1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,960 Speaker 1: Too night. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 2: Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of talk. 3 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a 4 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: heck of a job. 5 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: The Weekend with Michael Brown broadcasting Life from Denver, Colorado. 6 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you 7 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 2: joining the program today. 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So, 14 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 2: just as Major League Baseball started their World Series last 15 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 2: night and the Toronto Blue Jays pulled it out in 16 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: the ninth inning, Donald Trump cut off all trade negotiations 17 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 2: with our British subject friends to the North Canada. And 18 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: the reason it seems that the President is royally pissed 19 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: off about an ad run by Mark Carney's government, which 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,639 Speaker 2: reflectively edits a speech given by Ronaldus Magnus Ronald Reagan 21 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 2: in which probably the greatest president of the twentieth century 22 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 2: expressed his regret over having to levy a tariff on 23 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 2: Japan in response to its own extremely aggressive trade practices. Well, 24 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: as it turns out, the Ronald Reagan Foundation was pretty 25 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: pissed off about the whole thing too. The Ronald Reagan 26 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 2: Foundation alleges that Ontario Prime Minister Ford from Ontario use 27 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 2: the video one without asking me its permission in advance, 28 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 2: which is a no. 29 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: No. 30 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 2: Seems like a acolyte idiot that Carnie would have known 31 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 2: better than to do that. It's okay for me to 32 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 2: use it because I have fair use. I'm not using 33 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 2: it in an advertisement. I'm not using it. In fact, 34 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 2: the other thing I'm not doing it is I'm not 35 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 2: altering it so that you think it says one thing 36 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 2: when it really says another. The Reagan Foundation issued this 37 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: statement that Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. The Institute learned that 38 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 2: the Government of Ontario created an ad campaign using selective 39 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 2: audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his radio 40 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 2: address to the Nation on Free Trade and Fair Trade 41 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 2: David's April twenty five, nineteen eighty seven. The ad misrepresents 42 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 2: the presidential radio address and the Government Ontario did not 43 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 2: seek nor receive permission to use or added the remarks. 44 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 2: The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its 45 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 2: legal opinions in this matter. We encourage you to watch 46 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 2: President Reagan's unedited video on our YouTube channel. Of course, 47 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 2: a presidente got in on the act too, He said, 48 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: over on truth social eventually over on acts. The Reagan 49 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 2: Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an 50 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 2: advertisement which is fake, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs. 51 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,239 Speaker 2: The ad was for seventy five million dollars. They only 52 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 2: did this to interfere with the decision of the US 53 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: Supreme Court and other courts. Tariffs are very important to 54 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: the national security and economy of the United States. Based 55 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 2: on their egregious behavior, all trade negotiations with Canada are 56 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 2: hereby terminated. And of course his new signature, thank you 57 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 2: for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. So 58 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: what did Reagan say? Well, it's pretty interesting, because Reagan 59 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 2: they did very selectively added the radio address. Here is 60 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 2: the pertinent part. 61 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it 62 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American 63 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: products and jobs, and sometimes for a short vire it works, 64 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: but only for a short time. But over the long run, 65 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consume. High 66 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the 67 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: triggering of fierce tradements. Then the worst happenings. Market shrink 68 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: and collapse, businesses and industry shut down, and millions of 69 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: people lose their jobs. Throughout the world, there's a growing 70 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: realization that the weight of prosperity for all nations is 71 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. America's 72 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: jobs and growth are at state. Throughout the world, there's 73 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: a growing realization that the weight of prosperity for all 74 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. 