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00:00:01.000What is the history of populism in our country?
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00:02:18.000We are here on hopefully what will be a good week to be an American.
00:02:23.000The month of January was tough for a variety of different reasons, as we have talked about in great detail, the Georgia runoffs, the Capitol tragedy, Joe Biden becoming president.
00:02:33.000So here we are with a new month, and we are going to come after it with positivity and good spirit and optimism.
00:02:39.000We are hoping that February is start of something new and good.
00:02:45.000Some people are saying it's a slow news day.
00:02:47.000There is a storm raging in the northeast of our country, which is so obviously Trump's fault.
00:03:00.000But I want to go deeper into kind of some of the themes that we're seeing here.
00:03:04.000There's a couple stories I do want to hit on.
00:03:06.000I want to talk about how more and more information goes to show that the people that were involved in the Capitol tragedy were actually not necessarily ideological.
00:03:18.000In fact, a lot of them didn't even vote in the presidential election.
00:03:22.000I also want to get into something that we started to build out last week, which is the growing populist rancor and backlash in our country.
00:03:35.000What does it actually mean to be a populist?
00:03:38.000Is being a populist a good thing or a bad thing?
00:03:42.000Well, being a populist is not necessarily ideological in nature.
00:03:48.000You could be a populist for good or a populist for bad.
00:03:52.000Being a populist simply means that you are willing to suspend pre-existing ideological beliefs to try and do what is best for the people.
00:04:04.000Now, that doesn't mean you have to eliminate those beliefs.
00:04:07.000It doesn't mean you have to go against your beliefs.
00:04:10.000But it also means that certain circumstances might challenge deeply held ideology.
00:04:18.000Populist energy is one of the most powerful political forces a party, a person, a politician, or a movement can tap into.
00:04:29.000There's been many different populist movements in American and world history.
00:04:34.000Some people in the intelligentsia in Washington, D.C. act as if populist movements are nothing more than less than educated people that are trying to mobilize their grievances.
00:04:50.000While some populist movements might fit into that box, that is not an accurate description of most American populist movements.
00:05:01.000Some people in the intelligentsia in Washington, D.C., and both the Republican and the Democrat intelligentsia, are annoyed by these sorts of movements.
00:05:25.000Liberals have not seized populist energy since Barack Obama in 2008.
00:05:33.000Barack Obama won because of his charm and his charisma and his style and how smooth of a communicator he was.
00:05:41.000But he also won because he happened to run in a moment of heightened populist energy where there was an anti-war movement, an anti-Wall Street movement, an anti-George W. Bush movement.
00:05:58.000There were multiple institutional points of energy going against the institutions that were running our country in 2008.
00:06:07.000The Tea Party movement, Occupy Wall Street movement, Trump and the Make America Great Again movement.
00:06:12.000All of them were different manifestations of the same sorts of complaints.
00:06:19.000The people in charge are not looking after the people that are being ruled.
00:06:35.000And if you look back at the history of American populism, probably the most important election that we can look to is the election of 1896 of President McKinley versus William Jennings Bryan.
00:06:49.000William Jennings Bryan was probably the first American populist that we can point to.
00:06:59.000He was only 36 years old when he ran for president, barely old enough to hold office.
00:07:05.000And he saw America at a great moment of change.
00:07:08.000He, of course, gave the very famous cross of gold speech and was a harsh critic against industrialization.
00:07:15.000Now, he used that populist energy to usher in a lot of the mainstreaming of progressive reforms.
00:07:24.000But basically, William Jennings Bryan in 1896 asked the question, how do you reform a country?
00:07:32.000I believe we're in another moment similar to that that will be looked at like the era of 1896 to 1910.
00:07:42.000Now, thankfully, we had Teddy Roosevelt become president.
00:07:46.000He became president, actually by mistake.
00:07:57.000Now, Teddy Roosevelt was unafraid to embrace this people-centered energy while also condemning and rejecting Lenin-based socialism.
00:08:09.000It wouldn't yet be Lenin-based socialism.
00:08:12.000One of the main reasons why America remained free in the 20th century is because Teddy Roosevelt successfully transitioned us from the farms to the factories, holding some of what was called then the robber barons accountable without disintegrating the American culture.
00:08:31.000These sort of massive economic transitions are not to be underestimated.
00:08:37.000When you have 95% of a population that works on family farms, and then a decade later, you're telling them you're going to have to go work in the factories, you're going to have to leave the five generations that preceded you, what they did and what they built, there's going to be a little bit of disruption around that.
