WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 18 July 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:07.200 On Scorne Lives Australia. This is the Weirder Panalty Show. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.280 Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panehy Show. I'm 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:15.680 Danikiti Giorgio. Coming up tonight. Joe Biden is diagnosed with COVID. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:17.360 The Great Douglas. 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.680 Murray joins us to discuss what it means for his 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:25.200 already disastrous campaign. A Democratic funded poll shows Joe Biden 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.320 he is a losing ground to Donald Trump in fourteen 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.880 key states. Koshagada will unpack what is said to be 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.840 an electoral wipeout. Megan Michael reportedly furious so the King 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.800 Charles's latest product launch and is hoping to confront him 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.800 and of course left He's losing it. As the weird 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:49.319 Trump shooting conspiracy theories reach fever, pitch, I. 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.239 Bet Trump did this. I bet you he paid somebody 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:52.760 to do this. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:54.480 I mean, think about it. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.240 What a better way to garner sympathy from people that 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.000 are on the fence than having somebody shoot at you. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.000 Joining me now is Menzi's Research Senior Center Senior Fellow 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.200 and Danube Institute visiting fellow Nick Cata. Nick, good to 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.920 see you, Thank you for joining us. Look let's start 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.679 with four to skew because it's green hydrogen fuel fantasy 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.000 is over. Up to seven hundred jobs will go. After 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.560 Andrew Forrest pulled back from the company's goal of producing 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:26.120 fifteen million tons of green hydrogen a year by twenty thirty, 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.640 Nick Twiggy has pulled the plug. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.240 He could not deliver on his green dream. 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:37.360 What does that suggest, Well, look, he's woken up the reality, Denita, 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.000 and the reality is that to make hydrogen you need 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.840 a lot of electricity, and in his case, a lot 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.000 of green electricity, a lot of clean electricity, and he 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.680 needs it cheap. Now, they've been trying to negotiate with 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.600 companies for years now to try and get that price 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.400 of the renewable energy at the affordable price. They haven't 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.760 been able to do it. So this is really is 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.400 a double blow for the government and for Chris. I 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.560 mean Chris Bowen built this whole idea of a renewable 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.760 energy superpower on the idea that we were going to 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.880 be making lots and lots of green hydrogen. The business 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.520 case for that is clearly not there. But he's also 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.360 building on the case that renewable energy is cheap, and 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.600 this decision from Twiggy Forest shows us it is not cheap, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.720 it is hellish expensive. And while I'm talking about Twiggy Forest, 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.480 by the way, because I know he's a listed watcher 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.200 of this program, the leader, I'm pretty certain, can he 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.200 also pull back on his plan for a wind farm 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.919 in the Upper Berdiican in the tropical forests that's going 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.360 ahead up there, because let's just save those koalas, shall we, Twiggy, 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:38.880 as well as save your business. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:41.320 Well, look, hopefully he's watching. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.880 You've delivered the message a loud and clear to him. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.400 There you go, Nick Kta fingers crossed. He gets that 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.800 message loud and clear. Now look, speaking of energy, the 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:55.480 dim witted Agriculture Minister Murray what claims nuclear energy threatens 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.560 Australia's food production. He says there are more than eleven 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.800 thousd farms near the opposition's proposed reactor sites. 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:05.040 Nick I thought. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.720 Labor was going to tone down on these scare campaigns, 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:09.520 but apparently not. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.360 I'm your reporter on the spot for this one, Deneta, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.000 because one hundred and fifty kilometers down the River Danube 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.359 that way is the Pox nuclear power station, producing two 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.200 gigawatts of power. Which is making lecturity very cheap here 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.760 in Hungary. And the water that filters it comes into 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.239 this river right, the water that cools the Pox power 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.120 station is just meters away from me. I can see 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.280 no green eyed fish. I can fact there's a fisherman 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.119 down there. I don't think he's called anything. By the way, 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.280 you know, this whole thing is a fantasy. I stood 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.560 last week within fifteen meters of a nuclear reactor and 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.680 on the way out of the building, I was tested, 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.040 as they test everybody, and they told me that I 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.600 would have had a higher radiation level if I'd taken 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.240 a seven hour flight from Sydney to Indonesia. You know, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:57.280 so it's ridiculous. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.720 Now, before we let you go, Nick, European leaders and 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.920 dips are reportedly in shock at the selection of JD. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.960 Vance as Donald Trump's running mate. You're in Hungary at 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.119 the moment, standing in front of a beautiful background there. