Victor Davis Hanson joins Megyn Kelly to discuss the alarming increase in murders across the U.S. in the first three months of the year, and the lack of resources being allocated to fight the crime wave. Plus, Megyn and Victor talk about why the police aren t getting the support they need from the federal government.
00:02:06.720Part of his announcement is taking steps to do exactly that.
00:02:09.520But part of his announcement is also ensuring there's specific guidance to communities across the country to ensure that they have funding to get more community police around the country.
00:02:19.580Something that was supported by the American Jobs Plan that was supported, that was voted into law by Democrats just a couple of months ago.
00:02:26.640Some might say that the other party was for defunding the police.
00:02:29.460I'll let others say that, but that's a piece.
00:02:36.280Now they're reaping the results and they're quietly starting to refund the police.
00:02:41.580We talked about that in our last episode without acknowledging their deadly mistake.
00:02:45.900And Biden, seeing the problem politically and otherwise, decided to say that they could use some of the covid relief he he, quote, gave them, you know, the people's money to refund their police departments.
00:02:57.840And the Republicans have objected, saying that's not a slush fund to refund state budgets that was supposed to go for covid relief.
00:03:05.740And her response is the Republicans are to blame for defunding the cops.
00:03:09.820Yeah, I think, Megan, they're in full panic mode because this is analogous to the open border.
00:03:15.160And by that, I mean the optics are terrible.
00:03:17.780The culpability is clear whose fault it was.
00:03:20.700And it's not pulling well with their constituencies, the swing suburban voters, the inner city voter.
00:03:27.080And they can't afford to lose those rubrics.
00:03:30.040So they're in a but they're also in a dilemma, paradox, because once they start to talk about refunding the police, getting more cops on the beat to stop this, then they bump into their foundation or their base, the AOC people who don't don't want that.
00:03:48.140When I say that, not cynically, remember, all summer, we heard mayors, for example, Minneapolis, I think it was the mayor of Minneapolis say that, well, you know, the precinct went up in flames, it was just brick and mortar property really doesn't matter.
00:04:01.860And we had the mayor, do you remember her of Washington, Jenny Durkham said, you know, yeah, they occupied a whole section of downtown, but it's a summer of love.
00:04:10.480And then we had, I think it was four or five years ago, Mayor Rawlings in Baltimore said, we gave every group space, even those who wanted to burn, we gave them space here in California.
00:04:22.880We've had in the Fresno area where I live out in the country, we've had a 350% increase over the first five months of last year in murders.
00:04:32.680So it's not just these major cities, it's everywhere.
00:04:35.260And we have a DA of LA County, a DA of San Francisco, Mr. Gascon and Boudin, who don't really believe in deterrence.
00:04:44.080They don't believe in that age old human trait that criminals are very, can be very intelligent people.
00:04:50.800And they make a cost to benefit analysis, whether or not to commit a crime.
00:04:54.800In other words, what are the chances of me gaining money or revenge or psychic thrill versus punishment?
00:05:01.340And they, the criminal has come down on the side that throughout the United States now, whether for a variety of reasons, there is no deterrent.
00:06:00.000And yet the congresswoman from the Bronx, AOC, is confronted with the crime wave happening in New York City, which is trying to rebuild from this COVID madness.
00:06:10.300It doesn't need a crime spree right now on top of everything else.
00:06:14.000And her response was, look, let's not get hysterical.
00:06:19.420OK, don't don't don't let the numbers drive a hysteria.
00:06:24.260We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases.
00:06:27.680Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much.
00:06:32.460But I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn't drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.
00:06:47.440Yes, we should make responsible decisions, which she did for herself.
00:07:13.780I mean, for what it's worth, she's consistent in her hatred for the cops.
00:07:17.640AOC, when it's her skin on the line, says, OK, that I'm in favor of.
00:07:22.880And by the way, in New York City, she said it right before a 21 year old tourist was shot in Times Square, broad daylight outside the Marriott.
00:07:31.800If you've ever gone to a theater in New York, the Marriott is a main, main hotel right in the middle of everything.
00:07:37.640He's walking there with his family doing nothing.
00:07:39.980The guy gets shot and AOC is telling us not to get hysterical.
00:07:44.160Yeah, they always use she used the word.
00:07:55.660They never give us any cause of effect, how these context or root causes affect, because they can't.
00:08:02.000Because human nature being what it is, deep down inside, they know that they have given messages, both explicit and implicit, to people that if you commit a crime, there will not be consequences.
00:08:13.880And a lot of people are taking them up on that bargain.
00:08:40.360But it's not really, shouldn't be illegal.
00:08:41.940She was, it's redistribution is what she was essentially saying.
00:08:44.860So they have, on one level, they have their elites that are trying to contextualize the crime.
00:08:51.140On the other level, they have the establishment, what's left of it, of the Democratic Party, who understand that these are terrible optics.
00:08:58.360And that their own constituencies will say, you know, at some point, life's not sustainable in New York or in Chicago or in Baltimore.
