1 00:00:07,027 --> 00:00:11,016 START THE CLOCK. 2 00:00:37,019 --> 00:00:39,022 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 3 00:00:39,024 --> 00:00:44,006 THANK YOU, HOW ARE YOU? 4 00:00:44,022 --> 00:00:48,000 THANK YOU, EVERYBODY. 5 00:00:48,002 --> 00:00:55,006 I APPRECIATE THAT, ALL RIGHT. 6 00:00:55,008 --> 00:00:58,014 THANK YOU, VERY KIND OF YOU. 7 00:00:58,016 --> 00:01:04,008 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, AND A 8 00:01:04,010 --> 00:01:05,029 SPECIAL -- 9 00:01:07,021 --> 00:01:07,026 I KNOW. 10 00:01:07,028 --> 00:01:12,016 A SPECIAL WELCOME TO ALL THE 11 00:01:12,018 --> 00:01:13,010 LADIES FLEEING TEXAS, YOU'RE 12 00:01:13,012 --> 00:01:15,000 WELCOME IN OUR STATE. 13 00:01:15,002 --> 00:01:16,018 YOU HEAR ABOUT THAT SHIT? 14 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:19,004 THEY REALLY WENT FULL HOG IN 15 00:01:19,006 --> 00:01:20,011 TEXAS, ABORTIONS NOW BANNED IF A 16 00:01:20,013 --> 00:01:23,029 WOMAN IS MORE THAN SIX WEEKS 17 00:01:24,001 --> 00:01:24,023 PREGNANT, SIX WEEKS. 18 00:01:24,025 --> 00:01:26,021 THEY SAY EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN 19 00:01:26,023 --> 00:01:31,000 TEXAS, NOT FETUSES. 20 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:34,020 SIX WEEKS? 21 00:01:34,022 --> 00:01:36,004 MOST WOMEN DON'T EVEN KNOW IF 22 00:01:36,006 --> 00:01:37,012 THEY'RE PREGNANT AT THAT POINT 23 00:01:37,014 --> 00:01:39,006 OR IF THEY REALLY EVER WANT TO 24 00:01:39,008 --> 00:01:41,014 SEE THE GUY AGAIN. 25 00:01:46,014 --> 00:01:48,018 I BOUGHT A CAR LAST YEAR, THEY 26 00:01:48,020 --> 00:01:50,024 GAVE ME MORE TIME TO SEE IF I 27 00:01:50,026 --> 00:01:52,001 WANTED TO KEEP THE SATELLITE 28 00:01:52,003 --> 00:01:54,013 RADIO. 29 00:01:59,011 --> 00:02:01,010 THIS BILL IS SERIOUS, THIS BILL 30 00:02:01,012 --> 00:02:02,023 ENCOURAGES CITIZEN BOUNTY 31 00:02:02,025 --> 00:02:04,007 HUNTERS, DID YOU SEE THAT PART 32 00:02:04,009 --> 00:02:05,005 OF IT? 33 00:02:05,007 --> 00:02:08,015 OH, MY GOD, TO SUE ANYONE, A 34 00:02:08,017 --> 00:02:10,022 STRANGER, WHO YOU SEE ASSISTING 35 00:02:10,024 --> 00:02:13,000 A WOMAN GETTING AN ABORTION, 36 00:02:13,002 --> 00:02:15,018 IT'S CALLED THE RICHES FOR 37 00:02:15,020 --> 00:02:18,017 SNITCHES PROGRAM. 38 00:02:21,020 --> 00:02:23,016 AND THE WAY IT WORKS IS THERE'S 39 00:02:23,018 --> 00:02:25,021 A WEBSITE AND YOU CAN BE THE 40 00:02:25,023 --> 00:02:26,002 WHISTLE-BLOWER. 41 00:02:26,004 --> 00:02:27,021 AGAIN, ANYONE WHO ASSISTS A 42 00:02:27,023 --> 00:02:32,015 WOMAN, IT COULD BE THE DRIVER -- 43 00:02:32,017 --> 00:02:33,010 I WANT TO SAY PARENTHETICALLY IF 44 00:02:33,012 --> 00:02:35,025 YOU'RE MAKING YOUR GIRLFRIEND 45 00:02:35,027 --> 00:02:40,006 TAKE AN UBER TO AN ABORTION, 46 00:02:40,008 --> 00:02:42,017 MAYBE YOU'RE AN EVEN BIGGER 47 00:02:42,019 --> 00:02:46,019 ASSHOLE. 48 00:02:47,013 --> 00:02:51,016 AND OTHER MEDIEVAL GOVERNMENTS 49 00:02:51,018 --> 00:02:53,021 NEWS, THE TALIBAN OVER IN 50 00:02:53,023 --> 00:02:56,006 AFGHANISTAN, THEY ANNOUNCED THE 51 00:02:56,008 --> 00:02:57,023 KABUL AIRPORT IS GETTING BACK TO 52 00:02:57,025 --> 00:02:59,024 NORMAL, ISN'T THAT A GOOD THING? 53 00:02:59,026 --> 00:03:01,020 SEVERAL FLIGHTS WENT OFF, 54 00:03:01,022 --> 00:03:02,017 HUNDREDS OF FOREIGNERS INCLUDING 55 00:03:02,019 --> 00:03:04,013 AMERICANS HAVE TAKEN OFF OUT OF 56 00:03:04,015 --> 00:03:05,021 COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS OUT OF KABUL, 57 00:03:05,023 --> 00:03:06,017 AND I'M NOT A FAN OF THE 58 00:03:06,019 --> 00:03:08,003 TALIBAN, I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS 59 00:03:08,005 --> 00:03:10,012 IT. 60 00:03:11,006 --> 00:03:12,026 BUT I'VE GOT TO SAY THE TALIBAN 61 00:03:12,028 --> 00:03:14,010 WHEN THEY TELL PEOPLE IN COACH 62 00:03:14,012 --> 00:03:15,025 TO WAIT UNTIL BUSINESS CLASS HAS 63 00:03:15,027 --> 00:03:20,014 BOARDED, THEY WAIT. 64 00:03:24,009 --> 00:03:29,027 ALSO, THE LAST JEW HAS LEFT 65 00:03:29,029 --> 00:03:32,023 AFGHANISTAN, THE ONLY JEW. 66 00:03:32,025 --> 00:03:34,016 THERE WAS ONE JEW AND HE HAS NOW 67 00:03:34,018 --> 00:03:34,022 LEFT. 68 00:03:34,024 --> 00:03:39,007 HE SAID IT WAS TOUGH TO BE A JEW 69 00:03:39,009 --> 00:03:40,026 IN AFGHANISTAN BUT ON THE BRIGHT 70 00:03:40,028 --> 00:03:43,004 SIDE, NEVER A WAIT WHEN HE 71 00:03:43,006 --> 00:03:45,008 CHINESE FOOD. 72 00:03:45,010 --> 00:03:47,000 WAS ALWAYS A BRIGHT SIDE TO. 73 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,010 THE OTHER BIG NEWS OF COURSE YOU 74 00:03:53,012 --> 00:03:55,011 SAW TODAY, BIDEN HAS ORDERED A 75 00:03:55,013 --> 00:03:56,011 SWEEPING FEDERAL VACCINE 76 00:03:56,013 --> 00:03:58,004 REQUIREMENTS, NOW MANDATES FOR 77 00:03:58,006 --> 00:04:02,011 PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYEES. 78 00:04:02,013 --> 00:04:05,005 HEALTH CARE WORKERS, FEDERAL 79 00:04:05,007 --> 00:04:05,014 CONTRACTORS. 