The Megyn Kelly Show - Biden has COVID Not Cancer, and Green Policy Consequences, with the Ruthless Podcast Hosts

00:00:00.000 When I found out my friend got a great deal

00:00:02.160 on a wool coat from Winners,

00:00:03.760 I started wondering,

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00:00:11.260 Are those from Winners?

00:00:12.780 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings.

00:00:15.260 Did she pay full price?

00:00:16.600 Or that leather tote?

00:00:17.620 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:00:18.500 Or those knee-high boots?

00:00:20.300 That dress?

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00:00:30.900 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:00:32.520 Your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.

00:00:41.620 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly.

00:00:43.340 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:00:44.640 President Biden, fully vaccinated, twice boosted,

00:00:49.020 has tested positive for COVID.

00:00:51.920 The White House says he is experiencing mild symptoms

00:00:54.600 and he will, quote,

00:00:55.540 work in isolation until he tests negative.

00:00:58.200 One year ago,

00:01:00.680 this was the president at a CNN town hall.

00:01:03.900 You're okay.

00:01:04.860 You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.

00:01:09.040 Yeah.

00:01:10.080 You're not?

00:01:11.340 Well, you did.

00:01:13.060 And you're mandating that millions of Americans

00:01:16.360 who don't want this thing get it or be fired,

00:01:19.400 get it or be expelled from their schools,

00:01:22.400 that's per the school mandates,

00:01:23.920 from coast to coast.

00:01:26.440 You can get it.

00:01:28.380 Millions of people are getting it.

00:01:29.820 Post-vaccination, post-double booster.

00:01:32.880 And you're still threatening people's livelihoods and education

00:01:36.580 if they don't get this double jab.

00:01:38.420 I accept that the vaccine, the boosters, et cetera,

00:01:42.940 will likely lower the severity of your case.

00:01:46.520 That's between you and your doctor.

00:01:48.860 That's between you and your doctor, how sick you may get.

00:01:51.840 That's not for the school to worry about.

00:01:53.660 It's not for your employer to worry about.

00:01:56.320 That's between you and your doctor.

00:01:59.020 The vaccines do not prevent the spread of COVID.

00:02:02.800 If it was once true, it isn't any longer.

00:02:06.080 And you need to look no further than the White House

00:02:08.340 for proof of that.

00:02:10.800 So it's COVID he has, not cancer, we think,

00:02:17.320 even though he says he has cancer.

00:02:20.160 We're going to explain in one minute.

00:02:21.800 Joining me now for the full show

00:02:22.840 to discuss the president's diagnosis

00:02:24.360 and so much more, the great guys from Ruthless.

00:02:28.580 And there's a new guy.

00:02:29.680 He's not really a new guy.

00:02:30.560 He's an old guy, but he's joined the cast.

00:02:33.260 He was a sub.

00:02:34.160 Now he's a full-time cast member.

00:02:35.900 And those who know Ruthless from our show

00:02:37.680 know him as John Ashbrook.

00:02:41.280 John's here along with Michael Duncan, Josh Holmes,

00:02:43.540 and the man known to his Twitter minions

00:02:44.920 as Comfortably Smug Together.

00:02:48.020 They are Ruthless.

00:02:53.180 Welcome, guys.

00:02:53.920 Great to have you.

00:02:54.740 It's so good to be back, Megan.

00:02:56.080 Great to be back.

00:02:57.080 All right, John, you folded right in there.

00:02:58.600 How's it going for you so far?

00:03:00.260 Oh, it's great.

00:03:01.080 It's great.

00:03:01.780 You know, we're going to get Smug to tweet

00:03:03.060 about this episode right after we finish.

00:03:05.720 I think it's going to work just fine.

00:03:07.920 You notice, though, Megan,

00:03:09.320 we brought him on in large part

00:03:10.840 because of that voice timbre.

00:03:12.160 You hear that?

00:03:12.880 I mean, that is some bass right there.

00:03:14.940 It is good.

00:03:15.780 I wonder, Michael,

00:03:16.800 how did you feel about losing third bass?

00:03:20.240 Well, you know, I mean,

00:03:21.260 John was always sort of our, like,

00:03:22.860 Wizard of Oz behind the curtain

00:03:24.260 working the soundboard.

00:03:25.380 And it just didn't seem didn't seem fair,

00:03:27.280 you know, to have that that great timbre voice

00:03:30.220 not have a permanent mic.

00:03:32.820 You can't lock that up.

00:03:33.540 You can't lock that up.

00:03:34.180 You can't lock that up.

00:03:35.380 You got to use all your tools.

00:03:37.280 Yeah.

00:03:37.740 Well, the White House using all of its tools

00:03:39.520 right now to try to spin

00:03:40.720 after days of trying to obfuscate

00:03:42.920 on where the president was.

00:03:44.540 Where is he?

00:03:45.560 The reporters were asking,

00:03:46.700 is he a little tired after Saudi Arabia?

00:03:48.960 Oh, no, he's having important meetings,

00:03:50.440 important meetings.

00:03:52.060 I think we've got that

00:03:53.300 where they're really trying to tell us

00:03:55.120 it's co-press secretaries now.

00:03:56.740 Did you know that, by the way,

00:03:57.880 Kareem Jean-Pierre

00:03:58.940 has been such a disaster

00:04:00.840 that they had to bring in John Kirby,

00:04:02.760 formerly the Pentagon.

00:04:04.020 And now he's basically got her back

00:04:05.640 and already the woke is like,

00:04:06.720 why is a white man

00:04:07.540 trying to cover for the black woman?

00:04:09.140 You know, but the woman sucks.

00:04:11.540 She's not good.

00:04:12.560 So whatever you want to back her up with,

00:04:14.960 somebody needs to be there.

00:04:15.960 And here's what they had been saying

00:04:17.900 the president was up to in SOT 6.

00:04:19.480 I noticed on the president's schedule

00:04:22.480 the last two days

00:04:23.180 there have been no public events.

00:04:24.800 Is he resting after the large international trips?

00:04:27.700 The president's been busy.

00:04:29.140 Just because you don't see

00:04:30.000 something necessarily on the public schedule

00:04:32.520 doesn't mean that

00:04:33.260 there's not a lot of work going on.

00:04:34.920 What exactly has he been doing yesterday?

00:04:36.740 So he's been in meetings.

00:04:38.360 I was scheduled to meet with him today

00:04:41.480 in the Oval Office.

00:04:43.600 So he's been meeting with his senior staff.

00:04:45.640 I think some of you may have seen him

00:04:47.160 when the first lady of Ukraine

00:04:50.140 was visiting with our first lady.

00:04:53.240 I believe you saw him very briefly.

00:04:56.400 So he's just been very busy

00:04:58.020 dealing with the issues of the American people

00:05:00.940 and meeting with his staff

00:05:02.780 and senior staff the last two days.

00:05:04.900 Really?

00:05:05.660 You were scheduled?

00:05:06.720 You didn't say you actually did meet with him.

00:05:08.520 So what?

00:05:09.340 They've been lying.

00:05:10.700 They've been lying.

00:05:11.640 They lie about his health to us every day.

00:05:14.620 It's a day ending and why?

00:05:15.960 So we got another one.

00:05:16.980 What do you make of it?

00:05:18.480 I mean, look, yesterday was cancer.

00:05:21.400 Today, it's COVID.

00:05:24.220 I'm glad it's not monkeypox.

00:05:25.780 That's probably on the way.

00:05:28.460 But I mean, like, in all honesty,

00:05:30.540 it's father time, right, Megan?

00:05:32.060 I mean, that's the issue

00:05:32.900 that we're dealing with here.

00:05:33.960 It's not like this is going to get

00:05:35.240 any better for him anytime soon.

00:05:37.180 He could be fit as a fiddle.

00:05:38.860 But you just can't deliver

00:05:40.440 even when he's feeling great.

00:05:41.800 What I love is, you know,

00:05:43.580 every day at the White House

00:05:44.560 is now where's Waldo.

00:05:46.100 It's like, oh, yeah,

00:05:46.940 you saw with the, you know,

00:05:48.000 the first lady of Ukraine.

00:05:49.360 He was there in the background somewhere

00:05:50.700 if you squint really hard.

00:05:52.580 You know, you're like,

00:05:54.540 you saw very briefly

00:05:55.440 at somebody else's meeting.

00:05:56.920 Wait a minute.

00:05:57.960 Who's the president?

00:05:59.060 You know, like so now we know

00:06:00.820 he had he has COVID.

00:06:02.200 It's amazing how quickly

00:06:03.200 like expectations

00:06:04.200 have just gotten lowered

00:06:05.360 to it's expected

00:06:07.440 every time he speaks,

00:06:08.420 there's going to be a cleanup effort.

00:06:10.120 You know, Glenn Kessler

00:06:11.260 is going to come out

00:06:11.900 and try to fact check

00:06:12.800 and be like he didn't actually say

00:06:14.340 he has cancer.

00:06:15.580 Then people reply with the video

00:06:16.940 and he's like, OK,

00:06:18.000 on reevaluation,

00:06:20.120 he said he had cancer.

00:06:21.240 That's fine, guys.

00:06:22.040 That's totally normal.

00:06:23.440 Wait, let me in a very advanced age

00:06:25.480 to claim he has cancer.

00:06:26.540 Let me play that.

00:06:27.460 He had asthma.

00:06:28.980 Now he's got COVID.

00:06:30.180 Like, what is this?

00:06:31.640 Like, what is this?

00:06:32.800 Diabetes?

00:06:33.540 I don't know.

00:06:33.900 This little from a president.

00:06:35.620 We have to play that

00:06:36.660 so people know

00:06:37.080 what we're talking about yesterday.

00:06:37.940 He was trying to make a comment

00:06:39.060 about the environment

00:06:40.020 and how climate change

00:06:41.120 is an emergency,

00:06:41.760 which we'll get to in one second

00:06:43.080 as a bigger topic.

00:06:44.480 But he slipped this in

00:06:45.860 about him allegedly having cancer

00:06:48.860 and maybe even having gotten it

00:06:51.300 from an oil spill

00:06:53.140 on his mother's windshield

00:06:54.180 when he was a boy.

00:06:55.160 OK, I don't watch.

00:06:57.820 I just lived up the road.

00:06:59.660 I just an apartment complex.

00:07:01.760 We moved to Delaware

00:07:02.780 and because it was

00:07:04.340 a four-lane highway

00:07:05.420 that was accessible,

00:07:07.640 my mother drove us

00:07:09.080 and rather than

00:07:10.100 us be able to walk.

00:07:12.080 And guess what?

00:07:13.520 The first frost,

00:07:15.080 you know what was happening?

00:07:16.760 It had to put on

00:07:17.620 their windshield wipers

00:07:18.540 to get literally

00:07:19.480 the oil slick off the window.

00:07:21.920 That's why I

00:07:22.580 and so damn many other people

00:07:23.680 I grew up have cancer.

00:07:26.260 That's the way.

00:07:27.000 You hear it?

00:07:27.520 That's why I

00:07:28.060 and so many damn people

00:07:29.000 with whom I grew up

00:07:29.680 have cancer.

00:07:30.280 Have cancer.

00:07:31.460 Have.

00:07:31.800 Then the White House

00:07:32.620 came out and said.

00:07:33.120 I mean, when you think about it,

00:07:33.640 it kind of makes sense

00:07:34.260 but when it snows,

00:07:35.700 oil cancer falls on your car

00:07:37.500 and gives you cancer.

00:07:41.260 Snowy oil cancer.

00:07:42.520 Yeah.

00:07:43.020 It gets every time.

00:07:44.740 It is a very dangerous epidemic.

00:07:47.020 You should.

00:07:47.320 And it's particularly endemic

00:07:48.840 to Delaware.

00:07:50.500 You wonder.

00:07:50.820 Like, that's exactly right.

00:07:51.800 How many of us can relate?

00:07:52.920 You drive on the highway,

00:07:54.180 oil cancer snowing.

00:07:55.480 What are you going to do about it?

00:07:59.320 I was going to say

00:08:00.300 10 years of my life.

00:08:01.560 In the first 10

00:08:02.460 and then another four

00:08:03.220 in Syracuse, New York,

00:08:04.960 they only get 100 days of sun.

00:08:07.100 All right.

00:08:07.300 It's very snowy all the time

00:08:09.280 and they never cancel anything.

00:08:10.900 And I never once saw an oil snow.

00:08:13.240 Not one time.

00:08:14.380 I also grew up

00:08:15.220 with my mom driving me around.

00:08:16.780 I mean, maybe I should be worried.

00:08:17.980 I like about the skin cancer

00:08:19.160 from the oil snow.

00:08:20.280 I don't.

00:08:21.900 Nonetheless,

00:08:22.460 the White House now saying

00:08:23.320 no, he doesn't have.

00:08:24.300 He meant had had cancer,

00:08:26.060 skin cancers.

00:08:27.400 And that before he went into office,

00:08:28.940 the White House doctor said

00:08:29.820 he had some skin cancers,

00:08:31.080 non-melanoma,

00:08:31.940 and he had Mohs surgery

00:08:33.480 to get them removed.

00:08:34.500 And it's because of all the time

00:08:35.560 he spent in the sun.

00:08:36.580 So which is it?

00:08:39.180 It's sunny,

00:08:40.320 oil, snow cancer, Megan.

00:08:41.880 I don't know why

00:08:42.600 this is so difficult to follow.

00:08:44.740 Like, you're so critical.

00:08:46.440 And I just wish you could see

00:08:47.900 the clear diagnosis

00:08:49.140 that he's been provided here

00:08:50.800 that the American people,

00:08:52.160 frankly, should look out for.

00:08:53.500 Because this is the kind of thing

00:08:55.160 that could really take hold

00:08:56.220 in the community.

00:08:58.880 It's like when you get the rainbow

00:09:00.240 after both sun and rain,

00:09:02.700 you get the skin cancer

00:09:04.040 after both snow and oil.

00:09:06.880 I mean, I do think it'd be fair to say

00:09:08.480 that you would think

00:09:09.300 he spent too much time in the sun.

00:09:10.900 Like, anytime you hear him speak,

00:09:12.060 there's a possibility

00:09:12.940 that the guy's had heat stroke

00:09:14.160 when he's coming up with these ideas.

00:09:15.760 But like, we're having a president

00:09:17.640 try to declare a climate emergency

00:09:19.980 and execute powers

00:09:21.380 that he absolutely should not be.

00:09:22.920 That should be left to the legislature.

00:09:24.600 Like, we still have a government,

00:09:26.620 you know, even though our president

00:09:27.720 clearly isn't all the way there.

00:09:29.700 But he's declaring a climate emergency

00:09:31.540 based on his belief

00:09:32.940 that as his mother drove them

00:09:35.400 on a highway,

00:09:36.320 it snowed oil cancer.

00:09:39.540 And everyone's acting like

00:09:41.040 this is normal.

00:09:41.800 Like, we were told so many times

00:09:43.260 we have, under President Trump,

00:09:44.780 we had a great economy, right?

00:09:46.580 Everything is going great.

00:09:47.700 This is not normal.

00:09:48.700 Well, this is not normal.

00:09:50.120 I mean, inflation's going up.

00:09:51.900 Well, the president's concerned

00:09:52.840 about snow oil cancer.

00:09:54.620 It doesn't make any sense.

00:09:56.460 And also, if you go back to the quote,

00:09:58.100 one of the things

00:09:58.620 that I think is the funniest

00:09:59.440 is that like,

00:10:00.460 he's got this unique experience

00:10:02.120 where his mom drove him to school.

00:10:03.620 Yeah.

00:10:03.940 I mean, wow.

00:10:05.020 That is really sad.

00:10:06.220 Most of us just went uphill

00:10:08.180 both ways in the snow.

00:10:09.540 So, like, what is this?

00:10:11.140 1926?

00:10:11.740 I guess it is.

00:10:12.420 Yeah, that's next level.

00:10:13.460 It used to be

00:10:14.160 it was uphill both ways in the snow.

00:10:16.800 Now it's oil cancer was snowing.

00:10:19.080 I can run up you.

00:10:21.140 But did you have oil cancer snow?

00:10:22.840 Ah.

00:10:23.140 So, he was making those remarks

00:10:26.440 because he's trying to alarm people

00:10:30.300 about climate change.

00:10:32.280 And it was sort of a wah-wah

00:10:34.260 in terms of actual prescriptions

00:10:36.060 because on Tuesday,

00:10:37.960 The Washington Post had said

00:10:39.160 he's going to come out

00:10:40.160 and declare a national climate emergency.

00:10:42.420 And that, of course,

00:10:43.020 as we know from COVID emergencies,

00:10:44.680 opens up a whole host

00:10:45.780 of executive powers

00:10:46.800 where he could sort of

00:10:47.700 require all this stuff

00:10:49.080 of the energy industry

00:10:50.140 that would have been

00:10:50.840 very controversial

00:10:51.620 and would have hurt,

00:10:52.760 you know,

00:10:53.780 inflationary policies

00:10:55.120 and would have hurt gas prices

00:10:56.440 and so on.

00:10:57.340 But nevertheless,

00:10:58.040 the far left wanted him to do it.

00:10:59.420 Well, he didn't do it.

00:11:00.360 So his rhetoric

00:11:01.320 sounded very much

00:11:02.640 like he was about to do it.

00:11:03.800 He ratcheted up,

00:11:05.560 you know,

00:11:05.760 the rhetoric about

00:11:06.400 we're all going to die,

00:11:07.820 basically.

00:11:08.560 And then he put on

00:11:10.360 a little band-aid or two

00:11:11.360 at the end with like,

00:11:12.740 we're going to try to help you

00:11:13.640 have more air conditioning,

00:11:14.940 which makes sense.

00:11:15.840 That actually makes sense.

00:11:17.040 But it wasn't the prescription

00:11:18.520 for what he was saying

00:11:20.320 we're going through.

00:11:21.420 Here's how he talked about it

00:11:23.040 yesterday on climate.

00:11:25.960 As president,

00:11:26.980 I have a responsibility

00:11:27.900 to act with urgency

00:11:29.100 and resolve

00:11:29.920 when our nation faces

00:11:31.940 clear and present danger.

00:11:34.100 It is literally

00:11:35.020 not figuratively

00:11:35.860 a clear and present danger.

00:11:38.180 The health of our citizens

00:11:39.660 and our communities

00:11:40.360 is literally at stake.

00:11:42.460 The UN's leading

00:11:43.040 international climate scientists

00:11:44.820 called the latest climate report

00:11:47.140 nothing less than, quote,

00:11:48.900 code red for humanity.

00:11:51.260 And our economy is at risk.

00:11:53.240 So we have to act.

00:11:55.240 Climate change

00:11:55.900 is literally

00:11:56.500 an existential threat

00:11:57.680 to our nation

00:11:58.700 and to the world.

00:12:00.640 Folks,

00:12:01.620 when I think about

00:12:02.380 climate change,

00:12:03.660 and I've been saying this

00:12:04.560 for three years,

00:12:05.720 I think jobs.

00:12:07.640 And the world

00:12:08.380 is counting on us.

00:12:10.780 Okay.

00:12:11.840 So what do you,

00:12:12.860 it's clear and present danger.

00:12:14.740 Yeah,

00:12:14.900 he sounds like Harold Hill

00:12:16.360 from The Music Man,

00:12:17.700 to be honest with you.