00:09:07.140But, you know, another final thing, Megan, is that I think people forget how influential cities like New York were under Giuliani and even Bloomberg in that they established a paradigm, whether it was stop and frisk or broken windows or stopping the squishy guys washing your window on the traffic that other departments emulated.
00:09:27.480And that was the national brand or model.
00:09:29.500And once that was rejected and stopped and discredited, then all of these other police departments followed in step.
00:09:37.780And so it's been a ripple effect throughout the country.
00:09:41.440And I don't know, all of these things stop when they start to affect the architects of these ideologies.
00:09:49.480In other words, when they can no longer avoid the ramifications of their own ideology.
00:09:53.720I mean, Nancy Pelosi has a walled estate in Napa.
00:09:58.080Dianne Feinstein just selling her $41 million estate in Lake Tahoe.
00:10:02.560She's got a big one in Presidio Heights.
00:10:06.480Mark Zuckerberg's building a 57,000 square foot home in Hawaii with a big wall around it.
00:10:12.600So they think that they have ways of protecting themselves from the erosion of civilization around them, which is partly due to their own bromides.
00:10:22.140But eventually it'll catch up to them.
00:13:06.860You tell me whether you'd rather see a crisis worker show up, Micaiah Bryant, a crisis worker show up, or a cop with a gun who had one option and managed to stop a murder.
00:13:19.280The police chief is speaking, though, Megan.
00:13:21.600He's admirable, but he's not speaking because suddenly he woke up one moment and decided he was going to change his ideology, although he may have secretly wanted to.
00:13:31.500He's doing it because people in that community are telling him privately, life cannot go on as it is.
00:13:38.500Remember that when I meant that no one escapes the consequences of their ideology, Gavin Newsom, our governor, was walking on the street in Oakland about a week ago, and a homeless person jumped him, despite all the security, and tried to knock him down and assaulted him.
00:13:56.740I've spoken in Piedmont, in the hills above Oakland.
00:13:59.540And I can guarantee you that if you drive up and a person asked me to speak at a private home, I didn't get more than three blocks into Piedmont.
00:14:08.340Then I was pulled over by a security, private security policeman.
00:14:11.760And then I was asked where I was going, what's the address, what was the name, they called the person.
00:14:17.440And so those people on the hills above what the chief is talking about are terrified.
00:14:23.040And they're sort of like people in 5th century Rome AD, when it was starting to crumble, that they had their own security forces.
00:14:33.600Nobody's immune, ultimately, when it gets to this point, I don't think.
00:14:37.940And it's starting to get to this point.
00:14:39.320And I think that's the Republican, if they're wise, this and an open border will be their two great issues and critical race theory.
00:14:49.340And they're all connected in one way or another as identity politics and nullification of a law.
00:14:54.660But I don't see how the Democrats run on any of these issues that they've embraced.
00:14:58.920There's no public support and they can't renounce them or they can't really blame the Republicans, as we talked about earlier, because they have so many mayors and governors and activists and people within their own party that wanted this to happen and said that crime was not really crime.
00:15:16.120It was an ideological form of oppression or it was a relative construct or it was just a manifestation of the values of the wealthy imposed on the poor and the people of color.
00:15:26.360So they got what they wanted, but now apparently they feel that they don't really want it because it's not a pathway to the retention of power.
00:15:35.000All we hear about is, you know, how we need to get rid of bail.
00:15:39.100And, of course, they got rid of stop and frisk because they said that was racist.
00:15:44.000And you wrote in a recent piece, but you say progressives obsess over those things, but, quote,
00:15:49.300They have little concern for keeping the streets safe for the young, the elderly, the weak, the inner city poor and the vulnerable from the attacks of history's archetypical predator, the unbound young male between 15 and 40.
00:16:14.860Black Lives Matter doesn't go out there and protest the number of dead in Chicago thanks to the spiking crime right there or Baltimore or elsewhere.
00:16:56.320It goes where these lies are told that have a real impact, whether it's on an election or a community and its safety and then no accountability.
00:17:41.780You can see when John Kerry says, well, I have to use my carbon spewing wife's private jet because I have to win the battle of climate change.
00:17:50.200You've got to go on to a subway and live densely packed and give up your car.
00:17:55.580Remember, he moved his yacht from Massachusetts to Rhode Island because he didn't want to pay the taxes that he supported increasing.
00:18:05.200And Al Gore sold his TV station to Al Jazeera, a carbon industry that fuels that to gutter.
00:18:13.680And then he did it to try to beat the new capital gains increases.
00:18:17.200So all of these people try to promote these cosmic ideas for us, but they have a parachute for themselves and they and they feel that we're collateral damage.
00:18:28.660So if you try to tell a progressive, when you guys open the border, you're causing you're empowering the cartels, you're getting children to come on a company, you're you're encouraging criminals to prey on the innocent.
00:18:42.200And then you're using the very facilities that Barack Obama created.
00:18:46.160And then you called for four years cages and then suddenly they were on name and no longer cages.
00:18:52.300But people suffer and they will suffer.
00:19:16.600They don't care about the victims of crime or the innocent or shot or killed or the people who won't set foot in Chicago.
