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Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday. We have an amazing show for everybody today

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Speaker 1: when we have Crystal, indeed we do. We got commerceman Rocanna.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk to him about what the hell

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Speaker 1: is going on with the eviction moratorium, how it was

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Speaker 1: allowed to lapse, the blame game that is going on there.

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Speaker 1: We've got an update for you on some of the

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Speaker 1: ways that the Washington Press Corps is covering for power,

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Speaker 1: which is, you know, what they seem to feel like

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Speaker 1: their job is at this point. Some actually good news

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Speaker 1: on Senator Lindsay Graham apparently has coronavirus. He was vaccine,

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Speaker 1: so this is one of those breakthrough cases. He says

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Speaker 1: he's feeling pretty good. But we've got some interesting details

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Speaker 1: about that. President Obama contrary to public health guidelines during

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Speaker 1: a big sixtieth birthday party bash did you get did

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Speaker 1: you get your in? Oh? I didn't playing the mail,

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Speaker 1: but we did want to start with that eviction moratorium

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Speaker 1: and more basically buck passing and blame shifting between Pelosi

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Speaker 1: that statement, because I want to read a bit of that.

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Speaker 1: They say, the President will continue to do everything in

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Speaker 1: his power to help renters from eviction. The administration provided

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Speaker 1: states and local governments with the flexibility to get funds

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Speaker 1: out efficiently without burden some documentation. That's one of the

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Speaker 1: big problems is that money was passed and appropriated through

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Speaker 1: out by and large to the people who needed it

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Speaker 1: efforts to identify all available legal authorities to provide necessary protections. Now,

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Speaker 1: one would have thought that given that the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: thought that they would have redoubled their efforts prior to

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Speaker 1: that we would not act to prevent people from being evicted. Overwhelmingly,

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Speaker 1: our members agreed to extend the moratorium and universally to

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Speaker 1: Pelosi and Congress put up the most perfunctory of efforts.

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Speaker 1: As we told you yesterday, they didn't even take a

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Speaker 1: it has to go through Congress. However, that was conditioned

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Speaker 1: as we talked about yesterday, they appropriated roughly fifty billion

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Speaker 1: Three billion of that has gone out out of fifty Okay,

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Speaker 1: So major states, major metropolitan areas where no assistance has

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Speaker 1: The design of the program was always foolish to start with.

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Speaker 1: subservient as it could possibly be. As we're going to

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Speaker 1: that President Biden has asked both at the state and

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Speaker 1: so far what seems to be very difficult obstacle from

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court ruling. And again the President went out

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Speaker 1: to do everything we can, thank you very much. Justice's early,

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Speaker 1: But the delta variat has been around for weeks, is

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Speaker 1: I can't find a way to get this done legally.

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Speaker 1: As you look, maybe you know, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: And for the entire country, that's not fair to renters.

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Speaker 1: It's not fair at anybody else. And I would say this,

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Speaker 1: on her Instagram story with the text quote, just so

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Speaker 1: we're all clear, this is outside. So we've got the

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Speaker 1: White House correspondent for CNN running cover for the mayor.

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Speaker 1: And then I mean, presumably somebody leaked that the writer

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Speaker 1: was that Tiana Low, who wrote the story, was not

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Speaker 1: invited to this wedding. But I hadn't call the magazine

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Speaker 1: and said, did you know she wasn't even invited? So

435
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Speaker 1: what if she wanted to invite? Who cares? Then this

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Speaker 1: story is that the mayor is breaking the mask mandate.

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Speaker 1: There's a photo of it doesn't matter how you get

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Speaker 1: the photo. Yeah, it's called journalism. I mean, I just

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Speaker 1: don't have I don't even know what to say, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know that. I mean, I just was really

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Speaker 1: perplexed by this, Like do we even know how she

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Speaker 1: obtained the photo? I don't think that she ever said

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Speaker 1: like I was there, and I never said like I

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Speaker 1: was She was like I did my job and I

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Speaker 1: found this good story and I went and go took

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Speaker 1: a photo which was news where who cares how the

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Speaker 1: photo is? This is bizarre. And the Washingtonian presented this

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00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: like this was some big bombshell update to their story,

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00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 1: like we'd all be like, oh, well, she wasn't invited,

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Speaker 1: never mind, then forget I said anything about it. It's

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Speaker 1: just very strange way of thinking about journalism. I believe

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Speaker 1: we have a couple of responses to this that we enjoyed.

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Speaker 1: My first one update the Washington Post reporters who broke

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Speaker 1: the Watergate story weren't at the break in and Glenn

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Speaker 1: Glenn were invited to the break in? How could they

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Speaker 1: break the story? Then this is preposterous. Glenn also put

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Speaker 1: it really well, how gosh a journalists reporting on the

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Speaker 1: activities and political official without having been invited to do so?

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Speaker 1: Where are her Man and ge This country is going

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Speaker 1: to Helen and hast So look, we put this together

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Speaker 1: because it does actually show the pathologies of a lot

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Speaker 1: of people in this city who report on the most

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Speaker 1: powerful people in the country, which is that, as Glenn

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Speaker 1: put it, they want to be invited to cover, not

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Speaker 1: to like actually, really, you know, it's a term as

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Speaker 1: muck raking like going through and really doing some investigative journalism.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the definition of a good story is a

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Speaker 1: powerful person like Muriel Bowser is violating one of her

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Speaker 1: own policies. And if you found out about if I

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Speaker 1: found out, but you bet your ass, I would have

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Speaker 1: been trying to get in there. I'm not sure if

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Speaker 1: I would have been able to kind of props to her,

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Speaker 1: you know, sneaking your way into a restaurant. She even

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Speaker 1: went up to the mayor and asked her why she

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Speaker 1: wasn't complying with the massman. I think the cop stepped

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Speaker 1: in and we're like, hey, you got to get away

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Speaker 1: from her or something like that. That's a fantastic story.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what you're supposed to do. Yeah, and actually,

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Speaker 1: I mean think about it, basically crashing something. Yeah, pretty

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Speaker 1: uncomfortable and you know, like I props once again if

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Speaker 1: she caused a you know, an incident for the mayor.

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Speaker 1: The mayor then canceled her press conference yesterday for COVID

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Speaker 1: because she didn't want to answer any questions about this.

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Speaker 1: The entire DC as in like Washington d C Press

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Speaker 1: Corps followed up about this story. Our local like Fox

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Speaker 1: affiliate ran like a whole thing on it. This is

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Speaker 1: a legit thing, And here's the thing. To show you

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Speaker 1: where this comes from. Take a look at yesterday at

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Speaker 1: the White House Press briefing, where the Associated Press White

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Speaker 1: House correspondent reminds the Press secretary that her staff told

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Speaker 1: her she has another appointment and then suggests the number

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Speaker 1: of questions that she should continue to take. Just take

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Speaker 1: a listen. These reports were made directly to the Office

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Speaker 1: of the Inspector General, and improvements have been made. You

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Speaker 1: have a heart out, So maybe like two more? Okay,

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Speaker 1: go ahead? Uh what so why is the listen? Once

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Speaker 1: upon a time I was in the room and if

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Speaker 1: Sarah Sanders wanted to stay for two hours, great, you

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Speaker 1: know why because we all had a lot of questions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if she had to go, that's on her.

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00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: She's supposed You know, I've interviewed Trump. You know, I

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Speaker 1: interviewed Trump four times. Every single time they told me

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Speaker 1: he's only got fifteen minutes. The shortest one was I

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Speaker 1: think thirty four and the entire time I didn't stop

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Speaker 1: the interview to be like, yeah, you have a heart right,

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Speaker 1: I was like, mister President, your staff tells me Teresa

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Speaker 1: May is on the phone. I'm like, I don't care

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Speaker 1: if Teresa May is on the phone. I'm sitting here.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask as many questions as I possibly

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Speaker 1: can until he kicks me out. And his staff would

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Speaker 1: do everything in their power to try and get you

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Speaker 1: out of there. They'd be like, you know, like pointing

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Speaker 1: at their phone behind him, be like they're like, wrap

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00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: this up. I'm like, no, this has nothing to do

515
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: with you, Like, get out of here. It's all you know.

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00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: It's like between him and me. Same thing. They would

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Speaker 1: tap you under, tap your leg, be like, hey, you

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Speaker 1: need to cut this thing off. Whatever. I once again,

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00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: it's his schedule, not yours. And why is the Associated

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Speaker 1: Press White House correspondent being like, we're told you have

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Speaker 1: a hard out. You know you got to get out

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00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: of here. What are you hurt? Timekeeper? I mean, what's happening? Really?

