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Let's 20 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: get to the show. Good morning, everybody, Happy Monday. We 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: have an amazing show for everybody today. What do we 22 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 1: have Bristol. Indeed, we do hope everybody had a happy Halloween. First, 23 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: and foremost so, new indications that the Virginia governor's race 24 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: is already a disaster for Democrats. We'll talk about that. 25 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: Some dire pulling for the country and certainly for the 26 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: administration that is running this country. Very latest on where 27 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: that reconciliation bill is. This is kind of make or 28 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: break week. If anything is going to pass, it is 29 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: going to take shape this week. Progresses seem to have 30 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: already caved, even though what is being offered is now 31 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: utterly pathetic. We'll get into the details of all of that. 32 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: Former Governor Cuomo hit with charges over alleged forcible touching. 33 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: Is actually the charge that was leveled against him. There's 34 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: some weirdness in terms of how this was actually put 35 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: into place and what's going on there. So we'll break 36 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: down those details. Very revealing moment on Fox News where 37 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: Andrew Sullivan basically told them to their face that they 38 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: gotta suck. So we'll play that for you. We've got 39 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: Jodi Kanter on. She's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalists from 40 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: the New York Times who did a phenomenal story got 41 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: some internal documents on amaz from Amazon about their HR 42 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: practices and the way they're screwing over not just blue 43 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: collar workers, but also their white collar workforce. First of all, 44 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: we have a couple of breaking news items this morning. 45 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: The first one has to do with us at the studio. 46 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: Most important, do we look a little crisper there on 47 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: the phone? Big announcement thanks to all of your support, 48 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: the lifetime members of premium subscribers has been in work 49 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: for a big months. We have fully upgraded the studio 50 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: here for breaking points all the way to four k. 51 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: I'm told it's one of the highest most technological studios 52 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: in the entire city of Washington, DC. Now being your 53 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: mainstream media guys, thanks to you. 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So it all should look better, 64 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: and we're going to continue to dial it in over 65 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: the next couple of days. We really can't thank you 66 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: guys enough for your support. Yes, thank you guys. You 67 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: all are amazing and definitely Saga reads. I don't really 68 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: read the comments because I'm too fragile that Soger does. 69 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: So if you do see things that are off or 70 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: you have suggestions, you should send them in because we 71 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: do pay attention sometimes too. I mean, our bottom graphic 72 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: is because of a great breaker that is exactly right, 73 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: who gave this idea of doing it along the bottom 74 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: instead of along the side like we initially were. Okay, 75 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: so that's the biggest, most important news this morning. Another 76 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: piece of breaking news this morning. We can throw this 77 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: tweet up on the screen. Jenski, the present secretary, has 78 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID nineteen. This came out yesterday evening. 79 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: In a statement, she says she was last around the 80 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: President on Tuesday. She says when they were together, they 81 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: were outside, they were more than six feet apart, and 82 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: they were wearing masks. Last close contact with others in 83 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: the White House was Wednesday. I'll read you a little 84 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 1: bit more of her statement here. Obviously, this is incredibly 85 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: significant as Biden's traveling overseas this morning. He is also elderly. 86 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: We know even vaccinated elderly people continue to be at 87 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 1: the highest risk. So she was supposed to travel originally 88 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: on this trip with the President. She decided not to 89 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 1: because people in her household had tested positive for COVID nineteen. 90 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: Since then she quarantined. She tested negative via PCR that's 91 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: the highest standard test on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 92 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,239 Speaker 1: but then on Sunday she tested positive for COVID again. 93 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: She says she hasn't had close contact in person with 94 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,559 Speaker 1: the President or senior members of the White House staff 95 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 1: since ends day. She tested negative for four days after 96 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: the last contact with the president. So she's just disclosing 97 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: this out of you know, interest of full transparency. You know, 98 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: there's not a lot of commentary around this. Mostly we 99 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: just wanted to let you know what was going on 100 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: because obviously this is someone who has regular close contact 101 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 1: with the president doesn't seem to have been in a 102 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: you know, in a situation where it was likely that 103 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: COVID would transmit over the past week, but still an 104 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: incredibly significant development she says she's had. Of course, they're 105 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: all vaccinated, and she says she's experiencing just mild symptoms 106 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: thanks to the fact that she is in vaccinated. There 107 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: were definitely a lot of eyebrows raised here in Washington. 108 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: I heard some rumors because she announced that she wasn't 109 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: going on the family trip because of a family emergency. 110 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 1: And it turns out the family emergency was COVID. Now, 111 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: she had contact with the President about five days ago, 112 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: so at this point it's just a wait and see period. 113 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: But of course Biden himself, I mean, meeting with the Pope, 114 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: all sorts of war leaders. Yeah, he got COVID abroad. 115 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: And I don't even know if you thought the Trump 116 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: thing was a show, like how imagine him having to 117 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: get on Air Force one in a bubble like that 118 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: would be an entire thing. So we're going to keep 119 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: an eye on that. He's an old man. Look, I hope, 120 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: you know, I really hope he doesn't get COVID. Yeah, 121 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: he has had a booster shot as far as I remember. Yes, 122 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: I think that's right, famous you know, set shot or 123 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 1: whatever of all of that. So just keeping you guys updated. 124 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: It could be could become one of the biggest stories 125 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: in the world, obviously, but we'll keep an eye on it. Yeah, 126 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: most likely it will all go fine. Jenzaki will recover. 127 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: We certainly wish her speedy recovery. The President, because he's 128 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: had minimal contact, likely to be fine as well. But 129 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: significant development we wanted to bring to you this morning 130 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: to keep our eye on. That's right. That's that first up. 131 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: The Virginia governor's race pitting Terry mccalliff versus Glenn Youngkin 132 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 1: is going on tomorrow, and there are a lot of 133 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: developments here. Effectively, I just want to say from the top, 134 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: even if Terry mcculliff pulls this thing off in a squeaker, 135 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: this is already complete utter design for Democrats. This is 136 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: a state Joe Biden won by ten points and Ralph 137 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: Northam won by nine points, and that Republicans have not 138 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: won a statewide race in since two thousand and nine. Okay, 139 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,559 Speaker 1: this is really bad with the situation for Democrats right now. 140 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: So they got caught. Some of their allies in the 141 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: Lincoln Project got caught pulling the one of the most 142 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: disgraceful boneheaded stunts I have ever seen in all of politics. 143 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: Let's start with those details. Throw this tweet up on 144 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: the screen. Okay, so there were some dudes and one 145 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: lady in those khaki and white button down shirt getups 146 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: carrying tiki torches a lah Charlottesville, very fine people that 147 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: showed up at a Glen Youngkin event, and apparently we're 148 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: chanting all in for Glenn. A couple reporters picked it up, 149 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: and suddenly all sorts of democratic operatives, including Tarim Kobb 150 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: social media manager and me personalities and everything, we're tweeting 151 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: this like they were all AGAs that Oh my goodness, 152 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: these people and Glenn young they're so terrible. Well, it 153 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: turns out that was all a stunt perpetrated eventually admitted 154 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: to by the Lincoln Project only after though they got caught. 155 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's a really key piece is 156 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: because they're trying to spin this the Lincoln Project people like, oh, 157 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: this was just a planned demonstration to illustrate how strongly 158 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: we feel about how terrible Glenn Youngkin is. The reality 159 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: is they wanted people to believe that these were genuine 160 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: young Kin supporters, and it was only after the fact, 161 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: when it was revealed, I think the woman that was 162 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: involved in particular got sort of caught as they figured 163 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: out who she was in her affiliation with a bunch 164 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: of Democratic Party political candidates, and the Democratic Party were large. 165 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: That was how eventually it all came out. So that 166 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: was less than impressive moment. The Washington Post wrote it 167 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: up here as well, we can throw that tear sheet 168 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: up on the screen. Lincoln Project organized a group to 169 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: carry torches that Young Kid event in Charlottesville, and so 170 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: after the fact, Lincoln Project put down a statement they said, 171 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: today's demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened 172 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican parties embrace of 173 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: those values in Glenn Youngkin's failure to condemn it, we 174 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 1: will continue to hold Youngkin accountable if he will denounce 175 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: Trump's assertion that the Charlottesville rioters possessed very fine qualities, 176 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: will withdraw the tiki torches until then we'll be back. 177 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: So again, what really happened here is they thought they 178 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: could get away with this and that people would think 179 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: they would be all AGAs that oh, this is the 180 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: sort of people that young Kin brings out, and they 181 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: still are proud of those horrific moments in Charlottesville, and 182 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: it was only after they got caught that they pretended 183 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: it was their intent all along to be out and 184 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: down about what they were doing. There's a lot to 185 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: be said here, obviously over the Lincoln Project and how 186 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: much of a clownish organization that it is, But in reality, 187 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: it is very reminiscent of the entire mcalliff's strategy. Mccalliff's 188 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: strategy has just been Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump Trump. 189 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: He was pressed in a recent interview about whether he 190 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: regrets making it all about Trump. He says, of course not. 191 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: But at every single turn when the president went to Virginia, 192 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: what did he say, He goes, Glenn Youngkin, is just Trump? 193 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: And what does he say, like in a nice affect 194 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: and a vest or something like that, something that, Yeah, 195 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: I was probably more articulate and what I said, but okay, 196 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: that was his pitch. Obama essentially said the same thing. 