00:19:23.880So Michelle Obama can give all the, you know, neat, snarky lecture she wants about she worries about her daughters walking out as if they're going to be preyed upon by white supremacists.
00:19:33.200But the fact of the matter is she does not want to go back to Chicago and live.
00:19:38.560And I don't blame her where 700 African-American males were murdered last year and more this year are going to be murdered than that.
00:19:46.020But tragically, and there's going to be a lot of innocent people shot in a crossfire.
00:19:50.100It's much better to live in Martha's Vineyard or Colorado in Washington and then give lectures about a racist America in which, you know, she lives around mostly, I hate to say it, wealthy white people.
00:20:03.420And yet she's suggesting they're the problem.
00:20:05.940But she's not suggesting they're the problem, because if you look at what she does rather than what she says, and I could go on and on about LeBron James criticizing the policeman.
00:20:15.140And you mentioned earlier about the stabbing and his security detail or prominent NBA star the other day was robbed in his.
00:20:23.380So I think it was his Hollywood's Hills home, $150,000 taken from this person, very angry about it.
00:20:31.280And I think what happens with these, I think these revolutionary movements, they reach a peak and then either it's not gradual.
00:20:39.760When they get to that peak, it's not gradual either way, going up or down.
00:20:43.200Finally, people either stop it as they did in the French Revolution with the Jacobins.
00:21:44.480You mentioned Oprah, you mentioned LeBron, Michelle Obama, Meghan Markle's another one.
00:21:52.000And you had written, quote, they hype charges of white racism because their oppression reminds America that one can become very rich yet remain a sympathetic victim.
00:22:06.840Ibram Henry Rogers and Robin DiAngelo, and said that you concluded as follows, quote, America is systematically being conned by those who disguise their hypocrisy, who manipulate the guilt ridden, who have no interest in solving America's most dangerous problems and who get or stay richer by hyping an America in need of massive rebooting.
00:22:29.860And with it, their own careerist remedies.
00:22:34.020So the folks who are the loudest on this tend to be the most successful people and or those who are actively making money off of these lies they tell about the United States.
00:22:46.840I think people forget that Barack Obama did two things.
00:22:51.720I know that the left is angry at him now and they feel that he didn't get the progressive movement going quite like Joe Biden's surrogates have.
00:23:00.580But he did two things that we have underappreciated.
00:23:06.600Race was essentially African-Americans and non-African-Americans.
00:23:10.840And there were historic, you know, slavery, Jim Crow, and the country was trying to deal with that through the civil rights movement.
00:23:19.200And it didn't really involve people that were immigrants from India or didn't really involve people who came in from Brazil or even people from Mexico.
00:23:27.200It was a uniquely American problem when we were dealing with it.
00:23:31.160But Obama said, no, no, it's diversity.
00:23:34.880It's not anything other than being white.
00:23:37.820If you were non-white to the degree anybody can define themselves, then you are not 12 percent of the population.
00:23:44.320You're 30 percent and you're a growing demographic and you have historical claims against an endemic racial society.
00:23:51.880And what he did, second, to further that aim, he got rid of all notions of class.
00:23:57.020So suddenly I noticed in the academic world there were these fakers that would come with PhDs from the University of Buenos Aires, blonde and blue eyes.
00:24:04.880But they'd trill their R's and they, you know, they spoke Spanish and they were victims.
00:24:08.940And then we would have these people coming from the wealthiest families in the Punjab and immigrating.
00:31:16.860And I thought, so you're the guy and now your military is going, you and Secretary Austin are going through the ranks and you're systematically looking for mythical white supremacists and you're destroying the very constituency, generation after generation after generation.
00:31:34.840That volunteers and fights for our country.
00:31:38.880And if you look at the, I just looked at the deaths in Afghanistan and the deaths in Iraq.
00:31:44.800And guess who is the most overrepresented rubric?
00:31:49.260These, it's not the Vietnam mythology.
00:31:51.760It was true in Vietnam too, despite the mythology.
00:31:54.360So you're going after this rubric that has died disproportionately in your wars that you didn't win and you're now going to loot them all out of the military and after all these retired generals have come out and politicized in violation of the code of military justice that says retired generals are subject to laws that prevent the disparagement of the command in chief.
00:32:16.800You want us to support you and you want us to support you and we were the ones, we being middle America supported the increases in the budget and who attacked all of you people all of these years or wanted to cut your, your budget.
00:33:01.040So what these generals and this machine have done is they basically said all the people who serve in the military and all the constituencies in America that have always supported increased budgets and a strong military and us,
00:33:15.440when we got in trouble, they're all suspect of being white supremacists, which begs the question, why are they doing this?
00:33:25.320I think that if you start to look at them, there is a new culture of one star, two star, three star, four star, where they gravitate into the Washington postings and billets in the Pentagon and the national security on the Hill.
00:33:39.380And they start to see that if they wanted to be promoted, it's not going to be how many artillery shells in your brigade hit the target or how many missions per hour your naval pilots took off and competed the mission.
00:33:53.820And that's what's the percentage of gays, women, minorities, what's the what was your attitude about reeducation?
