WEBVTT - Cut The Crap 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.799 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:17.320 and Jackiete and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.400 I don't remember anybody having these kinds of meltdowns. When 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.880 Barack Obama deported five million people. It is not uncommon 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.400 for the executive branch to deport illegal immigrants. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:33.680 It happens in every administration. 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.040 Obama deported more than most, and I don't remember any 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:38.879 of this kind of meltdown, and the crisis. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:39.400 Has only gotten worse. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.360 So I think Donald Trump's doing the right thing, and 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.400 most Republicans would agree it is a national emergency. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:45.239 There you go. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.479 Trump said, yep, he is going to declare it a 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.280 national emergency, and yep he is considering using the military 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.400 deal with it because they're the only people who would 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:56.280 have the infrastructure to deal with such a large number 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:56.760 of people. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.720 And we will talk more about that later. I've just 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:00.240 become I'm. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.520 Aware of Scott Jennings because he has been hiding from 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.280 humanity on CNN. But I love the cut of his GiB. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.360 I love his act. He's calm, he smart, he's reasonable. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.720 I posited last hour that gen X would save the world, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.240 and I realized that somewhat self serving, as we are 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.080 on the older end of gen X, but gen X 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.119 known for kind of a cut the crap, don't don't 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.360 mess around with us, just give us the straight scoop. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.600 Feel not terribly ideological. I like you pitched us as 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:33.720 not hippies. Not hippies on the one end, not needing 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:38.560 coloring books and puppies to deal with bad news on 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.520 the other end, right, just for goodness sakes, can we 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.680 can we speak plainly to each other? Is kind of 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.200 sort of and I've always mocked a generation thing, but 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.080 it's kind of sort of the feel of gen X anyway. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.480 I love that with Scott Jennings essentially, and this is 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.080 my rallying cry today and probably for a long time. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.280 Cut the crap, Scott is saying, cut the crap. Obama 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.240 deported lots and lots of people. You had nothing to say, 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.000 so cut the crap. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.200 It's crap right, all right, thank you? 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.840 And then you know I've got I've got a million examples. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.720 You've got this stuff from the University of California Davis, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.040 which is advising the federal government on how to be 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.320 a woke ally for the Alphabet Soup crew, and they 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.520 have stuff like, instead of some saying someone was born 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.880 a boy or a girl, try saying they were as 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:31.120 signed male at birth. These terms recognize the difference between 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.640 section gender and emphasize the way in which section gender 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.880 are not binary or immutable. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.359 They can be changed. No, cut the crap. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.320 A man can't become a woman because. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:42.120 He takes hormones. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.040 You start ovulating, call me back, all right, then I'll 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:51.800 concede you're a woman. Cut the crap. Thought this was 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.040 brilliant from Gerard Baker. I'm gonna hit you with some 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.040 of it. He's an opinion writer for mostly the Journal, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:01.200 but Jack jump in anytime you want, obviously, And he 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:06.200 talks about Trump's election is a bit of an Emperor's 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.919 new clothes moment for American maybe the rest of the West, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.760 to an overdue recognition and repudiation of the regime of 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:19.280 oppressive insanities we've been subjected to for a decade or more. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.520 I think everybody's saying, yeah, man, well said, especially in 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.440 blue states. And you know, I'm gonna issue a battle 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.320 cry toward the end of this, and I understand you're 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:32.000 working like. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.520 Is it gonna sound like that. It's a lot like that. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.920 Yeah, maybe you're working at the infamous you see Davis 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.400 or Berkeley in California and you're like, dude, I would 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.560 love to fight against this stuff. But and so it's 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:49.280 always with the caveat of do what you can. But 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.240 I'll tell you this, I can practically guarantee no matter 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.520 where you work, you live, you worship whatever, if you 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.840 stand up to the crap and you say the crap, 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.600 you're gonna see a bunch of people, few, maybe a ton, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.960 are gonna say, yeah, what he said. They're just waiting 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:13.280 for someone to call the emperor on having no clothes anyway, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.480 to ju our Baker's piece. For a decade or more, yes, 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.000 even when Republicans have been nominally in control, we've been 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.320 led by peddlers of a set of ideas that have 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.520 clothed our institutions in the country in social and political doctrines, 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:31.000 fake claims, and strictures that have inflicted untold harms. The 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.400 fancy new items of invisible attire that our nation's rulers 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.120 have made us wear for too long include these. The 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.200 idea that people who have stolen into this country illegally 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.480 should be showered with all the rights and benefits of citizens, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.640 that it is immoral to deny them those rights, and 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.680 that they should instead be treated as victims of persecution 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:55.080 and given sanctuary in our crowded and fiscally strained cities. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.039 Call bullss on that. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:03.679 That's ridiculous, the idea that a nation that sits atop 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.240 one of the greatest reservoirs of natural energy resources on 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.279 Earth should forcibly restrain itself from exploiting them to save 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.039 the planet on the basis of politicized science, while other 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.080 countries are free to do much more damage to the 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.600 global environment. That's a good Gavin, cut the crap. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:23.039 That's a good one. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:25.359 At the risk of going off on this as I 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:31.159 did last hour, meaningless effectless gestures in the face of 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.200 all the other countries on Earth doing what they're doing. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.400 You know, if you were going to do some good, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.279 come to the table with that argument, say yeah, we 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.240 got to risk damaging the economy and poor people are 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.640 going to stay poor, and inflation's gonna rise because energy 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.840 prices affect everything. But look that it's lowered emissions twenty 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.440 percent globally, except it hasn't hasn't done anything, So cut 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:57.320 the crap. Here's another good one, the idea that after 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.880 a century and a half of progress in solving and 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.920 soothing America's original sin of racism and making the country 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.479 more equal, we are suddenly obliged to believe that America 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.480 is as oppressive as it was in sixteen nineteen, and 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.840 that the best way to write the past wrong of 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.359 treating people based on the color of their skin is 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.599 to treat people based on the color of their skin. 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.840 M god, I hope that's over. I really hope that's over. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:29.840 What we all hope for is those radicals just nasty people. 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.720 Don't have the juice to end your career anymore. Because 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.760 your management, your corporate godfathers are such cowards. They're not 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.359 going to stand up to the crap. It's easier to 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.560 fire you, and they'll say on the way out. You know, Jim, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.320 I'm really sorry about this. I mean, it's really unfortunate 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.000 they don't have the balls to say because you said 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.280 nothing wrong. But these people are so mad. I'm gonna 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.920 capitulate to them, but that's what they're thinking. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:56.720 Stand up to it. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.800 I'm less optimistic on the illegal immigration part because I've 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:07.400 been before, but on the trans and anti racist and 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.159 what was the other one I was going to include 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.600 in that. It'll come to me. But on a couple 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.400 of those, is it possible? Oh, the climate change? Is 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.600 it possible. We're on the other side of those, and 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.280 we just all, unfortunately, those of us of a certain age, 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.240 just lived through this really weird time. Yeah, we're things, 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.480 people said, all kinds of crazy stuff, and you had. 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.040 To go along with it. Yeah. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:30.480 I think we're at this stage of it where the 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:35.080 troops are rallied. We're aware, we're fired up, but you 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.920 got to remember the enemy is absolutely running our nation's 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.440 educational complex right now, and our media and entertainment. But 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.000 education is the most insidious part because they're indoctrinating our kids. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.160 So yeah, the battle has just begun. Here's another great one, 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.480 another one of these insane ideas that we've been forced 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:59.600 to pretend are are not idiotic, The idea that children should, 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:04.760 without parental consultation or consent, be free to choose their gender, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.280 be assisted by the state in committing acts of self 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.440 mutilation to do so, and all on the understanding that 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.760 we have repealed millennia of science and just discovered there's 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.800 no such thing as biological sex. 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.320 Bow ass cut the crap. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.840 I think that one is the biggest anchor around Gavin 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.160 Newsom's neck. If he tries to run for president. How's 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:31.960 he gonna How's he gonna deal with that. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:37.520 Expiring experimenting on in mutilating children because they're momentarily confused 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:38.600 and I have adolescence. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.160 And Gavin signed in law the idea that the schools 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.280 can keep it a secret from you, so that in 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.160 fact they must, How does how does he deal with that? 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.920 I want that's one of the reasons I want him 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.920 to run. I want him to be beaten like a 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.720 drum for these reasons, because it's important to defeat this crap. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:57.800 There's a little. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.960 More or the Empress new clothes that people have just 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.760 been walking around silently pretending they didn't notice or too 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.160 afraid to resist the idea that democracy and freedom are 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.679 best protected by denying people the right to express certain 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.640 views that the authorities deem misinformation, and by weaponizing the 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.200 law against political opponents lest they weaponize the law for 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:21.360 political purposes. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:23.600 That's a good one. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.600 They're actually democrats out right now saying, hey, you know 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.560 weaponizing law against candidates is probably a bad strategy, admitting 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:35.160 that that was the strategy, so ambitious elites in business 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.760 and civil society went along with these fictions. Politicians on 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.040 all sides, including Republicans, declined to dissent for fear of 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:47.880 being called out. And here's where Gerard Baker gives Trump 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.680 a fair amount of credit. It took a man with 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:54.640 some of the instincts of a child, a political angenoux newcomer, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:59.160 lacking the sophistication to participate in the sham, to call 0:09:59.200 --> 0:09:59.840 the whole thing. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:00.960 Out for what it was. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.640 And then he makes it clear that he's not like 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.280 totally in on Trump and his plans and his policies 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.760 and the rest of it. But for God's sake, we 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.119 needed to call bulls on the bulls. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:17.760 But here's what I'm optimistic about. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.680 He says, four years from now, there's a good chance 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.439 that the nonsense we have had to endure will be buried, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.600 that important things will become normal again. It will have 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.080 become normal to tell people they have who have no 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:29.680 right to be here, that they must leave. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.120 That in the process, people around the world will have. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.200 Been made to understand that they don't have an automatic 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.480 right to live in the freest, most prosperous country on earth. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:40.520 Then he goes on the children. You know, I'm going 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.320 to hit this because it's one of my jihads. It 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.280 will have become normal again for children to be helped 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.880 to respond to the inevitable strains and traumas of growing up, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.040 not by having their genitals cut out, but by receiving 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.760 loving guidance, guidance and care from family and society. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.480 Got the crab. I hope that's true. I hope that's true. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.040 I think it's true. It's going to be longer and 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:06.400 harder battle than four years. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.040 Man. The university system and their influence on the elementary 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.160 education system and secondary. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.200 Is It's going to be a long, hard fight, But 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:16.720 I'm up for it. Are you? 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.800 Where are people getting their news and information? A new 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.920 PU study kind of interesting, particularly around young people. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.640 It's a little disturbing. I don't know what that happens. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.720 Of course, as you were just talking about, if people 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.800 catch on to the fact that the mainstream media is 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.559 not a very reliable source of real news, people are 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.280 going to turn to other sources. Sure, and the problem 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.360 being the other sources are probably not better either, but 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:46.840 a lot of stuff to talk about on the way to. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:52.960 Hear how well, the head of their party, the outgoing 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:54.600 president Man the ramparts. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:59.079 During this challenging and fraught peaceful transition to factism. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.800 President Biden is in Zil, where he became the first 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.280 American head of state to visit the Amazon rainforest. He 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.520 went there to highlight the dangers of climate change and 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.800 the need to turn away from fossil fuels. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.520 In the middle of all this, he disappeared to the rainforest. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.760 Maybe this is how we should do the transfer of power. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.080 The winner moves into the White House. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:27.240 And the incumbent just wanders off into the jungle so 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.160 that he's nutrients maybe returned to the soil. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:41.120 A peaceful transfer to fascism, less for you money, Yeah. 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.760 Man, if I've been amused reading the various accounts of 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.400 Joe and Mika's pilgrimage down to mar A Lago, both 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.000 the very serious discussions of what it means and then 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.520 the snarkier ones which are much more appropriate. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.560 All right, all the way around this peaceful transfer to fascism, 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.280 where I was like, eh, I guess we'll just accept 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:57.800 that it's. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.000 It's Trump and move on with our lives. Well, I 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:01.640 think they. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.240 Hitler do for lunch, honey, Well he should be here 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:05.160 at noon thirty. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.680 Dear, before I get into something of substance. We have 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.240 talked about this many times. The one of the problems 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:19.480 with the algorithms on ads is this assumption that whatever 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.600 it is you shopped for or bought, you're gonna buy 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.240 many more of or be shopping for them forever. And 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.560 I don't understand how they haven't fixed that already, that 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.120 they don't have categories where they realize this is like a. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:30.160 One time purchase. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.080 For instance, this funny one from somebody yesterday I came 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.480 across on Twitter. Dear Amazon, I bought a toilet seat 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.640 because I needed one necessity, not desire. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.280 I do not collect them. I'm not a toilet seat addict. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.400 No matter how attemptingly you email. 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.920 I email me, I'm not going to think, Oh, go on, 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:48.360 then just one more toilet seat. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:55.719 I'll treat myself. That's kid, It's really good. I did 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:00.680 not collect them. I'm not an addict. That's funny. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.520 For the next two years, you get toilet seed ads 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.439 you're buying by the palette. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.880 Oh, that is funny. I'm surprised they haven't figured that 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:10.439 out yet. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.360 While we're on Twitter, this from Michael Avenatti, and I 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.720 mentioned this because we might get breaking news during the 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:21.280 show today that the stupid Stormy Daniels hush money case 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.440 has been basically ended and tossed. Remember Michael Avenati, he 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:30.240 was the representative for Stormy Daniels, and then he became. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.480 Such a hero to America. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.200 He went on all the talk shows, he was on 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.000 the late night shows and the View and everything like 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.200 that as the guy who's going to bring down Trump 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.920 and a hero and he should run for president and 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.600 all this stuff. He turned out to be a crook, 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.280 stole from Stormy Daniels, went to jail. But anyway, he 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.920 stole from everybody, stole from everybody and went to jail. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.560 Here's Michael Avanatti's tweet from yesterday. The hush money verdict 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.400 should be promptly thrown out by Judge Murshaan and the 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.400 case immediately dismissed. It was always a political prosecution solely 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.240 designed to keep President Trump from being elected, founded on 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.800 the perjury of grifters Cohen and Daniels. He calls his 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:10.040 own client a grifter and but he would west uh 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.120 founded on the perjury of the grifters Cohen and Daniels. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.440 While the country moves forward, Coen and Daniels can crawl 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:16.640 back to where they came from. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.000 Writing this from prison. I don't know if he's out 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.320 or not. Yeah, time flies? Is it that something? 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:25.680 Though? 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.520 Again, I mean another cut the crap that was and 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.960 most of America saw through. That is phony political prosecution. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.440 And seriously, and now and now as of I think 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:37.880 later today, it's all going to be over. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:43.400 That'll be over. Wow. Not a good way to run things. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.440 So he's not hitler, And yeah, it was a phony prosecution. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.280 But let's all move on with our lives. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.720 Hey, all's well, that ends. Well, let's shake hands and 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.320 then we'll see in the midterms. Okay. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.800 So Pew's out with a study not surprising that a 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.520 lot of people get their news from what they call influencers, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.240 and that would be people on social media who, for 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.360 whatever reason you respect their opinion. And it can come 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.080 from all different walks of life. You know, it can 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:16.240 be a singer and artists, a politician, or just like 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.320 you know, some farmer who you trust their opinion, who 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.120 build a following on Twitter or TikTok or something like that, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.000 and they become an influencer, and that's where you get 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.840 a lot of your new stuff from. And I know 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:30.640 people that follow non professionals as closely as they follow 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.880 any professionals in media for their opinion on things, which 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.520 I find interesting. What I was surprised by is it 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:43.920 all It leans mostly right most of the news sources 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:50.400 out there, and they use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube. It's 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.960 mostly right leaning influencers that influence people throughout the election. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.640 Twitter's the only one that's balanced left and right. All 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.240 the other ones are people on the right getting their 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.920 information from their for better or worse. Probably because most 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.720 of the mainstream media is so left, you have to 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.960 go somewhere else right exactly, It's created a need for 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.400 an alternative him almost certainly what is driven it. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.760 Armstrong and getty. He wants him to be the face 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:15.800 of the Justice Department. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.119 The only way that Donald Trump believes he can be 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:19.280 the face of the Justice. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.120 Department is as Attorney general. And so he has told 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:23.639 everyone around him all through. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.680 The weekend, all last week that he is one hundred 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.320 percent behind Matt Gates and that what he wants the 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.560 most out of any of his picks is for Gates 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:31.200 to be confirmed. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.600 So I pay attention to what the mainstream media is 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.119 paying attention to because it has an influence on the 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.640 national conversation and all the major networks I was checking 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:46.280 today leading with either Gates whether or not he's going 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.120 to be the attorney general, or the mass deportations, and 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.280 then flip the stories because those are the top two 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.920 stories the mainstream media is into right now. The mass 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.639 deportations thing is popular. Trump ran on it. It's not 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:03.080 a surprise. Sixty percent of Americas for it. We'll see 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.800 how that plays out. The Gates thing, I think was 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.560 a surprise to a lot of people. He didn't run 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.879 in specifically on that, and I have assumed since he 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.600 announced that that it probably wouldn't happen. But maybe I'm wrong. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.040 And as you just heard there from the lead on CNN, 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.679 Trump wants it to happen. This is what the New 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.639 York Times is writing today. In private conversations over the 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.840 past few days, President elect Donald J. Trump has admitted 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.400 that his besieged choice for Attorney General, Matt Gates, has 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.200 less than even odds of being confirmed by the Senate. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.000 Now you never know if the New York Times is 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.760 right or not. But that's Trump saying he thinks it's 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.800 less than fifty to fifty that Gates gets through. But 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.880 mister Trump has shown no signs of withdrawing the nomination, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.840 which speaks volumes about his mindset as he staffs his 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:52.520 second administration. He's making calls on mister Gates's behalf, and 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.879 he remains confident that even if mister Gates does not 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.320 make it, the standard for an acceptable candidate will have 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.920 shifted so much that the Senate may simply approve his 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.360 other nominees who have appalled much of Washington. 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:10.119 It's an interesting take. Yeah, yeah, I've heard that argument. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.560 I don't have any idea if that's his thinking or not. 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.240 So I mentioned that yesterday I was listened to a 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.000 couple of podcasts with some of my favorite like super 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.400 Smart Pundits Who are I think they're all lawyers who 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.680 know a lot about the nomination process and the confirmation process, 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.639 and I was surprised that three of them thought Gates 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.600 would get through. The why I can get to after 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.919 we hear this, This is on a number of newscasts 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:40.920 last night. Lawyer for one of the girls that testified 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:47.200 privately to that congressional committee about the whole Gates having 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:48.800 sex with a seventeen year old story. 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:50.960 Here's the lawyer on NBC News last night. 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.040 She was walking outside to the pool and she observed 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.120 to write her friend, who was seventeen at the time 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.879 of having sex with Represented Gates. They were leaned up 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.520 to what she described to as a game table. 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:01.960 Of some type. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.320 Did your client believe that Gates at the time knew 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.240 that her friend was underage? 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:09.920 Yeah, so the house was curious about that. 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.160 She testified that her belief was that Representative Gates had 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.199 no knowledge that she was under eighteen, that she was 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:18.680 seventeen years old at the time he was having sex 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.439 with her. She also testified that when Representative Gates found 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.359 out that she was under age, that they stopped their 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.879 sexual relationship and did not resume it until after she 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:29.040 returned eighteen. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.240 I thought that was interesting. And then hear a little 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:33.600 more on this and then I can fill in some 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:34.560 other details. 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.320 They did testify, both of them that they consented to 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:42.320 their activities. They were also asked whether or not they 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.000 were victims, and and she broke down in tears and 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:46.639 she said It's a very complicated question. 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.640 Did your clients make any assessments in their testimony about 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.240 mister Gates's fitness or judgment to serve in office. 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:55.879 They're very careful about what they might express publicly, but 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:57.919 one did say, I do not think a man like 0:20:58.000 --> 0:20:59.280 him should have that much power. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.159 Well, she's probably a young Democrat who would hate whoever 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.679 Trump would pick to be a nominee for attorney general. 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.520 But what I think is interesting about this story is 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:16.480 everybody can have a line morality line or you know 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:18.600 who they think ought to be attorney general line and 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.760