1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Well, it's nice to have you on the Ben Ferguson 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: podcast today, and we've got a lot to cover, which 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: is big story if you've been watching the media, I 4 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: mean it's a huge story. You are supposed to want 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: to hate Ted Cruz now more than ever before. You're 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: supposed to want to demand that he resigned because he 7 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: was spending time with his family while his state was 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: dealing with a crisis. Let me be clear about something 9 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: about this real quick. And I like Ted Cruz, I 10 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: know him personally. I endorse Ted Cruz in the primary 11 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. This was a bad decision from a 12 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,520 Speaker 1: pr standpoint. Only the reality is there is not much 13 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: us centator is going to be doing when it comes 14 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: to the power grid right now in a crisis. The 15 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: reality is it's a state and a local issue. The 16 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: reality is for him to go to town not a 17 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: big deal. That's the reality. But then there is perception 18 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: while you have millions of people that are out of 19 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: water and out of power, you don't go icabo. I 20 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: don't care what party you're in now. Was it a 21 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: malicious decision? No? Is the media going to use it 22 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: against you? Yes? Did Ted Cruz know that yes, was 23 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: he thinking straight when he made this decision? Probably not. 24 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: But in reality, there is nothing that's going to happen 25 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: at his hands in Texas right now because he's a centator's, 26 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: in a weird way, a low man on the totem pole. 27 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: The governor, they're in charge, Mayors, they're in charge, local 28 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: elected officials, they're in charge. Now. Is there things that 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: he can do maybe down the road, sure, and other 30 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: things he could have done, maybe to help him get 31 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: his hands dirty at the very beginning, stead of going 32 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: to Cabo for take his family down there because his 33 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,839 Speaker 1: kids are out of school and they wanted to spend 34 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: a few days away with their friends. Of course, But 35 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: but let me just compare before you start. You know, 36 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: the fake outrage over oh my gosh, ted cru spend 37 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: some time with his family. And again, if I was 38 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: advising him politically, I said, dude, you can't go. They'll 39 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: they will destroy you in the media. They will absolutely 40 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: destroy you. You cannot do this. But let me put 41 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: it in comparing contrast to where we are right now. 42 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: Joe Biden hasn't even talked to the governors. You heard me, right, 43 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: Joe Biden hadn't even talked to the governors. From what 44 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 1: we've been told from the White House in the states 45 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: affected by the storms. You want to know what the 46 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: media has been doing. Let me give you some headlines. 47 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: CNN Politics. This is their headline during this crisis down 48 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: in the South. Quote inside the new Presence Routine, Oval 49 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:41,399 Speaker 1: office fires and early bedtimes by Kevin Laptac. Yeah, they 50 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: did that article in the evening February the sixteenth. I'll 51 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: read you the headline again, inside the new Presence Routine, 52 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: the oh office fires and early bedtimes. That's what they 53 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: were reporting on. So when they start telling you that 54 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 1: you should be outraged over what's happening with Ted Cruz 55 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: flying down there, By the way it came, he came 56 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: back in less than twenty hours from dropping his family 57 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: off in Mexico. And again I'm not saying it was 58 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: a right decision. It was a bad pr move. But 59 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: if you think the media isn't this isn't just about 60 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: trying to hurt at conservative and the fake outrage, here's 61 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: proof it. Let me also remind you that while this 62 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: article from CNN Politics is being written quote inside their 63 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: headline inside the new Presence Routine, Oval office fires, and 64 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: early bedtimes. Let me remind you of one other thing 65 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: about the media. You want to know what else they're 66 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: not covering right now. They're not covering the massive fallout 67 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: in pure corruption and now an FBI investigation to the 68 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: governor of New York. They're not covering Governor Quomo. They're 69 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: doing everything they can to act like that didn't happen, 70 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: where thousands of seniors died because of a decision from 71 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: the governor and his staff, and then they lied about 72 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: the number of people that died, and then they lied 73 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: about the cover up, and now there's a federal an 74 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: FBI investigation into that cover up. You also have the 75 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: governor threatening other Democrats who have now come out and said, Hey, 76 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: I was threatened by the governor that if I didn't 77 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: do what he told me to do to help cover 78 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: this up, that he would ruin me, he would come 79 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: after me. My wife didn't sleep at night when democrat 80 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 1: said because of the threat from the governor. Let me 81 