00:34:41.320And chief of naval operations, they all do that.
00:34:44.060So what I'm getting at in this kind of windy rant is they have really lost support on the very people in America that were the backbone of their military and the backbone of their political support for the military.
00:34:58.720And I'm really afraid of it because I talked to people and they said, you know what?
00:35:03.200If the left wants to cut the military budget, and they do, maybe they'll cut critical race theory train.
00:35:15.180And I think they're going to have families that have served for three generations and four that they're not going to volunteer to join the military.
00:35:39.880But now we're seeing in today's day and ages, they're infecting and forget corporate America that that's already spread and sports and so on.
00:35:46.560But they're infecting kids, young children.
00:35:50.440They're they're indoctrinating with these divisive messages are military.
00:35:55.100And then those things are going to have its abuse towards children.
00:35:58.640And it's endangering the men and women in the military and our country as a result.
00:36:03.920I mean, I so next up on the show is Marcus Luttrell.
00:36:46.400And for this, for the for Millie to go in there and try to make the military or their relationship about their melanin is so undermining of what they stand for in the overall messaging and and mission.
00:37:04.620I can't I feel like he should be fired.
00:37:44.080And then General Miley said, you do not have a photo op of the president.
00:37:47.380If I went, which I did, I went back to the last 10 presidents.
00:37:51.920Every single one has photo ops with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, everyone without exception.
00:37:57.880And I also went back when he said, we're not going to use troops for domestic.
00:38:02.560I counted 14 instances when federal troops were used to quell domestic violence.
00:38:08.880The most striking was during the Rodney King riots.
00:38:12.700And I say this because it illustrates your point about this hypocrisy.
00:38:17.800Colin Powell was then chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
00:38:20.560George H.W. Bush wanted to send 5,000 Marines into Los Angeles to stop killing and looting because he thought there'd be a civil war among the Asian communities, especially who were being targeted.
00:38:39.300Colin Powell voluntarily suggested, Megan, he said, when you want those troops, they're ready to go, quote, end of quote.
00:38:45.660And so Colin Powell then, during this whole period where Miley was sort of preening for the cameras that he was embarrassed and all of this, they came out, the former Joint Chiefs, I think there was Richard Myers and him and two others.
00:39:03.260They said, we'll help Joe Biden if he needs to remove Trump.
00:39:08.700And then Biden gave it, says, I got four people on my side.
00:39:12.280But what I'm getting at is here was Miley lecturing the country about politicizing the office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
00:39:20.780And yet he was doing nothing wrong what all the other Joint Chiefs had done.
00:39:26.200But he was politicizing it by criticizing the commander in chief for something that didn't happen.
00:39:31.720So he should have been fired right then for that.
00:39:35.500And that emboldened him and felt, you know what, if I can get away with that, I can get away with anything.
00:39:42.480And I think all of them thought that way.
00:39:44.480Somebody should have said Article 88 of the Code of Military Justice says that any retired general who is still taking a pension is subject to the same rules that active generals are.
00:39:55.980And you cannot disparage and enlist the number of people you can't, the vice president, the chairman, senators, and the commander in chief.
00:40:04.380And yet they all went out and said he was a Nazi and he was Mussolini.
00:40:09.060And it was really something that really went wrong there.
00:40:13.280And when you did say, and I wrote a couple of columns about that, I had all these people at where I work would write me and say, have you flipped out?
00:40:49.740I don't know to this moment whether they were always this political or whether they've just become.
00:40:54.740But we need to open our eyes that these are political bodies now, to your point about what happens with people like the chairman of the Joint Chiefs when they get to Washington.
00:41:03.900And be honest that they do get wooed into the Georgetown cocktail party circuit.
00:41:11.000And, you know, those are excellent points because the CIA and the FBI were, you make a good point.
00:41:17.160They were also bastions where conservatives didn't dare question them, even though they were always brought up among Congress by the left and said, you know, you're breaking the law or you're part of the police state.
00:41:28.300And then you think about the FBI, James Comey, 245 times under oath in the Senate House Intelligence Committee, saying, I can't remember.
00:41:37.360Robert Mueller, former head of the FBI, going under oath, saying that the very basis for his investigation, the Steele dossier and the Fusion GPS shenanigans, he says under oath, I don't know anything about the Steele dossier.
00:41:51.300I don't know anything about GPS and then Andrew McCabe, the acting FBI, for occasions saying, yes, I lied to federal investigators that I was I was aware of the leaks and I was one of the people who leaked.
00:42:04.480And we had Kevin Kleinsmith, an FBI lawyer who altered a FISA document, forged an email.
00:42:11.640And we're not even getting into the CIA where John Brennan, on two occasions, under oath, lied and said that the CIA was not monitoring Senate computers and the CIA did not in their targeted assassinations and never had collateral damage.
00:42:27.860I could go into James Clapper. He said under oath, I gave you the least untruthful answer, meaning I lied about NSA surveillance.
00:42:51.080Right. Mine, too. It's that's been one of the biggest 180s I've experienced as a reporter and just an American over the past 10 to 15 years.