197 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: He's like, trump Ism comes in many forms, mccaulliffe. Every 198 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: single ad, and we have been bombarded here in Washington 199 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: with the radio ads around this it's just all about Trump. 200 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: Glenn Youngkin wants to bring Trump and how is all 201 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: of that working out for them? Well, Lincoln Project and 202 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: mccaulliff efforts aside, and we are going to be talking 203 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: a lot about this in the show. The level of 204 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: discontent with Biden and the national mood of the country 205 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: cannot be overstated. Go ahead and put this Fox News 206 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: poll up on the screen. Now, look, it is a 207 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: Fox News poll and it is an outlier, but it 208 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: shows there that Youngkin pulls ahead of mccaulliffe among Virginia 209 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: likely voters. Now, the likely voter screen there is very 210 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: important because what they say is that Terry mccauliffe is 211 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: at forty five percent and Glenn Youngin at fifty three. 212 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: Once again, that is an outlier in terms of where 213 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: they are, but it just shows you that among registered 214 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: voters Terry mccalliffe was leading there among fifty one percent 215 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: and forty six percent to Glenn Youngin. So the reason 216 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: why that there's a lot of hay made out of 217 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: this poll is that the likely voter screen, which is 218 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: something that not all polls do, could show you that 219 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: the depressed turnout amongst registered voters and the lack of 220 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: enthusiasm amongst mccaulliff. Voters themselves would account for what such 221 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: a large swing is going to look like. Look, it's 222 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 1: not going to be an eight point where I mean, 223 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: I would venture to say. If it is, then oh 224 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: my god. You know, if you're Joe Biden, well it 225 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: ain't gonna be there. Ain't gonna be pretty there, my friend. 226 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: But look, it's also not without precedent. And I think 227 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: we should have described that, which is that Bob McDonald 228 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: had some twenty five point swing from Obama's five percent 229 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: to the seventeen percent win that he had back in 230 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. The Virginia governors in the race 231 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: very rarely actually sticks with the party in power in 232 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 1: terms of the governorship. But you know, both of us 233 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: were really were of the opinion that Trump and the 234 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: culture War did kind of harden and change anything. And 235 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: if if Glenn Youngkin does win, it does mean that 236 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: there is a real return to at least some cross 237 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: partisan voting. And that's a really bad sign for Democrats 238 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: because Crystal, what did you point to throughout the entire election, 239 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: If you make it all about these white suburban nites, 240 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: number one, they're fickle, and number two, they're policy priorities 241 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: not exactly driven with the rest of the entire Democratic base. Yes, 242 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: very true. Building a coalition around white, suburban liberals is 243 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: a recipe for having really crappy politics ultimately, and you 244 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: know that's what Virginia's had. I mean, under Ralph Northam, 245 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: with Democrats in full control of everything, continues to be 246 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: the worst state in the country for workers. And I 247 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: just think you have to look at this, and we've 248 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: been saying from the beginning that the enthusiasm gap was 249 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: a huge deal, because you know, whether you have some 250 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: I think you do have some pool of voters that 251 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: voted for Biden and maybe even voted for Hillary Clinton 252 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: and are going to turn around and vote for Glenn Youngkin. 253 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: That's also very sort of suburban liberal thing to do. 254 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: They love to, you know, signal that oh they're really 255 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 1: open their bipartisan etc. But I think the bigger story 256 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: is the fact that Democrats haven't given people any reason 257 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: to bother to go vote for them. I mean, Trump 258 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: is not on the ballot here, Okay, Glenn Youngkin is 259 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: on the ballot. So if you want to make a 260 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: case against someone, you got to make the case against 261 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: Glen Youngkin. And even better, maybe make the case for 262 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: what you would do if you got elected. The fact 263 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: of the matter is you've got at the state level, 264 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: Democrats are running a you know, nineties retread from the 265 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: Clinton era, who's already been governor once, who was like, 266 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: people didn't hate him when he was governor, but it 267 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: also wasn't you know, some spectacular situation. So hard to 268 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,079 Speaker 1: get excitement about that, hard to get excitement about an 269 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: agenda that, if he has one, he never talks about, 270 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: which has just been all about you know, how do 271 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: I tie Glenn Youngkin to Trump in every single ad, 272 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: in every single way. And then you layer on top 273 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: of that, you look at what the Democrats in Washington 274 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: are doing, and you know, we quoted that dude last 275 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: week who was like, I've been a Democrat my whole life, 276 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: and I don't know why I keep bothering voting for 277 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: these people. When you promise voters basic reforms that are 278 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: popular and that are obvious over and over and over again, 279 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: and then when you have the power to deliver you 280 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: don't do it. Yeah, your voters are going to say, 281 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: I don't really care about voting for you anymore. It's 282 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: not worth my time and my emotional investment, because that's 283 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: what it really is. I mean, the time part is significant, 284 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: especially if you're a working person. You got to take 285 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: time off and figure it out, the kids, all that stuff. 286 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: That is no small obstacle. But even putting that aside, 287 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: there's an emotional investment involved in believing that a politician 288 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: is actually going to be we're showing up for and 289 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: actually going to deliver for you. And Democrats repeatedly, not 290 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: just right now in this moment, although it's incredibly manifest 291 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: in this moment, but over and over and over again 292 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: have told their voters that you know what, we're gonna 293 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: promise you a bunch of stuff that we actually have 294 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: no intention of ultimately delivering. So don't be shocked when 295 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: you go to Tome to vote for and they're like, nah, 296 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: I got other things on my agenda, thank you very much. 297 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: It's not that Glen Youngkin has run some incredible campaign, 298 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: but you know, the thing that we were asking ourselves 299 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: after the California results is in California you had a 300 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: figure who was himself, yes, very divisive, very extreme, very 301 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: out of step with the California public, and so he 302 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: was easy to tag with the Trump label. He was 303 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: easy to pay as an extremist. Glen Youngkin, really, you know, 304 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: where's that sort of like he comes across as not scary, 305 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: he comes across as this just sort of like boring dude, 306 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: And it was very difficult for Democrats ultimately to be 307 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: able to scare people about him, and he has pulled 308 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: that off. Now, look, that's not to say Youngkin is 309 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: gonna win. We have the Fox News poll, as you said, 310 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: as an outliarist, or the harrietten piece up from CNN. 311 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: Here overall, the average of poles is basically tied. You 312 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: can see that the Fox News poll had some things 313 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: that you know, made it understandable why it was an outlier. 314 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: The margin of error was fairly high. The the like 315 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: Trump Biden split in the voters was seemed to be tilted, 316 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: you know, not representative fully of the Virginia electorate. So 317 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: overall this race seems to be very, very very tight. 318 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: But as I said at the jump, this is major 319 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: mate already. Even if Terry mccallff wins by a tiny bit, 320 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: this is already a total disaster for Democrats and an 321 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 1: utter indictment of their strategy of making everything about Trump 322 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: and effectively promising and little and delivering even less. Yeah, 323 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: that's right, and you know you found this. Let's go 324 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,199 Speaker 1: ahead the last tweet that we have for this segment. 325 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: Please put that up there on the screen. I find 326 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 1: it really fascinating, the Ben Pershing tweet, which is that 327 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: those who have had at least one shot of a 328 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: coronavirus vaccine, a significant majority of likely voters support mccauliffe 329 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: by fourteen points. Okay, that's interesting. But those who have 330 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: not received even one vaccine dose back Youngkin by seventy 331 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: seven points. So this is really interesting, and it goes 332 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: to aneseem To lab point which we've talked about here 333 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: on the show, and a tyranny of the minority, in 334 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: that whenever you have a group of people who are 335 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: deeply ideologically committed on a single front and they only 336 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: care about that one issue. But then you have a set, 337 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: say a vast majority of the public, something like seventy 338 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,959 Speaker 1: something percent or so, which have been vaccinated and are 339 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: relatively apathetic either way fourteen points, you know, notwithstanding, well, 340 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: then and the small group, if they vote in numbers 341 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: and the most enthusiastic, can have an outsize impact on 342 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: the rest of the politics. And that is really what 343 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: we are saying here. I mean that disparity in an 344 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: offieer election especially, and we're going to get to this 345 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: in a lot of the polling. It's going to make 346 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: a lot more sense. But Virginia very much right now 347 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: reminiscent of the entire country in the way that they 348 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: are feeling about the Biden Democrats and the national moved generally. Yeah, 349 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: there's no excitement among the Democratic base. I just saw 350 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: a new piece this morning about how black voters are 351 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: sort of like eh about Terry mculloff as well, which 352 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: in the state of Virginia is in you know, most 353 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 1: places where Democrats are competitive, you need to have significant 354 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: turnout among the black population if you're ultimately going to win. 355 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: Doesn't seem to be a lot of enthusiasm there, and 356 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 1: then you have people on the other side who were 357 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: super fired up, and these numbers have been consistent the 358 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,239 Speaker 1: whole time. We sort of wondered, because this is what 359 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: you saw in California. Democratic enthusiasm California really lagged, and 360 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: then when it came down to like the week before, 361 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: suddenly people got fired up, they got engaged, They showed 362 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: up to vote, and in that instance, Gavin Newsom actually 363 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: dramatically outperformed even the best polls for him. That same 364 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: shift doesn't seem to be happening here. I can tell 365 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: you if someone has lived and lives in Virginia just 366 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: you know, anecdotally, not a lot of Terry McCollough signs around, 367 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,479 Speaker 1: tons of Glenn Youngkins signs around again operatives, Well it's 368 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: always tell you signs don't vote. Don't read too much 369 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: into that, but there is not a lot of like 370 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: ground swallow enthusiasm for Terry mccalliff is showing up at 371 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: his events as well young Kin all week and was 372 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: going to rallies with a thousand plus people, even in 373 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: places in northern Virginia that you know are pretty blue. 374 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: He's got people who are excited for him. And Kauliff 375 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 1: was going to a bunch of different, small, sparsely attended events. 