00:12:18.800 I mean,

00:12:19.340 this guy,

00:12:20.040 and I don't know,

00:12:20.620 one of the best pictures

00:12:21.660 that somebody caught video

00:12:22.920 of his full motorcade

00:12:24.280 rolling up to this

00:12:25.100 climate press conference,

00:12:26.140 and it's like 30 cars

00:12:27.520 blowing smoke

00:12:28.440 out of the tailpipe

00:12:29.320 over a dirt road.

00:12:31.240 Did you see the place

00:12:31.980 where they picked to do,

00:12:32.800 it looked like

00:12:33.180 it was in Afghanistan.

00:12:35.960 After the Air Force One ride.

00:12:38.760 Exactly.

00:12:39.900 It's just,

00:12:40.580 it's so bizarre,

00:12:41.940 right,

00:12:42.160 when they kind of

00:12:42.660 sort through

00:12:43.060 their priorities,

00:12:44.080 the entire country

00:12:45.200 is screaming

00:12:45.960 at a decibel level

00:12:47.220 that is deafening.

00:12:48.740 Our prices are too high.

00:12:50.660 Our gas prices

00:12:51.600 are too high.

00:12:52.960 Inflation is killing us.

00:12:54.900 Please,

00:12:55.420 for the love of God,

00:12:56.820 focus on the economy.

00:12:57.960 And he's like,

00:12:58.260 yeah,

00:12:58.400 I got a good idea for that.

00:13:00.160 I'm going to actually

00:13:00.900 implement some climate change,

00:13:02.680 things that makes

00:13:03.140 all of that stuff worse.

00:13:04.480 And oh,

00:13:04.700 by the way,

00:13:05.240 when I hear climate change,

00:13:06.420 I hear jobs.

00:13:07.380 Yeah,

00:13:07.600 that's what the same people

00:13:08.600 think too,

00:13:09.460 but it's not creating jobs,

00:13:11.100 it's losing them.

00:13:12.460 Talk to people in Ohio,

00:13:13.780 Pennsylvania,

00:13:14.480 Kentucky,

00:13:15.040 West Virginia.

00:13:15.940 Talk to them

00:13:16.580 about losing jobs.

00:13:17.820 Man,

00:13:17.980 this guy's done more

00:13:18.860 to do that

00:13:19.480 than anybody else.

00:13:20.860 You know,

00:13:21.020 and I think that's

00:13:21.640 the entire Biden presidency

00:13:23.020 in a nutshell

00:13:23.920 is you have him

00:13:25.940 surrounded by

00:13:26.700 these far left activists

00:13:28.320 who are now

00:13:28.920 in the administration

00:13:30.000 and they are pushing

00:13:31.840 concerns like

00:13:32.660 climate change

00:13:33.800 and wokeness

00:13:34.660 when the American people

00:13:35.920 are suffering

00:13:36.380 through a terrible economy.

00:13:38.380 And again,

00:13:38.740 you can see

00:13:39.220 he's surrounded

00:13:39.700 by only Democrat consultants

00:13:41.180 who are saying,

00:13:42.020 oh,

00:13:42.080 this is a comms issue.

00:13:43.940 This is not a policy issue.

00:13:45.880 And so he thinks

00:13:46.640 if he can go out

00:13:47.380 and trot,

00:13:48.120 you know,

00:13:48.360 get trotted out

00:13:49.020 and give a speech,

00:13:49.760 that's going to solve

00:13:50.600 the problem.

00:13:51.640 Meanwhile,

00:13:52.200 what he has done

00:13:53.000 is he's crippled

00:13:53.820 American energy independence.

00:13:55.580 He goes to Saudi Arabia

00:13:56.560 to beg for oil,

00:13:57.440 catches COVID,

00:13:58.240 doesn't get the oil,

00:13:59.500 comes back and says

00:14:00.280 he's going to make it worse

00:14:01.340 for American energy independence.

00:14:03.240 It's unbelievable.

00:14:04.580 The price is going

00:14:05.180 to keep going up

00:14:05.960 because of his policies.

00:14:06.880 He is upset

00:14:09.400 and so are the other Democrats

00:14:11.180 in the press

00:14:11.780 that Joe Manchin

00:14:12.580 killed his smaller version

00:14:15.100 of Build Back Better

00:14:16.060 on climate change.

00:14:17.280 That was a $1.8 billion spend,

00:14:19.540 which Manchin said no to.

00:14:21.460 Sorry,

00:14:21.740 trillion,

00:14:22.340 $1.8 trillion.

00:14:23.900 Manchin said,

00:14:24.620 no,

00:14:24.700 I'm not voting for that.

00:14:25.800 Now they shrunk it

00:14:26.960 to $300 billion

00:14:28.920 for climate change measures.

00:14:31.320 And Manchin said,

00:14:32.420 we're not doing that.

00:14:33.240 I don't know

00:14:33.740 how to make it clearer

00:14:35.100 that now is not the time

00:14:36.080 for additional federal spending

00:14:37.800 when, you know,

00:14:39.080 we've got record inflation

00:14:40.160 at 9.1%.

00:14:40.980 It's not a good idea, fellas.

00:14:42.820 And they're freaking out.

00:14:45.300 I mean,

00:14:45.460 just a bit of sampling

00:14:46.380 from the Democrats

00:14:47.380 and some in the media too.

00:14:49.780 But this is

00:14:50.640 Massachusetts Senator

00:14:51.860 Edward Markey.

00:14:53.480 Rage keeps me from tears

00:14:55.480 after the Manchin thing.

00:14:57.860 Okay.

00:14:58.520 Leah Stokes,

00:14:59.620 she's a professor

00:15:00.320 of environmental policy

00:15:01.340 at UC Santa Barbara

00:15:02.420 who's been advising

00:15:03.500 the congressional Democrats.

00:15:05.140 It is just infuriating

00:15:06.460 that he,

00:15:07.060 Manchin,

00:15:07.700 is condemning

00:15:08.620 our own children.

00:15:10.640 You got Democratic

00:15:11.220 Oregon Senator Ron Wyden.

00:15:12.860 This is our last chance

00:15:13.840 to prevent

00:15:14.220 the most catastrophic

00:15:15.400 and costly effects

00:15:16.460 of climate change

00:15:18.060 ever.

00:15:18.860 David Axelrod,

00:15:19.700 we are fiddling

00:15:20.360 as the world burns.

00:15:22.620 Okay,

00:15:22.920 so the American public

00:15:24.620 doesn't see it that way.

00:15:25.640 At New York Times poll

00:15:26.600 last Monday said

00:15:27.500 1%

00:15:28.640 think climate change

00:15:29.820 is the top issue

00:15:30.540 facing the country

00:15:31.700 just 1%.

00:15:32.580 But the absurdity

00:15:34.400 of this,

00:15:34.900 like,

00:15:35.140 I love Michael Schellenberger.

00:15:36.740 You guys know him,

00:15:37.380 right?

00:15:37.520 He wrote Apocalypse Never.

00:15:38.980 He was this left-wing

00:15:40.280 activist who worked

00:15:41.440 for Greenpeace

00:15:42.240 who just devoted his life

00:15:43.480 to fighting climate change

00:15:44.600 and preserving the environment.

00:15:46.340 And Solyndra,

00:15:47.280 the solar panels,

00:15:48.140 the whole bit,

00:15:48.520 he was totally in it

00:15:49.260 under Obama.

00:15:50.480 And then he came to realize

00:15:51.520 none of this is working.

00:15:53.600 None of this is doing it.

00:15:55.040 In fact,

00:15:55.320 we're doing more harm

00:15:56.320 than good.

00:15:57.420 And we need to take

00:15:58.360 a honest look at that.

00:15:59.260 He put out

00:16:00.900 a bunch of facts.

00:16:01.580 First of all,

00:16:02.360 even the New York Times

00:16:02.980 is admitting this week

00:16:03.640 solar panels require

00:16:04.780 300 plus times

00:16:05.980 as much land

00:16:06.660 as conventional

00:16:07.760 energy sources

00:16:08.780 and could,

00:16:10.420 quote,

00:16:10.580 contaminate groundwater

00:16:11.600 with toxic heavy metals

00:16:12.800 such as lead,

00:16:13.940 selenium,

00:16:14.700 and cadmium.

00:16:16.220 So they're

00:16:17.020 contaminating

00:16:17.620 the groundwater.

00:16:19.620 They're taking up

00:16:20.960 way more land

00:16:21.680 than conventional

00:16:22.420 energy sources were.

00:16:24.020 They also require

00:16:25.520 solar panels

00:16:26.280 forced labor,

00:16:27.700 toxic materials,

00:16:28.440 and have terrible

00:16:29.340 land use impacts.

00:16:31.160 And

00:16:31.460 as far as

00:16:33.800 the natural disasters

00:16:34.600 go,

00:16:35.320 it doesn't pan out

00:16:36.340 because they're looking

00:16:37.340 at the heat wave

00:16:37.900 right now saying

00:16:38.500 Biden has to act.

00:16:39.660 Look,

00:16:39.800 people are dying.

00:16:40.380 We're getting these

00:16:40.780 record high temperatures.

00:16:41.960 He's got to do something.

00:16:42.880 So I like the air

00:16:43.480 conditioning stuff.

00:16:44.240 That actually does

00:16:44.940 save lives.

00:16:47.100 Charles Cook

00:16:47.520 was saying,

00:16:49.000 I don't know

00:16:50.120 his first name,

00:16:50.600 but Mr. Carrier

00:16:51.380 should have his face

00:16:52.320 on Mount Rushmore.

00:16:53.340 The guy who invented

00:16:54.140 air conditioning.

00:16:55.260 You know what?

00:16:55.900 But here,

00:16:56.820 let me give you

00:16:57.520 a couple more stats

00:16:58.160 and then I'll give you

00:16:58.780 the floor.

00:16:59.440 Natural disasters

00:17:00.100 have actually decreased

00:17:01.120 10% over the last

00:17:01.980 two decades,

00:17:02.580 not increased,

00:17:03.540 right?

00:17:03.680 Because the left

00:17:04.040 is like the heat wave

00:17:05.860 and the wildfires

00:17:07.300 and the earthquakes

00:17:08.200 is all climate change.

00:17:09.340 Natural disasters

00:17:10.020 have decreased

00:17:11.140 10% over the last

00:17:12.540 two decades.

00:17:13.900 Deaths from natural

00:17:14.600 disasters have

00:17:15.660 declined dramatically.

00:17:17.240 Hurricanes,

00:17:17.860 while becoming

00:17:18.300 slightly more intense,

00:17:19.440 are becoming 25%

00:17:20.960 less frequent.

00:17:22.020 Floods,

00:17:23.440 deaths,

00:17:23.840 and damage

00:17:24.380 has been steadily

00:17:25.380 decreasing.

00:17:26.680 Droughts have not

00:17:27.560 been increasing

00:17:28.280 in the United States

00:17:29.200 or nationally.

00:17:30.800 And on I could go.

00:17:32.880 So the media

00:17:33.680 and the Democrats

00:17:34.320 mislead us

00:17:35.120 about the severity

00:17:36.120 of the problem

00:17:36.720 and then come out

00:17:38.080 with the wrong

00:17:38.800 prescriptions for America

00:17:40.180 and lament people

00:17:40.880 like Joe Manchin

00:17:41.620 who want to say

00:17:42.740 that's not the right

00:17:43.320 prescription and if I go

00:17:44.680 with your false

00:17:45.180 prescription,

00:17:45.940 I'm only going to

00:17:46.400 hike up inflation.

00:17:47.540 And the media

00:17:47.880 just marches to the drum

00:17:48.840 saying,

00:17:49.480 yes,

00:17:49.820 yes,

00:17:50.180 yes.

00:17:50.560 Okay,

00:17:50.760 that's my long

00:17:51.320 windup.

00:17:51.700 What do you make

00:17:52.140 of it?

00:17:52.960 So I think

00:17:53.740 the most important

00:17:54.600 stat there

00:17:55.160 was the New York

00:17:55.780 Times poll

00:17:56.380 which said

00:17:56.800 that 1%

00:17:57.840 are concerned

00:17:58.900 with climate change

00:17:59.720 because this is

00:18:00.440 an issue

00:18:00.960 of the 1%ers.

00:18:02.860 They can take

00:18:03.600 their private jets,

00:18:04.940 they can go

00:18:05.460 to their climate

00:18:06.260 meetings and say,

00:18:07.260 oh,

00:18:07.400 we're so concerned

00:18:08.060 the world's on fire

00:18:08.920 but it's the 99%

00:18:10.920 the rest of us

00:18:11.620 that are expected

00:18:12.100 to have your paper

00:18:13.320 straws,

00:18:14.200 stop eating meat,

00:18:15.620 eat bugs,

00:18:16.840 you know,

00:18:17.260 turn off your air

00:18:18.260 conditioning.

00:18:18.700 everyone else

00:18:19.620 suffer while

00:18:20.520 they can have

00:18:21.060 their private jets

00:18:21.880 and go to their

00:18:22.460 meetings.

00:18:23.260 Like,

00:18:23.920 how long

00:18:24.660 is the Democrat

00:18:25.740 Party going to

00:18:26.340 allow itself

00:18:26.900 to become

00:18:27.400 completely controlled

00:18:28.540 by the wealthiest

00:18:29.820 Americans and

00:18:30.540 corporations

00:18:31.120 that their

00:18:32.020 concern at this

00:18:32.800 point is

00:18:33.640 what the jet set

00:18:35.240 class is worried

00:18:36.040 about and not

00:18:36.780 what the rest

00:18:37.340 of Americans

00:18:37.820 are concerned

00:18:38.320 about.

00:18:38.760 The rest of

00:18:39.500 America has to

00:18:40.140 pay high gas

00:18:40.820 prices.

00:18:41.300 The rest of

00:18:41.700 America has

00:18:42.660 to try to

00:18:43.060 make ends

00:18:43.500 meet and

00:18:44.140 they're telling

00:18:44.700 us that the

00:18:45.320 prime thing

00:18:45.780 we need to

00:18:46.260 be worried

00:18:46.600 about is

00:18:46.960 the same

00:18:47.400 alarmism

00:18:47.940 they've been

00:18:48.300 pushing for

00:18:48.700 over 30

00:18:49.280 years.

00:18:50.100 Over 30

00:18:50.740 years at this

00:18:51.160 point,

00:18:51.420 we were told

00:18:51.960 that the

00:18:52.220 ozone layer

00:18:52.900 is going

00:18:53.240 to open

00:18:53.700 up and

00:18:54.120 that we're

00:18:54.420 all going

00:18:54.720 to die

00:18:55.040 and get

00:18:55.280 cooked.

00:18:55.800 That didn't

00:18:56.240 happen.

00:18:56.920 Every time

00:18:57.420 you hear

00:18:57.680 these climate

00:18:58.080 emergencies,

00:18:58.880 when AOC

00:18:59.360 says,

00:18:59.780 oh,

00:18:59.860 we've got

00:19:00.100 three years

00:19:00.520 to live,

00:19:01.100 we've got

00:19:01.360 five years

00:19:01.800 to live,

00:19:02.460 every time

00:19:03.020 when Al Gore

00:19:03.600 had his

00:19:04.060 inconvenient

00:19:04.600 truth,

00:19:04.960 if we

00:19:06.000 don't

00:19:06.120 reverse

00:19:06.440 this,

00:19:06.660 we're all

00:19:06.840 still here.

00:19:09.180 That's why

00:19:09.720 the left

00:19:10.060 wingers

00:19:10.480 inside his

00:19:11.080 administration

00:19:11.620 are telling

00:19:12.220 him to do

00:19:12.560 this Harold

00:19:12.980 Hill routine.

00:19:13.780 They're telling

00:19:14.280 him,

00:19:14.560 Biden,

00:19:14.880 we need

00:19:15.200 trouble.

00:19:15.500 That's why

00:19:16.700 he's saying

00:19:17.060 we got

00:19:17.400 trouble with

00:19:17.920 a capital

00:19:18.300 T and

00:19:18.760 that stands

00:19:19.940 for climbing.

00:19:20.760 He has

00:19:21.260 to make

00:19:21.660 trouble.

00:19:22.800 Nobody else

00:19:23.240 is going

00:19:23.440 to pay

00:19:23.640 attention

00:19:23.980 if he

00:19:24.260 does.

00:19:24.720 It would

00:19:24.940 be funny

00:19:25.400 if they

00:19:25.680 actually

00:19:26.000 got it

00:19:26.580 done,

00:19:26.880 though,

00:19:27.140 for one

00:19:27.700 reason.

00:19:28.140 If you're

00:19:28.340 like a

00:19:28.600 front-line

00:19:29.100 Senate

00:19:29.780 Democrat,

00:19:30.380 like a

00:19:30.580 Maggie

00:19:30.800 Hassan,

00:19:34.960 accomplishment.

00:19:36.500 We're almost

00:19:37.020 at the

00:19:37.280 August recess.

00:19:38.160 You're going

00:19:38.380 to have

00:19:38.520 August town

00:19:39.020 halls.

00:19:39.320 You're going

00:19:39.420 to have

00:19:39.520 to meet

00:19:39.720 with

00:19:39.860 constituents.

00:19:40.460 These

00:19:40.560 people are

00:19:40.880 running

00:19:41.060 for

00:19:41.260 re-election.

00:19:42.440 To be

00:19:42.620 able to

00:19:42.820 go into

00:19:43.120 that room

00:19:43.560 and be

00:19:43.780 like,

00:19:44.200 the best

00:19:44.460 I can

00:19:44.720 do is

00:19:45.100 more

00:19:45.700 expensive

00:19:46.020 gasoline.

00:19:49.260 The backwards

00:19:50.820 nature of

00:19:52.040 how they

00:19:52.680 formulate a

00:19:53.680 climate

00:19:53.940 emergency

00:19:54.520 with your

00:19:55.160 stats that

00:19:55.620 you just

00:19:55.860 read is

00:19:56.160 amazing.

00:19:56.980 We talk

00:19:57.860 a little

00:19:58.080 bit about

00:19:58.420 this on

00:19:58.780 the program

00:19:59.200 from time

00:19:59.640 to time.

00:19:59.980 Their

00:20:00.060 solutions

00:20:00.460 are equally

00:20:00.980 insane.

00:20:01.520 You mentioned

00:20:02.020 the solar

00:20:03.040 panels and

00:20:03.660 batteries and

00:20:04.960 you know

00:20:05.160 where we

00:20:05.380 get all

00:20:05.700 that?

00:20:06.100 We get

00:20:06.360 it from

00:20:06.540 China.

00:20:07.520 You're

00:20:08.040 taking

00:20:08.240 these

00:20:08.460 American

00:20:08.820 jobs and

00:20:09.400 you're

00:20:09.540 transferring

00:20:09.940 them over

00:20:10.300 to China.

00:20:10.840 You're

00:20:10.940 making us

00:20:11.380 not only

00:20:11.800 energy

00:20:12.180 reliant on

00:20:12.800 the rest

00:20:13.100 of the

00:20:13.420 world,

00:20:14.260 but doesn't

00:20:16.040 have EPA

00:20:16.760 standards.

00:20:17.840 They don't

00:20:18.160 have any

00:20:18.860 sort of

00:20:19.180 regulatory

00:20:19.600 development

00:20:20.760 for clean

00:20:21.360 energy.