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to you are supposed to want her to

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Speaker 1: stay in there as long as possible, supposed to throw

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Speaker 1: questions at her as long as she wants to get

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Speaker 1: out of can and even she seems a little bit

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Speaker 1: like okay, like yeah, like questions, why don't I why

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00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: don't you let me do my job here and you

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00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: guys just do your job and I'll handle I'll manage

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00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: my time just fine. Yeah. It also shows in the

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Speaker 1: sense of entitlement that you see from Biden. Yeah, anytime

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00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: he gets a question that's remotely challenging, he flips. I

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00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: mean he really goes, like gets enraged and yells at

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Speaker 1: people and has these like weird outbursts. Called a reporter

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Speaker 1: of pain in the neck. Yeah, I believe real pain

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00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 1: in the next Yeah, exactly. And I mean just for

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Speaker 1: asking like not anything really that crazy, but just sort

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Speaker 1: of obvious questions about whatever is going on that are

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00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: a slightly challenging or uncomfortable to him. And I mean

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Speaker 1: part of it is just like old and grabby at

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Speaker 1: this point. But we saw this on the campaign trail too.

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00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 1: Remember when a voter challenged him and he was like,

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00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: you're a lying, dog faced pony soldier. There's just strange stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's very strange. But it takes a sense of entitlement

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Speaker 1: that they don't think that they have to be challenging,

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Speaker 1: they don't think they should be challenged, they don't believe

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Speaker 1: in an adversarial relationship. It's all become about access. Journalism

548
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: the way to advance your careers by sucking up to

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00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: these people and keeping them as your friends and buddies

550
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: so that they can be your sources, so that you

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00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 1: can be at their cocktail parties and all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: so you can run in the same social circles, rather

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00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: than actually holding them to account. And so that's how

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00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: you end up with this like bizarre thinking that somehow

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00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: it was inappropriate for a reporter who wasn't invited to

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Speaker 1: the wedding to you know, break a fairly significant story

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00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: about about hypocrisy of a public official that fits with

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00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: a pattern that we've seen, a hypocrisy of public officials.

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom certainly comes to mind in all of this.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the idea that that would be anything

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00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: wrong with doing that when you weren't explicitly invited to

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00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: do so is just really something special. It's totally bonkers.

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Speaker 1: And I want people to know this that AP thing

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00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: that is standard practice. That's what it was like before

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Speaker 1: Trump came into office. And one, in my opinion, one

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Speaker 1: of the best things that he did is completely break

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Speaker 1: the media cartel, which is that in the past and

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00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: the White House AP always gets the first question then

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Speaker 1: like Reuter's or whatever, and the AP guy is the

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00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: one who is willing to be like, hey, you've answered

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00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: enough questions that this standard practice under Obama, under Bush

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00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: all of that. Do you really think it should be

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00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: that way? Who elected this guy? Actually? Nobody? And from

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Speaker 1: my experience, the best times in the briefing room was

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Speaker 1: when the White House desperately didn't want to answer something

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Speaker 1: and they would come in there and the press would

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Speaker 1: just hammer them, I mean, and no matter what they

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00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: would try and go to the funda on the port

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Speaker 1: and you would get smacked with the question and then

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00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: there would shout and it was adversarial. That was exactly

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Speaker 1: how frankly it should have been. And this is a

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00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: blatant example of how basically the system is rigged. If

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Speaker 1: you have the Associated Press guy, if he thinks that

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00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: the White House press corpse answered enough questions, whenever he

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00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: only takes questions from establishing media outlets, Okay, game over.

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Speaker 1: I mean, good luck trying to ask a distant question.

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00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: And that briefing room today, I don't even know how

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00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: they do it. I know some of the people in there.

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00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: It's a tooth and nail fight in order to try

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Speaker 1: and actually press this woman because of exactly a system

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00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: like this. Well, we know the Trump administration and the

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00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: Biden administration neither one cares about a free press because

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Speaker 1: both of them are prosecuting Julia Sang for the crime

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Speaker 1: of revealing secrets that powerful people did not want to revealed.

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Speaker 1: we have some I don't know if this is good news,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's revealing news about interesting news vaccine uptake. So,

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Speaker 1: of course, you know everybody rightfully, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: very concerned about the fact that we kind of have

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Speaker 1: plateaued in terms of Americans wanting to go out and

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Speaker 1: get that first shot or wanting to complete their second

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Speaker 1: shot if they're doing the Pfizer Maderna version. And meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: of course we have a delta variant that is going

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Speaker 1: through the population, especially ravaging unvaccinated populations. Case numbers quite high,

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Speaker 1: hospitalization numbers also going up, and death numbers again very

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Speaker 1: very concentrated among the unvaccinated population. So you've seen a

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Speaker 1: surge Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri, some southern states, Arkansas where you've

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Speaker 1: seen a huge surge in the delta variant in cases,

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Speaker 1: in hospitalizations, and in death. While we are also seeing

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Speaker 1: in those states and more broadly across the country, but

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Speaker 1: in particular in those states where the presence of coronavirus

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Speaker 1: is very noticeable, where people are having their friends and

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Speaker 1: their family members or they're worried about their friends and

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Speaker 1: their family members, parents and grandparents getting sick. We're also

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Speaker 1: seeing a pretty significant uptick in the number of people

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Speaker 1: who are going out and choosing to get the vaccine.

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Speaker 1: So let's take a look at this Washington Post story

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Speaker 1: about a rush to get shot. So they say on

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Speaker 1: Friday there were more than eight hundred and sixty five

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Speaker 1: thousand doses administered. That's the highest daily figure since July third,

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Speaker 1: so since a month ago. According to their Vaccine Tracker.

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Speaker 1: Third week that states with the highest number of coronavirus

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Speaker 1: cases also had the highest vaccination numbers. Here's some of

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Speaker 1: the specifics. Louisiana experienced AE hundred and fourteen percent increase

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Speaker 1: in uptake according to the latest CDC data. Arkansas, another

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Speaker 1: state that's been hard hit, recorded a ninety six percent increase,

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Speaker 1: Alabama sixty five percent increase, of Missouri forty nine percent

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Speaker 1: in increase. So you are seeing as people as this

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Speaker 1: is becoming more real to people and they see the

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Speaker 1: way that the virus is spreading in their community, they're

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Speaker 1: worried about themselves, They're worried about their friends and family members.

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Speaker 1: You do see them going out and increasingly getting shots.

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Speaker 1: I think that that look. I wish it didn't take that.

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Speaker 1: I wish it didn't take seeing a friend or family

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Speaker 1: member or whoever gets sick for people to go out

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Speaker 1: and take this seriously and get the vaccine. But it

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Speaker 1: does show you that, you know, there's some population that's

644
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: never going to do it, and there's a lot of

645
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: people that eventually they're going to wait and see, they're

646
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: going to see the way it's starting to spread in

647
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: their community, and they are going to do what needs

648
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: to be done. I do think that's encouraging. They also

649
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: I appreciated this about the story. They spoke to some

650
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: of the people who were going out and getting their

651
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: first shots, and there were two of them I wanted

652
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: to bring. They interview about four or five people. One

653
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: was in North Philadelphia, forty nine year old Shonda Finley.

654
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: She was getting vaccinated because of her job at a

655
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: public health organization, and this is what encouraged her. She said,

656
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: I had the time earlier during the pandemic to get

657
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: the shot twice. I didn't trust getting the one and

658
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: done from Johnson and Johnson thanks really to sort of

659
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: media misinformation about that one. Thanks guys. Yeah yeah. Finley

660
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: said she would not have gotten it anywhere else but

661
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: at the Black Doctor's COVID Consortium, a vaccination clinic in

662
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: a black church that has seen a major increase in

663
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: community interest. She said, I felt more comfortable being taken

664
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: care of by people of color. Great solution, great solution,

665
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: what have we been saying? Made her feel comfortable, made

666
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: her feel confident she found the time to do. That

667
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: was the other thing she expressed is like I just

668
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: didn't have the time. It's not that I was like

669
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: absolutely no, but I was super busy during the pandemic

670
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: dealing with She works in public health. So now I

671
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: have this situation that I feel more comfortable with, I

672
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: found the time to do it. So I thought that

673
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: was revealing. And then they also interviewed this eighteen year

674
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 1: old Tyler Sprinkle and rural Missouri, just graduated from high

675
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: school in May's and working at his family's tire shop.