80 00:04:05,016 --> 00:04:06,024 REPUBLICANS PUSHING BACK. 81 00:04:06,026 --> 00:04:07,022 IN TEXAS, GOVERNOR ABBOTT SAID 82 00:04:07,024 --> 00:04:09,021 IT IS NO FAIR IF YOU FIRE PEOPLE 83 00:04:09,023 --> 00:04:11,009 TO MAKE THEM DO WHAT YOU WANT, 84 00:04:11,011 --> 00:04:12,028 HOW CAN I SUE THEM TO MAKE THEM 85 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,015 DO WHAT I WANT? 86 00:04:23,011 --> 00:04:25,008 I LOVE THAT, THINKING INTO 87 00:04:25,010 --> 00:04:26,009 APPLAUSE. 88 00:04:26,011 --> 00:04:26,020 IT'S A NEW ONE. 89 00:04:26,022 --> 00:04:29,005 I LIKE IT. 90 00:04:29,007 --> 00:04:30,024 - IT'S ALSO THE 20 - TH ANNIVERSARY, 91 00:04:30,026 --> 00:04:33,006 I'M SURE YOU KNOW, OF 9/11, OR 92 00:04:33,008 --> 00:04:39,006 AS JENS HE CALLS IT, "WHAT?" 93 00:04:39,008 --> 00:04:41,002 THEY DON'T KNOW, THEY DON'T 94 00:04:41,004 --> 00:04:42,009 CARE, THEY BELIEVE THEY HAVE 95 00:04:42,011 --> 00:04:44,026 THEIR OWN 9/11 WHICH IS THE DAY 96 00:04:44,028 --> 00:04:48,009 KIM KARDASHIAN'S ASS BROKE THE 97 00:04:48,011 --> 00:04:49,015 INTERNET. 98 00:04:52,024 --> 00:04:53,028 AND OF COURSE CALIFORNIA'S BIG 99 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,008 RECALL, ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT 100 00:04:56,010 --> 00:04:57,015 THIS, YOU TREPIDATIONS ABOUT 101 00:04:57,017 --> 00:04:58,011 THIS? 102 00:04:58,013 --> 00:05:00,005 IT'S ENDING TUESDAY, HAVE YOU 103 00:05:00,007 --> 00:05:00,027 MAILED IN BALLOTS? 104 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,009 WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR A 105 00:05:02,011 --> 00:05:02,015 WHILE. 106 00:05:05,018 --> 00:05:07,007 I TELL YOU, CALIFORNIA POLITICS 107 00:05:07,009 --> 00:05:12,006 IS SO FUCKING CONFUSING, JUST 108 00:05:12,008 --> 00:05:14,013 ADD GAVIN NEWSOM'S NAME AND A 109 00:05:14,015 --> 00:05:19,009 FUCK, MARRY, OR KILL. 110 00:05:19,011 --> 00:05:21,003 'S BIGGEST CONTENDER IS LARRY 111 00:05:21,005 --> 00:05:24,000 ELDER, DO YOU KNOW LARRY ELDER? 112 00:05:24,002 --> 00:05:24,018 AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE 113 00:05:24,020 --> 00:05:28,009 RADIO HOST, LARRY USED TO DO OUR 114 00:05:28,011 --> 00:05:29,016 SHOW, RIGHT? 115 00:05:29,018 --> 00:05:32,007 WHO IS WORKING WITH ME? 116 00:05:33,006 --> 00:05:33,024 WE SHOULD HAVE LARRY ON AGAIN 117 00:05:33,026 --> 00:05:38,016 AFTER HE LOSES. 118 00:05:39,003 --> 00:05:42,026 I LIKE LARRY, HE'S NOT AFRAID TO 119 00:05:42,028 --> 00:05:45,006 PUT IT OUT THERE. 120 00:05:45,008 --> 00:05:46,010 HE SAID ON REPARATIONS, THE 121 00:05:46,012 --> 00:05:47,020 SUBJECT CAME UP IN AN INTERVIEW 122 00:05:47,022 --> 00:05:51,015 AND HE SAID YOU COULD ARGUE THAT 123 00:05:51,017 --> 00:05:53,024 SLAVE OWNERS, BECAUSE SLAVES 124 00:05:53,026 --> 00:05:57,019 WERE PROPERTY AT THE TIME, THEY 125 00:05:57,021 --> 00:05:58,019 COULD GET REPARATIONS. 126 00:05:58,021 --> 00:06:03,004 THE OWNERS GO YES, YOU COULD 127 00:06:03,006 --> 00:06:05,011 ARGUE THAT, LARRY, IF YOU WANT 128 00:06:05,013 --> 00:06:07,017 TO GET YOUR ASS KICKED AT THE 129 00:06:07,019 --> 00:06:11,019 BARBERSHOP. 130 00:06:11,021 --> 00:06:13,001 HE'S OUT THERE. 131 00:06:14,002 --> 00:06:14,018 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 132 00:06:14,020 --> 00:06:16,024 TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY AND HIS 133 00:06:16,026 --> 00:06:18,006 HUSBAND, PETE BUTTIGIEG, 134 00:06:18,008 --> 00:06:20,001 REMEMBER HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT? 135 00:06:20,003 --> 00:06:22,011 'S HUSBAND, THEY HAD A BABY -- 136 00:06:22,013 --> 00:06:25,015 THEY HAD TWINS AND I MUST SAY 137 00:06:25,017 --> 00:06:29,001 SUCH A HIGH-PROFILE BIRTH DROVE 138 00:06:29,003 --> 00:06:30,004 HOME THE POINT THAT GAY PEOPLE 139 00:06:30,006 --> 00:06:31,021 HAVE CHILDREN FOR THE EXACT SAME 140 00:06:31,023 --> 00:06:32,020 REASON THAT STRAIGHT COUPLES DO, 141 00:06:32,022 --> 00:06:34,025 THEY HAVE RUN OUT OF THINGS TO 142 00:06:34,027 --> 00:06:41,003 TALK ABOUT. 143 00:06:41,005 --> 00:06:42,006 OKAY, WE'VE GOT A GREAT SHOW, 144 00:06:42,008 --> 00:06:43,002 GEORGE WILL AND CHRISTINA 145 00:06:43,004 --> 00:06:43,025 BELLANTONI ARE HERE. 146 00:06:43,027 --> 00:06:44,026 BUT FIRST, SHE'S THE DEMOCRATIC 147 00:06:44,028 --> 00:06:45,013 CONGRESSWOMAN WHO REPRESENTS 148 00:06:45,015 --> 00:06:49,010 - CALIFORNIA'S 13 149 00:06:49,012 --> 00:06:51,029 BARBARA LEE! 150 00:06:52,001 --> 00:06:53,022 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, HOW ARE YOU 151 00:06:53,024 --> 00:06:54,013 DOING TONIGHT? 152 00:06:54,015 --> 00:06:56,029 DOING GREAT, NICE BEING WITH 153 00:06:57,001 --> 00:06:57,010 YOU ONCE AGAIN. 