00:20:22.080 Then we

00:20:24.680 take their

00:20:25.900 stuff,

00:20:26.620 put it in

00:20:27.340 our

00:20:27.620 infrastructure.

00:20:28.820 I can't

00:20:29.660 imagine how

00:20:30.100 that would

00:20:30.380 be a bad

00:20:30.860 idea.

00:20:32.400 These guys,

00:20:33.500 it's like

00:20:33.860 if you

00:20:34.380 intentionally

00:20:35.080 made a

00:20:36.280 prescription

00:20:36.740 for what

00:20:37.220 is worse

00:20:37.920 for America,

00:20:39.220 you wouldn't

00:20:39.560 change a

00:20:40.120 single thing.

00:20:41.820 Well,

00:20:41.940 the New York

00:20:42.520 Times has

00:20:42.900 finally come

00:20:43.360 around to

00:20:43.780 Schellenberger's

00:20:44.540 articles from

00:20:45.780 a year plus

00:20:46.780 ago saying,

00:20:48.040 you need to

00:20:48.460 understand that

00:20:49.280 solar panels

00:20:50.380 and batteries

00:20:51.340 have a lot

00:20:52.420 of toxicity

00:20:53.340 associated with

00:20:54.920 them.

00:20:55.320 And guess

00:20:55.720 what?

00:20:56.520 Guess what

00:20:56.920 happens to

00:20:57.600 the solar

00:20:57.960 panels after

00:20:58.620 30 years?

00:20:59.680 They get

00:21:00.360 dumped because

00:21:01.160 of their

00:21:01.420 toxicity on

00:21:02.180 a bunch

00:21:02.520 of third

00:21:03.020 world

00:21:03.360 countries.

00:21:04.240 There was

00:21:04.600 just a big

00:21:05.000 article about

00:21:05.440 how the

00:21:05.680 Europeans have

00:21:06.320 been doing

00:21:06.660 that.

00:21:07.000 So you

00:21:07.540 can feel

00:21:08.020 really good

00:21:08.620 about yourself

00:21:09.140 out in

00:21:09.480 California that

00:21:10.120 you put

00:21:10.400 solar panels

00:21:11.100 in and

00:21:11.700 then you

00:21:11.920 killed a

00:21:12.420 bunch of

00:21:12.720 poor people

00:21:13.400 30 years

00:21:14.020 later quietly

00:21:14.920 while patting

00:21:16.040 yourself on

00:21:16.540 the back for

00:21:17.060 being a

00:21:17.400 kinder,

00:21:17.900 gentler person.

00:21:19.020 It's like

00:21:19.540 they don't

00:21:20.880 want to pay

00:21:21.240 attention to

00:21:21.680 the long-term

00:21:22.000 impact of

00:21:22.540 these things,

00:21:23.100 which,

00:21:23.560 by the way,

00:21:24.460 don't work.

00:21:25.960 Unless the

00:21:26.540 sun is shining,

00:21:27.680 the solar

00:21:28.120 panels don't

00:21:28.800 work.

00:21:29.140 the batteries

00:21:31.260 of the

00:21:31.720 cars run

00:21:32.680 out and,

00:21:33.380 by the way,

00:21:33.580 need to be

00:21:33.960 powered by

00:21:34.440 conventional

00:21:34.840 energy sources

00:21:35.640 and fossil

00:21:36.100 fuels.

00:21:37.180 They don't

00:21:37.740 want to tell

00:21:38.100 you the rest

00:21:38.480 of the story.

00:21:40.000 Yeah,

00:21:40.140 you quoted

00:21:40.620 Ed Markey

00:21:41.280 who said,

00:21:41.860 think about

00:21:42.260 the kids.

00:21:42.860 Well,

00:21:43.100 I'll tell you

00:21:43.460 a group of

00:21:43.860 kids he

00:21:44.220 doesn't think

00:21:44.700 about is

00:21:45.180 kids in

00:21:45.600 West Virginia,

00:21:46.300 kids in

00:21:46.600 Kentucky whose

00:21:47.280 families had

00:21:47.900 their jobs

00:21:48.480 and their

00:21:48.780 livelihoods

00:21:49.380 absolutely

00:21:49.800 stripped

00:21:50.380 because of

00:21:51.220 the ideology

00:21:51.740 of these

00:21:52.120 people,

00:21:52.480 just because

00:21:52.900 they're

00:21:53.280 creating

00:21:53.620 trouble

00:21:54.000 or because

00:21:54.520 they want

00:21:54.780 a different

00:21:55.080 system.

00:21:55.720 Or the

00:21:55.980 poor kids

00:21:57.040 in Africa

00:21:58.080 and these

00:21:58.480 mines who

00:21:59.180 are digging

00:21:59.560 out rare

00:22:00.120 earths and

00:22:01.600 getting cancer

00:22:02.540 to put a

00:22:04.340 battery in a

00:22:04.960 Tesla.

00:22:05.960 Which also

00:22:06.260 brings you

00:22:06.860 back to the

00:22:07.460 whole corporate

00:22:08.740 nexus of all

00:22:09.700 of this.

00:22:10.200 Because the

00:22:11.200 administration

00:22:11.540 itself and

00:22:12.460 the left in

00:22:13.040 general have

00:22:13.980 put an entire

00:22:14.700 amount of

00:22:15.180 pressure on

00:22:15.860 corporate America

00:22:16.580 to implement

00:22:17.700 these ESG

00:22:18.700 standards,

00:22:19.300 they call it.

00:22:19.820 Which is

00:22:20.240 basically you

00:22:20.800 can only

00:22:21.520 finance certain

00:22:22.480 things that

00:22:23.200 ultimately fit

00:22:24.320 their green

00:22:24.840 energy agenda.

00:22:26.540 And at the

00:22:27.140 same time,

00:22:28.080 they then

00:22:28.920 are making

00:22:29.760 America reliant

00:22:30.960 on what you

00:22:31.920 just said.

00:22:32.560 Kids mining

00:22:33.440 in Africa,

00:22:34.680 Chinese solar

00:22:36.140 panels,

00:22:37.300 trying to go

00:22:38.560 to Saudi

00:22:39.060 Arabia,

00:22:39.920 of all places,

00:22:41.000 to get the

00:22:41.740 fuel that we

00:22:42.260 need in

00:22:42.580 America.

00:22:43.380 I mean,

00:22:43.680 it's the

00:22:44.440 most anti-

00:22:45.800 environmental

00:22:46.340 thing you

00:22:46.920 could come

00:22:47.320 up with.

00:22:48.040 Right.

00:22:48.680 Yeah,

00:22:49.140 that's right.

00:22:49.680 And that's

00:22:50.360 the thing.

00:22:50.600 We don't have

00:22:50.960 cheap energy

00:22:51.540 as a result

00:22:52.060 of these

00:22:52.320 crazy policies,

00:22:53.080 which makes

00:22:54.300 people not

00:22:54.680 have things

00:22:55.120 like air

00:22:55.520 conditioning.

00:22:56.160 And that

00:22:56.320 actually does

00:22:56.900 lead to

00:22:57.300 these deaths.

00:22:58.080 So it's

00:22:58.680 like,

00:22:59.160 I appreciate

00:22:59.880 FEMA stepping

00:23:00.680 in to help

00:23:01.180 people,

00:23:01.560 but there's

00:23:01.860 an easier

00:23:02.340 way.

00:23:02.820 If you

00:23:03.000 could lower

00:23:03.400 their energy

00:23:03.940 costs,

00:23:04.900 you could

00:23:05.180 make Mr.

00:23:05.720 Carrier's

00:23:06.180 great invention

00:23:06.860 even more

00:23:07.860 ubiquitous,

00:23:09.020 and we could

00:23:09.380 help people

00:23:09.780 out that way.

00:23:10.420 But instead,

00:23:10.980 we look at

00:23:11.460 high temperatures

00:23:12.320 and then

00:23:13.080 wildfires,

00:23:14.040 which result

00:23:14.500 from poor

00:23:15.500 forest management,

00:23:16.300 and say,

00:23:17.000 climate

00:23:17.880 emergency!

00:23:19.480 Everybody get

00:23:20.120 rid of their

00:23:20.580 gas-guzzling

00:23:21.620 SUV,

00:23:22.780 except for

00:23:23.400 Joe Biden

00:23:24.080 and Prince

00:23:24.800 Harry.

00:23:25.140 And the

00:23:27.180 thing is that

00:23:27.740 when Holmes

00:23:28.440 brought up

00:23:28.880 ESG,

00:23:29.420 it's a

00:23:29.860 perfect

00:23:30.420 encapsulation

00:23:31.120 of this

00:23:31.460 because this

00:23:32.560 is a

00:23:33.240 left-wing,

00:23:33.940 money-driven,

00:23:34.980 corporatist

00:23:35.560 idea where

00:23:36.380 they're using

00:23:37.200 this alarmism,

00:23:38.740 which is based

00:23:39.860 on emotion,

00:23:40.540 not on fact.

00:23:41.420 You never hear

00:23:42.120 any of these

00:23:43.300 Democrats or

00:23:44.160 leftists discussing

00:23:45.180 nuclear energy,

00:23:46.520 which you can

00:23:47.480 put a nuclear

00:23:48.000 power plant

00:23:48.540 anywhere.

00:23:49.500 You can put it

00:23:50.060 in West Virginia,

00:23:50.620 you can put it

00:23:51.020 in Kentucky,

00:23:51.480 and the

00:23:52.360 vast majority

00:23:53.280 of jobs

00:23:54.000 at a nuclear

00:23:54.500 reactor are

00:23:55.660 blue-collar jobs,

00:23:56.500 and it's been

00:23:56.900 shown that it's

00:23:57.500 safer and cleaner

00:23:58.440 than any of

00:23:59.400 these alternatives

00:23:59.960 that they're

00:24:00.320 trying to put

00:24:01.780 forward.

00:24:02.600 Meanwhile,

00:24:03.080 they're putting

00:24:03.440 forward only

00:24:03.960 ideas of,

00:24:04.820 oh,

00:24:04.880 why don't we

00:24:05.280 import Chinese

00:24:06.400 solar panels

00:24:07.560 made with

00:24:08.060 slave labor?

00:24:08.680 Why don't we

00:24:09.040 import rare

00:24:09.820 earths in

00:24:10.260 Africa,

00:24:10.580 which are

00:24:10.940 causing kids

00:24:11.460 to get

00:24:11.800 diseases and

00:24:12.900 to die

00:24:13.480 and be

00:24:13.780 killed?

00:24:14.100 And Boko Haram

00:24:16.500 is running

00:24:16.880 these camps

00:24:17.400 enforcing kids.

00:24:18.440 This is like

00:24:19.160 terror groups

00:24:19.880 who are involved

00:24:20.420 in this.

00:24:20.700 I don't think

00:24:21.380 all of that

00:24:21.880 meets the

00:24:22.440 standard for

00:24:23.060 ESG.

00:24:23.700 If you want

00:24:25.080 to know what

00:24:25.400 ESG leads

00:24:26.060 to,

00:24:26.460 just look at

00:24:26.920 what's

00:24:27.120 happened in

00:24:27.520 Sri Lanka.

00:24:28.360 And I don't

00:24:28.780 know if

00:24:29.060 folks have

00:24:29.860 paid close

00:24:30.300 attention to

00:24:30.800 what's

00:24:31.000 happening in

00:24:31.340 Sri Lanka,

00:24:31.860 but they

00:24:32.140 implemented

00:24:32.540 ESG and

00:24:33.720 they basically

00:24:34.440 canceled all

00:24:35.700 fertilizer,

00:24:36.400 so there's

00:24:36.780 not as much

00:24:37.280 food as

00:24:37.780 there was,

00:24:38.420 and now

00:24:38.640 people are

00:24:39.060 hungry,

00:24:40.060 and they're

00:24:41.420 rioting.

00:24:42.980 They overthrew the

00:24:43.920 government.

00:24:44.500 They overthrew the

00:24:44.920 government.

00:24:45.400 I mean,

00:24:45.780 look,

00:24:46.940 these people,

00:24:48.140 I think for

00:24:48.580 most of us,

00:24:49.260 we thought when

00:24:49.700 Joe Biden was

00:24:50.320 elected,

00:24:50.780 we lamented

00:24:51.400 it because

00:24:51.780 we knew we

00:24:52.200 weren't going

00:24:52.440 to make any

00:24:52.880 actual progress

00:24:54.300 on enhancing

00:24:55.520 the economy,

00:24:56.200 but I think

00:24:56.540 most of us

00:24:57.040 thought,

00:24:57.500 all right,

00:24:58.100 this old dude

00:24:58.620 is going to

00:24:58.880 sit behind

00:24:59.260 his desk

00:24:59.660 and process

00:25:00.200 Social Security

00:25:01.300 checks for

00:25:01.840 like four

00:25:02.260 years,

00:25:02.700 right?

00:25:03.200 And it's

00:25:03.640 the exact

00:25:04.060 opposite.

00:25:04.780 I mean,

00:25:04.940 we're getting

00:25:05.420 ideological,

00:25:07.480 completely

00:25:07.960 brainless shit

00:25:08.920 out of them

00:25:09.520 that is making

00:25:10.260 people's lives

00:25:11.300 demonstrably

00:25:12.540 worse.

00:25:12.840 this administration

00:25:13.560 is like far

00:25:14.320 to the left

00:25:15.020 of the Obama

00:25:15.720 administration,

00:25:16.480 which is

00:25:16.720 stunning.

00:25:17.420 Yes,

00:25:17.620 which is

00:25:17.960 stunning.

00:25:19.040 What did

00:25:19.540 you guys

00:25:19.760 meet?

00:25:19.960 You mentioned

00:25:20.420 the trip

00:25:21.120 to Saudi

00:25:21.460 Arabia and

00:25:22.520 the meeting

00:25:23.200 with MBS

00:25:23.820 and the fist

00:25:24.720 bump.

00:25:25.860 And,

00:25:26.200 you know,

00:25:26.260 this is because

00:25:26.720 I don't know

00:25:27.100 why we don't

00:25:27.460 just get our

00:25:28.440 own oil because

00:25:29.080 we're more than

00:25:29.720 capable of

00:25:30.200 producing it

00:25:30.620 here.

00:25:30.960 But we had

00:25:31.260 to go bend

00:25:31.640 the knee

00:25:31.980 to the Saudis

00:25:33.020 to try to get

00:25:33.640 them to produce

00:25:34.200 more.

00:25:34.700 And we walked

00:25:35.200 away with as

00:25:36.000 let me just

00:25:36.380 check my notes.

00:25:38.240 Nothing.

00:25:39.560 Oh, no,

00:25:40.460 Megan, Megan.

00:25:41.300 He walked

00:25:41.640 away with the

00:25:42.120 new variant

00:25:42.560 of COVID.

00:25:43.900 Yeah,

00:25:44.360 Biden.

00:25:44.800 Biden's like

00:25:45.260 the Capuchin

00:25:45.880 monkey in

00:25:46.380 the Outbreak

00:25:46.940 movie.

00:25:49.860 Brought it

00:25:50.380 back for all

00:25:51.360 of us to

00:25:51.760 enjoy.

00:25:52.180 Yeah.

00:25:52.960 Right.

00:25:53.220 So, like,

00:25:53.500 what did we go

00:25:54.000 over there and

00:25:54.780 embarrass ourselves

00:25:56.000 for?

00:25:56.500 You know,

00:25:56.660 some pariah.

00:25:57.600 I don't fist

00:25:58.180 bump pariahs.

00:25:58.920 And I get the

00:25:59.520 form policy

00:26:00.080 complications of

00:26:01.360 dealing with

00:26:01.720 the guys are

00:26:02.080 bad, but I'm

00:26:02.600 not the one

00:26:03.020 who said I'm

00:26:03.480 going to make

00:26:03.760 a pariah out

00:26:04.460 of him.

00:26:05.220 That was Joe

00:26:05.920 Biden.

00:26:06.480 So he fist

00:26:07.060 bumped the

00:26:07.460 pariah.

00:26:07.840 He went

00:26:08.580 over there

00:26:08.940 on bended

00:26:09.380 knee,

00:26:09.800 humiliated the

00:26:10.500 United States

00:26:11.200 and so far

00:26:12.200 appears to

00:26:13.200 have gotten

00:26:13.560 a bunch

00:26:14.140 of bupkis

00:26:14.800 for it.

00:26:16.240 And it's

00:26:16.760 such an

00:26:17.020 indictment

00:26:17.580 on the

00:26:17.940 media where

00:26:18.460 a great

00:26:18.960 example is

00:26:19.560 the Washington

00:26:20.180 Post in

00:26:21.340 their endorsement

00:26:22.700 of Joe

00:26:23.100 Biden when he

00:26:23.820 was running

00:26:24.180 for president.

00:26:24.880 They said

00:26:25.100 that he's

00:26:25.900 going to

00:26:26.300 hold Saudi

00:26:27.100 Arabian

00:26:27.680 dictatorships

00:26:28.580 accountable for

00:26:29.240 what they've

00:26:29.740 done.

00:26:30.880 And what

00:26:31.500 does he do?

00:26:31.860 He goes and

00:26:32.220 fist bumps the

00:26:32.840 guy who they

00:26:33.340 say is, oh,

00:26:34.060 he bones

00:26:34.440 on one of our

00:26:34.880 journalists.

00:26:35.580 And then you

00:26:35.900 see a

00:26:36.200 Washington Post

00:26:36.880 opinion saying

00:26:37.420 like, ah,

00:26:38.120 sometimes you

00:26:38.700 got to deal

00:26:39.120 with dictators.

00:26:40.120 It's incredible.

00:26:41.800 It's incredible.

00:26:43.380 It's also just

00:26:44.460 like the total

00:26:45.740 idiocy of

00:26:46.900 progressive left

00:26:48.340 policies, right?

00:26:49.920 You have to deal

00:26:50.720 with Saudi Arabia

00:26:51.500 at some point.

00:26:52.300 What you'd like to

00:26:52.900 do when you're

00:26:53.760 dealing with Saudi

00:26:54.500 Arabia is have

00:26:55.200 maximum leverage,

00:26:56.740 right?

00:26:57.280 You want it with

00:26:57.920 any country,

00:26:58.820 but particularly

00:26:59.680 one that's, you

00:27:00.540 know, has some

00:27:01.500 hostilities towards

00:27:02.720 us.

00:27:03.160 You want to have

00:27:03.800 maximum leverage.

00:27:04.600 What gives you

00:27:05.620 maximum leverage

00:27:06.560 is energy

00:27:07.260 independence.

00:27:07.800 That's right.

00:27:08.520 Right.

00:27:08.760 When you go over

00:27:09.400 there and all of a

00:27:10.180 sudden your gas

00:27:10.640 prices have hit a

00:27:11.360 maximum high and

00:27:12.480 you need something

00:27:13.320 out of these

00:27:13.720 people.

00:27:14.380 Now, now you

00:27:15.040 got a problem,

00:27:15.860 right?

00:27:16.180 I mean, and

00:27:16.620 that's the way

00:27:17.060 these guys

00:27:17.460 operate.

00:27:17.960 It's just so

00:27:18.560 dumb.

00:27:19.940 Yeah.

00:27:20.080 And we know

00:27:20.500 that.

00:27:20.740 Now, speaking

00:27:21.200 of dumb, let's

00:27:22.640 shift gears and

00:27:23.160 talk about AOC.