00:08:58.000There's going to be a lot of economic dislocation.
00:09:02.000Teddy Roosevelt gave people the confidence and the certainty that this transition will be managed.
00:09:09.000This transition will still respect private property.
00:09:13.000This transition will still respect entrepreneurship.
00:09:16.000It will reject socialism and any of these wacky social Marxist movements, but also retain the American way of life.
00:09:28.000Actually, William Jennings Bryan started something called the People's Party.
00:09:31.000A lot of people are looking to start a new political party right now.
00:09:35.000I kind of like the name the People's Party.
00:09:37.000It sounds somewhat Marxist, but it doesn't have to be.
00:09:41.000And basically, what William Jennings Bryan did, which was his longest-lasting legacy, that Teddy Roosevelt picked up and how it applies today, was he challenged the economic model of the new industrial era.
00:09:53.000No different than 1896 to 1910, which was the era of economic reform that launched us into the 20th century, albeit at times with plenty of problems.
00:10:19.000Well, let me tell you right now, we're going through another transition that in some ways will be even more disruptive and have more economic dislocation than from the farms to the factories.
00:10:31.000We are going from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy to a purely digital economy, which will disenfranchise and dislocate 150 million people.
00:10:45.000If people had economic certainty, if people had belief in what's next to come, they would not be acting the way they are.
00:10:58.000And so now, as we are in this moment of 2021 with a peacetime kleptocrat as president, Joe Biden, who is actually the first president in my lifetime to enter office and try and kill jobs, where he enters office and his goal is to actually get people unemployed.
00:11:15.000It's a stunningly stupid way of governing a country.
00:11:24.000Where Joe Biden will be the Woodrow Wilson of this moment.
00:11:32.000Have you noticed lately people seem increasingly irritated with the people in charge?
00:11:43.000Now, that's not to say that's not anything new.
00:11:45.000It's been happening for the last decade.
00:11:47.000And that's, I think, how historians are going to categorize this decade right now: is the continual outrage from the people against the ruling class.
00:11:57.000And while you're in that moment of history, it's hard to see that.
00:12:00.000When you take a step back, you say, oh, wow, that really did define the last decade.
00:12:05.000And the failure of our rulers to address that meaningfully or significantly.
00:12:11.000A lot of people are asking the question: they're saying, What is the proper way then to view all of this pent-up energy?
00:12:18.000Look, it could be used for good or it could be used for bad.
00:12:22.000It could be used for reinvigorating our country around family creation, conservative values, and the American dream, or it can be used for something that is gaining steam in our country.
00:12:38.000Which I heard someone say this on television the other day.
00:12:48.000The military industrial complex, of course, is a term that was coined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower warning us against the forever war machine in our country.
00:12:57.000But the woke industrial complex, they control our corporations, they control our colleges, they control universities, our means of communication, social media, every single part of American life.
00:13:10.000And so, the danger of a people-centered movement, the danger of giving voice to previously disenfranchised working people is that they could embrace really, really bad ideas and they could be mobilized to destroy everything around us.
00:13:33.000However, that critique assumes a false given.
00:13:39.000That critique assumes the populist energy is going away.
00:13:44.000That critique assumes that with the right op-eds and carefully crafted arguments, the 75 million people that are worried that their way of life and their economic condition will disappear are somehow going to want us in charge, and we can go back to the Chamber of Commerce way of ruling.
00:14:05.000You see, our parents, when I was growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s, lived in a completely different economy than we live today.
00:14:15.000We experienced the dot-com boom, the housing boom.
00:14:19.000Jobs were abundant, wages were rising, and it was relatively easy to make not just a living, but make a stable life.
00:14:29.000It's not to say it's impossible today, and I don't like the entire victimhood narrative that seeps in far too often.
00:14:37.000However, we'd be fooling ourselves if we did not recognize that the economic conditions in 2021, especially the debt burden that is being carried by most young people, is totally different.
00:14:53.000And since it's completely different, and we're now in that next transition phase economically, we went from the farms to the factories to corporate boardrooms to now what?
00:15:04.000We're not really sure, but it's this quasi-digital technological economy that seems to reward whatever company owns the servers, the correct algorithms, and computer engineers.
00:15:24.000Where the peacetime kleptocrats are wrong is they believe so firmly, they believe that they can make all of this anger go away.
00:15:38.000They can make all this resentment go away.
