1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Guys, We've been following news from last week of a 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: horrific school shooting in Michigan that left four Oxford High 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: students dead, and more and more details have come out 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: surrounding that shooting, and in a very unusual move, the 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: parents of the we'll say, alleged shooter have also been indicted, 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: charged with involuntary manslaughter. Let's go ahead and throw this 7 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: tear sheet up on the screen, since dramatic Day reveals 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: details about the parents of a school shooting suspect. Here's 9 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: how it begins. An intense arrayment. On Saturday morning, James 10 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: and Jennifer Crumbley listened by video conference from separate jail 11 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: cells as they were charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: fatal shootings of four Oxford High School students, who the 13 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: police say were gunned down by the couple's fifteen year 14 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: old son Ethan. So here's some of the details. And 15 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: by the way, the Crumblies fled the police had to 16 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: go and find them. Now they say, oh, it was 17 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: a miscommunication. We were planning to turn our we were 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: worried for safety issues. But the police say that it 19 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: looks like they were definitely fleeing that they didn't get 20 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: into details, but they said the circumstances surrounding where they 21 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: were found and how they were found indicates that they 22 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: had in fact fled and tried to evade custody. So 23 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: that's what the police officers are saying. But the details 24 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: of that day and the reason why the parents are 25 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: being charged are pretty remarkable. So they had purchased the 26 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: weapon for their son, and you know, had posed with 27 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: him and taken him target shooting and all that stuff, 28 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: and left it unlocked in their bedroom and that ends 29 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: up being the gun that their son takes and you know, 30 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: massacres these four students. But there's more than that. The 31 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: sun was caught in class one day surfing the web 32 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,639 Speaker 1: looking for AMMO for the gun, and they were covered 33 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: text messages from the mom that was basically like, ah, no, 34 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: I'm not mad at you. Next time, just don't get caught. 35 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: But then, even more chilling, on the day of the shooting, 36 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: the parents were called to the high school because he 37 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: had drawn a you know, a terrible picture that showed 38 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: blood everywhere and indicated that, you know, he wanted to 39 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: do harm to other students. The school wanted the parents 40 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: to take the son out of school for the day 41 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: and seek him counseling. Within forty eight hours, the parents 42 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:36,399 Speaker 1: basically said no, he's returned to class. No one searches 43 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: his backpack where the gun was, and then later in 44 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:45,239 Speaker 1: the day he commits this horrific massacre. And the other 45 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,119 Speaker 1: piece of this that is indicative of, you know, potential, 46 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: the potential fact that the parents should have and did 47 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: have some concerns about him, is immediately mom is texting 48 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: Ethan and says, don't do it. And they hear that 49 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 1: there's a school shooting going on, and Dad calls in 50 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: and says, I have a gun missing, and I think 51 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: my son may be the shooter. So those are the 52 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: facts as they stand, and that's why authorities are saying 53 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: you were wildly negligent in this situation. This is your kid, 54 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: and you had every opportunity to intervene and get him 55 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: help and raise warning flags, and you had some indications 56 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: obviously that there were some problems here and you did nothing, 57 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: and that resulted in the death of four students. I 58 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: completely support this. I think we should see a lot 59 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: more of it. It's sus been the same problem in 60 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: so many of these school shootings. The Columbine parents. I 61 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: mean a lot of these people. Look, maybe they didn't 62 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: know exactly, but you know, so here's the clear cutcase. 63 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: The guy writes blood everywhere, can't get these thoughts out 64 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: of my head, pulled out of school, sent to a 65 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: guidance counselor. Parents, don't pull them out, you buy gone. 66 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: Any gun owner, I'm not even a gun owner yet, 67 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: soon will be. But whenever you have a gun and 68 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: you don't have it secured in your house, when there's 69 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: a miner around, that is negligence. It is like basic 70 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: one oh one, beaten into anybody who is around firearms. 71 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: Add in a firearm, a loaded firearm which is then 72 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: not secured in a house with a teenager who is 73 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: having you know, psycho problems, that's like a whole other level. 