154 00:06:57,012 --> 00:06:59,007 I APPRECIATE IT, I 155 00:06:59,009 --> 00:07:00,028 WANT TO DO ON ESPECIALLY TODAY 156 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,026 BECAUSE IT IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF 157 00:07:02,028 --> 00:07:04,011 9/11 AND I MENTIONED ON THIS 158 00:07:04,013 --> 00:07:05,015 SHOW A WHILE AGO, YOU AND 159 00:07:05,017 --> 00:07:07,012 PEOPLE -- THAT THE SAME THING 160 00:07:07,014 --> 00:07:10,010 ALL OVER THE MEDIA, YOU WERE THE 161 00:07:10,012 --> 00:07:12,004 LONE VOICE AFTER 9/11 TO STAND 162 00:07:12,006 --> 00:07:14,014 UP AND SAY "MAYBE WE SHOULD NOT 163 00:07:14,016 --> 00:07:15,019 GO INTO AFGHANISTAN. 164 00:07:15,021 --> 00:07:21,013 " 165 00:07:21,015 --> 00:07:23,004 I FEEL LIKE THERE SHOULD BE A 166 00:07:23,006 --> 00:07:25,003 BARBARA LEE AWARD, THE BARBARA 167 00:07:25,005 --> 00:07:27,014 LEE, HENRY FONDA IN 12 ANGRY MEN 168 00:07:27,016 --> 00:07:29,004 AWARD FOR BEING THE LONE PERSON 169 00:07:29,006 --> 00:07:32,005 WHO STANDS UP AGAINST A GROUP 170 00:07:32,007 --> 00:07:33,012 EVEN WHEN THE GROUP IS ALL 171 00:07:33,014 --> 00:07:36,012 HEADING IN ONE DIRECTION, AND I 172 00:07:36,014 --> 00:07:38,020 WOULD WANT TO ASK YOU TONIGHT 173 00:07:38,022 --> 00:07:39,024 ASIDE FROM THE SPECIFIC LESSONS 174 00:07:39,026 --> 00:07:41,010 FROM AFGHANISTAN, DON'T YOU 175 00:07:41,012 --> 00:07:42,025 THINK ONE OF THEM IS ALSO THAT 176 00:07:42,027 --> 00:07:44,026 PEOPLE ARE SHEEP AND GROUPTHINK 177 00:07:44,028 --> 00:07:46,021 IS ONE OF OUR MOST DANGEROUS 178 00:07:46,023 --> 00:07:49,014 PROBLEMS? 179 00:07:49,016 --> 00:07:50,024 I TELL YOU, FIRST OF ALL, LET 180 00:07:50,026 --> 00:07:55,018 ME JUST SAY WHENEVER WE ARE IN A 181 00:07:55,020 --> 00:07:57,028 MOMENT OF CRISIS, I'M TALKING 182 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,024 ABOUT NOW, OUR EMOTIONAL 183 00:08:01,026 --> 00:08:02,028 REACTION TO NATIONAL SECURITY 184 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,016 CRISES AND OUR PERSONAL LIVES. 185 00:08:06,018 --> 00:08:07,017 WHENEVER WE ARE IN GRIEVING OR 186 00:08:07,019 --> 00:08:09,014 IN MORNING, WHENEVER WE ARE SAD, 187 00:08:09,016 --> 00:08:11,019 WHENEVER WE ARE ANGRY, THAT IS 188 00:08:11,021 --> 00:08:14,016 NOT THE TIME TO MAKE IMPORTANT 189 00:08:14,018 --> 00:08:14,027 DECISIONS. 190 00:08:14,029 --> 00:08:17,000 WE NEED TO STEP BACK AS MEMBERS 191 00:08:17,002 --> 00:08:17,024 OF CONGRESS AND LEADERS, WE HAVE 192 00:08:17,026 --> 00:08:20,010 TO STEP BACK FOR A MINUTE AND 193 00:08:20,012 --> 00:08:21,024 WAIT UNTIL THE MOMENT WHEN WE 194 00:08:21,026 --> 00:08:23,026 CAN BE RATIONAL AND THINK ABOUT 195 00:08:23,028 --> 00:08:26,001 AND UNDERSTAND THE COSTS AND 196 00:08:26,003 --> 00:08:26,023 CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACTIONS WE 197 00:08:26,025 --> 00:08:30,022 ARE ABOUT TO TAKE. 198 00:08:30,024 --> 00:08:32,029 YES, WE NEEDED TO BE UNIFIED IN 199 00:08:33,001 --> 00:08:35,003 A RESPONSE TO THE HORRIFIC 200 00:08:35,005 --> 00:08:37,002 TERRORIST ATTACKS, AND IT WAS 201 00:08:37,004 --> 00:08:40,016 NOT A PARTISAN MOMENT, BUT IN 202 00:08:40,018 --> 00:08:41,025 FACT WE HAD A DUTY AND A 203 00:08:41,027 --> 00:08:42,028 RESPONSIBILITY NOT TO GO ALONG 204 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 WITH THE FLOW BECAUSE THREE DAYS 205 00:08:45,002 --> 00:08:47,009 AFTERWARDS WE WANTED TO BRING 206 00:08:47,011 --> 00:08:48,023 TERRORISTS TO JUSTICE. 207 00:08:48,025 --> 00:08:50,017 GROUPTHINK IS DANGEROUS IN MANY 208 00:08:50,019 --> 00:08:52,004 RESPECTS BUT I THINK AS MEMBERS 209 00:08:52,006 --> 00:08:54,009 OF CONGRESS, WE HAVE TO REALLY 210 00:08:54,011 --> 00:08:56,021 STEP BACK FOR A MOMENT AS I SAID 211 00:08:56,023 --> 00:08:57,028 ON THE FLOOR AND MAKE SOME 212 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 SERIOUS DECISIONS NOT IN THE 213 00:08:59,002 --> 00:09:01,025 MOMENT OF GREASE AND CRISIS AND 214 00:09:01,027 --> 00:09:02,022 TRAGEDY. 215 00:09:03,019 --> 00:09:07,027 TRUE THAT. 216 00:09:07,029 --> 00:09:09,023 WHAT DO YOU THINK NOW WE ARE 217 00:09:09,025 --> 00:09:10,016 GROUPTHINK AND? 218 00:09:10,018 --> 00:09:12,006 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO LOOK BACK 219 00:09:12,008 --> 00:09:14,000 ON IN TEN OR 20 YEARS AND TO SAY 220 00:09:14,002 --> 00:09:16,013 WE ALL WERE SHEEP ON THAT ONE? 221 00:09:16,015 --> 00:09:18,005 I DON'T THINK IT'S ABOUT 222 00:09:18,007 --> 00:09:19,008 LOOKING BACK AND SAYING WE ALL 223 00:09:19,010 --> 00:09:21,016 WERE SHEEP, I THINK IT'S ABOUT 224 00:09:21,018 --> 00:09:23,002 REALLY LEARNING THE LESSONS OF 225 00:09:23,004 --> 00:09:25,001 THE LAST 20 YEARS, SEVERAL OF 226 00:09:25,003 --> 00:09:27,009 WHICH WE KNOW ALREADY. 227 00:09:27,011 --> 00:09:29,022 ONE IS WHICH THERE IS NO 228 00:09:29,024 --> 00:09:30,012 MILITARY SOLUTION IN 229 00:09:30,014 --> 00:09:31,010 AFGHANISTAN, IF YOU KNOW THE 230 00:09:31,012 --> 00:09:33,009 HISTORY YOU KNOW THERE WILL 231 00:09:33,011 --> 00:09:34,004 NEVER BE MILITARY SOLUTIONS BY 232 00:09:34,006 --> 00:09:36,017 THE UNITED STATES. 