75 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: Now there are sound historical reasons for this. For those 76 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 1: of us who lived through the Great de Depression, the 77 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: memory of the suffering it caused is deep and searing, 78 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: and today many economic analysts and historians argue that high 79 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: tariff legislation passed back in that period, called the Smoot 80 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: Hawley Tariff, greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recovery. 81 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: You see, at first, when someone says, let's impose tariffs 82 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic 83 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 1: thing by protecting American products and jobs, and sometimes for 84 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: a short while it works, but only for a short time. 85 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: What eventually occurs is first homegrown industries start relying on 86 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop 87 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes 88 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: they need to succeed in world markets. And then while 89 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,559 Speaker 1: all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High 90 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the 91 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and 92 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, in less and 93 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: less competition. So soon, because of the prices made artificially 94 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people 95 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: stop buying. Then the worst happens. Market shrink and collapse, 96 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: businesses and industry shut down, and millions of people lose 97 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: their jobs. The memory of all this occurring back in 98 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: the thirties made me determined when I came to Washington 99 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: to spare the American people. The protectionist legislation that destroys prosperity. Now, 100 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: it hasn't always been easy. There are those in the Congress, 101 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 1: just as there we're back in the thirties, who want 102 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: to go for the quick political advantage, will risk America's 103 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: prosperity for the sake of a short term appeal to 104 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: some special interest group, who forget that more than five 105 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: million American jobs are directly tied to the foreign export 106 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: business and additional millions are tied to imports. But I've 107 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: never forgotten those jobs. And on trade issues, by and large, 108 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: we've done. 109 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 2: Now. Some will say that foreign governments advertise all the time, 110 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 2: and they do, but there's a difference between general country branding, 111 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 2: you know, come and visit the United Kingdom, and intervention 112 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 2: into a live dispute between those two countries. So the 113 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 2: Ford government in Ontario didn't run some generic tourism spot. 114 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 2: It placed an argument into the American conversation about tariffs 115 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: and trade, and it did so by selectively quoting one 116 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: of the most belovant, respected presidents in our history. That 117 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: is an attempt to set the priors of American voters 118 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 2: and lawmakers while in negotiation with Canada is underway. The 119 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 2: policy question is not whether Ontario has free speech. The 120 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 2: question is whether the United States should proceed with high 121 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 2: level trade talks while a Canadian provincial government tries to 122 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 2: define the American terms of the debate, and the answer 123 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 2: should be no. Now, Reagan's rhetoric was clear. He praises 124 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 2: open markets, He embraces competition. He believes a trade when 125 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 2: fair promotes jobs, innovation, prosperity, all of that which I 126 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 2: believe too. He said that our trade policy rests on 127 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 2: free and open markets, which it does free trade. But 128 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 2: in the same breath he warned that if trade is 129 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 2: not fair for all, then trade is free in name only, 130 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 2: and he pledged that he would not stand by and watch, 131 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 2: in particular, in this case japan American businesses fail because 132 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 2: of unfair practices abroad. He promised then to take all 133 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 2: action necessary, including tariffs, to see that other nations live 134 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 2: up to their obligations and their agreements with US. That 135 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 2: is not the language of fair trade at any price. 