74 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: It's a recipe for it's a recipe for disasters. These people, Look, 75 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: gun ownership is a serious responsibility when you have a 76 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: weapon of death, and let's be honest about what it is. 77 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm not casting aspersions. I'm saying let's let's talk about 78 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: what it is. It is a serious responsibility on you, 79 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: as the owner of said firearm, in order to go 80 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: out of your way both not to put yourself in 81 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: a situation where you would have to use it has 82 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: to be a moment of a last resort, and second 83 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: that when it is in your house, you have to 84 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: keep it as locked and secured possible while also balancing 85 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: of course safety and everything. So they didn't take any 86 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: of those steps, and I think they deserve it. I 87 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: think they deserve to be charged. I think they should 88 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: go to jail for a long time. Once again, given 89 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: the facts of the case. Maybe there's things that I 90 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: don't know, but the details seemed clear as hell. They're 91 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: lawyer's basic defense is well, they had no idea, which 92 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: I mean seems hard to believe. It's pretty clear to me. 93 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,559 Speaker 1: And look, you either locked the gun up or you didn't, 94 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: and you didn't, and so when that happens, yeah, I 95 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: think you're a criminally responsible Yeah. So, I mean, listen, 96 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer or legal analyst. So are there 97 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: some technical requirements of the law that they do or 98 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: don't meet. I don't know either. As a moral issue, right, 99 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: do they deserve to be held at least somewhat responsible 100 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: for what their minor son did when there were clear 101 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 1: warning signs in the school trying to flag things for 102 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: them all along the way. And by the way, there's 103 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: questions too about the school and some of the decisions 104 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: that they made here, But the most direct line of 105 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: responsibility is to the parents. Yes, no question. When a 106 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: fifteen year old has access to a deadly weapon and 107 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: it is left unlocked, and you have the kid looking 108 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,119 Speaker 1: up Ammo and drawing pictures saying he can't get thoughts 109 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: out of his head about wanting to kill people, come on, 110 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: it's a red flag, red flag, red flag, one after another. 111 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: And to me, it is incredibly damning that both of 112 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: them instantly knew that it was their kid. They both 113 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: instantly knew he took the gun and this was him. 114 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: I mean, that tells you everything about the lawyer saying, oh, 115 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: they had no idea, like that really shows that they 116 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: had some indication that it could be that their child 117 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: could be capable of such a thing. So we'll follow 118 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: the cases it develops in any more information that comes out. 119 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: But I do think it's a pretty significant development just 120 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: because we haven't seen an attempt to hold the parents 121 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: accountable and responsible in this way. In some ways, it's 122 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: very controversy, but I agree with you. It is an 123 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: appropriate direction to go in totally. All right, guys, enjoy 124 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: the day. We're gonna have more for you later. Time 125 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,559 Speaker 1: now for our weekly partnership segment with the Daily Poster. 126 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: And joining us today to talk about some of the 127 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: convenient facts that the media has been leaving out of 128 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: the inflation discussion is Julia Rock. She is a reporter 129 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: for the Daily Poster. Great to have you, Julia. Good 130 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: to see Julia. Thanks so much for having me. Of course, 131 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: so we've been covering here a lot how inflation is 132 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: certainly top of mine for a lot of voters. We 133 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: have in vaccine prices, especially if things that you know, 134 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: really take a hit in terms of the household budget, 135 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: things like rent, of course, gas, food prices, and this 136 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: is making a significant impact on American psyche. But what 137 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: you've report out here is that there are significant parts 138 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: of the inflation picture that are being left out by 139 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: the corporate media. Just break down what you found. Yeah, 140 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: So I just want to start out by saying, you know, 141 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: the point you make is really important. Higher prices, especially 142 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: of essential goods, are you know, really really challenging for 143 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: people who especially people who are already facing financial hardship. 144 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: But we sort of went through some corporate media coverage 145 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: of inflation and looked for things that were conspicuously absent 146 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: from that coverage, such as, you know, corporations are seeing 147 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: their highest profits in since I think nineteen fifty. Consolidation 148 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: in certain sectors such as the ones you point out agriculture, 149 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: are allowing corporations to jack up prices and leaving people 150 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: with no options to go elsewhere. So I think those 151 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: are sort of some of the main points. You know, 152 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: wages at the very top have been skyrocketing. Executives are 153 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: using this moment of massive profits to you know, ask 154 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: for more money. And so while it is true that 155 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: you know, prices are going up that is challenging for people, 156 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: the role of corporations in pushing up prices juicing their 157 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: own salaries has has been sort of absent. Well, while 158 