00:43:00.720But I just want to round back to one thing you you I love all the points about the generals in the military because there's one area in which I'm deeply concerned.
00:43:08.180I'm more concerned about them than I am about colleges, but I am I'm concerned about education.
00:43:12.280But but just to round back to the point that you had made about this Barnard College guy, he's an English instructor.
00:43:21.380Yeah, this guy. Now, keep in mind, there was a remember the professor who got suspended because he said a foreign word that sounded like the N word.
00:43:30.780It wasn't. He was he said a Chinese word.
00:43:33.440He was a professor at USC, business professor.
00:44:08.360Quote, when this race war hits its crescendo, I'll gather you all in a beautifully decorated room under the pretense of unity.
00:44:15.900I'll give a speech to civility and all the good times we share.
00:44:19.060I'll smile as we raise glasses to your good white health while the detonator blinks under the table, knowing the exits are locked and the air vents filled with gas.
00:44:29.960Not fired, still on the Barnard College website.
00:44:35.660You can talk about gassing white people and you're good.
00:44:38.040And it spreads when when you lower deterrence, because I think remember, I think her name was Killalani.
00:44:45.580And she spoke at Yale, a psychiatrist, where she said that whites were pathological wires.
00:44:50.500And then she said that she had a dream where she she she dreamed of taking her revolver and shooting white people.
00:44:56.280The problem with that is that a lot of people then that becomes institutionalized and there's no consequences for it.
00:45:02.500And then people down the food chain say, well, that person said that maybe he meant that I should shoot somebody because the left always has told us words matter.
00:46:18.400But when you start to reexamine not just the evidence that there were no armed insurrectionists, nobody was using a gun or even possessed one.
00:46:29.520And then when you start seeing that officer Sicknick died of natural causes and then the three people, the other four either died of natural causes or Ashley Babbitt was unarmed and shot.
00:46:39.860And yet the officer was never no information was ever disseminated about him, which has become a national pastime to within hours give you that information about anybody who shot while on in a confrontation with police.
00:46:52.620And then you juxtapose that to the 14,000 that were arrested during those 120 days of rioting that all basically got off.
00:47:02.060So I think a lot of people, I don't think the left understands that they have now really told half the country the law is a political weapon.
00:47:12.820And we're going to selectively prosecute and use it to the full extent and we're going to go after you.
00:47:20.680And all of these things have consequences.
00:47:24.880Remember sanctuary cities, the left all of a sudden adopted the neo-confederate idea that a sanctuary city or a state could nullify federal law.
00:47:34.560And that was OK because of the higher moral aim of helping illegal aliens.
00:47:39.420Now we're starting to see the right do the same thing.
00:47:41.660We're saying, you know what, EPA laws, endangered species laws, federal gun registration laws, abortion.
00:47:49.280We're going to have counties in certain Western states where those federal laws will not apply.
00:48:34.340Today, we have a story of you can't post that on social media that was detailed in an incredible and incredibly sad Reason magazine piece by Robbie Suave.
00:48:43.700Robbie details the story of a liberal composer in Tennessee who supported police reform and the social justice movement after George Floyd.
00:48:52.300That was until a small group of the activists at a Nashville protest smashed the historic courthouse windows in the city, started fires in the building and caused damage throughout Nashville.
00:49:04.380Dismayed by these actions of rioters and so on, this Tennessee composer, Danny Elder, posted on his social media accounts a picture of the words,
00:49:14.080And a post that read, enjoy burning it all down, you well-intentioned blind people.
00:49:21.740He then deleted his Instagram account.
00:49:32.480One person called him a white supremacist piece of garbage.
00:49:36.040But it wasn't just comments from random people, you see.
00:49:40.340GIA Publications, Elder's publisher, and the only major publisher of religious choral music, wrote up an apology for him to publish, reading in part,
00:49:51.900Over the weekend, I made a post on my social media accounts that was insensitive and wrongly worded.
00:49:57.900I deeply apologize for the anger, offense, and harm that this post caused.
00:50:02.280While this offense was not intended, it is what was created.
00:50:11.980The views expressed in composer Danny Elder's incendiary social media post on Sunday evening do not reflect the values of GIA or our employees, they wrote,
00:50:20.900saying they will never work with him again.
00:50:37.820They'll never work with a guy who doesn't like criminals again.
00:50:40.960Not only is his career publishing music still stalled more than a year later, but local choral directors refused to associate with Danny.
00:50:49.540And the kicker, Danny Elder says, as a result of being publicly shunned and exiled, quote,
00:50:56.560I started listening to voices on the right and the center, especially these classical liberals who have been exiled from the leftist movement.
00:51:04.300Come on over, Daniel, to the side of reason.
00:51:07.260Because these days, if you write that setting fire to buildings is counterproductive to your cause, well, you can't say that.
00:51:17.160And now back to Victor Davis Hanson after this.
00:51:20.200Well, now it's fine to demonize white people and it's fine to demonize America.
00:51:29.280And that's why you have only people who are on the right, Fox News and so on, reacting at all to this Gwen Berry, who the audience may know that name by now.