136 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 2: It is the language of rules reciprocity enforcement. The Ontario 137 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 2: government edit carved away that structure and just left behind 138 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 2: a slogan see a slogan's easy. The policy is hard, 139 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 2: removing the conditions that removes the policies, and Reagan's practice 140 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: matched his words. He supported liberalization when partners played fair, 141 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 2: and he launched multilateral talks to reduce the barriers. He 142 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 2: signed bilateral free trade agreements with Canada that set the 143 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 2: stage for broader North American integration. But when Japan in autos, 144 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 2: he pressed Japan into export restraint in nineteen eighty one 145 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 2: that limited shipments to roughly one point six to eight 146 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 2: million units a year later raised as Detroit regained its footing, 147 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 2: and he kept him place the long standing twenty five 148 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 2: percent light truck tariff that had shielded workers in an 149 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 2: American segment where Japanese firms were attacking by way of 150 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 2: many trucks. He's doing what Trump's doing. Reagan did Ontario, 151 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 2: you lied East Wing. Next, Hey, welcome back to the 152 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 2: weekend with Michael Brian. Glad to have you with me. 153 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 2: I appreciate you tuning in some What else is going on? 154 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 2: We've got Ontario lying to the American public and an 155 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 2: ad played in the United States misquoting in selectively editing 156 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan. What's the other big news? Donald Trump is 157 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 2: destroying the East Wing let's go to MSNBC John Meacham 158 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 2: and Joe Scarborough. 159 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 3: So John take us through the history of presidents changing, 160 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 3: altering the White House. The National Review is a written 161 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 3: an editorial saying come on, get over. Presidents have done 162 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,719 Speaker 3: this in the past. Liberals, the White House doesn't belong to. 163 00:10:54,720 --> 00:11:00,959 Speaker 4: You, right, you know, the British burned it. So there's that, 164 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 4: or try to start there. You know. The most significant, 165 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 4: the two most significant, i'd say, would be the nineteen 166 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 4: oh three construction of the West Wing, which was the 167 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 4: Oval Office. The Oval Office was based on what's called 168 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 4: the Oval Study in the main House. That was the 169 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 4: reason for the echo of the design. One of the 170 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 4: metaphors that you can't make up was in I think 171 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 4: it was Christmas Eve nineteen thirty one, the West Wing 172 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 4: caught fire under Herbert Hoover, right, so the country sort 173 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,559 Speaker 4: of descending into chaos and the house itself catches fire. 174 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 4: The other is the Truman the renovation that happened under 175 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 4: President Truman. He and Missus Truman moved to Blair House 176 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 4: across the way for several years. 177 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 5: But you know, as ever, with President Trump, you know 178 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 5: you do have to step back and say, well, what 179 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 5: is he trying to do? What is the you know, 180 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 5: let's let's not bang on our high chairs here. 181 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 2: But they are. They're all banging on their high chairs. Now. 182 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 2: Notice so far into this sound bite he hasn't mentioned 183 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 2: all the other major renovations, like the actual construction of 184 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 2: the East wing itself or the building of a swimming 185 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 2: pool for the personal use of FDR because of his 186 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 2: polio at taxpayer expense, both very significant changes. By the way, 187 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 2: the West wing, the West Wing, which is not that 188 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 2: old in terms of the history of the White House 189 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 2: built by Theodore Roosevelt, an add on, complete add on, 190 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 2: just like the East Wing was also an add on. 191 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 4: And to me, one of the issues here is so 192 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 4: much of the I haven't seen the National Review piece, 193 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 4: but so much of the controversy here might be settled if, 194 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 4: for instance, he actually paid attention to norms, to the 195 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 4: customs of having You know, Congress was very much involved 196 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 4: in in the nineteen forties version of this bring in 197 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 4: the National truck. 198 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Congress is involved in the nineteen forties. 