00:15:41.000Instead, address the concerns directly, tell the truth, take the concerns seriously, put together an agenda of public policy items that you know will make people's lives significantly better.
00:17:32.000I want to get to a story here from CNN of all places that really caught my attention as we were prepping for this week.
00:17:40.000Quote, some arrested in Capitol Siege didn't vote in 2020.
00:17:46.000It goes on to detail a couple people that stormed the Capitol, some of which, some of them stole some stuff or were carrying it, and they didn't vote.
00:18:03.000You book a ticket to Washington, D.C. to go be part of the peaceful event at the ellipse, or maybe not.
00:18:13.000This guy's dressed as an oathkeeper, paramilitary, whatever.
00:18:17.000You go through all the logistics of that.
00:18:21.000You then are so enthusiastic, allegedly, about the cause that you storm the Capitol, but you won't vote?
00:18:32.000Well, this tells me one of two things.
00:18:34.000The most important thing, and this is something that the media needs to now reference their own reporting, is that these were not necessarily ideological people.
00:18:45.000That instead, some of them that were participating had their own motivations that were beyond politics.
00:18:56.000Some of them were even wearing Trump hats and they didn't vote.
00:19:00.000Others were posting Instagram pictures saying, I can't wait to tell my grandkids I was here.
00:19:07.000They were just there for the Insta, okay?
00:19:10.000They were just there for the social feed.
00:19:13.000Other people, this one other guy posted a selfie and said, pepper spray really does wonders for your complexion.
00:19:39.000Number two, though, if they were a Trump supporter and they didn't vote, maybe instead of dressing up like Rambo and getting zip ties and running into the Capitol, maybe you should have just went and knocked on doors and become a precinct committeeman.
00:20:00.000Don't go storm the Capitol like a paramilitary guy, like this one guy who's in the article, who didn't even go through the process of registering to vote or going to vote.
00:20:12.000I think it tells us a lot in those two ways.
00:20:16.000The president, the former president, Trump, is about to be impeached.
00:20:21.000Legal briefs are due tomorrow from his team.
00:20:26.000Next week, the impeachment proceedings will begin.
00:20:31.000All around this idea that President Trump incited a mob.
00:20:38.000I want you to watch, though, this very informative video from the Wall Street Journal that goes to show that there were already people pushing back and penetrating the police line while the president was still giving his remarks.
00:20:52.000At around 12:50 p.m., while President Trump has taken the stage at a nearby rally, another live streamer captures the Proud Boys approaching the Capitol from the Northwest and encountering a small police presence behind a temporary barrier.
00:21:57.000There's more parts of the video that goes to show that some of the Proud Boys were congregating on the east side of the Capitol very early.
00:22:05.000And by the way, there's a couple of questions I have still at large about all of this.
00:22:11.000Why has the pink hat woman not been arrested yet?
00:22:14.000We have done, I think, more in-depth analysis of what happened that day than most shows, and the pink cat woman has still not yet been arrested.
00:22:22.000Secondly, the other piece of information that shows that this was, no doubt, premeditated, the pipe bombs at the DNC and the RNC the night before.
00:22:34.000And we have still not found the people that placed the pipe bombs at the DNC or the RNC the night before.
00:22:41.000So while many people did get caught up in this for a variety of different reasons, the fact of the matter is that it is an inarguable fact that there were people that were coming to Washington, D.C. with the intent to try and blow something up, the pipe bombs, penetrate police lines, whatever it might be.
00:23:05.000And the sheer volume of people actually made some of their goals and their ambitions more likely than not.
00:23:15.000Now, I think we need to take a pause and ask ourselves the question: then why are there still National Guards people in Washington, D.C. with the numbers that they have?
00:23:29.000There are 6,000 National Guards people, 25,000 were there near the inauguration.
00:23:36.000Where they were on the date of this incident, I don't know.
00:23:41.000And the issue that I think is the biggest takeaway of the current military occupation in Washington is that it creates an appearance of a police state, of a military state.
00:23:59.000It makes people afraid, quite honestly.
00:24:02.000And when people are afraid, they are easier to control.
00:24:06.000And if you know the left and if you know the Democrat Party, you know they are always seeking control over the citizenry.
00:24:15.000They are always seeking to be able to manipulate behavior and have themselves in power nearly perpetually.
00:24:27.000And so the National Guard presence in Washington needs to be explained.
