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00:00:00.000Another trench of classified documents is found at Joe Biden's home.
00:00:03.000Biden's chief of staff takes the exit door and we examine the growing evil of schools hiding the new gender identities of confused teens from their parents.
00:01:30.000Once you have classified documents in your possession in multiple places, this raises the question of whether you were careful enough under the statute with classified documents.
00:01:38.000Now, I understand that James Comey entirely rewrote the law with Hillary Clinton to make it an intent crime.
00:01:44.000He suggested that basically, unless you had taken classified documents with the intent to expose them, You know what?
00:01:49.000eyes, then there was no criminal matter at hand. It didn't matter even if you had taken the classified documents and put them in a place where foreign actors actually got a hold of them, that was still not a good enough excuse for prosecution. You remember that's exactly what happened with Hillary. She took the documents, she put them on her private server. Comey admitted that these were probably accessed by foreign powers, but he said, you know what, she didn't mean to do that, she didn't mean to hand it over to the Russians or the Chinese or the So, no prosecution.
00:02:13.000But then, Donald Trump took home a bunch of documents, and everybody on the left immediately went back to the standard pre-Hillary Clinton.
00:02:20.000They were like, well, clearly, clearly he did something terribly evil.
00:02:33.000And the legal standard is irresponsibility.
00:02:36.000If you're irresponsible with classified documents, then you must pay the price.
00:02:39.000Well, the problem is that Joe Biden, sure, he's now, quote unquote, abiding by statute in turning over the documents once they have been found.
00:02:47.000Although, gotta say, I'm suspicious as to why these documents were found now.
00:03:10.000Again, the suggestion was that when the Penn-Biden Center for Chinese Grift was closing down, the suggestion was that it was just basically like the interns in the closet who were going through the old papers and they found this classified stuff.
00:03:22.000I mean, they don't have classified approval.
00:03:25.000They don't have any sort of actual top security standard, too.
00:03:29.000It wasn't actually interns who found it in the closet, it was lawyers, which raises the question.
00:03:32.000When you move, do you have your lawyers search your old boxes?
00:03:36.000Or do you typically have some schlub move your boxes, or you move them yourself, or you call your unfortunate friend on the weekend and force him to move the stuff?
00:03:42.000So if you are cleaning out Penn Biden Center for Chinese donations, Why exactly are your lawyers going through that?
00:03:48.000And then why are they going through your garage?
00:03:49.000And then why are they going through your house?
00:03:51.000The real answer here, by the way, is that Joe Biden probably had his lawyers going through these documents knowing there were about to be a bunch of Republican investigations that were going to request some sort of perusal of all of his old documents.
00:04:09.000All of this suggests, of course, that the standard that was applied to Donald Trump, which was, if you are messy with classified documents, then you should be prosecuted, was going to be thrown away as soon as it was Joe Biden on the other end of that stick.
00:04:22.000And that's precisely what seems to have happened here.
00:04:25.000Just last week, Karine Jean-Pierre actually suggested that Joe Biden saying that there was no there there, which is, of course, a paraphrase of a Gertrude Stein statement, About a major American city, there's no there there.
00:05:20.000He laid out his thoughts of whatever question he was asked.
00:05:23.000I'm not going to get into specifics or I'm not going to go beyond what the President has said, but I will reiterate from here that, and basically what he said to all of you many times at this point, that he does indeed take classified information seriously.
00:05:40.000He does indeed take classified documents seriously.
00:05:56.000I thought that he was super careful about all of this sort of stuff, but as it turns out, he's not that careful with this sort of stuff.
00:06:01.000According to NBC News, six additional items, including documents with classified markings, were found in President Joe Biden's Delaware home after Justice Department officials searched the residence on Friday, according to the president's personal attorney.
00:06:13.000The search was prompted by the White House, not the Justice Department, according to a White House official and a source familiar with the matter.
00:06:18.000The documents at the Wilmington, Delaware home appear to be related to his time as Vice President, as well as to his tenure in the United States Senate.
00:07:04.000So according to NBC News, the documents at those Wilmington, Delaware home, they are related to his time in government.
00:07:09.000They were found after Biden's counsel offered full access to the premises as the department investigates his possession of classified material.
00:07:15.000Bob Bauer, Biden's personal attorney, said in a statement.
00:07:18.000Bauer said DOJ took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the president's service in the Senate, some of which were from his tenure as vice president.