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: give you another headline this week from what the media 82 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: was covering instead of covering an actual crisis with a 83 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: governor of New York and instead, of course, they'll give 84 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: you a fake crisis with Ted Cruz. Newsweek's headline, ready 85 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: for this, Joe Biden playing as Luigi wins in Mario 86 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 1: kart race against granddaughter at Camp David. This is a 87 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: real headline, while you actually have a massive scandal that 88 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: has taken place in upstate New York where people died. Okay, 89 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: where people died again, Joe Biden playing as Luigi wins 90 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: in Mario kart race against granddaughter at Camp David. So 91 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: you got Joe Biden, who was hanging out at Camp 92 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: David during all this, doesn't even have time to talk 93 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: to the governors and states affected by the cold. And 94 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: instead of all this, okay, instead of instead of all 95 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: of this, right, instead of all of this, they want 96 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 1: to come after Ted Cruz or gett on a plane. 97 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: I'll say it one more time. It's not a right 98 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: decision for him to go down there. It was a 99 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: bad pr move. But these are real stories that they're 100 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: not actually talking about. You want, you want to know 101 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: about something else, a big story, a massive story that 102 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: has not been covered over the last twenty four hours, 103 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: while of course they're covering everything about Ted Cruz's flight 104 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,679 Speaker 1: manifested he get an upgrade on the flight, his name's 105 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: on the board to get an update on the flight. 106 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: I mean, this is all there, Okay, this is this 107 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: is all there. Joe Biden was in a town hall 108 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 1: on CNN, and Joe Biden came out and said in 109 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: a town hall, which by the way, was a total 110 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: disaster that no one's reported on the guy. It was 111 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: like he didn't know what was going on, and they 112 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: were softball questions. They didn't even ask him a single 113 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: question about Governor Cuomo New York. Not a single question 114 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: from CNN's Anderson Cooper to him about the controversy and 115 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: the seniors that died and Governor Cuomo, not a single question. 116 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: He kind of came out with something big, something that's 117 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: not being reported because they know it's going to be 118 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: unpopular with the American people. Right now, while unemployment claims 119 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 1: skyrocketed last week, first time une claims went through the roof, 120 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: So as Joe Biden trying to protect your job, no 121 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: is he trying to bring your jobs back. No is 122 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: he trying to make sure that you're okay. No. In fact, 123 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: this is what he said. He said, I want a 124 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: pathway to citizenship for eleven million undocumented immigrants in this country. 125 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,080 Speaker 1: So while you're competing to find your next job and 126 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: many of you are out okay, many of you are 127 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: out of work, are under employed. Joe Biden says, I 128 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: want you to compete with eleven million new people who 129 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: I want to give citizenship to. And the only reason 130 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: why it is because he wants them to vote for him. 131 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: Take a listen to this massive news at this town hall, 132 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: and it is massive. Let me ask about a qurtion 133 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: which does often divide many people in this country. Immigration. 134 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: Your administration along with quick congressional Democrats. Democrats expected to 135 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: unvail an immigration reform bill just this week. You want 136 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: a pathway to citizenship for the roughly eleven million undocumented immigrants. 137 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: Would you sign any immigration bill if it did not 138 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: include that a pathway for the roughly eleven million on. Yeah, 139 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: there's a whole range of things that relate to immigration, 140 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: including the whole idea how you deal with You know 141 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: what confuses people is you talk about refugees, you talk 142 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: about undocumented, you talk about people who are seeking asylum, 143 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: and you talk about people who are coming from the 144 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: that are coming from camps around being held around the world. 145 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: And there are four different criteria for being able to 146 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: come to the United States. The vast majority of the 147 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: people that was eleven million undocumented. They're they're not Hispanics. 148 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: There are people who came on the visa, was able 149 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: to buy a ticket to get into plane and didn't 150 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: go home. They didn't come across the rio grand and swimming. 151 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: Excuse me and sorry, see Irish and me. But all 152 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,199 Speaker 1: kildn't decide. So so there there there are a lot 153 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: of things that relay, but I think that we can 154 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 1: no longer. Look, I think he knows how confused he is. 155 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be mean, but this guy can't 156 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: even get I want you to listen to this last 157 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: sentence here. I want you to hear Listen to the 158 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: last part where he says, look here, that's his reset 159 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: if I can't remember what I'm talking about. This is 160 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: the guy, by the way, who's running our country. There 161 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: was another another headline this week that has been not reported, 162 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: and that is the fact that we're now being told 163 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: that the Vice president, Kamala Harris is actually the one. 164 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: You ready for this, Kamala Harris is actually the one. 165 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: She is actually the one making phone calls with foreign 166 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: leaders on behalf of Joe Biden, on behalf of Joe Biden. 