199 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 2: Congress wasn't involved at all when the West Wing was 200 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 2: added on, not at all, Theodore Roosevelt. You think Theodore Roosevelt, 201 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 2: the rough rider himself, would have said, yeah, I think 202 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 2: I'm going to add on to the west Wing. I 203 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 2: think I'll run to Congress and for permission to do that. No, 204 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 2: Theodore Roosevelt, just like Donald Trump, would be like, yeah, 205 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 2: you know what, I need an office building over here. 206 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 2: I mean, let's do this, Let's build, let's build this 207 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 2: West week. 208 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 4: Christ bring in the White House Historical Association, a wonderful 209 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 4: group founded in the Kennedy administration. Terrific people who who 210 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 4: care deeply about the House. You know, you do this 211 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 4: with some sensitivity to the fact that you're not a king. 212 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 2: Oh oh, I get it now. You see. The problem 213 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 2: is he's a king. I keep forgetting that because I 214 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 2: don't know. Nobody's told me what I can or cannot 215 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 2: say here today. The Gestapo hasn't come in to shut 216 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 2: me down. I don't get it. Miranda Devine over at 217 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 2: the New York Post has an incredible editorial about this. 218 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 2: Trump treats the White House with reverence, and he's rebuilding 219 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 2: our nation's pride with historic renovation. Here's an excerpt. The 220 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 2: President says, the sound of bulldozers at the East Wing 221 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 2: is music to my ears. You probably hear the beautiful 222 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 2: sound of construction to the back, Donald Trump told the 223 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: reporters Tuesday from a podium. You hear that sound, he said, 224 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 2: raising his hand to his ear as if to savor 225 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 2: the clamor from the construction of the new White House 226 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 2: ballroom that began a week ago. Ah, that's music to 227 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 2: my ears. I love that sound. Other people don't like it. 228 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 2: I love it. It was a rye jab, she writes 229 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 2: at trump deranged critics like John Meacham, critics of his big, 230 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 2: beautiful ballroom, who are losing their minds over his beautification 231 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 2: of the White House. It's pretty hilarious, right, But it 232 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 2: isn't beautiful to Joe Scarborough, or to John Meacham, who 233 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 2: slammed Trump and the project on Morning Joe Snarl, the 234 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 2: renowned as the MSNBC's Morning Joe Scarborough. It's just grotesque 235 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 2: history being torn to shreds. Do you think it's history? 236 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: What is historic about the east wing? Have you ever 237 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 2: thought about that? What's historic about it? 238 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 5: Now? 239 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 2: Trump's critics have been waiting about the loss of the 240 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 2: east Wing as if it were part of the original 241 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 2: White House built in the early nineteenth century. And as 242 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 2: if all sorts of important historic events have taken place 243 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 2: there over the last two hundred years. The truth, of course, 244 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 2: is a lot different than that. The first, fairly small 245 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 2: part of what has been called the East Wing was 246 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 2: also added by Theodore Roosevelt as part of his major 247 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 2: White House renovation back in nineteen oh two. What was 248 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 2: Theodore Roosevelt trying to do besides adding the executive offices 249 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 2: for the Executive Office of the President. He was adding 250 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 2: some more office space to what had become overcrowded in 251 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 2: the main part of the building. But the biggest part 252 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: was added in nineteen forty two by his cousin Franklin Roosevelt, 253 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 2: who required much more office editions as he led the 254 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 2: nation through World War Two. Both projects were needed, both 255 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 2: projects were funded by the taxpayers. You know what was 256 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 2: in the East Wing because I've been there, spent a 257 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 2: lot of time there, in both the West Wing and 258 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 2: the East Wing. And in fact I've been down to 259 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 2: the secret Presidential Emergency Operations Center in the bottom in 260 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 2: the basement that is under part of the original White 261 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 2: House and part of the East Wing. You know what's there, Offices, 262 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 2: offices that are old and small by modern standards, dust 263 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 2: the old offices. It's not the Lincoln Bedroom, it's not 264 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 2: the Situation Room, it's not the White House press room, 265 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 2: it's not the cabinet room, not the Oval office, it's 266 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 2: not any part of the White House complex. I'll tell 267 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 2: you what's next next tonight. Michael Brown joins me here, the. 268 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: Former FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown. 269 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 3: Brownie, No, Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job 270 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 3: the weekend with Michael Brown. 271 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 2: Hey, so we came with Michael Brown. Thanks for joining. 