233 00:09:36,019 --> 00:09:38,013 IF THE PRESIDENT WAS RIGHT, 234 00:09:38,015 --> 00:09:40,015 WITHDRAWING OUR TROOPS, 235 00:09:40,017 --> 00:09:41,003 ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. 236 00:09:41,005 --> 00:09:43,010 HAD WE STAYED THERE FOR THE NEXT 237 00:09:43,012 --> 00:09:45,026 FIVE, TEN, 20 YEARS, WE WOULD 238 00:09:45,028 --> 00:09:48,008 PROBABLY BE IN WORSE SHAPE. 239 00:09:48,010 --> 00:09:49,009 THERE IS NO MILITARY SOLUTION 240 00:09:49,011 --> 00:09:51,004 AND THE MILITARY OPTION IS 241 00:09:51,006 --> 00:09:51,027 ALWAYS ON THE TABLE AS IT 242 00:09:51,029 --> 00:09:54,026 RELATES TO THE USE OF FORCE. 243 00:09:54,028 --> 00:09:56,026 SECONDLY, WE CAN'T GO AROUND THE 244 00:09:56,028 --> 00:09:57,026 WORLD AND NATION BUILD. 245 00:09:57,028 --> 00:09:59,021 CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY 246 00:09:59,023 --> 00:10:00,024 WE HAVE SPENT NOW? 247 00:10:00,026 --> 00:10:02,006 WE HAVE SPENT TRILLIONS OF 248 00:10:02,008 --> 00:10:03,015 DOLLARS AND WE HAVE SPENT 249 00:10:03,017 --> 00:10:04,020 TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IT COULD 250 00:10:04,022 --> 00:10:06,002 HAVE BEEN USED FOR 251 00:10:06,004 --> 00:10:08,012 INFRASTRUCTURE, FOR JOBS, FOR 252 00:10:08,014 --> 00:10:09,028 HEALTH CARE, FOR EDUCATION, FOR 253 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,012 DOMESTIC PRIORITIES IN OUR OWN 254 00:10:11,014 --> 00:10:13,018 COUNTRY ALSO TO SUPPORT OUR 255 00:10:13,020 --> 00:10:15,002 TROOPS AND MAKE SURE OUR TROOPS 256 00:10:15,004 --> 00:10:17,020 HAVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE THEY 257 00:10:17,022 --> 00:10:19,016 DESERVE. 258 00:10:19,018 --> 00:10:21,002 THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T HAVE 259 00:10:21,004 --> 00:10:22,008 TO USE OUR COUNTERTERRORISM 260 00:10:22,010 --> 00:10:23,022 MEASURES AND BRING TERRORISTS TO 261 00:10:23,024 --> 00:10:24,026 JUSTICE, THIS IS A DANGEROUS 262 00:10:24,028 --> 00:10:25,019 WORLD. 263 00:10:25,021 --> 00:10:26,021 I THINK WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED IS 264 00:10:26,023 --> 00:10:29,010 WE HAVE TO USE ALL THE ASPECTS 265 00:10:29,012 --> 00:10:30,021 OF OUR NATIONAL SECURITY 266 00:10:30,023 --> 00:10:33,002 POLICIES AND THE TOOLS THAT WE 267 00:10:33,004 --> 00:10:33,023 HAVE. 268 00:10:33,025 --> 00:10:36,028 WE HAVE DEFENSE, OF COURSE, BUT 269 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,027 WE ALSO HAVE DIPLOMACY, 270 00:10:38,029 --> 00:10:39,013 DEVELOPMENT, HUMANITARIAN 271 00:10:39,015 --> 00:10:40,029 STRATEGIES WE CAN USE AND WE 272 00:10:41,001 --> 00:10:43,013 NEED TO REBALANCE AND REIMAGINE 273 00:10:43,015 --> 00:10:44,017 HOW WE DO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY 274 00:10:44,019 --> 00:10:44,028 FOR THE FUTURE. 275 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,025 I THINK THOSE ARE THE LESSONS WE 276 00:10:47,027 --> 00:10:50,022 HAVE LEARNED. 277 00:10:52,012 --> 00:10:54,011 WHAT SHOULD WE HAVE 278 00:10:54,013 --> 00:10:57,028 SPECIFICALLY DONE AFTER 9/11? 279 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,017 WE DID A LOT, WE UPPED THE 280 00:11:01,019 --> 00:11:02,003 DEFENSE BUDGET A LOT, WE 281 00:11:02,005 --> 00:11:02,020 DEVELOPED THE DEPARTMENT OF 282 00:11:02,022 --> 00:11:03,020 HOMELAND SECURITY WHICH IS 283 00:11:03,022 --> 00:11:08,019 COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL. 284 00:11:08,021 --> 00:11:09,028 SHOULD WE HAVE JUST REINFORCED 285 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,006 THE COCKPIT DOORS AND KILLED 286 00:11:11,008 --> 00:11:12,016 BIN LADEN WHAT THAT HAVE 287 00:11:12,018 --> 00:11:13,022 SUFFICED? 288 00:11:13,024 --> 00:11:15,023 WE KNOW WHAT WE SHOULDN'T 289 00:11:15,025 --> 00:11:17,009 HAVE DONE AND THAT IS SENT OUR 290 00:11:17,011 --> 00:11:19,029 TROOPS INTO HARM'S WAY EVEN 291 00:11:20,001 --> 00:11:23,025 AFTER BIN LADEN WAS KILLED THERE 292 00:11:23,027 --> 00:11:25,008 AGO WE HAD A MOMENT WE SHOULD'VE 293 00:11:25,010 --> 00:11:26,015 BROUGHT OUR TROOPS HOME AND WE 294 00:11:26,017 --> 00:11:26,028 DIDN'T. 295 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,010 WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE DONE WAS 296 00:11:29,012 --> 00:11:30,013 INVESTED MORE IN 297 00:11:30,015 --> 00:11:31,015 COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES BUT 298 00:11:31,017 --> 00:11:33,015 ALSO WE SHOULD HAVE INVESTED 299 00:11:33,017 --> 00:11:35,015 MORE IN OUR DIPLOMATIC 300 00:11:35,017 --> 00:11:36,026 INITIATIVES AS IT RELATES TO 301 00:11:36,028 --> 00:11:38,028 AFGHANISTAN AND ALSO SUPPORTING 302 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,020 WOMEN AND GIRLS AND MAKING SURE 303 00:11:41,022 --> 00:11:43,017 THAT WE ENSURE OUR EMPOWERMENT 304 00:11:43,019 --> 00:11:45,000 AND EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE 305 00:11:45,002 --> 00:11:45,024 AND SAFETY. 