167 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,079 Speaker 1: Anybody want to talk about that kind of a big deal, 168 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: President Knights, it's America not taking phone calls, not calling 169 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: the governors down that dealing with the power outages and 170 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: the winter storm and the water outages and people that 171 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: have died because of the storm, not even taking their 172 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: phone calls. Farming that out to a low level person 173 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: below him, that they confirm that by the way, at 174 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: the White House, at the White House press briefing, Yes, 175 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: he's not spoken to the governor's down there, but but 176 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: somebody beneath him did. But I want you again listen 177 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: to the words coming out of the mouth of Joe 178 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: Biden and listen to how he just cannot get his 179 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 1: head around what he's even talking about. And he's the 180 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: one that's selling you on the eleven million Americans are 181 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: excusing me, eleven million undocumented immigrants, as he puts it, 182 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: he said, americans who deserves citizenship. I reshing me, but 183 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: all kildn't decide. So so there there are a lot 184 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: of things that relay, but I think that we can 185 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: no longer. Look, you've heard I'm even if you're not 186 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: involved in politics at all. You've probably heard me say 187 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 1: this a thousand times. A matter of that, everyone is 188 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: entitled to be treated with decency, with dignity. Everyone is 189 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: entitled for that to that and we don't do that now. 190 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: For the first time in American history, if you're seeking asylum, 191 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: meaning you're being persecuted, you're seeking asylum, you can't do 192 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: it from the United States. Used to come have an 193 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: asylum officer determined whether or not you've met the criteria 194 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: to send you back if you in fact, but you 195 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 1: can't even do that. You got to seek asylum from abroad. 196 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: But just to be clear though, by the way, you 197 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: want to know why we did that, and Joe Biden's 198 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: smart enough to know why we did that. Okay, The 199 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: reason why we did that is because everybody they were told, 200 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: and their family and friends that got into this country, 201 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: and the coyotes that you pay to bring you to 202 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: this country illegally, they would give you a script and 203 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: they would tell you everything that you need to say. 204 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: They would tell you everything that you must say, right, 205 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: that's what they would do. They would tell you all 206 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: of it, and they would say, this is what you 207 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: need to say to hit the criteria, this is how 208 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: you need to say it to hit the criteria. This 209 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:49,719 Speaker 1: is what you've got to say to make sure that 210 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: you hit and check all the boxes. That's why, Okay, 211 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: that is a simple reason why we stopped allowing it. 212 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: Because the system was broken and we realized it was 213 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: nothing but a massive loophole, that's all. It was a 214 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: massive loophole for those to come into this country and 215 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: to tell us tell a lie, right, to tell a 216 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: BS story that was just in fact not true, and 217 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: they were exploiting it, and they exploit it for years 218 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: under the eight years under the Obama Biden administration. So 219 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: when Donald Trump came in, they said, look, we got 220 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: we gotta fix this, right, like, this is something that 221 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: we have to fix. If we don't fix it, we're 222 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: gonna have some real problems, right if we don't fix it. 223 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: We got some we got some real issues here if 224 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: we don't change this, if we don't alter this, if 225 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: we don't this is this is clearly broken and we 226 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: gotta fix it. There is clearly a problem here and 227 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: we need to fix it. And that is exactly what 228 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: we did. In now Joe Biden's like, oh no, you gotta, 229 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: we gotta give them a pathway to citizenship. Why now, 230 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: whose team are you on? We know whose team the 231 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: media is on. How they're writing articles with headlines inside 232 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: the new presence, routine, ov office fires and early bedtimes. 