376 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: So look, I'm not predicting this is going to go 377 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: either way. I genuinely think it is extremely tight and 378 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: extremely close and will come right down to the wire. 379 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,199 Speaker 1: It should not be that way in the state of 380 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: Virginia today. This is a ten point Biden state. It's 381 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: a nine point Ralph Northam state. It's a state that 382 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 1: Democrats dominate at every level and certainly statewide at this point. 383 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: The fact that young Can is right in there with 384 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: a real shot at pulling this thing off is if 385 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: you're a Democrat, that's a disgrace. Yeah, no, that's exactly right. 386 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 1: When let's go to the next block here, because this 387 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: is important and it fits very much with it. I 388 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 1: love these particular segments because every time that the News 389 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 1: is forced to do something even slightly critical of Joe 390 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 1: Biden or you know, just like tell the truth about 391 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: what's happening in the country, their audience freaks out. So 392 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 1: the segment you're about to see sparked a little bit 393 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 1: of a backlash, but for once, in terms of the 394 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: way that they presented that the way the country is feeling. 395 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: NBC News and Chuck Todd did you know, they're reflecting 396 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: their own poll results, and it was a very interesting 397 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: segment to see how they present it. Let's take a listen. 398 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: Just twenty two percent of adults say we're headed in 399 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: the right direction. A shocking seventy one percent say we're 400 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: on the wrong track, and that includes a near majority 401 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: of Democrats who are saying that President Biden's approval rating 402 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: stands at a dismal forty two percent versus fifty four 403 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: percent who disapproved believe it or not. Just two months ago, 404 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,479 Speaker 1: mister Biden was in positive territory forty nine percent approving, 405 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: forty eight percent disapproving. So what's pulling down the president's numbers. 406 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: We'll look at this set of numbers. Just thirty seven 407 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: percent say he has the ability right now to handle 408 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,439 Speaker 1: a crisis, versus nearly a majority who say he does not. 409 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent also say he's competent and effective as president. 410 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: Fifty percent disagree with that description. What's more, Republicans believe 411 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: it or not, have double digit leads in dealing with 412 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:44,719 Speaker 1: border security, inflation, crime, national security, the economy, and shockingly 413 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: on getting things done. Democrats hold generally smaller double digit 414 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: leads on dealing with climate change, the coronavirus, education, and abortion. 415 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 1: And that's really it right now. That is pretty stunning there, 416 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: Crystal in terms of the actual breakdown, will delve into 417 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: it a little bit, but the most important part was 418 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: actually pulled by Josh Crossauer. Let's put his tweet up 419 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: there on the screen. Another telling nugget from the NBC poll, 420 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: Just eighteen percent of voters strongly approve of Biden's job, 421 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: while a near majority forty six percent strongly disapprove. So 422 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 1: his strong disapproves are actually higher than his overall approval rating. 423 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 1: That's a you know, generally, not a place that you 424 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: want to be. And I would again point to the 425 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 1: fact that he only has eighteen points whenever he has 426 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,679 Speaker 1: a strong approval rating, and the reason why is that 427 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: the eighteen was never a place where Trump was. His 428 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: strong approval rating was always almost in the thirties. And 429 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 1: the reason why, as we have talked at nauseum, the 430 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: base of the Republican Party loved Trump in a way 431 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: that they have not loved to figure since probably like 432 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan, and they people would, you know, crawl through 433 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 1: glass in order to vote for him. And you saw that, 434 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: and the way the enthusiasm more Biden does not have that, 435 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna be talking a lot about in 436 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: my radar. And when you have that, now combined with 437 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: Biden becoming a cultural opposition figure in his own right, 438 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: really reviled by a lot of the American people, you 439 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: are in for a recipe for total political disaster. And yeah, 440 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 1: I am very, very very reluctant to reach for the 441 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter metaphors and all of that. But at this moment, 442 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 1: right now, that is the territory. What it simply looks 443 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: like in terms of the national mood, the lack of 444 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: the enthusiasm, the ability for Republicans to just simply have 445 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: massively high approval ratings on oppositional politics whatsoever. That takes 446 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,640 Speaker 1: a very bad politician in order to produce those types 447 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: of conditions. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was okay for 448 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: Biden when everyone sort of felt like about him. Yes, 449 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: that's right. You know that as a politician you can 450 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: kind of work with, right, you don't have people who 451 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: are strongly motivated against you. You also don't have people 452 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: who are strongly excited about you. But he's just kind 453 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: of got a like general, he's fine, kind of a feeling. 454 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: That was what he was able to use to win 455 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: the presidency, to win the democratic bribery start with, and 456 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: then ultimately win the presidency, is that people didn't really 457 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: have strong oppositional feelings. So now you have him becoming 458 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: an actually like divisive, hated figure on the right, and 459 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: among the Democratic base, people are really not impressed. They're 460 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 1: not feeling great about how things are going. And that 461 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: is very much reflected in the fact that you have 462 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: seventy one percent of people saying the country is on 463 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: the wrong track. I just feel like Democrats learned absolutely 464 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 1: nothing from the Obama years, absolutely nothing from the Obama years, 465 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: because it is a very similar setup in a lot 466 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: of ways. You had a huge crisis, right you have 467 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 1: a Democrat coming into office who has control of Everett, 468 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: the White House, the Senate, and the House. You have 469 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: this need to really do something dramatic to bring the 470 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: country back, to make people feel like, Okay, we're moving 471 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: forward and things are had in the right direction. We 472 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,959 Speaker 1: need a vision that we can hold on to, like, 473 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,679 Speaker 1: we need something that's going to make us feel like 474 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: this country is on the up and up again. And instead, 475 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: all you've seen in these past several months is floundering 476 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: around in competence. He's very you know, he's not in 477 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 1: front of the cameras a lot. When he is in 478 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 1: front of the cameras, it's a lot less than inspiring. 479 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: And the agenda itself has completely collapsed. I mean, I 480 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: personally as you guys know think that progressive should vote 481 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 1: down this piece of crap bill that we're about to 482 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: talk about in just a moment. But even if they do, 483 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 1: there's so little left in it that even if it 484 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,199 Speaker 1: ultimately does pass, there's so little left in it, what 485 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: are people going to hang their hat on here? I mean, 486 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: this is not gonna people are barely going to notice 487 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: a difference even if this supposedly large, significant bill that 488 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: constitutes his agenda is ultimately so it's pretty pathetic. Look, 489 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 1: some of it is out of his control. You know, 490 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 1: there's only so much control you have over the pandemic ultimately, 491 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: there's only so much control you have over the economy. Ultimately, 492 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: even though we tend to put it all on the president, 493 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: but some of these things are in his control and 494 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: he's just failed to deliver. I mean, that's that's ultimately 495 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: the bottom line. And anytime you have one party that 496 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: has control of all the levers of power in Washington, 497 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: the other party is going to get fired up. Like 498 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 1: that's just that's the normal ebb and flow of politics. 499 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: They're pissed off because they're out of power and they 500 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: want to see their values represented and they don't feel 501 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: like it's being right. Now, that's going to happen. So 502 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: you've got to give your side something to feel excited 503 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 1: about too, something to feel like it's worth getting out 504 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: of bed and fighting for these people and giving them 505 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: a little bit of your harder in cash, giving them 506 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 1: your vote, showing up to organize for you. All of that. 507 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: There was a line and I think one of the 508 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: articles about Virginia that was effectively like Democrats really thought 509 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: that Trump opposition equaled support for that, That's right exact, 510 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: and it led them to overstate and indulge in sort 511 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: of fantasy about how large and significant their base of 512 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: support was. With Trump gone, Now you see the bare 513 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: bones of what people actually really think about this party 514 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: were at large. And take a look at this. Let's 515 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: go and put Ryan Struck's tweet up there on the 516 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: screen new NBC News poll on which party is better 517 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: on so climate change, coronavirus, education, abortion, voting rights, and 518 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: elections security are all places where Democrats are above water. Now, immigration, 519 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 1: the economy, national security, crime, inflation, and border security all 520 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: have major Republican leads. But where my really eyes go 521 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,719 Speaker 1: to are the two of the economy and inflation. Crystal, 522 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: because we know that the economy was already relatively tied 523 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: with coronavirus amongst what is the most important thing for 524 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 1: the national party in order to reckon with, and that 525 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: inflation then became the second most and equally tied with 526 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: all three of these things in terms of what is 527 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 1: on American's mind. So if you have Republicans leading at 528 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: twenty four points on the subject of inflation and eighteen 529 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: points on the subject of the economy, that is just 530 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: going to simply drown out a twelve point lead that 531 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: Democrats have on coronavirus, and it really does go to 532 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: show where you know you really are. Just so this 533 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,199 Speaker 1: is why our politics is so annoying, right, which is 534 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: that it swings between coronavirus on the one hand, economy 535 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: on the other, inflation here, and that people seem to 536 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: have to pick and choose kind of between the two parties, 537 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: and nobody is kind of trying to offer what the 538 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: other side wants, and it becomes a real gridlock in 539 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: terms of the way that it actually manifests. But overall, 540 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: the story is that the and as you know, even 541 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd said, getting things done is a place where 542 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: Republicans are currently leading Democrats, which is, you know, a 543 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: shocking thing if you've ever been here in Washington, and 544 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: you can see also why, you know, many people were upset. 