676
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: He's studying to be an auctioneer and taking care of

677
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: his grandparents, and he said it thinking about them that

678
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: made him decide, even though he's a conservative Republican, to

679
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 1: go out and get the shot. He says, I would

680
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,439
Speaker 1: feel really bad if I brought it to them, even

681
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: me being so stubborn, I finally did it. So for him,

682
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: it was seeing the spreadest community, it becoming really real

683
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: to him that he could be the reason that his

684
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: parents or grandparents got sick, and that was what changed

685
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: his mind. So I just thought this story was important

686
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: because they talked to real people rather than just speculating,

687
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: and because it does show that there is some hope

688
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: for getting people who have been reluctant still to take

689
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: the shot and get the shot and protect themselves and

690
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 1: protect their communities. There's a lot of hatred in America

691
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: right now. A lot of vaccinated people say screw these

692
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: people are geting vaccinated, and a lot of you know,

693
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: vice versa, who the hell are these people to tell

694
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: me what to do? This is a good story. Trust people.

695
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: People respond to good incentives. This eighteen year old, he

696
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: sees the news, He's like, hey, you know what, I

697
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: got good grandparents. I got to take care of him.

698
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it. I read some of

699
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 1: the other anecdotes in here. Some people were like, hey,

700
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: I want to go visit my parents in El Salvador

701
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: and El Salvador's So I got to get the show,

702
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: and I was a little uncomfortable because I didn't want

703
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 1: to get sick. I understand that. I can tell you personally,

704
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: it was it was like twenty four hours. Didn't feel

705
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: that great. After that, I was good. Yeah, you can

706
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 1: go and you can look and you can see many

707
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,760
Speaker 1: of the other other ones. You know. I'll also highlight

708
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: that same one you pointed to in North Philadelphia black community,

709
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: and a caregiver there said that she didn't think that

710
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: she would get sick from coronavirus until her friend died

711
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: last month. From the delta variant, and she was like, Okay,

712
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: it's not look you if people come to their decisions

713
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: in very different ways, and trying to force people to

714
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: do something generally doesn't work. We have to accept all

715
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: kinds of externalities of living in a free country. It's

716
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: really bad to be fat. We live actually in a

717
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: fat country, and there's a whole other you knows, it's

718
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: really bad to engage in all sorts of behaviors that

719
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: the CDC tells you not to do. I've said this before.

720
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: The CDC says not to eat running eggs. I think

721
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: your runn eggs are disgusting personally, but I know a

722
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: lot of people who like it. A CDC says it's

723
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: the running yoke. If the white part is running, that

724
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 1: grows on me out. But I like it like over medium.

725
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: When I see people like the running white cart that

726
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: that's a little too. When I see people take like

727
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: bread and dip it and I'm like, oh god, I'm

728
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: gonna throw off. This is a side note. You're not

729
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 1: supposed to eat meat which is cooked I think below

730
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,919
Speaker 1: one sixty, which I think is medium. I mean, who

731
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: does that? I know many many tasteless ghost people do

732
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: eat their steaks more, but some of us with more

733
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: refined tastes don't do that, and that's in violation of

734
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 1: CEC guidance. More, what I'm saying is there is cost

735
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: benefit risk analysis. People make decisions all the time because

736
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: we live in a free society, and in general, I

737
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: would say it's better to trust people. And I know

738
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,439
Speaker 1: it's very frustrating, especially brethren here in DC, being like, Oh,

739
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: these vaccine unvaccinated, what's wrong with them? People come to

740
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: decisions in their own way. This uptick and I would

741
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: point to this every single one of the people that

742
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 1: they interview in this story. It had nothing to do

743
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: with CDC guidance, with any institution. It was cases are up.

744
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: I personally feel scared. Yeah, I'm going to go and

745
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: get the shot. Some of the place important and some

746
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: of these places, I think Arkansas has put in place

747
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 1: a one hundred dollars incentive, So some of these places

748
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: also have put an incentive in place. I don't know

749
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: if that has impacted. You have to think that that's

750
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: having some impact on the numbers as well. The other

751
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: thing I think is just like given how much government

752
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: has failed people and how much government has lied to people,

753
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: and how much the media has failed and lied to people.

754
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: It takes away your right to say, like, just trust it,

755
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: just do what we say, Like, you have to understand

756
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: the context and the place that we're at in this

757
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: country where I mean, you have a healthcare system that

758
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: could not be more of an unconscionable disaster like predatory disaster.

759
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,839
Speaker 1: So you've got a large number of uninsured people who

760
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: are worried they're going to get charged for the vaccine,

761
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: which is not crazy. And look, the vaccine is free.

762
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: I got it for free. You got it for free,

763
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: like people are getting the vaccine for free. However, there

764
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 1: have been cases of unscrupulous providers who have been trying

765
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 1: to charge people for the vaccine. And if you've had

766
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: bad experiences with the healthcare system, you know how much

767
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: they try to gouge you at every turn. Is that crazy? No.

768
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: We had Michael Brendon Doherty on here, who's a conservative,

769
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: who was like, yeah, probably why the uptake is higher

770
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: in the UK is because they got the NHS and

771
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: because they trust their doctors and everybody's connected to the

772
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 1: healthcare system exactly. We have so many Americans who don't

773
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: have a primary care physician who are basically shut out

774
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: of medical care altogether. So then you want to go

775
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: and say you must interact with someone you don't know

776
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: and you don't trust, with the system that you've had

777
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: terrible experiences with. You know, we don't really have a

778
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 1: leg to stand on there in terms of that. And

779
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 1: that's why in Europe the rates have now surpassed ours

780
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: and Canada the rates have now surpassed ours. And also

781
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 1: the bad behavior of the pharmacy company certainly doesn't help.

782
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: I found this on FT, which is that in Europe,

783
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: now that they're able to the moment that they're able to,

784
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: of course Pfiser and maderta jack up the COVID vaccine prices.

785
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: I think, isn't it Pfizer, that's like pushing to require

786
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: a booster shot. Now I don't really think that's necessary.

787
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: But you know, of course they care so much about profits.

788
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: That builds in a healthy level of skepticism among the

789
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: public about exactly what's going on here. And you can't

790
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: ignore these factors ultimately. So look, there is a little

791
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: bit of good news here because of this uptick, the

792
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: population has finally hit seventy percent. That has at least

793
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: some you know, some the first dose of a vaccine,

794
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: ninety percent of those in elderly populations. Of course, we

795
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: know that they are the most vulnerable. This is far later,

796
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: I think we have those numbers that we can throw

797
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: up there. This is about a month later than what

798
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 1: the administration ultimately wanted. So you can see there're seventy

799
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 1: percent of US adults have had at least one dose

800
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: of the COVID vaccine. We know that one dose, even

801
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: though you'd rather have two doses, one dose does provide

802
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: a significant amount of protection. The next one that we

803
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: have that we can throw up here shows ninety percent

804
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: of all US residents over the age of sixty five

805
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: have been vaccinated at least one dose. Those are the people,

806
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly who in the first and second wave we're getting

807
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: sick and hospitalized and dying. So that is also very

808
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: encouraging news that you have so much the elderly population

809
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: vaccinated at this point. So progress is slow, it's not

810
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 1: what anybody would want, but progress is at least starting

811
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: to be made and at an increasing pace. Look, that's

812
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: sixty five plus number. That's the only number that really

813
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: matters that much to me. Which is that those people

814
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: are the ones who are going to get actually sick

815
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 1: and die. And that was why if we lockdown justified

816
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 1: it was that if social distancing mass requiring was ever

817
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: justified population wide, it was for them. It was there,

818
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: the ones who were actually vulnerable. And you know, in

819
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: the early days of the pandemic, I remember being like, listen, like,

820
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:06,919
Speaker 1: if you care about your grandma, if you care about

821
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: your grandfather, or care about these people, then you should

822
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,320
Speaker 1: be trying to abide by some of these pandemic restrictions

823
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: because they're the ones who are truly vulnerable. Now that

824
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: ninety percent of them have protection, very good protection, I

825
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: would add, against death from COVID and even serious hospitalization. Again,

826
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: the ninety nine point nine ninety nine percent of people

827
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: who have been vaccinated not dying from COVID I think

828
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: nine to ninety six percent in terms of the decimal

829
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: point for hospitalization. That's as good as it gets for

830
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: so many of the elderly, the oldest amongst us, who

831
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: are actually vulnerable. So this is why whenever you hear

832
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: me talk about mass many who I think they're stupid

833
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 1: and all that all we were ever doing was trying

834
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: to protect these people from serious illness or death, and

835
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about you know, I guess actually

836
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: we can. We can move on now. Well, one other

837
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: thing I want to add here because I did a

838
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: little bit of research on this, because I wanted to

839
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: make sure that I that I was for myself, but

840
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: also make sure to provide you guys with good information

841
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 1: about kids, because that's the one area where it's like, gosh,

842
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: they still can't get vaccinated, Like we got to make

843
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 1: sure they're protected. That would be a good reason to

844
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: have a masked mandate. Now, delta variant is we all know,

845
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,280
Speaker 1: more infectious, It spreads more easily. There is no indication

846
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: that it is more likely to get kids seriously ill

847
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: to the point of hospitalization than the previous you know,

848
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: the initial variant that was here. If you look at

849
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: the population in places where this is like not rocket science,

850
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 1: but in places where most people are vaccinated, kids are

851
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 1: not really getting sick very often at all, very uncommon.