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: you know, rising wages among lower income workers or union's 159 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: bargaining for bonuses or inflation adjusted wages are kind of 160 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: union workers are being scapegoaded for inflation, right, Yeah, I 161 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: think it's very important you point to here, like a 162 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: twenty to thirty percent private jet inflation, you know amongst 163 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 1: rich people and other Yeah, give giveus a few more 164 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: examples of that, because that's pretty good. Yeah. So, I 165 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: mean there's just so much money floating around at the 166 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 1: top that you know, there's sort of this phenomenon where 167 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: rich people don't even know where to put it, so 168 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: they're spending money on private jets or digital art, which 169 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: you know is kind of this big speculative bubble right now. 170 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: So some of those examples are are sort of astounding that. Yeah, 171 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: twenty to thirty percent private jet inflation is just sort 172 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: of unimaginable to me, like, how could demand for private 173 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: jets have risen so much? But you know what this 174 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: is coming from is the stock market, you know, has 175 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 1: had a boom year. People with assets are doing very well. 176 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: People who work at this, at these corporations you know, 177 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: at the very top that are seeing record profits, are 178 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: seeing you know, bonuses for themselves and salary increases, and 179 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: so they're just spending money on absurd things and and 180 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: that that is causing an increase in demand and inflation 181 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 1: at the very top. Yeah. I mean we covered a 182 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: few of those examples here too. The trophy trees. Oh yes, 183 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: One that really stood out to me is like there 184 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: are these bidding wars for trees. Now that people have moved, 185 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: at great expense six figures to their house to serve 186 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: as some sort of like status symbol. The yacht market 187 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: has the prices have increased. You can't even get a 188 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: yacht if you want one for years. And then the 189 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: broker they interviewed a broker, it was like, people don't 190 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 1: even use them to like go and party on the water. 191 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: They just have parties on their They just buy them 192 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 1: to have parties. Anyway, that's a whole other world. But 193 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: you know, one of the things you get to here, 194 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: Julia is sometimes to the extent Democrats, they don't really 195 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: want to talk about inflation. For a long time, they 196 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: didn't want to pretend that this was happening at all. 197 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: And that's not tenable anymore because clearly it's hitting people's 198 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: pocketbooks and they're already concerned about it. So another thing 199 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: you hear is like, well, what can he really what 200 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: could Biden really do about it? It's really not his 201 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:22,719 Speaker 1: fault and he really can't do that much about it. 202 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: You mean the case that that is really not accurate. Yeah, So, 203 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: so one stark example is that in the past, during 204 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 1: kind of these moments of crisis or kind of the 205 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: crisis right now, is this transition from people not spending 206 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: very much money to spending much more money. Is that 207 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: the President has enacted price controls on certain goods to 208 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: prevent corporations from you know, using that crisis moment to 209 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: juce their profits. And that's something that Congress could give 210 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: Biden the statutory authority to do. Probably not going to happen, 211 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: you know, given the state of the Senate right now, 212 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: but it is worth noting that some of the senators 213 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: you know, thinking of mansion and cinema who would probably 214 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: be most likely you know, to block something like that, 215 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: are are also the people who are using, you know, 216 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: fear mongering about inflation to argue that maybe it's not 217 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: the right time to pass the Democrat Social Spending and 218 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: Climate Bill. So price controls are sort of one option 219 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: for the government to step in and say, you know, 220 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: we're not just going to leave it to corporations to 221 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: use this moment to juice their profits and price gouge people. 222 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,559 Speaker 1: We're going to do something about it, I think, and 223 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: and and the other example that is that is more 224 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: of a long term solution is you know, investing in 225 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: the types of things where a lack of supply such 226 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: as housing is what's been causing higher prices for people 227 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: for years. Yea. The last thing that you get to 228 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: here is a lot of questions about what the FED 229 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: is going to do. There's a lot of interest among 230 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 1: inflation hawks of the FED trying to act to tamp 231 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: things down. What are the risks there? Yeah, So I 232 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 1: think this is this is maybe one of the most 233 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: important things that's been absent from coverage of inflation, which 234 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: is that the FED is sort of under pressure. Is 235 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: the term that's used, and I put that in quotes 236 