00:27:26.300 Great.

00:27:26.740 She's defending

00:27:29.880 herself today and

00:27:31.620 her ridiculous fake

00:27:33.180 handcuffs act that

00:27:35.480 she did and

00:27:36.880 basically saying that

00:27:38.320 it's just best

00:27:39.140 practices to put

00:27:40.780 your hands behind

00:27:41.720 your back when you

00:27:43.000 are arrested.

00:27:44.000 She made sure she

00:27:44.780 was arrested by

00:27:45.560 blocking traffic at

00:27:46.680 a Supreme Court

00:27:47.320 demonstration over

00:27:49.520 Roe versus Wade

00:27:50.580 being overturned.

00:27:51.740 Here she is acting

00:27:52.660 as if the police

00:27:53.500 have her handcuffed

00:27:54.520 and they do not.

00:27:55.820 And then she

00:27:56.080 forgets she has

00:27:56.640 the handcuffs on

00:27:57.360 and she puts her

00:27:58.180 fist up and

00:27:59.280 forgets, you know,

00:28:00.160 like when you're

00:28:00.520 going to go method,

00:28:01.180 you got to go full

00:28:01.840 method.

00:28:02.320 You got to like

00:28:02.620 immerse yourself in

00:28:03.400 the real you are

00:28:04.780 handcuffed.

00:28:05.360 Live it.

00:28:05.760 Live it.

00:28:06.100 Own it.

00:28:06.800 Anyway, now she's

00:28:07.540 mad that people are

00:28:08.440 calling her out for

00:28:09.320 her hypocrisy.

00:28:10.180 She and Ilan Omar,

00:28:11.200 who was even worse.

00:28:12.380 Ilan's acting was

00:28:13.280 even worse than AOC's

00:28:14.420 and and saying it is

00:28:17.040 misogynistic to

00:28:18.620 suggest that she

00:28:19.960 would fake handcuffs

00:28:21.560 on her.

00:28:22.360 That is what what is

00:28:23.360 what people do to

00:28:24.100 undermine women trying

00:28:26.160 to make their

00:28:26.700 point.

00:28:27.520 What do you make

00:28:28.020 of that?

00:28:29.120 That's a ping pong

00:28:29.980 ball.

00:28:30.360 I'm glad you

00:28:31.200 mentioned that they

00:28:31.820 were blocking traffic

00:28:32.760 because this was

00:28:33.300 really a two part

00:28:34.200 ruse there.

00:28:35.540 They you are very

00:28:37.100 familiar with how

00:28:37.960 much space there is

00:28:39.000 to demonstrate in

00:28:40.160 front of the Supreme

00:28:40.740 Court, to demonstrate

00:28:41.840 in front of the

00:28:42.400 Capitol.

00:28:42.800 But if you're going to

00:28:44.180 stand in the middle of

00:28:45.140 the street, the police

00:28:46.080 are going to have to

00:28:46.500 move you out of the

00:28:47.260 way.

00:28:47.540 So they literally stood

00:28:48.480 in the street knowing

00:28:49.320 that they were going to

00:28:49.980 move out of the way so

00:28:51.000 they could pull the

00:28:51.720 handcuffs con and

00:28:54.260 and it's a complete

00:28:56.780 they're just a complete

00:28:57.720 joke.

00:28:58.140 And I think this is the

00:28:58.840 thing is there's a

00:29:00.500 couple layers to this.

00:29:01.840 So what the Dobbs

00:29:03.580 decision basically states

00:29:05.680 is the letter of the

00:29:07.340 law, the Constitution is

00:29:08.500 going to be followed.

00:29:09.260 If you want to have a

00:29:10.300 law, you have to pass

00:29:11.120 legislation, plain and

00:29:12.440 simple.

00:29:13.380 So what does the

00:29:13.860 legislator do?

00:29:14.700 Well, they stand out in

00:29:15.520 the middle of traffic

00:29:16.140 instead of passing a

00:29:18.140 law.

00:29:18.700 This is not how you do

00:29:20.100 something or accomplish

00:29:21.080 anything.

00:29:21.400 As a legislator, write a

00:29:23.400 bill, pass a bill.

00:29:25.160 You've got the

00:29:25.600 majorities in the House,

00:29:26.820 in the Senate, you've

00:29:27.400 got the White House.

00:29:28.380 And instead of that,

00:29:28.980 they want to demonstrate.

00:29:29.900 And here's the other

00:29:30.460 thing is what they're

00:29:31.220 trying to do is they're

00:29:32.480 trying to normalize these

00:29:34.240 attacks to undermine the

00:29:35.640 Supreme Court.

00:29:36.340 You had a month ago

00:29:38.080 an attempted assassination of

00:29:39.860 a Supreme Court

00:29:40.440 justice.

00:29:41.120 A crazy guy tried to

00:29:42.760 kill Justice Brett

00:29:43.960 Kavanaugh.

00:29:44.620 And what is what has

00:29:45.960 happened in the

00:29:46.400 aftermath?

00:29:47.100 You've got left wing

00:29:47.880 lunatics who have

00:29:48.500 continued to show up

00:29:49.640 outside the houses of

00:29:51.620 Supreme Court justices,

00:29:52.760 which is illegal.

00:29:53.620 You can't intimidate

00:29:54.480 justices.

00:29:55.100 You can't intimidate

00:29:55.700 just judges in this

00:29:56.560 country.

00:29:56.980 You're not supposed to.

00:29:58.480 You know, we don't have

00:29:59.200 an attorney general who

00:30:00.300 cares about the laws.

00:30:01.100 We don't have a

00:30:01.380 president who cares about

00:30:01.960 the laws.

00:30:02.240 We have legislators who

00:30:03.240 clearly don't care about

00:30:04.240 the laws.

00:30:05.040 And they're trying to

00:30:05.780 normalize undermining the

00:30:07.480 Supreme Court, trying to

00:30:08.960 say that, oh, this is the

00:30:10.280 Supreme Court.

00:30:11.060 All the Supreme Court has

00:30:11.920 said is that you have to

00:30:12.980 pass laws to have laws.

00:30:14.460 It's a very simple thing.

00:30:15.300 It's so misogynistic of

00:30:16.480 you, Swan.

00:30:17.000 Yeah.

00:30:17.360 That's your misogyny

00:30:19.320 rearing its ugly head.

00:30:21.200 Remember, this opinion was

00:30:22.420 leaked months ago.

00:30:24.240 And the best they could come

00:30:25.260 up with as a response to

00:30:26.600 that is to fake protests in

00:30:28.400 the middle of the street.

00:30:29.200 Right.

00:30:29.940 Doing doing some protester

00:30:31.020 cosplay.

00:30:31.800 So true.

00:30:32.200 Well, point to

00:30:32.760 look at their legislators

00:30:34.580 and they're like, dude,

00:30:35.860 seriously.

00:30:36.460 And I think that's just

00:30:38.520 telling of the left is like

00:30:39.600 these are people who are not

00:30:40.640 interested in legislation.

00:30:41.860 They are not interested in

00:30:43.080 governing.

00:30:43.620 They're interested in chaos.

00:30:45.160 They want to have their way

00:30:46.640 by show force.

00:30:47.600 We saw through a summer of

00:30:48.840 riots of BLM.

00:30:50.240 We saw it right now where

00:30:52.120 legislators are getting

00:30:53.260 arrested, fake arrested,

00:30:54.900 trying to put on a

00:30:56.480 demonstration instead of

00:30:57.680 actually do you don't

00:30:59.080 understand that this is

00:31:00.600 the new way of

00:31:01.500 legislating.

00:31:02.300 Insta thought it's yeah,

00:31:03.400 it's an Instagram based

00:31:05.660 form of legislating.

00:31:06.780 You don't pass laws, you

00:31:07.900 get likes.

00:31:08.560 That's how it works.

00:31:09.360 They don't want chaos.

00:31:10.440 You're being too kind.

00:31:11.300 That's what Putin wants.

00:31:12.960 She's no Putin.

00:31:14.240 She wants to be on camera.

00:31:16.680 The Ilan Omar.

00:31:17.820 So dumb.

00:31:18.520 Her office tweeted out

00:31:19.500 before she even went there.

00:31:20.760 Often the protesters who

00:31:22.060 block traffic get arrested.

00:31:25.420 Can we go back to

00:31:26.940 something you said at

00:31:27.640 the beginning that I've

00:31:28.380 missed in this entire

00:31:29.320 controversy, Megan, is

00:31:31.060 that did she say

00:31:32.400 honestly that she did

00:31:34.240 it because that's the

00:31:35.000 right way to like a

00:31:36.760 police protocol?

00:31:37.860 She's having a Twitter

00:31:38.660 fight with Nancy Mace,

00:31:39.900 another congressional

00:31:40.760 representative who said

00:31:42.740 you're faking it.

00:31:43.580 You were faking, you

00:31:44.460 know, handcuffs.

00:31:45.740 And she was like, not

00:31:46.700 faking any anything.

00:31:48.240 Everyone knows that best

00:31:49.320 practices when one is

00:31:50.460 arrested is to place

00:31:51.760 one's hands behind

00:31:52.820 the mask.

00:31:54.020 So it's not to escalate

00:31:55.300 the situation.

00:31:56.060 Right.

00:31:57.120 So she's like a couple

00:31:58.300 days ago.

00:31:58.680 She's complaining that the

00:31:59.540 Capitol Hill police won't

00:32:00.880 arrest some guy who's just

00:32:02.200 using unkind words

00:32:04.160 toward her.

00:32:05.180 And now she's suggesting

00:32:06.120 she's going to get a beating

00:32:07.240 if she walks with her hands

00:32:08.900 down by her sides by

00:32:10.180 these cops.

00:32:11.620 I mean, I expect a lot of

00:32:12.960 things out of AOC to be

00:32:14.980 an expert on police

00:32:16.400 protocol is not one of

00:32:18.240 them.

00:32:18.480 Right.

00:32:18.700 This is that this is not a

00:32:20.080 lady who I think has a lot

00:32:21.420 of insight into law

00:32:22.320 enforcement in this country.

00:32:23.480 But it's demonstrated by

00:32:24.720 the she literally led the

00:32:26.000 defund police crowd.

00:32:27.140 Right.

00:32:27.560 So she's like, no, no, no.

00:32:28.920 This is what you do.

00:32:29.820 This is how they make the

00:32:30.660 officers.

00:32:31.320 She used to be a bartender.

00:32:32.380 She wants to tell me how

00:32:33.220 to make a Harvey Wall

00:32:34.600 thing.

00:32:34.980 I'll listen.

00:32:35.800 Yeah.

00:32:36.120 I don't need to know from

00:32:37.100 her how to place my hands

00:32:38.600 as though she's had it done

00:32:39.900 to her so many times.

00:32:40.740 All right.

00:32:41.120 So we've got we have so

00:32:42.320 much more to get to with

00:32:43.800 you guys.

00:32:44.160 I mean, like, I don't know

00:32:44.720 where to begin, but we're

00:32:45.460 going to get to Chris

00:32:47.300 Cuomo trying to be a

00:32:48.760 firefighter until he

00:32:50.040 realized how hard it was.

00:32:51.180 I've been dying to talk

00:32:53.240 to you about that.

00:32:53.860 I knew you were coming

00:32:54.260 on today, so we saved it

00:32:55.320 for you more with a

00:32:56.580 ruthless crew coming up

00:32:57.920 right after this.

00:33:05.140 So, I mean, I I'm torn

00:33:07.120 whether I ever want to

00:33:08.340 talk about Chris Cuomo,

00:33:09.400 but this is too good.

00:33:10.620 It's just too good not to

00:33:11.700 go there.

00:33:12.540 So he got booted from

00:33:13.540 CNN after crossing

00:33:15.660 several ethical lines in

00:33:17.080 defense of his embattled

00:33:18.480 brother, Andrew Cuomo,

00:33:19.540 who was the governor of

00:33:20.400 New York until he got

00:33:21.200 ousted over sexual

00:33:22.560 harassment.

00:33:23.840 And we found out after

00:33:25.020 the fact that Chris Cuomo

00:33:25.960 was doing all sorts of

00:33:27.320 things to help him that he

00:33:28.300 had denied to his

00:33:29.140 employer and to the public

00:33:30.140 that he was doing.

00:33:31.080 So he got ousted, too.

00:33:33.020 And now the Daily Beast,

00:33:34.700 Lachlan Cartwright over

00:33:35.800 there, get this scoop.

00:33:37.420 OK, so in his downtime,

00:33:39.960 he's not working at the

00:33:41.220 moment.

00:33:42.180 He he OK.

00:33:44.020 He applied to be a

00:33:45.360 firefighter in East

00:33:47.280 Hampton, which is, you

00:33:48.560 know, the she she town

00:33:49.860 out in the Hamptons.

00:33:51.280 It's a volunteer firehouse.

00:33:53.480 But then he thought the

00:33:54.640 better of it when he

00:33:55.940 discovered the time

00:33:57.060 commitment required.

00:33:59.660 He found out it's really

00:34:01.220 hard to be a firefighter

00:34:03.320 and he withdrew his

00:34:04.760 application after learning

00:34:06.560 more from multiple fire

00:34:08.160 chiefs.

00:34:09.060 East Hampton Fire

00:34:09.800 Department chief Dwayne

00:34:10.960 Forrester told the Daily

00:34:11.880 Beast that the volunteer

00:34:13.140 commitment includes

00:34:13.960 monthly meetings and

00:34:15.380 drill exercises, and

00:34:16.960 each volunteer is

00:34:18.020 required to answer a

00:34:19.140 certain threshold of

00:34:20.040 emergency calls.

00:34:21.440 Forrester told the Daily

00:34:22.280 Beast, quote, that's why

00:34:24.040 we don't have many

00:34:25.020 celebrities.

00:34:27.620 Great quote.

00:34:29.080 So this guy goes out

00:34:30.560 there thinking he's

00:34:32.020 going to make himself

00:34:32.900 look good because

00:34:33.540 everything with him is

00:34:34.580 how do I make myself

00:34:35.800 look good?

00:34:36.940 And he couldn't even

00:34:38.200 manage to to accept

00:34:39.700 the training obligations

00:34:40.960 because though he's

00:34:42.280 unemployed, he's

00:34:43.140 it was too much of a

00:34:44.260 time commitment.

00:34:45.420 I actually think he's

00:34:46.820 pretty well qualified for

00:34:48.000 this.

00:34:48.240 He's got a lot of

00:34:48.880 experience putting out

00:34:49.800 fires for his brother.

00:34:51.620 Well, and don't forget

00:34:52.680 Jeff Zucker at CNN.

00:34:54.000 He's doing a lot of work

00:34:55.060 on that, too.

00:34:55.800 It's a natural transition

00:34:56.700 in many ways.

00:34:57.300 Well, he's also got some

00:34:58.200 experience on the other

00:34:59.020 side as an arsonist trying

00:35:00.100 to burn down CNN from the

00:35:01.380 outside now.

00:35:02.680 I think he's immensely

00:35:03.720 qualified for the position.

00:35:04.980 It's like backdraft.

00:35:05.880 You have to know the fire.

00:35:06.760 That's right.

00:35:07.200 You have to know the fire

00:35:09.440 is to see it.

00:35:10.600 Look at the face.

00:35:11.920 And then he found out you

00:35:12.660 actually had to help people

00:35:13.840 and he was like, ah, shit,

00:35:14.700 I got nothing on that.

00:35:16.100 Yeah, forget that.

00:35:17.160 Oh, it's so it's just so

00:35:18.080 classic, right?

00:35:18.860 And it's like it's kind of

00:35:19.920 an insult to real

00:35:21.260 firefighters to think like I

00:35:22.460 can just phone this one

00:35:23.280 in.

00:35:23.880 Maybe I could get in the

00:35:24.560 calendar.

00:35:25.400 You know, maybe the chicks

00:35:26.760 will swoon.

00:35:27.800 It's like, you know what?

00:35:28.720 You actually have to risk

00:35:29.740 your life.

00:35:30.200 It actually takes a ton of

00:35:31.520 training.

00:35:32.420 It takes a certain

00:35:33.380 mental toughness that he

00:35:34.460 definitely does not have.

00:35:36.160 And as soon as they

00:35:37.680 showed him the list, he was

00:35:39.380 like, oh, forget about it.

00:35:40.720 Hell no.

00:35:41.240 And probably wasn't

00:35:41.900 thinking it would come out.

00:35:43.440 But God bless these these

00:35:45.140 by actual firefighters who

00:35:46.500 appear to have leaked it.

00:35:49.080 If you can't make the cut

00:35:50.540 in the Hamptons, I'm just

00:35:51.940 saying, like, you know,

00:35:52.820 not that it gets the

00:35:53.620 Hamptons, but like if you

00:35:54.800 can't make the cut there,

00:35:56.080 my guess is like that's

00:35:57.500 pretty much the end of the

00:35:58.480 run.

00:35:58.780 Right.

00:35:59.660 Yes.

00:36:00.100 Now I'll take you guys

00:36:01.680 back to a kinder,

00:36:03.040 gentler version of Chris

00:36:04.480 Cuomo when he was at

00:36:06.660 CNN.

00:36:07.740 His BFF was Don Lemon

00:36:10.020 and their sick little

00:36:11.860 love fest on air.

00:36:13.260 There were just absolutely

00:36:14.360 nauseating to the audience

00:36:16.080 judging from the numbers.

00:36:17.480 And now in his latest

00:36:19.680 filing against CNN,

00:36:21.560 because he's still still

00:36:22.340 suing them for tens of

00:36:24.340 millions of dollars saying

00:36:25.720 he was wrongly terminated.

00:36:27.140 He's completely thrown his

00:36:28.920 old buddy under the

00:36:30.080 bus.

00:36:30.960 The love fest is no

00:36:32.620 more because he's

00:36:33.560 pointing to Don Lemon as

00:36:34.600 an example of somebody

00:36:35.940 who's absolutely awful when

00:36:37.560 it comes to a journalistic

00:36:38.940 ethics who never got

00:36:40.600 touched by CNN management.

00:36:41.980 They didn't they didn't

00:36:42.980 punish him.

00:36:44.060 So just to walk you down

00:36:45.600 memory lane, here's the

00:36:46.560 two of them in kinder,

00:36:48.140 gentler, more loving

00:36:49.000 times.

00:36:49.560 See you tomorrow night.

00:36:54.100 You're just so weird.

00:36:57.360 Whatever, but it's weird

00:36:58.500 because, you know, me, I

00:36:59.680 mean, you're worse than me.

00:37:00.840 You're a bigger hugger and

00:37:01.880 kisser than I am.

00:37:02.800 Right.

00:37:03.100 It's true.

00:37:03.700 It is true.

00:37:05.360 Sometimes I'm like, Chris,

00:37:06.400 stop.

00:37:07.000 When were we ever greater

00:37:08.760 than we are today?

00:37:10.120 Boy, we're free, more

00:37:11.320 inclusive.

00:37:11.980 Miller play songs that

00:37:13.700 made the hit parade.

00:37:15.820 Guys like us, we had it

00:37:17.860 made.

00:37:18.680 I have a card for you.

00:37:20.700 Oh, and there you go.

00:37:22.400 It's beautiful.

00:37:23.640 Oh, my God.

00:37:24.440 I knew you would think it

00:37:25.380 was beautiful because you're

00:37:26.320 surrounded.