545 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: But I was describing Mitch McConnell's tactics, and I said, 546 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: I think it makes perfect sense. People blame the president, 547 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: they blame the party in power whenever they're there. You know, 548 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: why should they have to worry about our cane Senate 549 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: procedure or whatever. They're like, you guys are supposed to 550 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: be the people running the country. You're not doing anything. 551 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,959 Speaker 1: All of it is just creating a complete political marass 552 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: for the president and for the party in power. Yeah, 553 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: and like, let's not get it twisted. It's not that 554 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: Republicans deserve support. Like it's not like they're doing anything 555 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: or offering anything that we deal with any of these 556 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: problems that people have. But right now they're not in power. 557 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: So when people feel like their lives aren't going well 558 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: and they're not, they're frustrated with you know, the people who, 559 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: at least in theory, have control of the country and 560 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: the government, they're going to look for an alternative. And 561 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: that's what we're seeing right now. That's right. So leading 562 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: to the next issue that's causing problems for the Biden 563 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: administration here is his own agenda is a mess. You know, 564 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to go through in more detail in just 565 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: a moment exactly what is left remaining in the Reconciliation bill. 566 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: It ain't a whole lot, but one of the significant 567 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: pieces that got stripped out was paid leaf. And again, 568 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: it's another thing Democrat's been promising four years. And I'm 569 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: not just talking about the squad. Every single Democrat runs 570 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: on paid leaf. Why do they do it? Because it's 571 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: really popular, It's extremely popular. It's one of these issues 572 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: where Republicans, because they carry water for bigness business, are 573 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: dramatically out of step with where the American people are. 574 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: It's like an eighty some percent support kind of an issue, 575 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 1: and yet they've ultimately failed and dropped it from the bill. 576 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: So this led to a little bit of an uncomfortable 577 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: moment for our dear Secretary of Transportation Pete Boodagij, who 578 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: you will recall, just took a lengthy paid leave for 579 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: his chill for his new babies that he's home taking 580 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: care of. Okay, that's fine. Congrasts to him, But Dan 581 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: Abashi your credit pushes him on, like, how can you 582 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: still support this bill when you've been so vocal about 583 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: the need for paid leave, which, by the way, not 584 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 1: only him, but most white collar workers are able to 585 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: benefit from. This would really be about blue collar and 586 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: service workers having the similar benefits in that regard as 587 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: the white collar workforce. How do you still say you 588 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: love this bill when something that you claimed was so 589 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: central to you and your politics and your ethos has 590 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 1: been stripped out. Let's take a listen to what he says. 591 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: So you talked about a lot of big changes that 592 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: are currently still in this framework compromise. There is something 593 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: that isn't and that is paid family leave. You return 594 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: from paternity leave after welcoming your newborn twins, Penelope and Joseph, 595 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 1: and I want our viewers to hear what you said 596 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: on this show just two weeks ago about the importance 597 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: of paid family leave. I campaigned on that, so did 598 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: the President. The Build Back Better Agenda includes provisions for 599 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: paid family leave. It is long past time to make 600 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 1: it possible for every American mother and father to take 601 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: care of their children when a new child arrives in 602 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: the family. So what do you say to the more 603 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 1: than one hundred million Americans who don't have access to 604 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: the kind of paid family leave that you just benefited from, 605 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: and who don't understand why the administration didn't fight harder 606 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: to keep it in the bill. Well, look, it's something 607 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: that we believe in. I believe in it. Obviously, it's 608 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 1: personal for me. The same is true for the President, 609 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: and it's something that will continue pushing for. This is 610 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: not half a loaf. This is a feast of good policies, 611 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: some of which my party has been talking about, or 612 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: even politicians on both sides of the aisle have been 613 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 1: talking about for literally as long as I have been alive, 614 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: and the chance to deliver it is now within our grasp. 615 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 1: It is an extraordinary package that is going to make 616 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: concrete improvements in the lives of every American and I 617 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: can't wait to see it done. Obviously, you know, when 618 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: you put together something this big, in this complex, nobody 619 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: gets everything that they want. The President has been clear 620 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: about that. I don't think anybody crafting their perfect package 621 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: in their mind would see it reflected here, because this 622 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: reflects the input of so many different people. So that 623 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: was rough to watch we should good policies. Oh this guy, 624 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: I mean two minutes ago he was talking about how 625 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: important paid leave is and how you know, significant, and 626 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: how everybody should have this. And then now, oh, sure 627 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: we didn't get everything, but it's a feast of good policies. 628 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: This isn't half a loaf, et cetera, et cetera. Progressives, 629 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: of course they did when one more minor and frankly 630 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: at this point irrelevant battle last week, Biden and Pelosi 631 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: sort of wanted to get this bipartisan infrastructure bill passed 632 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: on Thursday. Progressa said no, no, no, we got to 633 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: vote for the two things together. But they overwhelmingly backed 634 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: this stripped down like nothing burger of a bill that 635 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 1: is left. They're not using the levers that they have 636 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 1: whatsoever to make it better even a little bit. To 637 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 1: my knowledge, at least, that's where things stand at this point. 638 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 1: I think we have their statement that we can put 639 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: up there on the screen the Progressive CE infrastructure vote 640 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,359 Speaker 1: this week, So they are thinking that this is all 641 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: going to get voted on at this point sometime this week, 642 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 1: and let's put the CNBC tear sheet up on the screen, 643 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 1: because I do think it's really important. Most people don't 644 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 1: even know what's in this plan. That's partly democrat's fault, 645 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,399 Speaker 1: that's partly the media fault. That's partly because people just 646 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 1: don't expect it to really deliver much for their lives. 647 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: What has been offered in terms of the Biden framework 648 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,840 Speaker 1: is one point seventy five trillion. That is dramatically less 649 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: than the six trillion which was originally said, or the 650 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: four trillion that Mansion originally said he could be on 651 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 1: board with, or the three and a half trillion that 652 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,319 Speaker 1: then you know, the paired back version of it, the 653 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 1: compromised version. Mansions wanted one point five trillion, so he 654 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 1: basically gets his way on that. What's left when you 655 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: strip it down to that top line dollar figure is 656 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 1: expansion of the child tax credit for one year, universal 657 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: pre K for six years. That's the best part of 658 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 1: it too, by the way, those like I've already led 659 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,280 Speaker 1: with the best pieces of it, five hundred and fifty 660 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: billion in what is effectively like totally toothless climate provisions. 661 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: It does expand Medicaid and will reduce premiums for ACA 662 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: coverage for about nine million people. Remember burning was originally 663 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: saying I'm not voting for this thing unless it expands 664 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,840 Speaker 1: Medicare to include hearing, vision and dental. Well now it 665 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: just includes hearing vision and dental vision. In dental somehow 666 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: not important actual powerful. In Washington, it's it must be 667 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: the least expensive part or something like that, even though 668 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: hearing aids are very expense. I mean, listen, it's great 669 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: that grandma and grandpa can get hearing aids, but their 670 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: eyeballs and their teeth are also part of their body 671 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,520 Speaker 1: that should be able to receive care as well. The 672 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,799 Speaker 1: dental thing really bothers me, actually, because people can have 673 00:35:55,200 --> 00:36:00,040 Speaker 1: really significant, like life threatening health issues when they have 674 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 1: a problem with their tea, if their tooth gets infected, 675 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,280 Speaker 1: And the fact that you don't have seniors with dental 676 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: coverage is disgusting and shameful. Anyway, hearing coverage that's in there. 677 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,800 Speaker 1: On the tax front, we covered this extensively last week. 678 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 1: But the big obvious things that you could do to 679 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,359 Speaker 1: tax the wealthy, no, no, no, we can't do any 680 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 1: of that. We can't change the step up bases, We 681 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:27,319 Speaker 1: certainly can't change close the carried interest loophole. So instead 682 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 1: they've got some sur taxes. The five percent on personal 683 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,240 Speaker 1: income above ten million dollars, three percent on income above 684 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 1: twenty five million. Again, most of the really rich, they 685 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: aren't taking in their money via income, so this is 686 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: fairly irrelevant. Fifteen percent minimum tax and corporate profits of 687 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,279 Speaker 1: large corporations with over a billion dollars in profits. Very 688 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 1: hard to enforce, but we'll see how that ultimately works out. 689 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 1: One percent tax, one percent on stock buybackx okay, whatever. 690 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 1: And a fifty percent minimum tax on foreign profits of 691 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 1: US co operations. Again, another thing that's very difficult to enforce. 692 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,239 Speaker 1: They're also including the increased IRS enforcement. Some of the 693 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,319 Speaker 1: details of that still being worked out. So overall, you know, 694 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,840 Speaker 1: any of the efforts to really get at the fortunes 695 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: of the wealthiest of among us, the people who got 696 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,360 Speaker 1: super extra ultra insanely rich during the pandemic, nah, not 697 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,400 Speaker 1: doing much of that. What's left out of the bill. 698 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 1: Of course, paid leave, as we just discussed, which originally 699 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,319 Speaker 1: was going to be twelve weeks, and they were like, 700 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: maybe we'll do four, and then they're like, now we're 701 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: not going to do it at all. Community college, free 702 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: community college. We were told that was a major priority 703 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,840 Speaker 1: of Biden. That's out altogether killed by the college industry. 