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00:00:30.540 Senators Mike Lee and Joni Ernst

00:00:32.620 have unveiled a new conservative welfare program

00:00:35.820 to address the problem of low birth rates,

00:00:38.780 paid parental leave.

00:00:40.560 We will examine how the road to hell

00:00:42.620 is paved with good intentions.

00:00:44.820 Then, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embarrasses herself.

00:00:49.280 I know you're shocked.

00:00:50.280 This time, in front of Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan

00:00:53.260 and the co-founder of Greenpeace

00:00:55.280 warns that the Green New Deal will destroy civilization.

00:00:58.340 I'm Michael Knowles

00:00:59.180 and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:07.340 Some of the greatest video

00:01:09.260 in modern political history.

00:01:12.320 Thanks to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:01:14.780 and Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan.

00:01:16.380 But first, we have got to thank Mike Rowe

00:01:19.580 and Mike Rowe Works.

00:01:21.040 Oh my goodness.

00:01:21.860 If you are looking for more great podcasts to listen to,

00:01:26.000 but you are short on time,

00:01:27.600 you have got to check out

00:01:28.380 The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe.

00:01:30.380 This podcast gives a really unique take

00:01:32.720 on American history.

00:01:34.140 Explore everything from pop culture to politics,

00:01:36.180 actors to athletes,

00:01:37.700 history to Hollywood,

00:01:38.660 and each episode is 10 minutes or less.

00:01:40.920 This really reminds me,

00:01:42.120 just Mike Rowe's whole character.

00:01:45.220 I mean, Mike Rowe's whole approach to this

00:01:47.540 and the format of the podcast itself.

00:01:49.880 It really reminds me of Ronald Reagan,

00:01:51.700 Ronald Reagan's old radio show.

00:01:53.140 It is so good, you can't turn it off.

00:01:55.220 Mike Rowe presents stories for the curious mind

00:01:58.080 with a short attention span.

00:01:59.380 Isn't that all of us?

00:02:00.660 His storytelling is reminiscent

00:02:01.980 of the late Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story.

00:02:05.020 And it's just really clever.

00:02:06.780 It's the number one short form podcast in America.

00:02:09.300 It's been downloaded more than 87 million times.

00:02:11.700 Start off with episode 36,

00:02:13.500 which is called Oh Brother.

00:02:16.000 Listen, I'm a history buff,

00:02:17.260 so I actually know a lot of the background

00:02:20.320 to these stories.

00:02:21.460 And this one even had me guessing.

00:02:23.120 I thought, gosh, what is it?

00:02:24.000 You don't quite know what the ending is

00:02:25.480 until you get there.

00:02:26.420 You don't quite know exactly

00:02:27.500 who you're talking about.

00:02:28.760 It's about a sibling rivalry

00:02:29.960 between a man and his golden child brother.

00:02:32.420 In this case, it's one of the most shocking

00:02:33.720 and notorious moments in presidential history.

00:02:35.840 Go to MikeRowe.com slash podcast today

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00:02:44.380 MikeRowe dot com slash podcast.

00:02:48.600 I really want to talk about

00:02:50.200 the paid parental leave proposal,

00:02:53.580 the nominally conservative

00:02:55.020 paid parental leave proposal

00:02:57.320 that's coming out from Mike Lee and Joni Ernst

00:03:00.040 because I think a lot of conservatives

00:03:02.620 are getting this wrong.

00:03:03.820 I think it's coming from a place of good intentions.

00:03:05.820 I think it's addressing a real problem,

00:03:07.480 but this bill just doesn't get it right.

00:03:10.120 But before we do that,

00:03:11.660 I just have to show you

00:03:12.940 one of the most glorious bits of tape

00:03:15.100 that I have.

00:03:16.300 This was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:03:19.260 grilling and questioning

00:03:21.520 the CEO of Wells Fargo,

00:03:24.540 Tim Sloan.

00:03:26.420 Listen, she's had a lot of moments

00:03:28.140 in her brief political career

00:03:29.480 where she has demonstrated

00:03:30.560 her ignorance and her arrogance.

00:03:33.320 None even comes close to this exchange.

00:03:36.440 Here's how she begins.

00:03:37.500 Mr. Sloan,

00:03:39.740 why was the bank involved

00:03:41.880 in the caging of children

00:03:43.560 and financing the caging of children

00:03:45.440 to begin with?

00:03:47.400 I don't know how to answer that question

00:03:49.820 because we weren't.

00:03:51.920 So in finance,

00:03:53.480 you were financing

00:03:55.260 and involved in debt financing

00:03:56.820 of CoreCivic and GeoGroup, correct?

00:03:58.680 For a period of time,

00:04:00.200 we were involved in financing.

00:04:01.760 One of the firms were not anymore

00:04:03.300 and the other.

00:04:03.900 I'm not familiar with

00:04:05.380 the specific assertion

00:04:07.940 that you're making,

00:04:08.580 but we weren't directly involved in that.

00:04:10.240 Okay, so these companies run

00:04:11.760 private detention facilities

00:04:13.440 run by ICE,

00:04:14.920 which is involved in caging children.

00:04:17.640 But I'll move on.

00:04:18.800 This reminded me,

00:04:20.280 and her reaction to it,

00:04:21.440 it reminded me,

00:04:22.440 if you've ever seen

00:04:23.220 on Always Sunny,

00:04:24.980 the episode where Charlie

00:04:26.360 pretends to be a lawyer,

00:04:28.100 that's what it's like

00:04:29.100 watching Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:04:31.520 actually be a congressman.

00:04:34.300 Let me handle this, Frank.

00:04:36.120 It's not Boilbert.

00:04:37.020 He's making a few good points.

00:04:38.860 Look, buddy,

00:04:39.840 I know a lot about the law

00:04:41.260 and various other lawyerings.

00:04:43.380 I'm well-educated, well-versed.

00:04:45.360 I know that situations like this,

00:04:47.040 real estate-wise,

00:04:48.000 they're very complex.

00:04:49.240 Actually, they're pretty simple.

00:04:51.700 The forms are all standard,

00:04:52.860 boilerplate.

00:04:54.320 Okay, well, we're all hungry.

00:04:55.680 We're going to get to our hot plate

00:04:56.520 soon enough, all right?

00:04:57.720 But let's talk about the contract here.

00:04:59.360 Sorry, I forgot.

00:05:00.540 Where did you go to law school again?

00:05:02.320 Ah, well, I could ask you

00:05:03.340 that very same question.

00:05:03.820 I went to Harvard.

00:05:04.980 Ah?

00:05:05.380 How about you?

00:05:06.820 Where?

00:05:07.700 Yeah.

00:05:08.100 I'm pleading the fifth, sir.

00:05:09.380 I'd advise that you do that.

00:05:10.660 And I'll take that advice

00:05:11.540 into cooperation, all right?

00:05:13.520 Now, let's say you and I

00:05:14.520 go toe-to-toe in bird law

00:05:15.800 and see who comes out the victim.

00:05:16.940 You know, I don't think

00:05:17.780 I'm going to do anything

00:05:18.640 close to that,

00:05:19.960 and I can see clearly

00:05:20.960 you know nothing about the law.

00:05:22.700 It seems like you have

00:05:23.420 a tenuous grasp on

00:05:24.420 the English language in general.

00:05:26.300 Okay, well, filibuster.

00:05:31.280 Do you know what that word means?

00:05:33.840 Yep.

00:05:34.260 Yeah, what's that mean?

00:05:41.260 Ah!

00:05:48.260 That's AOC breaking her way

00:05:50.080 out of the door,

00:05:51.040 out of the wall to the Capitol.

00:05:52.400 Yeah, well, so what were you doing there

00:05:55.760 with the caging of children,

00:05:57.780 might I ask?

00:05:59.540 We didn't do that.

00:06:01.220 Okay, touche, Mr. CEO.

00:06:04.640 But if you were caging children,

00:06:07.080 I mean, there is very little difference

00:06:09.000 between the two.

00:06:09.780 She goes on.

00:06:11.160 You would think that this congresswoman,

00:06:12.940 she knows she has a lot of attention on her.

00:06:15.160 You would think that she might do

00:06:17.720 even a moment's research

00:06:19.120 to see which projects

00:06:21.680 the bank had brokered,

00:06:24.040 which projects the bank

00:06:25.380 had been involved in.

00:06:26.580 No, no, no.

00:06:27.540 Here she goes

00:06:28.420 on the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:06:30.660 Mr. Sloan,

00:06:32.420 Wells Fargo was also an investor,

00:06:34.800 a major investor,

00:06:35.900 in the Dakota Access pipeline,

00:06:37.500 the Keystone XL pipelines.

00:06:39.500 They were prime investors

00:06:40.520 and lenders to companies

00:06:41.620 building these pipelines

00:06:42.720 in defiance of

00:06:44.340 Standing Rock Sioux's

00:06:45.400 treaty rights

00:06:46.040 to protect its water

00:06:47.100 and sacred lands.

00:06:48.300 They warned early on,

00:06:50.320 the Lakota Sioux warned early on,

00:06:51.740 that the pipeline was unstable

00:06:53.060 and bound to leak.

00:06:54.560 Despite that,

00:06:55.280 it was built anyway,

00:06:57.000 and it has leaked

00:06:58.120 at least five times.

00:07:00.320 And the Keystone XL in particular

00:07:01.720 had one leak

00:07:02.700 that leaked 210,000 gallons

00:07:06.120 across South Dakota.