00:37:27.140 One of the things I love most

00:37:28.380 about what people take from

00:37:29.480 our friendship.

00:37:30.140 I mean, we're friends

00:37:30.700 anyway.

00:37:31.220 If it didn't work on TV,

00:37:32.280 we would still be friends

00:37:33.200 often.

00:37:33.840 Gee, our old LaSalle

00:37:35.480 ran great.

00:37:36.820 That's exactly what this

00:37:38.020 is.

00:37:38.780 Those were the days.

00:37:42.820 Oh, my God.

00:37:44.100 There are people who

00:37:44.840 are in my mouth.

00:37:46.000 Well, not many.

00:37:46.840 Not many.

00:37:47.140 Not many.

00:37:48.000 No.

00:37:48.400 I like I'm actually

00:37:49.640 sort of speechless.

00:37:51.040 I don't know what to say.

00:37:52.440 I'm so gross.

00:37:53.040 I mean, I'm grossed out

00:37:54.220 by what we just saw.

00:37:55.620 It's just proof that,

00:37:56.780 you know, how just what a

00:37:58.260 bunch of phonies they

00:37:59.240 are, you know, just

00:38:00.620 vacant human being.

00:38:02.020 I think I think Cuomo also

00:38:03.160 kind of thinks himself a

00:38:04.380 tough guy, but then he's,

00:38:05.580 you know, tries to sign up

00:38:06.440 to be a firefighter and

00:38:07.500 suddenly it's too much.

00:38:08.480 I mean, that's the thing

00:38:08.900 is who would have thought

00:38:09.740 someone like that doesn't

00:38:10.760 have actual skills that can

00:38:12.080 be used outside.

00:38:13.980 I can't believe you guys

00:38:14.860 are like talking like we

00:38:16.080 didn't just witness what we

00:38:17.060 just saw.

00:38:17.600 Like, I don't you need a

00:38:18.320 moment to recover?

00:38:19.720 I'm still working on it,

00:38:23.040 Megan.

00:38:23.400 It's like that is really

00:38:24.520 rough.

00:38:25.580 What that what was that?

00:38:26.860 I can't believe it's not.

00:38:28.760 Thank God Jeff Zucker's

00:38:29.800 fired and Cuomo's fired

00:38:32.240 and Don Lemon should

00:38:33.100 definitely be fired soon.

00:38:35.000 That was disgusting.

00:38:36.940 It's no wonder nobody

00:38:38.760 watches them.

00:38:39.520 And so now the the flip

00:38:41.460 OK, the flip

00:38:42.520 in his latest filing,

00:38:44.900 he points out

00:38:46.520 that

00:38:47.480 Zucker and his

00:38:49.580 lover, Gallist,

00:38:50.760 who worked for him, too,

00:38:51.660 who he promoted up the ranks

00:38:52.700 year after year after year.

00:38:54.420 And according to

00:38:55.540 many people, including

00:38:56.980 the Rolling Stone, they

00:38:58.140 were having an affair for

00:38:59.060 decades.

00:39:00.780 Zalas and Zucker,

00:39:01.820 Gallas and Zucker,

00:39:02.740 they were willing to

00:39:03.840 overlook major

00:39:04.620 transgressions by CNN

00:39:05.840 personalities such as Don

00:39:06.980 Lemon, who was even who

00:39:08.700 was eager to engage in

00:39:09.920 blatant misconduct.

00:39:11.280 He goes on to say this is

00:39:12.600 Chris Cuomo's filing

00:39:13.360 saying,

00:39:14.420 for example, in November

00:39:16.080 2021, Empire actor

00:39:17.620 Jussie Smollett

00:39:18.420 testified that Lemon

00:39:19.940 personally warned him

00:39:21.220 that Chicago police did

00:39:22.500 not believe his false

00:39:23.360 accusations of a

00:39:24.100 of a hate crime.

00:39:25.560 Lemon's consulting

00:39:26.360 with the embattled

00:39:27.540 actor constituted a

00:39:29.180 flagrant breach of

00:39:30.160 journalistic ethics.

00:39:31.940 Cuomo's team wrote

00:39:32.880 intervening in the

00:39:34.900 ongoing investigation

00:39:36.160 by texting Smollett

00:39:37.720 was an inexcusable

00:39:39.060 breach of ethics.

00:39:40.380 The filing argued

00:39:40.980 that CNN did nothing.

00:39:42.540 Lemon was not

00:39:43.020 disciplined in any

00:39:44.320 way.

00:39:44.980 A far cry

00:39:46.200 from

00:39:47.260 this one

00:39:48.720 where Don Lemon

00:39:49.900 learned that Chris

00:39:50.720 Cuomo

00:39:51.080 had covered

00:39:52.780 some content.

00:39:55.460 Sorry.

00:39:56.300 I said I wasn't

00:39:57.160 going to do this.

00:39:57.820 Jesus.

00:39:58.840 He's probably sitting

00:39:59.720 at home laughing at

00:40:00.580 me.

00:40:01.280 So here's the thing.

00:40:02.320 he's I have to

00:40:06.000 when I walk into

00:40:06.720 work every day

00:40:07.460 and Chris and I

00:40:08.500 are really good

00:40:08.940 friends.

00:40:09.240 We live near each

00:40:09.840 other.

00:40:10.440 And so when I walk

00:40:11.400 into work every day,

00:40:12.200 I have to walk by

00:40:13.200 where Chris is.

00:40:14.120 So I usually like go

00:40:15.040 to his office and I

00:40:16.040 say, you know,

00:40:17.140 what's doing?

00:40:17.840 Sometimes I bring the

00:40:18.480 dogs and we just

00:40:19.940 say hello.

00:40:20.640 Anyway, he's just not

00:40:21.580 here and we have

00:40:22.980 this great relationship.

00:40:24.960 Oh, my God.

00:40:25.440 He's holding the

00:40:26.120 tissue, dabbing

00:40:27.860 his.

00:40:28.160 Who to guess

00:40:28.600 that's a dysfunctional

00:40:29.680 workplace.

00:40:32.320 How did he start?

00:40:34.460 How did he stop

00:40:35.220 with Lemon?

00:40:36.000 Right.

00:40:36.360 I mean, like,

00:40:36.960 where's the potato

00:40:37.660 in that transgression

00:40:38.760 that he was filing?

00:40:39.840 But I did like when

00:40:40.720 I heard the filing

00:40:41.620 where you were

00:40:42.040 reading off in the

00:40:42.960 Jesse Smollett thing

00:40:44.180 and everything else.

00:40:45.040 Like, what's that

00:40:45.980 meme of the dude

00:40:46.940 who is like the

00:40:47.640 worst person in the

00:40:48.440 world just said

00:40:49.480 something I agree

00:40:50.100 with?

00:40:50.700 Like, that's the

00:40:51.500 only thing I can

00:40:52.820 think of.

00:40:53.660 But like he could

00:40:54.300 put the entire

00:40:55.000 primetime set of

00:40:56.820 CNN for the last

00:40:57.800 four years on that

00:40:59.120 same filing.

00:40:59.820 And I'm sure it

00:41:00.680 would probably prop

00:41:01.880 up his case.

00:41:03.000 Jeffrey Toobin,

00:41:03.980 how you doing?

00:41:05.860 Cuomo, meanwhile,

00:41:07.580 you say he likes

00:41:08.180 to be seen as a

00:41:08.720 tough guy, 100%.

00:41:09.800 So he's tweeting

00:41:10.800 or I don't

00:41:11.620 Instagramming.

00:41:12.660 My team finds

00:41:13.380 this stuff.

00:41:13.860 I do not follow

00:41:14.460 this man Instagram

00:41:16.060 about some sort

00:41:17.440 of a comeback.

00:41:18.400 And would you

00:41:18.800 I'm going to

00:41:19.280 describe this for

00:41:19.940 the audience

00:41:20.400 that's listening.

00:41:21.260 But again,

00:41:22.060 you're going to

00:41:22.460 what does it say

00:41:23.320 on the screen there?

00:41:24.340 OK, he's got a

00:41:25.060 cigar.

00:41:25.400 He's showing his

00:41:25.960 muscle.

00:41:26.660 Something's coming.

00:41:27.620 He's showing his

00:41:28.140 muscle, his muscle,

00:41:28.940 his cigar, his muscle,

00:41:29.980 his cigar.

00:41:30.980 Something's coming.

00:41:31.840 There's his muscle

00:41:32.440 and his cigar again.

00:41:33.940 Honestly, I've never

00:41:35.420 run with a

00:41:36.120 Toobin's catch line.

00:41:37.920 This is just

00:41:39.620 incredible divorce

00:41:40.620 dad energy right now.

00:41:43.220 This man has no

00:41:44.380 testosterone in his

00:41:45.260 body.

00:41:45.620 There's no testosterone.

00:41:46.560 There's nothing.

00:41:47.300 I'm going to go ahead

00:41:47.840 and say right now,

00:41:48.800 he's a horrible lover.

00:41:50.180 There's just no way

00:41:51.060 anybody who has

00:41:52.500 any sort of

00:41:52.960 testosterone and is

00:41:53.800 able to perform in bed

00:41:54.640 does not put out

00:41:55.240 muscle, muscle, muscle.

00:41:56.300 They don't do it.

00:41:56.920 I'm saying it's

00:41:59.120 clear it's an

00:42:00.000 overcompensation.

00:42:02.100 Megan, you're saying

00:42:02.980 that he put this

00:42:03.740 out himself like

00:42:05.200 he like this isn't

00:42:06.220 something that the

00:42:07.120 show made up.

00:42:08.260 This is something he

00:42:08.880 did himself.

00:42:09.620 He I'm telling you,

00:42:11.360 he thinks he's hot.

00:42:13.220 He thinks something

00:42:14.240 sexy.

00:42:14.940 He thinks those

00:42:15.600 ridiculous barbell

00:42:16.620 videos and that

00:42:17.340 stupid cigar muscly

00:42:18.880 thing is actually

00:42:19.580 going to turn

00:42:20.020 somebody on.

00:42:21.520 I've got.

00:42:22.700 Hold on, Megan.

00:42:23.300 I have a very,

00:42:24.360 very important

00:42:25.180 PSA for your

00:42:26.240 staff when

00:42:28.160 you're following

00:42:28.800 a Cuomo on

00:42:29.760 Instagram.

00:42:31.860 Close the

00:42:32.480 DMS.

00:42:33.260 I feel like we

00:42:34.340 have ample proof

00:42:35.380 that there is

00:42:36.020 this danger.

00:42:38.740 And, you

00:42:39.740 know, I'm glad

00:42:40.200 you don't follow

00:42:41.040 this man, but

00:42:41.740 the staff, I

00:42:42.420 know they're just

00:42:42.940 doing their jobs,

00:42:43.760 but, you

00:42:44.140 know, head on a

00:42:44.800 swivel out there.

00:42:47.440 It's true.

00:42:48.100 It's a big risk.

00:42:49.480 Well, who knows

00:42:50.220 whether he's going

00:42:50.740 to stay independent

00:42:51.400 or sign on with

00:42:52.440 one of these, you

00:42:53.140 know, lesser

00:42:53.760 known cable

00:42:55.040 competitors.

00:42:55.660 But I have

00:42:56.440 zero desire to

00:42:57.200 see the Chris

00:42:58.000 Cuomo act

00:42:58.580 return to town.

00:42:59.380 And as I have

00:43:00.000 no problem with

00:43:00.600 him trying to

00:43:00.960 make a living,

00:43:02.040 everybody should

00:43:03.060 be should try,

00:43:03.980 but there's not

00:43:04.500 going to be any

00:43:04.980 audience for him.

00:43:06.440 That's clear.

00:43:07.180 There's a reason.

00:43:07.900 I mean, it's just

00:43:08.820 a tough one.

00:43:09.520 So clearly the

00:43:10.860 Fredo of that

00:43:12.080 family.

00:43:12.720 So clearly the

00:43:13.700 Fredo, like his

00:43:14.900 brother was

00:43:15.280 governor's dad.

00:43:16.760 He's the

00:43:17.320 leftover.

00:43:18.080 So you had to

00:43:18.400 grow up and

00:43:18.960 they had to

00:43:19.300 find a role for

00:43:19.940 this dummy.

00:43:21.120 CNN's like,

00:43:21.700 OK, we'll take

00:43:22.320 him.

00:43:22.500 You can do PR for

00:43:23.180 your brother and

00:43:23.680 they'll give us

00:43:24.140 access to the

00:43:24.780 governor's mansion.

00:43:25.720 But he has

00:43:26.460 absolutely zero

00:43:27.620 skill set.

00:43:28.780 It's so clear.

00:43:29.920 Poor guy.

00:43:30.800 I mean, he looks

00:43:31.260 awful.

00:43:31.900 This video, the

00:43:32.500 video she just

00:43:33.360 showed reminds me

00:43:34.360 remember when his

00:43:35.080 other comeback when

00:43:35.920 he emerged from the

00:43:36.900 basement after COVID.

00:43:38.800 Oh, you guys

00:43:39.280 remember this?

00:43:40.260 Well, so that

00:43:41.240 reminds me.

00:43:42.900 So the the the

00:43:44.660 Cuomo sort of, you

00:43:46.200 know, drama over

00:43:47.220 COVID, which was

00:43:48.200 clearly an act.

00:43:49.040 I mean, obviously

00:43:49.420 that was an act

00:43:49.940 emerging from the

00:43:50.580 basement and his

00:43:51.280 like night terrors

00:43:52.460 where he lost a

00:43:53.160 tooth.

00:43:53.480 I mean, give me a

00:43:54.080 break.

00:43:54.460 Right.

00:43:54.700 It's like, what a

00:43:55.980 joke, especially

00:43:58.640 with some 2020

00:43:59.440 hindsight.

00:43:59.920 You know, it's like

00:44:00.700 that's a joke.

00:44:01.600 He was a young,

00:44:02.320 healthy man, very

00:44:03.420 fit, as you'd be

00:44:04.440 sure to point out.

00:44:05.680 There's no way any

00:44:06.400 of that stuff

00:44:06.760 happened.

00:44:07.460 So anyway, but

00:44:08.960 COVID is making a

00:44:09.840 comeback, as you

00:44:10.320 may have seen this

00:44:10.880 sub sub variant of

00:44:12.620 Omicron.

00:44:13.300 And now not just

00:44:14.820 are they pushing for

00:44:15.460 more mask mandates,

00:44:16.280 but once again, out

00:44:18.040 in San Diego, OK,

00:44:19.560 California, the

00:44:21.360 school board

00:44:21.940 president has a

00:44:23.040 message for the

00:44:23.640 students who don't

00:44:24.460 want to wear the

00:44:25.440 masks.

00:44:26.160 And it's basically

00:44:27.260 take your story

00:44:28.580 walking by.

00:44:29.740 Get out.

00:44:30.760 Listen to this

00:44:31.320 woman.

00:44:33.140 Parents who

00:44:33.840 don't want to wear

00:44:35.080 a mask indoors in

00:44:36.340 school, are there

00:44:36.960 any other options

00:44:38.280 for them?

00:44:39.840 For the fall,

00:44:40.700 there are some

00:44:41.400 options.

00:44:41.920 They can go to

00:44:42.660 our school that's

00:44:44.780 online.

00:44:46.200 They can opt not to

00:44:47.620 return to the regular

00:44:48.720 school, but to go to

00:44:50.000 the school where they

00:44:51.080 don't have to go to

00:44:52.140 school at all other

00:44:53.100 than via Zoom.

00:44:55.400 And that's the

00:44:56.560 easiest way for folks

00:44:57.740 who don't want to

00:44:58.320 What about the summer

00:44:58.540 school?

00:44:58.840 What if they were

00:44:59.300 already enrolled in the

00:45:00.220 summer school and now

00:45:01.160 they get this mask

00:45:02.140 mandate and they're not

00:45:03.820 comfortable with wearing

00:45:04.620 a mask?

00:45:05.960 They really should wear

00:45:07.360 the mask.

00:45:08.540 But if they're not

00:45:09.020 comfortable, what

00:45:10.120 should they do?

00:45:11.480 They should just

00:45:12.300 make it known that

00:45:13.680 they don't feel

00:45:14.160 comfortable and at

00:45:15.260 that point just not

00:45:16.280 return.

00:45:17.620 Just don't come back.

00:45:18.880 Don't come to

00:45:19.340 school.

00:45:20.040 Okay.

00:45:20.440 Public schools,

00:45:21.120 children, don't come

00:45:22.340 if you're uncomfortable

00:45:23.580 wearing the mask.

00:45:24.900 That just shows the

00:45:26.000 absolute need for the

00:45:28.460 funding that goes

00:45:29.560 towards education

00:45:31.060 should be the

00:45:32.240 student and not the

00:45:33.320 institution.

00:45:34.220 The money should

00:45:34.760 follow the kid.

00:45:36.040 The parents should

00:45:36.700 have the ability to

00:45:37.640 put their children in

00:45:38.640 a school, whether it's

00:45:40.120 homeschooling, whether

00:45:41.060 it's a private school,

00:45:42.140 the funds should be

00:45:42.820 directed at the

00:45:44.240 child, not at the

00:45:45.320 institution, because

00:45:46.060 these people have a

00:45:46.840 monopoly.

00:45:47.700 They feel so

00:45:48.300 comfortable being like,

00:45:50.020 well, just don't show

00:45:50.740 up.

00:45:51.380 We'll still get the tax

00:45:52.200 money.

00:45:52.440 Who cares?

00:45:53.040 How do you get the job

00:45:53.960 of being one of these

00:45:54.740 people?

00:45:55.240 Like, honestly, I

00:45:55.960 guess, ostensibly,

00:45:58.380 they're supposed to be

00:45:59.120 an expert in education

00:46:00.440 at some level.

00:46:01.620 Right.

00:46:01.820 But we're now, what,

00:46:02.820 two years into this

00:46:04.220 situation.

00:46:05.440 There is, I'm not an

00:46:07.260 expert on education, but

00:46:08.680 occasionally you run, you

00:46:09.840 run into stats, right?

00:46:11.580 They just hit you in the

00:46:12.560 face.

00:46:12.960 And it turns out that the

00:46:14.960 education gap of people

00:46:16.440 who had to go to

00:46:17.200 schools like this monster

00:46:18.820 is presiding over is

00:46:20.520 absolutely horrible for

00:46:22.840 the children.

00:46:23.440 That's right.

00:46:23.900 Their achievement gaps

00:46:25.120 have widened,

00:46:26.180 predominantly in low

00:46:27.460 income and minority

00:46:28.480 districts.

00:46:29.600 They have, they have

00:46:30.300 online classes do not

00:46:32.140 work.

00:46:32.460 They have never worked

00:46:33.460 for kids that are under

00:46:35.020 college age.

00:46:36.120 And you have a question

00:46:36.860 about that even above.

00:46:38.720 What it's done to our

00:46:40.020 society is horrific.

00:46:42.480 Now, if you just stop the

00:46:43.660 education component, how

00:46:45.120 about we look at some

00:46:45.740 COVID stats?

00:46:46.760 The president of the

00:46:47.280 United States is four

00:46:48.080 times jab.

00:46:48.820 You just got COVID.

00:46:50.080 Right.

00:46:50.580 What the hell is a mask

00:46:51.460 going to do for that?

00:46:52.820 Absolutely nothing.