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.760 But what's been the reaction to his appointment and will 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.040 he be good for Europe? 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.039 Well, he will be good for Europe, but amongst the 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:23.560 European bureaucratic elite, there has been absolute panic because you know, 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.200 he's not their kind of man like Donald Trump. He 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.880 believes in nationalism for a start, and the whole European 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.279 project is built on doing away with borders. So he's 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.440 really challenging their position, and he's doing it because he's 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.000 doing it from an intelligent place as well, and that 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.760 throws them out. But the really scary thing for them 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.200 is that Vans, who has served in the US military, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.240 is saying to Europe, as Trump has been doing, You've 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.600 got to pay for your own defense. You cannot rely 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.919 on the United States all the time. Of course, the 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.480 United States will be there in an emergency, but you 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.400 cannot rely on us. You've got to start digging, dipping 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.599 your hands in your pocket and shelling out some more 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.320 euros for your own army and your own defense force. 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.280 And that is what's really chilling the Europeans, because at 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.359 the end of the day, they'd rather have something than nothing. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.039 Yeah, I'm not surprised by that at all. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.640 Nick Cator, great to speak with you as always, Thanks 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.000 for joining us joining me now. Is author of international 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.919 best sellers, including the Strange Death of Europe, The Madness 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.760 of Crowds, and to his latest book, The War on 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.000 the West. Douglas Murray Douglas thank you so much for 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.040 joining us as always. Now, you wrote that the attack 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.159 on Donald Trump is reminiscent of the shootings of Ronald 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.560 Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt. What did you take away from 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.279 what occurred in Pennsylvania at the weekend. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:48.960 Well, like most people, what'sed with horror in real time 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.720 as it was happening, and it was reminded again, as 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.159 all of us have been, of that terrible way in 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.520 which history can turn on a few millimeters, as in 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.760 this case, as in attempts to assassinate previous presidents of 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.800 the United States. I still think that in some ways, 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.080 because everyone's moving on to the political significance of this, 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.520 there's still been quite enough of a registering of how 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:19.080 close America came to a situation that is almost unthinkable. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:24.360 Had the assassin's bullet been very slightly to one side, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.080 not only would we have an assassination of a former 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:33.719 president and a running a candidate on live television, but 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.760 the Republican Party, the Democrats, America as a whole, and 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.200 therefore the world could easily have fallen into an absolute 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.719 pit of recrimination, retribution, and much more. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.280 You know, history really does turn on such moments. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:54.160 And you know, thank goodness, on this occasion, things are 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.039 going in a better direction than they might have done. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.800 Yay, he certainly was extremely, extremely lucky. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.960 Now, Douglas, let's talk about the catastrophic failures of the 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.200 Sacred Service that led to Trump being shot. It's now 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.560 being revealed the agency knew of the threat one hour 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.680 before the rally, yet still allowed Trump to tape the stage. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.800 He is more, and according to Senator John Barasso just 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.520 spoke to him as soon as he hung up on 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.800 this briefing, he said that apparently the Secret Service had 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:28.840 identified as a character of suspicion this man the shooter 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.600 because they saw a rangefinder on him as well as 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:33.360 a backpack. 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:34.400 And this all. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.800 Happened more than an hour before the shooting actually occurred. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.680 So they saw the guy and they identified this guy 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.840 as suspicious. Now more details coming from a source familiar 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.680 here who was also in the meeting, tells me that 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.240 about ten minutes before former President Trump went on to 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.160 the stage, they had gone from looking at this guy 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.600 as suspicious to now looking at him as a threat. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.560 Douglas, how bad is this? The Secret Service knew there 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:04.640 was a threat to yet. 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.080 Trump was still allowed to go on stage. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.360 Oh, I think there are huge questions to answer, and 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:14.000 the Secret Service and its leadership has to answer them. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.040 I mean, you know, everything like this will be analyzed 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.560 probably for years to come. You know, who knew what, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.200 when and so on, and almost immediately, you know, you 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.080 get feverish conspiracy theories from all sides about it, and 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.640 those have to be dampened down. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:29.600 By being answered. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.880 You know, I think people should should know what exactly 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.480 went wrong here, how it went so wrong. I mean, 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.200 it's easy to be, you know, literally an armchair pundit 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.800 on this occasion, a pining on what they should have 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.319 done better, And it's always very easy in hindsight. However, 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.439 obviously this is a catastrophic failure by the Secret Service. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:51.120 This gunman. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.400 As the days have gone on, it's become clearer and 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.800 clearer that he was spotted by members of the crowd. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.319 Now we know that he was the Secret Service made 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:01.719 aware that he was a threat. Now we know that 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.960 the policeman got onto the roof and saw him and 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.200 was pointed down by the guvernment. Now we know that 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:08.959 the head of the Secret Service, the Director of the 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.720 Secret Service, says that one reason why snipers weren't put 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.360 on that roof was because it was a slopeye roof 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:21.280 and therefore presented a health danger, which is bewildering to 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.760 many of us. I'm sure she has a good explanation 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.160 for why it would have been so dangerous to have 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.920 had another sniper on another slopeye roof, and that that's 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.360 more important to protect the health and safety than the 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.680 possibility of having a former presence had blown off on 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.760 live television. I'm sure she'll answer that, but so far 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.160 she's done rather badly in that regard. The Secret Service 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.160 needs to have the trust not just of the people 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.200 it protects, but of the American people, and it's going 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.120 to have to do an awful lot in the days 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.680 and weeks ahead to regain that trust. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.360 Your spot on, you're ferring there to the head of 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.120 the Sacred Service, Kimberly Cheat or she's actually doctor Jill 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:58.320 Biden's top pick. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:02.439 For the role, So say no more. She's really gaslighting 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:03.800 America over what happened. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.480 As you said yesterday, she was blaming a sloped roof 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.760 for the oversight, and now she's got another excuse here. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:14.080 It is was every element, every part of his from 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.040 the intelligence to the counter assault team, to the detail 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.720 agents of the shift agents. I mean every element top 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.240 to bottom of the advance in the operation. Was every 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.040 element increased after. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.040 You learned of this credible threat. 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.680 What we increased was what we felt was appropriate for 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.160 the former president and for that particular event on that day. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:32.800 We have been. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.080 Increasing the assets and the resources and the staffing that 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.320 we have been providing to the former president since he 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.000 was a presidential candidate and then the presumptive nominated. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.000 That's what I can tell you. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.000 That sounds like a no, Douglas, How does this woman 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.439 still have a job? 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.560 You know, people like her an absolute liability because. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.080 When when the public see, you know, DEI hires. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.640 First of all, some people do get into a because 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.640 they're simply competent. That still does happen, men and women 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.120 and all sorts of others. But when people see DEI hires, 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.960 you know, there's a sort of feeling like, well, you know, okay, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.480 Jill Biden might be able to put forward a favored candidate. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.520 By the way, I don't particularly think she should for 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:17.960 a school district. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:19.120 I don't know. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:27.040 Discussion of LGBTQ, whatever stupid, relatively unimportant thing you can 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.000 think of in the in the woke mind virus. But 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.760 there are some things that Dee I really shouldn't interfere in, 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.000 and one of them I would have thought is the 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:42.199 operation of the Secret Service. One of them is anything 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.120 that absolutely pertains immediately to life and death matters. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.120 You know, you just want the best. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.120 I feel sorry for some of the female agents who 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.960 have been who were captured on video last Saturday, because 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.000 a lot of people again on the Internet, having you know, 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.640 a certain amount of fun with them, albeit in rather 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.840 dark circumstances. But I think there are basic things like, 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:07.600 you know, if you're assigned to protect the president, shouldn't 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.520 you be at least as tall as the president? If 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.480 you're going to shove your body in front of him, 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.800 shouldn't you be able to cover his torso and head? 