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: because it's not entirely clear what that means. But the 237 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: FED is under pressure to you know, raise interest rates, 238 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: to cool off the economy a bit. And it's really 239 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: important to note that the flip side of that would 240 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 1: be causing unemployment and slowing down the labor market recovery 241 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: and right now kind of the the thing that people 242 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: have going for them, the thing that working people have 243 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: going for them, even you know, in sectors where inflation 244 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: is outpacing the rise and wages, is that for the 245 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: first time in a long time, people can you know, 246 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: quit their job and take a better job, because when 247 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: the labor market is tight, when you know corporations are 248 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: struggling to find workers, it gives workers a lot more 249 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: leverage to ask for something better or look for something better. 250 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:55,599 Speaker 1: So it's really important to note that, you know, in 251 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: these stories about how the Fed is under pressure to 252 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: do something about inflation, what are under pressure to do 253 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: is cause unemployment. That's a very very excellent point. I'm 254 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: really glad that you pointed that out. Thank you, Julia, Julia, 255 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: thank you so much, great reporting, thanks for having me 256 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 1: have a good time, our pleasure, and thank you guys 257 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 1: so much for watching. We'll have more for you later. 258 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: Something we're always on the watch for here at breaking 259 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: points are obviously staged to marches and perhaps false flag 260 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: events may sound conspiratorial, but given so much of what 261 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: we know about state conduct, from the Black Lives Matter 262 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: riots to January sixth and many of these other right 263 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: wing groups to the indictments of the Gretchen Witner people 264 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: where there were actually more FEDS involved than actual conspirators, 265 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: I think we're probably on balance right to be skeptical 266 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: of any major event that takes place here in Washington. 267 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: And recently there was one which caught our eye, not 268 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: just ours, but a lot of people, a group calling 269 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: itself quote Patriot Front, marching on the National Mall in Washington, DC. 270 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and play this video. You can see 271 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: asked gentlemen wearing hats in a uniforms, marching with shields 272 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: and with American flags as well. And what you can 273 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: see there, crystal, is what a lot of people flagged 274 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: as a potential quote unquote staged event. Now we don't 275 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: know the truth. I want to say that at the 276 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: very top, but there are some very suspicious things that 277 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: happen in terms of popularizing and making people afraid of this. 278 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: So this Twitter sleuth actually went deep into the person 279 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 1: who was the very first to actually tweet about this 280 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: so called fastist march in Washington. Let's put this up 281 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: there on the screen. This was the woman, Okay, Now 282 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: her Twitter handle was Cheryl Llewellyn. Now let's go and 283 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: put the next one up there, please. The next tweet 284 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: actually shows that she had just created a brand new 285 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: Twitter account immediately after tweeting the video, saying happening now 286 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: five hundred man with riots shields or marching in Washington, DC. 287 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: She went ahead and tagged a of journalists in order 288 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: to make sure that it showed up in their mentions. 289 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: Go ahead and put the next one up there on 290 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: the screen, please. What you can see is that people 291 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: who claim to be experts then in the so called 292 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: Patriot Front then jump in to say how much they 293 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: know they're going to travel by U haul? He tweeted 294 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: actually though, as a so called expert about the Patriot 295 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: Front for the very first time, and he was also 296 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: right about the equipment, So how exactly did he know? 297 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: And then put the final one up there on the screen, please, 298 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: because what we see from these series of tweets from 299 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: these accounts is that, look, there was no Google history 300 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: for anybody named Cheryl Llewellen joined Twitter a few days ago. 301 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: Her video garnered a million views. Some of these so 302 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: called disinformation experts were immediately able to retweet, amplify and 303 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: gain credibility to the video and more is it somebody 304 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: who works for the government. I have no idea, but 305 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: it looks pretty sketch and it looks weird. It looks 306 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: also like an event meant to cause panic and justify 307 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: some sort of crack down here in Washington. But we 308 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: would be remiss Crystal. If we did not say that, 309 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 1: there is a perhaps alternative explanation, right, So what happened 310 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: is after this chick gets called out for basically being fake, 311 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: she then the account transforms into from an anti fascist 312 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is terrible, what's happening here account 313 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: to actively supporting to being an active supporter of Patriot Front. 