00:46:53.980 Like, we already know what

00:46:55.280 COVID is.

00:46:55.920 COVID is a coronavirus

00:46:56.940 that has been around for

00:46:59.160 a millennia.

00:46:59.960 Like, we understand what

00:47:01.340 COVID is and how it makes

00:47:03.100 a variant.

00:47:03.740 Like, that's what the

00:47:04.400 seasonal flu is, you

00:47:05.420 jackass.

00:47:06.320 Like, I don't understand

00:47:07.520 how they get into a

00:47:08.800 place where they still

00:47:10.640 feel comfortable mandating

00:47:12.680 these kind of things with

00:47:14.140 a body of evidence all

00:47:16.020 around them.

00:47:16.620 Like, just wake up a

00:47:17.660 goddamn book.

00:47:18.580 And not just the education

00:47:20.380 performance, but just the

00:47:21.700 mental health of these

00:47:22.840 children.

00:47:23.880 I mean, the depression,

00:47:25.260 the social skills that

00:47:26.300 aren't developing.

00:47:27.320 It's, it's, I mean, it's

00:47:28.240 monstrous is what it is.

00:47:29.460 Well, I'm glad you mentioned

00:47:30.240 the president because while

00:47:31.660 they're making these kids

00:47:32.920 wear masks, the White

00:47:34.460 House just released a

00:47:35.500 photo demonstrating that

00:47:36.840 Biden is still at work

00:47:38.320 now that he has COVID.

00:47:39.780 He's not wearing a mask

00:47:40.660 in the picture.

00:47:41.460 So, so he wears a mask

00:47:43.500 every day except for the

00:47:44.540 day he has COVID.

00:47:46.340 Masks don't prevent

00:47:47.680 COVID.

00:47:48.400 The vaccines don't

00:47:49.600 prevent COVID.

00:47:50.740 You can wear an N95 mask

00:47:52.380 if you want to protect

00:47:53.080 yourself from some

00:47:54.020 droplets, but school mask

00:47:55.740 mandates don't work.

00:47:57.360 And they've done study

00:47:58.920 after study that show

00:48:00.140 that including the CDC,

00:48:01.620 but the media buries it.

00:48:03.260 The ruthless hosts will be

00:48:04.440 right back with us after

00:48:05.720 this quick, quick break.

00:48:11.140 So, okay, guys, there is

00:48:13.880 an issue with Starbucks.

00:48:15.080 Now, I never go to

00:48:15.860 Starbucks.

00:48:16.520 I don't like Starbucks

00:48:17.520 coffee.

00:48:18.080 I never have.

00:48:18.800 It's too like bitter.

00:48:20.200 I'm just not my cup of

00:48:21.560 tea, so to speak.

00:48:23.560 Dunkin' Donuts getting

00:48:24.840 closer to what I like.

00:48:25.960 New York City deli coffee.

00:48:27.700 Boom.

00:48:28.180 That's the one.

00:48:28.940 That's the best, better

00:48:29.980 than any of the other

00:48:30.740 nonsense, and cheaper,

00:48:32.380 too.

00:48:32.940 And I don't want to buy

00:48:33.820 coffee in any place that

00:48:34.680 requires me to say the

00:48:35.540 size of the cup in a

00:48:36.480 different language.

00:48:37.380 Screw you.

00:48:38.060 I have to get a small,

00:48:39.100 a medium, a large.

00:48:40.820 Take your highfalutin'

00:48:41.800 attitude and take a walk.

00:48:43.680 So I'm not a huge

00:48:44.780 Starbucks fan to begin

00:48:45.880 with, but a couple years

00:48:47.400 ago while I was still at

00:48:48.400 NBC, they announced a new

00:48:50.380 policy whereby they were

00:48:52.000 going to allow anybody to

00:48:53.960 come into Starbucks, even

00:48:55.040 if it wasn't a paying

00:48:55.840 customer, and use

00:48:57.460 Starbucks and use the

00:48:59.000 bathrooms and do whatever

00:49:00.000 the hell they wanted in

00:49:01.000 Starbucks.

00:49:02.140 And for those of you who

00:49:03.820 think that I didn't speak

00:49:04.800 my mind while I was at

00:49:05.620 NBC, go back and look at

00:49:07.180 my coverage of Brett

00:49:07.840 Kavanaugh and look at

00:49:09.100 moments like this one where

00:49:10.000 I raised on a panel of

00:49:11.380 people who are maybe

00:49:12.320 differently aligned

00:49:13.860 ideologically the fact

00:49:15.320 that this was a disaster

00:49:16.520 in the making.

00:49:17.880 And I went on after this

00:49:19.280 clip that you're going to

00:49:20.300 see.

00:49:20.560 But watch.

00:49:22.980 The part of this that's

00:49:23.800 getting, you know,

00:49:25.380 lambasted is now you don't

00:49:28.180 have to buy anything to go

00:49:29.340 into the Starbucks.

00:49:30.040 You don't have to buy

00:49:30.580 anything to use the

00:49:31.340 restroom.

00:49:31.880 And so paying customers are

00:49:33.460 now.

00:49:33.860 And here's here's the issue

00:49:35.060 complaining.

00:49:35.820 I see the other side of it.

00:49:37.160 I mean, I think some of

00:49:38.040 these people don't have

00:49:38.780 places to go.

00:49:40.260 I've seen people sit in our

00:49:41.600 local Starbucks here in New

00:49:42.660 York City that that are

00:49:43.820 homeless that don't have

00:49:44.820 another place.

00:49:45.740 But that's not the

00:49:46.340 solution.

00:49:46.700 Of course, it's not a

00:49:49.680 solution, but it's also

00:49:50.700 compassionate.

00:49:51.800 And there's a question

00:49:52.260 about whether a commercial

00:49:53.200 establishment is that

00:49:54.460 place for the paying

00:49:56.380 customers who go in with

00:49:57.420 their kids.

00:49:57.920 And do you really want to

00:49:59.140 deal with a mass of

00:50:01.160 homeless people or

00:50:02.400 whoever's in there could

00:50:03.960 be drug addicted.

00:50:04.700 You don't know.

00:50:07.420 Well, I mean, I'll get to

00:50:09.160 the answer because it's

00:50:10.020 been answered this week

00:50:11.680 about whether people do

00:50:12.860 want to deal with that.

00:50:13.540 But can I just spend one

00:50:14.680 minute on the reaction

00:50:16.360 to that segment?

00:50:18.220 It went totally viral.

00:50:20.280 We my producers pulled

00:50:21.340 just a couple of

00:50:21.920 headlines for you.

00:50:23.380 Salon, Megan Kelly

00:50:24.440 slammed Starbucks for

00:50:25.360 allowing non-customers to

00:50:26.360 use bathroom.

00:50:27.000 And the body of the

00:50:27.780 piece was not that

00:50:28.740 flattering.

00:50:29.160 You'll be shocked to

00:50:29.700 hear bustle.

00:50:33.080 Megan Kelly is not

00:50:34.120 happy that Starbucks will

00:50:35.240 let, quote, a mass of

00:50:36.320 homeless people use its

00:50:37.240 bathrooms.

00:50:37.700 Daily Beast, Megan Kelly

00:50:38.600 frets that the homeless

00:50:39.660 could take over Starbucks

00:50:41.220 Newsweek, same on and on

00:50:42.380 it goes.

00:50:43.620 And now today we get the

00:50:45.120 announcement from the

00:50:45.740 Starbucks CEO, Howard

00:50:46.780 Schultz.

00:50:47.440 They are closing 16

00:50:49.460 profitable stores,

00:50:51.800 profitable stores all in

00:50:53.080 left-leaning cities like

00:50:54.160 L.A., Philly, Portland,

00:50:55.320 Oregon, Washington, D.C.,

00:50:56.780 Seattle and so on.

00:50:57.940 Howard Schultz, the

00:50:59.240 president of Starbucks,

00:51:00.660 saying America has

00:51:02.820 become unsafe and my

00:51:05.200 employees in these stores

00:51:06.680 feel unsafe as a result of

00:51:09.980 his dumbass policy.

00:51:11.480 Listen.

00:51:13.180 I don't have to spend too

00:51:14.560 much time on what's going

00:51:16.420 on in the country and how

00:51:17.600 America has become unsafe.

00:51:19.360 It has shocked me that one

00:51:22.220 of the primary concerns that

00:51:24.300 our retail partners have is

00:51:27.080 their own personal safety.

00:51:29.760 And then we heard the stories

00:51:31.100 that go along with it about

00:51:32.580 what happens in our

00:51:33.360 bathrooms.

00:51:35.000 The issue of mental

00:51:36.180 illness, the issues of

00:51:37.880 homelessness and the issues

00:51:39.100 of crime.

00:51:41.440 Welcome, Howard.

00:51:42.840 Come on in.

00:51:43.300 The water's fine.

00:51:44.200 If you just keep your eyes

00:51:45.020 open, it's very clear what

00:51:46.920 these stupid left-leaning

00:51:48.520 woke policies are going to

00:51:49.540 lead to.

00:51:50.320 Closure of profitable

00:51:51.380 stores.

00:51:52.040 They're reversing the policy.

00:51:53.840 They're not going to require

00:51:54.760 this anymore.

00:51:55.700 And they said, quote, the

00:51:57.020 bathrooms have in large

00:51:58.140 part, this is from an

00:51:59.300 article writing it up, but

00:52:00.680 based on what he said,

00:52:02.420 devolved into dens of

00:52:04.380 debauchery regularly used by

00:52:06.580 vagrants and homeless to do

00:52:08.040 drugs and engage in other

00:52:09.620 illicit behavior, the

00:52:11.280 company will now give

00:52:12.140 staffers discretion to

00:52:13.360 deny free access to the

00:52:15.220 store's bathrooms.

00:52:17.000 What do we make of this?

00:52:19.860 My first observation,

00:52:21.720 Megan, you're absolutely

00:52:22.720 in agony of defeat, gal,

00:52:24.300 as we do in our podcast,

00:52:25.540 because like all the

00:52:26.860 amazing things that you do

00:52:28.120 in your career, you don't

00:52:28.760 need to talk about for a

00:52:29.700 minute, but you remember

00:52:30.480 every single time they came

00:52:32.060 at you.

00:52:32.500 I love it.

00:52:34.520 It's so perfect.

00:52:35.340 I love that.

00:52:36.200 I mean, obviously you were

00:52:37.240 right.

00:52:37.540 I was a little, a little

00:52:38.500 shocked you didn't even get

00:52:39.500 any backup from a Bush on

00:52:41.080 that deal.

00:52:41.640 It's like you versus the

00:52:42.840 world on, on that panel.

00:52:44.820 Jenna's not conservative.

00:52:45.760 She's not a conservative.

00:52:47.060 Not, she's no George W. Bush.

00:52:47.800 I think that's fair.

00:52:48.620 I think that's a fair

00:52:49.260 assessment.

00:52:49.940 But I mean, obviously,

00:52:52.240 right?

00:52:52.500 I mean, that's what you were

00:52:53.140 pointing out.

00:52:53.880 Obviously, this is like when

00:52:56.120 you don't enforce crime, crime

00:52:57.920 happens when you let

00:52:59.260 homeless people into your

00:53:00.640 into your store, you know,

00:53:02.780 substandard stuff happens.

00:53:04.060 But for the left, and you

00:53:05.640 saw it there in the clip,

00:53:07.120 their solution doesn't

00:53:08.180 actually have to work.

00:53:09.540 It just has to be

00:53:10.500 compassionate.

00:53:11.500 That's the only thing they

00:53:12.360 care about.

00:53:12.820 And it's the same thing we're

00:53:13.620 seeing with the southern

00:53:14.300 border right now.

00:53:15.380 Well, now that crisis of all

00:53:16.680 of these migrants who've been

00:53:17.680 shipped all across the

00:53:18.720 country are now on the

00:53:20.320 doorsteps of Mayor Adams

00:53:22.280 in New York City.

00:53:23.620 And it's now suddenly their

00:53:24.680 policy of compassion has come

00:53:26.380 to their front doorstep and

00:53:27.380 they don't like it so much.

00:53:28.320 And I think that's the I think

00:53:30.020 that's the heart of the

00:53:30.640 issue is that their belief

00:53:33.260 that this kind of allowing

00:53:36.600 this to happen is

00:53:37.760 compassionate, allowing and

00:53:39.600 enabling addiction is

00:53:41.040 somehow compassionate.

00:53:42.560 This is that's not

00:53:43.780 compassionate at all.

00:53:45.720 Letting people suffer

00:53:46.780 through drug addiction

00:53:47.780 rather than, you know, you

00:53:49.740 see it in New York City, you

00:53:50.820 see in all these woke cities

00:53:52.040 where they think the solution

00:53:52.940 is you let the homeless do

00:53:55.020 whatever they want, let them

00:53:56.300 to succumb further into

00:53:57.640 addiction, let them start

00:53:59.180 assaulting people.

00:54:00.260 That's that's that's

00:54:01.200 compassion.

00:54:01.800 It's completely misguided.

00:54:03.180 These people need help.

00:54:04.380 They don't need to be in a

00:54:05.380 commercial area.

00:54:06.380 Taxpayers are already paying

00:54:07.600 for homeless shelters and

00:54:09.160 services that can be provided

00:54:10.300 to these individuals.

00:54:11.520 Why should be upon private

00:54:12.920 businesses to have to carry

00:54:14.340 the workload for misguided

00:54:16.180 government policies from

00:54:17.260 these woke people who think

00:54:18.500 they're compassionate when

00:54:19.440 they're just neighbors?

00:54:20.100 I would like to augment

00:54:21.180 this policy.

00:54:22.100 I would like to augment this

00:54:23.200 policy a little bit, you

00:54:24.840 know, be able to deny and

00:54:26.060 treat people who are going

00:54:26.780 to shoot up drugs in your

00:54:27.980 bathroom, but also kick out

00:54:29.740 the grad student working on

00:54:31.480 his 10th rewrite of a

00:54:32.560 screenplay.

00:54:33.320 It's not happening.

00:54:34.660 It's not happening.

00:54:35.540 True.

00:54:35.980 Get out like I want to sit

00:54:37.480 there for five minutes when

00:54:38.360 I go into these stores, not

00:54:39.700 Starbucks.

00:54:40.300 But yeah, they said they're

00:54:41.400 all day.

00:54:41.900 It's like get a damn office

00:54:43.440 space for the love of God or

00:54:44.660 work in your mother's

00:54:45.300 basement.

00:54:45.760 But Howard Schultz and George

00:54:48.080 Soros both made the same

00:54:49.320 mistake.

00:54:49.660 They looked around at their

00:54:50.600 beautiful, well-heeled

00:54:52.040 neighborhoods and they were

00:54:52.940 like, yes, let's do

00:54:54.360 something to help, you

00:54:56.080 know, but they don't have

00:54:56.800 to live with the

00:54:57.540 consequences of their

00:54:58.640 decisions.

00:54:59.640 And so I'm going to guess

00:55:00.860 that a fair amount of the

00:55:01.720 baristas who take a job at

00:55:03.020 Starbucks are pretty woke and

00:55:04.660 pretty left.

00:55:05.500 And even they having to live

00:55:07.160 it on the front line said

00:55:08.400 this is insane.

00:55:09.900 And honestly, having lived in

00:55:11.220 New York City for the past

00:55:12.140 17 years, I walked many

00:55:14.940 times by homeless people who

00:55:17.180 were obviously dangerous.

00:55:19.380 And my kids, you know, you'd

00:55:20.760 hold their hands a little

00:55:21.560 tighter.

00:55:22.060 You'd walk a little faster.

00:55:23.060 You'd say, don't don't make

00:55:24.320 eye contact because they'd be

00:55:25.920 yelling like motherfucker,

00:55:27.480 you know, like at your kid,

00:55:29.020 like, you know, I'm going to

00:55:29.820 get you.

00:55:30.380 You're like, just walk, just

00:55:31.680 walk.

00:55:32.160 And now they're going to bring

00:55:33.040 it into this to the

00:55:34.360 Starbucks.

00:55:34.980 And my little kid's going to

00:55:36.100 have to use the restroom.

00:55:37.620 And I'm going to have to say,

00:55:38.560 just step over that man and

00:55:39.920 his needle.

00:55:40.820 And you don't know what's

00:55:41.960 going to happen.

00:55:42.440 These guys are strung out on

00:55:43.500 drugs.

00:55:43.860 Not every one of them, but

00:55:45.020 fair enough.

00:55:46.240 One guy chased us through the

00:55:47.540 park, like chased us and we

00:55:49.340 were running.

00:55:49.940 It's like you don't know what

00:55:51.400 you're welcoming in.

00:55:52.240 OK, so you can be in your

00:55:54.160 ivory tower saying how kind

00:55:55.800 and, you know, compassionate

00:55:57.360 this is going to be all you

00:55:58.460 want.

00:55:58.840 It's not kind and compassionate

00:56:00.140 to my then five year old who

00:56:02.400 got the daylight scared out of

00:56:03.700 him where he had to run.

00:56:04.820 He had to run because some

00:56:06.280 homeless person had been

00:56:07.380 allowed into a space he should

00:56:08.680 not have been allowed.

00:56:10.780 Oh, 100 percent.

00:56:12.060 Also, there's a real blind

00:56:12.980 spot for mental health with the

00:56:14.420 left.

00:56:14.700 You notice that?

00:56:15.300 Yep.

00:56:15.640 It's the one thing they never

00:56:16.680 want to talk about with with

00:56:17.880 any of these situations,

00:56:18.900 whether it's homelessness,

00:56:20.460 violence in schools.

00:56:21.660 I mean, you name it.

00:56:23.140 They like mental health is

00:56:24.380 just something that they

00:56:25.140 can't grasp.

00:56:26.200 Well, if they actually

00:56:26.700 tackled mental health, there

00:56:27.820 wouldn't be a left.

00:56:28.760 So I think that's probably

00:56:29.660 well, compassion might be

00:56:33.900 one part of it.

00:56:34.640 But I think that there are

00:56:35.460 some people that subscribe to

00:56:36.720 this woke ideology that

00:56:37.840 literally just want to tear

00:56:39.000 our society down.

00:56:40.300 They see something that's

00:56:41.440 working well and they don't

00:56:42.620 want it to work well anymore

00:56:43.640 because they hate America.

00:56:45.000 They literally want our

00:56:45.980 country to be a terrible

00:56:47.160 place.

00:56:48.820 So on this front, OK, the

00:56:50.480 woke eating its own.

00:56:52.200 My producer, Debbie, Canadian

00:56:53.260 Debbie, has been trying to get

00:56:54.620 me to talk about this for, I

00:56:55.900 don't know, five days now.

00:56:57.020 And you guys are my victims.

00:56:59.380 There is a woke coffee shop.

00:57:02.340 All right.

00:57:02.660 That is now had to close down.

00:57:04.540 It's in Philadelphia.

00:57:05.820 It's called Minna's World.

00:57:08.140 I think it's Minna.

00:57:08.820 It's M-I-N-A.

00:57:11.100 Mina.

00:57:11.640 OK, sorry, Deb.

00:57:12.240 So it opened in just 2020

00:57:14.600 and it was known for its

00:57:16.040 LGBTQ brand identity.

00:57:18.700 Tons of great reviews over

00:57:19.940 the years.