704 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 1: I'll never let that one go. Killed by the college industry. 705 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:44,280 Speaker 1: Thank you for reminding us of that Medicare negotiating prescription 706 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: drug prices, something Democrats have promised since two thousand and six, 707 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 1: killed by Big Pharma. Billionaire tax out that had briefly 708 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:54,920 Speaker 1: been floated as like, maybe we'll do this thing that 709 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,879 Speaker 1: would be marginally good and tax a thousand people who 710 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,479 Speaker 1: are billionaires. And now that's out Medicare vision and dental, 711 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,760 Speaker 1: as I already said, and the child tax credit only 712 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,880 Speaker 1: for one year after that. Good luck, everybody. So not 713 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,880 Speaker 1: much to really get excited about here, not much to 714 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,240 Speaker 1: really hang your hat on here, and it's pretty pathetic 715 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,239 Speaker 1: that this is ultimately what it comes down to. This 716 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,560 Speaker 1: bill is a total dog. Nobody knows what's in it. 717 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 1: There was an ABC News poll just came out. Seventy 718 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 1: one percent of people said they only knew some or 719 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: nothing of what is actually within the bill. So messaging 720 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 1: is a disaster. Like I said, Obamacare is arguably a 721 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,480 Speaker 1: better messaging bill than this because at least people knew 722 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,759 Speaker 1: it had something to do with healthcare, and it had 723 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,799 Speaker 1: that one preconditions thing on this, nobody cares no one. 724 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: And if it had like one major program, but instead, 725 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 1: as you point to, it's like subsidy on this subsidy 726 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,160 Speaker 1: on that nothing is particularly permanent. There's no actual expansion. 727 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,040 Speaker 1: There is a very little attempt at really just making 728 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,960 Speaker 1: it big and coalitional, as in little pieces for a 729 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 1: bunch of different types instead of one big program that 730 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,239 Speaker 1: Americans at least might be able to understand. Think back 731 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,320 Speaker 1: to the stimulus checks versus this. Why do you think 732 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,279 Speaker 1: that those were overwhelmingly popular and this one is not 733 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,640 Speaker 1: for the simple reason that it's easy to understand checks. 734 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: And you know, it's just one of these things where 735 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,919 Speaker 1: people in DC have what I call like program brain. 736 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,279 Speaker 1: They're like, we need to create a new program that 737 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,440 Speaker 1: targets this and this. Listen, by the time you started 738 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,400 Speaker 1: saying program, people are completely tuning out when you make 739 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,239 Speaker 1: it easy to understand. This is really just a big 740 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,759 Speaker 1: failure on Biden's part. Whenever this is all you have, 741 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,240 Speaker 1: and you didn't even get to comment on the Buddha 742 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:38,239 Speaker 1: judge part, it's just amazing. Yeah, exactly. Oh well, you 743 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,600 Speaker 1: know it's not a The half low thing is just 744 00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: so classic Pete. By the way, Harry has an Amazon 745 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,640 Speaker 1: documentary coming out, so that's great. I have more to 746 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,760 Speaker 1: say about Pete and my monologue today that donor Classes 747 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,360 Speaker 1: apparently wants to set up a Pete versus Kamala showdown. 748 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,960 Speaker 1: God help us all. But yeah, I mean, listen, this 749 00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 1: is just sad. It's just sad. The most popul parts 750 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 1: of the bill because you know, they like to pay 751 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,080 Speaker 1: this like, oh, we're making concessions to political reality and 752 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,239 Speaker 1: the politics. I've seen some stories they are like all 753 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,160 Speaker 1: the politics on the ground have changed. That's why the 754 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,040 Speaker 1: bill has shifted. But you're taking out the most popular parts. 755 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,680 Speaker 1: So that doesn't add up at all. I mean, prescription 756 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,440 Speaker 1: drug pricing, paid leave, those are the two most popular 757 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,319 Speaker 1: parts of this provision. The next most popular part of 758 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,600 Speaker 1: this bill was taxing the rich. So all of the 759 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,799 Speaker 1: most popular pieces you're pulling from the bill. So how 760 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,440 Speaker 1: can you say this is about you know, political realities 761 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,799 Speaker 1: and trying to do what's popular with American people. That's 762 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 1: complete farce. The other thing that I can't get over 763 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 1: is like, does no one in this town actually believe 764 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: in anything? Does no one actually have the willingness to 765 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,759 Speaker 1: fight for something that they've like staked their careers on 766 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,360 Speaker 1: this whole time. You have politicians, You have people like 767 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: Kirsten Gillibrand who claimed that paid leave was like their 768 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,000 Speaker 1: end all be all, and you know they of course 769 00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,640 Speaker 1: when it's stripped out, you don't have repeat from them. 770 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,920 Speaker 1: But even more to the point, these there are interest 771 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,839 Speaker 1: groups in DC where paid leave is really central to 772 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 1: what they've been advocating for, and it gets pulled out, 773 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,280 Speaker 1: and again you barely hear a peep from them. Apparently 774 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:17,040 Speaker 1: the reporting is that Biden has told progressives and others 775 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:21,200 Speaker 1: in closed door meetings or his administration has that they're 776 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 1: going to keep fighting on paid leave, so don't worry, 777 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,759 Speaker 1: We're going to get to it later, just like the 778 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,440 Speaker 1: fifteen dollar minium wage. Don't worry, We're going to keep 779 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,480 Speaker 1: fighting for it. Like how stupid are you? People? Like 780 00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,760 Speaker 1: do you nothing else is going to past during your presence? 781 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:38,239 Speaker 1: Do you really believe that? Where? How? Like? How is 782 00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:43,920 Speaker 1: that give me an actual logical path to passage for 783 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,080 Speaker 1: paid leave or the fifteen dollars minium wage or anything 784 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,520 Speaker 1: else for this entire administration? And that's part of in 785 00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,960 Speaker 1: another segment, part of that segment with data bash, what 786 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,880 Speaker 1: Piz said, is like good policy is good politics. So 787 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,799 Speaker 1: we're going to come in even stronger than before, and 788 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,759 Speaker 1: that's how we're going to get paid. We've done. Like, 789 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 1: that's gibberish, that doesn't mean anything. That's just you like 790 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,120 Speaker 1: using your I mean just like word salading your way 791 00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,480 Speaker 1: to something that is never ever going to happen. So 792 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 1: it's it's just pretty pathetic at this point where we are. So, look, 793 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 1: I think this thing probably will pass. Yeah, I think 794 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:21,799 Speaker 1: so too, and essentially its current state. Look, I think 795 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,279 Speaker 1: it's great that everybody will be able to go to 796 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,719 Speaker 1: two pre K three and four year olds. I think 797 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,319 Speaker 1: that is, you know, a genuinely good thing. Overall, I 798 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:35,880 Speaker 1: think this is a complete mess over promising dramatically under delivering, 799 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,160 Speaker 1: and Democrats should not be remotely surprised when their base, 800 00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:44,120 Speaker 1: let alone anyone else, has zero enthusiasm for them or 801 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,120 Speaker 1: any of their promises in the future. Yeah, that's right. Okay, 802 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,480 Speaker 1: let's move on to the story. We need to cover 803 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,000 Speaker 1: very responsibly around Andrew Cuomo because it's a little bit confusing, 804 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,439 Speaker 1: So we have that off on the screen. The case 805 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,240 Speaker 1: against Andrew Cuomo is quote very solid. The sheriff says 806 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,440 Speaker 1: of a move to file a complaint. This is important. 807 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,760 Speaker 1: A district attorney has not yet committed to prosecuting former 808 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:11,120 Speaker 1: Governor Andrew Cuomo in terms of a sexual harassment case. However, 809 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:15,719 Speaker 1: a sheriff, who a Albany County sheriff, who has scrutinized 810 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,799 Speaker 1: cell phone flight records, testimony, and hundreds of pages of documents, 811 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,760 Speaker 1: has gone ahead to move with the criminal complaint charging 812 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,040 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo with the misdemeanor of sex crime. And it 813 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:31,160 Speaker 1: was filed by that sheriff investigator an Albeity City count 814 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,720 Speaker 1: City Court on Thursday. Now, this is a little odd, 815 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,000 Speaker 1: like we said, because the court, of course takes a 816 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,520 Speaker 1: little bit of time to process the paperwork. But the 817 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:45,720 Speaker 1: sheriff has moved with the complaint against Andrew Cuomo despite 818 00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,200 Speaker 1: the fact that the district attorney has not yet committed 819 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,000 Speaker 1: to filing the criminal complaint and going after Andrew Cuomo, 820 00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:57,240 Speaker 1: aka prosecuting him. So that's where we are right now. 821 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,360 Speaker 1: What it does. What it does reveal is that for 822 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,360 Speaker 1: the last two months, there has been an actual effort 823 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:08,280 Speaker 1: by the District Attorney's office and by the sheriff's investigators 824 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,719 Speaker 1: in order to gather criminal evidence against Andrew Cromo in 825 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,600 Speaker 1: an alleged sex crime prosecution. Now, the details and the 826 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,520 Speaker 1: exact victim there, given that you know there possibly were many, 827 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,640 Speaker 1: is not exactly known. But there was a lot of 828 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,799 Speaker 1: hay around the fact that this was even released. And 829 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,560 Speaker 1: there's some question crystal whether this is tied to political motivations. 830 00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,560 Speaker 1: And more so, it's a little strange in the way 831 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,520 Speaker 1: that it's all had. It's weird how it all went down. 832 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:37,760 Speaker 1: And so basically what happened is the sheriff filed charges, 833 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,840 Speaker 1: and ordinarily in that situation, especially in a high profile, 834 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,200 Speaker 1: really touchy situation like this, you'd be coordinating with the 835 00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:49,160 Speaker 1: district attorney all every step of the way. That's right now. 836 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,880 Speaker 1: What the sheriff is saying is I filed these charges 837 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,640 Speaker 1: expecting that normally it takes some time for the court 838 00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,839 Speaker 1: to process them, and so I thought I would have 839 00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,560 Speaker 1: time then, yes, to go and talk to the prosecutor 840 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,000 Speaker 1: and get all my ducks in a row. But it's 841 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,680 Speaker 1: already unusual that they weren't coordinating to start with. Then 842 00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:07,719 Speaker 1: the court right away processes like with minutes, and so 843 00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:12,920 Speaker 1: they were caught off guard. The potential what Cuomo is 844 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,000 Speaker 1: saying is that these charges were filed on the same 845 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,920 Speaker 1: day that Leticia James, Attorney General of New York, announced 846 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,040 Speaker 1: she is running for governor in the Democratic primary. Of course, 847 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,399 Speaker 1: Letitia James is the one who really exposed a lot 848 00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,440 Speaker 1: of what was going on here very effectively in a 849 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,160 Speaker 1: report that you know, with lots of mountains of evidence, 850 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,360 Speaker 1: and also exposed how much his brother over at CNN 851 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,319 Speaker 1: was coordinating with him, So there was a lot there. 