WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - Can Cuomo Bully His Way Out? 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.240 This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.840 get through your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.559 you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:13.560 your podcasts. We know that the journos lie. That's not 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:15.880 anything new. We've seen that plenty of times. We're all 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.919 very aware of the fact that they always root for 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:24.439 one side. They are Democrats. They're controlled effectively by the 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.720 Democrat Party, or perhaps, as some argue, the Democrat Party 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.720 is controlled by the corporate media. They work hand in hand. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.879 They are symbiotic organisms. But we have yet another story 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.800 to add into the mix here. That's fake news. I mean. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:47.159 The reason that Trump's fake news allegations or accusations, quite honestly, 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:48.959 just the fact that they used the term against them 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.559 upset them so much was because at some level they 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.360 know it's true. They don't want to believe it, they'd 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.360 never admit that, but at some level, Donald Trump is 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.560 somebody who was able to speak the truth about the 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.440 media that they're hoping the American people don't figure out. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:09.440 It is largely now a profession of propaganda. It's not 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.600 something that you can count on, it's not something you 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:16.200 can trust. People have their own motivations, They bring their 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.600 own biases to it, and more than ever now it 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:26.120 is used to weaponize perception against conservatives and Republicans. And 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.480 I don't want to get into that some more. But 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.160 you know what else can be weaponized is your data. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.520 That's right, the stuff that's constantly being collected on you online. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.560 You know you can't trust these social media companies, right, 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.320 they sell your stuff, but they're also tracking it, they're 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.160 keeping it all on servers. What do you think that 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.080 turns into in a matter of years, given how they're 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.240 already censoring us, They're already looking for people who have 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.320 wrong think in their social media profiles. 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This is a you need this 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.760 on your phone. You need this on your devices. Express 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:09.520 vpn dot com, slash buck. They're supposed to bring us 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.640 the truth in journals, and that's what they say. They 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:16.280 speak truth to power. They claim that their very profession 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.480 is all about bringing you the facts. Well, let's do 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.079 it a quick review. What are some of the giant 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.880 awful lies told with intent as well? I don't believe 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.320 that these were situations where they were good faith errors. 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.080 I think that they recognized an opportunity to push an agenda. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.760 They recognized a means of pushing forward politics, and they 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.280 took it right. They saw what they were doing, they 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.320 saw that they could get away with it in their 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:51.080 own minds, and so they bashed Republicans with fake news. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.960 I mean, fake news has been weaponized, and you should 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.600 never forget that fake news was originally a term that 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.600 the Democrat media was using to try to explain away 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.240 news stories online. They said that the Trump supporters were 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.920 all believing. This is back in twenty fifteen. We're all 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.160 believing things that weren't true, and that's why Trump had 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.320 so much support. The Russian fake news online was what 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.000 they were turning to. Well, for a lot of us, 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.880 we recognize that when Trump turned this around on them, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.480 it really stung. The journals were upset by this because 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.640 it was so true that they peddle in falsehoods on 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.120 a regular basis, and they're not upset about it. They 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.880 only get upset when it doesn't work and when they 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.440 get caught. At some level, they recognize this is their job. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.920 They are activists, they are advocates. They are not people 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.400 who are neutral in a pursuit of the truth. And 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.840 some of the clear examples of this, I mean, the 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:53.000 biggest one that comes to mind more than really any 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.960 other is the Russia collusion hoax, which they pushed for 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.440 years and actually still cling at some level. They'll say, well, 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.520 there wasn't quite the collusion that we said there was, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.159 but there was clearly something going on and there was 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.919 a willingness to collude. They put on their freud hats 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.480 and they say, well, we can see into the minds 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.320 of Trump and his people. They would have colluded if 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.240 they could have gotten away with it. But of course 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.719 that's not what we were told in the initial phases. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.880 Early on. What they were telling us is that Trump 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.159 worked with the Russian government, with Putin and the Kremlin 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.280 to steal the election. That was an awful lie. It's 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:39.000 one that undermined a president. It's one that was used 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.520 as the primary method think about this. That was the 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:47.320 number one rallying cry of the hashtag resistance while Trump 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.360 was in office. It was a lie. They actually got 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.720 a special counsel based off of it. I mean, they 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.479 were able to take it to the next level of 0:05:55.520 --> 0:06:00.000 It wasn't merely we don't It wasn't merely a question 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.160 of you know, this is one of several stories or 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.680 areas where we're going to attack the president. They were 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.480 able to use this to turn the government apparatus against 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:15.880 a sitting president. It's all lies. Did anyone really suffer 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.080 the consequences for this? Now? In fact, over at MSNBC 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.880 it caused a big ratings boom, same thing at CNN. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:28.640 The Russia collusion hoaxers and now truthers were overwhelmingly promoted. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.800 It advanced their careers. I mean, there was some guy 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.520 or remember who wrote a book I don't remember his 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.360 name now, he's an idiot called Proof of Collusion, and 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.920 the guy had like almost a million followers on Twitter. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.120 Some total clown that nobody should have ever heard of 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.520 or believed or listened to her read, created a big 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.120 career for himself. The guy's an idiot. And there's tons 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.440 of people out there like that. So not only do 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.800 they lie and advance their political goals, they benefit from 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.599 the lie. And then they go around telling us all 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.040 that that Trump lies so much and that we're delusional 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:06.960 because we don't see the Trump lies. Yeah, you know, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.720 Trump lies about how many ice cream ice cream scoops 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.320 he had last night, and they freak out about it. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.760 And you know, I sit here and I see what's 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.840 going on with this once again. And I actually worry 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.440 about the future of the country. I really do, because 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.040 we now have the elites, we have this cast of 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.760 so called truthtellers who are the biggest frauds and the 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.000 biggest liars in the country. So there's Russia collusion, which was, 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:40.760 as you know, a big lie. There is their willingness 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.120 to suppress stories they don't like, like the Hunter Biden story. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.360 That's a form of lying, suppression of truth, and that 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.520 was right before the election. We know what they did there. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:56.440 There was the the insurrection Day where people beat officers 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.000 sick Nick to death with flagpoles. That was the story, 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.600 you know that they were saying that there were there 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.880 were murders of police officers on Capitol Hill during the 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.800 January sixth insurrection Day. It was a riot. It was 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.080 not an insurrection, and we all know it. But Officer 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.760 sick Nick did not die from being beaten to death. 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.080 In fact, he didn't die from any blunt force trauma 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.680 or any assault of any kind based on the autopsy 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.760 information that we've been given, not officially, but that has 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.640 been reported on. That's a pretty damn big lie, isn't it. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.520 Saying that police officer was beaten to death by people. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.880 So you can blame everybody who generally is on the 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.480 right of American politics, where we're all responsible for that. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.680 And it turns out, well, no, that's not what happened. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.559 How could the media get that wrong? Ah? But you see, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.439 it served the purpose, that's the point. It served the purpose. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.559 And then that brings me to the latest one. You'll 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:55.120 recall that President Trump was very upset and did not 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.640 did not believe at first the results and still perhaps doesn't. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.280 There was of the twenty twenty presidential election. Well as 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.520 part of during that, as part of that whole period 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:11.320 and that that back and forth, The Washington Post published 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:19.400 a story on January ninth saying that Trump essentially pressured Georgia, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:26.480 the a Georgia elections investigator to quote find the fraud. Okay, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:32.120 find the fraud. And just a few days ago, Now 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.360 that was that was a big deal for everyone, understand this, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:39.240 because they were saying that now Trump was using his position, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.839 as you know now the outgoing president, but he was 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.600 using his position still as the man occupying the oval 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.080 office to change the results of the election, using pressure. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.160 That's a big charge. To make that really got a 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.080 lot of attention, and in fact, the line find the 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:59.600 fraud was cited in the articles of impeachment against Trump, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.480 the Democrats and the Congress brought against him for a 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.440 second time. Well, just a few days ago. You gotta 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:11.480 hear this the Washington Post. Remember that story. I was 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.880 January ninth. Now it's March eleventh, two months pass. And 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:20.880 here is what they add to this story as a correction. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.040 Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia Secretary 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.640 of State released an audio recording of President Donald Trump's 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.840 December phone call with the state's top election investigator. The 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.440 recording revealed that the Post misquoted Trump's comments on the 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:41.040 call based on information provided by a source. Trump did 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.400 not tell the investigator to find the fraud or say 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.319 she would be a national hero if she did so. Instead, 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.880 Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:57.280 asserting she would find dishonesty there. He also told her 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.440 she had the most important job in the country right now. 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.440 A story about their recording can be found here. The 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.400 headline and text of the story have been corrected to 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:10.679 remove quotes misattributed to Trump, So they lied about what 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.760 he said. How do they do that? How did this 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:19.680 actually happen? Well, they used anonymous sourcing as the as 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.160 the people telling them that this is what Trump said. Right. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:29.480 Remember on page ten of the Democrats impeachment brief, they 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.200 highlighted this Washington Post article and the fake quotes in 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.000 oral arguments while it was being televised. So they used this, 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.559 they used doesn't this remind you of something else? Oh? Wait, 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:46.920 untrue news stories lies from left wing Democrat media organizations 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.439 are then cited in official government proceedings to attack an 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.880 enemy of the left, to attack a Republican just like 0:11:54.000 --> 0:12:00.360 what happened in the FISA debacle going after Carter Page, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.439 just like what happened when they were going after George Bappadopoulos, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.400 and people in the FBI were saying, well, look at 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:11.920 what Yahoo reported on Yahoo's reporting bullcrap, and the FBI morons, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.079 because that's what the people involved in this were morons, 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.440 were like, well, that gives us the justification if it's 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.280 reported by Yahoo or the Washington Post, it's gotta be true. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.800 What the heck is going on here? This is not 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.120 the way a free and fair society can run. Enough 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:36.800 is enough. We cannot trust these news organizations. They are 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.840 not trustworthy. We need to understand that. It's not a mistake, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.200 it's who they are. This is what they've become. Journalism 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.400 is not a thing in America anymore. There are some journalists, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:54.840 but the overall practice of journalism is just warring propaganda machines, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:13:01.920 pushing the left wing political agenda. That's all. So they 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.000 lied about about what Trump said. The only reason we 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.440 know about this is because there's an actual recording, and 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:14.440 the recording was found in the trash folder on a 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:19.240 computer belonging to a Georgia elections investigator when there was 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.080 a Freedom of Information Act request. And this is what 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:28.640 end up happening. Unbelievable. And you know, other news outlets 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:36.320 used their own anonymous sources to verify the quotes attributed 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.920 to Trump that the Washington Post also had anonymous sources. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.600 Was it all the same source? This is why anonymous 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.880 sourcing is one of the biggest shams, one of the 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.960 biggest frauds that the media perpetrates, because you know, they 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.840 can say whatever they want and they'll never reveal their 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.840 source and then just making it up as they go along, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.880 or it's all one person, but ten outlets are all 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.560 talking to the same person, so you think it's a 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:03.280 lot of different sources. According to this is from the 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.439 Federalist dot Com today. According to the chairman of the 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.800 Georgia Republican Party, the Secretary of State's office secretly recorded 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.839 the conversation, mischaracterized its contents to the Washington Post, and 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.240 then attempted to delete the recording. It was recently discovered 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.800 in a laptop trash folder as part of an open 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:27.640 records search. So the Washington Post fabricated quotes they knew 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.800 were from a secondhand source in the office of a 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.200 political enemy, couldn't confirm the quotes with additional sourcing, still 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.720 attributed them to the sitting president of the United States. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.080 Used those quotes as a basis to speculate the President 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.240 committed a crime, and the Democrat Party would later repeatedly 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.720 cite the bogus article one attempting to impeach Trump for 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.840 high crimes and misdemeanors. This is all from my friend 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:55.080 Mark Hemingway at the Federalist dot Com quote. But wait, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:59.320 it gets much worse. Several other major media outlets, including NBC, ABC, 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:04.760 USA Today, PBS and CNN confirmed the fabricated quotes from 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:09.000 the post anonymous sources by citing their own anonymous sources. 