00:07:09.100 Since Wells Fargo financed

00:07:11.180 the building of this pipeline

00:07:13.280 in an environmentally unstable way,

00:07:18.300 why shouldn't the bank

00:07:19.880 be held responsible

00:07:20.940 for financing the cleanup

00:07:22.180 of the disasters

00:07:23.500 from these projects?

00:07:25.220 Which pipeline

00:07:26.120 are you referring to?

00:07:27.580 Either.

00:07:28.520 You know...

00:07:29.240 So we were not involved

00:07:30.680 in the financing

00:07:31.500 of the XL pipeline.

00:07:33.820 We were one of the 17

00:07:35.280 or 19 banks

00:07:36.240 that was involved

00:07:37.060 in the financing

00:07:38.120 of the Dakota Access pipeline.

00:07:40.000 Okay, so Wells Fargo

00:07:42.160 hasn't financed any company

00:07:43.880 associated with

00:07:44.660 the Keystone XL pipeline?

00:07:45.840 No, I didn't say that.

00:07:47.580 I said we're not involved

00:07:48.780 in financing

00:07:49.700 that pipeline specifically.

00:07:51.840 Okay, so let's focus

00:07:53.020 on the Dakota Access pipeline.

00:07:55.320 Okay, okay.

00:07:57.020 Well, okay, well.

00:07:58.160 So I guess someone

00:07:58.600 should have told me about that.

00:07:59.620 But, okay.

00:08:00.900 So the point that...

00:08:02.560 She's actually trying

00:08:03.780 to make a point

00:08:04.500 that also doesn't make any sense.

00:08:05.900 But just on this basic level,

00:08:07.800 this is what's worrisome,

00:08:08.840 I find,

00:08:09.260 about the AOC era

00:08:11.140 of politics,

00:08:12.160 which is that

00:08:13.340 facts don't matter.

00:08:15.840 She said this.

00:08:16.360 Sometimes people are concerned

00:08:17.380 about being factually correct

00:08:18.620 instead of morally right.

00:08:20.360 You can't be morally right

00:08:21.620 without being factually correct.

00:08:23.000 And she didn't do

00:08:24.140 five seconds research.

00:08:25.960 And you would think,

00:08:26.940 okay, if this woman

00:08:27.640 isn't exactly

00:08:28.960 the brightest bulb

00:08:29.720 in the pack,

00:08:30.260 maybe she should hire people

00:08:31.720 who are smart

00:08:32.460 and then they can

00:08:33.620 do the research for her.

00:08:35.280 She's done this

00:08:35.940 on her Twitter account

00:08:36.780 to some success.

00:08:38.800 But they didn't do

00:08:39.940 their very basic research here.

00:08:41.920 And so this guy

00:08:42.680 makes her look like

00:08:43.520 a total fool.

00:08:44.760 So then she has to pivot.

00:08:45.720 She says,

00:08:46.020 okay, well,

00:08:46.940 I was just talking

00:08:47.500 about the Keystone XL,

00:08:48.600 which Wells Fargo

00:08:49.280 was not involved in whatsoever.

00:08:51.200 Now let me pivot

00:08:52.260 and make my stupid point

00:08:53.600 with regard

00:08:54.400 to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

00:08:56.500 Should Wells Fargo

00:08:57.520 be held responsible

00:08:58.440 for the damages

00:08:59.240 incurred by climate change

00:09:00.640 due to the financing

00:09:01.620 of fossil fuels

00:09:02.740 and these projects?

00:09:04.620 I don't know

00:09:05.220 how you'd calculate

00:09:06.000 that, Congresswoman.

00:09:07.080 Say, from spills

00:09:08.420 or when we have

00:09:09.540 to reinvest

00:09:10.220 in infrastructure

00:09:10.960 building seawalls

00:09:12.280 from the erosion

00:09:14.220 of infrastructure

00:09:17.040 or cleanups,

00:09:18.080 wildfires, etc.?

00:09:20.600 Related to that pipeline?

00:09:21.980 I'm not aware

00:09:22.600 that there's been

00:09:23.460 any of what you described

00:09:24.720 that's occurred

00:09:25.480 related to that pipeline.

00:09:26.240 How about the cleanups

00:09:27.180 from the leaks

00:09:27.940 of the Dakota Access Pipeline?

00:09:29.580 I'm not aware

00:09:30.300 of the leaks

00:09:31.260 associated with

00:09:32.140 the Dakota Access Pipeline

00:09:33.640 that you're describing.

00:09:35.360 So, hypothetically,

00:09:36.900 if there was a leak

00:09:38.000 from the Dakota Access Pipeline...

00:09:40.620 Oh, no.

00:09:42.480 Well, but what...

00:09:44.240 Shouldn't you have to pay

00:09:45.520 for Armageddon

00:09:46.420 when Armageddon happens?

00:09:48.120 Ma'am, I'm not aware

00:09:49.380 that Armageddon

00:09:49.960 has happened.

00:09:51.160 Okay, well,

00:09:52.500 but shouldn't...

00:09:53.680 But hypothetically...

00:09:54.680 And the hypothetically

00:09:55.680 is so devastating.

00:09:59.100 Because, first of all,

00:09:59.820 why is she asking

00:10:00.800 this banker

00:10:02.300 a hypothetical question?

00:10:04.260 What does that have to do

00:10:05.100 with anything?

00:10:05.760 But it's...

00:10:06.300 It's the logical consequence

00:10:08.740 of it doesn't matter

00:10:10.460 if you're factually right.

00:10:11.760 This is actually

00:10:12.560 where you end up.

00:10:13.520 If you say,

00:10:13.860 it doesn't matter

00:10:14.220 if you're factually right,

00:10:15.200 you just have to be

00:10:16.140 morally right,

00:10:17.380 then you get into

00:10:18.220 hypothetical.

00:10:19.260 This is all the time.

00:10:20.360 I mean, you could apply

00:10:21.380 this to Jussie Smollett.

00:10:22.960 You could apply this

00:10:23.920 to the fake hate crime hoaxes.

00:10:25.540 You could apply this

00:10:26.280 to everything.

00:10:27.840 They'll say,

00:10:28.720 look at this awful,

00:10:29.540 terrible thing.

00:10:30.440 You'll say,

00:10:30.680 that didn't really happen.

00:10:32.160 Say, well,

00:10:32.720 maybe that didn't happen,

00:10:34.180 but it gets to

00:10:34.940 a greater truth.

00:10:36.240 Say, no,

00:10:36.800 it gets to a lie.

00:10:38.440 It didn't happen,

00:10:39.300 and so now it's a lie,

00:10:40.220 and you're trying

00:10:40.600 to have me defend a lie.

00:10:41.580 So now she goes into this.

00:10:43.360 She gets into

00:10:43.760 the greater truth,

00:10:44.800 and she says,

00:10:45.780 hypothetically,

00:10:48.100 aren't you on the hook?

00:10:50.360 Hypothetically,

00:10:50.860 if there was a leak

00:10:51.960 from the Dakota Access Pipeline,

00:10:54.380 why shouldn't Wells Fargo

00:10:55.680 pay for the cleanup of it

00:10:57.140 since it paid

00:10:57.840 for the construction

00:10:58.500 of the pipeline itself?

00:10:59.700 Because we don't

00:11:00.380 operate the pipeline.

00:11:01.300 We provide financing

00:11:02.560 to the company

00:11:03.380 that's operating

00:11:04.540 the pipeline.

00:11:05.560 Our responsibility

00:11:06.300 is to ensure

00:11:07.540 that at the time

00:11:08.860 that we make

00:11:09.580 that loan,

00:11:10.900 that that customer,

00:11:12.160 and we have a group

00:11:12.900 of people in Wells Fargo,

00:11:14.820 including an environmental

00:11:15.960 oversight group

00:11:17.380 headed by one

00:11:18.680 of my colleagues

00:11:19.300 who used to be

00:11:19.940 at the EPA.

00:11:20.460 So one question,

00:11:21.900 why did Wells Fargo

00:11:23.360 finance this pipeline

00:11:25.320 when it was widely seen

00:11:27.640 to be environmentally unstable?

00:11:29.280 Again,

00:11:31.020 the reason that we were

00:11:31.800 one of the 17

00:11:32.740 or 19 banks

00:11:33.640 that financed that

00:11:34.520 is because our team

00:11:36.380 reviewed the environmental impact

00:11:38.920 and we concluded

00:11:39.960 that it was a risk

00:11:41.980 that we were willing

00:11:42.780 to take.

00:11:44.440 Thank you.

00:11:46.280 Absolutely devastating.

00:11:48.280 The question she's asking is,

00:11:51.940 why is the bank

00:11:53.360 not liable

00:11:54.480 if some accident happens

00:11:56.080 with a project

00:11:57.140 that the bank finances?

00:11:58.260 And his answer is,

00:11:59.900 because we're a bank,

00:12:01.820 we're not building

00:12:03.140 the pipeline,

00:12:03.840 we're not operating

00:12:04.580 the pipeline.

00:12:06.280 She says,

00:12:06.600 yeah,

00:12:06.800 but what's a bank?

00:12:09.200 Well,

00:12:09.780 Ms. Ocasio-Cortez,

00:12:10.820 a bank provides

00:12:12.060 liquidity to markets.

00:12:13.700 We are extending financing

00:12:15.000 to other people

00:12:16.040 who are engaging

00:12:16.680 in other products.

00:12:17.540 She,

00:12:18.280 a few weeks ago,

00:12:19.280 came out

00:12:19.680 and proved

00:12:20.460 that she doesn't know

00:12:21.460 what a tax incentive is.