272 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 2: We're talking about the East Wing. This story amazes me. 273 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: It truly amazes me, because renovating, remodeling the White House 274 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 2: is not unusual. It's been done dozens and dozens of times, 275 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 2: inside and outside. Why did nobody get upset? For example, 276 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 2: when I think it was Obama that completely redid the 277 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,159 Speaker 2: White House Situation Room. Oh, I know, because you couldn't 278 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 2: see it. That's why the White House Situation Room was 279 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 2: and still is a relatively compact, small area, obviously very 280 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 2: secure in the basement below the West Wing. And it's 281 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 2: I remember the I mean the last time I was 282 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,239 Speaker 2: in it, it was I would say, it's it's like 283 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 2: a house you might live in where you think it's 284 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 2: probably time to remodel, but now it's waiting to do it 285 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 2: next year. But and again I'm not sure, but I 286 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 2: think it was Obama who came in and just completely 287 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 2: redid it and the Rose garden. Everybody's all upset about 288 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 2: the Rose garden. What you know what Trump did to 289 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 2: the Rose Garden. He took Jacqueline Kennedy's plans and redid 290 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 2: because from the time that Jackie Kennedy left the White 291 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 2: House in November of nineteen sixty three and Johnson took over, 292 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 2: subsequent presidents let it kind of go to crap. They 293 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,199 Speaker 2: didn't really maintain it the way they should. It became overgrown, 294 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 2: and then they started, you know, putting different plans and 295 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 2: doing different things to it and changing it and moving around, 296 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 2: and it just gradually got smaller and smaller and smaller. 297 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 2: And so Trump came in and had the White House 298 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 2: architect actually pull out all of the original plans that 299 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 2: Jackie Kennedy had and restored it to what she had done. 300 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 2: Nobody's complained about Jackie Kennedy redoing the Rose garden. 301 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: Huh. 302 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 2: Now, of course we've got the controversy of oh do 303 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,479 Speaker 2: you see a pattern here. Let's see, we had Nancy 304 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 2: Reagan replace the White House china because the White House 305 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 2: butler said, oh yeah, it's kind of embarrassing. We don't 306 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 2: have enough of the same set of china to serve 307 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 2: at a state dinner, so everybody has, you know, people 308 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 2: have different settings at different places. And she said, oh, 309 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 2: never mind, I'll take care of that, and she did 310 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 2: at the request of the White House butler. But no, 311 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 2: because she's a Republican married Ronald Reagan, she took all 312 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 2: sorts of crap for it. But let's go back to 313 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 2: the East Wing. If you've never been in that part 314 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 2: of the White House, which I assume most people have not, 315 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 2: probably the only thing that you would say is substantial 316 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 2: in the East Wing is the East Room, and that's 317 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:19,439 Speaker 2: where you often see, for example, when Obama, let's use 318 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 2: Obama as an example again, when he made the announcement 319 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 2: that we got in Osama bin Laden, you saw him 320 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 2: walking down a hallway which is part of the East Wing, 321 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 2: into the East Room where the reporters were gathered for 322 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 2: him to hold the press conference. But the East Wing 323 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 2: is offices, offices old by modern standards. As I said earlier, 324 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:53,199 Speaker 2: the most historic thing that has ever apparently happened in 325 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 2: the East Wing is that it serves as the main 326 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 2: entrance to the main White House for visitors who don't 327 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 2: have a appointments. Not even the left wing activists who 328 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 2: put out all the wolk propaganda on Wikipedia have managed 329 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 2: to find anything actually his historic about that part of 330 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 2: the building. I would encourage you go google it, go 331 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 2: dut dut, go it, go bing it and search for 332 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 2: his historic events in the East Wing, his historic you know, 333 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 2: American iconic happenings in the East Wing. Nothing. 334 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 3: Nothing. 