00:57:20.560 You got 2020 Bon Appetit

00:57:21.880 calling it a hangout spot for

00:57:23.400 people of marginalized

00:57:24.220 identities.

00:57:25.660 Complex, which I guess a

00:57:26.960 magazine mentioned, Minna's

00:57:28.040 World is a lovely and queer

00:57:29.980 and trans owned and celebrated

00:57:31.740 it.

00:57:32.520 You've got two owners, Sonam

00:57:35.100 Parikh and Kate Eggert, who

00:57:37.160 claim this is the city's first

00:57:38.360 coffee shop owned and operated

00:57:39.840 by queer trans people of

00:57:42.320 color.

00:57:43.120 All right.

00:57:43.320 This is important for some

00:57:44.380 people to just state all of

00:57:46.060 their identities so that they

00:57:47.080 can lure in the groups they

00:57:48.400 want.

00:57:49.240 Parikh said, I've worked in

00:57:51.060 coffee since I was 18.

00:57:52.600 Most of the workplaces were

00:57:53.560 really toxic in the sense that

00:57:54.760 workers were not being paid

00:57:55.740 well and the white ownership

00:57:57.340 neglected to protect their

00:57:58.660 black and trans employees.

00:58:00.340 I knew there needed to be a

00:58:01.480 space where you could have an

00:58:02.720 amazingly made cup of coffee

00:58:04.420 that's not whitewashed.

00:58:07.060 But then, but then the

00:58:10.160 mutiny began because no one

00:58:13.360 is safe and the woke love to

00:58:15.680 turn on their own.

00:58:16.780 It started last month.

00:58:19.240 An Instagram page called the

00:58:21.000 Minna's World Workers began

00:58:22.940 posting accusations against the

00:58:25.020 ownership.

00:58:25.940 Quote, we are facing systemic

00:58:28.100 employer opposition, manipulation,

00:58:30.480 abuse of power, exploitation,

00:58:31.820 anti-blackness, ableism, hostility,

00:58:34.540 and complete disregard for our

00:58:36.320 livelihoods.

00:58:37.600 The list of grievances included

00:58:39.320 anti-blackness in a multitude

00:58:41.420 of forms and occasions, ableism

00:58:43.360 in the form of inaccessibility,

00:58:45.300 et cetera, et cetera, manipulation,

00:58:47.440 tokenization as a way to appear

00:58:49.400 safe by association.

00:58:51.640 Now, here's the list of demands.

00:58:53.300 OK, public acknowledgement and

00:58:55.440 accountability for grievances and

00:58:57.240 harm caused.

00:58:58.320 The second, immediate payment to

00:59:00.640 staff that have had payment

00:59:02.180 withheld, including back pay.

00:59:03.800 And here's the capper.

00:59:05.660 The owner must redistribute the

00:59:08.420 business and begin the process

00:59:11.120 of transforming the business

00:59:13.040 into a cooperative.

00:59:15.900 So you no longer get to own it.

00:59:18.120 We need to own it.

00:59:20.240 And then comes the hostage video

00:59:22.680 from Sonam Parikh and Kate

00:59:25.100 Eggert, who completely

00:59:27.180 capitulate.

00:59:28.680 Watch.

00:59:28.960 We are complicit in the gentrification

00:59:33.040 and anti-blackness on 52nd Street.

00:59:37.440 We put our community at risk with

00:59:40.140 our presence, as well as our workers.

00:59:43.220 The workers of Nina's World deserve

00:59:44.820 so much more.

00:59:47.180 And our ultimate goal is to return

00:59:49.140 the space to them.

00:59:50.160 We can raise the funds to turn over

00:59:51.880 the space to them and to make sure

00:59:53.760 that they get to have

00:59:56.300 Nina's World in the way that

00:59:57.740 they have envisioned it

00:59:58.880 and rightfully should have it.

01:00:02.240 Totally folded.

01:00:03.560 Okay.

01:00:04.040 And here's the post.

01:00:05.160 Now, here's the post.

01:00:07.140 Now, a struggle session.

01:00:08.700 You actually just saw a struggle session.

01:00:10.580 The building where Nina's World

01:00:12.420 and for those of you listening,

01:00:13.640 I mean, the two owners look like

01:00:14.760 they're straight out of central

01:00:15.460 casting with a different color hair

01:00:16.840 and the weird like whatever

01:00:17.940 the effeminate man.

01:00:19.460 Now, there's anything wrong with that.

01:00:20.620 The building where Nina's World was located

01:00:22.840 was owned by Kate's mother.

01:00:25.180 Okay.

01:00:25.420 So she wants to, Kate wants to redistribute.

01:00:26.900 Great.

01:00:27.180 Go to mommy.

01:00:27.860 Tell her to redistribute.

01:00:29.380 Mommy was like, hell no.

01:00:31.660 The mom owns not only the building,

01:00:34.000 but 18% of Nina's World.

01:00:35.600 And now, according to Sonoma and Kate,

01:00:37.880 the mom refused to redistribute the business

01:00:40.160 and wound up listing the building,

01:00:42.920 selling it.

01:00:43.800 It's done.

01:00:44.900 No more non-whitewashed coffee for you.

01:00:49.280 So it's done.

01:00:50.760 And I love everything about this story.

01:00:52.780 The grownups are back in control.

01:00:54.980 What an amazing story.

01:00:57.520 That is fantastic.

01:00:58.940 Your producer deserves

01:00:59.980 incredible amount of credit

01:01:01.200 for coming up with that.

01:01:02.300 The two people who run the joint,

01:01:04.200 I mean, fantastic.

01:01:05.620 You couldn't cast them in years.

01:01:07.540 I mean, that's what I mean.

01:01:08.180 It's like if you actually tackle

01:01:09.680 the mental health crisis,

01:01:10.740 there will be no less.

01:01:11.840 Look at what these people

01:01:12.760 are doing to themselves

01:01:13.640 and what they want to do to us.

01:01:14.840 Well, the list of demands

01:01:15.840 is just like lib, you know, mad lips.

01:01:18.120 Yes, it's literally mad lips.

01:01:19.920 But then you get to the end of it, right?

01:01:21.420 And it's like, oh,

01:01:22.460 it all needs to be redistributed, right?

01:01:24.540 And then you realize

01:01:25.340 all these people are just Marxists.

01:01:26.900 And they dress up Marxism

01:01:28.600 as they have for the last hundred years

01:01:30.000 with the terms of the day,

01:01:31.520 tokenization or anti-blackness,

01:01:33.500 whatever it is.

01:01:34.060 But at the end of the day,

01:01:35.080 they're just like socialists

01:01:36.360 who want to take everybody else's stuff.

01:01:38.100 It's as simple as that.

01:01:39.660 If you build it, they will come.

01:01:41.640 Yeah.

01:01:42.040 Right.

01:01:42.720 And they came and they took the shit

01:01:44.240 away from the store.

01:01:45.040 I've never heard of whitewashing coffees

01:01:47.460 that you just put a little cream in it

01:01:48.920 or what?

01:01:49.260 That is the most ridiculous accusation.

01:01:50.900 Like, I like my coffee black.

01:01:52.460 It doesn't need pro now.

01:01:53.480 And I think that's a prime example

01:01:55.780 of if you give these crazy people an inch,

01:01:58.960 they will take everything that they can.

01:02:00.920 You can't, you cannot in any way

01:02:03.340 humor any of this ridiculous madness.

01:02:06.340 Like the pipeline from professors

01:02:09.460 coming up with these crazy ideas

01:02:11.340 at Oberlin to becoming mainstreamed

01:02:13.940 and the media starting to repeat

01:02:15.280 and parrot these crazy ideas.

01:02:16.820 It's like at light speed at this point.

01:02:19.140 All of this is just absolutely ridiculous.

01:02:21.480 We have a country that's almost 300 years old

01:02:23.680 that's founded on these principles

01:02:25.120 that have worked

01:02:25.880 and who someone with purple hair

01:02:28.020 who's 18 is going to explain to us

01:02:29.940 like actually everything

01:02:30.820 you've been doing is wrong.

01:02:32.600 You can't let these people get anything.

01:02:35.360 I got two years until those people

01:02:37.060 are daily listeners

01:02:37.760 to Steve Bannon's podcast.

01:02:41.340 They see more direct pipeline

01:02:43.700 than you think, I think.

01:02:45.940 So you're right

01:02:47.260 because if you give these woke activists an inch,

01:02:49.600 they will take a mile.

01:02:50.540 And we saw that just last night.

01:02:52.820 I'm sure you guys have heard

01:02:53.500 about what happened to Dave Chappelle

01:02:55.140 who was booked to perform in Minneapolis

01:02:59.220 at a venue called First Avenue.

01:03:01.840 And it's not like the Dave Chappelle controversy

01:03:04.560 with his comments about the trans community

01:03:06.240 has been a little seen news item, right?

01:03:10.380 Like, nor has like the J.K. Rowling tweets,

01:03:14.920 you know, like people know Dave Chappelle,

01:03:17.500 most anybody paying any attention

01:03:19.040 know that he got into some trouble

01:03:20.660 for those Netflix specials

01:03:22.480 where he made some jokes about trans people,

01:03:24.540 made some commentary about trans people

01:03:25.760 and Netflix stood behind him

01:03:27.000 and he makes $20 million a special

01:03:28.600 and he's doing just fine.

01:03:30.060 But nonetheless,

01:03:31.300 someplace called First Avenue,

01:03:32.840 a venue, booked him.

01:03:34.860 And good for them, right?

01:03:37.140 We like that.

01:03:38.060 Free speech.

01:03:38.920 Let him do his thing.

01:03:39.500 You don't want, you don't like his jokes.

01:03:41.140 Don't show up.

01:03:42.320 Nope, that wasn't enough.

01:03:43.740 They were pressured into canceling

01:03:46.380 the comedy show last night.

01:03:48.580 I think it was last night after backlash.

01:03:50.760 And now First Avenue has posted

01:03:52.260 the following Instagram message

01:03:53.520 to the staff, the artists,

01:03:54.680 the community, blah, blah.

01:03:55.920 We hear you and we are sorry.

01:03:58.440 We know we must hold ourselves

01:03:59.600 to the highest standards

01:04:00.540 and we know we let you down.

01:04:02.520 We are not just a black box with people in it.

01:04:05.040 And we understand that First Ave

01:04:06.500 is not just a room,

01:04:07.640 but meaningful beyond our walls.

01:04:10.380 We and you have worked hard

01:04:11.600 to make our venues

01:04:12.280 the safest spaces in the country.

01:04:15.160 And we will continue with that mission.

01:04:17.200 We believe in diverse voices

01:04:18.460 and in the freedom of artistic expression.

01:04:20.760 But in honoring that,

01:04:21.960 we lost sight of the impact this would have.

01:04:25.320 Oh my God.

01:04:26.600 We know there's some who will not disagree.

01:04:28.100 We welcome your feedback.

01:04:28.840 I'll give you a little background

01:04:31.560 on First Ave was one of the primary

01:04:34.900 concert venues for Prince

01:04:37.700 when he first started

01:04:39.360 and came up through the music ranks.

01:04:41.780 And when I was a kid living

01:04:43.000 in a suburb of Minneapolis,

01:04:44.700 that place was like a mecca

01:04:47.980 of bringing in all kinds of different music,

01:04:50.620 everything from like country

01:04:52.660 and Southern rock to, you know, Prince

01:04:56.120 and, you know, anything else

01:04:57.760 that was driving the day was kind of grunge

01:04:59.180 back when I was growing up was their thing.

01:05:01.580 And so like for a venue

01:05:03.220 that's as well established as that

01:05:05.500 to then get to a place

01:05:07.520 where they are booking Dave Chappelle,

01:05:09.560 which I'm not surprised by

01:05:10.480 because I mean, that's a

01:05:11.360 it is an important venue.

01:05:12.960 But then to cancel it

01:05:14.160 with words like that,

01:05:15.340 I mean, that is the saddest deterioration

01:05:17.260 of a once great institution

01:05:18.640 that I've heard in a long time.

01:05:21.620 That's the safest space.

01:05:23.820 We've worked hard to make our venues

01:05:25.240 the safest spaces in the country.

01:05:27.760 That sounds horrible.

01:05:29.360 Oh, unreal.

01:05:30.240 Man, it's unreal.

01:05:31.400 I mean, this is Dave Chappelle.

01:05:34.220 Like for them to put this kind of thing,

01:05:36.260 like you're not letting a comedian tell jokes.

01:05:39.940 It's really gotten to that point

01:05:41.500 where you can't express any sort of humor.

01:05:44.700 These people have no humor.

01:05:46.220 Like we just saw in that earlier segment,

01:05:48.100 they just want to destroy things.

01:05:49.500 They want to come in.

01:05:50.720 They want to take over.

01:05:51.580 They want to destroy it.

01:05:52.560 And it's unbelievable

01:05:53.680 that they can't

01:05:54.500 they literally can't take a joke.

01:05:56.020 It's just so it's just so dramatic.

01:05:58.120 I mean, it's got a great history, obviously,

01:06:00.980 but it's a it's a concert venue.

01:06:03.160 And they're writing a press release

01:06:04.840 like it's a civil war or something like that.

01:06:07.380 I mean, for crying out loud,

01:06:08.580 it's so dramatic.

01:06:10.020 It reminds me a little bit

01:06:11.380 of the Ilya Shapiro thing

01:06:12.720 at Georgetown Law,

01:06:14.000 where they let him come to work there

01:06:17.360 because his tweet criticizing Biden

01:06:20.060 for saying, I'm only going to pick

01:06:21.900 a black woman for this new

01:06:23.620 newly vacated Supreme Court seat.

01:06:25.760 He had an ill worded tweet

01:06:27.300 and they punished him

01:06:29.060 with some investigation into him.

01:06:30.420 And then they let him come

01:06:31.220 to Georgetown Law

01:06:32.060 because they said the tweet

01:06:33.840 wasn't when you were working for us.

01:06:35.700 And Ilya wound up saying,

01:06:36.600 you know what?

01:06:37.000 No, I'm not doing it.

01:06:37.980 This is quicksand.

01:06:38.960 No.

01:06:39.620 But in their explanation

01:06:41.360 about like where they stand

01:06:43.480 on all of this,

01:06:44.120 they basically said,

01:06:44.860 we are committed to free speech.

01:06:46.780 And the freedom

01:06:48.540 to express one's opinion.

01:06:50.420 But it has to be done sensitively.

01:06:53.140 It has to be done with,

01:06:54.480 you know,

01:06:54.680 sort of these woke concerns in mind.

01:06:56.200 That's my paraphrase.

01:06:57.460 And listen again to this statement

01:06:59.320 that they that they made

01:07:00.560 in this First Avenue statement.

01:07:03.720 They write,

01:07:04.820 we believe in diverse voices

01:07:06.580 and the freedom

01:07:07.420 of artistic expression.

01:07:08.980 But, but in honoring that,

01:07:12.020 we lost sight of the impact

01:07:13.260 it would have.

01:07:14.700 So, no,

01:07:15.540 you don't believe

01:07:16.680 in the freedom of expression

01:07:17.800 because your real mission

01:07:19.340 is to have, quote,

01:07:20.320 the safest spaces

01:07:21.600 in the country.

01:07:22.860 The two things

01:07:23.380 are indeed incongruous.

01:07:25.820 And we really are

01:07:26.820 at a tipping point

01:07:27.580 for America,

01:07:28.860 for businesses,

01:07:29.560 for citizens,

01:07:30.120 where we have to choose.

01:07:31.680 You are going to have to choose.

01:07:34.500 Yeah.

01:07:34.660 And I don't think

01:07:35.180 we're afraid of it anymore.

01:07:36.480 You know,

01:07:36.860 I mean,

01:07:37.100 the rest of us

01:07:37.760 who are sitting around,

01:07:38.560 I think spent the last part

01:07:40.060 of the 20 years

01:07:40.680 watching the progressive left

01:07:41.880 march into this situation.

01:07:43.720 And all of us,

01:07:45.040 you know,

01:07:45.360 look,

01:07:45.600 we focus on our own lives

01:07:46.780 and our own stuff.

01:07:47.620 And so, like,

01:07:48.120 you know,

01:07:48.300 you want to go do what you do.

01:07:49.880 That's fine.

01:07:50.780 But now it's gotten to the point

01:07:52.340 where they're actually,

01:07:53.220 like,

01:07:53.580 first ave here,

01:07:54.560 supposed to celebrate art,

01:07:56.940 supposed to celebrate free speech.

01:07:58.860 And they're driving that

01:08:00.200 down your throats.

01:08:01.360 I think the vast majority

01:08:02.360 of the American people

01:08:03.240 are like,

01:08:03.780 go fuck yourself.

01:08:04.840 I'm not interested

01:08:05.540 in any of that shit anymore.

01:08:06.760 And now I'm actually

01:08:07.600 going to speak out about it

01:08:08.740 for the first time.

01:08:09.640 I mean,

01:08:09.760 you can see people rising up

01:08:11.240 who you never thought

01:08:12.920 would have strong opinions

01:08:14.300 on any of this

01:08:15.360 who've just had it.

01:08:16.640 They've just had it.

01:08:18.380 And these are the ones

01:08:19.320 that are creating

01:08:19.960 this larger rift

01:08:21.200 because it is,

01:08:22.280 I mean,

01:08:22.560 look,

01:08:23.180 we're going to have an election

01:08:23.920 in a few months.

01:08:24.640 And I think the cultural issues

01:08:26.620 that we're talking about

01:08:27.880 in addition to the economy

01:08:29.080 are going to play

01:08:29.980 a central role.

01:08:30.860 We're not interested

01:08:31.500 in the progressive left's

01:08:32.540 view of America anymore.

01:08:33.740 Yep.

01:08:34.100 And I think that's key.

01:08:35.100 And that's a very important

01:08:35.920 thing to say

01:08:36.420 is that for a while now,

01:08:38.180 conservatives have thought,

01:08:40.540 okay,

01:08:40.780 I just want to be left alone.

01:08:42.180 I just want to be left alone.

01:08:43.820 And that's kind of been

01:08:44.880 the current,

01:08:45.600 but now it's at the,

01:08:46.360 it's like in nature,

01:08:47.420 you know,

01:08:47.900 if a deer wants to be left alone,

01:08:50.760 a wolf's not going

01:08:51.320 to leave it alone.

01:08:51.960 Right.

01:08:52.360 And the left has become a wolf.

01:08:53.940 They want to impose their will,

01:08:55.340 whether you want it or not.

01:08:56.540 And now's not the time

01:08:57.440 to be like,

01:08:57.740 well,

01:08:58.080 I don't,

01:08:58.580 you know,

01:08:58.760 I just want to be left alone.

01:09:00.100 At this point,

01:09:00.880 they're taking over institutions.

01:09:02.480 You know,

01:09:02.940 if they're deciding

01:09:03.520 what a comedian,

01:09:04.280 where a comedian can perform.

01:09:05.980 Yeah.

01:09:06.460 If they're trying to,

01:09:07.280 they're even taking over

01:09:08.920 a coffee shop

01:09:09.940 because the people

01:09:10.540 with purple hair

01:09:11.160 aren't woken up.

01:09:12.060 I like,

01:09:12.680 I actually like our odds

01:09:13.680 because these people

01:09:14.420 are just absolutely ridiculous.

01:09:15.820 You'd mentioned JK Rowling earlier.