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.760 He writes, alas, not only is this going to pass 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.600 without any consequences, we are inured to this behavior from 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.800 the media. The Post did this at the tail end 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.040 of a Trump presidency defined by years of the media 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:26.600 repeatedly being debased by sources who use credulously granted anonymity 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.440 as a cloak to pass off dodgy information, enriched themselves 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.440 or ironically enough so doubt about the results of the 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.560 twenty sixteen election. It's not exactly puzzling. While the Trump 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.640 White House might have stopped returning reporters phone calls whether 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.360 or not the mistakes above were intentional, this kind of 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.040 thing has become so commonplace and reckless that intent is 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:52.280 almost functionally irrelevant. With near universality, all these damning media 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.360 screwups run in one political direction. It's a shame New 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.440 York Governor Andrew Cuomo didn't try and kiss any of 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.880 the grandmothers he killed, Otherwise the media may have been 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.720 obligated to cover his deadly policies and quote Mark Federal 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.760 Mark a Hemingway at the Federalist, just lighting it up here, 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:13.760 and it's exactly the point. I mean this. Our media 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:18.360 deserves honestly, it deserves repudiation, it deserve scorn. These people 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.520 are atrocious, they're immoral, they're unethical, They ruin lives. There's 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.640 no decency, there's no honesty, and they're mostly really dumb too. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.920 They think they're smart. A lot of them managed to 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.720 weasel their way into relatively fancy institutions for their degrees, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.640 a Columbia Journalism School or whatever. It's all meaningless, friends, 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.760 it doesn't it doesn't actually tell you anything about them. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.680 A lot of them just found some way to use 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.960 the system to their own benefit. And that's all they do. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.280 That's really all their careers all about. They use the 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:54.000 system to elevate themselves at the expense of truth, decency, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:59.720 hard work, ethics. It's all about them. It's a profession 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:05.159 of sociopaths who weaponize their quasi psychosis on behalf of 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.320 the Democrat Party and get rich and famous doing so. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.480 At least the TV journals do the print journals, they 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:17.560 just walk around generally looking frazzled and frumpy and upset 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.200 and angry. And hate Republicans and pretend that they're doing 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:27.200 God's work by writing editorials disguised as news pieces. That 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.080 is the American media today. And the fact that they 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.240 would lie about a president, and that that lie would 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.879 find its way into another impeachment trial after other lies 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.920 told about the president for the first impeachment trial, after 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.320 other lies told about the president to bring a special 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.800 counsel against him. How much lying can they do about 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.840 us before we realize they are bad people who cannot 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.879 be trusted. I will tell you that we would have 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.000 worked just as hard to eliminate those acts of voter 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.560 suppression as we did to eliminate the ones that existed 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.920 in twenty eighteen. We were able to mitigate that harm 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.360 in twenty twenty. We will continue to fight. The reality 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.000 is voters when they see that people are attacking their 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.040 right to vote, we respond, and we respond with a 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.560 fury that is born of urgency. We would not have 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.080 the American Rescue Plan that is going to lift one 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.080 hundred and seventy one thousand children in Georgia out of poverty, 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.520 will serve millions of Americans and lift them out of poverty. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.479 That's something that would not happen but for the right 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.680 to vote, and so I refuse to countenance anything other 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.160 than the deepest commitment to defending our democracy through Fairfight 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.800 dot Com and the work that other organizations are doing. 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.919 This has become a big national fight for you. But 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.159 I am curious, are you still thinking about running for 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.800 governor in Georgia in twenty twenty two. My focus is 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.080 on making sure we have elections in twenty twenty two, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.440 and that means that we have to defend our democracy 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.080 against all enemies, foreign and certainly the domestic enemies we 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.640 see permeating and unfortunately populating our state legislatures, fighting hard 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.840 to restrict access to the right to vote, trying to 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.920 make certain that people have in young people cannot participate 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.640 fully in our democracy, which is the least patriotic thing 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:08.000 I can imagine. In this moment, Stacy Abrams can go 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:12.240 on air and say absolutely anything, and the journals like 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.480 Chuck Todd, who's just a sniveling little fraud, But the 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.600 journals nod their heads, they go, yeah, that's right, Stacey Abrams, 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:24.399 You're so great. You're not somebody who pretends that she 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.239 won an election that she lost that and no one 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.960 ever calls her out on this. I mean, they're putting 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.359 someone on on TV here who's the big defender of 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:36.440 free and fair elections, according to Democrats, Stacy Abrams, who 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.640 can accept that she lost an election. She walks around 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.359 acting like she actually won the Georgia gubernatorial race. But 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:48.040 she didn't. But that's okay because she's Stacy Abrams. She 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:53.400 suggests on National TV that Republicans because of the domestic threat. 