306 00:11:45,026 --> 00:11:47,023 WHAT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IS 307 00:11:47,025 --> 00:11:49,006 GO INTO AFGHANISTAN NOT KNOWING 308 00:11:49,008 --> 00:11:52,020 WHEN WE WERE LEAVING, NOT HAVING 309 00:11:52,022 --> 00:11:54,022 A SUNSET DATE, NOT HAVING A 310 00:11:54,024 --> 00:11:56,005 SPECIFIC MISSION AND ENDING UP 311 00:11:56,007 --> 00:11:59,016 20 YEARS LATER ASKING THE 312 00:11:59,018 --> 00:12:04,006 QUESTIONS WITH REGARD TO WHERE 313 00:12:04,008 --> 00:12:08,003 THE $2 TRILLION OF TAXPAYER 314 00:12:08,005 --> 00:12:08,028 DOLLARS WENT, WE NEED TO SALUTE 315 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,019 AND THANK OUR TROOPS, THEY HAVE 316 00:12:10,021 --> 00:12:12,001 DONE EVERYTHING THIS COUNTRY HAS 317 00:12:12,003 --> 00:12:15,025 ASKED THEM TO DO, EVERYTHING. 318 00:12:15,027 --> 00:12:18,010 EVERYTHING. 319 00:12:19,013 --> 00:12:22,022 I'M THE DAUGHTER OF A 25 YEAR 320 00:12:22,024 --> 00:12:31,029 VETERAN, LIEUTENANT COLONEL 321 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:34,021 GARVIN A TUTT, HE CALLED ME 322 00:12:34,023 --> 00:12:35,008 AFTER I VOTED AGAINST THAT 323 00:12:35,010 --> 00:12:37,009 AUTHORIZATION AND SAID THAT'S 324 00:12:37,011 --> 00:12:39,014 THE RIGHT VOTE, THAT BLANK CHECK 325 00:12:39,016 --> 00:12:41,004 WAS OVERLY BROAD, DON'T SEND OUR 326 00:12:41,006 --> 00:12:41,026 TROOPS INTO HARM'S WAY LESS YOU 327 00:12:41,028 --> 00:12:43,013 KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. 328 00:12:43,015 --> 00:12:45,015 WE HAVE TO BE PROUD AND THANK 329 00:12:45,017 --> 00:12:47,014 OUR TROOPS FOR WHAT THEY HAVE 330 00:12:47,016 --> 00:12:48,003 DONE AND NO NEVER AGAIN ARE WE 331 00:12:48,005 --> 00:12:50,026 GOING TO SEND THEM INTO A WAR 332 00:12:50,028 --> 00:12:52,005 WITHOUT END AND NOT KNOW WHEN IN 333 00:12:52,007 --> 00:12:53,014 FACT THEY ARE GOING TO BE ABLE 334 00:12:53,016 --> 00:12:54,007 TO COME HOME. 335 00:12:54,009 --> 00:12:56,003 WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT 336 00:12:56,005 --> 00:12:59,017 YOU DID VERY MUCH, THANK YOU. 337 00:12:59,019 --> 00:13:00,003 BARBARA LEE, EVERYBODY, I 338 00:13:00,005 --> 00:13:05,020 APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE TODAY. 339 00:13:05,022 --> 00:13:05,027 THANK YOU! 340 00:13:05,029 --> 00:13:08,018 LET'S MEET OUR PANEL. 341 00:13:10,007 --> 00:13:11,012 SHE'S DIRECTOR OF THE MEDIA 342 00:13:11,014 --> 00:13:12,023 CENTER AT USC ANNENBERG AND A 343 00:13:12,025 --> 00:13:14,008 - CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF THE 19 - TH 344 00:13:14,010 --> 00:13:18,019 CHRISTINA BELLANTONI. 345 00:13:18,021 --> 00:13:24,003 BACK WITH US, HOW ARE YOU DOING? 346 00:13:24,005 --> 00:13:25,001 HE'S A PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING 347 00:13:25,003 --> 00:13:25,027 COLUMNIST FOR THE WASHINGTON 348 00:13:25,029 --> 00:13:26,018 POST AND AUTHOR OF THE NEW BOOK 349 00:13:26,020 --> 00:13:28,025 - OUT ON SEPTEMBER 14 - TH "AMERICAN 350 00:13:28,027 --> 00:13:31,003 THE 351 00:13:31,005 --> 00:13:35,012 UNRULY TORRENT, 2008-2020": 352 00:13:35,014 --> 00:13:39,010 GEORGE WILL! 353 00:13:40,005 --> 00:13:41,016 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, SIR. 354 00:13:41,018 --> 00:13:44,014 IF THE BIG NEWS TODAY IT WAS 355 00:13:44,016 --> 00:13:45,014 BIDEN TALKING ABOUT THESE NEW 356 00:13:45,016 --> 00:13:49,009 MANDATES, IT COULD AFFECT UP TO 357 00:13:49,011 --> 00:13:49,028 100 MILLION PEOPLE, HEALTH CARE 358 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 WORKERS, BUSINESSES WHO HAVE 359 00:13:52,002 --> 00:13:52,026 OVER 100 WORKERS, CONTRACTORS, 360 00:13:52,028 --> 00:13:54,025 THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE, 361 00:13:54,027 --> 00:13:56,016 100 MILLION PEOPLE TO TELL 362 00:13:56,018 --> 00:13:57,013 SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO. 363 00:13:57,015 --> 00:13:59,022 I WANT TO GET YOUR OPINION TO 364 00:13:59,024 --> 00:14:00,026 START THE SHOW, TELL ME FIRST OF 365 00:14:00,028 --> 00:14:03,010 ALL WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS? 366 00:14:03,012 --> 00:14:05,020 HUGE RELIEF, I DISAGREE WITH 367 00:14:05,022 --> 00:14:08,018 BIDEN WHEN HE SAID HIS PATIENCE 368 00:14:08,020 --> 00:14:10,004 IS WEARING THIN -- MY PATIENTS 369 00:14:10,006 --> 00:14:11,002 IS OUT. 370 00:14:11,004 --> 00:14:12,014 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE 371 00:14:12,016 --> 00:14:14,004 ALTERNATE REALITY THAT COULD 372 00:14:14,006 --> 00:14:14,018 HAVE BEEN. 373 00:14:15,028 --> 00:14:17,004 HAD PEOPLE GOTTEN VACCINATED AND 374 00:14:17,006 --> 00:14:18,020 THE PRESIDENT'S TEAM OF COURSE 375 00:14:18,022 --> 00:14:20,004 THEY ARE LOOKING AT NUMBERS AND 376 00:14:20,006 --> 00:14:20,029 THEY KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE 377 00:14:21,001 --> 00:14:23,003 NOT GOING TO GET THE VACCINE 378 00:14:23,005 --> 00:14:25,009 WHEN THAT FDA AUTHORIZATION CAME 379 00:14:25,011 --> 00:14:27,002 IN, THIS IS A WAY TO FORCE IT TO 380 00:14:27,004 --> 00:14:27,009 HAPPEN. 