00:24:36.000Thousands and thousands and thousands of military troops in our nation's capital.
00:24:43.000And they say the reason is, well, it's because of what happened on January the 6th.
00:24:47.000You need 5,000 troops to prevent that.
00:24:50.000And where were the couple hundred troops?
00:25:12.000At around 12.50 p.m., while President Trump has taken the stage at a nearby rally, another live streamer captures the Proud Boys approaching the Capitol from the Northwest and encountering a small police presence behind a temporary barrier.
00:25:37.000Porter told the journal that he participated in a protest, not a riot, and that he did not enter the Capitol.
00:25:43.000There is all but 10 or 15 police officers there with a very flimsy fence.
00:25:50.000Now, maybe the National Guard and the permanent fencing that is being proposed is trying to create a narrative ahead of impeachment to show that there's still a great threat to our country.
00:27:05.000She donated it to it to release criminals, many of whom were violent, from Minnesota jails after they burned down large parts of Minneapolis.
00:27:18.000Senator Kennedy from Louisiana is asking this very same question.
00:27:21.000Why are the National Guard troops still there?
00:28:07.000But now that they have set the precedent of mobilizing the National Guard to try and solve problems, we need to ask ourselves the question: what other cities might need the National Guard?
00:28:34.000Why has the National Guard not been called into Chicago?
00:28:38.000Why is Joe Biden or Lori Lightfoot or Governor J.B. Pritzker, who might be America's worst governor, and I don't say that lightly.
00:28:46.000Well, I wouldn't say anything lightly with J.B. Pritzker.
00:28:49.000He's born on third and thought he hit a triple.
00:28:52.000Why wouldn't we mobilize the National Guard?
00:28:55.000Do you know that every two hours and 59 minutes, someone is wounded in the city of Chicago?
00:29:01.000Do you know someone is murdered every 14 hours and two minutes in Chicago?
00:29:06.000Just in January, Chicago saw an 86% increase in people shot and killed, a 43% increase in total homicides.
00:29:19.000Just in 2020, Chicago saw a 51% increase in people shot and wounded, a 52% increase in total shot, 4,174 people total shot, with, get this, 792 homicides in Chicago.
00:29:37.000Why is the National Guard not being called in to stop the slaughter in the streets of Democrat Chicago?
00:29:42.000And before anyone starts blaming Republicans, I can't find a Republican in the city of Chicago.
00:29:47.000Democrat city council, Democrat mayors, Democrat state representatives, Democrat congresspeople, and 792 homicides last year, 792.
00:30:00.000Yet 500 Illinois National Guard people, where were they sent?
00:30:05.000Where were the National Guardsmen sent?
00:32:23.000Meanwhile, you have Democrat congressmen coming back to Chicago and they get the murder reports that show that 792 people were murdered in Chicago last year.
00:32:35.000Make a third world country go into chaos.
00:32:39.000But for Democrats, the National Guard is not to be used to go help our communities.
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00:33:46.0002020 was the largest percentage increase in homicides in American history.
00:33:53.000Murder was up nearly 37% in a sample of 57 large and medium cities, size cities.
00:34:00.000Based on preliminary estimates, at least 2,000 more Americans, most of them black, were killed in 2020 than in 2019.
00:34:09.000You would think that would be a heavy focus or primary focus for the ruling class media.
00:34:18.000The local murder increases in 2020 were as following: 95% in Milwaukee, 78% in Louisville, 74% in Seattle, 72% in Minneapolis, 62% in New Orleans, and 58% in Atlanta.
00:34:38.000A lot of people blame it just purely on the pandemic stress.
00:34:41.000Do you not remember the defund the police narrative that swept our country for months?
00:34:50.000And Minneapolis basically did defund their police.
00:34:53.000One of the reasons why some of the police officers in Washington, D.C. at the Capitol tragedy did not have lethal weapons is because some of them were disarmed by Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C.
00:35:09.000The largest increase in homicides in American history.
00:35:14.000What we are heading towards will be one of the most violent decades in American history.
00:35:22.000Massive wealth and income inequality is one reason because of the lockdowns and because of leaders that do not care about the well-being of their subjects.
00:35:33.000A war on police officers and a war on law enforcement, and quite honestly, a war on the law in general.
00:35:41.000And also an unmanaged transition from the corporate boardroom industrial economy to the digital economy.
00:35:54.000When you have this much economic dislocation, when you have this much disruption, do not be surprised when murder rates and homicide rates skyrocket.