852
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: In places where the adults are largely not vaccinated, it

853
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 1: is a different story. Kids are getting the virus more often.

854
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: So again, the biggest thing you can do to protect

855
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: kids isn't really to do with wearing masks. It has

856
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: everything to do with getting vaccinated. But I just really

857
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 1: want people to understand. Look, is it good for your

858
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 1: kid to go COVID? Of course not, but it still

859
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: seems to not be nearly as serious in children under

860
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: the age of twelve as it is in adults and

861
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: certainly in the elderly population. So that is what the

862
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: statistics say right now. Good, I'm glad you put that

863
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,479
Speaker 1: in there. That is another question that we had a lot.

864
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: So let's move on to this, which is actually about COVID.

865
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 1: It's actually about people who are sixty five years old

866
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: and who have gotten our old ass congress are old

867
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: ass Congressman who are getting sick. So let's put this

868
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: up there on the screen. Lindsey Graham tested positive for COVID.

869
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: He says, I was just informed by the House physician.

870
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: I have tested positive for COVID nineteen. Even after being vaccinated.

871
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: I started having flu like symptoms Saturday night. I went

872
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: to the doctor. Here's what he says, and this is

873
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: actually very important. I feel like I have a sinus infection.

874
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: At present time, I have mild symptoms. I'll be quarantining

875
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,240
Speaker 1: for ten days. I'm very glad I was vaccinated, because

876
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: without vaccination, I am certain I would not feel as

877
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: I do now. My symptoms would be far worse. And

878
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: that gets to exactly what we were just talking about,

879
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: which is that if you are over sixty five, and

880
00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham is sixty six years old, then COVID to

881
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: be sixty six. I'm not saying it's a good thing

882
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: to have a sinus infection or to have flu like symptoms,

883
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be okay, that's the whole point. That's

884
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: why we went through all this. So I've been really

885
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: annoyed by all of the dunk king and being like,

886
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: he won't refuse to wear a mask. Well, but we're

887
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 1: supposed to wear a mask and want to avoid science affection.

888
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: You're supposed to do that and to avoid like all

889
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 1: sorts of common illnesses that we have all the time.

890
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: I think that's patently ridiculous. We accept a certain level

891
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: of baseline of risk within our society and look, if

892
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: you want to go for it, but in terms of

893
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: in terms of requiring it for everyone, I think that's

894
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: completely ridiculous. That being said, there's actually a lot of

895
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: legislative ramifications for what happened with Lindsay Graham because it

896
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 1: turns out that Lindsay was at a party on Friday,

897
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: and that party, oh sorry, Saturday, and that happened on

898
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: Joe Mansin's house boat so let's put this up there.

899
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: So CNN reports Senator Joe Manchin entertained a small group

900
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: of senators on Saturday night. Senator Graham was in attendance,

901
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: according to a source with knowledge, Mansion's office is declining

902
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 1: to say who was there. Now we have some of

903
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: the names, though we know at least Mark Kelly, Chris Coons,

904
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: John Thune, and Jackie Rosen. In additional Lindsay Graham were

905
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 1: also on Joe Manchin's house spoke and Cortes Mastow. So

906
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: these are all actually pretty important votes whenever it comes

907
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: to what the bipartisan infrastructure bill, where the votes were

908
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:37,479
Speaker 1: all scheduled to happen this weekend, Friday and more. There's

909
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: been a lot of stuff that's been thrown into the

910
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: works here. Apparently Kristen Cinema has told Chuck Schumer, if

911
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 1: this goes into my vacation, I will not show up,

912
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: which there really something this goes in my vacation, I

913
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 1: will not show up and do my job, of which

914
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: I was elected to represent the mill to what is it,

915
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: six million people of Arizona. Okay, you know that's certainly

916
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: a position. It's interesting, but I find this hilarious. It

917
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: seems like Mansion's houseboat itself might be one of a a

918
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: huge threat to centrism Washington. So this was called out.

919
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:14,240
Speaker 1: Apparently a while back. John Tester, who was a senator

920
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: from Montana, was on Mansion's houseboat and it was in

921
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 1: the middle of the winter. He was leaving the houseboat

922
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: down the gangplank, and the gangplank was apparently completely covered

923
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: in ice, and the two of them went slipping and sliding,

924
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: and one of them even I kicked a piece of

925
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: metal for what they say there, It says Tester was

926
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: bleeding from his left hand. He asked Mansion, refuse all right,

927
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: he says, I think I broke my thumb. Doctors then

928
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: put Mansion in a brace, but he took it off

929
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 1: after a few weeks. Kster almost fell in the water.

930
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: This is almost fell the water in the middle of

931
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Speaker 1: the night in winter. So this is a dangerous place.

932
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: More importantly, it's this which is that the socialization all

933
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: of that in COVID has made it so that the

934
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: votes for the bipartisan infrastructure bill could be scheduled and

935
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: or from Friday, Saturday Sunday, depending on what's happening with

936
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: depending on what happens with the procedural vote and all

937
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: that stuff forward, it could put it very much into danger.

938
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Speaker 1: The reason why that matters is, as I was saying,

939
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: they're scheduled to go on vacation the week after next

940
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,280
Speaker 1: and so if they don't make it to their middle

941
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: of their August recess as scheduled, some senators like Cinema

942
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: others I believe, have all sorts of prior commitments that

943
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: they have in their districts. Some may miss the votes,

944
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: which could then skew the vote count and could throw

945
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: everything into wack. So that's why this actually matters terms

946
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: of national polity. I think you'll probably be okay number one,

947
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: because the vote margin on the initial procedural vote was

948
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: pretty high, like they had some room to work with

949
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: what it ended up being like sixty sevens eight, so

950
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: they've got some wiggle room. And then also I was

951
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: looking at the CDC guidance on what to do if

952
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 1: you have been vaccinated and you come in contact with

953
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: someone you have known contact with someone with coronavirus, and

954
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: it actually doesn't require quarantine. You're supposed to wear a

955
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,760
Speaker 1: mask and monitor and all that stuff, so they should

956
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: be okay. But yeah, Joe Manchin's houseboat as potential super spreader. Yes,

957
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: Joe man house anyway, not big, Lindsay Graham fans here,

958
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: but we hope he feels better. Yeah, feel better, Lindsay,

959
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: wishing you the best. And then speaking of I don't

960
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: know what elites crowded together in an unsleep planner. Yeah,

961
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: not actually unsafe. I you know, given my position, I

962
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,760
Speaker 1: support house boat. Parties, go for it, party, I support

963
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 1: it all everybody have. President Obama is throwing a huge

964
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: birthday bash. So let's put this up there on the screen.

965
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 1: Barack Obama is planning his sixtieth birthday bash at his

966
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 1: family's twelve million dollars thirty acre ocean front Martha's Vineyard

967
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: estate this coming weekend. There are four hundred and seventy

968
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: five confirmed guests, two hundred plus staff planning to work

969
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,399
Speaker 1: the party, and Pearl Jam is expected to play. And

970
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: when we were planning the show, I told Crystal I

971
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 1: saw a great tweet, and I forget who said it,

972
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: which is imagine having the money to hire Pearl jam

973
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:14,399
Speaker 1: and then hiring Pearl Jam to I don't understand. I mean,

974
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 1: maybe it's a boomber thing. He is a young boomer,

975
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: so you know, like maybe it's a boomer thing. I truly,

976
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: I'll never understand it. But Obama, while you know, the

977
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,240
Speaker 1: delta variant is happening, while the White House is wearing masks,

978
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: you know, even though they're all fully vaccinated, is throwing

979
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: a seven hundred plus person party that includes the staff

980
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,439
Speaker 1: for on his rich Martha's vineyard to state, I think

981
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: it just says everything about how this man, he ran

982
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight on the hopes of millions

983
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: that he was actually going to change something, rebalance society,

984
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: really was like a light to so many people and

985
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 1: then ended up becoming, you know, exactly the thing that

986
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: he criticized. I saw somebody who was mad at people

987
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: for pointing this out, was like, yes, Donald Trump famously,

988
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,919
Speaker 1: you know, didn't throw lavish parties, And somebody else pointed out,

989
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: isn't that the whole point is that? Why is their

990
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: behavior so indistinguishable? Obama's whole thing is that he wasn't

991
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: like them and Trump, you know, the way he was

992
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,399
Speaker 1: able to come to office is to say they're all

993
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: just like me, which it seems true. I mean, Obama

994
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: has embraced his role as a member of the mega rich,

995
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: and an Instagram part of his pitch was I'm already rich. Yeah,

996
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: so I don't know you did. I don't need cash in.