233 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: Another one news with Joe Biden playing Luigi Mario Kart 234 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: Mario Luigi right Nintendo. When's a Mario Kart race against 235 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: grandaughter at Camp David? This, I mean, the media under 236 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: Biden is absolutely pathetic, absolutely pathetic. But this is what 237 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: they're doing. This is what they're selling. This is how 238 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: they're doing it. This is how they are doing it. 239 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: Biden trying to finish up selling this plan of eleven 240 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: million Americans, as he calls them. I'm not he is. 241 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: I want to make that very clear. He says, just 242 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: go ahead and give them the paperwork, right, just just 243 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 1: give them, just give them the paperwork. Just do it. 244 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: Go ahead, give them the paperwork. They deserve it. Why 245 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: do they deserve it? Why? Now? It's because he needs 246 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: them to vote for him. That's why he needs them 247 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: to vote for them. That's why he needs illegal immigrants. 248 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: There is no reason why anyone should be in favor 249 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: of this, especially now when the economy is reeling from 250 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and people losing their jobs. I mean, even 251 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: if you said, is this the right time to do this, 252 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: I'm talking about from a liberal perspective. Any liberal that 253 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: I would think has a brain would immediately say, no, 254 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: this is not okay, this is not the time. We 255 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: can't we can't sell this to the American people. Now. 256 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: If you want to do this, do it when there's 257 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: low unemployment and people say, well, they're not really competing 258 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: for jobs, and later on they will be, but right 259 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: now they're not. That's what you do. You do it then, 260 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: not now. Now is not the time to do it. 261 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: You do it later. And I know you're going to 262 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: be announcing stuff later this week, or that's why I've 263 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: heard you do want a pathway to citizenship for roughly 264 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: eleven million undocumented immigrants and that would be essential in 265 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: any bill for you. Well, yes, but by the way, 266 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: if you came along and said to me, in the meantime, 267 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: we can work out a system whereby we're going to 268 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: For example, we used to allow refugees one hundred and 269 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand refugees in the United States in a 270 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: yearly basis was as high as two hundred and fifty thousand. 271 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: Trump cut it to five thousand. Come with me and 272 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: just sare leone. Come with me in departs of Lebanon. 273 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: Come with me around the world and see people piled 274 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: up in camps, kids dying, no way out, refugees fleeing 275 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: from persecution. We the United States, by the way, this 276 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: is this is part of the lie. And that's why 277 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: I want to play it for you. The eleven million 278 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: people that he's wanted to give a pathway to citizenship for, 279 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: they're not from the places he just mentioned. Nine of 280 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: them are coming across the border from Mexico. The idea 281 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: that they're coming from all of these war torn areas 282 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: and civil war areas and civil unrest areas in the 283 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: world that he just described saying, go to these camps, 284 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: look at them, people are They're not coming from there. 285 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: The majority of people that you want to give citizenship 286 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: are just people that said, screwed. I like America. I 287 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: mean go to Mexico, not to the resort. Drive outside 288 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: of the resort. If you've ever done that, which I have, 289 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: you'll understand why so many people want to come to America. 290 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: America is the greatest country in the ward. I don't 291 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: blame them. What I do blame is us being stupid enough. Right, 292 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 1: What I blame them is us being dumb enough, us 293 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,479 Speaker 1: being incompetent enough to allow it to happen. That's what 294 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: I do blame. By the way, I blame, I blame 295 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: us for even thinking that this is a good idea. 296 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: I blame us for even thinking that this is something 297 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: that we should do. That's who I blame. That's what 298 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 1: I blame. And Joe Biden sitting there going, Yep, we're 299 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: gonna we gotta let these people in from these war 300 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: to torn areas in the Middle East and all these 301 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: people that are suffering and go around the world. The 302 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 1: eleven Milli're gonna give it to is gonna be from Mexico. 303 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: That's not war torn. They have corruption down there, and 304 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 1: I would argue it's their country and they need to 305 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: fix it, and maybe they need to fight and maybe 306 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: they need to go to war with a cartel, Maybe 307 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: they need to fight back, maybe they take back their country. 308 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: Now that we can debate, Okay, that we can argue 309 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 1: about that, we can have a conversation about. I'm cool 310 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: with that, folks. I am totally okay with that. What 311 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: I am not okay with this bs that all these 312 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: people are coming from all these countries where he claims 313 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: are suffering, when the majority of people he is about 314 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: to give citizenship from are not from there, And you're 315 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 1: using somebody else's pain and agony to justify a terrible 316 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: decision that only helps your bottom line with future voters, 317 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: not the American people, kids dying, no way out, refugees 318 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 1: fleeing from persecution. We the United States used to do 319 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: our part. We were part of that. We're and you 320 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: know that's you know, send me your hotal masses come on. 321 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: And so I would if you had a refugee. Bill 322 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: bides self. I'm not suggesting that, but I would. There's 323 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: things that I would deal by itself, but not at 324 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: the expense of saying I'm never going to do the other. 