00:07:31.000He added the department had full access to Biden's home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades.
00:07:39.000Apparently, investigators spent about 13 hours at the president's personal residence on Friday, according to White House officials and Biden's lawyer.
00:07:46.000It was a planned consensual search of the president's residence in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:07:52.000This would make, again, the third tranche of documents that we have now found, minimum, that contain classified materials.
00:07:59.000And apparently the word Iran has been mentioned in here.
00:08:01.000Apparently some of the classified materials included materials about Iran.
00:08:04.000By the way, it was the FBI that was actually pursuing this particular search, apparently.
00:08:10.000It was not just Biden's personal attorneys this time.
00:08:14.000The federal search of Biden's home well voluntary marks an escalation of the probe, according to CNN, into the president's handling of classified documents and will inevitably draw comparisons to his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, even if the FBI search of Trump's residence was conducted under different circumstances.
00:08:27.000So now we have the former president and the current president both under FBI investigation for classified documents mishandling.
00:08:36.000Only the finest people in positions of high power in this particular country.
00:08:41.000Meanwhile, the Justice Department, again, is announcing that they are involved in all of this, and they are considering other locations, apparently.
00:08:50.000So, they've checked the Penn-Biden Center, they've checked his house, they've checked his garage, but there may be more locations that they actually have to check now.
00:08:59.000Because it turns out that Joe Biden apparently leaves classified documents like his son leaves cocaine-ridden laptops.
00:09:06.000On the Acela, in like a locked bathroom on the Acela, there's just classified documents now.
00:09:12.000Turns out that Joe Biden at the local ice cream shop, while he was eating Rocky Road, just left a classified document in the garbage bin or something.
00:09:27.000If this were you, you'd get prosecuted, but he's a special person, so he will not be prosecuted.
00:09:31.000In fact, what is amusing is to watch the spin coming from Democrats and from the media on all of this.
00:09:38.000At least Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, he was at least honest enough to say, yeah, Biden has lost the high ground here.
00:09:42.000It's gonna be very difficult for Biden to claim that he is morally superior to President Trump when the dude is apparently leaving classified documents like Hansel was leaving Breadcrumbs through the forest.
00:09:57.000Do you fear that because of that, the current president has kind of lost the high ground on this notion of classified information being where it shouldn't be?
00:10:54.000And we have scrutinized that on this show, that he said it was really irresponsible what Trump did.
00:10:59.000And now there have been approximately 20 classified documents found at various properties.
00:11:04.000And certainly he has been under scrutiny.
00:11:06.000But you know, if you're being intellectually honest with yourself, the key difference here that Trump and his team defied a subpoena.
00:11:15.000They said they had turned over everything, and yet evidence developed through the course of the investigation that classified documents were being moved, which started this obstruction of justice investigation.
00:11:26.000Okay, but that's not a key difference with regard to the actual mistreatment of classified information.
00:11:31.000It may be a key difference with regard to an obstruction charge, but there are two separate charges for Trump that are apparently being considered.
00:11:36.000One is the obstruction of justice stuff, mostly trying to cover something up, and the second is the mishandling of classified material.
00:11:42.000And again, it's gonna be very difficult to claim obstruction of justice when the underlying claim that misclassification of material or classification of material that was mishandled, that if there's no underlying crime, the obstruction becomes a lot less sanguine.
00:11:55.000So yeah, the media are going to try to spin Biden's way out of this.
00:11:58.000Bottom line is all of this is going to end up being thrown overboard.
00:12:01.000Trump is now off the hook thanks to Joe Biden and his complete inability not to apparently take classified documents home and just leave them in random places.
00:12:09.000And the best excuse for Joe Biden is that Joe Biden doesn't know what's going on around him on a daily basis.
00:12:13.000So it's not super shocking that he ended up with a bunch of classified documents pretty much everywhere.
00:12:17.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:14:30.000And meanwhile, the White House is emptying out.
00:14:32.000White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who spends all day on Twitter, just retweeting as reclined basically.
00:14:38.000He is now going to leave his job in the coming weeks, according to a person familiar with Klain's plans.
00:14:42.000This is according to the Associated Press.
00:14:44.000Klain's expected departure comes not long after the White House and Democrats had a better-than-expected showing in the November election, so it's a good time for him to step out because, I mean, if he sticks around for 2024, then he might be responsible for whatever comes next, but now he gets to leave on top and say he did a great job.