00:52:01.180She said that the national anthem happened to be playing when she got up to receive, you know, the bronze medal or was honored in the third position.
00:52:52.140Olympic Committee has specifically allowed this.
00:52:55.920They are going to allow our athletes to do this kind of thing at the next games.
00:53:00.680And you know what's very scary is when the French, the French of all people, look at this and things that are going on and they're scared about it.
00:53:10.040And they've stopped all statue toppling, iconoclism.
00:53:49.060It's also, I think, a lot of it's performance art.
00:53:51.560She thinks that she'll get clicks or she'll get a Nike endorsement or something as a cutting edge person in the way that Colin Kaepernick kind of institutionalized that model,
00:54:02.120that the more outrageous you were in attacking the country, the more a particular consumer demographic would buy your product.
00:54:51.880And you might find if you want to have indigenous people or you feel that the black choice is better, you can go to Africa.
00:55:00.200If you feel that the European socialist model is better, go there.
00:55:05.040Just go to China if you want to be more in a revolutionary mood and see what happens.
00:55:09.580What's really sick about this is that when we look around the world, we have to ask ourselves, even our most liberal allies, there's no way in the world that Barack Obama would ever be chancellor of Germany.
00:55:22.700There's no way that Kamala Harris would be vice president of France.
00:55:27.020If you or I or the person in question ever went to China and wanted to be a Chinese citizen because we don't look Chinese, we'd never be accepted.
00:55:35.020If you wanted to go to Mexico, you would never be accepted unless you'd look like you were Mexican.
00:55:40.120This is the only multiracial democracy in the world.
00:55:43.960Brazil, to a certain extent, maybe India, but they don't work nearly as well.
00:55:48.980Where we are supposed to be united by an idea and race is incidental, not essential to who we are.
00:56:32.980We fought 700,000 people died in the Civil War, including about 250,000 Union soldiers.
00:56:41.620She could say, I mean, I've written extensively a soul battle with a book.
00:56:44.960There were people in Ohio and Indiana and Michigan in 1860 that had never seen in their entire life a black person.
00:56:53.000And when they went down to Atlanta and burned it with General Sherman and they marched all the way to Savannah, they freed 40,000 people that were black and they had never seen a black person.
00:57:05.620So what would motivate somebody in a Western state, a small farmer, to leave his farm and volunteer for the Army of the West to go liberate people that he'd never seen before and he had never seen a slave.
00:57:18.560He'd never participated in slave in the Western states in the North or get killed at Antietam or die at Shiloh.
00:57:25.020So there were people who, you know, 150 years ago, plus, were dying for what she wanted to envision.
00:57:33.600And I know that a lot of people who tried to thwart that dream were not what she thinks are right wing white Republicans.
00:57:43.140They were people like Woodrow Wilson and the progressive movement.
00:57:46.320They were people in the Democratic Party that Joe Biden, you know, James O.
00:57:57.240There were four hundred and seventy five thousand Americans died to stop the racist Third Reich from taking over and maintaining all of Europe.
00:58:06.800We would have been a nightmare for anybody who wasn't German.
00:58:12.220And this was the only country that there was a chance because of the documents, the Declaration and the Constitution, the Declaration, all men are created equal.
00:58:20.460The Constitution not one time mentions race.
00:58:23.440Only one time does it say three fifths of people who are serfs or slaves.
00:58:28.020And that was only because this is what's really damning about the misinterpretation of that element in the Constitution, that the northern states had just freed themselves from Britain, as did the southern states, the 13 colonies.
00:58:42.100And yet they were faced with an immediate civil war because the north would not allow slavery and the south would not allow its abolition.
00:58:50.720And then the south said, for every slave that we will not give freedom when we treat as a subhuman, we still want one representative vote in the census, one credit so we can get more House representatives.
00:59:03.880And the abolition said, no, we don't want to give you any.
00:59:55.360We have two people running, I think, for lieutenant governor in South Carolina, or maybe it was North Carolina, the bastion of the old confederacy.
01:00:08.740And they were both the Republican and Democratic candidate were black.
01:01:32.840And yet you're not allowed to protest on their behalf.
01:01:35.440I mean, the U.S. Olympic Committee is not saying you can take the podium and hold up a fist to on behalf of the men in Appalachia.
01:01:44.580And what they've said, by the way, just in case people are not aware, because I was not prior to this moment, the committee is going to permit forms of demonstration, including holding up a fist, kneeling during the anthem, and wearing hats or face masks with phrases such as Black Lives Matter or words such as equality or justice.
01:02:05.000The new guidance said the demonstrations must be, quote, advancing racial and social justice or promoting the human dignity of individuals or groups that have historically been underrepresented, minoritized, or marginalized in their respective societal context.
01:02:21.120However, hate symbols will not be allowed, which, of course, that'll be determined to be a MAGA hat, right?
01:02:28.220Now, there's a bit of a conflict because the International Olympic Committee is saying athlete protests are not allowed, so we'll see what happens.
01:02:35.640But the American, the U.S. Olympic Committee says, go for it.