314 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: So interestingly, the Washington Post actually wrote this whole thing 315 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: up with their headline being a white supremacist march in 316 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 1: DC was pushed by a fake Twitter account. Expert say 317 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: now their expert. Their explanation, which also would make sense, 318 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 1: is that this account was actually a fake account set 319 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: up by Patriot Front to call attention to their march. 320 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 1: Because if you are a legitimate group that wants to 321 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: get attention for whatever activities you're doing, this is also 322 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: the sort of behavior that you would engage in tagging 323 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: a bunch of journalists posing as just like, oh, sweet 324 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: little innocent DC residents so troubled by this to try 325 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: to get their attention and get it amplified in the media. 326 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 1: If that was their intention, it worked very well. But 327 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,719 Speaker 1: I think it also raises a larger question about, like, 328 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 1: you know, all of these journalists and activists on Twitter 329 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: who ultimately amplified this march from a fake account a 330 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: million views right coming, you know that was initially reported 331 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: on by a fake account. If this is a legitimate 332 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: white supremacist group, you're giving them exactly what they want. 333 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: You're giving them tons of atten I mean, that's the 334 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: whole goal. They have like one hundred people there, it's 335 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: not that many people, and you're giving them millions of 336 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: views and tons of traction and ultimately tons of power 337 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: by doing that. Now, what the Washington Post says is 338 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: that this group, Patriot Front, was sort of a splinter 339 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: group after the Charlottesville Unite the Right catastrophe. Okay, that 340 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: the leaders of the groups that was involved there that 341 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: I can't remember what the name of the previous group was, 342 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: but anyway goes in forms Patriot Front. His name is 343 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: Thomas Rousseau. And the previous group was called Vanguard America. 344 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: And so this was like a new incarnation of one 345 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: of the groups that was it Charlottesville, is what the 346 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: Washington Post is reporting. So that's what we know. That's 347 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: all we know. It's fishy, and I think that people 348 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: anytime they see these sorts of events which are obviously, 349 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,920 Speaker 1: you know, geared in one direction to inspire a sort 350 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,679 Speaker 1: of response. Should be very skeptical about what's happening on 351 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: the inside. Who are the actors around it? Don't immediately 352 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: retweet and amplify What do we learn from Like then 353 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: Nathan Phillips video with that kid from Covington Catholic. Sometimes 354 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: there's more going around, many actors on many sides, having 355 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 1: you know, a lot of vested interest in making sure 356 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: you see one specific thing and to try and amplify 357 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 1: it in one particular way. So that's what we're trying 358 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 1: to do here. A lot of people felt for this 359 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: thing and thought there was some crazy white nationalist march 360 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,400 Speaker 1: here in DC. I was here this weekend. Everything was fine. Well. 361 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: The funny thing is too that the people, and this 362 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 1: is the point the Washington Post article makes, is that 363 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: if their goal, if this is a legitimate like white 364 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: supremacist group, and their goal is to attract people on 365 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 1: the far right fringe, will they failed because those people 366 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: all think that they're FEDS, so and their faces are 367 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: all covered, so there's no way to know probably still 368 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: FEDS regardless, no way to know who they are track 369 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 1: them down and see if they have any connection in 370 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: the federal government. But anyway, that's what we know. There 371 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 1: we go. All right, all right, guys, thanks for watching. 372 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: A lot more for you later. So, guys, we already 373 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: covered some of the revelations that have come out about 374 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: Chris Cuomo and him being fired by CNN for all 375 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: of the things he was doing behind the scenes to 376 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: try to protect his brother from any sort of allegations 377 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: against him. But one thing that was lost in the 378 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: new revelations that New York Attorney General Letitia James had 379 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: put out of all these text messages flying back and 380 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: forth between Chris Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo, and Andrew Cuomo's 381 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: aids and all these people, is the fact that to 382 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: try to rebut the multiple allegations of sexual harassment at 383 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,479 Speaker 1: least one instant sexual assault against them, the playbook that 384 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: they turned to was the one that Joe Biden used 385 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: on the campaign trail to rebut the allegations that he 386 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: was facing by Tara Reid. So the Biden campaign effectively 387 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: set the playbook for how Cuomo then responded and tried 388 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: to dismiss all of the allegations against him. Let's put 389 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 1: this Fox News tear sheet up on the screen which 390 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: has the details. The headline is Cuomo Aids discussed Biden's 391 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: response to tar Reid claims after Lindsay Boylan went public 392 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: against the governor. Let me just give you some of 393 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: the specifics here, because this wasn't just like, oh, what 394 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: did Biden do and trying to remember. They were like 395 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 1: very detailed of we're going to do it exactly like 396 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: he did. One person said, pull what Biden said when 397 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 1: he was accused during the campaign. That was a message 398 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: to top aids, Melissa de Rosa and Rick as a party. 