1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: On this episode of Mins World Today we celebrate the 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: triumph not of a candidate, but of a cause, the 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: cause of democracy. And at this hour, my friends, democracy 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: has prevailed. This is a great nation. We are good people, 5 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: and over the centuries, through storm and strife, in peace 6 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: and in war, we've come so far, but we still 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: have far to go. To restore the soul and secure 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: the future of America requires so much more than words. 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy. Unity. 10 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: I know the forces that divide us are deep, and 11 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: they are real, but I also know they are not new. 12 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: Our history has been a conscious struggle between the American 13 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: ideal that we all are created equal and the harsh, 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, demonization had long torn 15 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: us apart. The fascinating difference between President Biden's inaugural speech 16 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: and President Biden's inaugural day, because the two were just 17 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: radically different, It was amazing to me. I thought the 18 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: speech was well delivered. I thought that it was actually 19 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: a pretty good speech, and that he has good speech writers, 20 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: and that they had put together their central theme, which 21 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: is We're somehow going to find unity. We're all going 22 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: to come together. This is a great triumph of democracy. 23 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: And he made a series of promises that we could 24 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: count on for the way he was going to reach 25 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: out to everybody, and he was going to work with everybody. 26 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: So there's a speech worth you're taking and looking at 27 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: in detail, because it made a number of statements that, 28 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: in fact, the rest of the day simply disowned. And 29 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: that's why I want to draw the distinction. We had 30 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: a lovely speech, and had it been Dwight David Eisenhower, 31 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: who had been a World War Two hero and who 32 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: was seen by both Democrats and Republicans as a citizen 33 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: who they could work with, the speech would have been perfect. 34 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: But the fact is this was a speech of bipartisanship 35 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: and civic goodwill given by somebody whose entire team is 36 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: dedicated to tearing down people who supported Donald Trump and 37 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: dedicated to creating a very different, much more radical American. 38 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: Now you could tell this because after the inaugural address, 39 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: which I want emphasized was a very good address. Very 40 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: impressed with it. I thought he delivered it well. I 41 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,119 Speaker 1: thought it hit all the right sentiments about the way 42 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: you'd like to start a new presidency. But then he 43 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: promptly went back to the White House and signed some 44 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: seventeen executive orders, which were the exact opposite of what 45 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: he had promised. We're going to be signed a number 46 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: of executive orders over the next several days a week, 47 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: and I'm going to start today the compounding crisis of COVID, 48 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen, along with the economic crisis following that, 49 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: and the climate crisis and racial equity issues, and you 50 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: know some of the executive actions I'm going to be 51 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: signing day. We're going to help change the course of 52 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: the code crisis, and we're going to come back climate 53 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: change in a way that we haven't done so far, 54 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: and advanced racial equity and support other underserved communities. We're 55 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: going to rebuild our economy as well. And these are 56 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: just all starting points. And we're going to, in the 57 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: process of rebuild the economy, do what I said throughout 58 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: the campaign and while running that rebuild a beltcone of 59 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: the country now class and so there's gonna be a 60 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: lot of focus on that, and I think some of 61 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: the things are going to be doing a bold and 62 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: vital and there's no time to start like today. So 63 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: I want to start with that that you have this 64 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: enormous contradiction between the good government, citizenship centers to bring 65 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: us together Biden address as part of his inaugural and 66 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: the terror part the other side, change everything, repeal the 67 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: entire four years of Trump, and do it as quickly 68 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: as you can, which is what they're actually doing. So 69 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: let me give me some examples. Biden, having promised that 70 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 1: we will work together, listen to each other, etc. Goes 71 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: back to the White House and promptly and Trump's withdrawal 72 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: from the World Health Organization. Now, given that the World 73 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: Health Organization continues to be dominated by the Chinese, continues 74 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: to lie about the origins of COVID, continues to fail 75 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: to do its job, that was just an ideological commitment 76 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: to repudiating Trumpism. Then he signed an executive order ending 77 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: the construction of Trump's signature wall in the US Xville 78 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: border and declared it an immediate termination of the National 79 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: Emergency Declaration Trump used to fund it. This, by the way, 80 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 1: at the time when we have sixty eight thousand people 81 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 1: trying to come north from Honduras in one caravan alone, 82 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: and when people all across Latin America have said, you know, 83 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: you really don't want to go in the direction of 84 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: an autotally open border because it's just going to drown 85 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: in people. Then he rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change. 