00:36:07.000New York City is becoming a place that is completely unrecognizable.
00:36:12.000Just some of my buddies in Chicago that I grew up with said they do not feel comfortable going to downtown Chicago.
00:36:19.000They feel their car will almost assuredly be carjacked, or whatever is in their car will be stolen.
00:36:29.000When I was in San Francisco, a year and a half ago, two years ago, parked on the side of the street, nice part of San Francisco, everything we had in there completely and totally stolen.
00:36:41.000Windows smashed, all of our stuff stolen.
00:36:45.000Do not be surprised when civil society starts to unravel when you attack every single core institution that keeps civil society together.
00:36:57.000There's a lot of people that are condemning what happened on January the 6th, and they should.
00:37:02.000One of them is AOC, who said that Ted Cruz tried to murder her.
00:37:06.000She's never shy about taking an opportunity to engage in unrealistic hyperbole.
00:37:14.000But what if I told you just a couple months ago, Alexandria Ecasio-Cortez was actually in favor of rioting and looting?
00:37:24.000Quote, I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people.
00:37:28.000Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized, once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot.
00:37:49.000When she was asked to condemn the attack that was a domestic terror attack at the ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington, she refused to give an answer.
00:37:59.000Do you remember when our ICE facility, our federal building, was attacked by Antifa?
00:38:03.000How is that not an insurrection against our government?
00:38:06.000It's a federal government building paid for by taxpayers.
00:38:10.000The 69-year-old armed man killed by Washington State Police as he attacked a local ICE detention center Saturday, sent a manifesto to friends the day before the assault in which he wrote, I am Antifa, and was being lionized by members of the left-wing group as a martyr.
00:38:25.000The group Seattle Anti-Fascist Action described a salient Wilhelm van Sprossen, Wilhelm von Sprossen, either a good Dutch or German name, a good friend and comrade, and quote, took a stand against the fascist detention center in Tacoma and became the martyr who gave his life in the struggle against fascism.
00:39:17.000A Bernie Sanders supporter comes to a congressional baseball practice with Rand Paul and other members of Congress and starts opening fire.
00:39:26.000That was not considered a domestic terror threat, inspired by Bernie Sanders.
00:39:33.000Now, some people say, well, Charlie, you're just engaging in whataboutism?
00:39:38.000Well, I denounced all form of violence, and I always will.
00:39:42.000But all of this is taking place in the context of the left validating violence for their own political purposes and means.
00:39:50.000Madonna saying, I want to blow up the White House.
00:39:55.000Every single person that burned cars and smashed windows and engaged in violence during the Trump inauguration were released with no charges.
00:40:48.000But how the Democrats have remained silent on so many acts of mass crime when it's done in their own name and they've been allowed to get away with it is reprehensible.
00:41:01.000And AOC says clearly they have no choice but to riot.
00:41:05.000And I'm not just talking about overseas.
00:41:07.000I'm talking about poverty in the United States.
00:41:10.000AOC adding legitimacy to mass violence in pursuit of social change.
00:42:18.000He just always looks like he's wincing.
00:42:20.000And I think that there's definitely going to be a concerted push by the Democrats at some point to try to get Joe Biden to resign, invoke the 25th Amendment, and try to get Kamala Harris as president.
00:42:35.000And so Joe Biden was nothing more than a means to the end.
00:42:38.000Joe Biden is not the primary choice of the Democrat Party in any way, shape, or form.
00:42:44.000I want to get to Brian Stelter, who is now a scholar on free speech.
00:42:49.000Brian Stelter of CNN has now decided to be, let's just say, our generation's Montesquieu, play cut eight.
00:42:57.000Now, do these private companies have too much power?
00:44:27.000If Fox is going to keep transitioning into the 24-7 Tucker channel, then maybe it belongs next to sci-fi on your channel lineup, not MSNBC.
00:44:36.000These need to be nuanced conversations, not edicts, not orders.
00:44:42.000This is complicated, but harm reduction is possible.
00:44:48.000I think that our pushback is actually working because they realize how unpopular, unconstitutional, and immoral it is just to eliminate certain pieces of speech like they did with the president.
00:45:00.000So now they're trying to admit, well, we have to be more nuanced.
00:45:03.000You see, we want you gone, but we'll just put you on channel 955 on direct TV instead of 360.
00:45:16.000And you could kind of see in real time Brian Stelter on both of these cuts try and he's just wrestling with these ideas saying, I don't like them, but I can't get rid of them.
