.
00:55:03.000A first-rate team that's going to get us through this ongoing economic crisis and help us build the economy back, not just build it back, but build it back better than it was before.
00:55:17.000It includes groundbreaking Americans who come from different backgrounds, but who share my core vision for economic Oh, goody, goody gumdrops.
00:55:29.000I cannot wait for this doofus to start intervening in the American economy.
00:55:33.000By the way, there's a story that's going around about the COVID relief package, like the first one, the Paycheck Protection Program.
00:55:37.000So remember, Congress approved $521 billion.
00:55:41.000in small business grants and loans under the Paycheck Protection Program.
00:55:57.000Their big complaint is they have now found that over 25 Paycheck Protection Program loans worth more than $3.65 million were given to businesses with addresses at Trump and Kushner real estate properties paying rent to the owners.
00:56:10.000So these are not businesses owned by Trump or Kushner.
00:56:12.000These are businesses that rent at real estate owned by Trump and Kushner.
00:56:17.000So the idea is that the entire Paycheck Protection Program scheme was a $500 billion payout to accomplish $3 million given to businesses that rent from Trump and Kushner.
00:56:33.000Well, I mean, if they're renting from Kushner or renting at a Trump property, that means they should not receive a Paycheck Protection Program loan.
00:56:43.000The loans to Trump and Kushner properties included a $2 million loan to the Triumph Restaurant Corporation located at Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City.
00:56:51.000The company reported the money didn't go to keeping jobs and it later closed.
00:57:03.000But this is apparently a very big scandal.
00:57:05.000Again, just more PR done for the Democrats on the basis of pseudo-reporting of nonsense.
00:57:12.000Two tenants at 725 5th Avenue and Trump Tower received more than $100,000 and only kept three jobs.
00:57:18.000How many jobs were they supposed to keep with a $100,000 grant?
00:57:20.000Like, what exactly are you paying people?
00:57:23.000I mean, it's such a non-scandal, but of course the media are covering it as though it was a scandal because they always have to fill the barrel with scandal.
00:57:38.000I think the chances of that are very, very low.
00:57:41.000Okay, again, and by the way, in more bad media coverage, just a quick note, in more bad media coverage, so last night, very late last night, a story broke that was supposed to be a bombshell.
00:57:49.000And it was that the DOJ was investigating a possible criminal bribery scheme for a presidential pardon.
00:57:55.000Hey, and the media immediately went nuts.
00:57:57.000This means someone inside the White House was going to be bribed to get Trump to give a pardon.
00:58:01.000It's going to be just like Mark Rich, except how Mark Rich was totally fine.
00:58:04.000That was totally fine with Bill Clinton.
00:58:15.000And then the DOJ comes out like, well, actually, no government official was or is currently a subject or target of the investigation disclosed in this filing.
00:58:36.000Well done, media, but clowning itself once again.
00:58:39.000Okay, now, I would be remiss today if I did not discuss one of the great issues of our time.
00:58:44.000And that is that the actress Ellen Page, who is, was, and shall remain a woman, is now a man.
00:58:51.000So let me read you the headline from CNN, which conveys zero information.
00:58:56.000We have now been forced as a society to simply say nonsense.
00:58:59.000To simply just say things that are nonsense, that don't make any sort of logical sense, that don't actually translate from English to reason.
00:59:07.000Okay, so here is the headline, and you tell me if you know what the hell this means.
00:59:17.000Like, seriously, do you have any idea what that means?
00:59:19.000When I first saw the headline, Elliot Page, I thought, whoa, Ellen has a brother?
00:59:22.000No, it turns out that Ellen Page is now identifying as Elliot Page.
00:59:26.000And the media, instead of saying, here's a headline with content, Ellen Page announces she identifies as man, wishes to be called Elliot Page.
00:59:34.000Right, now I would have the whole story.
00:59:36.000But Elliot Page Juno star conveys nothing because Ellen Page was the star of Juno.
00:59:40.000So I'm like, wait, was her brother in that movie?
00:59:42.000Like, I don't even know what you're talking about right now.
00:59:44.000Because the media have created this bizarre standard whereby if a person declares themselves a member of the opposite gender, the entire world, especially in the media, must immediately flip on a dime, stop calling them by the name everybody knew them as, and stop calling them by their biological sex.
01:01:05.000And yet we are immediately told by the media that to even address Ellen Page or Elliot Page as a she is discriminatory.