00:14:58.000The personnel change is a rarity for an administration that has had minimal turnover so far.
00:15:02.000No member of Biden's cabinet has yet stepped down, in stark contrast to Donald Trump's White House with frequent staff turmoil and other crises.
00:15:08.000Yes, there has been a lot of stability in the Biden administration.
00:15:35.000The notion that Zients is going to be some sort of moderating influence on the president of the United States is probably incorrect.
00:15:43.000According to CNN, the decision to pick Zens surprised some internally, given there were differences in Biden's and Zens' management style early on in the administration.
00:15:49.000But Biden was impressed with his job as COVID response coordinator when Zens inherited what officials described as a largely dysfunctional effort by the Trump administration.
00:15:57.000By the way, largely dysfunctional effort by the Trump administration bearing a vaccine, a plan for rollout, and a reopening.
00:16:05.000The Biden administration then proceeded to botch all of those things, like every single one of them.
00:16:11.000Zeng is not viewed as a political operator, according to CNN, but his deep experience inside two administrations and his reputation for technocratic skill will likely serve as the assets at a time when both are viewed as critical for what Biden faces in the year ahead.
00:16:24.000He handled the launch of healthcare.gov during the Obama administration.
00:16:28.000So just stellar success for Jeff Zients, the guy who's responsible for the disastrous rollout of healthcare.gov and also responsible for the disastrous rollout of Joe Biden's COVID-19 policy.
00:16:39.000So things have been going amazing over at the Biden administration.
00:17:07.000Joe Biden is about to run headlong into a battle largely with his own party, it sounds like.
00:17:11.000So there's been a lot of talk about the debt ceiling fight that is looming.
00:17:15.000Republicans, of course, have been suggesting that they want to hold firm in demanding some serious debt reduction from Joe Biden in response for in return for Increasing the debt ceiling.
00:17:25.000Now, they should make clear exactly what their demands are.
00:17:28.000The reality, as I've said before, is the debt ceiling is going to be raised.
00:17:32.000We're not going to hit the debt ceiling and then leave it there indefinitely.
00:17:35.000The reason it's not going to happen is because it's too damaging politically to the party that is perceived as being an obstacle to raising the debt ceiling.
00:18:33.000According to the Washington Post, top Republicans on Sunday blasted President Biden for refusing to negotiate a deal over the debt ceiling, renewing their threats to leverage the fiscally calamitous prospect of default to secure spending cuts from the White House.
00:18:43.000The party affirmed its political demands as Biden prepares to sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the coming days, even though the president has maintained he will not haggle over the need to address one of the country's most important fiscal obligations.
00:18:53.000The emerging and potentially catastrophic stalemate concerns the maximum amount the U.S.
00:18:57.000government can borrow to pay its existing bills.
00:18:59.000Congress must act to raise or suspend that cap, known as the debt limit, or risk pushing the United States into a recession with global implications, according to economists and administration officials.
00:19:07.000The country's debt now exceeds $31 trillion.
00:19:09.000Republicans have tried to pin the blame on Democrats as they pledged to seek steep reductions in federal spending this year.
00:19:14.000House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said you can't just increase the debt limit and let President Biden keep spending like he has done.
00:19:20.000Representative Nancy Mays, Republican of South Carolina, said Republicans had to seize on the debt ceiling because clearly the budget process is not working any longer.
00:19:27.000It's just these giant omnibus packages.
00:20:13.000I think the special counsel will do a better job than the politicians and the political circus it was going to follow.
00:20:18.000President Biden said he had no regrets on how he handled this.
00:20:20.000Do you have any advice for him on how he should handle this?
00:20:22.000Oh, I think he should have a lot of regrets.
00:20:24.000I would think that I said, whoever's responsible, I mean, if I hold people accountable and I use whether my chief of staff or my, you know, my, uh, my staff that we're doing this and I'm looking at, then I'm going to hold someone accountable.
00:20:39.000Manchin, as I say, is probably looking at the possibility of starting a swing bloc with Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate of the United States.
00:20:45.000Now, you'll recall that this would have made a lot more of a difference if Republicans had not actually done so poorly in the United States senatorial election last time around.
00:20:54.000However, it would make a difference if Manchin and Sinema actually formed sort of their own bloc.
00:20:57.000That would make a very large-scale difference against Joe Biden.
00:21:00.000Manchin actually says he might not run as a Democrat next time.
00:21:02.000If you run for office in 2024, are you going to run as a Democrat?