01:02:39.500And I just wonder whether Americans are going to sit and watch that or if they will tune out in record numbers like they did.
01:02:47.040Just to give you one example, from The Bachelor, right?
01:03:40.620And one thing that gives me a little optimism is that the left, from the very beginning, saw the COVID epidemic and the quarantine and the self-induced recession and what followed after George Floyd as a crisis that should never be left alone or should never go to waste.
01:04:03.900He said, we're going to emerge from the lockdown with a more progressive capitalism.
01:04:07.660Hillary said, we're going to emerge with better health care.
01:04:12.760And I think the Great Reset, Klaus Schwab and the Davos crowd said, we're going to completely remake the globalized system after this COVID.
01:04:21.240So there was a sense that we kind of went collectively crazy in fear of COVID.
01:04:27.600And we've never had a national quarantine.
01:04:29.600So nobody got to see face-to-face people, their expressions, their nuances.
01:04:34.260It was either Zoom or they were isolated in their apartment.
01:04:37.640And then we had this sudden, wonderful economy that just was voluntarily shut down.
01:04:47.180And we've never had $2 billion of riding.
01:04:50.440And we never had 102 million people mail in their ballot or vote early, 63% of the electorate, in a radical recalibration of our very system of election.
01:05:03.280And I don't think that those, that was a perfect storm.
01:05:07.000We might have survived one of them without going crazy.
01:05:09.800But all of them together kind of made us prone to all of the stuff that you and I have been talking about.
01:05:16.180And my only hope, and this is another windy way of why I'm optimistic a little bit, I think that's why the left does not want to let people get back out and have to earn a living and not stay home and get $51,000.
01:05:29.180And they don't want people to be independent, to see, to smell, to look, to hear other people and see they're not the monsters that Elie Mazel said that when he was locked up, he didn't want to see white people.
01:05:42.000And once you get that intercourse going again, Jane Fonda said that.
01:05:45.300She said, thank God for COVID or we would have never gotten rid of Trump.
01:05:48.160And I think that's why they're scared.
01:05:51.800And I think that's why if we get the economy going and we get people out and COVID's memory and we start to reexamine how we're changing illegally the voting laws and the state legislature, I think there'll be a big correction in the midterms.
01:06:13.120The generic ballot is because I love divided government in general, but the generic ballot right now, the forecasts are suggesting that Democrats are going to gain seats in both the Senate and the House.
01:12:44.080You're no longer allowed to say spirit animal.
01:12:46.900Because in some cultural and spiritual traditions, spirit animals refer to an animal, spirit, that helps guide and or protect a person through a journey.
01:12:57.940Equating this with an animal you like strips the term of its significance.
01:13:04.280But it functions in the sense that one or two bored professors with tenure and lifetime job security or get together with a couple of graduate students and they'll say maybe there's eight of them.
01:13:15.520Let's think of words that they're bored, obviously, and they have little accountability or they'd be teaching or they'd be writing something valuable.
01:13:23.060So they say, let's think up some words.
01:13:25.320And then they contact the left-wing journalism student who's working for a left-wing online outlet.
01:13:31.180And then we're supposed to think that there's this grassroots movement throughout the United States on the one hand.
01:14:25.920We're looking at maybe 7% to 9% annual inflation, which we haven't really seen since Jimmy Carter.
01:14:31.660And these are, and we have China ascendant after the Wuhan.
01:14:37.460It may well have engineered a virus that leaked and then never let a crisis go to the left ways to attitude, infected the world, destroyed a lot of the economy of the United States, not to mention the Iran deal.
01:14:52.940So I guess all these existential problems that we collectively should be worried about, these people are trying to convince us that they're important.
01:15:03.840And they're hothouse plants, faculty, lounge, neuroses, psychodramas are suddenly things of national import.
01:15:13.220And I'm not criticizing you and I for talking about them because they have a point.
01:15:20.680If we don't talk to them and waste our time to condemn them, then they become institutionalized and add to the problem of the frame of the fabric of society.
01:15:32.620And I can't think of any, maybe you can't, I can't think of any nation in history that when a large number of the citizenry felt that it was flawed at the beginning, flawed during its ascendance and flawed in the presence and will be flawed in the future, that it survived.
01:15:55.100If you don't think you're somewhat exceptional, or at least better than the alternative, then why should you continue to exist?
01:16:02.220What do they have to be placed at is what I'm getting at, I guess.
01:16:04.820I'm struggling to think, what statues are they going to put up when they destroy Christopher Columbus or Martin Luther King or Cervantes and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco?
01:16:15.500What word, the words that you mentioned, you all, these are all slang words.
01:16:19.820You all is just a term I hear on campus from basically pampered white kids that want to sound like they resonate with the Black Southern culture.
01:16:31.880And so they say you all, but they never say that at home.
01:16:52.160I mean, I knew she, somebody was calling for one, but she's, she's in a whole host of trouble.
01:16:56.140I just want to point out the juxtaposition, right?
01:16:58.040The point I'm trying to make is that there's no moral authority of the people who are trying to lecture us about our speech, about our behavior, about our internal thoughts that we may or may not have access to, right?