852 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:42,640 Speaker 1: So he's effectively insinuating that, oh, maybe Tishia James and 853 00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,520 Speaker 1: this sheriff we're sort of coordinating, so that the charges 854 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,640 Speaker 1: and her announcement dropped on the same day. I have 855 00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:52,279 Speaker 1: no idea whether there is anything to that whatsoever, but 856 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,480 Speaker 1: what we do know is that the charge here is 857 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,160 Speaker 1: forcible touching. It carries a penalty of up to one 858 00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:04,600 Speaker 1: year in jail. The woman who is the alleged victim 859 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,880 Speaker 1: here has actually come forward and said, you know, this 860 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,080 Speaker 1: is about my allegations against Cuomo, and I don't know 861 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,120 Speaker 1: if you guys remember the details. This was one of 862 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:16,880 Speaker 1: the more egregious instances we learned about from the former governor, 863 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,759 Speaker 1: where he invited a woman to the Governor's mansion, reportedly 864 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,319 Speaker 1: for a work reason, and then he reaches under her 865 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,200 Speaker 1: blouse and grabs her breast, according to her. We also 866 00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,600 Speaker 1: know that from the story, the evidence from the Sheriff's 867 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,080 Speaker 1: office hasn't been made public, but the complaints said that 868 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:37,320 Speaker 1: the materials offered as evidence here include a text message 869 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,960 Speaker 1: from mister Cuomo's cell phone, messages from the BlackBerry devices 870 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:45,200 Speaker 1: of state police troopers, and swipe card entry records from 871 00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,840 Speaker 1: the state Capitol. His line had always been, couldn't have 872 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,719 Speaker 1: happened the day that she, you know, the day that 873 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,680 Speaker 1: she says this may have happened this you know, I 874 00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,600 Speaker 1: never saw her. And so it seems that they may 875 00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,000 Speaker 1: have some record, some evidence to indicate that he was 876 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,399 Speaker 1: mistaken or lying about his whereabouts and her whereabouts on 877 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:08,120 Speaker 1: when this may have happened. The speculation on my part absolutely. 878 00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,879 Speaker 1: The other part of this, of course, we have to mention, 879 00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:15,000 Speaker 1: is that his brother, Chris Cuomo, over on CNN hosting 880 00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,360 Speaker 1: a lowly rated but still their highest rated primetime show, 881 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:23,080 Speaker 1: failed somehow to mention any of these stunning developments. Let's 882 00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,440 Speaker 1: put this New York Post hair sheet up. Chris Cuoma 883 00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,800 Speaker 1: avoided covering brother sex crime charge on his CNN show. Hmmm, 884 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,600 Speaker 1: so surprised they had talan cover Alec Baldwin. Don't worry, 885 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,600 Speaker 1: they had time to cover Alec Baldwin, but they didn't 886 00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,000 Speaker 1: have time to cover this. I'm not saying the Baldwin 887 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,399 Speaker 1: thing is an interesting We've covered several aspects from Malec 888 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:44,200 Speaker 1: Baldwin's story. I also support covering a significant political figure 889 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:48,080 Speaker 1: previously was talked about as a presidential candidate being charged 890 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:52,080 Speaker 1: with a sex crime care completely ignored. Yeah, the fact 891 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,680 Speaker 1: is that the details here absolutely do matter. And how 892 00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,240 Speaker 1: much longer is CNN going to try and get away 893 00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,160 Speaker 1: with covering for the fact that the brother of this 894 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,799 Speaker 1: man was not only intimately involved in the cover up 895 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:08,279 Speaker 1: of you know, retaliating against many of these victims, or 896 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,720 Speaker 1: at least people who had spoken out against Governor Cuomo 897 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,960 Speaker 1: but then avoided covering it on his show. The endless 898 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,360 Speaker 1: like morass here is just so difficult to even describe. 899 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:21,040 Speaker 1: But they continue to be clown themselves and every single time, 900 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,640 Speaker 1: I mean, what was it, Brian Stelter said, what was 901 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:27,000 Speaker 1: his defense? It's just such an extraordinary situation, right, They're 902 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,160 Speaker 1: like something like this has never happened before. It's like, no, 903 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,840 Speaker 1: no, no no, it's exactually happened a lot like Unfortunately, the 904 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,320 Speaker 1: interest are really common. Conveners are incredibly common in the 905 00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,640 Speaker 1: media industry. Some people make it, you know, at least 906 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:41,560 Speaker 1: a pretense of trying to overcome it, and they are 907 00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:43,960 Speaker 1: just not doing that whatsoever. They did have time to 908 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,000 Speaker 1: laugh and joke around while they were all in Rome 909 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,200 Speaker 1: covering the president's summit, but you know this major news 910 00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,399 Speaker 1: that broke literally right before the show. No, that doesn't 911 00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,400 Speaker 1: get any of it. So I think we're just I 912 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,680 Speaker 1: think we should have gone, well, yeah, breaking points on 913 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,000 Speaker 1: the road. Let us know if he would have support 914 00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:04,400 Speaker 1: with that. There we go. Okay, let's move on Fox 915 00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,520 Speaker 1: News Media story. This is you know, our fun segment 916 00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,880 Speaker 1: always and we try to look out for these types 917 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,640 Speaker 1: of things. Which is that Andrew Sullivan, somebody who I 918 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,360 Speaker 1: respect is long time been one of the most interesting 919 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,239 Speaker 1: writers that there always has been on the scene, was 920 00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,719 Speaker 1: invited on Fox News to discuss media bias and part 921 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,319 Speaker 1: of the problem that we have always seen and why 922 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,120 Speaker 1: you know, both of us don't really even want to 923 00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,600 Speaker 1: participate in many corporate media appearances. Anytime we're invited is 924 00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,160 Speaker 1: because usually the way it goes is they want you 925 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,239 Speaker 1: to come on to bash the other side, but they 926 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,239 Speaker 1: don't want to talk about their own failings. And then 927 00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:41,040 Speaker 1: no holistic critique can be delivered without mentioning the complicity 928 00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,920 Speaker 1: of all three in destroying the state of the country. 929 00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 1: And to Andrew Sullivan's credit, he actually said that on 930 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,719 Speaker 1: their air. It was kind of a crazy moment, right 931 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:53,640 Speaker 1: whenever you see the guy's face and the way that 932 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,320 Speaker 1: he reacts. Let's take a lesson. Let's go border because 933 00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,919 Speaker 1: you say, and you've been writing about polarization making things 934 00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,960 Speaker 1: where according you, on the left, moderation is portrayed as 935 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,080 Speaker 1: a surrender to white nationalism, and on the right, white 936 00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:10,200 Speaker 1: identity politics has overwhelmed moderate conservatism. So are we screwed 937 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,480 Speaker 1: to use the technical term. And how much are the 938 00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:17,239 Speaker 1: media fueling this polarization? Well, I think they like Facebook 939 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,640 Speaker 1: are fueling it to some extent. I think the fact 940 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,400 Speaker 1: that you can be and forgive me on Fox News 941 00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,040 Speaker 1: and never really hear a solid counter opinion. And the 942 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:31,560 Speaker 1: same goes for MSNBC and increasingly CNN, which I can't watch. 943 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,160 Speaker 1: It's basically the same as MSNBC. Now means that you 944 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,520 Speaker 1: don't have a range of views of people to judge, 945 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,760 Speaker 1: and inevitably, when you all agree around roughly the same stuff, 946 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,480 Speaker 1: there's no ratchet back. You know, it's funny because he 947 00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,640 Speaker 1: was basically speechless in the way that he confronted him there. 948 00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,440 Speaker 1: But I thought, it's just we want to highlight any 949 00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,279 Speaker 1: good instance in where this type of thing happens, which 950 00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,280 Speaker 1: is that any time that you go on these things 951 00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,279 Speaker 1: and that your own only talking about one side or 952 00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,680 Speaker 1: the other, which, look, that's the format, that's what they 953 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,400 Speaker 1: want you to do, the entire segment, and all of 954 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,759 Speaker 1: that is constructed such that you come on and you 955 00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,040 Speaker 1: bash CNN and MSNBC when you're on Fox, same thing 956 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:16,320 Speaker 1: on MSNBC when you you're bashing Fox, same thing whenever 957 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,200 Speaker 1: you go on CNN. But none of them want to 958 00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:23,080 Speaker 1: talk about their own complicity within that system. And that 959 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,600 Speaker 1: really is one of the only countervailing arguments that you'll 960 00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,480 Speaker 1: probably hear whenever it comes to Fox. So major credit 961 00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,000 Speaker 1: to him for even saying it. Absolutely. I just saw 962 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,640 Speaker 1: David Sorota, of course daily Poster Our partners here, Breaking 963 00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:39,319 Speaker 1: Points was on with Brian Stelter on CNN, and it 964 00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,759 Speaker 1: was a similar dynamic where he was like, y'all talk 965 00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,560 Speaker 1: about the reconciliation build, but you don't say anything about 966 00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,200 Speaker 1: the way that big oil and big pharma and the 967 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,560 Speaker 1: college industry and all these people all this money. I 968 00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,480 Speaker 1: added the college one. I don't think you actually meant that, 969 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,680 Speaker 1: But anyway, that is so important one though. Yeah, the 970 00:51:56,719 --> 00:52:01,200 Speaker 1: way that money has completely controlled this entire process. You 971 00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,440 Speaker 1: leave that out of a story, And so if you 972 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,239 Speaker 1: leave that out of a story, you are actually not 973 00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,279 Speaker 1: telling the story of what's happening here. So for him 974 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:11,240 Speaker 1: to go on CNN and say that to their face, 975 00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:13,960 Speaker 1: you love to see it. And I don't think it's 976 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:18,719 Speaker 1: an accident that both Saroda and Andrew Sullivan are independent. Yes, 977 00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,719 Speaker 1: so have to be there goes the backlash here is 978 00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,719 Speaker 1: just intense exactly that. And so their careers aren't dependent 979 00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,400 Speaker 1: their you know, their ability to provide for themselves and 980 00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,080 Speaker 1: their families aren't dependent on having to be in the 981 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:37,160 Speaker 1: mainstream media, the cable news, you know, whirlwind. They have 982 00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,160 Speaker 1: their own base of support, and so they can go 983 00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,279 Speaker 1: on these networks and not care even a little bit 984 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,440 Speaker 1: if they never ever ever get invited back. And so look, 985 00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,040 Speaker 1: you know, I think Sooda, and I don't know Andrew Sullivan, 986 00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,360 Speaker 1: but I suspect him too based on his writings. Are 987 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,839 Speaker 1: people of principle? I think they would probably do it, 988 00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,880 Speaker 1: even if you know their paycheck was somewhat dependent on it. 989 00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:01,120 Speaker 1: But the fact is that when you have more independent 990 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:06,000 Speaker 1: journalists who don't have to give a single f about 991 00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:08,239 Speaker 1: what these people say or think about them or whether 992 00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,919 Speaker 1: they get invited on these shows ever, again, that's a 993 00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:14,400 Speaker 1: really good thing and it makes our whole ecosystem so 994 00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,080 Speaker 1: much better. I think. I you know, I don't think 995 00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:19,279 Speaker 1: people realize, but people get blacklisted from these networks all 996 00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,520 Speaker 1: the time. And so what would happen is, and I 997 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,560 Speaker 1: can tell you this from personal experience, is that a 998 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:28,360 Speaker 1: place that you might work has an employee that says 999 00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,960 Speaker 1: something that pisses off one of the three networks, and 1000 00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,239 Speaker 1: then that network, to be vindictive, says everybody who works 1001 00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:37,640 Speaker 1: at that organization is no longer allowed on our network, 1002 00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,600 Speaker 1: you know, very special exemptions, all of that included, and 1003 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,359 Speaker 1: it becomes the whole thing. And by the way, all 1004 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:45,160 Speaker 1: three of the networks participate in this, so you know 1005 00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:47,560 Speaker 1: what Fox is. Actually Fox is the most indicative, mostly 1006 00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,120 Speaker 1: because it's an open secret, mostly because they're actually the 1007 00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,920 Speaker 1: most organized. That's like, I think MSBC would want to 1008 00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,080 Speaker 1: be that vindicative, but they just don't really have their 1009 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,440 Speaker 1: shit together in that kind of line. But anyway, Fox 1010 00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,640 Speaker 1: is the most aggressive. Yes, but I think people should 1011 00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,799 Speaker 1: realize that, and I'm realizing, you know, we should even 1012 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,839 Speaker 1: talked about it previously, which is that whenever you work 1013 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,680 Speaker 1: at an organization, you're supposed to try and protect the organization. 