00:21:08.000Chuck, I haven't made a decision what I'm going to do in 2024.
00:21:11.000I've got two years ahead of me now to do the best I can for the state and for my country.
00:21:27.000Is that something you would do outside the Democratic Party?
00:21:29.000The only thing I can tell you is what I will do is whatever I can when I make my decision, what I think is the best that I can support and represent the people of West Virginia, but also be true to this country and the Constitution of this country.
00:21:40.000Okay, so Manchin obviously is trying to reorient himself away from Joe Biden.
00:21:44.000That means he may join the Republicans in trying to exert some sort of pressure on Biden with regard to the debt ceiling.
00:21:50.000Okay, speaking of that, Senator Joe Manchin, he says that it would be a mistake for Joe Biden not to negotiate on the debt ceiling.
00:21:56.000He says, listen, we could come to some sort of deal here.
00:21:58.000Stop pretending that there's no deal to be cut at all, President Biden.
00:22:59.000The answer is both sides are being intransigent.
00:23:02.000Trying to pretend that one side is being intransigent and the other side is not is ridiculous.
00:23:05.000The difference is that Republicans are being intransigent in the interests of the future of the country by attempting to at least lower the $31 trillion debt.
00:23:12.000Joe Biden's like, I want to spend as much money as I want.
00:23:14.000And if you won't let me take out another credit card, well then you're holding the country hostage.
00:23:17.000Here's Jerry Bernstein making that particular case.
00:23:20.000Why won't the White House initiate some conversations over the debt limit?
00:23:26.000Kevin McCarthy signed an increase without any negotiations, with any conditions, three times under President Trump.
00:23:33.000So if they want to talk about fiscal responsibility, bring it on.
00:23:37.000If they want to hold the economy hostage and threaten a default to force cuts in Social Security and Medicare, nope.
00:23:47.000Okay, so I'm just confused for a second.
00:23:49.000You're telling me that the Republicans moved with Trump to raise the debt ceiling and did it in clean fashion, and you're surprised that they're putting some sort of pressure on Joe Biden?
00:24:09.000What this is really about is that the Democrats constantly want to increase the amount of money they are spending, no matter the consequences.
00:24:15.000They do have the help of the press in this.
00:24:17.000The New York Times ran a piece over the weekend titled, How the U.S.
00:24:19.000Government Amassed $31 Trillion in Debt.
00:24:28.000Pretending that allowing the American people to keep their own money is what contributes to the debt, as opposed to, you know, spending money you don't have.
00:24:46.000You can't pretend that your parents keeping their own money somehow alleviates your responsibility for spending within your means.
00:24:53.000The American people are not there to subsidize your drug-like spending habit over at the federal government.
00:24:58.000But according to the New York Times, that's exactly what they're there for.
00:25:01.000Most money, actually, according to the New York Times, belongs fundamentally to the federal government, and they allow you to keep some every so often.
00:25:16.000It's projected to grow on average about $1.3 trillion a year for the next decade.
00:25:20.000The United States hit its $31.4 trillion legal limit on borrowing this past week, putting Washington on the brink of another fiscal showdown.
00:25:27.000Republicans are refusing to raise that limit unless President Biden agrees to steep spending cuts, echoing a partisan standoff that has played out multiple times in the past two decades.
00:25:35.000But America's ballooning debt is the result of choices made by both Republicans and Democrats.
00:25:39.000Since 2000, politicians from both parties have made a habit of borrowing money to finance wars, tax cuts, expanded federal spending, care for baby boomers, and emergency measures to help the nation endure two debilitating recessions.
00:25:50.000There have been bipartisan tax cuts and bipartisan spending increases driving that growth, said Maya McGuinness, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and perhaps the preeminent deficit hawk in Washington.
00:25:59.000It's not the simple story of Republicans cut taxes and Democrats grow spending.
00:26:03.000Actually, they all like to do all of it.
00:26:11.000So, again, Democrats don't want to raise the taxes to, like, Norwegian levels.
00:26:15.000They're not interested in the sort of Scandinavian tax program that Bernie Sanders has on tap.
00:26:21.000But pretending that this is about the tax cuts as opposed to the spending habit that both parties have engaged in for literally decades is really, really silly.
00:26:29.000And again, puts the onus on the American people to fund all of this when the onus really should be on the federal government to cut.