00:12:23.680 She thought,

00:12:24.440 what a tax incentive is,

00:12:25.920 is you say,

00:12:26.460 okay,

00:12:26.680 you can come here,

00:12:27.220 you're going to do business here,

00:12:28.120 you're going to owe taxes

00:12:28.880 to the municipality

00:12:30.080 or the state

00:12:31.000 or the government

00:12:31.660 and in exchange

00:12:33.240 for you coming here

00:12:34.040 to do that business

00:12:34.800 and create all of these jobs,

00:12:36.120 we're going to lower

00:12:37.200 your tax bill a little bit.

00:12:39.020 That's what a tax incentive is.

00:12:40.460 It's not

00:12:41.140 a pile of slush money

00:12:43.040 that's just sitting in a drawer

00:12:44.020 and will say,

00:12:44.320 if you come here,

00:12:44.780 we'll give you a bunch of money.

00:12:45.780 That's what she thought

00:12:46.680 a tax incentive is.

00:12:47.740 Now we find out

00:12:48.480 she doesn't know

00:12:49.020 what a bank does.

00:12:51.260 This woman

00:12:52.060 is

00:12:52.700 a legislator

00:12:54.520 in our federal government

00:12:55.540 and what this reminds me of

00:12:57.120 is that moment,

00:12:58.480 I remember this

00:12:59.340 a number of years ago

00:13:00.200 whenever it was,

00:13:00.860 Lloyd Blankfein,

00:13:01.760 the CEO of Goldman Sachs,

00:13:03.260 was testifying,

00:13:04.260 I believe,

00:13:04.840 before Congress

00:13:05.540 and it was just

00:13:07.100 a ton of idiots

00:13:08.220 asking him stupid questions

00:13:10.440 and Lloyd Blankfein,

00:13:11.800 who's smarter

00:13:12.220 than all of them combined,

00:13:13.620 just sitting there

00:13:14.400 sort of rubbing his head

00:13:15.640 in annoyance.

00:13:17.720 This man,

00:13:18.560 I mean,

00:13:18.760 this is the difference

00:13:19.440 between the public

00:13:20.240 and the private sector,

00:13:21.080 right?

00:13:21.700 You look at a guy

00:13:22.400 like Tim Sloan,

00:13:23.500 this guy's running

00:13:24.300 Wells Fargo,

00:13:25.320 this is not an easy job

00:13:26.640 to get,

00:13:27.280 you gotta be super smart,

00:13:28.600 very educated,

00:13:29.500 very hard working.

00:13:30.460 This guy is running

00:13:31.300 this major financial institution.

00:13:33.040 Then you have

00:13:33.820 a 29-year-old bartender

00:13:35.260 who lived with her parents

00:13:36.220 until two and a half years ago

00:13:37.420 and she

00:13:38.940 is trying to grill him,

00:13:41.160 she's trying to own him,

00:13:42.160 she wants a video

00:13:42.800 that says

00:13:43.120 AOC owns

00:13:44.600 the Wells Fargo bank guy.

00:13:46.120 It is not possible

00:13:47.340 and it's a real problem

00:13:48.580 with government

00:13:49.160 because

00:13:49.760 the kinds of people

00:13:51.220 who are super smart

00:13:52.240 and super ambitious

00:13:53.160 and want to make

00:13:54.660 a lot of money

00:13:55.160 and are really educated

00:13:56.700 tend to,

00:13:57.880 not all the time,

00:13:58.620 but tend to

00:13:59.500 do what Tim Sloan did,

00:14:01.480 move in that direction,

00:14:02.480 go into the private sector,

00:14:03.520 go where

00:14:04.020 their talents

00:14:05.360 can be rewarded

00:14:06.140 and people

00:14:07.220 who are

00:14:08.500 subpar

00:14:10.220 as a matter of intelligence,

00:14:11.640 as a matter of education,

00:14:12.520 as a matter of work ethic

00:14:13.420 tend to

00:14:14.580 go into the government.

00:14:16.200 Not true all the time.

00:14:17.500 Some of the greatest men

00:14:18.260 in history have been statesmen.

00:14:19.780 Pericles was very smart.

00:14:21.340 Winston Churchill,

00:14:22.420 Ronald Reagan,

00:14:23.480 plenty of very smart,

00:14:25.540 educated,

00:14:26.400 noble,

00:14:27.140 hardworking people

00:14:27.920 in government.

00:14:28.920 But generally speaking,

00:14:30.840 that's the breakdown.

00:14:32.860 And it just shows you

00:14:33.900 where do you want

00:14:34.920 most of a country's resources

00:14:36.840 to be placed?

00:14:39.020 Where do you want

00:14:39.640 most of the decision-making

00:14:40.860 power in a country?

00:14:41.940 Do you want it

00:14:42.560 divided up

00:14:43.480 among free people

00:14:44.720 who are ambitious

00:14:46.120 and smart

00:14:46.600 following their own

00:14:47.300 self-interest,

00:14:48.120 following the interest

00:14:48.740 of their families

00:14:49.380 and their friends

00:14:49.820 and their communities,

00:14:51.160 the far greater

00:14:52.980 percentage of people,

00:14:54.160 the overwhelming

00:14:54.840 majority of people

00:14:55.660 who are like Tim Sloan?

00:14:57.620 Or do you want it

00:14:58.800 in a bunch of

00:14:59.720 dumb,

00:15:00.960 uneducated,

00:15:02.120 uncurious,

00:15:03.160 lazy bureaucrats?

00:15:05.520 This video

00:15:06.960 is one of the

00:15:08.260 great clips

00:15:09.760 for small government

00:15:11.100 in the history

00:15:12.420 of film.

00:15:12.880 Now,

00:15:15.340 speaking of

00:15:15.920 small government

00:15:16.480 conservatism,

00:15:17.260 we will analyze

00:15:18.100 why Mike Lee

00:15:19.340 and Joni Ernst's

00:15:20.560 new paid parental

00:15:21.440 leave policy

00:15:22.080 is wrong-headed.

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00:16:49.800 All right,

00:16:50.540 we have a new

00:16:51.500 conservative

00:16:52.500 welfare program today.

00:16:54.580 I put the word

00:16:55.380 conservative in quotes.

00:16:57.220 This is from Mike Lee,

00:16:58.520 one of the great senators.

00:17:00.000 I'm a huge admirer

00:17:01.220 of Mike Lee,

00:17:02.020 but he's getting

00:17:02.540 this one wrong.

00:17:03.240 It's from Joni Ernst.

00:17:04.660 The bill is called

00:17:05.600 the Cradle Act.

00:17:07.960 Ugh,

00:17:08.240 these acronym bills.

00:17:09.540 They're just so,

00:17:10.600 ugh.

00:17:11.540 The Child Rearing

00:17:13.300 and Development

00:17:14.800 Leave

00:17:15.600 Empowerment

00:17:16.960 Act.

00:17:18.340 Thank goodness

00:17:18.980 these people

00:17:19.540 went into government

00:17:20.360 and not into poetry.

00:17:21.880 Our literature

00:17:22.720 would be even worse

00:17:23.800 off than it is.

00:17:24.720 The Cradle Act.

00:17:26.020 A well-meaning act

00:17:27.340 to offer paid

00:17:28.940 parental leave

00:17:29.880 to everybody.

00:17:30.820 Here,

00:17:31.180 Mike Lee and Joni Ernst

00:17:32.040 defending it.

00:17:32.580 I think most people

00:17:33.840 would look at this

00:17:34.500 as an opportunity

00:17:35.220 that they might not

00:17:36.000 otherwise have.

00:17:36.920 An opportunity

00:17:37.580 to benefit from

00:17:38.800 payments that they've

00:17:40.300 been making already

00:17:40.980 for years.

00:17:41.800 Why is the U.S.

00:17:42.540 so far behind

00:17:43.420 the rest of the

00:17:44.360 industrialized world

00:17:45.500 on this issue?

00:17:46.820 Well,

00:17:47.040 I think that is

00:17:47.660 a really great question

00:17:48.720 and that's why

00:17:49.840 we have decided

00:17:50.620 now is the time

00:17:51.600 to step up

00:17:52.360 and really do

00:17:53.220 something about this.

00:17:54.560 We think it's time

00:17:55.400 to catch up

00:17:55.960 with other countries.

00:17:56.760 First of all,

00:17:58.920 this line of argument,

00:18:00.180 when is the U.S.

00:18:01.040 going to catch up

00:18:01.720 with the rest of the world?

00:18:02.840 This instantly tells you

00:18:04.140 that whatever is being

00:18:04.940 discussed is

00:18:05.640 extremely wrong-headed.

00:18:07.540 This is what people

00:18:08.220 say about soccer.

00:18:09.560 This is what people

00:18:10.220 say about socialist

00:18:11.040 health care.

00:18:12.480 This is,

00:18:12.880 listen,

00:18:13.200 the rest of the world

00:18:13.880 does a lot of terrible

00:18:14.720 things that they pretend

00:18:15.620 are progress

00:18:16.160 and we don't do them

00:18:17.340 and that's a very good

00:18:17.960 thing that we don't do them

00:18:18.840 because civilization

00:18:19.620 survives just a little

00:18:20.940 bit longer.

00:18:22.200 The U.S.

00:18:23.020 does not trail

00:18:24.000 the rest of the world

00:18:24.940 in anything.

00:18:26.040 We are the

00:18:26.400 undisputed leader

00:18:27.480 of the world.