381 00:14:27,011 --> 00:14:30,022 GEORGE? 382 00:14:30,024 --> 00:14:32,021 I AGREE WITH THE BIDEN 383 00:14:32,023 --> 00:14:33,028 OF DECEMBER WHEN HE BECAME 384 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 PRESIDENT, HE WAS ASKED IF HE 385 00:14:36,002 --> 00:14:36,019 WOULD MANDATE VACCINATIONS AND 386 00:14:36,021 --> 00:14:37,008 HE SAID I DON'T HAVE THE POWER 387 00:14:37,010 --> 00:14:39,015 TO DO THAT. 388 00:14:39,017 --> 00:14:40,017 IN FACT, CONGRESS DOESN'T HAVE 389 00:14:40,019 --> 00:14:42,022 THE POWER TO DO THAT, NOT HAVING 390 00:14:42,024 --> 00:14:44,012 A GENERAL POLICE POWER, THAT 391 00:14:44,014 --> 00:14:45,021 BELONGS TO THE STATES. 392 00:14:45,023 --> 00:14:46,024 WHEN THIS IS LITIGATED IT'S 393 00:14:46,026 --> 00:14:48,018 GOING TO BE NOT ABOUT INDIVIDUAL 394 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:49,022 RIGHTS IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT 395 00:14:49,024 --> 00:14:51,026 SEPARATION OF POWERS AND 396 00:14:51,028 --> 00:14:53,005 FEDERALISM THEIR GOLD EYES GLAZE 397 00:14:53,007 --> 00:14:53,024 OVER WHEN YOU BRING THESE THINGS 398 00:14:53,026 --> 00:14:57,019 UP BUT IT MATTERS. 399 00:14:57,021 --> 00:14:58,008 WHEN DONALD TRUMP SAID I'M GOING 400 00:14:58,010 --> 00:15:02,009 TO TAKE MONEY APPROPRIATED FROM 401 00:15:02,011 --> 00:15:03,028 X AND REPURPOSE IT TO BUILD THE 402 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:04,027 WALL, PEOPLE WERE OUTRAGED AND 403 00:15:04,029 --> 00:15:06,029 RIGHTLY SO, THEY SHOULD BE 404 00:15:07,001 --> 00:15:07,027 OUTRAGED ALSO THAT AN 405 00:15:07,029 --> 00:15:10,014 INSTITUTION AND APPENDAGE OF THE 406 00:15:10,016 --> 00:15:12,022 EXECUTIVE BRANCH THE 407 00:15:12,024 --> 00:15:14,025 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY 408 00:15:14,027 --> 00:15:16,023 ADMINISTRATION HAS DECIDED TO 409 00:15:16,025 --> 00:15:18,009 EXERCISE FAST POWER, HITHERTO 410 00:15:18,011 --> 00:15:20,028 UNEXPECTED TO WORK IN THE 411 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,026 STATUTE CREATING OSHA, TO ADMIT 412 00:15:24,028 --> 00:15:27,001 NO LIMITING PRINCIPLE, JUST AS 413 00:15:27,003 --> 00:15:28,008 WHEN THE SUPREME COURT TOOK A 414 00:15:28,010 --> 00:15:29,019 LOOK AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE 415 00:15:29,021 --> 00:15:31,025 CONTROL SAYING WE ARE GOING TO 416 00:15:31,027 --> 00:15:32,024 SUSPEND EVICTIONS OF THE 417 00:15:32,026 --> 00:15:33,012 SUPREME COURT SAID WHERE'D YOU 418 00:15:33,014 --> 00:15:38,004 GET THE POWER TO BROADLY SAY 419 00:15:38,006 --> 00:15:41,015 THAT LANDLORDS ARE REQUIRED, 420 00:15:41,017 --> 00:15:44,008 BECAUSE THEY GO ON PAYING TAXES 421 00:15:44,010 --> 00:15:45,005 AND INSURANCE AND MAINTENANCE 422 00:15:45,007 --> 00:15:47,027 AND MORTGAGE AND ALL THE REST, 423 00:15:47,029 --> 00:15:50,002 REQUIRED TO PAY FREE HOUSING? 424 00:15:50,004 --> 00:15:52,028 THIS IS A CASE OF GOVERNMENT NOT 425 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,009 RESPECTING LIMITS AND IT'S THE 426 00:15:54,011 --> 00:15:54,027 RULE OF LAW. 427 00:15:54,029 --> 00:15:56,022 PEOPLE SAY THIS IS AN ABNORMAL 428 00:15:56,024 --> 00:15:57,013 TIME. 429 00:15:57,015 --> 00:15:58,023 I HAVE ANOTHER BEEF 430 00:15:58,025 --> 00:15:59,017 AGAINST GOVERNMENT WHICH I 431 00:15:59,019 --> 00:16:02,010 MENTIONED BEFORE, I WAS READING 432 00:16:02,012 --> 00:16:04,008 A QUOTE FROM THE MEXICAN 433 00:16:04,010 --> 00:16:06,017 CORONAVIRUS CZAR, HE SAID WHY DO 434 00:16:06,019 --> 00:16:09,008 WE NEED BOTTLED POISON AND SOFT 435 00:16:09,010 --> 00:16:09,027 DRINKS? 436 00:16:09,029 --> 00:16:12,001 HEALTH IN MEXICO WOULD BE VERY 437 00:16:12,003 --> 00:16:14,012 DIFFERENT IF WE STOPPED BEING 438 00:16:14,014 --> 00:16:14,029 DECEIVED BY THESE LIFESTYLES 439 00:16:15,001 --> 00:16:18,005 SOLD ON TELEVISION AND RADIO AD 440 00:16:18,007 --> 00:16:19,008 ADS. 441 00:16:19,010 --> 00:16:20,016 I'M FOR GETTING THE COUNTRY BACK 442 00:16:20,018 --> 00:16:22,003 ON ITS FEET AND IF IT TAKES A 443 00:16:22,005 --> 00:16:23,027 LOT OF VACCINES TO DO THAT, I 444 00:16:23,029 --> 00:16:25,015 UNDERSTAND THAT TO A DEGREE. 445 00:16:25,017 --> 00:16:27,005 IT'S PREDICATED ON THIS IDEA 446 00:16:27,007 --> 00:16:27,020 THAT WE ARE ALL EQUALLY 447 00:16:27,022 --> 00:16:30,027 VULNERABLE AND WE ARE NOT. 448 00:16:30,029 --> 00:16:33,003 A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH 449 00:16:33,005 --> 00:16:34,009 LIFESTYLE CHOICES, WHICH WE JUST 450 00:16:34,011 --> 00:16:36,013 REFUSED TO TALK ABOUT. 