00:26:33.000Now, at a certain point, the American people are going to have to take responsibility for the fact that they keep saying that they want the spending cut, and then they refuse to name exactly what kind of spending they wish to have cut.
00:26:42.000But a negotiation should take place, and good for Joe Manchin, and good for the Republicans for at least saying they want to do that.
00:26:48.000The question is, what concessions can they say that they will try to exact from President Biden?
00:26:53.000This is an opportunity to point out specific things they want Joe Biden to do, and then they should say to him, You're willing to sink the American economy because you won't cut X, Y, and Z, where X, Y, and Z are unpopular programs?
00:27:04.000That is the way that you do all of this.
00:27:06.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to happy talk his way through what is an economic downturn.
00:27:10.000Joe Biden over the weekend says, our plan is working, guys.
00:27:28.000Everything he says is just a terrible bumper sticker.
00:27:30.000The bottom out and the middle in and the top down and the outside in and inside out and move it all about.
00:27:39.000Meanwhile, Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, he points out the real problem here, which is that the Federal Reserve looks as though it is slowing its rate of interest rate increases.
00:27:49.000The idea here, presumably, is that, well, you know, those inflation rates are coming down, they're coming down fast, so they should be real careful about increasing those interest rates.
00:27:56.000And Larry Summers is like, guys, you're going to miss the target here.
00:27:59.000You're not going to be able to land the plane.
00:28:01.000You're going to increase the interest rates, but you're going to do so at too low a rate to actually curb the inflation.
00:28:07.000You're going to end up with stagflation again.
00:28:09.000Here's Larry Summers, who's the only person who happened to be right on this over the course of the last couple of years.
00:28:13.000Transitory factors have contributed to the declines that we have seen in inflation.
00:28:22.000And as in many journeys, the last part of the journey is often the hardest.
00:28:28.000And that's true with respect to a return to the inflation target.
00:28:35.000The greatest tragedy in this moment would be if central banks were to lurch away from a focus on assuring price stability prematurely, and we were to have to fight this battle twice.
00:29:01.000Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is preparing to only increase those interest rates at a much lower rate.
00:29:07.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve officials are preparing to slow interest rate increases for the second straight meeting and debate how much higher to raise them after getting more confidence that inflation will ease further this year.
00:29:16.000I have a feeling that if they take the current trends as indicative of future trends, that is a large-scale mistake, as Larry Summers is suggesting.
00:29:20.000and inflation they would need to see before pausing rate rises this spring. In recent public statements and interviews, Fed officials have said slowing the pace of rate increases to a more traditional quarter percentage point would give them more time to assess the impact of their increases so far as they determine where to stop. I have a feeling that if they take the current trends as indicative of future trends, that is a large scale mistake as Larry Summers is suggesting. Okay, meanwhile, it's kind of fascinating.
00:29:44.000Nancy Pelosi over the weekend recognized that Democrats basically lost the House because of crime.
00:29:53.000She told the New York Times over the weekend in an interview with Maureen Dowd that one of the reasons that Democrats lost the House of Representatives is specifically because of the crime issue.
00:30:01.000Which, again, look at the map and that's true.
00:30:03.000Democrats lost a bunch of seats in New York they probably should not have lost.
00:30:07.000Dowd wrote about her sit-in with Pelosi, quote, That's not wrong.
00:30:18.000And Joe Biden's beginning to realize that also, is that moving forward, if Democrats continue to leave the crime issue on the table, they're going to pay the price.
00:30:24.000The problem is they're sort of boxed in.
00:30:25.000So over the weekend, Joe Biden, for example, told mayors, a group of mayors, they actually need more police, that defund the police is really, really stupid.
00:30:33.000I just wish he actually and his party actually believed it.
00:30:36.000And by the way, you know, when a cop turns up in a domestic violence case or someone's standing on the edge of a bridge, they don't need a cop, they need a psychologist with them.
00:30:47.000That's why we're putting more people... No, I'm serious!
00:30:50.000We're beginning to understand this all again.
00:30:52.000And a lot of you are applying for the money and using it for these mental health issues as well.
00:30:56.000You know, there are countless examples.
00:30:59.000When it comes to public safety, when it comes to public safety, we know the answer is not to defund the police.
00:31:05.000Now, notice that he's actually arguing in that clip.
00:31:10.000But the problem is he's boxing by his own party.
00:31:11.000So he's saying don't defund the police.
00:31:13.000And then he's saying, actually, take all the money that you're using for the police and shift it over to mental health specialists.