399 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: This absolutely did not happen. Lever then wrote, quoting the 400 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,719 Speaker 1: Biden campaign, he firmly believes that women have a right 401 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 1: to be heard. This is just direct copying and pasting 402 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 1: the Biden language and heard respectfully. That was what deputy 403 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 1: campaign manager Kate Bettingfield had said. Such claims should also 404 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: be diligently reviewed by an independent, independent press. What is 405 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: clear about this claim It is untrue. And then they 406 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: also said, I think the disgruntled former employee needs to 407 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: come from a source or other Cuomo employee. Truth is 408 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: she stormed out Lindsay Boylan over allegations of her own 409 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: misconduct to female employees and begged to come back. I 410 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: think we can victim shame on the record. These are 411 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: the discussions that are going on. And later on that 412 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: day this Aid told Team Cuomo quote and Biden camp 413 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: never mentioned Biden in the denial part, the part about women. 414 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: It elevates it. This will be a coolmost box who 415 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,679 Speaker 1: says there's simply no truth to these claims. So from 416 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: the language to the approach to who is going to 417 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: do the pushback all copied from Joe Biden's successful efforts 418 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: to sideline any any traction with the Tara Reid claims 419 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: against him. Yeah, I think it all is just much 420 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: more structural in terms of how they see the me 421 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: too industrial complex or whatever at the time as just 422 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: so much on their side. Remember, Tara was famously denied 423 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: by what was it times Up or whatever. They didn't 424 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 1: have a representation, Oh, Tara Karen's out. The times UP 425 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 1: CEO was in league with the Cuomo brothers in trying 426 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: to demonize and deflect against the people who were going 427 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: after Andrew Cuomo. I mean, you just saw how on 428 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 1: the CNN side it completely fell apart. On the times upside. 429 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: It falls apart on Cuomo himself. All three of these 430 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 1: people supposedly some me too you know activists, Coomo famous, 431 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: Chris Cuomo famously covering it all the time on a 432 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 1: show saying I'm on the side of women, I'm on 433 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: the side of me too. Now you know, it turns 434 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: out he was actually ousted because of a new me 435 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: too accusation. Same with his brother times Up, having the 436 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: Times Up organization themselves be involved in the movement, corporatizing 437 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: it using their connections to the Biden campaign. So yeah, 438 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: in a way, they had the right playbook, right. It 439 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,879 Speaker 1: worked worked for Joe Biden. They bought off everybody at 440 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: the top, and they turned it into a weapon that 441 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: they can use against people that they don't like, and 442 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: then they can keep it as a defense against the 443 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: people that they do. The one person who really they 444 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: didn't count on was Letitia James, That's right. I mean, 445 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: she's the one who did the anational investigation and did 446 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,239 Speaker 1: an effective enough job that there was just there were 447 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: so many claims that were made, there was so much 448 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: evidence to back it up that he couldn't rebutt it. 449 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:52,640 Speaker 1: And then the latest drop of information also coming from 450 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: Letitia James with all these text messages, there was just 451 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: no denying what was going on, both with Chris Cuomo, 452 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: but with Andrew Cuomo, but also with Chris Cuomo. So otherwise, yeah, 453 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: he had all this institutional protection. I mean, you really 454 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: come to realize between Biden and Cuomo. Times up was 455 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 1: not set up primarily to help women tell their stories 456 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 1: or whatever bs they say. No, it was set up 457 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 1: as a gatekeeping device to make sure only claims that 458 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: we're going to go against Republicans ultimately got heard. This 459 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: was also a mechanism to protect the people that they 460 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: know that they cared about ascending to political power. And 461 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: so when it came to a Biden allegation, when it 462 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: came to a Cris Cuomo allegation, well, those they pushed 463 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 1: to the side were actively engaged, in the case of Cuomo, 464 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 1: in the cover up. Same thing a human rights campaign, 465 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: which is oh yeah, civil rights organizations was to care 466 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: about social justice and the dude who was at the 467 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: top of the organization gets caught