451 00:16:36,015 --> 00:16:38,020 I HATE TO BE THE ONE WHO HAS TO 452 00:16:38,022 --> 00:16:41,001 ALWAYS SAY IT, BUT 78% OF THE 453 00:16:41,003 --> 00:16:43,027 PEOPLE WHO DIED FROM THIS WERE 454 00:16:43,029 --> 00:16:44,004 OBESE. 455 00:16:44,006 --> 00:16:47,003 THE VAST NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE 456 00:16:47,005 --> 00:16:48,017 WORLD WHO HAVE DIED FROM IT ARE 457 00:16:48,019 --> 00:16:49,027 IN COUNTRIES WHERE THAT IS A 458 00:16:49,029 --> 00:16:50,029 PROBLEM. 459 00:16:51,001 --> 00:16:52,009 THEY KEEP SAYING "LET THE 460 00:16:52,011 --> 00:16:54,012 SCIENCE SPEAK, LISTEN TO THE 461 00:16:54,014 --> 00:16:54,028 SCIENCE. 462 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:55,029 ," THIS IS WHAT THE SCIENCE IS 463 00:16:56,001 --> 00:16:59,025 SCREAMING LOUD AND CLEAR. 464 00:16:59,027 --> 00:17:01,025 UNLESS PEOPLE HAVE SOME SKIN IN 465 00:17:01,027 --> 00:17:02,023 THE GAME EVEN BEFORE COVID, WE 466 00:17:02,025 --> 00:17:04,011 ARE NEVER GOING TO GET A HANDLE 467 00:17:04,013 --> 00:17:06,009 ON HER BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH THE 468 00:17:06,011 --> 00:17:08,016 ECONOMY ALSO WHICH IS 469 00:17:08,018 --> 00:17:09,014 HEALTH CARE. 470 00:17:09,016 --> 00:17:10,000 PEOPLE HAVE TO TAKE SOME 471 00:17:10,002 --> 00:17:12,006 RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN 472 00:17:12,008 --> 00:17:13,003 HEALTH, THEY HAVE TO MEET THE 473 00:17:13,005 --> 00:17:17,022 GOVERNMENT HALFWAY. 474 00:17:20,022 --> 00:17:24,016 SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT MANDATE 475 00:17:24,018 --> 00:17:25,015 FFITNESS? 476 00:17:25,017 --> 00:17:27,020 NOT MANDATES BUT HOW 477 00:17:27,022 --> 00:17:29,003 ABOUT A PROGRAM, HOW ABOUT 478 00:17:29,005 --> 00:17:29,023 MENTIONING IT? 479 00:17:29,025 --> 00:17:31,009 WE CAN'T USE THE BULLY PULPIT, 480 00:17:31,011 --> 00:17:33,004 HAS IT EVER BEEN MENTIONED? 481 00:17:33,006 --> 00:17:35,016 I NEVER HEAR ANYONE TALK ABOUT 482 00:17:35,018 --> 00:17:35,028 IT. 483 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,012 BARACK OBAMA WAS CRITICIZED 484 00:17:37,014 --> 00:17:38,020 FOR BEING FITNESS OBSESSED, 485 00:17:38,022 --> 00:17:40,009 SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE FROM THE 486 00:17:40,011 --> 00:17:41,013 TOP, MICHELLE OBAMA WAS 487 00:17:41,015 --> 00:17:43,022 CRITICIZED FOR HER GARDEN. 488 00:17:43,024 --> 00:17:47,010 CRITICIZED, SO SHE WE 489 00:17:47,012 --> 00:17:52,028 SHOULD SHRINK FROM THAT? 490 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,005 I'M WITH YOU, IT DOESN'T STOP 491 00:17:55,007 --> 00:17:56,010 ANYONE WANTS TO PROTECT OUR 492 00:17:56,012 --> 00:17:57,027 FAMILIES WHO DON'T FIT INTO 493 00:17:57,029 --> 00:17:59,022 THOSE CATEGORIES. 494 00:17:59,024 --> 00:18:00,008 THIS VIRUS DOES NOT KNOW 495 00:18:00,010 --> 00:18:04,007 PEOPLE'S PERSONAL HABITS. 496 00:18:04,009 --> 00:18:06,021 NO, BUT IT KNOWS 497 00:18:06,023 --> 00:18:10,007 THIS, IT KNOWS THIS. 498 00:18:10,009 --> 00:18:12,014 FOUR FIFTHS IS KIND OF A BIG 499 00:18:12,016 --> 00:18:14,020 NUMBER FOR ONE FACTOR. 500 00:18:14,022 --> 00:18:16,013 THE MOST EFFICIENT THING 501 00:18:16,015 --> 00:18:18,000 GOVERNMENT DOES IS DISSEMINATE 502 00:18:18,002 --> 00:18:18,019 PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT 503 00:18:18,021 --> 00:18:20,022 CHOLESTEROL OR SMOKING -- 50 504 00:18:20,024 --> 00:18:23,013 YEARS AGO, ABOUT HALF OF 505 00:18:23,015 --> 00:18:24,024 AMERICAN ADULTS WOKE UP IN THE 506 00:18:24,026 --> 00:18:27,013 MORNING AND LIT A CIGARETTE, WE 507 00:18:27,015 --> 00:18:30,011 CUT THAT IN HALF. 508 00:18:30,013 --> 00:18:32,009 AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF OUR 509 00:18:32,011 --> 00:18:33,026 HEALTH CARE GOALS WHICH IS ABOUT 510 00:18:33,028 --> 00:18:37,025 18% GDP IS ABOUT KNOWN RISKY 511 00:18:37,027 --> 00:18:39,026 BEHAVIOR, VIOLENCE, VEHICULAR 512 00:18:39,028 --> 00:18:41,007 ACCIDENTS, CORONARY HEART 513 00:18:41,009 --> 00:18:42,020 DISEASE, LUNG DISEASE, 514 00:18:42,022 --> 00:18:42,028 ET CETERA. 515 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:43,028 AND THE FOOD, THE BIG 516 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,001 ONE IS FOOD. 517 00:18:47,003 --> 00:18:48,019 THAT DWARFS THE OTHER ONES, IT'S 518 00:18:48,021 --> 00:18:50,019 THE ONE WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO 519 00:18:50,021 --> 00:18:50,026 MENTION. 520 00:18:50,028 --> 00:18:53,013 THAT HAS GOT TO CHANGE. 521 00:18:53,015 --> 00:18:56,008 LISTEN, THIS IS OUR LAST SHOW WE 522 00:18:56,010 --> 00:18:57,006 HAVE BEFORE THIS RECALL ELECTION 523 00:18:57,008 --> 00:18:58,023 COMING UP SO I WANT TO ASK ABOUT 524 00:18:58,025 --> 00:19:01,000 THIS QUESTION, BECAUSE IT SEEMS 525 00:19:01,002 --> 00:19:02,002 LIKE THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO 526 00:19:02,004 --> 00:19:04,000 REPUBLICANS WANT GAVIN NEWSOM TO 527 00:19:04,002 --> 00:19:04,019 RESIGN FOR THE CRIME OF BEATING 528 00:19:04,021 --> 00:19:09,009 THEM IN THE ELECTION. 