00:31:18.000And then he's also saying that the police are mistrained, that they're always shooting to kill as opposed to shooting to wound or something.
00:31:26.000Why police are trained to shoot to kill?
00:31:28.000Because no one on planet Earth can do the Jack Bauer thing of being 200 yards away from somebody with a handgun and shooting them in the knee to incapacitate them.
00:31:36.000That's not real, but Joe Biden lives in fantasy land and so do many Democrats on this sort of stuff.
00:31:41.000You know, when I was coming up as a kid, you know, cops were required to learn to shoot to kill.
00:31:49.000Well, you ought to be able to shoot to stop.
00:31:52.000You know, everything shouldn't be an extreme.
00:31:54.000So the way we train police officers is changing.
00:31:58.000We should actually train them that they should shoot people in the finger, in their trigger finger.
00:32:03.000And that way, if they hit them right in the trigger finger, then they won't be able to shoot anymore because they won't have a trigger finger.
00:32:08.000Or maybe they can shoot them right in the ear.
00:32:19.000Guys, maybe the reason that you did poorly in the last election because of crime is because you are bad on crime.
00:32:26.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:35:38.000Not before the mass shooting, obviously.
00:35:40.000According to the New York Times, the man saw it in the late night slaying of 10 people at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, California.
00:35:45.000Again, this is just the latest example of serious, deadly violence in Los Angeles where they've had skyrocketing crime rates over the course of the last several years.
00:35:52.000Officials offered no motive for the rampage.
00:35:53.000They said they believe that the gunman tried to carry out a second attack nearby.
00:35:56.000Again, this is just the latest example of serious, deadly violence in Los Angeles where they've had skyrocketing crime rates over the course of the last several years.
00:36:05.000The good news is that the LAPD is now banning the thin blue line flag as an expression of solidarity with police officers who have been killed on the job.
00:36:14.000I can't imagine why crime rates are spiraling out of control.
00:36:17.000Maybe it's because you have morons at the top of the police policy who are trying to mirror the perceptions of Joe Biden, who are trying to mirror the perception that it's the police.
00:36:24.000You know, they keep doing this stuff that alienates people, like wearing uniforms and mourning dead cops.
00:36:36.000to others, the black and white American flag with a single blue stripe is a potent symbol of the ties between white right-wing extremism and American law enforcement.
00:36:44.000The tension between those irreconcilable interpretations spilled over in the LAPD this month, when Chief Michael Moore ordered the flag, which was widely displayed in station lobbies around the city, to be removed from public view.
00:36:55.000Well, I mean, listen, as long as the cops have to fly a Pride Progress flag, I think that in the American way, it's been upheld.
00:36:59.000I mean, honestly, unless every police uniform is replaced with a YMCA logo, I think that pretty... How can we expect violence to go down?
00:37:09.000Along with banning the flag from station lobbies, Moore said his order includes patches on uniforms and bumper stickers on police vehicles.
00:37:16.000Violators could face discipline, a department spokesperson said on Thursday.
00:37:19.000In an apartment-wide email, Moore said the flag's original meaning of support for police had been overshadowed when it began appearing at rallies for the Proud Boys and other far-right extremist groups. Well, I mean, you could say the same about the American flag, which has appeared from right to left. But apparently, as long as some bad guy flies the flag, now cops have to be stopped from flying a flag that symbolizes honor for police officers who have been slain in the line of duty.
00:37:44.000He said, it's unfortunate that extremist groups have hijacked the use of the thin blue line flags to symbolize their undemocratic, racist, and bigoted views.
00:37:51.000Flags serve as powerful symbols with specific meanings. So yeah, I'm sure that this is, it's a great way to fight crime.
00:38:02.000Speaking of doing an amazing job in terms of fighting crime, obviously things are going incredibly well over in Atlanta.
00:38:08.000Over the weekend, according to the New York Post, an angry crowd took to the streets of Atlanta on Saturday night, smashing windows, torching a police car in response to the death of a 26-year-old protester on Wednesday, reports said.
00:38:18.000By the way, when they say 26-year-old protester, they mean someone who shout at police.
00:38:22.000Atlanta Police Chief Darren Sherbaum told reporters multiple protesters were found with explosive devices on them.
00:38:29.000One of the devices was used to set an Atlanta police car on fire.
00:38:32.000So those would not be protesters, those would be violent rioters.