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.240 Don't you just want like very strong, beefy guys to 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:24.560 do this? Is diversity very important in such a situation, 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.200 I would say absolutely not. It's no more important to 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.920 have diversity in the Secret Service than it is to 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:35.760 have it in the NBA. We recognize that we don't 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:40.400 need diversity in the NBA. We don't need diversity, and 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.560 all of these sorts of DEI higher nonsense that the 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.080 head of the Secret Service is demonstrating and talking to 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.559 We don't need that in life and death matters around 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.960 which the fates of whole nations rotate. We just need 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.760 the best, whoever they are. And I wish that America 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:02.480 got off this particular bandwagon and got off. If that 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.720 is too late in the day, you know, it's just 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:10.240 too late to be playing that horrible, stupid game. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.960 Yeah it is, well, it is way too late, absolutely. 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.280 And I noticed that Kimberly Cheatle has been issued with 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:20.559 a subpoena to Peer to appear before the Oversight Committee, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.280 So perhaps we might finally get some answers. But look, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.720 just on the diversity picks of the Secret Service, there 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.640 was an ad that it put out actually bragging about 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.000 its diversity picks. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.640 Have a look, they're aiming to have thirty percent women 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.160 recruits by twenty thirty. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.680 I'm very conscious as I sit in this chair now 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.720 of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.880 and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.720 everybody in our workforce, and particularly women. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.959 Douglas, I know you mentioned you know you feel sorry 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.480 for some of the agents. One of them fumbled around 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.839 trying to find her whole. She also ducked behind Donald 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.960 Trump an otherwise too preoccupied with her sunglasses on the day. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.840 I mean, it was absolutely shambolic. They were running around. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.079 Like headless chalks. But you're right, Donald. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.559 Trump is six foot three, two hundred and thirty nine pounds. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.679 I mean, what role did the diversity policy play in 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.000 the weekends incident? 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.320 You know, the whole diversity thing. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.040 I just as I hope we all get through this fast, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.360 because there are there are. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.000 Some fields in which you can argue that diversity matters. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.359 Things about ideas. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.120 For instance, it's wise to have a wide diversity of ideas, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.400 pick among them and work out what's through and then 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.360 act on it. Fine, absolutely, does it apply everywhere? No, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.320 Why does she want thirty percent women? 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.359 Why is it? 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.760 If there's something magically brilliant or better that women can bring, 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.640 then work out what it is and work out who 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.640 can bring it. But that isn't what she's doing. That 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:07.080 isn't what these deidults are doing. They are playing this 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:14.120 infantile game which works possibly in small sectors of very 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.880 precise learning, It does not work across the whole world, 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.000 or across the whole of government, or across the whole 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.120 of the United States. Clearly not you don't need thirty 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.680 percent women. You just need one hundred percent the best, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.240 that's all. And if that means that in some jobs 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.680 it's mainly men, that's fine, and if in others it's 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:41.360 mainly women, that's fine. Just the best, nothing else. And 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:46.320 it just sickens me to see these things, that the smugness, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.120 the stupid lack of questioning of the premises of this. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.800 What does it matter what the dei quota is if 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:59.359 you almost had a former president assassinated on live television 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.320 in front of millions, and you know, as I say, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:08.200 it's just deeply shocking to me, and that in such 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.640 an important field this should be going on. People like 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.280 me have been pointing this out for years. I always 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.200 used to say, you know, there'll be a time when 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.360 the bridges start falling down and they'll realize you just 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.760 have to get experts. But it's always worse, even than 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.120 I predict. It was not the bridges that almost fell 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.120 down on Saturday night, but a former president running for 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.600 the presidency that would have been catastrophic for America and 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.840 as I say, anyone who played these stupid, infantile games 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.800 on these matters of life and death, and. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.200 Not just the matters of life. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.920 And death of one man, but of the Republic really 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.520 should be nowhere near power. They should be as far 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.400 away and as unemployed as it's possible for anyone to be. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:52.640 They're a danger. 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.200 Yeah, they are a huge, huge danger. 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.040 And Douglas is half the problem that Joe Biden doesn't 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:00.960 even know who was in charge of the department. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:01.960 This is what he said. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.520 Is it acceptable that you have still not heard at 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.440 least publicly from the Secret Service directing, Well, I've heard, John, 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.880 Have you heard from her publicly? 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.600 Sat down in a situation room downstairs? 