335 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 2: Let's go back to Miranda divines up ed irony of 336 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 2: all irony, she writes Joe Biden's former de I press secretary, 337 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 2: Kareem Jean Pierre, as I like to call her, Kreem 338 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 2: abdul Jabbar, declare the ballroom, which is being funded by 339 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 2: Trump and other private donors as a gift to the 340 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 2: nation is quote corruption at its core. Really this from 341 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 2: a woman she writes, who gas lit America on Biden 342 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 2: family drifting, not to mention her boss's cognitiate thief collapse. 343 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,680 Speaker 2: There's no greater metaphor. This is cream Jean Pierre, There's 344 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 2: no greater metaphor for what's happening right now in this 345 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 2: country than watching Donald Trump taking a wrecking ball to 346 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 2: the White House. Spare me. The ballroom is a historic 347 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 2: and well overdue enhancement of the White House, and it 348 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 2: is not costing the taxpayers a dime. Now, I don't 349 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 2: know this for a fact, but from everything that I've read, 350 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 2: which is why I don't know it for a fact, 351 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 2: because who knows whether the papers or the websites are 352 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 2: telling me the truth or not. It's most likely that 353 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 2: this new ballroom, in this renovation of the East Wing 354 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 2: will not be completed in time for Donald Trump to 355 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 2: use it. Subsequent presidents will Democrat, Republican, independent communists, I guess, 356 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 2: depending on which direction the country goes. So please, cream, 357 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 2: Jean Pierre, Spare me your idiotic gas lighting. We had 358 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 2: more than enough of that when you were so well 359 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 2: undeservedly employed. But the last sentence by Miranda Devine and 360 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 2: her ed I think is the key point, and that 361 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 2: is none of this is costing the taxpayers a dime. 362 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 2: Unlike every single previous White House expansion or renovation project 363 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 2: conducted by the Roosevelts, Jackie Kennedy, Harry Truman, Barack Obama 364 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 2: his own self, who spent three hundred and seventy six 365 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 2: million dollars on a project that kept the White House 366 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 2: grounds torn to shreds for well over a year during 367 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 2: his presidency. And notice I didn't mention Nancy Reagan because 368 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,119 Speaker 2: Nancy Reagan, like Donald Trump, said yeah, we need what 369 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 2: new White House China, and let's just buy a whole 370 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,360 Speaker 2: new set. I forget the cost. What was it maybe 371 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 2: a one hundred thousand dollars or something two hundred thousand. 372 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 2: I don't I don't care. She raised the money for it. 373 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:12,880 Speaker 2: Over on Next Yesterday Byron York, a conservative writer did 374 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 2: some gaslighting of his own, citing a CNN story claiming 375 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 2: that Obama's renovation simply involved redoing the plumbing in the 376 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 2: electric of the Right House. Byan rart Yorke wrote yesterday, 377 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 2: in reference to the East Wing demolition story, you've probably 378 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 2: seen clips from CNN from twenty ten suggesting that Obama 379 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 2: did equally massive work at the White House. Here's the 380 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 2: whole CNN story. It was replacement of water and utility lines, 381 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 2: which required a lot of excavation, really, you expect us 382 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 2: to believe that Obama spent three hundred and seventy six 383 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 2: million dollars on plumbing and electric Come on, Byron House, stupid? 384 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 2: Do you think we are in actuality? It is an 385 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 2: open secret in DC that most of that money was 386 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 2: poured into the installation of a new fortified underground bunker 387 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 2: complex designed to keep the president and the cabinet safe 388 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 2: during a national emergency. It replaced the original bunker called 389 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 2: the PEOC, which was secretly installed by FDR nineteen forty 390 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 2: two beneath his own expanded east wing. See all this works. 