997
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: I don't need to suck up to these people. I

998
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: understand how the game. I'm already rich, so I don't

999
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:40,240
Speaker 1: need to parlay my public service into fabulous intergenerational wealth

1000
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: the way that the Clintons did, the way that Obama did.

1001
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 1: George W. Bush, of course, was already rich as well,

1002
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: and we saw how that went too. Few things I

1003
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: want to say here. First of all, I have a

1004
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: friend who's really in a Pearl Jam. Apparently apparently this

1005
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: is a thing, like there's a whole still group of

1006
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,919
Speaker 1: like relatively sizable group of people who are really into

1007
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: Pearl Jam and go to their shows and follow them

1008
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: around whatever. Didn't know that, And I also didn't know

1009
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: that the former president might be part of that group.

1010
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: That's one thing. Another thing is just so you know,

1011
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: I agree with you in terms of like the safety

1012
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: and the whatever. It's fine. They're saying that these people

1013
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: are supposed to get tested for coronavirus. I don't know

1014
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: what the protocols are or whatever, but this is it's outdoors,

1015
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,439
Speaker 1: so I think this is fine, but we should say that.

1016
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 1: Francis Collins, director the NIH, thinks otherwise. On Sunday and

1017
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: State of the Union, they said, look, if you're talking

1018
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: about a small party like I might have in my

1019
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: house for six or eight people are all fully vaccinated,

1020
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: I do not believe at this point we need to

1021
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: put masks on to be next to each other, while

1022
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:48,320
Speaker 1: discussing generic masking protocols, but not the Obama party itself.

1023
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: He added, But if there were one hundred people, and

1024
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: of course, how are you really going to be sure

1025
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: about people's vaccination status, then it is a different deal.

1026
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: They're not saying whether or not guests are going to

1027
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 1: be required to wear a mask, that guests are not

1028
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 1: going to be required to wear a mass which again

1029
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be fine. It's fine, especially they're going to

1030
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: be outdoors. They're probably all vaccinated. Like it's really probably fine,

1031
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: But you know, it's different from what some of the

1032
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: public health officials are saying at this point, which is interesting.

1033
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 1: And then the other point of this is just how

1034
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: gross it is that our public servants use their quote

1035
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: unquote public service as a vehicle to amass gigantic fortunes.

1036
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: And it is especially sad with Obama because he did

1037
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: pledge to be something different, and I almost feel about

1038
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: him and his mistreatment of the people that believed in

1039
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: him the same way I feel about Trump and his

1040
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: mistreatment of the people who believed in him, because he

1041
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: also promised to be something different. He also promised to,

1042
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: you know, break up the elite circles and work for

1043
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: the people. And then he just goes in and is like, hey,

1044
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: Paul Ryan, send me your tax plan. Let's do That

1045
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: is my major accomplishment in office. But you know, right then,

1046
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: when Obama came in to office and you had this

1047
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: group of young people I was young at that point,

1048
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: who were very excited about him and thought this was

1049
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: going to be a different direction in politics. Really believed

1050
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 1: that this was a special moment and a turning point

1051
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: from the Bush years. And you know, there are signs

1052
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: were always there, like if you looked at his record previously,

1053
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: he wasn't really you know, doing anything. He was kind

1054
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: of a centrist, more interested in the like bipartisan fetish

1055
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 1: than anything else. His backing came overwhelmingly from Wall Street.

1056
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: But there was this tremendous optimism and hope and belief

1057
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: that this was a turning point. And in fact, that

1058
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: was the moment when the country really needed that turning point,

1059
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,920
Speaker 1: because you were talking about coming out of the financial

1060
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: crisis and here you have this once in a lifetime

1061
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: political talent who has all this goodwill and a grassroots space,

1062
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: the first real grassroots fundraiser, all these pieces in place,

1063
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: and then what does he do? Bails out Wall Street,

1064
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: no one goes to prison, homeowners left to dry, you know,

1065
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: tries to get TPP through the surge, drone strikes, you know,

1066
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: expansion of the national security state, all of this stuff

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Speaker 1: that you know that he did. And so at the

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Speaker 1: very moment when the country was open to a dramatic show,

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Speaker 1: needed a dramatic shift, really needed to show that we

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Speaker 1: could deliver for ordinary citizens again, really needed to make

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Speaker 1: people whole and bolster the middle class coming out of

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Speaker 1: recession where the majority of the jobs that were lost

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Speaker 1: were middle class and majority of the jobs that were

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Speaker 1: gained out of that recession were low paid, like service

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Speaker 1: sector type jobs. So you have this tremendous shift happening

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Speaker 1: in real time in the economy, and he didn't do

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Speaker 1: anything about it. In fact, worse than doing nothing about it,

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Speaker 1: he actually hardened and bolstered the rich and the powerful

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Speaker 1: and those who already were you know, monopolists and pushing

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Speaker 1: to the forefront of American power. So that's why, you know,

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Speaker 1: I look at this party and his wealth and all

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Speaker 1: of that with such both sadness and contempt, because he

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Speaker 1: had an opportunity, he had the trust of so many people,

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Speaker 1: and ultimately he's used it to enrich himself and his family. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he could have been FDR and now he's

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00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 1: just a rich dude on Martha's vineyard hanging out with

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Speaker 1: George Clodey and Oprah And look it sounds cool, you know,

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00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: but right for him, it's like that's good for you

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00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: and for the rest of us. Oh yeah, how is

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00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 1: it for the rest of us and so many millions

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00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: that you let down the different story? Wow, you guys

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00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: must really like listening to our voices. Well, I know

1093
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: this is annoying. Instead of making you listen to a

1094
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: Viagra commercial. When you're done. Check out the other podcast

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Speaker 1: I do with Marshall Kasloff called The Realignment. We talk

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Speaker 1: a lot about the deeper issues that are changing, realigning

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00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: in American society. You always need more Crystal and Zag

1098
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,359
Speaker 1: in your daily lives. Take care, guys. If you were

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Speaker 1: to ask me what I got wrong over a year

1100
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: and a half ago when COVID first became a thing,

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Speaker 1: it was this. I under estimated how right many of

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Speaker 1: my friends were that the threat of COVID as a

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Speaker 1: disease would become cover for power grabs by politicians, censorship

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00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 1: campaigns by the mainstream media, and big tech, that ultimately

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00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:14,800
Speaker 1: we might end up doing more damage to the fabric

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Speaker 1: of our society than any virus ever could. Now, one

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00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 1: area where things unequivocally have been the worst is the

1108
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Speaker 1: realm of censorship. In a way you can almost understand it.

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00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: It's March twenty twenty. We have a deadly pandemic. Some

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Speaker 1: people are lying about it. If you're on YouTube or

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00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: Facebook or whomever, you start to freak out. You have

1112
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: to take down the guy who says Bill Gates is

1113
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Speaker 1: planting a microchip in you or that the Earth is

1114
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: flat and the COVID is part of that. But once

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00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: everybody gets let's say May of twenty twenty and you

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00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: say COVID leaks from a Wuhan lab, Well, now you

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00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: have a censorship infrastructure. We have the mainstream media saying, well,

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Speaker 1: it can't possibly be true. So Google and Twitter and

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00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: Facebook they fire up the delete machine. Except wait, that

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Speaker 1: one turned out to be at the very least plausible,

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Speaker 1: and if I were to speculate the most likely explanation

1122
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 1: for the origin of the virus, that's when things got

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Speaker 1: kind of crazy. And despite the fact that big tech

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00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: completely failed on lab leak, they have kept their censorship

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Speaker 1: infrastructure afloat. With the new hysteria over the Delta variant,

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Speaker 1: it's now firing in all cylinders. That's the context for

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Speaker 1: the story I want to highlight today how YouTube has

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Speaker 1: suspended Sky News Australia's account of nearly one point eight

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Speaker 1: million subscribers for what it calls COVID misinformation. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you're not familiar with Sky News Australia, they have done

1131
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: impressive and important work with regard to the lab leak story,

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Speaker 1: revealing definitively that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the

1133
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: Chinese government lied about having live bats within the lab.