86 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: Now you sort of knew this was inevitable because John 87 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: Kerry has joined the administration, and he and al Gore 88 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 1: are the two leading climate change fanatics and public life. 89 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: So he wouldn't have joined if they were going to 90 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: rejoin the Paris Agreement. But ironically, the fact is that 91 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: the Paris Agreement has been more than met by the 92 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: United States because of our transition to natural gas and 93 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 1: away from coal. We've actually been the most successful country 94 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: in the world in reducing the impact on the climate 95 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: from our economic activity, none of which, of course counts 96 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: if you're interested in symbolism. Then he reversed Trump's ban 97 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 1: and travel from predominantly Muslim countries. This includes countries which 98 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: State Department says our sponsors of terrorism. Why in the 99 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: middle of COVID the Biden team felt unnecessary to reopen 100 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: the States to people from countries to support terrorism, I'm 101 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: not quite sure, but it's a matter of great ideological importance. 102 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: He then pivoted and canceled the permit for the Keystone 103 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: Xcel pipeline. Now, this pipeline is going to move oil 104 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, which, by the way, 105 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: is dramatically safer to move it by pipeline than to 106 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: move it by either truck or railroad. And the railroad people, 107 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: of course, when not at all in favor of the pipeline. 108 00:06:55,279 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: It will cost a substantial number of jobs, It will 109 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: cost billions of dollars. And it is the first step 110 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: in moving away from energy independence, which had enabled us 111 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: to negotiate both with the Russians, the saudiast and the 112 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: Iranians from a position of enormous strength. And this is 113 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: the first step back towards making America dependent on other 114 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: countries for energy. He then issued a mask mandate on 115 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: federal property and what he calls the one hundred day 116 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: masking challenge. He couldn't have an issue of mandate beyond 117 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: federal property because constitutionally he can't do that. That particular one, 118 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: Frank bad on any great problem with I think that 119 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: it's a legitimate step in the right direction. And I 120 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: certainly been wearing my mask and maearage everybody who listens 121 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: to wear your mask. He then extended the pause on 122 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: the student loan payments until September thirty. By the way, 123 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: this is largely a great advantage if you're upper middle 124 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: class or upper class, because those are the folks who 125 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: borrowed the most money to go to the most expensive schools, 126 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: and therefore they get the biggest payoff on postponing the 127 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: repayment of student monks. He then launched a government wide 128 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: initiative directing every federal agency to review its state of 129 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,559 Speaker 1: racial equity and deliver an action plan within two hundred 130 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: days to address any disparities and policies and programs. This 131 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: is I think going to be an area of enormous contention, 132 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: both because it is going to drift towards racial quotas 133 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: and dividing Americans up into racial groups, and because it's 134 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: going to be the edgery point for people who are 135 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: committed to eliminating white males from the society and forcing 136 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: them literally in some cases in the federal government. Even 137 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: under Trump, there were courses where white men who were 138 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: forced to stand up and apologize for being a white 139 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: male and to write papers on what they're going to 140 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: do to offset whatever evil thing they might have done. 141 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: This focus on some kind of effort to rebalance racial 142 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: disparities is a very major part of defining this administration, 143 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: and what I think is maybe the most interesting and 144 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: revealing step that he took on the very first day 145 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: he was president. Remember everything I'm telling you about he 146 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: did the first day. So he goes to the Capital, 147 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: he gets sworn in, he gives a lovely speech about 148 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: all of us working together. Then he goes back to 149 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: the White House and signed some seventeen executive orders, almost 150 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: all of them very controversial if you're a conservative. So 151 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: whatever he was talking about about bringing us together may 152 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: have actually had a fairly limited reach in terms of 153 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: who he thought us was. The one that I found 154 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,719 Speaker 1: the most interesting that I've been watching this development for 155 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: months now. The Trump administration created a seventeen seventy six commission, 156 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: the Panel of Very Distinguished Intellectuals and Academics, really in 157 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: response to the New York Times sixteen nineteen project, which 158 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: was a project to refocus American history based on slavery. 