00:38:36.000I've been to protests before, and see, the way that I can tell the difference between a protester and a violent rioter is that protesters don't have a bomb on them.
00:38:47.000Protesters who hit the streets after calling for a night of rage by Antifa members were also seen throwing bricks at the Atlanta Police Department vehicles and smashing property, largely in black neighborhoods.
00:38:56.000They had a bunch of spoiled white rich kids throwing bricks through the windows of black businesses, you know, in the name of social justice and all.
00:39:03.000Georgia Governor Brian Kemp condemned the protesters' actions on Saturday night.
00:39:06.000He said violence and unlawful destruction of property are not acts of protest.
00:39:09.000They are crimes that will not be tolerated in Georgia and will be prosecuted fully.
00:39:14.000Apparently, the protests began peacefully marching in the city around 5 p.m., when some members then began smashing property.
00:39:36.000And the media covered this as though a peaceful protester had been slain by the police, as always.
00:39:41.000media coverage helps facilitate this sort of rioting. And then there were headlines that were coming out of Atlanta after half the city got burned, or at least after significant violence took place, suggesting that these were peaceful protests. It really is an amazing thing how the media will go out of its way to determine based on political causes whether something is a political protest or whether it is a violence act of rage.
00:40:05.000If it's a right-wing thing, then you have to ban every symbol associated with it, up to and including totally legit symbols like the thin blue line.
00:40:12.000But, if it's Antifa burning down a city, you have to say that it's mostly peaceful.
00:40:16.000By the way, the footage from the Atlanta Antifa Night of Rage, pretty ugly stuff, guys.
00:41:05.000I believe all of them, actually, are white.
00:41:08.000So, just excellent job, as always, by the Antifa dopes, as well as the media that seems tempted always to cover for Antifa's violations in the name of, presumably, their political agenda.
00:41:21.000Okay, meanwhile, a continuation of a shocking story that was reported by Luke Rozsiak last week.
00:41:27.000So Luke Rozsiak, the investigative reporter here at Daily Wire, last week, he reported on a shocking story of a 14-year-old who was found sexually assaulted and trafficked in Texas after she had fled her home.
00:41:49.000And then instead of the state returning her to her parents, they said her parents, her adopted parents, her grandparents, that they apparently were not in line with her new gender identity.
00:42:16.000According to The Federalist, in August 2021, by concealing a teen's newly asserted transgender identity from her parents, Virginia's Appomattox County High School participated in a chain of events that led to that girl falling into the hands of sexual predators not once but twice.
00:42:29.000When the FBI found Sage in Maryland, where she was victimized by a sexual predator, a judge refused to return her to her parents on the grounds they were abusing her and not affirming her as a male.
00:42:37.000Housed in the boy's quarters of a children's home away from her parents, she told her mother she was assaulted again.
00:42:42.000The girl soon fled, then was brutally sex trafficked again until her rescue in Texas by law enforcement.
00:42:47.000Apparently, Sage was essentially mainlined into all of this stuff in school.
00:42:54.000Sage is a slight pretty 15 year old girl with elfin features and an edgy style.
00:42:58.000Recently reflecting back on her transgender identification, she told her mom, quote, So, basically, her school apparently started socially transitioning her.
00:43:03.000person now. I never was a boy. Everybody was doing it. I just wanted to have friends." So basically, her school apparently started socially transitioning her.
00:43:14.000They started calling her by a male name. School records indicate school staff were calling Sage by her chosen male name and pronouns and at her request concealing this from her parents.
00:43:27.000Sage recalls her school counselor telling her during her first week of school that since she identified as a male, she could use the boys' bathroom.
00:43:34.000School records also indicate bullying, although they don't capture the severity of what Sage eventually told her mom.
00:43:38.000Boys were following behind her in a group, touching her, threatening her with a knife, violence and rape, and even shoving her up against a hallway wall.
00:43:45.000On August 23rd, according to school notes, reports were received from students and teachers that Sage had used a boy's bathroom and encountered hostile boys there.
00:43:51.000The school counselor met with Sage the next day to direct her to use the nurse's bathroom for safety reasons.
00:43:58.000Again, they never actually contacted the parents.
00:44:02.000By the time they did contact the parents, Sage was basically gone.
00:44:08.000When you have educational institutions that are outright participating in the sexual indoctrination and destruction of children, our society has gone irredeemably awry.
00:44:50.000Rowling is a murderer, is the argument.