325 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: There is a reasonable path to citizenship, and it shows 326 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: up one of the reasons why we have been able 327 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: to compete with the rest of the world so well 328 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: is most of our major competitors xenophobic. You remember quite 329 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 1: I remember you questioned me when I came back from China, 330 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 1: and I said, I predict I love this We're going 331 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: to throw in the xenophobic part there, because why not, right, 332 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: I mean, if we're going to do this, let's go 333 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: all in. Let's tell everybody the reason why we're doing this, 334 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,400 Speaker 1: because we're trying to save people's lives and that's how 335 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: this works. And there's these people that are sitting there 336 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 1: and they're dying. Yeah, that there, it is, That's easy. 337 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 1: Let's just let's just do it. Let's talk about, by 338 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: the way, human rights abuses for a second. You know 339 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: something else that's changed, which is really interesting. Joe Biden 340 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: is not going to have any type of repercussions or recourse. 341 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: We've been told for China and they're human rights abuses 342 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: not gonna happen. So which one is it? Are you 343 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: going to bring in all these people from around the 344 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: world but China you're not gonna call him out? Right? 345 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: I mean, are you're not gonna call him out? Which 346 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: one is it? I'm just I'm curious here, I'm genuinely 347 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: curious which one isn't We have real problems in this 348 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 1: country right now, and this guy's trying to bring in 349 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: eleven million more. Look look at the California school board 350 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: members mocking parents in a new video that they want 351 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: their babysitters back. And then now we have Joe Biden 352 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: who's even backtrack on his return to the School Plan, 353 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: which he said he was going to implement to get 354 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: kids back to school. How many kids are dying at home? 355 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 1: Now we know the numbers, they're not good. We know 356 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 1: that kids are committing suicide at rates we haven't seen 357 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 1: in death kids. We know that kids are being abused 358 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: at home, and we have no way to find out 359 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: how if they're being abused at home because they're not 360 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: going to school. We know that kids are not getting 361 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: fed the way that they need to be being fed, 362 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: many of them because schools are out that that's where 363 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: we are. And you look at Kamala Harris, she was, 364 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: you know, giving her given the easy questions from the 365 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: Today's Show. She starts stammering when asked about biden shifting 366 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: standard on school openings. So let's let's let's take care 367 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: of all the kids in the world, but let's not 368 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 1: take care of our own kids. Let's take care of 369 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: the illegal immigrants, but not our own American kids. Let's 370 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: let's get our schools back open. But then when the 371 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: unions say no, because this is all about unions. It's 372 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: all about the union workers. This is not about what's 373 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: good for the kids. You wander why all the private 374 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,360 Speaker 1: schools are open, because there's direct accountability from the people 375 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: that pay pay the bill. You wonder why the private 376 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: universities are open. You wander why the private schools are 377 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: open because they cannot afford to miss those paychecks because 378 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: then they're out of work. And so they figured out 379 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: a way to do it, and they didn't spend hundreds 380 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars preparing their classrooms the way that 381 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: now the government's demand that they're talking about like half 382 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: half a billion dollars in funding to quote get the 383 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 1: classrooms ready. How the private schools afford it and do 384 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: it because the tuition prices did not go up. Private 385 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: schools at every age group we're talking about pre k kindergarten, 386 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: middle school, high school, colleges are all open because they 387 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: knew that if they didn't open, they didn't get paid, 388 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 1: and they figured out a way to do it in 389 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: a safe manner, and they didn't spend billions of dollars 390 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: getting their classrooms ready. They made normal precautions the way 391 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 1: they should but the unions, they're like, screw this, we 392 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: can just teach them home. This is we never have 393 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: to go back to work again until everybody gets vaccinated. 