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:21.320 Secret Service, the FBI and that security agencies, the Homeland Security, 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:22.840 all the major elements. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.159 Douglas, he thinks it's a man in charge, and we 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.679 know it's actually a woman. How bizarre is it that 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.480 the President of the United States has no clue who 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.480 is the head of one of America's most important agencies. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.399 Well, as you say, I mean, perhaps Joe should have 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.639 asked Jill, because the head of Secret Service seems to 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.760 have been Jill's pick. No, I mean, it's just it's 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.000 just goes from bad to worse with Joe Biden. We 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:52.199 see the you know, no day is he is he better? 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:53.280 You know? 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.000 And no week will he be better than the week before, 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.440 No month will he be better than the month before. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:02.160 That's the reality of aging and of whatever condition it 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:09.960 is that Joe Biden has. And it's just bewildering to 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.000 me that so many Democrats and so many people in 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.000 the Democrat media have to keep on pumping him up 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:20.120 as a candidate. And it's just manifestly obvious that he's 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.360 in no fit state to run in this electoral cycle, 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.159 let alone to run proposition in which he's meant to 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.360 be president still in four years. It's a deep insult 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.520 to the American voting public and to Democrat voters who 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:33.320 deserve better. 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:38.960 Absolutely Now, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said quote Trump 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.560 is not only a neo Nazi sympathizing sociopath, he is 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:49.040 also a profound threat to the international order, Douglas David 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.480 Lammy is not the sharpest tool in the shared He 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.840 once claimed that men can grow a cervix. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.160 But how problem is this sort of rhetoric? 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.359 Well, you know, David Lami's also as I mentioned my 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.800 Spectator column this week, somebody who when asked in the 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:08.440 general Knowledge quiz, who which king succeeded Henry the eighth, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:09.960 replied Henry the seventh. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:12.680 David Lammy is possibly the only. 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.840 Person on earth who could actually benefit from listening to 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.600 Kamala Harris talking about the nature of time and the 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:22.240 direction in which it travels. But yes, I mean, I 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:27.560 think this is an extraordinary demonstration of you know, he's 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:32.040 obviously ignorant on a wide range of issues, but he 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.520 also showed in recent years that he doesn't only lack knowledge, 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:40.800 he lacks wisdom and judgment. Because anyone wise and judicious 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:47.000 would not, in any circumstances be sending out stupid, abusive 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:52.399 tweets about the president, the leader of Britain's most important ally, 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.120 the closest ally of the United States, would not send 0:19:55.119 --> 0:20:00.840 out abusive tweets making completely ridiculous and absurd and insulting 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.040 claims about him if he was a man of judgment 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:04.760 and wisdom. 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.000 But Lammy isn't so. 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:11.040 Here he is completely predictably in a situation in which he, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.359 as a member of the British Cabinet and Foreign Secretary 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:19.080 at that will odds on likely have to face at 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:23.040 some point Trump and the Trump administration back. And how's 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.359 he going to manage that? It's a problem of his 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:26.040 own making. 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:28.080 Yeah, very very clear. 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.959 Now, look, Joe Biden has tested positive to COVID hours 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.680 before he was due to give a speech in Nevada. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.240 Here's how it was announced. 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.800 The president has been at many events, as we all know, 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:48.960 and he just tested positive for COVID. So of course 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:53.960 we understand that he needs to take the precautions. 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.760 And here he was only last month saying a medical 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.440 condition would be the only reason he would with draw 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:01.200 from the race. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.280 Is there anything that you would look to you personally, 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:09.000 not anybody else, not other pundits, not even perhaps family 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.040 members that you would look to to say, if I 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.320 see that I will reevaluate. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.080 Some medical condition and emerged, if somebody, if the doctors 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:20.160 came to me and said you got this. 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.159 Problem, that problem, Douglas, there you go. He said, it 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.000 would take a medical condition. Well, now he's got COVID. 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:28.280 How much has this set him back? He's meant to 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.760 be out there trying to prove he's not mentally incompetent, 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:36.480 and now he's fallen ill. 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.280 I'm not a doctor, but I can tell Joe Biden 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.080 you have got this problem and that problem you have 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.200 and getting a COVID test. 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:45.919 I mean, I mean, who does that anymore? Who tests 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:46.919 positive for COVID. 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:52.680