01:01:13.000It's very bad and very discriminatory.
01:01:15.000And so you end up with complete inanities and insanities.
01:01:19.000Okay, so Ellen Page declared that she is now a man, okay?
01:01:25.000But she also declared that she is a queer man.
01:01:27.000Now, this is confusing, because if she were a queer man, this would mean that she is attracted to men, which would technically mean that she's a straight woman, right?
01:01:34.000Because if she is an actual woman attracted to men, this would make her a straight woman, but we know she's not that, because she was a lesbian, right?
01:01:41.000So she is married to a woman, as far as I'm aware, and that means that she is a lesbian, but now she is a man, And according to her, this means that she is a white, straight male.
01:02:20.000And you're expected to simply mirror this.
01:02:22.000Not only that, the left has particular standards with regard to who gets to play parts in movies.
01:02:26.000So, for example, Ellen Page, now Elliot Page, I'm saying Ellen Page not because I wish to offend Elliot Page, but because until five seconds ago, nobody had ever heard of Elliot Page.
01:02:37.000Nobody knows who the hell I'm talking about.
01:02:38.000So I'm going to use the name that people know her as.
01:02:41.000And then over time, if you want to call it Elliot Page, that's fine.
01:02:43.000But for like today, I feel like it's fair to mention that Ellen Page and Elliot Page are the same person.
01:02:47.000So that if somebody tunes in and hears Elliot Page, they don't think Ellen has a brother.
01:03:13.000is a straight woman in the first season.
01:03:16.000In the second season, Ellen Page becomes a lesbian because Ellen Page is a lesbian in real life, I guess.
01:03:23.000I mean, I assume that's what the plan was there and that it has something to do with how Ellen Page wanted to act because my understanding is that's not something directly from the comic book series.
01:04:12.000If Elliot Page is in fact a man, the way that the media have declared that she is a man, then why is she allowed to play a cisgender woman?
01:04:55.000If you feel like this is crazy and that this is being crammed down on you, that is because it is.
01:04:58.000That is because this is not a fringe phenomenon anymore.
01:05:01.000This is something the Democratic Party fully embraces and pushes.
01:05:04.000Yesterday, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, he said that he is fully with Joe Biden on mandating from the federal government that transgender people be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice.
01:05:15.000Now it seems to me that if my wife is uncomfortable with a male walking into a bathroom or a locker room where she is undressing at the gym, that that is perfectly within her purview.
01:05:25.000That seems like not inappropriate at all to me.
01:05:28.000But the federal government has now decided under democratic auspices that men and women are exactly the same.
01:05:49.000In any case, here is Chuck Schumer fully greenlighting the Democratic agenda, which is fully in line with all of this silliness and anti-logic nonsense.
01:05:56.000And again, Ellen Page or Elliot Page is allowed to do whatever she wants to do today, but she does not get to dictate what the rest of us say about things as basic as biological sex and capital T truth.
01:06:07.000But here is the Democratic Party pushing this stuff.
01:06:11.000Joe Biden said that on his first day of office, he will give transgender students access to sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity in all federally funded schools.
01:06:21.000Do you think he has the ability to do this, and do you agree with this decision?
01:06:24.000I agree with the decision, and I know he'll check things out thoroughly legally.
01:06:42.000It is all because you're discriminatory in your mind.
01:06:45.000Don't worry about the fact that this is all illogical and makes no sense.
01:06:47.000The media have told you that a thing is so, and therefore, it is so.
01:06:50.000And therefore, and also, if you mention it, it's because you are, it's because you're obsessed with these issues.
01:06:55.000This is one of my favorites, is that you say something as radical as men and women are exactly the same and a man can become a woman, and then I say no.
01:07:01.000And they're like, why are you even paying attention to this?
01:07:03.000Why are you even making an issue out of this?
01:07:17.000I do not go along with your mandatory take on the world, and I don't think Americans should either.
01:07:23.000That's not an excuse for being nasty to people.
01:07:24.000That's not an excuse for discrimination.
01:07:26.000It is a recommendation that we all speak real truths when they are available.
01:07:31.000And it happens to be a real truth that Elliot Page is, was, and will remain a woman, even if Elliot Page believes that she is a man.
01:07:38.000And you're under no obligation, moral or otherwise, to suggest that men can become women, or to teach that to your children, which is really what the left wants out of this whole deal, in the end.
01:07:46.000All right, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
01:07:49.000Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.