00:44:52.000Then, about two years later, the New York Times reports the counter-argument that was always correct.
00:44:58.000So now the New York Times, shockingly enough, is actually reporting that maybe schools should not be socially transitioning kids without making parents aware.
00:45:05.000Quote, Jessica Bradshaw found out that her 15-year-old identified as transgender at school after she glimpsed a homework assignment with an unfamiliar name scrawled at the top.
00:45:12.000When she asked about the name, the teenager acknowledged that at his request, teenage teachers and administrators at his high school in Southern California had for six months been letting him use the boy's bathroom and calling him by male pronouns.
00:45:36.000There was never any word from anyone to let us know that on paper and in the classroom our daughter was our son, Mrs. Bradshaw said.
00:45:41.000The Bradshaws have been startled to find themselves at odds with the school over their right to know about and weigh in on such major developments in their child's life, a dispute that illustrates how school districts, which have long been a battleground in cultural conflicts over gender and sexuality, are now facing wrenching new tensions over how to accommodate transgender children.
00:45:57.000The Bradshaws accepted their teenager's new gender identity, but not without trepidation, especially after he asked for hormones and surgery to remove his breasts.
00:46:05.000Doctors had previously diagnosed him as being on the autism spectrum.
00:46:08.000The reason I read it that way is because one of the things that they found at the Tavistock Children's Clinic in Britain, which was just shut down, is that there's a wildly disproportionate number of autistic kids who had been mainlined into transgender ideology and then mutilated.
00:46:23.000Doctors had previously diagnosed him as being on the autism spectrum, as well as with ADD, PTSD, and anxiety.
00:46:29.000He had struggled with loneliness during the pandemic, and to his parents, seemed not to know exactly who he was, because he had repeatedly changed his name and sexual orientation.
00:46:36.000Given those complexities, Mrs. Bradshaw said she resented the fact the school had made her feel like a bad parent, for wondering whether educators had put her teenager or minor on a path the school wasn't qualified to oversee.
00:46:46.000It felt like a parenting stab in the back from the school system, she said.
00:46:50.000It should have been a decision we made as a family.
00:46:52.000The student, now 16, told the New York Times his school had provided him with a space to be himself he otherwise lacked.
00:46:57.000He had tried to come out to his parents before, he said, but they didn't take it seriously, which is why he asked his school for support.
00:47:06.000Schools have pointed to research that shows that inclusive policies benefit all students, which is why some education experts advise schools to use students' preferred names and pronouns.
00:47:14.000Educators have also said they feel bound by their own morality to affirm students' gender identities, especially in cases where students don't feel safe coming out at home.
00:47:23.000Wait, so why are educators' sense of personal identity and morality the issue here?
00:47:31.000Who allowed them to pervert children this way?
00:47:33.000There's no other arena of American life where you would allow a teacher to pervert a child this way.
00:47:38.000Seriously, a child comes to school and says, I'm a sex addict.
00:47:42.000A child comes to school and says, I'm engaged in sex with an older person.
00:47:46.000That's immediately reported to police and or to parents.
00:47:49.000A child says, I want an aspirin, and that gets reported to parents.
00:47:53.000A child comes to school and says, I am a member of the opposite sex.
00:47:55.000And the teacher's like, well, my moral scruples say that it's my job to help socially transition the kid.
00:48:00.000The key line in this article from the New York Times, by the way, is this one.
00:48:04.000Many advocates for LGBTQ youth counter that parents should stop scapegoating schools and instead ask themselves why they don't believe their children.
00:48:11.000There's no legitimate room for debate, according to these advocates for LGBTQ youth.
00:48:20.000And then they are pretending that they are the advocates of good.
00:48:23.000They said ensuring schools provide enough support for trans students is more crucial than ever, given the rise of legislation that blocks their access to bathrooms, sports, and gender-affirming care.
00:48:33.000Every state in the union needs to immediately pursue legislation that forces educators to let parents know what the hell is going on at these schools.
00:48:43.000It is a form of ideological grooming, at the very least.
00:48:48.000It is the destruction of children in the name of a perverse ideology.
00:48:52.000It is godless nonsense, and logicless nonsense, and reasonless nonsense.
00:48:57.000And it has serious, real consequences.
00:49:00.000From every kid who's being indoctrinated into this crap, to specific kids who end up sex-trafficked in Texas because schools decided to lie to their parents in the first place.
00:49:09.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.