159 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: The reason I fascinated by the fact that the very 160 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: first day they felt compelled the rthic commission is it 161 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: goes to the heart of the argument over which country 162 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: we are. It is very important on the left that 163 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: America cannot be exceptional, that people like Washington and Jefferson 164 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: cannot be treated as though they were serious contributors to 165 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: freedom and liberty, and that any effort to actually teach 166 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: history accurately is a direct threat to the left, which 167 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: is determined to redefine American history into a series of 168 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: grotesque and bad things done by evil white people, largely 169 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: to the disadvantage of African Americans. And it just tells 170 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: you how even something as small as a collection of 171 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: academics who would issue reports was seen by them as 172 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: a direct threat to their ideological commitment to a very 173 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: different American Biden, then, I think everybody predicted and revoked 174 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: Trump's planning to exclude non citizens from the census. The 175 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: argument had been that if you were not here legally, 176 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: you shouldn't be counted. There was an argument that was 177 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: very contentious, and that's now over. He then signed a 178 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: workplace discrimination and the federal government based on either sexual 179 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: orientation gender identity, and directing federal agencies to ensure protections 180 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: for LGBTQ people and make sure that they are included 181 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: in anti discrimination statutes, which is again part of this 182 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: whole pattern we're currently engaged in where a prayer in 183 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: the US House that was ended by the pastor saying 184 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: amen and a woman. The whole notion that somehow, for example, 185 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,839 Speaker 1: in the House Democratic Party, they have now eliminated mother, father, sister, 186 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: a brother, twenty nine words that have a gender identity. 187 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 1: I was fascinated because, in fact, if you go back 188 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: to lead the President's speech, President Biden talks about mother's, 189 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: father's sons, he uses exactly the words that Nancy Pelosi's 190 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: people are announcing he shouldn't be using, and it's just 191 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: an example of the confused radicalism on the left. Biden 192 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: has expected created a COVID nineteen response Coordinator who's going 193 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: to report directly to the President. He's going to reimplemate 194 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: the obent. You're a Directorate for Global Health, Security and Biodefense, 195 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: and this is going to be fascinating to see how 196 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:34,199 Speaker 1: it works, because the truth is that the bureaucracies can't 197 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: deliver very well. I just got a note from a 198 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: good friend in Hawaii that says they're well over a 199 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: hundred thousand doses of vaccine which they can't get to 200 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: the people who need them, and I think we always 201 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: tend to be surprised that when you get to implementation, 202 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: bureaucracy is not a very smart way to do it. But, 203 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: says Biden, represents the party of bureaucracy and the party 204 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: of government employee unions. He is going to, I think, 205 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: rebureaucratize our whole approach to public health in a way 206 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: able to should slow things down, not speed things up. 207 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: He also revoked from twenty seventeen Interior Enforcement executive Order 208 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: which broadened the categories of undocumented immigrants that were subject 209 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: for removal. That I think is going to allow more 210 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: themments to state of the country, including people who are criminals, 211 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: which was a big problem before the Trump administration. President 212 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: Biden sent an order to extend the eviction and foreclosure moratoriums. So, 213 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: in a sense, landlords and property owners are in a 214 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: situation of dealing with banks and it's going to be 215 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: a total mess. If your tenant doesn't have to pay you, 216 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: then how do you pay the bank? And if you 217 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: don't pay the bank, how does the bank survive? And 218 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: this whole thing is going to be a downboard spiral 219 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: over the next six to twelve months. President Biden also 220 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: signed an order defending the Dreamer's program for undocumented young Americans, 221 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: which is actually something I've advocated, and I think the 222 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: people who came here at two or three years of 223 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: age don't speak the language of their native country and 224 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: are totally American in every way of going through high school. 225 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: It's in humane to try to shift them back to 226 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: a country that they clearly don't belong to. They keep 227 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: protection for a group of librarians in the United States 228 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 1: and raised the question of whether libry is still a 229 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: terror in the country, but this offers them an opportunity 230 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: to come with our citizenship, and then he formulated an 231 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: executive branch ethics doctor. I find this interesting because he 232 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: is bringing so many people in from various Washington operations, 233 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: from Washington lobbying, etc. That I think you're going to 234 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: find that the Biden team across the board is just 235 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: simply not going to be capable of dealing with all 236 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: of this without real standards of corruption. And I might 237 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: say one of the things I found most fascinating in 238 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: his speech was his