00:18:28.720 There isn't

00:18:29.460 a second place.

00:18:30.900 It is not even close.

00:18:32.300 There is no comparison.

00:18:33.760 So this fiction

00:18:34.600 that we are trailing

00:18:35.800 the rest,

00:18:36.240 you know,

00:18:36.640 we're trailing

00:18:37.180 the rest of the world

00:18:38.180 in random killings

00:18:40.000 on the streets.

00:18:40.700 We're trailing

00:18:41.200 the rest of the world.

00:18:42.740 No,

00:18:43.060 there's no trailing.

00:18:44.260 We're trailing

00:18:44.860 the rest of the world

00:18:45.600 in destroying our government.

00:18:46.680 No, we're not.

00:18:47.980 Sure,

00:18:48.460 things,

00:18:48.740 yeah,

00:18:49.040 they're bad things

00:18:49.680 in America.

00:18:51.200 We are destroying

00:18:52.040 our government.

00:18:52.720 People do kill each other.

00:18:54.000 Of course,

00:18:54.640 yeah,

00:18:54.920 there are problems

00:18:56.020 in America.

00:18:56.600 But to say that

00:18:57.660 America is somehow

00:18:58.800 far behind

00:18:59.700 the rest of the world

00:19:00.540 and we just need

00:19:01.260 to emulate France

00:19:02.400 and then everything

00:19:02.980 will be great,

00:19:03.740 give me a break.

00:19:04.540 That's ridiculous.

00:19:05.680 What is the proposal?

00:19:07.520 The Cradle Act

00:19:08.420 would provide

00:19:09.360 one or two

00:19:11.000 or three months

00:19:12.480 paid parental leave

00:19:14.400 that is borrowed

00:19:16.180 from Social Security.

00:19:17.200 So people

00:19:19.060 who are less likely

00:19:20.860 to receive

00:19:21.400 employer-sponsored benefits

00:19:22.860 are likely

00:19:24.440 to get better benefits

00:19:25.340 from this program.

00:19:26.840 The payments

00:19:27.800 that you would get

00:19:28.740 then from the government

00:19:29.480 require that you live

00:19:31.540 in the same house

00:19:32.340 as your child

00:19:33.480 for at least half

00:19:34.380 of the year

00:19:34.880 to get the payments

00:19:35.940 and the cost

00:19:36.580 is estimated

00:19:37.180 at about $9 billion

00:19:38.380 per year.

00:19:39.860 Although very likely

00:19:40.640 this is a low estimate.

00:19:42.280 Other people

00:19:42.680 are putting that cost

00:19:43.440 at maybe twice that.

00:19:44.340 Just look at the criteria here.

00:19:47.820 Look, on the good side,

00:19:49.180 on the good side

00:19:49.840 this does a really good thing

00:19:51.000 which is addressing

00:19:51.720 a real problem

00:19:52.640 which is low birth rate.

00:19:54.900 The replacement rate

00:19:55.820 for births

00:19:56.480 is 2.1 kids per couple.

00:19:59.600 The current U.S. birth rate

00:20:01.660 is 1.7 kids per couple.

00:20:04.440 Our own population

00:20:05.520 is declining.

00:20:07.280 That's why we have

00:20:07.840 to flood our country

00:20:08.520 with immigrants

00:20:09.100 to maintain

00:20:09.640 our quality of life.

00:20:11.720 Let's look at

00:20:12.500 the provisions here.

00:20:14.340 1, 2, or 3 months

00:20:17.960 paid leave.

00:20:19.720 Now the good side of this

00:20:20.940 is that the money

00:20:21.680 comes out of social security.

00:20:22.940 So it's money

00:20:23.360 that you've already paid for

00:20:24.420 that hopefully

00:20:26.280 it won't cost

00:20:27.900 the federal government

00:20:28.540 very much

00:20:29.020 because you won't get it

00:20:29.840 on the back end.

00:20:30.700 This is obviously

00:20:31.680 politically ridiculous.

00:20:33.260 It's one of these things

00:20:33.960 that is economically

00:20:34.780 sort of plausible

00:20:35.680 and politically

00:20:36.520 not plausible.

00:20:38.120 Nobody,

00:20:38.900 when the first recipients

00:20:40.160 of this program

00:20:41.360 start to retire,

00:20:42.800 nobody is going

00:20:43.980 to deprive them

00:20:44.580 of their social security.

00:20:45.580 It's just not going

00:20:46.200 to happen.

00:20:46.600 They're going to raise

00:20:47.180 social security payments.

00:20:48.840 They're going to,

00:20:50.460 there already are

00:20:51.960 different entitlements

00:20:53.060 associated with this.

00:20:54.360 Those entitlements

00:20:54.960 will grow.

00:20:56.060 Democrats are already

00:20:56.800 against that.

00:20:57.440 That's just not going

00:20:58.340 to happen.

00:20:59.040 One, two, or three months

00:21:00.000 paid leave.

00:21:01.800 One, two, or three months

00:21:02.600 paid leave

00:21:03.060 doesn't do very much.

00:21:04.580 This is the other issue

00:21:05.400 because it doesn't

00:21:06.320 actually address

00:21:07.060 the birth rate problem.

00:21:08.380 There are studies

00:21:09.180 that show

00:21:09.780 that government programs

00:21:11.280 such as this,

00:21:11.820 paid parental leave

00:21:12.620 can increase births.

00:21:14.400 That's true.

00:21:15.000 But these studies

00:21:15.640 tend to show that

00:21:16.400 over much longer,

00:21:18.280 more robust

00:21:19.080 paid parental leave programs.

00:21:21.160 So in Germany,

00:21:21.940 for instance,

00:21:22.340 you get over a year

00:21:23.040 paid parental leave.

00:21:24.920 And in Russia,

00:21:26.140 similar thing,

00:21:26.820 much longer paid

00:21:27.580 parental leave program,

00:21:28.660 it will increase births.

00:21:30.860 But we're not talking

00:21:32.200 about over a year.

00:21:32.920 We're not talking

00:21:33.240 about 12 or 14

00:21:34.180 or 16 months.

00:21:35.660 We're talking about

00:21:36.380 at most three months.

00:21:38.300 Is anybody really

00:21:39.120 going to say,

00:21:40.360 oh, hey,

00:21:40.980 look,

00:21:41.400 it looks like

00:21:41.780 I'll get somewhere

00:21:42.300 around six weeks

00:21:43.400 paid parental leave.

00:21:44.740 So let's start

00:21:45.200 having more kids,

00:21:45.980 Johnny.

00:21:46.740 Yeah,

00:21:46.960 I'll get to stay home

00:21:47.640 with my kid

00:21:48.100 for like eight weeks

00:21:49.340 and then I have to go back.

00:21:51.000 Oh,

00:21:51.140 that way we've bonded.

00:21:52.100 That way the cost

00:21:52.840 of child care

00:21:53.360 doesn't matter.

00:21:54.060 No,

00:21:54.420 of course not.

00:21:55.700 No way.

00:21:57.820 There's no evidence

00:21:58.660 that that amount of time

00:21:59.440 does anything to birth wakes.

00:22:00.900 And also,

00:22:01.460 by the way,

00:22:02.140 one to three months

00:22:03.300 is nothing.

00:22:05.000 This is the other issue.

00:22:06.820 I suppose the idea here

00:22:08.260 is you have a kid

00:22:09.000 and then you want to bond

00:22:10.200 with your kid.

00:22:11.880 Is there any evidence

00:22:13.140 that staying home

00:22:13.980 with your kid for a month

00:22:15.000 and then shoving him off

00:22:16.860 to daycare

00:22:17.340 and you go back to work

00:22:18.480 that that solidifies the bond

00:22:21.480 and okay,

00:22:21.980 everything's good now?

00:22:23.540 Or is there any evidence

00:22:24.420 that you take one month

00:22:26.240 to bond with your kid

00:22:27.260 and then you shove him off

00:22:28.880 to daycare

00:22:29.440 that that saves you

00:22:30.360 a lot of money?

00:22:31.240 No,

00:22:31.560 the kid's going to be

00:22:32.040 in daycare

00:22:32.520 until he's like four or five.

00:22:34.560 One month out of that

00:22:35.740 is nothing.

00:22:37.880 One month out of what?

00:22:39.140 48?

00:22:40.620 60 months?

00:22:41.560 No,

00:22:41.900 that's not going to save you

00:22:42.640 a lot of money.

00:22:45.160 Also,

00:22:45.640 Democrats are already

00:22:46.540 trying to make this

00:22:47.220 a much wider entitlement.

00:22:48.420 So now,

00:22:48.720 Democrats don't want

00:22:49.820 to just limit this

00:22:50.480 to parents.

00:22:51.800 They want to make it

00:22:53.480 about sick relatives too.

00:22:54.880 They want sick leave.

00:22:56.360 So,

00:22:56.940 Kirsten Gillibrand,

00:22:58.360 who I guess

00:22:58.740 is running for president,

00:22:59.820 I mean,

00:23:00.340 she's probably not going

00:23:01.240 to make it

00:23:01.500 to the first debate,

00:23:02.260 but she's now got

00:23:03.600 this bill,

00:23:04.280 the Family and Medical

00:23:05.100 Insurance Leave Act,

00:23:06.840 Family and Medical,

00:23:09.080 and this would give

00:23:09.700 12 weeks paid family leave

00:23:11.680 through the payroll tax.

00:23:13.860 So,

00:23:14.040 it's not coming out

00:23:14.680 of your social security.