394 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: And then we say we need hazard pay, and then 395 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 1: we say we're some sort of victim. Everybody else is 396 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: going to work, right All these other workers at grocery stores, 397 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: fast food restaurants, everything that's open out there that you're 398 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: going to, that they'll go to. Those people aren't screaming 399 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: I need more money and how dare you try to 400 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: kill me? But the unions are. But this is the 401 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: Democratic Party right now. Last week, eight hundred and sixty 402 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,199 Speaker 1: one thousand Americans filed for unemployment. Let that number sink in. 403 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: Eight hundred and sixty one thousand Americans file for unemployment. 404 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: And right now Joe Biden and the Democrats are introducing 405 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 1: a bill give me eleven million illegal immigrant citizenship. And 406 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 1: they're backtracking on putting our kids back in school. And 407 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: the Vice President Harris stammering, when asked about his shifting standards, 408 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: take a list of this crap distance and make sure 409 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: you wash your hands and do that frequently. Let's talk 410 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 1: about schools. We got a lot of parents watching, right 411 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: now maybe with their kids right next to them because 412 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 1: they're not going to school. The CDC a few days 413 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: ago finally put out some long awaited guide on how 414 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 1: schools could safely reopen. But here's the thing. They tied 415 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: it directly to the rate of infection in any given community. 416 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,679 Speaker 1: And I'm going to put a map up because if 417 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: schools were to follow that right now, ninety percent of 418 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: the counties, ninety percent of the schools would not be 419 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: able to open under the CDC's own metric. Wasn't a 420 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: mistake for the CDC to connect school reopening to how 421 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: much infection there is in a community. Well, let's first 422 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: say this that in the last four weeks, schools are opening. 423 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: Every week, more schools are opening, and it is because 424 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 1: we are supplementing what needs to happen around the vaccinations 425 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: getting two states, but also because folks are We're seeing 426 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 1: progress when folks are wearing masks, when they're getting vaccinated, 427 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 1: when they're social distancing, we're seeing progress there. But we 428 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: all want the schools to reopen, Savannah, all of us 429 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: who have children in our lives. They want to go 430 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: back to school. We want them to go back to school. 431 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 1: Teachers want to teach. What about that CDC guidance? Then 432 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: that's the question, because the CDC is saying, essentially their 433 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: best guidance is don't open if you're in a red zone. 434 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: Ninety percent of students are in a red zone. And 435 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 1: the science is very clear. The CDC's own science says 436 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: schools are not a source of community risk. Well, so 437 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: here's the thing. What the CDC, what they have recommended, 438 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: are exactly that recommendations about how to reopen safely if 439 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: they've been closed, how to stay open if they've been opened, 440 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: and so the recommendations include what again needs to happen 441 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: around social distancing, handwashing, mask wearing. But the point is 442 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: that we all want our kids to get back to 443 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: school as quickly as possible and as safely as possible. 444 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: There has been a shifting timeline here. Back on December eighth, 445 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: the President, then President elect tweeted, we want to reopen 446 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 1: the majority of schools in the first one hundred days. 447 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: He later said that day, we want to have most 448 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: schools open. Now he said it's as last night, he's 449 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: talking about the majority of K through eight schools. Last 450 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 1: week we heard a White House officials saying open means 451 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: it could mean just one day a week open. The 452 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: President said no, that was a miscommunication. But I mean, 453 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: I guess, look again, parents watching, What is the bottom line? 454 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,919 Speaker 1: What is it now for schools to be reopened and 455 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,199 Speaker 1: how soon can they be reopened? So our goal is 456 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 1: that as many K through eight schools as possible will 457 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: reopen as within the first one hundred days. Our goal 458 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: is that it will be five days a week, and 459 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: so we have to work to achieve that goal. But 460 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: our goal is the goal of parents. And I mean, 461 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: here's the thing, Savannah, I don't need to tell you 462 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: we are. The issue here is not just about statistics. 463 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: It's about our kids, it's about their parents. It's about 464 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: the fact that every day our kids are missing essential 465 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: critical days and they're education. I love how she then 466 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: all of a sudden acts like she's going on the 467 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: offense for these kids. The only reason why these kids 468 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 1: are not back in the school right now is because 469 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris and the Democrats have said, okay, unions will 470 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: let you make the call, and the union said, screw 471 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 1: the kids, and we're gonna get paid and we don't 472 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 1: have to worry about losing our customer base because it's 473 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: a public school system, which is exactly why the public 474 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: school system is broken. The public school system is broken 475 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: because it's not about what's best for the kids. We 476 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: socially promote kids, we fail kids, and we move them 477 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: forward anyway. Kids come out of school in a seventh 478 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 1: and sixth grade reading level. When they graduate high school. 