391 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 2: At least Trump's being upfront and Trump's being fully transparent 392 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 2: about what he's doing. Now, I've seen different renderings. I'm 393 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,719 Speaker 2: not sure which rendering is correct. I saw a report 394 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 2: yesterday about some architect. It was supposed by a liberal 395 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 2: friend of mine on Facebook. Not an architect who has 396 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 2: looked at the drawings they're publicly available. He has calculated 397 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 2: his own construction costs and compared that to the Trump 398 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: estimation of three hundred million dollars and said, oh per 399 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 2: square foot, this is outrageous. Does no one ever take 400 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 2: into consideration that part of the renovation that Trump might 401 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 2: be involved in doing. Here might be an expansion of 402 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 2: the bunker, or it might be providing some additional skiffs, 403 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 2: secure compartment, compartmentalized information facilities where you can actually have 404 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 2: top secret conversations. That's just not drywall. You just don't 405 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 2: do drywall. Maybe is fortifying part of it. The obvious 406 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 2: truth here, of course, is that if this exact same 407 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 2: project was being undertaken by a Democrat president, everybody in 408 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 2: the cabal would be singing his or her praises, calling 409 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 2: it visionary, even historic probably, and you know I'm right 410 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,639 Speaker 2: about that. So to even try to argue the point, 411 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 2: because that's the exactly what would be going on, and 412 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:09,639 Speaker 2: why they continue to pound pound pound this story I 413 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 2: find fascinating because just like the West Wing, just like 414 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 2: the Oval Office, just like the President's Emergency Operations Center, 415 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 2: just like the White House Situation Room, ten years, fifteen years, 416 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 2: Hell's bells, maybe three years from now, this will be 417 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:31,120 Speaker 2: an absolute non story, which then begs the question, why 418 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 2: do you think the cabal keeps feeding this story to 419 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 2: us over and over and over because it's Donald Trump. 420 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 2: I'll be right back. 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I'm gonna talk skeletons for 437 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 2: a moment. 438 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 5: Now. 439 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 2: I know that you know, there seems to be this 440 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 2: drop off in the number of kids that are claiming 441 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 2: to be gender dysphoric or they're wanting to transition or whatever. 442 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 2: And that's despite the fact that schools in general continue 443 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 2: to push this ideology I don't think. I think it 444 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 2: truly is an ideology, and the ideology is you don't 445 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 2: really know whether you're a boy or a girl. You 446 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 2: don't know whether you're male or female. So I wonder 447 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 2: what's gonna happen with archaeologists in the future. Will they 448 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 2: be able to determine by examining our skeletons our bones 449 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 2: because biological facts are impervious to radical ideology. Now, freedom 450 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 2: of speech is not impervious to radical ideology, as a 451 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 2: guy by the name of Emmanuel Brugeoltz of Switzerland is 452 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 2: finding out the hard way. Rugiolds is reportedly about to 453 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 2: start a ten day prison stint because of his voicing 454 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 2: skepticism about claims that skeletons are transgender. Now, I don't know, 455 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 2: maybe these people believe this. Skeletons can be polysexual too, 456 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,959 Speaker 2: might be kind a scary thought. Before Halloween. Back in 457 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, he responded to a Facebook post by 458 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 2: the Swiss National Council member Andreas Larner about this controversy. 459 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 2: The wind instrument repairman thought that such claims were unfounded 460 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 2: and posted a comment that said, quote, if you dig 461 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 2: up LGBTQI people. After two hundred years, you'll only find 462 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 2: men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is 463 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 2: a mental illness promoted through the curriculum. Now, I would 464 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 2: note that's a factual observation, but Bruce Holt has been 465 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 2: charged with hate speech and public belittling, offending legally favored 466 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 2: sexual deviance. I guess he was convicted sentenced to though 467 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 2: what was it ten days in prison and a five 468 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 2: indred Swiss Frank Fine. I didn't do the conversion to 469 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 2: see how much money that is. I don't really care. 470 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 2: Now he refused to pay on principle, and that's why 471 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 2: he's going to serve time as a political prisoner in 472 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 2: supposedly the most neutral, free country in the world. Have 473 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 2: you thought about how insane this is? Utterly insane because 474 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 2: it's biologically true. Scientists, archaeologists can tell whether a skeltsness 475 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 2: male or female based on the structure on the bone structure. 