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They are the Biden White House 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.960 is fighting tooth and nail. As you noted, Joe Biden 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:59.239 just extended the airline mask mandate for another month. Why 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.720 because they want to virtue signal. It makes zero sense. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.920 It is assinine. But there is good news. So the 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.719 good news is the Senate voted today. I just finished 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:14.240 voting on a resolution to end the airline mask mandate. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.120 And that resolution in the Senate, it passed. It passed 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:23.479 with a big bipartisan margin. It passed with eight Democrats 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.560 who voted for it. Here I'll read you the Democrats. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.960 You have Bennett from Colorado who's on the ballot. You 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.359 have Cortes Masto from Nevada who's on the ballot. You 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.359 have Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire who's on the ballot. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.200 You have Kelly from Arizona who's on the ballot. You 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.640 have Cinema from Arizona who's on the ballot. You have 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.360 Jackie Rosen from Nevada who's helping out Cortez Masto who's 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.039 on the ballot. You have John Tester and Montana because 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.839 he realizes he doesn't live in a communist state. And 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.840 we have Joe Mansion from West Virginia because he realizes 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.039 he doesn't live in a communist state. I'm noticing a 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.920 theme here, Senator. It is people who realize this is 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.479 eighty outic. Now every other Democrat voted for the mandate 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.640 that they all lined up like lemmings to jump off 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:17.280 the cliff. Look, on the face of it, the airline 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.480 mask mandate makes no sense whatsoever, and everyone knows that. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.880 Everybody does. You think about what we're told. Okay, you're 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.440 sitting on an airplane which has got fancy filtration systems. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.400 Apparently they clean out ninety nine point nine percent of 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.119 the particles in the air. The rules are you must 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.520 have a mask on. Everyone will die if you don't. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.240 Until you pick up a diet coke. When you have 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.440 a diet coke in your hand, no mask needed. You 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.040 can laugh, you can spit, you couldn't do whatever you want. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.919 Everything is safe. You put the diet coke down. I 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.680 just recently had a flight with a really intense flight 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.680 attendant who would literally as you set your drink down, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.040 like put your mask on in between SIPs, and it 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.960 was kind of like, dude, just just relax, just breathe, breathe, 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.600 You're gonna be fine. I never quite understood it. You'd 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.480 be sitting there and they'd say, it is urgent. It's 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.080 federal law. It's important to the health and survival of everyone. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.360 You must have the mask on unless we hand you 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.320 a cookie, in which case, if you get the cookie, 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.520 then you have to eat it. So I'm really pleased 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.200 to hear that the Democrats came out and a good 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.920 number of them, especially the ones on the ballot, voted 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.960 to get rid of the mask mandate. And then all 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.840 the Republicans, I assume we're on board with getting rid 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:34.800 of the mandate. Well yes and no. All the Republicans 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.840 were on board except Mitt Romney. So okay, so you 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.320 can still sort of say yes, I can't defend the 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.600 guy on this. I'm sorry, this is idiotic. I'm going 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.720 to give you a crazy suggestion. How about we have 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:55.800 the same rule for Americans across the country who get 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.880 an airplanes that we have for members of Congress at 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.320 the State of the Union address. With the State of 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.200 the Union Address two weeks ago, five hundred and thirty 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.200 five members of Congress. We're all sitting on the floor 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.559 of the House. I don't think there were five people 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.400 wearing masks in the entire House chamber. Joe Biden wasn't, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.120 although his speech might have been better if he was. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.280 Kamala Harris wasn't. Sitting right behind him, by the way, 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.280 she didn't have anything to say. Nothing prevented her from 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.080 wearing a mask. Nancy Pelosi wasn't, and just about every 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.480 other Democrat in the chamber wasn't it. We're sitting right 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.120 next to each other, we're in a closed environment, but 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.840 none of them were wearing it. So why is it 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.560 that a grandmother flying to visit her grandkids has to 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.000 put a mask on when Chuck Schumer or Kamala Harris 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.360 or Nancy Pelosi don't. It is stupid. It is theater, 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:50.080 by the way, you know, just a week before the 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.200 State of the Union, Pelosi was demanding that. She said, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.720 no one will be allowed in the House Chamber unless 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.480 they have tested negative A and B, unless they're wearing 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.600 an N ninety five mask. And I was like, you 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.080 can kiss my hind quarters. I Am not going in 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.760 there with an n ninety five masks. So I hadn't 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.480 decided whether I was going to just skip the whole 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.240 thing altogether, or whether I was going to go in 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.080 without a mask and see, I see if the House 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.960 would try to remove me. That actually would have been 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.480 kind of fun. Dragged out by the police. Yeah, that 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.760 would have been great. But then what I assume happened 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:31.320 is someone in Pelosi's office looked at the polling and said, 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.480 holy crap, this is really unpopular. Do we want Biden's 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.360 whole speech to be seen with Pelosi and Kamala both 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.840 wearing masks behind him the whole time? People won't like that. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.000 And suddenly the science changed, not the medical science, the 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.560 political science changed, and they got rid of the mandate. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.360 This is garbage and it's time to get rid of it. Well, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.679 if that's the case, so it passes the Senate. You've 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.160 got a lot of Dems who sign on to it. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:00.880 It's going to go to the House. Now. Is the 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.360 House going to take it up? Is the House going 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.959 to vote for it? Is Biden going to sign it? Look, 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.679 I assume Pelosi won't take it up, that she'll just 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.840 leave it and won't allow a vote on it. Presumably 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.680 it would pass the House if you got eight eight 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.320 Democratic senators who voted for it. There are a lot 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.800 more Democrats of the House who would love to cast 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.000 this vote, but Pelosi is listening to the crazies inter 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.480 party what this may do. It was such a strong 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.760 bipartisan vote that what it may do is caused Biden 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.760 not to extend this damn thing beyond April eighteenth. It 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.240 was supposed to expire this week on March eighteenth, extended 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.640 a month, seeing eight Democrats, including almost every Democrat on 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.839 the ballot, though Raphael Warnock didn't vote for it, and 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.280 he's on the ballot in Georgia. Apparently he thinks Georgian's 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.240 like wearing masks on planes. You know, I'll let him 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:53.319 explain that. But it may put political pressure on the 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.200 White House to change. Look, I'll give another example. The NBA. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:02.839 The Brooklyn nets nets Kyrie Irving, fantastic player, not allowed 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.000 to play. He hadn't been playing for months. Why because 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.360 the idiotic New York rules, So you have to be 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.720 vaccinated to play, and Kyrie chose not to be vaccinated. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:18.640 Now what this week? It truly Ilios illustrated the idiocy 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.160 because New York revoked it requirement that you had to 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.959 be vaccinated to go to the games, so the fans. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.360 Kyrie went to the game as a fan. He's wearing, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.960 you know, civilian clothes. He's there as a fan. By 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:33.520 the way, no more mask mandates, so we don't have 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.359 a mask on. He's not vaccinated as a fan. Perfectly 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.920 okay for him to be sitting in the stadium. He 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.360 hugs his teammates on the courtroom, perfectly okay for him 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.080 to hug his teammates as a fan. Apparently he bought 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:47.800 a ticket, just like you or I Wood. He went 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.880 and bought a ticket. But New York's rules are so 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.960 idiotic that as a fan he can be unvaccinated not 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.000 wear a mask, but as a player he's not allowed 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.160 to play because they say if you're were is an 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.360 indoor performance, you must be vaccinated. I don't know, Michael, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.959 explain the science to me. Is there something about touching 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.520 the leather on a ball? Is it like the reverse 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.839 of the diet coke that if you touch the leather 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.600 on a ball, suddenly it's deadly and everyone's going to die. 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.960 Is that how it works? Yeah? I think it must be. 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.599 Well I am glad to see. I've just noticed it 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.520 anecdotally that the tide seems to be turning even my 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:29.640 most liberal COVID neurotic friends and relatives. But both of them, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.480 all two of them. No, they really have. I mean, 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.199 I come from New York. I know a lot of 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.559 people who are pretty on the left. You're a New 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:42.040 York yalely, I assume you have many liberal neurotics. Look, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.000 I'll tell you how crazy it is. I just did 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.800 something twenty minutes ago that you would never believe I did. Yeah, 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:53.760 I retweeted Trevor Noah, I hope, with some mocking, derissive comment. No, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.080 no, no no, no. I said, I agree with Trevor Noah, 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.720 and I said this is a sign of the apocalypse 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.160 because he was talking about Kyrie and he said, this 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.040 stuff makes no sense. I mean, he was just it 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.319 was a rant about how idiotic it was. And when 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.199 you've lost Trevor Noah as a leftist, you've lost everybody. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.880 And I gotta say, I did a press conference today 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.960 in which I made a direct appeal to Kyrie come 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.680 to Houston. I'm a die hard Rockets fan. You know, 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:26.400 in Texas, we actually are not insane. Unlike Manhattan, Kyrie, 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.360 you can start tomorrow for the Rockets. I have no 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.000 authority to make that offer. And yet I feel confident 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.200 if you walk in and put on a Rockets uniform, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.360 they're gonna let you play. He is a hell of 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.000 a ball player. And the idiocy. By the way, Kevin 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.760 Durant just this week said, it's the dumbest rule I've 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.320 ever seen. He's allowed to sit in the stands, but 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.400 not to dribble a basketball. Trevor Noah asked a great question, Michael, 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.839 I'd be interested in your thoughts. He said, Okay, so 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.520 how does it work. He can buy a ticket, he 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:54.960 can go as a stand, he doesn't have to wear 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.840 a mask, he can hug them, but he can't touch 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.200 a basketball. What happens if halftime they call him in 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.160 to make the halftime shot to win a car? Can 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.440 he touch a basketball then as a fan but not 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.400 a player. It just is garbage. And by the way, 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.160 the NBA just find him fifty thousand dollars because he 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.960 went into the locker room. It is dumb. And the 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.880 good news is it is so acidine that I think 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:25.320 they've I believe these mandates are on their way out, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:30.480 because even the craziest Democrats realize how unpopular it is. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.560 Everyone but the loons, well and Mitt Romney realize how 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.000 bad it is. That's I used to say that Senator 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.840 Romney was my favorite Democrat, but I think those Democrats 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.680 who voted against the masks, they probably take the cake. Now. Yeah, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.000 the way you know it, the way you know it's Senator, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.920 that the public opinion is moving in this direction is 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.040 of course that Anthony Fauci has gone into the witness 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:57.240 protection program. I actually have a documentary series out today 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.360 on the Daily Wire about doctor fouch. She's history, not 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.720 just during COVID, but going all the way back to 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.680 the eighties. The way he's amassed all of this power, 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.840 the way that the most dangerous place in Washington is 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.120 the space between Faucci and a television camera. They used 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.240 to say that about Chuck Schumer. Now you see that 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.280 really with Faucci. The fact that this man has held 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.560 onto power for so long, we don't know very much 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.600 about him. That's the reasons out now as Faucci unmasked. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.040 I think they know, and I think that's why they're 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.920 going to bench the man. They're trying to get through 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.400 the midterms, and then what happens after the midterms, I 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.120 guess is anyone's guess. So look, I think we should 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.119 be understated. I don't think we should engage in hyperbole. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.080 And I know you have no desire to make a 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.440 shameless pitch on this podcast never But if I hear 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.040 you right, you're saying that if you don't go immediately 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.160 watch your documentary on doctor Faucci, that you will go 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.000 to your grave as a poor, ignorant fool, unable to 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.560 deal with the universe and with really a lacking in 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.720 basic awareness of anything happening on Earth. Is that is 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.840 that about, right, Senator? That is the subtlety that I 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.400 have come to expect from you, and it happens to 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.400 be one hundred percent correct. You've put it very well. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.760 This is the time head on over to Daily Wire 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.520 to go watch Fauci Unmasked. I just wanted us to 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.960 be as shameless on this as you're and my friend 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:20.440 Ben Shapiro and and and if he can brand just 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.880 about everything on Earth, and then surely we can we 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.840 can pitch your documentary. That's really all I want to 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.440 do is get one overrun Ben. So I really I 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.680 appreciate your help, and I appreciate the help of all 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.600 of the Verdict listeners. I did want to get your 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.120 thoughts on this regarding Senator Romney, not even the mask vote, 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.400 but he got into a tiff with a former Democrat, 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.960 Congresswoman Tulsie Gabbert. Tulsa Gabbert had published a video about 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.920 a United States program it's run out of the Pentagon 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:53.240 to work with Ukraine on certain biological research facilities. As 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:58.000 often happens, when this program was exposed or being discussed 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:59.960 in the media, we were told it was a crazy 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.000 tinfoil hat conspiracy theory, it doesn't exist. Then we found 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.320 out it does exist, but we don't have the United 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.000 States didn't every much to do with it. Then we 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.480 found out the United States actually has had this program 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.399 and it goes back to a treaty from two thousand 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.640 and five. But the research was totally not dangerous whatsoever. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.840 Now we find out hearing from the Pentagon in the 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.240 State Department, actually there are some very dangerous pathogens in 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.640 these labs and if the Russians get their hands on them, 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.399 this could be a really big problem in Ukraine. So 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.720 Tulsea Gabbard made a video basically to that effect, and 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.000 Senator Romney came out and said that she was a 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:37.359 traitor who was peddling false Russian propaganda. He accused an 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.280 American service member, Tulsa Gabbard and former member of Congress, 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:45.679 of treason. That was unfortunate. Tulsi came back and just 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.720 body slammed. Man. I mean it was it was brutal. 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.080 Not now she she popped back and said, you have 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:59.880 one of two choices, either respond and refute the fact 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.320 time laying out, or immediately apologize and resigned from the Senate, 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:10.800 which was probably not terribly understated either. You know, I 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:16.160 will say on this issue, there is some subtlety here 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:24.080 in that Tulsia is absolutely correct that there are biolabs 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.800 in Ukraine, that there are labs that are studying pathogens, 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.840 that are studying infectious diseases. Now that shouldn't surprise anybody. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.919 I mean, Ukraine is a first world country. You know, 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.879 every first world country has labs that are biolabs that 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.600 are studying pathogens. You know, Ukraine is entitled to have 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.280 a CDC just like Frances or the United Kingdom. Is 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:47.399 that that's what you know, developed countries have as they 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.640 have medical research into dangerous diseases. So of course Ukraine 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.879 has labs that are studying infectious diseases that presumably have 0:18:55.640 --> 0:19:02.240 all sorts of infectious diseases they're studying. And the point 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.720 that you and I have made and others have made 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.159 that when you have labs with infectious diseases, the dangerous pathogens, 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.639 it's a really bad idea for Russia to be firing 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.480 missiles and having their tank shoot at them, just like 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.080 it's a really dangerous idea for Russia to be firing 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.639 missiles and having their tank shoot at nuclear reactors. Like 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.120 nuclear reactors being hit by missiles is just bad. It's 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:27.080 just a bad, bad, bad idea. Same thing if you 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:31.679 have a biolab that is studying dangerous pathogens, dropping a 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.000 bomb on it is a really bad idea. You don't 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:39.080 want dangerous diseases to escape. There is a slight nuance 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.040 here in that there are folks online and the Twitter 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:48.400 sphere that are referring to these labs as bioweapons labs. Now, 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:52.440 bioweapons labs are different than biolabs, and that one word, 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.520 it's a small word, but it makes a world a difference. 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.320 Bioweapons labs suggest that they're studying how to use biological 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.320 weapons to kill people, kill civilians, kill soldiers. I have 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:07.840 seen no evidence of bio weapons labs in Ukraine. That's 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:09.800 not to say they don't exist, but if they do, 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.880 I haven't seen any evidence of it. I think that's 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.320 what Romney was jumping on, and I think it would 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.760 have been perfectly fine to respond like a reasonable person 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.639 and say, well, of course Ukraine has biolabs and it 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:30.080 would be dangerous if Russian missiles or or bombs hit them. 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:32.560 The evidence at this point is not clear that Ukraine 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.600 has bioweapons labs, and so we should be cautious in 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.440 terms of what we say. That's actually how a rational 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:44.479 person would engage, but in this hyper politicized shirts and 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.919 skin tribal I hate anyone who disagrees. Instead, we just 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.480 screamed trader, trader, trader, off with their heads, and I 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.720 think that's really It'd be better if everyone refrained from 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.200 doing that, right. There is obviously a ton of nuance here. 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.480 I was wondering if you had any updates on what's 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.919 going on in Ukraine and Russia. The situation seems to 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:06.600 be changing constantly. Everyone is pumping propaganda into the air, 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.440 so sometimes it's hard to know what exactly to believe. Now, 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.440 one of the big points of contention here has been 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.600 NATO membership. Yeah, a lot of the Russian propaganda says 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.679 the whole reason for the war is because NATO's going eastward. 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:22.960 Ukraine has said they wanted to join NATO. NATO has 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:24.480 said no, the reason for the war is because you've 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.320 Vladmir Putin or rolling tanks into Ukraine and you want 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.480 to recreate the Soviet Union. Zelenski himself in Ukraine had 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.840 been saying that he wants to join NATO. He had 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:38.240 been signaling this for years. Now. Just today he's come 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.159