00:45:37.000In reality, though, what Brian Stelter knows, despite being profoundly confused about life, that conservative content is actually really appealing.
00:45:49.000That Fox News and other conservative channels are doing really, really well.
00:45:54.000Newsmax, OAN, this show and this program, doing extraordinarily well.
00:46:02.000Because every other channel espouses the same poorly constructed, morally questionable viewpoint that America is terrible and that we need a mass mobilization of social justice action to try to address pre-existing grievances and nothing else will possibly effectuate any change in our country that is meaningful.
00:46:30.000Whereas these other channels are talking about a different point of view when it comes to the virus, when it comes to lockdowns, when it comes to our country, when it comes to patriotism in general.
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00:48:21.000There's a lot of power given to the executive, given to the president of the United States.
00:48:26.000A lot of what Biden is doing is undoing what Trump already did via executive order, but that's why we have the courts.
00:48:32.000The courts are really the deciders of what is constitutional or not when it comes to these executive orders.
00:48:38.000And so, for example, what is constitutionally permissible is instructing an agency of the executive branch to do something or to not do something.
00:48:47.000For example, not build the border wall.
00:48:50.000Therefore, Biden can end it through executive order.
00:48:53.000However, when it gets to other things, such as spending money, distribution of money, allocation of funds, that's where you have to go through Congress and the legislative branch.
00:49:25.000U.S. voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
00:49:30.000U.S. voting rights activist and Democrat Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.
00:49:41.000Abrams, who was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Trump and his son-in-law, former White House advisor, Jared Kushner.
00:49:57.000Abrams' work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King's Jr.'s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights.
00:50:03.000So, yes, Stacey Abrams, who never conceded the take, never conceded the race, never conceded what happened in Georgia, is now possibly being rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:52:26.000There are many people who feel, you know, if you really want to have an extra little bit of protection, maybe I should put two masks on.
00:52:35.000There's nothing wrong with that, but there's no data that indicates that that is going to make a difference.
00:52:41.000So just basically no data, but it just might make you feel good.
00:52:45.000So over the weekend, a story that should have been top line news that was not covered at all whatsoever is when Camela started doing this press routine in West Virginia and Arizona.
00:53:02.000So they started to deploy the most radical member of our government, Kamala Harris, to do basically television and newspaper interviews and radio interviews in Arizona and West Virginia.
00:53:14.000Of course, the two states of the senators that are refusing to break the filibuster.
00:53:18.000Do you think the White House is in favor of breaking the filibuster?
00:53:35.000Job creation around, for example, all of those skilled workers who are in the coal industry and transferring those skills to what we need to do in terms of dealing with reclaiming abandoned landmines.
00:53:51.000What we need to do around plugging leaks from oil and gas wells and transferring those important skills to the work that has yet to be done that needs to get done.
00:54:02.000So that is Senator Harris going into Joe Manchin's home state remotely doing press interviews, trying to put pressure on Senator Manchin.
00:54:12.000And I think Senator Manchin pushed back rather aggressively, said, who do you think you are?
00:54:16.000Yeah, I know that you're the vice president and all, but I used to be governor of West Virginia.
00:54:20.000I'm elected pretty overwhelmingly here in this state.
00:55:08.000The past couple days, you have stated several times that schools should be open everywhere.
00:55:12.000Yes, primarily blaming teacher unions for their continued closure.
00:55:15.000I know little about such unions, and I wonder if there's not an alternative reason.
00:55:19.000You point out quite correctly that children are not at risk, but I think you may have missed an important point.
00:55:23.000Even if it's harmless, the disease must surely spread if and when schools reopen.
00:55:27.000Children will contract it, although they may remain asymptomatic.
00:55:30.000However, what poses no threat to children may well affect their parents or worse, their grandparents.
00:55:35.000The AP reported in 2018, the Kaiser Foundation studying 6% of U.S. seniors live in the same home as one or more school-aged children, but our safety to protect the lives of those of who we are.
00:55:46.000Shall we not continue with the inadequate online learning to safeguard that which matters more?
00:55:56.000In fact, there is no evidence that schools have actually spread the Chinese coronavirus to community-wide spread or to their parents.
00:56:04.000In fact, it goes to show that the kids get herd immunity very quickly.
00:56:08.000And for these teachers that are saying that we do not feel safe, there is no documented widespread of any place that schools have been open showing community spread.