also engaged in similar 468 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 1: cover ups and trying to pull person l files of 469 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: Lindsey Boylan, in particular to try to smear her. I mean, 470 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: it's pretty pretty outrageous and pretty clear that he had. 471 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,679 Speaker 1: This is why he was able to get away with 472 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: this stuff for so long. He has his brother protecting 473 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: you with CNN, from the press, he's got these supposedly 474 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: me too organizations that are gatekeeping and protecting him as well, 475 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,719 Speaker 1: and so it really took this report to expose what 476 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 1: was going on. And it's always we're saying too that 477 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: you know, the me too stuff, because it involves sex 478 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: and it's you know, salacious, and all of that grabs 479 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 1: all the headlines and was what ultimately forced him out. 480 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,119 Speaker 1: But never forget the stuff he did, oh yeah, in 481 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 1: the nursing homes, cooking the books, lying about the COVID numbers, 482 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:45,239 Speaker 1: using his staffers who were supposed to be frontline, like 483 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: responding to a coronavirus pandemic that was decimating the city 484 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 1: right then, and instead he's using them to write his 485 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,959 Speaker 1: book so he can make millions of dollars from an advance, 486 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: giving VIP access to his brother. I mean, all of 487 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: these things, every single one of them utterly disgusting, morally reprehensible, 488 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: and certainly impeachable. So we never want to lose sight 489 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: of just the full picture of the many crimes that 490 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: Cuomo was committing while he was in office. Absolutely right, 491 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: all right, guys, thanks for watching. A while, more for 492 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: you later. Okay, everyone, we have to bring you perhaps 493 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 1: one of the funniest faux pause in messaging history. Here 494 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,959 Speaker 1: in Washington, the d Triple C, which is the organization 495 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: which is responsible for electing more Democrats to the House 496 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: of Representatives, realizes that gas prices are currently a big 497 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: political problem for the Democrat So they are scrambling for 498 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: evidence that the Joe Biden administration is doing a lot 499 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: to tackle the price of gas. So they tweeted out 500 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: this excellent chart for all of you. Let's put it 501 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: up there. I can't even get over this. So notice 502 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: the y axis. The y axis with all of those 503 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 1: different lines there spans from three dollars and thirty seven 504 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: three point three seven five to three point four to 505 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 1: one five. So between two weeks, I think, because the 506 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,679 Speaker 1: X axis is so terribly labeled, the price of gas 507 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: dropped from three dollars and forty cents to three dollars 508 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: point three eighty cents, so a reduction of point oh 509 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: two in terms of the actual price of gas. Two 510 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,399 Speaker 1: pennies and they're bragging about that over two weeks. So, uh, 511 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: I guess congratulations. It is perhaps crystal one of the 512 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: greatest self owns in modern Twitter history. Everybody who was 513 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: dunking on this thing, and I just for those of 514 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: you who are not you know, on Twitter or online, 515 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: you had to see this because they're so desperate to try. 516 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: It's like, here's the other idiot, what else have I 517 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: said here? Many times? The president is primarily again primarily 518 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: not responsible for the price of gas. One of the 519 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: reason that you're not really supposed to take credit for 520 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: low prices or for a good stock market is because 521 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: then when it turns against you, you're going to be like, hey, 522 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: hold on a second, I don't necessarily want to be 523 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: tied to all of this. So by doing this, they're 524 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: now making themselves responsible for the fact that the price 525 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: of gas is up by what like forty or fifty 526 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: and in the last year. Here's the amazing thing is 527 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: they track down the genesis of this chart. So Matt 528 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,719 Speaker 1: Iglesias had been making a joke and he put together 529 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: this chart as a joke of like, aha, here's how 530 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: Democrats could message this two cent reduction in gas prices, 531 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: and he's like, look the infrastructure package lowered gas prices 532 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 1: and came up with this chart again as a joke. 533 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: Ron Klaine likes his tweet and next thing you know, 534 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: the d Triple C is putting it out at like 535 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: in earnest as not a joke, totally missing that what 536 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: a this was saying was like mocking the idea of 537 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: putting out a chart like this. So it is pretty incredible, 538 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: But there are some new poll numbers that show you 539 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: why they may be as desperate as they are. This 540 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: is from the Winston Group. I honestly don't know what 541 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: their track record is, so million caveats there. But unfortunately 542 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: for Democrats it generally tracks with the other pulling that 543 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: we've been seeing. Go ahead and throw this tweet up 544 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: on the screen. So people were asked, who would do 545 