01:17:06.720It's like our, it's our latent racism they're trying to attack or our latent sexism that they want to get us for.
01:17:24.460What you're saying is, Megan, is so they're condemning culture.
01:17:27.900So then we're going to look at you guys.
01:17:29.840So let's look at you guys in the, in the academic world.
01:17:33.120You've created a system that indebted students to $1.7 trillion in aggregate student debt, which postpones marriage, child raising, home ownership.
01:17:45.880Your test scores have gone down every year, infants test scores, to the point we're not even going to require them anymore.
01:17:53.080Graduates who leave have the least amount of factual knowledge we've ever had.
01:17:57.440And you've gone from about 58 to 60% of tenured professors, tenure track professors as well as your new hires.
01:18:06.340Now you're the most exploitive institution in the country.
01:18:09.140You've got about 20% tenure track or tenure professor, but 80% of your labor is exploited contingency labor, part-time lecture, that you don't really give full salary or equal equitable pay.
01:18:26.280We've got more coming up in 60 seconds.
01:18:27.900Because I know you, you pointed out that Joe Biden's, the list of racist or problematic race-related things that he has said goes on and on, not to mention his weird, creepy problem with young girls.
01:18:45.600I mean, he's going to lecture the rest of us on what is moral behavior and don't even get me started on his son, Hunter.
01:19:18.740People who really feel racist sympathy, excuse me, racist ideas or racist feelings, then they project that onto other people as a way to square the circle that they can't come out and confess if they're racist.
01:19:33.820But Joe Biden has always had this problem.
01:19:36.780You know, he called Barack Obama the first presidential candidate who was clean and articulate.
01:19:43.100And I thought, wow, Barbara Jordan ran for president.
01:19:45.840She was the most articulate person I've ever heard.
01:19:48.440And to Joe Biden, it's just all black people, you know, or put you all back and changed.
01:19:53.080And I went back and played that YouTube that he said about Romney in 2012.
01:19:57.380He was speaking to a group of black professionals, very accomplished people, as if they were children that could be easily enslaved because they were so weak or subservient.
01:20:17.960I've got to use this opportunity to play one of the best soundbites we've played on the show in recent weeks, which is his creepy little exchange with a young girl who I think was a prepubescent.
01:21:00.540I had I as a father of two daughters, when I would hear if I had heard anything like that from a relative or a friend, that would be sort of the end of things.
01:21:09.040You just say to yourself, you tell your daughters, if I'm not around or your mother's not around under no circumstances, you have anything to do with that person just for their own safety.
01:21:19.140And this is even scarier, Megan, because he's been warned.
01:21:25.500That was a campaign issue that he breathed, that he squeezed, that he talked, that he invaded the private space of so many women, among them underage women, teenagers, that you would think that he would be extra careful.
01:21:44.040And yet we're supposed to believe that Tara Reid is, you know, an absolute liar and absolutely couldn't be telling the truth about him.
01:21:49.460And I don't know, I want to I want to end with this one more point, because we're on this topic of creepy men who get a pass from the left.
01:21:55.200And I heard you talk a little bit about Jeffrey Toobin and I I'm just flabbergasted by the whole thing.
01:22:00.840And I but I thought you made a very interesting point on your podcast recently, which is you actually don't believe him that it was unintentional because he said he thought he had muted.
01:22:13.760Originally said, I thought I had muted the video before I masturbated in front of all my colleagues at the New Yorker while we were we were rehearsing for the election coverage.
01:22:21.180And then he changed it when he just came back for his CNN rehab tour to, oh, I thought the call was over.
01:22:26.880No, that's not what he said at the time.
01:22:28.560He said he thought he had muted the camera.
01:22:31.260That was his initial and therefore, you know, closer in time defense.
01:22:35.780You you think it it may have actually been intentional all along.
01:22:41.500In the sense that if somebody wants to have auto sexual gratification there and they live in a house, there's all sorts of places to have privacy.
01:22:52.280Right. And he's not going to be on Zoom for five hours.
01:22:57.300So you're telling me that a middle aged man's sexual drive is such that he has to gratify himself only when he's on Zoom in a multi room home.
01:23:06.460I don't believe that. I believe that if he wants to do such a thing, he can find a place of privacy that nobody will see him.
01:23:12.780And two, that if he has such a huge sexual appetite and hormonal drive that he can go an hour without satisfying himself.
01:23:23.120So I think what he thought and I think there's a lot of psychology research to back that up is that exhibitionists really do believe psychologically that women, if you're heterosexual in his case, that there are women who just really secretly, secretly, secretly deep, deep, deep down inside.
01:23:43.360And this is very sick of a person to think this, that they might find him attractive and they might feel thankful that he allowed them to share his exhibition.
01:23:52.980And that's pretty much the psychological profile of most exhibitionists when they're, when they're caught and they confess or they're examined, they say things like that, that, well, I thought that there was no problem with that.
01:24:06.660I thought, you know, that they like me or that I'm sexy or I'm important because there's no other rational explanation.