1014 00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,400 Speaker 1: So even if you are one of these people like Sirota, 1015 00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,759 Speaker 1: like Andrew Sullivan, you were working in another org and 1016 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,560 Speaker 1: you were to go on Fox and call out Fox 1017 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,319 Speaker 1: to his face, you think they're going to forget that, 1018 00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,440 Speaker 1: They're going to retaliate against you and your org. The 1019 00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,120 Speaker 1: same thing happens for many other networks. Be like, oh, 1020 00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:26,640 Speaker 1: I remember you for a time Politico had a whole 1021 00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:28,360 Speaker 1: band on Fox. It was like a whole thing. And 1022 00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,560 Speaker 1: these are again, these are open whispers and secrets. Nobody 1023 00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,719 Speaker 1: ever wants to talk about it publicly though, because that 1024 00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,040 Speaker 1: would get you banned too. Guess what, I don't really care, 1025 00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,799 Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't really bother me. But if you 1026 00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,880 Speaker 1: work within these orgs, there is a major pressure and 1027 00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:45,480 Speaker 1: there's a silence that people know if you go after them, 1028 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,480 Speaker 1: either in your reporting or even on their network, they 1029 00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,239 Speaker 1: will not forget. And that's very important in terms of 1030 00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:54,880 Speaker 1: how it shapes how everybody thinks about each other, and 1031 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,319 Speaker 1: just the lack that just really the double speak, which 1032 00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,680 Speaker 1: is that everybody knows that this type of stuff is happening, 1033 00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:01,880 Speaker 1: don't think is a secret ten of you, but the 1034 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,319 Speaker 1: confirmation of it is just never given. And that's what 1035 00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,040 Speaker 1: makes people kind of crazy. It makes them kind of 1036 00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,799 Speaker 1: feel conspiracy theorist. So when I see stuff like that, 1037 00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,839 Speaker 1: it's just so important to try and highlight it, although 1038 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,520 Speaker 1: I doubt it'll be invited back on again. Yeah, very true. 1039 00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,839 Speaker 1: I mean there are very very few people who are 1040 00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,520 Speaker 1: big enough that they can actually go on and say 1041 00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,440 Speaker 1: whatever and get invited back. That's right. You have to 1042 00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,319 Speaker 1: be someone who is a gigantic name. There's almost no 1043 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,640 Speaker 1: one in politics. I mean, you know actual politicians who 1044 00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,440 Speaker 1: are huge, so like a Bernie Sanders, forget those. You 1045 00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:37,120 Speaker 1: have to be that level for them to feel like 1046 00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,200 Speaker 1: they have to invite you back. But any level of 1047 00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:45,839 Speaker 1: like punnit journalists, strategists, whatever, but they will casually toss 1048 00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,680 Speaker 1: you to the curb if you say something that they 1049 00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:49,360 Speaker 1: don't like even a little bit, or even if you 1050 00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,239 Speaker 1: don't really like playball in their segment in the way 1051 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,799 Speaker 1: that they want, and you may not even know you're 1052 00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,200 Speaker 1: on that blacklist. You just won't get invited until you 1053 00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,399 Speaker 1: just stop getting booked again. It's a fun, one little 1054 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,720 Speaker 1: system we have here in DC, and I am happy 1055 00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,600 Speaker 1: not to be a part of it anymore. Need it's 1056 00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,520 Speaker 1: the greatest thing in the world, and we love you 1057 00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,520 Speaker 1: guys for it. That's right, Crystal, what do you take 1058 00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,360 Speaker 1: it a look at? Well, guys, for this post Halloween monologue, 1059 00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:15,200 Speaker 1: I've got a truly terrifying scenario for you to contemplate, 1060 00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:18,040 Speaker 1: a horror show conjured from the depths of hell so 1061 00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:21,879 Speaker 1: disturbing I personally shudder to contemplate it. I'm talking, of course, 1062 00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,040 Speaker 1: about a twenty twenty four Democratic primary contest giving us 1063 00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:29,600 Speaker 1: the non choice of Kamala Harris versus Pete buddhajij I 1064 00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,319 Speaker 1: know what you're thinking, Have the gods forsaken us? But 1065 00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:36,839 Speaker 1: brace yourself for McKinsey Pete versus Fweedom Kamala, because those 1066 00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:40,120 Speaker 1: are apparently the choices quote unquote that the donor class 1067 00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,239 Speaker 1: have in mind for us in twenty twenty four. So 1068 00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:44,759 Speaker 1: before I dig into these reports, let's establish a couple 1069 00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,920 Speaker 1: of things off the top. Number one, Joe Biden is 1070 00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,760 Speaker 1: really old and not exactly at his peak. I personally 1071 00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,560 Speaker 1: think even if he significantly declines between now and twenty 1072 00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,640 Speaker 1: twenty four, they will still prop him up and run 1073 00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,360 Speaker 1: him if he is remotely capable of that at all, 1074 00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:01,080 Speaker 1: But even that as a pre significant if. Second, of all, 1075 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:04,279 Speaker 1: things ain't going so well for his elite selected heir 1076 00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,680 Speaker 1: apparent Kamala Harris. Just take a look at this less 1077 00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,239 Speaker 1: than robust pitch she offered this week in campaigning for 1078 00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:14,040 Speaker 1: Terrumculloff in Virginia and the less than rowing reception that 1079 00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:19,000 Speaker 1: she received. Tell everybody you know to vote tomorrow. Nothing 1080 00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:22,560 Speaker 1: like saying you want to meet me tomorrow. What you 1081 00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:27,760 Speaker 1: doing tomorrow? You got any plans tomorrow? Tomorrow's a good day. 1082 00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:32,160 Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good day. But the point is, 1083 00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:37,680 Speaker 1: so I don't give the donor class a lot of credit. 1084 00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:39,880 Speaker 1: But even they can see Kamala Harris as a disaster 1085 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,640 Speaker 1: for Democrats. So what do they want to tap as 1086 00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:46,600 Speaker 1: a successor to Biden? Instead of Kamala mayor Pete. Here 1087 00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:50,760 Speaker 1: is Insider with that report. Influential Democratic donors who back 1088 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,560 Speaker 1: Pete Bododhages in twenty twenty are privately chattering about prodding 1089 00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:56,360 Speaker 1: him to run for the White House in twenty twenty 1090 00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,480 Speaker 1: four if President Joe Biden does not seek reelection. Insider 1091 00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,320 Speaker 1: has learned. Now, one thing that I love about this 1092 00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:05,720 Speaker 1: report is how public interest in either Peter Kamala or 1093 00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:09,200 Speaker 1: what they might offer as a platform, those trivial matters 1094 00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,760 Speaker 1: don't figure into this report at all. I mean, I 1095 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,680 Speaker 1: actually truly appreciate that, because it doesn't even try to 1096 00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:17,360 Speaker 1: offer a false pretense that what you or I might 1097 00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:21,520 Speaker 1: want is remotely a factor in these elite machinations. The 1098 00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,600 Speaker 1: article details a series of secret donor meetings in DC 1099 00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:27,960 Speaker 1: and Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, where various Democratic 1100 00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,200 Speaker 1: Party butlers got together to plot which sociopath they will 1101 00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,800 Speaker 1: try to foist on the American people next. Here's a 1102 00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,160 Speaker 1: little section I found particularly revealing the donors that the 1103 00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:39,920 Speaker 1: dinners thought Buddha Jin would not want to challenge Harris, 1104 00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,840 Speaker 1: the strategist said, while adding in their estimation it would 1105 00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,920 Speaker 1: take the masses gathering to push him to do it, 1106 00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:50,440 Speaker 1: meaning the donors of the world, the political elites. You 1107 00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:54,080 Speaker 1: catch that when these people think of the masses gathering, 1108 00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:59,160 Speaker 1: they actually mean Silicon Valley elites, wall stream ghules, and 1109 00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:04,080 Speaker 1: Democratic part already apparatics. That is incredible. Here's another portion 1110 00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,720 Speaker 1: that I particularly enjoyed. Another quote, but the strategist also said, 1111 00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,400 Speaker 1: there's a growing sentiment that there's no map in the 1112 00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,840 Speaker 1: universe that exists in which Kabala Harris could possibly win 1113 00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:18,400 Speaker 1: a national election. That person said, Buddhajich supporters see him 1114 00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,640 Speaker 1: as our best hope, but they aren't the only donors 1115 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:25,240 Speaker 1: already rumbling about organizing behind other Democratic candidates who might 1116 00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:28,800 Speaker 1: challenge Harris in twenty twenty four. So the people that 1117 00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:31,920 Speaker 1: forced us to have Kabla as vice president have finally 1118 00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:36,240 Speaker 1: realized that she's a total electoral disaster. Now you might 1119 00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:38,720 Speaker 1: have figured that out by the utter failure of her 1120 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:42,280 Speaker 1: presidential campaign, her disastrous management skills, or I don't know 1121 00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:44,560 Speaker 1: the fact that she held zero appeal onside of the 1122 00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,440 Speaker 1: media and like one hundred people on Twitter. But anyway, 1123 00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,440 Speaker 1: they've beltantly figured that out. And so who do they 1124 00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:54,480 Speaker 1: see as quote our best hope? Pay Bootajic, the man 1125 00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,720 Speaker 1: who couldn't get a single black person to vote for 1126 00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,480 Speaker 1: him in the Democratic primary. All right, I am being 1127 00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:03,040 Speaker 1: sl unfair. Here were the actual results for Pete in 1128 01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:09,000 Speaker 1: the Democratic primary in South Carolina. Pete won two percent 1129 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:13,280 Speaker 1: of Black voters two percent, and that was after the 1130 01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:18,480 Speaker 1: media did everything they absolutely possibly could to prop this 1131 01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,920 Speaker 1: dude up. This is the guy that the donor class 1132 01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:25,560 Speaker 1: thinks is our best hope. And by our best hope, 1133 01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:28,400 Speaker 1: of course, they mean their best hope to keep control 1134 01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:31,080 Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party and continue that party's march into 1135 01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:35,160 Speaker 1: oblivion with the multi racial working class. Actually, a poll 1136 01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,680 Speaker 1: of Democratic primary voters recently came out that was pretty 1137 01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:40,120 Speaker 1: interesting as to their great white hope here, not to 1138 01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:44,000 Speaker 1: mention to Kamala, YouGov asked Democratic primary voters who they 1139 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,600 Speaker 1: would back if Biden does not run in twenty twenty four. 1140 01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,160 Speaker 1: The sitting Vice president, of course, should be the obvious answer, 1141 01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:52,960 Speaker 1: and Kamala does still lead here, but her standing in 1142 01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:56,880 Speaker 1: that poll has plummeted twenty two points since the question 1143 01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:00,120 Speaker 1: was last asked in August, so just a couple months ago. 1144 01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:05,120 Speaker 1: Coming in second, not Pete but Bernie Sanders. Even now 1145 01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:07,800 Speaker 1: with Bernie like three hundred and four years old and 1146 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:09,800 Speaker 1: having had a heart attack and having indicated he has 1147 01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:13,720 Speaker 1: zero plans to run again, he still beats Pete Bootage. 1148 01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:18,120 Speaker 1: Pete is stuck in third, clustered in single digits, with Warren, 1149 01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:22,240 Speaker 1: Abrams and aoc all statistically tied with him there. If anything, 1150 01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,200 Speaker 1: it looks like Pete has lost support since he came 1151 01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,680 Speaker 1: in second in Iowa and in New Hampshire back in 1152 01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:31,480 Speaker 1: the Democratic primary. But wait, there's more. Insider is out 1153 01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:35,080 Speaker 1: with another report on this donor created Kamala versus Pete rivalry. 