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:57.720 Oh yes, the QAnon election cancelers are out there. More 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:02.440 hysteria nonsense from Democrats there might be canceled elections. What 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.360 no pushback? Oh, I'm working on having just making sure 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.840 we have elections in twenty twenty two. Oh yes, because 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.520 the big, bad mean Republicans will will get rid of 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:16.359 all of the elections. Every election integrity measure is racist, 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:20.080 every everything that we do. You know, I just want 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.120 to know, why have any rules about elections at all? 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.040 I mean, at some point you run into this, right, 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.040 why not just have you know, how anybody can vote 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.320 and whatever's in the box at the end of the 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.520 day at the polling station, and who says, end of 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.880 the day, Let's let's have an election year and we'll 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:36.879 just sort of let Well, it'll all be on the 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.680 honor system and you can just write down the name 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.040 of the person you want to be president and you 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.760 put it in that box. And there's no security because 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.800 we trust people. There's no there's no checking, you know, 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:52.280 the voter roles, there's no providing ID, there's no rua USA. Well, 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.320 just you know, it'll be like passing a hat around 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.120 that everyone writes it on a piece of paper. We'll 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:57.560 do that all over the country. We'll do it for 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.679 a whole year, because you know, we believe in democracy. 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:05.919 How much elimination of voter integrity measures is actually too 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:09.159 much for democrats? You have to ask that question. The answer, 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.000 by the way, is there's no such thing. As long 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.439 as they win, that's all that matters. Well, it's been 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:17.280 pretty aggressive. I mean, you've had significant contributions by the 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:20.399 New York Times, Jesse McKinley, all many Times Union, Brenda 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:24.560 Lyons up there pushing the story forward, New York Post, Champion, 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:29.320 Washington Post. All these forces gathering, you know, sort of 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:34.320 undoes the right wing conspiracy theory about the mainstream media, 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.119 which is that we don't cover democratic politicians. But I 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:40.400 would be remissed, Brian if I didn't mention CNN's own 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.479 huge media story here with Chris Cuomo, the anchor at 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:48.320 the nine o'clock hour who covered Andrew Cuomo and had 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.399 all these wonderful love athon interviews with him, more than 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.879 ten of them, and they suspended the conflict of interest 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.080 rule for Chris Cuomo for those interviews. Yet all of 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.719 a sudden they've enforced it again now that Andrew Cuomo 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:04.000 is in the midst of an historic scandal in the 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:05.960 Albany State House. So I think that that is a 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:12.080 major black eye for CNN, A major black guy for CNN. Uh. 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.680 This guy Wemple from the Washington Post, he's on CNN 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:20.240 air and he is he is giving them a little 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:23.960 little slap right across the face. He's the one, He's 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:25.480 the one giving them a black eye right there. I 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:29.159 gotta say I was a little surprised. Apparently, apparently the 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:33.200 journals can actually get upset at their fellow journals when 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:39.840 they're so grotesquely unethical in their professions, when there's such 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.440 an obvious fraudulence at the heart of what they're doing, 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.359 and just the conflict of interest and all of it. Yeah, 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.040 turns out that occasionally even even the lib journals will 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.040 have to call out their fellow lib journals. That was 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.840 a facinating one. But just to get into the heart 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.040 of the issue here for a second, why is he 0:22:58.080 --> 0:22:59.800 even pointing this out? What's he stating? Why is he 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:05.160 said saying this was you know, back when Chris, when 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:10.159 Andrew Cuomo was the hero, the hero of the pandemic, 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:14.119 we were told that it was fine that his brother, 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:18.399 Chris Cuomo, was interviewing him on what is ostensibly, or 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:23.960 at least theoretically allegedly a news channel night after night, 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:26.359 and it was all supposed to be so great, and 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:28.440 look at these two brothers and during the pandemic and 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:32.280 everything else. I mean, that's just not journalism, right, I mean, 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:35.520 I have two brothers. They're they're just the best guys, 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:38.400 the most fantastic individuals you could ever you could ever meet. 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:41.560 But you know, if I were doing, if I were 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:45.359 pretending to be a journalist covering the news, it would 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:49.119 not be appropriate for me to have my politician brother 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:52.800 on and give him a BackRub on TV every night. 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:56.480 I mean that that's just not that's not cool, that's 0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:59.680 not what it's fraud it. Look, they can do whatever 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.320 they want on at CNN, they just can't be frauds 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:04.359 about it. They can't lie about it. You know, if 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:06.560