479 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: There is zero accountability because it's run by the liberals 480 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: and the schools are run by Democrats, and they're not 481 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: run for what's best for the kids. There's no accountability. 482 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: Teachers don't get fired in the public school system. Teachers 483 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: are protected even when they do the most stupid and 484 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: egregious things. They don't get fired. Though. We don't fire 485 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 1: public school teacher year. Private school teachers we fire all 486 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 1: the time. You're not getting done, it's over right, you're 487 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: not getting it done. It's then bye bye. Because there's 488 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 1: actual accountability if your kids fall behind. What happens if 489 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: kids fall behind, and you can see it, there is 490 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: accountability immediately. So this year is a forgotten year. This 491 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 1: year is not a year of educating our kids in 492 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: the public schools, private schools. And I want you to 493 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: think about the have and have nots. Here, seriously, listen 494 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: to me. Think about all the private school kids where 495 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 1: parents made sacrifices to get their kids in private school. 496 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: Think about all the private school kids that got a 497 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: full year of education that now we're going to beat 498 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: the living crap out of the public school kids that 499 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: got nothing. Think about the have and have nots here, 500 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: and how many kids lives are gonna be changed forever 501 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: because their SAT and ACT scores are gonna are gonna 502 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: dive bomb because an entire year of school they missed. 503 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: But we said it happened, and it really did. These teachers, 504 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm tired of them saying that they care 505 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: about the kids. They don't because the unions. If the 506 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,959 Speaker 1: teachers care, they'd fight. The unions say no, we're going 507 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 1: back to school school district by school district. That's what 508 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: they would do, and they're not doing it. And the 509 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: reason why is very clear. The reason why they're not 510 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: doing that is because it's too easy to get a 511 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: fat paycheck and stay at home. Because there's no accountability 512 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: and you don't have to listen to anyone. No one 513 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: is going to fire you. You don't worry that you're 514 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: going to lose your job because you don't show up, 515 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: not worried about it, because not showing up, refusing to 516 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: come back to work in the private schools, You're gone. 517 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: You are gone, Make no mistake about it. You are gone. 518 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: It is over public schools. Let's go. This is a 519 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: whole year we've missed, folks. It's a whole year that 520 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: these teachers in these unions are getting paid their salaries, 521 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: many of them getting raises during the last year, to 522 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: not educate our kids, to not educate them. And Kamala 523 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: Harris out there, Ramb went on. Then she tries to 524 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: go on the offensive. Well, I'm here to fight for 525 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: the kids. Well, if you are, then why aren't you 526 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: demanding that these kids get back in school. Why aren't 527 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: you demanding it? Vocational development? You know, we know we 528 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: have worked on this issue for years around the fact 529 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: that you know, by the end of third grade, if 530 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: a child is not at third grade reading level, they 531 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: literally drop off. So each day in the lifehood child 532 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: is a very long time. And that's why, right, and 533 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: that's why we've we've got it collectively and do everything 534 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: in our power to reopen our schools as quickly as 535 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 1: possible and as safely as possible. A lot of public 536 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: health officials will say this closing schools is as much 537 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: of a public health crisis for all the reasons you mentioned. 538 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: A final point on this before we move on. You know, 539 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: the CDC has said it is not a prerequisite for 540 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: teachers to be vaccinated for them to go back to school. 541 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: But many teachers are wary of going back to school, 542 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: and we've had some cities have to sue the teachers 543 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: union or sue their own school districts to try to 544 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: get these schools to reopen. Can you reassure teachers who 545 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: are listening right now that it is safe for them 546 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: to go back to school even if they are not vaccinated, 547 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: if these public health measures like distancing and masks are 548 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,959 Speaker 1: being implemented. So, first of all, let me just say this, 549 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 1: and the President has said it, and we're all really clear. 550 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: Teachers should be a priority. Teachers should be a priority. Look, 551 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 1: let me just tell you something. I love teachers. My 552 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: first grade teacher, Missus Francis Wilson, attended my law school graduation. 