00:23:15.760 It's going to come

00:23:16.960 through the payroll tax

00:23:17.800 and what's going to happen?

00:23:18.820 You're going to get

00:23:19.240 the downside

00:23:19.960 of the Democrats

00:23:21.520 doing what they've done

00:23:22.360 for decades,

00:23:23.760 which is demagogue

00:23:24.600 the issue of social security,

00:23:26.500 say that Republicans

00:23:27.480 want to throw

00:23:28.000 granny off a cliff.

00:23:29.540 They want to rob you

00:23:30.560 of your entitlement.

00:23:31.360 You're going to get that

00:23:32.280 with really no tangible benefit.

00:23:34.340 I'm highly skeptical

00:23:35.640 that this is going

00:23:36.660 to increase birth rates.

00:23:38.240 It's not going

00:23:38.720 to alleviate

00:23:39.200 financial strain

00:23:40.180 on middle class

00:23:42.200 and lower middle class

00:23:43.100 and working class families

00:23:44.700 who have kids

00:23:46.180 who need to go to work

00:23:47.440 and need to pay

00:23:47.940 for child care.

00:23:49.640 What does it accomplish?

00:23:50.800 It's a little feel-good thing

00:23:52.440 because somebody

00:23:53.440 in the President Trump orbit

00:23:55.200 decided that it was

00:23:56.280 a good idea

00:23:57.080 for conservatives

00:23:58.020 to embrace

00:23:58.700 pointless welfare programs.

00:24:00.180 And I think

00:24:02.320 everybody's just

00:24:02.940 too timid

00:24:03.580 to point out

00:24:04.700 to those people

00:24:05.540 that it's a bad idea

00:24:06.740 and a leftist idea

00:24:07.600 and it's not even

00:24:08.080 going to work.

00:24:10.100 It's just a bad idea.

00:24:11.520 The question you have

00:24:12.480 to ask is

00:24:12.920 what is the purpose

00:24:14.380 of the law?

00:24:15.960 The purpose of the law

00:24:17.200 is not to give people

00:24:18.620 more money

00:24:19.060 like Kirsten Gillibrand

00:24:19.980 seems to think.

00:24:20.700 The purpose of the law

00:24:21.680 is not to make it

00:24:22.780 easier for

00:24:25.160 mothers to have it all.

00:24:27.320 It's not

00:24:28.080 the purpose of it

00:24:29.300 very explicitly

00:24:30.180 should be

00:24:31.140 to increase

00:24:32.160 the birth rate

00:24:32.820 because we have

00:24:33.460 an unsustainably

00:24:34.360 low birth rate

00:24:35.040 right now

00:24:35.480 and a country

00:24:36.160 can't survive

00:24:36.820 if you don't

00:24:37.300 have babies.

00:24:38.940 The purpose

00:24:39.800 of the law

00:24:40.240 is to encourage

00:24:40.840 people to have

00:24:41.400 children.

00:24:42.240 Will this law

00:24:42.840 achieve that?

00:24:44.240 No.

00:24:45.920 Now how do you

00:24:46.480 achieve that then?

00:24:47.640 I guess you could

00:24:48.300 go in the really

00:24:48.780 socialist direction

00:24:49.960 and say

00:24:51.100 we're going to

00:24:51.940 give you

00:24:52.380 one year

00:24:53.340 two years

00:24:54.640 maybe

00:24:55.040 paid family leave.

00:24:58.020 Why stop at

00:24:59.020 one year?

00:24:59.320 Let's go all the

00:24:59.720 way to two years.

00:25:00.300 We will pay

00:25:00.920 women

00:25:02.020 although in this

00:25:02.780 day and age

00:25:03.200 you're going to

00:25:03.440 have to pay

00:25:03.840 men to do it

00:25:04.540 too

00:25:04.820 and actually

00:25:05.900 in this

00:25:06.180 day and age

00:25:06.540 because single

00:25:07.080 mothers and

00:25:07.560 gay couples

00:25:08.020 can adopt

00:25:08.460 children

00:25:08.860 because basically

00:25:10.320 anybody can

00:25:11.120 adopt children

00:25:11.800 now you're

00:25:12.840 looking at a

00:25:13.360 whole population

00:25:14.480 say we'll

00:25:15.120 offer you

00:25:15.600 two years

00:25:16.660 paid leave

00:25:17.380 if you have

00:25:19.040 a kid or

00:25:19.380 adopt a kid.

00:25:21.140 That creates

00:25:21.900 a pretty weird

00:25:22.460 incentive doesn't

00:25:23.300 it?

00:25:24.880 And if you

00:25:25.540 include adoption

00:25:26.220 in this

00:25:26.640 as the bill

00:25:27.320 does

00:25:27.740 then that

00:25:28.440 doesn't

00:25:28.700 increase the

00:25:29.100 birth rate

00:25:29.440 does it?

00:25:29.820 Maybe it

00:25:30.160 does maybe

00:25:30.480 it has some

00:25:30.820 secondary effect

00:25:31.540 on abortions

00:25:32.160 but that

00:25:32.780 connection is

00:25:33.320 very dubious.

00:25:35.600 I mean this is

00:25:35.980 the trouble with

00:25:36.540 big government

00:25:37.000 programs is you

00:25:37.920 have all these

00:25:38.300 secondary questions

00:25:39.280 that come up

00:25:39.740 all of these

00:25:40.340 weird incentives

00:25:41.060 that crop up

00:25:41.740 all of very

00:25:43.460 often what's

00:25:44.500 happened is

00:25:45.380 that the

00:25:46.340 program doesn't

00:25:47.960 achieve what it

00:25:48.560 sets out to

00:25:49.000 achieve and

00:25:49.860 sometimes it

00:25:50.540 hurts the very

00:25:51.220 goal that it

00:25:52.220 sets out to

00:25:52.900 achieve.

00:25:53.240 This is a

00:25:55.580 big mistake

00:25:56.480 a very big

00:25:57.080 mistake.

00:25:57.540 The way to

00:25:58.080 achieve a

00:25:59.200 higher birth

00:25:59.800 rate which is

00:26:00.300 a noble goal

00:26:01.040 I'm glad

00:26:01.640 conservatives are

00:26:02.280 serious about

00:26:02.780 addressing it

00:26:03.280 is to radically

00:26:04.820 change the

00:26:05.660 culture.

00:26:08.460 That's the

00:26:09.000 reason.

00:26:10.020 Why do we have

00:26:10.520 a low birth

00:26:10.920 rate now?

00:26:11.380 Well it's

00:26:11.800 because it's

00:26:12.220 expected that

00:26:12.740 both parents

00:26:13.140 are working

00:26:13.540 all the time

00:26:14.040 because people

00:26:14.780 have gotten

00:26:15.080 accustomed to

00:26:15.540 a very high

00:26:16.060 quality of

00:26:16.580 life.

00:26:17.040 People don't

00:26:17.440 want to give

00:26:17.800 that up.

00:26:18.780 Why is that?

00:26:19.440 The culture is

00:26:20.000 a bit decadent.

00:26:21.680 What is required

00:26:22.460 to have a lot

00:26:23.020 of kids and

00:26:23.540 to have them

00:26:24.000 quickly and

00:26:24.900 to start

00:26:25.220 having them

00:26:25.560 young?

00:26:26.460 That requires

00:26:27.600 that something's

00:26:28.320 got to give

00:26:28.780 and traditionally

00:26:29.320 that means

00:26:30.000 that the mother

00:26:30.780 has to take

00:26:31.280 care of the

00:26:31.640 children.

00:26:32.140 Not all the

00:26:32.640 time.

00:26:32.900 Sometimes the

00:26:33.340 father stays

00:26:33.860 home to take

00:26:34.400 care of the

00:26:34.800 children.

00:26:35.380 Either way

00:26:35.860 it works

00:26:36.380 you might

00:26:37.180 have to

00:26:37.460 adjust to

00:26:37.880 a lower

00:26:38.500 income,

00:26:40.260 a lower

00:26:40.720 net disposable

00:26:42.020 income,

00:26:42.460 a lower

00:26:42.740 family wealth.

00:26:44.600 You might

00:26:45.060 need to

00:26:45.360 prioritize having

00:26:46.300 children.

00:26:46.760 You cannot

00:26:47.320 have it all.

00:26:49.280 This bill

00:26:49.640 doesn't let you

00:26:50.140 have it all.

00:26:51.260 It just taxes

00:26:51.940 you in the

00:26:52.340 future or

00:26:53.700 borrows money

00:26:54.660 from China or

00:26:56.520 prints money or

00:26:57.300 raises debt or

00:26:58.040 whatever.

00:26:58.600 You cannot have

00:27:00.000 every single thing

00:27:01.140 you want in a

00:27:01.740 finite world.

00:27:02.620 So you have to

00:27:02.940 change the

00:27:03.400 culture from a

00:27:03.940 culture of

00:27:04.660 selfishness,

00:27:05.900 pure professional

00:27:06.600 ambition.

00:27:07.500 We talked

00:27:07.840 yesterday about

00:27:08.640 how in the

00:27:09.660 educational system

00:27:10.520 the reason the

00:27:11.060 college admissions

00:27:11.840 scam happened is

00:27:13.180 because a

00:27:14.080 democratic and

00:27:14.780 egalitarian society

00:27:15.940 cannot tolerate

00:27:18.020 difference and

00:27:19.280 diversity.

00:27:19.780 everybody has to

00:27:21.560 be exactly the

00:27:22.340 same.