01:09:18.240 I don't know if anybody's

01:09:18.960 seen this news,

01:09:19.860 but Quidditch,

01:09:21.300 the fictional made up game

01:09:22.760 from these Harry Potter books

01:09:23.920 that she wrote,

01:09:24.640 they're going to like

01:09:25.320 rename the game Quidditch

01:09:27.240 because,

01:09:28.480 you know,

01:09:28.900 JK Rowling said something

01:09:30.060 insensitive to transgender people

01:09:31.640 or something like that.

01:09:33.340 You would think

01:09:34.360 that adults

01:09:35.580 playing a made up game

01:09:37.320 from books

01:09:37.940 for 10 year olds

01:09:39.080 would be embarrassed by that.

01:09:41.220 But no,

01:09:41.940 they can't be associated

01:09:42.840 with JK Rowling,

01:09:43.740 the author.

01:09:44.580 That's how ridiculous

01:09:45.400 these people are.

01:09:46.320 And we got to point that out

01:09:47.320 every time something

01:09:48.080 like this happens.

01:09:48.780 Totally.

01:09:50.000 The Randy Weingarten

01:09:52.400 headed teachers union,

01:09:54.100 right?

01:09:54.300 Second largest union

01:09:55.320 in the country

01:09:56.800 just did a study.

01:09:58.640 I think it was of 1700 people.

01:10:00.240 And it showed that

01:10:01.180 the Republicans

01:10:01.680 now have a one point edge

01:10:03.060 on education.

01:10:04.280 OK,

01:10:04.680 this is her group.

01:10:06.200 This is her group.

01:10:06.840 Bar left.

01:10:07.860 Democrats used to have

01:10:08.820 double digits

01:10:09.440 lead over the Republicans

01:10:10.880 on the generic ballot

01:10:11.800 when it came to education.

01:10:13.380 The Republicans are now

01:10:14.180 leading by one point.

01:10:15.220 But the fact that they're

01:10:15.900 leading is a major news headline.

01:10:18.060 And one of the things

01:10:18.720 that they're saying

01:10:19.260 that the voters are saying

01:10:20.200 is enough

01:10:21.140 with a constant focus

01:10:22.360 on social issues.

01:10:23.760 Right.

01:10:24.180 And I think that's

01:10:24.660 what the electorate

01:10:25.280 is saying to enough

01:10:26.080 with a constant focus

01:10:27.020 on social issues.

01:10:28.600 Like,

01:10:29.120 I don't think

01:10:29.640 they want to see

01:10:30.400 Dave Chappelle

01:10:30.960 punished

01:10:31.960 for having a view

01:10:33.460 that most people have,

01:10:34.420 which is

01:10:34.760 a biological man

01:10:35.920 cannot be a woman.

01:10:37.160 There is a difference.

01:10:37.920 There's a difference

01:10:38.420 between a trans woman

01:10:39.400 and an actual woman.

01:10:40.940 And they're meaningful

01:10:42.360 differences, right?

01:10:43.320 We can still be respectful,

01:10:44.340 but we don't have to ignore

01:10:45.120 the meaningful differences.

01:10:46.220 Just just today,

01:10:47.780 the Women's March,

01:10:48.820 I mean,

01:10:48.940 which is a joke

01:10:49.580 of an organization.

01:10:50.560 What women do they stand for?

01:10:52.140 Not me.

01:10:52.680 I guarantee you

01:10:53.560 I've done more for women

01:10:54.300 than the Women's March has.

01:10:55.600 Guarantee you

01:10:56.080 I've lived a life

01:10:56.700 that's helped a lot more people

01:10:57.720 than they have.

01:10:58.520 Do you have a hat, Megan?

01:10:59.820 Do you have a hat?

01:11:00.780 No, no,

01:11:01.640 I don't wear a dumbass hat

01:11:03.380 and I don't even normally

01:11:04.640 say the P word,

01:11:05.680 but they made me.

01:11:08.720 Their tweet is as follows.

01:11:10.460 Trans women are women.

01:11:12.760 That's it.

01:11:13.940 That's the tweet.

01:11:15.620 No, they're not.

01:11:16.300 They're biological men

01:11:17.880 who have gender dysphoria

01:11:19.740 and have chosen

01:11:20.920 to live their life

01:11:21.900 trying to appear

01:11:23.300 as an act as women.

01:11:24.860 And I can be respectful

01:11:25.880 of that choice,

01:11:26.620 but I don't have to deny

01:11:28.020 science and reality

01:11:29.400 to do it.

01:11:30.460 They're not women.

01:11:31.880 They're biological men

01:11:32.780 who want to live as women.

01:11:34.540 OK, that's fine.

01:11:35.980 No problem.

01:11:36.720 That doesn't make them women.

01:11:38.340 And I just think like

01:11:39.320 this is coming back

01:11:40.260 to haunt the Democrats

01:11:41.320 in the way that you just said.

01:11:43.340 It's like,

01:11:44.120 Holmes,

01:11:44.360 people have had it with this.

01:11:46.940 The reason,

01:11:48.240 it's like all these Latinas

01:11:49.240 who are like,

01:11:50.040 no, our community

01:11:50.940 doesn't believe in this nonsense

01:11:52.520 and I'm going to run

01:11:53.120 for office and win.

01:11:54.240 You know,

01:11:54.440 the people responding

01:11:55.340 to the American Federation

01:11:56.460 of Teachers,

01:11:57.020 the union saying,

01:11:58.340 no, I'm sick of you

01:11:59.080 pushing this on our kids.

01:12:00.600 I think you're right.

01:12:01.380 The Dave Chappelle stuff,

01:12:02.320 people have had it one by one.

01:12:04.360 More and more people

01:12:04.840 are going to be on

01:12:05.440 the Steve Bannon podcast

01:12:06.320 or something like it

01:12:07.260 because they they're

01:12:09.280 sick of this narrative.

01:12:12.000 Yeah,

01:12:12.340 no,

01:12:12.560 I 100 percent right.

01:12:14.680 It's it's completely absurd.

01:12:16.120 I mean,

01:12:16.300 just to go back to the

01:12:17.240 the transsexual tweet,

01:12:19.240 I mean,

01:12:20.160 to personalize that,

01:12:21.260 anybody with a daughter

01:12:22.180 who's interested

01:12:23.300 in participating

01:12:24.300 in sports,

01:12:25.040 that's now something

01:12:26.300 you have to think about.

01:12:27.520 Right.

01:12:28.040 And you have to think about

01:12:29.420 not only competing

01:12:30.680 amongst other women

01:12:32.000 and girls,

01:12:32.560 but now you have

01:12:33.780 a whole nother subset

01:12:34.940 that,

01:12:35.240 you know,

01:12:36.060 is winning.

01:12:36.840 And you've got magazines

01:12:38.200 that are that are saying

01:12:39.520 that people are

01:12:40.360 women of the year

01:12:41.720 that are actually

01:12:42.760 biologically born men.

01:12:44.480 I mean,

01:12:45.080 colleges,

01:12:45.660 how can that be?

01:12:47.200 How can you be

01:12:47.980 any more anti-woman

01:12:49.580 than that?

01:12:50.120 And I just don't think

01:12:51.100 it's a stretch.

01:12:51.640 I just don't understand it.

01:12:53.380 Well,

01:12:53.440 there was this great tweet

01:12:54.380 yesterday from Omri Saran,

01:12:55.920 who works in Ted Cruz's office,

01:12:57.560 where he had a screenshot.

01:12:59.740 The National Women's

01:13:00.720 History Museum,

01:13:02.360 the top three biographies

01:13:03.860 that they feature

01:13:04.540 are all

01:13:05.860 trans men to female,

01:13:08.680 male to female

01:13:09.520 individuals.

01:13:11.140 The top three women.

01:13:12.000 Trans women.

01:13:13.000 Trans women.

01:13:13.740 I'm sorry,

01:13:14.540 Rosa Parks.

01:13:15.320 Yeah.

01:13:15.540 You don't belong

01:13:16.400 on the top of this website.

01:13:17.620 I mean, seriously.

01:13:18.060 Like,

01:13:18.260 that's the most offensive

01:13:19.080 thing about all of this

01:13:20.040 is that celebrating

01:13:21.320 trans women

01:13:22.760 has to come

01:13:23.360 at the expense

01:13:24.320 of women.

01:13:25.820 Why is that?

01:13:26.980 You know?

01:13:27.840 Well, I mean,

01:13:28.240 that's the real irony

01:13:29.460 because if you think about it

01:13:30.520 and I,

01:13:31.700 if I picture a trans woman,

01:13:33.280 I picture a woman.

01:13:34.260 I picture somebody

01:13:34.840 who looks like a woman.

01:13:36.360 But the truth is,

01:13:37.440 it's a biological man.

01:13:38.880 It's a man.

01:13:39.760 You know,

01:13:39.980 I mean,

01:13:40.140 it's somebody who's got

01:13:41.040 male gametes,

01:13:42.540 gametes,

01:13:43.200 sperm,

01:13:43.640 and so on.

01:13:44.160 Like,

01:13:44.320 that can't be undone.

01:13:46.600 And so what the people

01:13:49.120 really pushing this messaging

01:13:50.520 are biological men

01:13:52.740 at the expense

01:13:53.740 of biological women,

01:13:55.580 right?

01:13:55.820 And then when biological women

01:13:57.480 stand up and say,

01:13:58.580 shut the hell up.

01:14:00.200 You may not compete

01:14:01.360 in our swimming

01:14:02.500 or our soccer

01:14:03.500 or our wrestling,

01:14:04.680 whatever the tournament is.

01:14:06.020 It's really a biological man

01:14:07.600 on the other side

01:14:08.140 saying,

01:14:08.540 yes,

01:14:08.740 I can.

01:14:09.680 Right?

01:14:09.960 And they're weird,

01:14:10.900 woke,

01:14:11.540 Upper West Side

01:14:12.320 biological women allies

01:14:13.900 who've abandoned

01:14:15.000 the real differences

01:14:17.140 between the sexes

01:14:18.120 when they count.

01:14:20.600 Yeah,

01:14:21.140 and I just don't know

01:14:22.160 how you can shame them

01:14:23.160 into doing anything else.

01:14:24.260 I mean,

01:14:24.640 you do a pretty good job.

01:14:26.280 Every time a biological male

01:14:28.520 wins a female event,

01:14:29.740 you basically tweet out

01:14:30.780 dudes rock.

01:14:32.400 Right?

01:14:33.220 And I thought maybe

01:14:34.020 that would do the trick.

01:14:35.340 But it's not.

01:14:36.520 I mean,

01:14:36.720 it's literally,

01:14:37.640 it's gone so far left

01:14:39.300 that it wraps around

01:14:40.460 and actually becomes

01:14:41.460 the most misogynistic thing

01:14:42.920 you could ever do.

01:14:44.080 Right?

01:14:44.560 I mean,

01:14:44.960 it's wild.

01:14:46.600 It's infuriating

01:14:47.540 and I'm sick of it.

01:14:48.300 And that's really

01:14:49.100 Dave Chappelle's sin

01:14:50.180 is calling attention

01:14:51.220 and that's J.K. Rowling's sin

01:14:52.720 is calling attention to this.

01:14:54.940 And, you know,

01:14:55.420 right,

01:14:55.780 Quidditch has to go away

01:14:56.740 and Dave Chappelle,

01:14:57.620 like probably the best paid

01:14:58.860 comedian in the world

01:14:59.900 right now

01:15:00.400 and most famous,

01:15:03.100 he can't perform

01:15:03.920 at this storied venue,

01:15:05.180 right?

01:15:05.400 But even though

01:15:05.860 they knew very well

01:15:06.560 what he said

01:15:07.200 prior to booking him,

01:15:08.740 look,

01:15:09.600 I want to end it

01:15:10.220 on a positive note

01:15:11.100 and that is

01:15:12.280 you guys may or may not

01:15:13.080 be aware of

01:15:13.980 I had some drama

01:15:15.220 with Air France.

01:15:16.600 My family and I

01:15:17.340 went to Italy

01:15:18.300 and they lost

01:15:19.660 not one,

01:15:20.400 not two,

01:15:20.860 not three,

01:15:21.280 not four,

01:15:21.900 but all five

01:15:23.460 of our bags.

01:15:25.080 All five!

01:15:26.180 They didn't get one

01:15:27.160 to us

01:15:27.920 and I did a big

01:15:29.460 talking points on it

01:15:30.700 and lots of people laughed

01:15:32.020 and it's online right now

01:15:33.000 if people want to see it

01:15:33.600 on YouTube.

01:15:35.440 Anyway,

01:15:35.960 they slowly but surely

01:15:37.480 over the weeks that followed

01:15:38.360 they got one to us

01:15:39.260 and they got two

01:15:40.200 and they got three

01:15:41.340 and then they got four

01:15:42.220 and when I did my

01:15:43.260 talking points memo

01:15:43.920 that's all I had,

01:15:44.660 four to five

01:15:45.200 and I was waiting

01:15:46.440 and waiting.

01:15:46.940 Nobody,

01:15:47.260 I still never spoke

01:15:47.920 to a human.

01:15:48.600 That was my big lamentation.

01:15:49.740 I couldn't speak

01:15:50.300 to one damn human.

01:15:51.300 There wasn't a human

01:15:52.180 available.

01:15:52.920 There was only

01:15:53.520 fake news,

01:15:55.340 Guillaume

01:15:55.780 and fake human

01:15:57.020 Lewis

01:15:57.560 who kept trying to DM

01:15:58.580 artificial intelligence

01:16:00.960 and shortly after

01:16:03.800 I did my little

01:16:04.500 talking points memo

01:16:05.260 publicly shaming Air France

01:16:06.860 for its terrible,

01:16:07.880 terrible customer service

01:16:08.780 and behavior,

01:16:09.980 guess what I got

01:16:11.480 on my phone,

01:16:12.480 okay?

01:16:12.800 I was missing five,

01:16:14.240 they had delivered four,

01:16:15.560 I was waiting

01:16:16.060 for the last one

01:16:16.900 and up popped a text

01:16:18.900 telling me

01:16:19.680 that my remaining

01:16:21.040 two bags

01:16:22.500 would be delivered

01:16:23.460 tomorrow.

01:16:24.000 What a deal.

01:16:31.040 Hopefully you get

01:16:31.860 some good stuff.

01:16:32.880 Yeah.

01:16:35.940 I did get the fifth bag

01:16:37.720 and I continue

01:16:38.660 to await

01:16:39.240 the delivery

01:16:40.260 of the sixth

01:16:40.940 and what possibly

01:16:41.780 Let us know.

01:16:45.040 I'd love to,

01:16:45.520 I'm curious.

01:16:46.340 Hopefully they spent

01:16:47.080 a lot of time

01:16:47.560 in the duty free.

01:16:48.460 Yeah, exactly.

01:16:49.400 Get some Italian wine,

01:16:50.760 you know,

01:16:51.180 maybe some food product.

01:16:53.040 I will.

01:16:53.440 I will 100%

01:16:54.360 be opening that thing

01:16:55.280 on the air

01:16:56.060 if indeed it should have been.

01:16:57.800 So the message is

01:16:59.260 carry on your bags, folks.

01:17:01.040 Carry them on.

01:17:04.980 It's time for another edition

01:17:06.680 of You Can't Say That

01:17:08.040 or Think That

01:17:08.920 or Do That.

01:17:09.980 Oh, wait,

01:17:10.700 this is America.

01:17:12.040 And here in America,

01:17:13.060 we are about to enjoy

01:17:14.060 our first summer

01:17:14.780 in a while

01:17:15.380 without having to think

01:17:16.300 very much about pandemics.

01:17:18.420 But wait,

01:17:19.460 just when you thought

01:17:20.420 you were free,

01:17:21.860 enter Monkeypox.

01:17:24.100 Thankfully,

01:17:25.020 Monkeypox has not

01:17:25.960 made too much

01:17:26.620 of an impact

01:17:27.120 here in the United States,

01:17:28.020 but our friends

01:17:28.980 at the World Health Organization

01:17:30.460 have their eye

01:17:31.420 on the ball

01:17:32.100 when it comes

01:17:32.560 to what truly matters

01:17:33.980 with this potential pandemic.

01:17:36.440 The name Monkeypox,

01:17:38.280 you see,

01:17:38.680 is very offensive

01:17:39.840 and they have announced

01:17:41.100 that they will be

01:17:41.760 changing it.

01:17:43.320 A group of scientific

01:17:44.480 researchers

01:17:45.060 and biologists

01:17:46.260 recently wrote

01:17:47.380 a blog post

01:17:48.020 about how the disease

01:17:49.320 unfairly

01:17:50.200 was associated

01:17:51.040 with the continent

01:17:51.700 of Africa

01:17:52.580 where the disease

01:17:53.680 is endemic.

01:17:55.160 They wrote that

01:17:55.840 in the context

01:17:56.880 of the current

01:17:57.540 global outbreak,

01:17:58.940 continued reference

01:17:59.800 to and nomenclature

01:18:00.920 of this virus

01:18:01.760 being African

01:18:02.500 is not only inaccurate,

01:18:04.020 but is also discriminatory

01:18:06.140 and stigmatizing.

01:18:08.080 The blog post

01:18:08.920 also took issue

01:18:09.840 with the media's

01:18:10.400 use of photos

01:18:11.180 of African patients

01:18:12.660 when discussing

01:18:13.340 the disease.

01:18:14.380 The World Health Organization

01:18:15.620 has responded

01:18:16.540 just as they responded

01:18:17.980 to the COVID outbreak

01:18:19.000 in Wuhan, China

01:18:19.980 by ensuring

01:18:21.420 we didn't call it

01:18:22.480 the Wuhan virus.

01:18:23.900 Now they are responding

01:18:25.120 to this monkeypox outbreak

01:18:26.880 by promising

01:18:28.140 they will have

01:18:28.880 a new name

01:18:29.880 as soon as possible.

01:18:32.200 Yes,

01:18:32.920 clearly we have learned

01:18:34.160 so much about

01:18:35.160 prioritizing what matters

01:18:36.640 during a pandemic.

01:18:37.660 Let's make sure

01:18:38.240 we don't further

01:18:38.880 any harmful stigmas.

01:18:41.320 The scientific researchers

01:18:42.360 had a suggestion.

01:18:44.000 They would like us

01:18:44.920 to call monkeypox

01:18:45.880 H-M-P-X-V

01:18:48.000 H-M-P-X-V

01:18:49.980 which really rolls off

01:18:50.840 the tongue.

01:18:51.420 That'll make it easier.

01:18:52.440 So far,

01:18:53.260 no announcements

01:18:53.880 from the WHO

01:18:54.900 but we'll be waiting

01:18:56.620 because if you think

01:18:58.200 you're just going to

01:18:58.780 go around

01:18:59.380 and call a disease

01:19:00.400 that everyone

01:19:01.840 has called monkeypox

01:19:03.760 for decades

01:19:04.640 by its original name,

01:19:06.380 well,

01:19:07.020 it's 2022

01:19:07.900 and you can't say that.

01:19:12.500 Thanks for listening

01:19:13.500 to The Megyn Kelly Show.

01:19:14.820 No BS,

01:19:15.480 no agenda

01:19:16.240 and no fear.

The Megyn Kelly Show - July 21, 2022

Biden has COVID Not Cancer, and Green Policy Consequences, with the Ruthless Podcast Hosts ｜ Ep. 362

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