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Speaker 1: Sky News Australia uncovered evidence showing that not only to

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Speaker 1: be true, but also in early interview with one of

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Speaker 1: the labs so called safety directors. That's the context. You

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Speaker 1: can hate sky News if you want. You can also

1138
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Speaker 1: hate Ruper Murdoch. But according to sky News, the videos

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Speaker 1: which earned them a YouTube strike and the inability to

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Speaker 1: post on their channel for seven days was according to

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Speaker 1: their digital editor Jack Hoten, quote among the videos deemed

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Speaker 1: unpalatable for acidal consumption, where debates around whether masks were

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Speaker 1: effective and whether lockdowns were justified when considering their adverse

1144
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Speaker 1: health outcomes. He continues, the stance taken by some commentators

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Speaker 1: at this network was that masters are not effective in

1146
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Speaker 1: containing outbreaks. Outbreaks could, particularly when mandated outside in fresh air.

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Speaker 1: Some also took issue with the frequency and mechanisms of

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Speaker 1: locking down Australians. But the most important context is this

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Speaker 1: in the videos which were taken down, those commentators were

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Speaker 1: also disagreed with by others and their views were included

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Speaker 1: in the videos. Here's the crazy part. Australia isn't even America,

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Speaker 1: they actually have pretty hardcore media regulators over what you

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00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 1: can and cannot say, and even their own local authorities

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00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: didn't object to any of their broadcasts. So the very

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Speaker 1: Australian authorities charged with policing misinformation didn't do anything. But

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Speaker 1: Google is superseding them both to say that actually, those

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Speaker 1: old videos which are debating masks and lockdown, it's not

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Speaker 1: going to fly around here. This is the hellscape that

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Speaker 1: we've landed in. The hubris of our government, of our media,

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Speaker 1: and of the big tech company. Situation is grounded in

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Speaker 1: the singular belief that they know better than us, that

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Speaker 1: they know better they can decide was acceptable to discuss

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Speaker 1: and what is not. Now, maybe in a perfect world

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01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: that's true, But what happens when the very people charged

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Speaker 1: with enforcing this are completely wrong. Well I've already mentioned

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Speaker 1: lab leak, but what about the media themselves? As we

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Speaker 1: pointed out yesterday, the New York Times, the Washington Post,

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Speaker 1: NBC News all spread egregious misinformation this weekend about vaccines.

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Speaker 1: The New York Times made it seem like the Delta

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Speaker 1: variant was just as infectious to vaccinated Americans as to

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Speaker 1: unvaccinated Americans, which is not true. The Washington Post was

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Speaker 1: even worse, making it seem like you might be more

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Speaker 1: likely to get infected if you're vaccinated. NBC News was

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Speaker 1: just a dunce. They didn't include any statistical context for

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Speaker 1: how one hundred and twenty five thousand Americans who've been

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Speaker 1: vaccinated have had breakthrough cases. All of those, by the

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Speaker 1: very standards that YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have put forward,

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Speaker 1: would and should qualify as misinformation, but they skate by.

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Speaker 1: If you question orthodoxy on COVID, you're going to get banned. Now.

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Speaker 1: If you push orthodoxy, which is free of facts, you

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Speaker 1: live to misinform another day. And I'll end with this

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Speaker 1: when all else fails, trust the government to tell us

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Speaker 1: what's true or not right. Yeah, that's completely wrong. Arguably,

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Speaker 1: the government itself has been one of the chief purveyors

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Speaker 1: of misinformation on COVID since the beginning, from lying about

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Speaker 1: masks to Fauci moving the goalposts admitting it on her immunity,

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Speaker 1: to pushing masks on fully vaccinated Americans who are basically

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Speaker 1: zero threat of getting really sick from COVID, when everyone

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Speaker 1: in charge of policing the truth has been caught themselves

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Speaker 1: either lying or screwing up. Then we need to air

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Speaker 1: on what our country was founded on, debate and free expression,

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Speaker 1: because we are nothing without it, and I tried to

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Speaker 1: make it not about Sky News Australia. One more thing,

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Speaker 1: I promise, just wanted to make sure you knew about

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Speaker 1: my podcast with Kyle Kolinski. It's called Crystal, Kyle and Friends,

1196
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Speaker 1: where we do long form interviews with people like Nom Chomsky,

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Speaker 1: Cornell West and Glenn Greenwald. You can listen on any

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Speaker 1: podcast platform, or you can subscribe over on substack to

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Speaker 1: get the video a day early. We're gonna stop bugging

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Speaker 1: you now. Enjoy. All right, Christal, what are you taking

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Speaker 1: a look at today? Guys, don't fall for the act.

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01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 1: Pelosi and Biden wants you to sincerely, earnestly believe that

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Speaker 1: they are shocked, shocked that the eviction moratorium is expiring.

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Speaker 1: That they had no idea the mental assistance program was

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Speaker 1: in complete shambles that led to almost no money actually

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Speaker 1: getting into the hands of tenants and landlorns. They actually

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Speaker 1: want you to think that they hadn't even noticed the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruling saying that it would probably take an

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Speaker 1: Act of Congress to extend the moratorium, give me a break.

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Speaker 1: Biden Pelosi have been trading statements back and forth, each

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Speaker 1: calling on the other to act in a choreograph dance

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Speaker 1: of buck passing. First. On Thursday, the Biden administration, mere

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Speaker 1: days before the provisions expiration, called on Congress to act.

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Speaker 1: In response, Pelosi took a show vote asking for unanimous

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Speaker 1: consent to extend the moratorium. When that show vote requests

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Speaker 1: for unanimous consent failed, she blamed the Republicans and promptly

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Speaker 1: skipped town. Now she's out with a new letter, explaining

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Speaker 1: that it's not really on the House to do anything. Really,

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Speaker 1: the White House and the CDC should deal with this

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Speaker 1: teeny tiny problem of fifteen million Americans potentially facing eviction.

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Speaker 1: She writes, it is unfathomable that we would not act

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Speaker 1: to prevent people from being evicted. Overwhelmingly, our members agreed

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Speaker 1: to extend the moratorium and universally to distribute the funds.

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Speaker 1: But the House passing the eviction moratorium without the Senate

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Speaker 1: acting does not extend the moratorium. Instead, the money must

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Speaker 1: flow and the moratorium must be extended by the administration.

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Speaker 1: So long story short, these people knew that this financial

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Speaker 1: cliff was coming they made an affirmative choice to do

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Speaker 1: nothing and just let potentially millions of Americans lose their homes.

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Speaker 1: How do I know that's what's going on here, Well,

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Speaker 1: because they're doing exactly the same thing with any number

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Speaker 1: of other pandemic era relief programs which are also set

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Speaker 1: to expire. The so called super doll set to end

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of September. Biden bowed to Corporate America,

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Speaker 1: whining that they couldn't find enough workers to exploit came

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Speaker 1: out in favor of ending the three hundred dollars plus up. Now,

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Speaker 1: he claims to support the continuation of covering gig workers, freelancers,

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Speaker 1: and the long term unemployed, but he hasn't lifted a

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Speaker 1: finger to keep those provisions in place so functionally, what's

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Speaker 1: the difference. The upshot of all of this is that

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Speaker 1: twenty million Americans are set to lose unemployment payments in

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Speaker 1: just a matter of weeks. And just so you know,

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Speaker 1: the admittedly plausible theory that cutting people off would force

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Speaker 1: them back into shitty jobs a actually turned out to

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Speaker 1: be completely incorrect. States that have already cut off benefits

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Speaker 1: they have done worse. They actually saw employment decrease decrease

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Speaker 1: after they did that. But wait, there's more. Student loan

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Speaker 1: debt payments are also about to come due again at

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Speaker 1: the end of September. Since the early days of the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: those payments have been deferred in interest rates set at zero.

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Speaker 1: This short pause on debt collection gave overburdened students a

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Speaker 1: much needed break from the grinding payments that sit so

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Speaker 1: many young Americans back right at the time when they're

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Speaker 1: starting a career. Biden, of course, could cancel student debt

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Speaker 1: altogether with the stroke of a pen, but obviously he's

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Speaker 1: not going to do that, and he also will not

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Speaker 1: extend these student debt for barents get ready to pony

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Speaker 1: up those crushing student loan payments. Young Americans and finally,

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Speaker 1: renters are not the only ones faced with possible homelessness.

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Speaker 1: Millions of Americans benefited from mortgage payment for barans during

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Speaker 1: the pandemic, allowing them to stay in their homes even

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Speaker 1: if they had lost their jobs or seen their businesses shuttered.