476 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 2: But what he says, everything else is a mental illness 477 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 2: promoted through the curriculum. I just had to laugh because 478 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 2: it is just being promoted through the curriculum. And to 479 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 2: point out that he was being fined and imprisoned for 480 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 2: public belittling man I'd be spending the rest of my 481 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 2: life in jail, and so would you. You know, that's 482 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 2: one of the great things about the First Amendment is 483 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 2: we can belittle public officials. We can belittle the people 484 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 2: that work for us. Just as your body, your boss 485 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 2: probably shouldn't, you know, poor management. But just as your 486 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,959 Speaker 2: boss could be little you for doing some you know, 487 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 2: making some dumb ass mistake, we can belittle our people 488 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 2: that work for us for making dumb ass mistake. Is 489 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 2: dumb ass mistakes also. But in Switzerland, yeah, not so much. 490 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 2: Can't do that, absolutely can't do do that. To show 491 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 2: you how crazy things are the people that are present, 492 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 2: speaking of Europe, the progressive socialist Marxists that are really 493 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 2: kind of ruling over Europe right now, are going to 494 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 2: really absurd links to side with important Africans against the 495 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 2: women and the children that they rape. The case of 496 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 2: an Eritrean refugee convicted of raping the sixteen year old 497 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 2: Sweden girls pretty typical. Yah z Ed Muhammad allegedly sexually 498 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 2: assaulted the teenager back on September one, twenty four while 499 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 2: she was walking home from her shift at McDonald's after 500 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 2: missing the bus. So for his contribution to Swedish multicultural tapestry. 501 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:14,720 Speaker 2: This colonist received the customary wrist slab. Muhammad was sentenced 502 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 2: to three years in prison for raping a sixteen year 503 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 2: old girl. I don't think we'd accept that in this country, 504 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 2: but the Alto Norland Court of Appeals reportedly ruled the 505 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 2: rape did not last long enough. That's a quote, did 506 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 2: not last long enough to be classified as quote, an 507 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:40,879 Speaker 2: exceptionally serious crime, so it did not necessitate deportation. I 508 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 2: guess I've got a different baseline understanding of how serious 509 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 2: of a crime rape of a child is, because, well, 510 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,400 Speaker 2: for those of you listened to me during the weekday, 511 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,320 Speaker 2: we do something called taxpayer relief shots, in which people 512 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 2: are celebrated for exercising their god given right of self defense. 513 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 2: If this girl had pulled a gun, which obviously in 514 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 2: Sweden she wouldn't be able to do, and killed her attacker, 515 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 2: that might end up in my audio file of the 516 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,440 Speaker 2: taxpayer relief shot, and one which we might actually celebrate 517 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 2: the death of the thug because he raped a sixteen 518 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,759 Speaker 2: year old girl. Yet the Court of Appeal says, oh, 519 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 2: the rape didn't last long enough, so it's not really 520 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 2: classified as an exceptionally serious crime. Whether the rape lasted 521 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:38,279 Speaker 2: one second, five minutes, or continued for an hour is 522 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 2: immaterial to me. There is nothing exceptionally serious about raping 523 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 2: my you know, children. I guess if the illegal alien 524 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:52,399 Speaker 2: does it, just ask the United Nations the court. This 525 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 2: is a quote. The court was referring to United Nations 526 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 2: nineteen fifty one rule on the Status of Refugees, which 527 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,920 Speaker 2: states that Mohammed and other refugees have their status protected 528 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 2: except in extreme cases. So the court ruled there was 529 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 2: no current threat to the public order, so Mohammad will 530 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 2: stay in Sweden following his sentence. No threat to the 531 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 2: public I think we all know that men who rape women, 532 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:26,319 Speaker 2: particularly children, are more inclined to repeat that offense than 533 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 2: they are to not repeat that offense. If he were 534 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,880 Speaker 2: to receive the sentence he has coming, there would be 535 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:39,759 Speaker 2: nothing to deport but probably his ashes. What a society tolerates, 536 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 2: a society deserves. Now, the girl did not deserve it, 537 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:50,160 Speaker 2: Miss Sweden, perhaps you deserve that. Unbelievable It shows there 538 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,440 Speaker 2: is a big difference between us and the rest of 539 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,279 Speaker 2: the world. Everybody, have a great weekend, and guess what 540 00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:00,839 Speaker 2: I'll see you next weekend.