commitment that he would always tell 239 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: us the truth, my fellow Americans. I closed a day 240 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: where I began with the sacred oath before God and 241 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: all of you, I give you my word. I will 242 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll 243 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: defend our democracy. I'll defend America, and I will give 244 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: it all. All of you. Keep everything I do in 245 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: your service, thinking not of power, but of possibilities, not 246 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: a personal interest, but the public good, and together we 247 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: shall write an American story of hope, not fear, of unity, 248 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: not division, of light not darkness. Turns out that his 249 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania neither one accounts 250 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: for how much money they get, where it comes from, 251 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: who's giving it. There is a report that his nominee 252 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: for Secretary of State presided over the centered at the 253 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: University of Pennsylvania. They've got twenty two million dollars from China, 254 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: which they won't talk about. The Doubleware Center for Biden 255 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: got money from China which they won't talk about. And 256 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: in fact, the University of Pennsylvania got an enormous increase 257 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: of money from China, which they won't talk about. But 258 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: of course the speech was terrific, and I think that 259 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: is the key thing to remember that what you have 260 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: is very nice speech written by very good speech, orders 261 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: designed to say we can all be friends, we can 262 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: all work together, we can all get things done, we 263 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: can all be unified. But you then had, literally the 264 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: same afternoon, seventeen executive orders that were designed to divide us, 265 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: not to unify us. There's not a single thing in 266 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: the executive orders that were signed that will unify Americans. 267 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: So if you're one of the seventy four million people 268 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: who voted for Trump, you're very frustrated. So why am 269 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: I spending this time telling you about seventeen executive orders 270 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: on the very first day of the Biden presidency and 271 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: contrasting it with what's truly a lovely speech. And the 272 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: reason is simple. If you are one of the seventy 273 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: four million people who voted for Donald Trump, you would 274 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: like the President of States to succeed, even if you 275 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 1: didn't like the way the election worked, even if you're 276 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 1: not at all satisfied that Biden is now in the 277 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: White House. Nonetheless, you know in your heart that when 278 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: American presidents fail, America gets in trouble. And so when 279 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: he gives a speech at his inaugural that reaches out, 280 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: talks about how he can work together in a unified way. 281 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: Your first instance is to say this would be wonderful. 282 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: I remember being at Obama's inaugural in two thousand and nine, 283 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: and he gave a very similar speech, may have been 284 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 1: the same speech ters frankly, and I said at the 285 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: end of it, if he actually governs the way he 286 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: just talked, he will split the Republican Party and he 287 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: will create a dominant Democratic Party. Of course, once the 288 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: speech was over, he wanted the left raised taxes bills. 289 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi put it, you have to vote for the 290 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: bill to find out what's in it, proposed a gigantic 291 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: government run health program called Obamacare, and within two years 292 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: had thrown away his majority of the House almost to 293 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: the Senate. Alo lost it later in his second term 294 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: because people just they saw the gap between centrism has 295 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: promised and left wing radicalism has practiced. And so I 296 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: think it's very significant that the media, of course, we're 297 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: all gushing and ooing and awing, and of course they 298 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 1: think bringing us together means bringing us to the left, 299 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: and they think that unifying the country means all of 300 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: us should obey whatever left wing looney group shows up 301 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. But I think for most Americans, and not 302 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: just the seventy four million who voted for Trump, but 303 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: another twenty or thirty million who, for one reason or another, 304 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: we are willing to take a gamble of. In Biden, 305 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: I believe that the seventeen Executive Orders is a harbinger 306 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,239 Speaker 1: that will outweigh the speech, and I believe everything I'm 307 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: seeing right now, he is under enormous pressure. The people 308 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: he's appointing couldn't be centrist if their life depended on. 309 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: These are hardline left wing people with very few exceptions, 310 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 1: and they are consistently going to be finding new ways 311 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 1: to try to move America into a more radical society. 312 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: Is consistently going to be signing the executive orders they draft. 313 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,959 Speaker 1: So I thought it was a fascinating day, and I 314 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: just want you to remember to draw a distinction between 315 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:39,959 Speaker 1: the President Biden inaugural addressed and the President Biden inaugural day, 316 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: and remember that the day outweighed the address, and the 317 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: day is when he did all the damage that undid 318 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: every single thing he promised in his address. 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