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Speaker 1: Those mortgage payments are also about to come due. According

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Speaker 1: to the Washington Post, about two million Americans are still

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Speaker 1: in pandemic forbearance programs. Another one point five million are

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Speaker 1: three months or more late on their payments but never

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Speaker 1: actually entered into those four barons programs. These are substantial

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Speaker 1: and potentially catastrophic numbers. So for context here back in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, at the height of the housing crisis,

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Speaker 1: about eight hundred and sixty thousand homeowners were ultimately foreclosed on. Remember,

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Speaker 1: however you feel about the economy and how it's doing

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Speaker 1: right now in terms of joblessness, poverty, and hunger, that

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Speaker 1: economy is being propped up by myriad pandemic era programs

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Speaker 1: which are all about to be cut. Critical lifelines that

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Speaker 1: have helped people get by are about to disappear, and

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Speaker 1: it's about to happen basically all at once, not to

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Speaker 1: mention they're set to end at a time when the

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Speaker 1: delta variant is causing new nervousness and a reimposition of

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Speaker 1: some pandemic restrictions. Our public officials would be quick to

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Speaker 1: tell you that pandemic is an over. They'll put a

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Speaker 1: new mask, mandate or other personal burdens on you, But

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Speaker 1: they're missing in action when it comes to making sure

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Speaker 1: Americans can come out of the pandemic financially whole. And

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Speaker 1: it's not because our leaders forgot the day that these

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Speaker 1: provisions expire, or really really care and are trying so

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Speaker 1: hard to do something as they jet off to their

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Speaker 1: hands and s fundraisers. It's because they have made a

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Speaker 1: clear affirmative choice. They decided to cut the lifelines and

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Speaker 1: let the chips fall where they may. They've decided to

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Speaker 1: institute their own back to normal, which is DC doing

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Speaker 1: nothing for people who are struggling. Now. Look, it was

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Speaker 1: always dangerous to make people aware that the government could

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Speaker 1: actually do something for them, that dead could be deferred

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Speaker 1: or forgiven housing, protected checks deposited in their accounts. Now

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Speaker 1: that the immediate terror from our ruling class of pitchforks

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Speaker 1: and riots is waning, the employer class is anxious to

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Speaker 1: get back to the normal of crushing everyone's spirit so

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Speaker 1: that they have no choice to work for one of

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Speaker 1: our foremost monopolists at poverty wages. Biden and Schumer and

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01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 1: Pelosi may feign impotence and pretend that they want to

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Speaker 1: take action, but only a fool could miss the real agenda.

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Speaker 1: They will happily maintain the pandemic era elements of authoritarian power,

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Speaker 1: whether that's working with social media companies to censor misinformation

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Speaker 1: or reimposing mask and vaccine requirements. But the days of

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Speaker 1: compensating pandemic relief are officially over. They expect us to

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01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 1: comply and they offer nothing in return. Our political elites

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01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: are pushing Americans off a massive financial cliff, so they

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Speaker 1: will tell you pandemic's not over all. Right. We're joined

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Speaker 1: now by a Congressman Rocona for an update on what

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Speaker 1: is going on with the eviction moratorium. Thanks for joining us, sir,

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Speaker 1: good Caesar. Thanks always great to be on. Yeah, of course,

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Speaker 1: let me just start with that question, what the hell

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Speaker 1: is going on with the eviction moratorium? Why was this

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Speaker 1: push to the very last minute? And now the White

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01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: House and Speaker Pelosi are trading blame back and forth.

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01:08:56,240 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 1: Pelosi saying, Hey, the CDC and administration's got to do this.

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Speaker 1: White House is saying they can't. The House has got

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Speaker 1: to do this. How do we get to this place? Well,

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01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: it's it out ch and both are to blame frankly

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Speaker 1: on the White House. Of course they can do this,

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Speaker 1: and the idea that some opinion by Kavanov, which isn't binding,

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Speaker 1: is preventing them is just not correct legally. First of

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Speaker 1: all you could argue to kavanof that the rent, the

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Speaker 1: money for rent wasn't distributed, and so that changes the

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Speaker 1: facts of the case, and that may change his opinion. Second,

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Speaker 1: the delta variant may change his opinion. So I've never

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Speaker 1: seen an administration before say well, we're reading the tea

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Speaker 1: leaves and this is the way a Supreme Court justice

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01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 1: may rule hypothetically until we're not going to act. So

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Speaker 1: that just doesn't pass the test of a good faith argument.

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Speaker 1: They have the authority. Second, the speakers should bring this

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Speaker 1: bill on the floor for a vote. I believe that

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Speaker 1: it will be very difficult publicly for any Democrat to

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Speaker 1: vote no in extending the Mora aquorium. The reason she

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01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: hasn't brought the bill for a vote is that they're

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Speaker 1: privately Democrats or pressuring her not to bring it. Now,

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01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 1: people say, well, tell us the names. I don't know

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01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:09,960
Speaker 1: the names. Many don't know the dames. But what we

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01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,759
Speaker 1: do know is that there is a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: on the leadership not to bring the bill for a vote,

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Speaker 1: and that's wrong. Let's have a public vote. So that's

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Speaker 1: my question to you, sir. I heard you talk about

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Speaker 1: this yesterday. You said candidly. There are Democrats within the

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01:10:24,400 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 1: caucus who don't want to vote for the moratoriums extension.

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01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: I mean, within that context, why are they able to

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01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,800
Speaker 1: pressure the speaker to not hold a vote, and then

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Speaker 1: you and your colleagues don't seem able to pressure her

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Speaker 1: too hold a vote, Like, how does that work? Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a very good question. We are trying to pressure

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Speaker 1: her too hold a vote, I mean, and typically the

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01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 1: leadership works that they don't want to bring a vote

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01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 1: unless they are convinced that the vote will win. I

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01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 1: don't think that that's the right philosophy in the beginning.

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Speaker 1: So any minority faction up the caucus, if they privately

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Speaker 1: go to the leadership and say the votes aren't there,

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Speaker 1: they typically defer to them. I believe that it would

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01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 1: be much better just to have public accountability. But look,

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Speaker 1: you have a special in christ groups. You have the realtors,

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01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:14,760
Speaker 1: California realtors email me, text me saying we are absolutely

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Speaker 1: opposed to the extension of the moratorium and they've seen

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Speaker 1: my statements and they've criticized me. The realtor groups are

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Speaker 1: powerful groups in California and New York and other areas.

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Speaker 1: So there are clearly special in prissent play. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess the question, Congressman is what are you and

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Speaker 1: the squad and other progressives like, what are you going

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Speaker 1: to do? Because you know, because the House is so

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Speaker 1: narrowly divided three vote margin, you all certainly have you know,

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Speaker 1: among the eight or so of you who are relatively

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Speaker 1: aligned on this, you certainly have the power to say, look,

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Speaker 1: we're not voting for your infrastructure deal, We're not voting

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Speaker 1: for any other Biden priority until we get this eviction

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Speaker 1: moratorium pass or at least a voice vote on it.

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Speaker 1: So are you going to take that heart of a line? Well, look,

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Speaker 1: the pressure I think has been working in terms of

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Speaker 1: the Speaker's statements have increasingly become tougher. First it was

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Speaker 1: we couldn't get unanimous consent, Now it is the president

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Speaker 1: must act. In every few hours the Speaker is putting

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Speaker 1: out another statement. I don't think it makes sense to

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Speaker 1: say we're not going to do anything else until we

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Speaker 1: get a vote on that, in my view, is too

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Speaker 1: hard of a line. But I will say that we're

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Speaker 1: going to continue to criticize and speak out with the leadership,

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Speaker 1: and I do think that is going to move them

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Speaker 1: ultimately to have a vote. Why is that too hard

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Speaker 1: of a line when you're talking about fifteen million Americans

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Speaker 1: who are at risk of eviction because the climb in

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Speaker 1: and other things matter. And if we have a bill,

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Speaker 1: for example, that says, let's end fossil fuel subsidies, which

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Speaker 1: we've been pushing for, let's have a clean energy standard,

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Speaker 1: or let's have Bernie Sanders's Reconciliation bill, which would have

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Speaker 1: free community college and childcare. I don't think we could say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're going to vote know on the reconciliation bill. Now

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Speaker 1: what we can say is we'll vote knowing the bi

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Speaker 1: partisan bill. If the record the Sanders Reconciliation Bill isn't there,

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Speaker 1: So then here's the question, sir, which is that at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day occurred The White House yesterday

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Speaker 1: says we do not have legal authority. They reiterated it

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Speaker 1: multiple times. If the Speaker doesn't come to a vote

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Speaker 1: and the evictions began, I'm not sure how many have

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01:13:22,720 --> 01:13:25,360
Speaker 1: already started. Then at that point it doesn't seem like

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01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 1: there's any realistic chance of this happening, is there. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't agree with the White House, and the White

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01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 1: House is just wrong to have the leading party, and

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01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:35,559
Speaker 1: so we need to continue to make that point. And

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Speaker 1: I think as the evictions start, there's going to be

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Speaker 1: more and more pressure on the Speaker to bring a vote.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that this is just going to go away.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you still have Corey Bush doing a heroic

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01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 1: job outside the Capitol. Many have supported her. So my

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01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 1: view is that this will get to a vote, and

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01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:56,680
Speaker 1: the sooner they realize that, the better. Why not at

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01:13:56,760 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: least hold out the votes on that infrastructure package, because frankly,

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01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: the infrastructure package is not exactly a progressive dream here,

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01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 1: tons of privatization, skill schemes, the pay wars aren't great.