00:27:22.580 That is the

00:27:22.980 leveling impulse

00:27:23.960 of democratic

00:27:25.080 egalitarian society.

00:27:26.680 So what

00:27:27.020 happened?

00:27:28.000 In the old

00:27:28.620 days, if you

00:27:29.600 were a young

00:27:30.020 person, you

00:27:31.220 had a lot of

00:27:31.640 paths before you.

00:27:32.620 You could join

00:27:33.100 the military after

00:27:33.840 high school.

00:27:34.620 You could go get

00:27:35.500 a job.

00:27:35.960 You could become

00:27:36.540 an entrepreneur.

00:27:37.260 You could go to

00:27:37.620 a four-year college.

00:27:38.400 You could go to

00:27:38.740 a two-year college.

00:27:39.620 You could go to

00:27:40.060 a trade school.

00:27:40.780 You could get an

00:27:41.220 apprenticeship.

00:27:42.000 All of these

00:27:42.620 different things.

00:27:43.560 Now we are told

00:27:44.660 everybody has to

00:27:45.620 go to a four-year

00:27:46.140 college.

00:27:46.680 It's the same

00:27:47.220 thing in the

00:27:47.880 professional life.

00:27:48.560 We are told

00:27:49.280 every single

00:27:50.000 person has to

00:27:51.100 have a career.

00:27:52.060 It has to be a

00:27:52.620 professional career.

00:27:53.740 You can't just

00:27:54.180 have a job.

00:27:54.980 You've got to

00:27:55.420 have a really

00:27:56.260 good yuppie

00:27:56.820 professional career.

00:27:57.680 You've got to

00:27:57.960 go do-do-do-do-do.

00:27:58.860 You've got to

00:27:59.340 start working at

00:28:00.160 22.

00:28:00.780 You can't stop

00:28:01.520 working until

00:28:02.280 you're 65.

00:28:03.300 You've got to

00:28:03.800 delay having kids.

00:28:04.960 You've got to

00:28:05.440 send your kids

00:28:05.940 off to daycare.

00:28:07.040 You need double

00:28:08.020 income.

00:28:08.500 You need blah-do-do-do.

00:28:09.400 That's the only

00:28:09.960 way to live.

00:28:10.520 But that isn't

00:28:11.080 true.

00:28:12.380 And the effect

00:28:13.480 of that, one

00:28:15.160 effect that we're

00:28:15.820 seeing that this

00:28:16.340 bill is trying to

00:28:16.980 address is that

00:28:18.560 because everybody

00:28:20.740 is off working

00:28:21.340 at the widget

00:28:21.740 factory.

00:28:23.580 Okay, good for

00:28:25.300 some people, not

00:28:27.180 good for other

00:28:27.860 people, broadly

00:28:28.820 not good for the

00:28:29.500 culture.

00:28:30.000 That's how you

00:28:30.560 change it.

00:28:30.960 You're not going

00:28:31.540 to change it by

00:28:32.520 some overweening

00:28:33.980 radical social

00:28:35.360 engineering federal

00:28:36.400 law.

00:28:36.920 You're not going

00:28:37.420 to change that

00:28:39.340 by conservatives

00:28:40.260 suddenly becoming

00:28:41.420 the party or the

00:28:42.680 political movement

00:28:43.960 of big federal

00:28:45.600 government.

00:28:46.580 It's just not

00:28:47.260 going to do it.

00:28:47.660 It's a noble

00:28:48.480 purpose, but a

00:28:49.520 bad law.

00:28:50.500 We've got to get

00:28:51.120 to one of the

00:28:51.600 other great stories

00:28:52.560 of the day.

00:28:53.800 You remember

00:28:54.340 Media Matters

00:28:55.060 went after

00:28:55.400 Tucker Carlson?

00:28:57.180 They found

00:28:57.940 clips from him

00:28:58.800 12 years ago,

00:29:00.660 13 years ago,

00:29:02.120 saying shocking

00:29:03.000 things on a

00:29:03.640 radio shock

00:29:04.600 jock show.

00:29:05.700 Turns out,

00:29:06.920 the Media Matters

00:29:07.980 guy, the head

00:29:08.920 of Media Matters

00:29:09.660 for America,

00:29:10.280 Andrew Carusone,

00:29:11.660 is a transphobe.

00:29:14.500 We've got his

00:29:15.700 blog entries from

00:29:17.040 almost exactly the

00:29:18.440 same time as they

00:29:19.620 got Tucker Carlson's

00:29:20.580 radio calls.

00:29:21.140 We will go through

00:29:21.680 exactly what he

00:29:22.480 says.

00:29:23.180 But first, go to

00:29:25.080 dailywire.com.

00:29:25.860 Why?

00:29:26.100 You get me, you get

00:29:26.720 the Andrew

00:29:27.000 Claven show, you get

00:29:27.580 the Ben Shapiro show,

00:29:28.580 you get the Matt

00:29:29.200 Walsh show, you get

00:29:30.080 to ask questions in

00:29:30.700 the mailbag, you get

00:29:31.760 to ask questions

00:29:32.260 backstage.

00:29:33.280 Backstage is coming

00:29:34.040 up today, actually.

00:29:36.020 We're doing backstage

00:29:36.600 just later today.

00:29:37.780 The mailbag's coming

00:29:38.400 up tomorrow.

00:29:38.860 Get your questions in.

00:29:40.480 All of this and the

00:29:43.640 Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:29:44.740 This is very good.

00:29:45.320 This is the Tim

00:29:45.820 Sloan edition.

00:29:48.800 All of these

00:29:49.620 tumblers obviously

00:29:50.360 were financed with

00:29:51.100 the help of Wells

00:29:51.720 Fargo, as well as

00:29:53.620 17 or 18 other

00:29:54.420 banks.

00:29:55.180 These are really

00:29:55.880 good.

00:29:56.300 This is the only

00:29:56.900 safe way to consume

00:29:58.480 those leftist

00:29:59.520 tears.

00:29:59.920 Make sure you get

00:30:00.700 this or you will

00:30:01.380 drown.

00:30:01.740 Go to dailywire.com.

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00:30:38.500 Well, that was fast.

00:30:40.580 What was it?

00:30:41.440 Two days ago, Media

00:30:42.640 Matters for America

00:30:43.540 took a shot at

00:30:44.500 Tucker Carlson.

00:30:46.100 They've dug up these

00:30:47.300 old tapes from a

00:30:48.440 shock jock radio show,

00:30:50.200 and it had Tucker

00:30:51.800 making offensive jokes

00:30:53.940 on them, and they

00:30:55.080 said, see, Tucker

00:30:55.760 Carlson has to lose

00:30:56.600 his Fox show now.

00:30:58.960 So the minute that

00:31:00.300 happened, I tweeted

00:31:01.040 out, I said, you

00:31:01.520 know, it sure would

00:31:02.100 be a shame if people

00:31:03.740 dug up some dirt on

00:31:04.900 the Media Matters

00:31:05.660 people.

00:31:06.500 Gosh, wouldn't that

00:31:07.240 be a shame to give

00:31:07.960 them a taste of their

00:31:08.620 own medicine?

00:31:09.060 Not two or three

00:31:10.180 days later, we got

00:31:11.240 it.

00:31:11.760 We got it.

00:31:12.220 It came out today

00:31:13.080 Andrew Carusone, the

00:31:15.940 president of Media

00:31:16.820 Matters for America.

00:31:18.620 He apparently had a

00:31:19.620 blog, 2005, 2006,

00:31:23.340 somewhere around there,

00:31:24.400 about the same time

00:31:25.500 Tucker was calling

00:31:26.540 into that radio show.

00:31:28.100 On that blog, he made

00:31:29.560 degrading references

00:31:30.460 to trannies, Jewry,

00:31:33.700 and Bangladeshis.

00:31:34.660 Andrew Carusone, I'll

00:31:37.940 just read it myself, he

00:31:39.680 took issue with a gang

00:31:41.120 of transvestites, and

00:31:42.900 he specifically took

00:31:44.100 issue with the

00:31:45.280 transvestites being

00:31:46.260 referred to as

00:31:46.860 attractive.

00:31:47.780 He said, quote, did

00:31:49.100 you notice the word

00:31:49.860 attractive?

00:31:51.160 What the F is that

00:31:52.560 doing in there?

00:31:53.880 Is the writer a

00:31:54.740 tranny lover too?

00:31:56.140 Or perhaps he's just

00:31:57.080 trying to justify how

00:31:58.120 these trannies tricked

00:31:59.440 this Bangladeshi in the

00:32:00.680 first place.

00:32:01.500 Look, man, we don't

00:32:02.680 need to know whether or

00:32:03.620 not they were

00:32:04.020 attractive.

00:32:04.800 The F-ing guy was

00:32:05.820 Bangladeshi.

00:32:06.800 And while we're out,

00:32:07.940 what the heck was he

00:32:09.420 doing with $7,300 worth

00:32:11.300 of stuff?

00:32:11.960 The guy's Bangladeshi.

00:32:14.300 Okay, that's just one.

00:32:15.660 Whatever the context is,

00:32:16.920 I don't know.

00:32:17.380 You can hear the words.

00:32:18.380 In this case, I guess,

00:32:20.260 the context doesn't

00:32:21.260 really matter because

00:32:21.940 he's using all of the

00:32:23.140 derogatory terms.

00:32:25.040 Now, he's obviously

00:32:25.940 writing a humorous blog

00:32:27.840 post, right?

00:32:28.400 This is supposed to be

00:32:29.080 humor.