00:56:18.000And my other argument of this, and we'll get some of the data to support this, that the Chinese coronavirus, not just being basically harmless to most children, is even for the average age of teachers, they are not generally at risk of dying from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:56:39.000And for those teachers, if they want to take time off, then fine, so be it.
00:56:43.000The future of our children, mentally, socially, emotionally, spiritually, has been so unbelievably damaged by these closures.
00:56:51.000The rise in suicide, drug usage, social isolation, the stunt to their development.
00:56:55.000Any sort of costs that might be baked into the spread of the Chinese coronavirus to adults that might get it somewhere else anyway is well worth it.
00:57:34.000The average age of teachers in our country is about 42.4 years, well below the average death, the average rate of dying from the Chinese coronavirus in our country.
00:57:48.000So I appreciate your question, Daniel, very much, but I push back that the most important thing a society can do-not the most important, one of the most important thing-is making sure that our children are adequately educated, protected, and their well-being preserved.
00:58:04.000And right now, with schools continually being shuttered and closed, none of those things are actually being accomplished anyway whatsoever.
00:58:14.000Schools should have been opened immediately back in April or May.
00:58:17.000That is the way that a brave and a wise society handles conflict, not by shutting down and running to the hills.
00:58:23.000Okay, here's a quick question: We, the people, are paying taxes to be able to see every day how much our federal government is spending and receiving.
00:58:29.000We should be able to see all agencies receiving funds.
00:58:31.000I think it would be a wake-up call for all of us.
00:58:33.000We should be able to vote on issues with a clear amount of how much will come to us, our taxes due to this issue.
00:58:53.000But if you guys had any idea the amount of waste, fraud, abuse, and graft that exists in the federal government, it would make you sick to your stomach, which is exactly why I suppose I oppose these massive federal government spending bills.
00:59:05.000They are done in the middle of the night.
00:59:45.000President Trump has to submit his initial legal briefs tomorrow, which I think can be amended, but they do have to be submitted tomorrow.
00:59:53.000He had a little bit of a mix-up, not mix-up, shake-up on his legal team and has some new lawyers.
00:59:59.000Basically, the new lawyers are David Schoen, a Georgia-based lawyer.
01:00:03.000And Mr. Schoen, I think, represented Roger Stone in last fall, former district attorney in Pennsylvania and known for all sorts of different things.
01:00:20.000And then also Bruce Caster, the former acting attorney general of Pennsylvania, will be representing the president.
01:00:27.000Now, the strategy for the impeachment, though, is going to be very simple.
01:00:31.000And this is the way that Trump's legal team is signaling it: basically, they are not going to talk about the merits of what happened on January the 6th.
01:00:40.000They're not going to get deep into what President Trump said or didn't say.
01:00:43.000Instead, they are going to just dismiss this as an unconstitutional impeachment altogether, that you cannot impeach a private citizen.
01:00:51.000If you get too deep into the merits of it, you might have some exposure.
01:00:55.000And also, you're going to lose people.
01:00:57.000The Republicans will vote alongside Rand Paul's vote that we saw last week.
01:01:03.000And by the way, a majority of the Senate will probably vote to convict.
01:01:08.000That does not mean that you're convicted.
01:01:35.000If now's the time to heal, why are you bringing back all of the resentments and the hatred and the bad feelings from the 2020 election race, bringing them front and center to try and make it so he can never run for office again?
01:01:52.000You know it's not going to work, by the way, Democrats.
01:01:54.000You know that this is a failure from launch.
01:02:47.000It actually is written more fairly than I thought it would be, to be perfectly honest, but it's still, of course, written in New York Times language.
01:02:54.000But this is the front page of the Times today.
01:03:26.000That's exactly the kind of archetype that they have painted Donald Trump to be.
01:03:32.000That he is this wannabe Mussolini within our own country, and we must never take our eye off of him or else he's going to rise to power again.
01:03:41.000Meanwhile, you have a current president who's whispering to his son and his brothers that you better cut out these foreign business deals.
01:03:48.000He's the first incoming president ever to try to kill jobs, just killed tens of thousands of jobs with a stroke of a pen.
01:03:55.000That does not apparently warrant A1 coverage.
01:03:58.000Instead, let's go cover the previous guy.
01:04:01.000This is actually a terrible political strategy for them.
01:04:04.000People are going to have Trump fatigue very soon.
01:04:08.000They're going to be tired of having to hear about it from the activist media.
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