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01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 1: You've got things like asset recycling included there, which is

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01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 1: just a fancy word for selling off public works. Biden, though,

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01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 1: and the administration really in a bunch of moderns, really

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01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 1: want to get this thing done so they can go, oh,

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Speaker 1: look we're bipartisan, Look how great we are, et cetera,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. Why not at least withhold votes on that,

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01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:30,080
Speaker 1: which is a key Biden Whitehouse priority until there is

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Speaker 1: an extension of the eviction moratorium. We have, I mean,

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Speaker 1: no one who's going to on or very few people

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Speaker 1: of the Progressive caucus would vote for the bipart as

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01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 1: an infrastructure deal regardless. I mean, they have made it

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Speaker 1: clear that we won't vote for it unless you have

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Speaker 1: the Bernie Sanders Reconciliation Bill. Now, we got some of

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Speaker 1: the worst privatization provisions out, but you're right, there's still

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Speaker 1: certain privatization provisions. It doesn't do enough to get rid

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01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:53,800
Speaker 1: of lead pipe, it doesn't do enough in terms of

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01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,200
Speaker 1: municipal broadband. So there are a lot of problems with

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Speaker 1: the bipartisan built, but the administration knows they're not going

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01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:01,640
Speaker 1: to have the progressive boat on that bill. Can you

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01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: explain to me just the technical mechanics of how this works,

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01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 1: because it seems like a little bit of congressional inside baseball.

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01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 1: So when I spoke to Senator Sanders, he said the

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Speaker 1: same thing. There wouldn't be an infrastructure bill package without

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Speaker 1: knowing that the reconciliation bill was also going to pass.

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Speaker 1: How does it work to guarantee that that would be

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01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:22,920
Speaker 1: the case and that those two things would be tied together.

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01:15:24,160 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 1: So first the Senate would have to pass the bipartisan bill,

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01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:30,200
Speaker 1: or the second they'd have to pass the actual reconciliation

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01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:32,680
Speaker 1: bill and Crystal. This is important, not just that they

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01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:35,960
Speaker 1: passed the authorization up to three point five trillion, and

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01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:38,479
Speaker 1: then you have senators say okay, now we're going to

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01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:41,040
Speaker 1: negotiate it down. They need to pass the actual bill

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01:15:41,120 --> 01:15:44,639
Speaker 1: that Senator Sanders crafted and compromised on. Both of those

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01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 1: bills have to come to the House and then we

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01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:48,679
Speaker 1: would vote on them. But we're not going to vote

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01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 1: on that bipartisan bill until we have the reconciliation bill

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01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:56,439
Speaker 1: in our hands, passed by the Senate. And so if

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Speaker 1: there isn't a CDC extension of the viction more and

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01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 1: there isn't a House vote on the eviction moratorium in

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01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:06,960
Speaker 1: the near future because time is ticking, I mean it's

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01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:11,519
Speaker 1: expired now those eviction orders are going forward, then what

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01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 1: what's the next sort of escalation to up the pressure. Well, first,

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Speaker 1: you could actually put the moratorium in the reconciliation though,

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01:16:18,880 --> 01:16:21,560
Speaker 1: so that could be another ticket point. I mean you

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01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:24,040
Speaker 1: could say, look, we need the moratorium as part of

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Speaker 1: the reconciliation for the whole package to go through. I

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01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: hope it doesn't come to that because that's going to

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01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 1: be months of people getting evicted and I hope the

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Speaker 1: administration reversus course and issues the issues the extension. I

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Speaker 1: don't under say why they don't. I think there's some

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Speaker 1: lawyers there who are, you know, taking fancy courses in

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01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 1: law school, that are trying to read the tea leaves

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01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:49,720
Speaker 1: of what Kavanaugh may or may not do. And the

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01:16:49,760 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: President just needs to say no, I'm doing this and

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01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:54,519
Speaker 1: put the blame on the court if the court actually

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Speaker 1: overturns them. But I've never seen an administration try to

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Speaker 1: speculate about what Supreme work justices are going to do. Well.

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Speaker 1: I have a theory, and I'll run it by you,

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01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:06,720
Speaker 1: and you tell me if I'm off base here. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not just the eviction moratorium that they're

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Speaker 1: allowing to expire. They're also letting essentially all the pandemic

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Speaker 1: relief programs expire. The Unemployment Plus up, which not only

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01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: gave people an extra three hundred dollars but also critically

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01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:22,480
Speaker 1: covered freelancers and gig workers and the long term unemployed

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01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:26,880
Speaker 1: that's set to expire, the student debt loan relief set

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01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:29,679
Speaker 1: to expire, the mortgage for Barents and relief that's set

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01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:32,559
Speaker 1: to expire. It seems to me like a decision has

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Speaker 1: essentially been made to sort of let these programs go away,

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01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: even as the delta variant continues to surge, and even

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Speaker 1: as we have a lot of economic turmoil under the surface,

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Speaker 1: and let the chips fall where they may. Well, if

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Speaker 1: that's the case, that would be a wrong decision, and

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Speaker 1: you certainly can't lump everything in one. It's very different

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Speaker 1: on having a debate about whether to extend unemployment insurance

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Speaker 1: given the where the economy is, versus saying that people

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Speaker 1: need to be a big I mean, let's be realistic.

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Speaker 1: You've had a forbearance on rent, but what has happened

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Speaker 1: is people now have seven, eight, ten months of rent

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Speaker 1: back to you. How are you going to pay ten

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Speaker 1: to fifteen twenty thousand dollars that is accumulated if you

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Speaker 1: just got back to work a month ago. So it

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Speaker 1: is so reasonable to say we want to extend it

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Speaker 1: till the end of the year. Even then you're going

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Speaker 1: to have a huge problem if we don't have more

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Speaker 1: aid to those who couldn't pay back rent. And so

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Speaker 1: I think that this is a very different situation than

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Speaker 1: some of the other programs, and we can go through

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Speaker 1: the program one by one, but it would be irresponsible

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Speaker 1: to lump them all together and to have millions of

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Speaker 1: people evicted. Finally, Congressman, you know, one of the problems

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Speaker 1: here is that you all appropriated, you passed close to

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Speaker 1: fifty billion dollars in rental relief. That money buy and

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Speaker 1: large has not gone out the door. The burden and

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01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:53,839
Speaker 1: the onus was put on states and localities to distribute

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Speaker 1: those funds to landlords and to make tenants whole so

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Speaker 1: that they can stay in their homes. As you're indicating,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a major p for so many.

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Speaker 1: What happened with that program? I mean, it just seems

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Speaker 1: like it's completely failed to distribute the funds that were appropriated.

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Speaker 1: Was it designed the wrong way from the first place?

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Speaker 1: Should it have been handled by the federal government where

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Speaker 1: they could stand up some kind of technical capability to

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Speaker 1: be able to process those applications and get those funds distributed?

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Speaker 1: Where does this program stand? What are the problems? How

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Speaker 1: should it have been designed in the first place? Well,

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Speaker 1: I do think it should have been designed with more

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Speaker 1: federal oversight so that the federal government had a greater

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Speaker 1: say and when that money had to be distributed by

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Speaker 1: in having basic criteria. But I'm I'm home right now,

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Speaker 1: as you can tell. And I was in Fremont and

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Speaker 1: new work in my district, and I was meeting with

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Speaker 1: a New York Mirror and he said, we've distributed it,

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Speaker 1: but row, it's five thousand bucks for people who need it. Well,

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Speaker 1: five thousand bucks in my district, where the rent media

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Speaker 1: and rent has been around fifteen hundred dollars is not

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Speaker 1: going to cover more than a couple months rent. So

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Speaker 1: he said, the problem with the program is that it

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Speaker 1: may cover a couple months rent, but it's still has

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Speaker 1: a lot of backdated rent. So I think even the program,

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Speaker 1: even the money being distributed, is not going to be

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Speaker 1: some panacea to these evictions, and we need to be

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Speaker 1: honest about that. I think what we need to have

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Speaker 1: is a program where if you qualify as a working

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Speaker 1: class family or a middle class family and you can't

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Speaker 1: afford back rent, that needs to be taken care of

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Speaker 1: or you're going to see evictions at some point. Yeah, well,

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