00:32:30.220 Tucker Carlson was

00:32:31.000 obviously calling into

00:32:31.920 a humorous radio show.

00:32:33.620 But what this guy

00:32:35.840 said, according to the

00:32:37.800 left, according to the

00:32:39.280 left in 2019, what this

00:32:40.880 guy said is a lot worse

00:32:42.680 than what Tucker Carlson

00:32:44.140 said.

00:32:45.180 He's transphobic.

00:32:48.020 He's racist.

00:32:50.220 He's classist.

00:32:52.280 He's checking off all the

00:32:53.400 intersectional boxes.

00:32:54.760 He said, he goes on about

00:32:56.280 the transgender stuff.

00:32:57.420 He says, quote,

00:32:58.820 that the police should tell

00:33:00.080 people to, quote,

00:33:00.880 stay away from tranny

00:33:02.240 bars.

00:33:02.720 Stay away from places

00:33:03.660 where Eddie Murphy and

00:33:04.940 Robert Downey Jr.

00:33:06.100 have are visiting.

00:33:07.480 Don't effing kiss a

00:33:08.660 transvestite.

00:33:09.840 Don't bring a group of

00:33:10.820 transvestites back to your

00:33:12.480 room, etc.

00:33:14.380 Okay, he's got a real

00:33:15.280 focus on transvestites.

00:33:17.240 Now, this is back like

00:33:18.620 five minutes ago when

00:33:19.820 people could make jokes

00:33:20.660 about men dressing up as

00:33:21.700 women.

00:33:22.240 That was a topic of humor.

00:33:23.980 Now, this is a very

00:33:25.160 somber, very serious thing.

00:33:26.860 You could never, what's

00:33:27.860 funny about that?

00:33:29.040 Huh?

00:33:30.120 What's funny about a man

00:33:31.060 putting on lipstick and

00:33:31.860 dressing up like a woman?

00:33:33.520 What's entertaining about

00:33:34.600 that?

00:33:35.100 Never mind that drag bars

00:33:36.680 have existed for all of

00:33:37.860 human history and they

00:33:38.960 are all about entertaining

00:33:40.140 people and putting on a

00:33:41.020 show.

00:33:41.260 No, no, you can't laugh.

00:33:42.340 You have to, it's super

00:33:43.040 duper serious.

00:33:44.220 You can't laugh.

00:33:44.980 So Andrew Kariuszoni

00:33:45.860 breaks the rules.

00:33:46.900 He doesn't just talk about

00:33:48.020 transvestites, though.

00:33:49.820 He writes about Japanese

00:33:51.040 female basketball players

00:33:52.460 and he says that they

00:33:53.860 should stop complaining

00:33:54.680 about sexual abuse.

00:33:55.580 He says, lighten up,

00:33:56.800 Japs.

00:33:58.160 It's his line.

00:33:59.320 He extolled the virtues

00:34:00.220 of Senator Robert Byrd,

00:34:02.180 famously of the KKK.

00:34:04.840 He also said, thanks to

00:34:05.980 my adorable boyfriend,

00:34:07.700 come on, despite his

00:34:08.780 Jewry, you know he's

00:34:10.260 adorable.

00:34:11.020 You know, because Jews

00:34:11.660 are not cute or

00:34:12.800 attractive, but despite

00:34:14.260 that, his boyfriend is

00:34:16.180 adorable.

00:34:16.700 That's according to the

00:34:17.360 blog posts.

00:34:18.480 He also said his

00:34:19.560 boyfriend leaned

00:34:20.240 conservative, quote, as

00:34:21.700 a consequence of his

00:34:22.620 possession of several

00:34:23.420 bags of Jewish gold.

00:34:24.520 You see, the Jews

00:34:26.220 have all of this money

00:34:27.780 and they're greedy and

00:34:28.500 they control the whole

00:34:29.100 world and they sell out

00:34:30.880 for money.

00:34:32.900 That's according to the

00:34:34.540 head of Media Matters

00:34:35.340 for America.

00:34:36.900 No, but Michael, he was

00:34:37.980 making a joke.

00:34:38.780 Yeah, I know.

00:34:39.720 Right, Tucker was making

00:34:40.520 a joke.

00:34:41.740 I'm all for jokes.

00:34:43.560 But this guy, this

00:34:45.460 hack, Andrew

00:34:47.440 Kariuszoni, is

00:34:49.200 currently trying to get

00:34:50.840 Tucker Carlson fired

00:34:51.900 for making less

00:34:53.540 offensive jokes than he

00:34:54.740 did at the exact same

00:34:56.720 time that they both

00:34:57.600 made them.

00:35:01.360 Huh.

00:35:03.080 Well, I guess if

00:35:04.080 Tucker's going to lose

00:35:04.840 his job, I guess Andrew

00:35:05.640 Kariuszoni has to too.

00:35:06.940 I don't think he should

00:35:08.400 though.

00:35:09.640 I mean, he should just

00:35:10.720 as a matter of fairness,

00:35:12.400 but nobody should lose

00:35:13.380 their job.

00:35:13.860 And I actually, first of

00:35:15.020 all, these are not going

00:35:15.980 to take him down because

00:35:17.620 the left doesn't actually

00:35:18.660 care.

00:35:19.040 They don't actually care

00:35:19.940 about people confused

00:35:20.760 about their gender.

00:35:21.620 They don't actually care

00:35:22.420 about any racial minority.

00:35:24.980 They don't care about

00:35:25.540 women.

00:35:25.800 They don't care about

00:35:26.860 that.

00:35:27.680 They care about attacking

00:35:28.760 the right.

00:35:29.480 They care about taking

00:35:30.340 down Big Daddy and the

00:35:31.420 patriarchy.

00:35:32.160 So the left will not

00:35:33.300 take him down over this.

00:35:34.180 This probably won't even

00:35:35.180 be played on CNN.

00:35:36.700 But I think it benefits

00:35:37.780 us for him to be in his

00:35:38.960 job.

00:35:39.580 I think it's actually

00:35:40.640 better to keep him

00:35:41.400 there so that we can

00:35:43.000 point to him as an

00:35:43.700 example of hypocrisy.

00:35:44.840 I think this really

00:35:45.400 wounds media matters.

00:35:47.760 I think it really wounds

00:35:48.500 the credibility of media

00:35:49.500 matters.

00:35:49.900 Because now, whenever

00:35:52.100 they point to something

00:35:53.120 that anybody says,

00:35:54.380 they're going to find

00:35:54.900 something I said on

00:35:55.600 some show and they'll

00:35:56.260 say, see, Michael needs

00:35:57.160 to lose his job.

00:35:58.240 We'll just point to

00:35:58.940 Andrew Carusone.

00:35:59.980 You know, this guy told

00:36:02.280 Japanese women to stop

00:36:03.560 complaining about sexual

00:36:04.660 assault.

00:36:05.580 This guy said horrible

00:36:08.020 things about transgender

00:36:09.680 people.

00:36:11.060 And this guy made

00:36:12.360 offensive comments about

00:36:13.200 Bangladeshis, among other

00:36:15.060 comments on his blog.

00:36:15.980 And then they'll say,

00:36:17.680 oh, well, it just, it's

00:36:19.220 kind of like the Liz

00:36:19.920 Warren thing.

00:36:21.060 I want Liz Warren to

00:36:22.260 stay in the Senate for

00:36:22.980 as long as possible

00:36:23.800 because she's a joke.

00:36:25.200 She has no credibility

00:36:26.320 whatsoever.

00:36:27.360 She's so professionally

00:36:29.320 and politically wounded,

00:36:30.800 it's better to have her

00:36:31.760 there rather than to

00:36:33.340 have someone who still

00:36:35.240 has some credibility.

00:36:36.300 So, hope he stays there.

00:36:37.680 Best of luck to Andrew

00:36:38.740 Carusone.

00:36:39.880 Now, it's kind of

00:36:43.620 interesting, too, because

00:36:44.300 Carusone says he was

00:36:45.380 dating this conservative

00:36:46.500 guy.

00:36:46.920 I don't know if they're

00:36:47.840 still dating or if the

00:36:49.660 guy is still conservative

00:36:50.680 or whatever.

00:36:51.800 But this does remind me

00:36:53.080 of something, which is

00:36:53.820 that I've noticed that

00:36:55.860 very prominent left

00:36:57.000 wingers move over to

00:36:58.940 the right.

00:36:59.780 They become right wing

00:37:00.740 activists, major right

00:37:02.780 wing voices.

00:37:04.660 That is not true of

00:37:06.600 right wingers.

00:37:07.280 That is generally not

00:37:08.200 true of conservatives.

00:37:08.980 Some, you know, little

00:37:09.920 political consultants get

00:37:11.180 their 15 minutes of fame

00:37:12.420 by advising, they used

00:37:15.540 to advise liberal

00:37:16.260 Republicans, now they

00:37:17.120 advise liberal Democrats

00:37:18.240 or something.

00:37:18.880 And then Steve Schmidt is

00:37:19.840 an example of this.

00:37:21.040 Say, oh, see, look, he

00:37:22.320 went from right to left.

00:37:23.260 But of the actual

00:37:24.240 leftists, of the actual

00:37:25.920 conservatives, the real,

00:37:27.140 the true believers who

00:37:28.260 have a coherent political

00:37:29.800 philosophy or ideology, it

00:37:32.320 always seems to move from

00:37:33.980 left to right.

00:37:35.020 And we're seeing this with

00:37:35.800 the co-founder of

00:37:36.560 Greenpeace.