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: about our job handling the economy Republicans with a seven 546 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: point advantage, gas prices Republicans with a twelve point advantage, 547 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: inflation Republicans with a twelve point advantage, and the supply 548 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: chain Republicans with a seven point advantage. These are all 549 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: of the things that are topping people's list of priorities 550 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 1: and concerns right now, and in every single instance, the 551 00:30:55,560 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: Republicans are preferred. And let's be clear, the Republicans have 552 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: they've actually come out and said they're not even running 553 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: on an agenda in the midterms, like they're being out 554 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: like upfront about it, like they just their only interest 555 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: is in attacking Democrats. They're not even pretending to put 556 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: out some sort of positive legislative agenda that we can 557 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: debate about whether it's good or bad. They just are 558 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: attacking Democrats. And even with that utterly embarrassing and pathetic 559 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 1: state of affairs where they're also obsessed with stop the 560 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: Steal in all this nonsense, they're still beating the Democrats. Yeah, 561 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: it is a dire, dire situation. They don't have to. Whenever, 562 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: when you're owning yourself so hard with grafts like this 563 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: and trying to take credit for a point two point 564 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: zero two definite, point zero two decrease in the price 565 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: of gas, what are you doing there? I mean, no 566 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: wonder and listen, I mean they have set themselves up 567 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: for the red wave in twenty twenty two. I think 568 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent their fault. I mean, you know, 569 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: every time we plan the show, I go, where is 570 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: the president? I mean, look, I was around for Obama too. 571 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: The president usually talks a lot, has events, you know, 572 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: comes out in front of the cameras, speaks about this 573 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: press conference or whatever. He is never here. And even 574 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: when he is, yes, he'll do one thing on omicron, 575 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: but then that's it, boom, you know, completely out of it. 576 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,719 Speaker 1: This is why Americans feel like Biden is not focused 577 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: on this stuff that actually matters to them, because frankly, 578 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: he's not. And even if he is, there's no way 579 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,719 Speaker 1: for us to know because he doesn't tell us anything. 580 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 1: Maybe he's not capable of telling us anything but setting 581 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: himself up for a gigantic, embarrassing loss in twenty twenty two, 582 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: and it's his own fault, Ia I believe that. I mean, look, 583 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: infrastructure is nice. The package that they put together is 584 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: woefully and sufficient even to get the current infrastructure needs 585 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: we have, like up to snuff. But that's fine, But 586 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: it's also not the sort of thing that like is 587 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: gonna hit people's pocketbooks where they feel like an instant, 588 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 1: an instant Joel, the larger program has been paired back 589 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: to the of being totally pathetic. Matt Bruneck has been 590 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: doing a great job running the numbers on even you know, 591 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: people keep saying and I've said, oh, universal pre K, 592 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: Well at least that's good. No, no, no, this is 593 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: not universal pre k. It's being left in. First of all, 594 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: it doesn't fund the entire program. It's being left largely 595 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: up to the states, and we know that many states, 596 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: even some blue states, have said they're not sure that 597 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,960 Speaker 1: they're going to go forward with the program. So even 598 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: the poultry few things that have been left in it 599 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 1: are nowhere near what is being advertised. And oh, by 600 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 1: the way, Mansion is now saying, yeah, I don't know 601 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: if we're going to get to that this year, So 602 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: being pushed off indefinitely in the future. So even the 603 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: patheticness of the poultry things being less than advertised are 604 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 1: probably not going to pass. And it's all his fault. 605 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 1: I mean, he had a window at the beginning when 606 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: there was goodwill, then there was pressure to get something 607 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 1: done because the economy continued to be in free fall 608 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,479 Speaker 1: in all of those things, when he could have gotten 609 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 1: some real items that people felt in their pocketbooks to 610 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 1: try to combat what has been very effective and very 611 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: energizing for the Republican based culture war messaging. They didn't 612 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: do any of that. Biden is totally uncapable. I mean, 613 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's a matter of like will, 614 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:19,280 Speaker 1: he's just incapable of sort of you know, asserting himself 615 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 1: and using the bully pulpit to make people feel like, 616 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: all right, we're getting this thing together and things are 617 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 1: gonna had in the right direction. So that's how you 618 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 1: end up with running against literally nothing in terms of 619 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: a legislative agenda and still losing dramatically. It's pathetic, truly. 620 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,839 Speaker 1: All Right, guys, thanks for watching. We're gonna have more 621 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:36,319 Speaker 1: for you later.