1154 01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:39,280 Speaker 1: Apparently Kamala Harris allies are worried that if Footagich challenges 1155 01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:41,760 Speaker 1: her in twenty twenty four, it would quote be ugly 1156 01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,400 Speaker 1: and help Republicans. Now, this one is obviously planted by 1157 01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:47,720 Speaker 1: Kamala people who want to send a message that anyone 1158 01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:51,040 Speaker 1: who dares challenge Kama will be helping Republicans. Also a 1159 01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,439 Speaker 1: pretty revealing insight, right, They're not worried Pete might offer 1160 01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,439 Speaker 1: a more compelling platform or prove himself more able to cover, 1161 01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,760 Speaker 1: and they just want to scare Democratic primary into staying 1162 01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:04,080 Speaker 1: the course because it didn't inject even the tiniest illusion 1163 01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:07,040 Speaker 1: of democratic choice would be far too dangerous. Gott to 1164 01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:09,600 Speaker 1: suck it up and vote Kamala a callback to the 1165 01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:13,720 Speaker 1: uninspiring but ultimately winning message of the Joe Biden campaign, 1166 01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,000 Speaker 1: so to the extent that the ruling elite decide you 1167 01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:19,080 Speaker 1: should have a choice here at all. It's between a 1168 01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:22,400 Speaker 1: woman who has proven herself incapable and incapable and unimpressive 1169 01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:25,560 Speaker 1: as vice president and a man who is Secretary of Transportation, 1170 01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:28,160 Speaker 1: should be at the center of the supply chain crisis, 1171 01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,680 Speaker 1: but is so irrelevant no one even noticed that he 1172 01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,280 Speaker 1: hadn't been working for the past three months. Of course, 1173 01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:35,720 Speaker 1: we already know the horrors of living under Donald Trump. 1174 01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:38,760 Speaker 1: Kamala Repete's most likely general election opponent if it does 1175 01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,400 Speaker 1: come down to that. In other words, good luck America, Sager. 1176 01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,760 Speaker 1: A lot going on here? Oh no, two people, No 1177 01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,440 Speaker 1: one wants We don't need this being posted on it 1178 01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:52,000 Speaker 1: all right, Sager, what are you looking at? Well, for 1179 01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:55,120 Speaker 1: a long time, Joe Biden's superpower was simply nobody really 1180 01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:57,400 Speaker 1: cared that much about him. When he ran for president 1181 01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,000 Speaker 1: and won, nearly sixty percent of the people who vote 1182 01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:03,240 Speaker 1: for him did so simply because his name was not Trump. 1183 01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,080 Speaker 1: And when Trump and the campaign tried to attack him, 1184 01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,200 Speaker 1: they found out that while people reveled and despised other 1185 01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:14,240 Speaker 1: Democratic figures like AOC and Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, 1186 01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,800 Speaker 1: Biden himself seemed to just have teflon and how Americans 1187 01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,000 Speaker 1: just simply kind of liked him. And in the early 1188 01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:22,680 Speaker 1: months of his presidency this held fast as Trump and 1189 01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,840 Speaker 1: the Republican Party continued to run against culturally left forces, 1190 01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:29,640 Speaker 1: trying to tie Biden to them, but never really attacking 1191 01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,720 Speaker 1: him by name. At an early Trump rally, this was 1192 01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:36,280 Speaker 1: especially evident. Reporters hardly saw one sign or a T 1193 01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,440 Speaker 1: shirt with Biden's name on them, nothing about Hillary. But 1194 01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,960 Speaker 1: now nearly a year after the election, all of that 1195 01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:46,160 Speaker 1: is changing. Biden really has himself to blame for it all. 1196 01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,080 Speaker 1: I've been fascinated over the last few weeks to see 1197 01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:52,640 Speaker 1: the Let's go Brandon memes sweep across the country. For 1198 01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:54,800 Speaker 1: those who aren't familiar, we covered on the show at 1199 01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,080 Speaker 1: a recent NASCAR event. While the entire crowd chanted f 1200 01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:01,520 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, the reporter to claim that they were saying, 1201 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,800 Speaker 1: let's go Brandon, Now the name of the racer who 1202 01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,360 Speaker 1: she happened to be interviewing at the time. The meme 1203 01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:10,520 Speaker 1: and the energy around the saying have swept across the 1204 01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,959 Speaker 1: nation with signs at sporting events. But what especially caught 1205 01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:17,920 Speaker 1: my eye was this. Four different rap versions of Let's 1206 01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:21,640 Speaker 1: Go Brandon are now in the iTunes top ten. Now 1207 01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,200 Speaker 1: you may not know this because it appears iTunes is 1208 01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:26,959 Speaker 1: the only place where you can even see the popularity 1209 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,240 Speaker 1: of the songs. After YouTube deleted the account of the 1210 01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:33,160 Speaker 1: original Let's Go Brandon song, and others have been working 1211 01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:36,480 Speaker 1: feverishly to quash it. Now, again and again, as the 1212 01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,760 Speaker 1: phrase new reaches new heights in popular culture, you begin 1213 01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:43,600 Speaker 1: to see the media machine kick into overdrive. Just look 1214 01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:46,680 Speaker 1: at this one. NPR did this very helpful explainer for 1215 01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,600 Speaker 1: US listeners, saying, quote, no one is really cheering on 1216 01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:52,680 Speaker 1: a guy named Brandon. Instead, the phrase is being used 1217 01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,880 Speaker 1: in conservative circles in place of a more vulgar message 1218 01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:59,120 Speaker 1: directed at je President Biden, with the obvious attempt at 1219 01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,400 Speaker 1: trying to censor the phrase and brand those who use 1220 01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,880 Speaker 1: it as bad people. Now, look, things have reached new 1221 01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:07,960 Speaker 1: heights of hysteria after a Southwest Airlines pilot apparently signed 1222 01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:12,520 Speaker 1: off an announcement on a recent flight with let's go Brandon. Now, look, personally, 1223 01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:14,200 Speaker 1: I think when you're a pilot and your job is 1224 01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,960 Speaker 1: flying different types of people around, you should probably leave 1225 01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,400 Speaker 1: your politics at home. But hey, whatever, it's a free country. 1226 01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:25,200 Speaker 1: But oh no, that wouldn't do. Immediately, the media machine, 1227 01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,680 Speaker 1: the Lincoln Project and others journalists, they began tweeting about 1228 01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:32,360 Speaker 1: the pilot should lose his job. The Lincoln Project said, hey, 1229 01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:39,240 Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines, this isn't gonna fly. CNN's Asha Rapagana compared 1230 01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:42,680 Speaker 1: the pilot to one who was shouting a pledge to 1231 01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:47,360 Speaker 1: isis after flying? Yeah, that's the same. But here's the 1232 01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,920 Speaker 1: biggest problem with the media. They are trying to go 1233 01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:53,840 Speaker 1: after the people shouting let's go Brandon, instead of asking, Hey, 1234 01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:58,160 Speaker 1: why is Joe Biden suddenly becoming the cultural opposition figure 1235 01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:02,280 Speaker 1: that he avoided being for four decades in American politics? 1236 01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:04,760 Speaker 1: How is it that he shifted from being a figure 1237 01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:08,360 Speaker 1: held in relative esteem to becoming the central flashpoint for 1238 01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,760 Speaker 1: nearly all that is wrong in America today? To me, 1239 01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:15,640 Speaker 1: let's go Brandon is encapsulated in these stats. Sixty one 1240 01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:18,760 Speaker 1: percent of relatest respondents in Morning Consult polling said they 1241 01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:21,040 Speaker 1: agreed with the statement that the United States is on 1242 01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:24,160 Speaker 1: a seriously wrong track. That was seventy one percent in 1243 01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:27,040 Speaker 1: the NBC poll that we covered today. Now there's a 1244 01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:31,080 Speaker 1: variety of reasons for this inflation, gas prices, COVID debts 1245 01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:33,720 Speaker 1: are still like fifteen hundred a day. But I think 1246 01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:37,400 Speaker 1: it's everything together and more. There's a general sense of 1247 01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,880 Speaker 1: malaise that we cannot get through this thing without ripping 1248 01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:44,120 Speaker 1: each other apart, that the country wasn't what it was 1249 01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,840 Speaker 1: that the Biden doesn't seem to have a clue that. 1250 01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:49,360 Speaker 1: Biden's problem is that when he was elected and he 1251 01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:52,920 Speaker 1: barely won the presidency, he was all things to all people. 1252 01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:55,600 Speaker 1: Now that's great when you're running against someone like Trump, 1253 01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:58,400 Speaker 1: but it's actually terrible when pretty much all things begin 1254 01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:01,600 Speaker 1: to have negative indicators. We just had the slowest quarterly 1255 01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:05,840 Speaker 1: economic growth of the entire pandemic recovery, and Biden never 1256 01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:08,640 Speaker 1: really promised to do anything except for making things go 1257 01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,920 Speaker 1: back to normal. Now it's all he really stood for. 1258 01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:12,880 Speaker 1: So when you look around today and you still have 1259 01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:14,600 Speaker 1: to wear a mask on a plane and in much 1260 01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,120 Speaker 1: of public life, whenever you look around and you see 1261 01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:20,480 Speaker 1: the economy running into the ground. You see cultural tension 1262 01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:22,800 Speaker 1: still at all time high. You look at Washington, you 1263 01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:25,160 Speaker 1: see whatever the hell the lay is, crap in the 1264 01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:28,280 Speaker 1: bill seems to be. Can you blame people for chanting? 1265 01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,840 Speaker 1: Let's go Brandon. I mean, the biggest story in the 1266 01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:34,400 Speaker 1: country right now is just the sheer discontent everybody seems 1267 01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:37,440 Speaker 1: to be feeling. When Biden promised all things to all people, 1268 01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:40,040 Speaker 1: He's going to be blamed for all things by all people. 1269 01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:43,480 Speaker 1: He never liked. Trump defined himself as a figure that 1270 01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:47,000 Speaker 1: appealed on purpose to a select group of the country, 1271 01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:50,520 Speaker 1: and that very well could be his entire downfall. All 1272 01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:53,000 Speaker 1: eyes right now are on Glenn Youngkin's campaign in Virginia, 1273 01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:55,920 Speaker 1: where Joe Biden won the state by ten points. Now, 1274 01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:59,080 Speaker 1: if Youngkin does win the election, it will be confirmation 1275 01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,400 Speaker 1: that Biden is fine, following in the footsteps of the 1276 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:04,360 Speaker 1: man he served as vice president under a president who 1277 01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:07,560 Speaker 1: had great promise but who screwed things up in the 1278 01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:11,040 Speaker 1: first year, unleashed a boon to the Republican Party, and 1279 01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:14,920 Speaker 1: who became culturally reviled and mostly impotent for the remainder 1280 01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:18,240 Speaker 1: of his days in office. Except this time things are worse. 1281 01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:21,320 Speaker 1: Last time Albama at least had Mitt Romney waiting for 1282 01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,280 Speaker 1: him in the wings. Today there's Donald Trump, who, under 1283 01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:27,559 Speaker 1: the worst conditions possible, already came forty four thousand votes 1284 01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:31,000 Speaker 1: away from winning the presidency. The Let's Go Brandon phenomenon 1285 01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,280 Speaker 1: could very well be the harbinger of make America great 1286 01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,599 Speaker 1: again chance to come. And when and if they do, 1287 01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,880 Speaker 1: don't be surprised. Biden only has himself to blame. I 1288 01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:42,920 Speaker 1: think it is amazing, though, Crystal, because we were talking 1289 01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:46,519 Speaker 1: consistently throughout the show, which is that Biden's superpower was. 1290 01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:49,559 Speaker 1: People were like, yeah, whatever, you know. Okay, guys, we're 1291 01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:52,679 Speaker 1: having some technical difficulties here today in getting our guests, 1292 01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:55,680 Speaker 1: actually completely unrelated to our four case studio upgrades. So 1293 01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:57,920 Speaker 1: once again, thank you all so much of the premium 1294 01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:01,240 Speaker 1: subscribers guys for the interview segment that we'll do with Jody. 1295 01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:03,040 Speaker 1: We're still gonna tape it. We'll send it to you 1296 01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,559 Speaker 1: guys a little bit later. For everybody else that shouldn't 1297 01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:08,200 Speaker 1: really impact your viewing experience. Thank you all so much 1298 01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:10,040 Speaker 1: for supporting our show. There's no way we could have 1299 01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:13,240 Speaker 1: done this awesome upgrade here. 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