00:37:37.480 Greenpeace, the major

00:37:38.360 environmentalist group, he

00:37:40.900 has come out and said that

00:37:42.480 the Green New Deal could

00:37:43.260 end civilization completely.

00:37:46.580 You're one of the

00:37:47.200 founders of the most

00:37:48.280 famous environmental

00:37:48.960 organization in the world,

00:37:50.440 and you think the Green New

00:37:51.900 Deal sounds terrifying.

00:37:53.760 Tell us why.

00:37:55.260 Well, because it would be

00:37:56.800 basically the end of

00:37:57.920 civilization if 85% of the

00:38:00.800 world's and also 85% of the

00:38:03.520 U.S.'s energy in the form of

00:38:05.960 coal, oil, and natural gas

00:38:08.080 were phased out over the

00:38:09.860 next few years, like 10

00:38:11.540 years.

00:38:12.200 We do not have anything to

00:38:13.620 replace them with.

00:38:15.020 Yes, if we went into a

00:38:16.600 crash course of building

00:38:17.720 nuclear reactors, we could

00:38:19.560 replace them for producing

00:38:20.940 electricity.

00:38:22.120 But that isn't going to

00:38:23.080 happen because the Greens

00:38:24.120 are against nuclear and

00:38:25.660 they're even against

00:38:26.360 hydroelectric dams, which

00:38:28.080 at least is renewable, but

00:38:29.820 they don't support that

00:38:31.000 either.

00:38:31.300 So basically, they are

00:38:32.740 opposed to approximately

00:38:34.060 98.5% of all the

00:38:37.080 electricity that we are

00:38:38.880 using and nearly 100% of

00:38:41.740 all the vehicle and

00:38:43.060 transportation and ships and

00:38:44.700 planes energy that we are

00:38:46.580 using.

00:38:47.580 Wow.

00:38:49.140 So he says the end of

00:38:50.260 civilization.

00:38:52.060 We knew that.

00:38:53.440 I mean, that is what the

00:38:54.280 Green New Deal calls for.

00:38:55.760 It calls for spending 93

00:38:57.880 trillion dollars, which you

00:38:59.060 don't have.

00:38:59.540 You just, first of all, tax

00:39:01.300 anybody who creates any

00:39:02.900 economic growth and any

00:39:04.540 job growth whatsoever.

00:39:05.580 You tax them into oblivion.

00:39:06.960 Then you just print money so

00:39:08.260 you destroy the economy and

00:39:09.760 you destroy America's

00:39:10.780 economic standing in the

00:39:11.700 world.

00:39:12.080 And then you outlaw

00:39:12.920 virtually all of American

00:39:14.120 energy.

00:39:14.620 Then you knock down every

00:39:15.380 single building in the

00:39:16.100 country.

00:39:16.780 Obviously, this would be the

00:39:19.720 end of civilization.

00:39:20.960 It's not just that he says

00:39:21.900 this, but listen, the way

00:39:22.980 he's talking about this, he's

00:39:24.500 citing very specific facts,

00:39:27.000 examples, some statistics.

00:39:29.760 He's speaking with great

00:39:30.980 detail and great precision.

00:39:32.500 Compare that to AOC, who is

00:39:34.640 now the leading environmentalist

00:39:36.120 voice on the left.

00:39:37.400 And she says, it doesn't

00:39:39.120 matter if you're factually

00:39:39.960 correct.

00:39:41.660 It doesn't matter.

00:39:43.780 That's the difference.

00:39:45.640 And this guy was a left

00:39:48.000 winger.

00:39:48.360 He's the co-founder of Green

00:39:49.540 Peace.

00:39:50.580 But he has moved from the

00:39:52.060 left to what would be called

00:39:53.580 the right on this issue.

00:39:54.680 And it's not just him.

00:39:56.360 Norma McCorvey became one of

00:39:59.020 the biggest pro-life advocates

00:40:01.680 in the country.

00:40:03.260 But you probably don't know

00:40:03.960 the name Norma McCorvey

00:40:05.080 because what she's most

00:40:06.500 famously known as is Jane

00:40:08.560 Rowe of Rowe versus Wade.

00:40:11.340 This was the woman who almost

00:40:13.980 single-handedly got the

00:40:17.600 Supreme Court to create a

00:40:18.840 fictional constitutional right

00:40:20.380 to abortion.

00:40:22.940 Huge, millions and

00:40:24.480 millions and millions of

00:40:25.640 babies killed because of her

00:40:26.960 activism.

00:40:28.120 And she switched sides.

00:40:30.600 The more she learned, the

00:40:31.660 more she grew in wisdom.

00:40:33.680 She understood that this was

00:40:34.780 a horrible and grave

00:40:35.840 injustice.

00:40:36.380 She became a major pro-life

00:40:37.720 advocate.

00:40:39.220 Same thing with Dr.

00:40:40.240 Bernard Nathanson.

00:40:41.780 Dr.

00:40:42.180 Bernard Nathanson was one of

00:40:43.580 the founders of NARAL.

00:40:45.940 They've changed their name

00:40:47.040 like seven times, but they've

00:40:48.080 never changed the acronym.

00:40:49.420 This is the major abortion

00:40:51.040 rights organization since the

00:40:52.900 beginning of the abortion

00:40:54.940 movement in the 1960s and

00:40:56.620 70s.

00:40:58.260 This guy has come out.

00:40:59.600 He's become a major pro-life

00:41:00.860 advocate.

00:41:02.160 This guy performed abortions,

00:41:03.500 I think.

00:41:05.300 And he came out and he said,

00:41:06.740 look, the statistics we used

00:41:08.120 were made up.

00:41:09.060 What we were doing was

00:41:10.420 barbaric.

00:41:11.040 It's wrong.

00:41:11.980 We shouldn't do it.

00:41:13.040 It's terrible.

00:41:13.780 Moved on over.

00:41:14.440 And now you have Patrick Moore

00:41:15.360 from Greenpeace, the major

00:41:17.760 environmentalist organization.

00:41:19.140 He comes out and he says, no, we

00:41:20.240 were just wrong.

00:41:21.240 This is just wrong.

00:41:23.520 Why is this?

00:41:24.360 Why do people move on over?

00:41:25.700 It's because people over time

00:41:27.820 grow in wisdom.

00:41:29.520 Generally, that's the idea.

00:41:30.680 The left has this opposite idea,

00:41:32.160 which is that out of the mouths

00:41:33.400 of babes come the most beautiful

00:41:35.020 truths in the world.

00:41:36.520 And as people get older and they

00:41:38.180 live in the world, they become

00:41:39.020 corrupted and evil and awful.

00:41:40.660 And so you should, people who are

00:41:42.020 ignorant are actually wiser.

00:41:43.920 I mean, that's the idea.

00:41:44.580 That's how AOC becomes the

00:41:46.160 leading voice on the left.

00:41:47.280 Because youth, immaturity,

00:41:50.140 ignorance is considered a

00:41:51.660 positive good.

00:41:53.380 This is considered wisdom for

00:41:55.320 an inverted political ideology

00:41:58.280 such as leftism.

00:42:00.280 There's that old line, if you're

00:42:02.060 not a liberal when you're 17,

00:42:03.500 you have no heart.

00:42:04.360 If you're not a conservative

00:42:05.480 when you're 40, you have no

00:42:06.980 brain, which is half true.

00:42:10.120 And this reminds me of that.

00:42:12.640 I mean, there is a natural

00:42:14.000 evolution here.

00:42:14.880 And it's, what people will point

00:42:16.620 to is all these little, little

00:42:17.860 people.

00:42:18.180 Jennifer Rubin, she's a blogger

00:42:19.780 and then she said she was

00:42:20.960 conservative and now she's

00:42:22.000 leftist.

00:42:22.660 Okay, what, right.

00:42:24.340 Liberal Republicans sometimes

00:42:25.840 move to the left.

00:42:27.920 This is true of other political

00:42:29.340 pundits and commentators.

00:42:31.020 But of the real guys, the real

00:42:32.660 people in the arena, the real

00:42:34.040 people doing something, major

00:42:36.400 activists, major voices, it

00:42:39.340 doesn't ever seem to move that

00:42:41.380 way.

00:42:42.520 All right, we've got a lot more

00:42:43.440 to get to, but unfortunately

00:42:45.060 we're out of time.

00:42:46.560 That's our show.

00:42:47.220 We'll get tomorrow to why the

00:42:48.580 death penalty is a good thing

00:42:49.660 and why Nancy Pelosi is not

00:42:51.060 going to impeach the

00:42:51.660 president.

00:42:52.020 Get your mailbag questions in.

00:42:53.200 I'll see you later for

00:42:54.540 Backstage.

00:42:55.100 In the meantime, I'm Michael

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00:43:25.520 Hey everyone, it's Andrew

00:43:27.380 Klavan, host of The Andrew

00:43:28.920 Klavan Show.

00:43:29.940 Federal authorities are

00:43:31.180 shocked, shocked to find

00:43:33.180 that credentialed elites are

00:43:34.740 lying, cheating, and stealing

00:43:36.620 to make sure their children

00:43:37.980 also become credentialed

00:43:39.880 elites.

00:43:40.400 It's a scandal that has been

00:43:41.500 going on for at least 250

00:43:43.000 years.

00:43:43.600 We'll talk about it more on

00:43:44.760 The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:43:46.020 I'm Andrew Klavan.

Ep. 313 - Paid Parental Leave： The “Conservative” Welfare Program

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