553 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: Teachers are critical to our children's development. They should be 554 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 1: able to teach it a safe place and expand the 555 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: minds and the opportunities of our children. So teachers should 556 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: be a priority along with other frontline workers, and we're 557 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: going to make them a priority. I believe that twenty 558 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 1: two dates I believe have prioritized is it's safe for them? Well, 559 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: I think that we have to decide if we can 560 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: put in place safe measures. This is why, and it's 561 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: so important we pass the American Rescue Plan, the American 562 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: ROS Here it is here, it is Did you hear this? 563 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: Now here's my pitch for why I need more money 564 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: for the unions. She didn't answer the questions, and even 565 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: even NBC Samana Savannah Guthrie is actually asking some decent questions. 566 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: You're like, even if you had to sue the schools Union, 567 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: the teachers unions, they've had to sue them. Now listen 568 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 1: to this because this is all about the money. What 569 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is about to do is make the sales 570 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: pitch the American people. And the sales pitch is a 571 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: simple one. If you give us enough money, we'll go 572 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: back to school. But you got to give us a 573 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 1: hell of a lot of money for first. You got 574 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 1: to give us everything we demand because we're going to 575 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: get a better deal, for our bottom line, for our 576 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: bank account, for our paychecks. This is not about the kids. 577 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 1: If you think it's about a kid, you're stupid. These 578 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: public school teachers are idiots. These public school teachers that 579 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: are not standing up for the kids. And don't don't 580 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: tell me there's a degree of separation. Okay, I'm tired 581 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: of that crap, I really really am. I'm sick and 582 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: tired of that bs. These teachers should be saying I'm 583 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: showing up for school and I'm gonna buck the system 584 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna buck the union, but they're not, so 585 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,479 Speaker 1: don't tell me. Well, you're ben, you're painting with two 586 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: brivate brush. Okay, well, then show up and work just 587 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: like the private schools are. Show up and work like 588 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: every other American has been doing during this crisis, because 589 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: we know that if you keep calling in saying I 590 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: can't come in, I'm too afraid, I can't come in, 591 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm do afraid, I can't come in, I'm do afraid, 592 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: at some point they're gonna say, don't come in because 593 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:09,319 Speaker 1: you don't have a job. But this is not about 594 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 1: the kids. It's about the money. And now here's a 595 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 1: sales pitch from Kamala Harris. This is basically, we're holding 596 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: you hostage and your kids hostage, and their education, their 597 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: crappy education. We're giving them hostage until you do what 598 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 1: we tell you to do. The President and I have 599 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: proposed is a plan that is about getting our schools 600 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,720 Speaker 1: back open. Why does this connect with what we're talking 601 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 1: about right now? It's gonna be safer for our schools 602 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: to reopen when we can get our schools the infrastructure needs, 603 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 1: like helping them with their ventilation systems, helping them create 604 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:44,239 Speaker 1: social distancing with barriers, the things that are necessary to 605 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,399 Speaker 1: get them back open and a safe I don't want 606 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: to want to beat it to death, but I just 607 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,879 Speaker 1: I know their teachers listening, and the CDC has said 608 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 1: they don't have to be vaccinated to go back to school. 609 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: We think it should be a priority. We think they should. 610 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: We think they should be a priority. We think they 611 00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: should be a priority, and the states are making to 612 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 1: as individually about where they will be on the list 613 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,800 Speaker 1: of who gets vaccinated. I believe they should be a priority. 614 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,879 Speaker 1: The President police, they should be a priority. Let's talk 615 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 1: that there. It is, so give us money and give 616 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: us all this crap that we want and then we'll 617 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,919 Speaker 1: go back to school. Meanwhile, today, what was the media 618 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 1: focusing on Ted Cruz because he went and hung out 619 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 1: with his family. Yeah, writing articles about Mario Kart and 620 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: Luigi and the sleeping patterns of Joe Biden and how 621 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,359 Speaker 1: he goes to bed early and has fires in the 622 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 1: Oval office. Yeah, that's what we're doing now, folks. That's 623 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,399 Speaker 1: where we are. By the way, if you missed our 624 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,320 Speaker 1: tribute to Russia Limball, the greatest server was in this business, 625 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 1: make sure you go backwards and grab our podcast from yesterday. 626 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,160 Speaker 1: We talked about Rusia Limball. I talked about what an 627 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,800 Speaker 1: impact he had on my career, some personal stories as well, 628 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,720 Speaker 1: So make sure you do that on our podcast. 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