529 00:19:09,019 --> 00:19:10,006 I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE 530 00:19:10,008 --> 00:19:12,019 GENERAL TREND IN AMERICA WHERE 531 00:19:12,021 --> 00:19:13,013 ELECTIONS DON'T COUNT IF IT 532 00:19:13,015 --> 00:19:14,018 DOESN'T COME OUT THE WAY YOU 533 00:19:14,020 --> 00:19:18,014 WANTED THEM TO GO. 534 00:19:18,016 --> 00:19:20,023 I ALSO THINK READING AS I HAVE 535 00:19:20,025 --> 00:19:23,026 THIS WEEK A LOT OF PEOPLE 536 00:19:23,028 --> 00:19:25,012 TALKING ABOUT A FAILED BIDEN 537 00:19:25,014 --> 00:19:27,025 PRESIDENCY, AFTER NINE YEARS -- 538 00:19:27,027 --> 00:19:29,016 NINE MONTHS -- NINE YEARS, CAN 539 00:19:29,018 --> 00:19:29,025 YOU IMAGINE? 540 00:19:29,027 --> 00:19:35,019 THAT WOULD BE TRUMP. 541 00:19:35,021 --> 00:19:37,008 CAN YOU GIVE A GUY A CHANCE? 542 00:19:37,010 --> 00:19:39,004 IT SEEMS LIKE NO ONE WANTS TO 543 00:19:39,006 --> 00:19:41,017 SOLVE A PROBLEM, THEY JUST WANT 544 00:19:41,019 --> 00:19:42,021 TO BLAME PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T 545 00:19:42,023 --> 00:19:44,022 IMMEDIATELY SOLVED THE PROBLEM. 546 00:19:49,023 --> 00:19:51,028 AND THIS IS NOT A WAY A 547 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,021 GOVERNMENT CAN FUNCTION OR BE 548 00:19:53,023 --> 00:19:54,001 STABLE. 549 00:19:54,003 --> 00:19:57,001 IT'S AN INSTANT GRATIFICATION 550 00:19:57,003 --> 00:19:57,008 PROBLEM. 551 00:19:57,010 --> 00:19:59,019 BUT THEY ALSO BOTH WENT FROM 552 00:19:59,021 --> 00:20:00,014 PRETTY PEAK HIGH IS. 553 00:20:00,016 --> 00:20:02,016 GAVIN NEWSOM CAME IN, HUGE WIN 554 00:20:02,018 --> 00:20:03,024 IN THE ELECTION, WAS PRETTY 555 00:20:03,026 --> 00:20:06,028 POPULAR AT THE BEGINNING OF 556 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,018 CORONAVIRUS, I VIEW THAT TRICKLE 557 00:20:08,020 --> 00:20:09,015 THINGS AS SEPARATE ALTHOUGH IT'S 558 00:20:09,017 --> 00:20:11,020 INTERESTING THE PRESIDENT IS 559 00:20:11,022 --> 00:20:13,017 CAMPAIGNING FOR NEWSOM IN THE 560 00:20:13,019 --> 00:20:15,004 - 11 - TH HOUR, CLEARLY THEY THINK 561 00:20:15,006 --> 00:20:16,004 HE'S POPULAR ENOUGH THAT'S GOING 562 00:20:16,006 --> 00:20:17,011 TO HELP HERE. 563 00:20:17,013 --> 00:20:18,011 PEOPLE DON'T LIKE HYPOCRISY AND 564 00:20:18,013 --> 00:20:21,005 THAT IS WHERE SOME OF THIS 565 00:20:21,007 --> 00:20:21,025 STARTED AGAINST NEWSOM. 566 00:20:21,027 --> 00:20:23,026 I'M VOTING NO ON THE RECALL, I 567 00:20:23,028 --> 00:20:24,026 THINK HE'S A FINE GOVERNOR AND I 568 00:20:24,028 --> 00:20:27,015 WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM STAY AND I 569 00:20:27,017 --> 00:20:29,006 ALSO THINK WHEN YOU GOVERN THIS 570 00:20:29,008 --> 00:20:29,012 WAY -- 571 00:20:31,025 --> 00:20:36,019 ITS CONSTANT CHANGE, CALIFORNIA 572 00:20:36,021 --> 00:20:39,026 HAS AN ABILITY TO HAVE A RECALL, 573 00:20:39,028 --> 00:20:41,019 WE ALSO HAVE AN ABILITY TO PUT 574 00:20:41,021 --> 00:20:43,020 SO MANY PROPOSITIONS ON THE 575 00:20:43,022 --> 00:20:44,024 BALLOT FAIRLY EASILY WHICH 576 00:20:44,026 --> 00:20:48,010 COMPLETELY CHANGE LAWS VERY 577 00:20:48,012 --> 00:20:48,022 QUICKLY. 578 00:20:48,024 --> 00:20:50,005 IT'S ONE OF THE WAYS IN 579 00:20:50,007 --> 00:20:51,002 CALIFORNIA, IF EVERY STATE HAD 580 00:20:51,004 --> 00:20:53,018 THIS I BET YOU WOULD SEE A LOT 581 00:20:53,020 --> 00:20:54,014 MORE RECALLS. 582 00:20:54,016 --> 00:20:55,026 WHAT DO YOU THINK? 583 00:20:55,028 --> 00:20:57,026 I'M AGAINST RECALLS COME ON 584 00:20:57,028 --> 00:21:02,018 AGAINST INITIATIVES, I'M AGAINST 585 00:21:02,020 --> 00:21:05,010 REFERENDA. 586 00:21:05,012 --> 00:21:06,024 THIS IS APPLIED TO POPULISM 587 00:21:06,026 --> 00:21:08,026 WHICH IS THE BELIEF THAT THE 588 00:21:08,028 --> 00:21:10,004 PUBLIC PASSIONS ARE SELF 589 00:21:10,006 --> 00:21:10,022 GRATIFYING AND THEY SHOULD BE 590 00:21:10,024 --> 00:21:13,023 TRANSLATED IMMEDIATELY AND 591 00:21:13,025 --> 00:21:17,024 DIRECTLY INTO POLICY AND 592 00:21:17,026 --> 00:21:19,017 INSTITUTIONS. 593 00:21:19,019 --> 00:21:22,008 THE PRINCIPLE OF REPRESENTATION 594 00:21:22,010 --> 00:21:23,018 WHICH IS THE ESSENCE OF OUR 595 00:21:23,020 --> 00:21:24,027 REPUBLIC, IS THAT PEOPLE DON'T 596 00:21:24,029 --> 00:21:26,021 DECIDE ISSUES, THEY DECIDE WHO 597 00:21:26,023 --> 00:21:28,014 WILL DECIDE, YOU CAN'T IN THE 598 00:21:28,016 --> 00:21:29,027 CASE OF A RECALL SIMPLY DECLARE 599 00:21:29,029 --> 00:21:30,016 A MULLIGAN BECAUSE YOU DON'T 600 00:21:30,018 --> 00:21:31,021 LIKE THE SHOT YOU TOOK. 601 00:21:33,026 --> 00:21:36,027 EVEN IF YOU DON'T 602 00:21:36,029 --> 00:21:37,014 LIKE GOVERNOR NEWSOM OR HIS 603 00:21:37,016 --> 00:21:39,014 POLICIES YOU WOULD SAY HE SHOULD 604 00:21:39,016 --> 00:21:40,018 STAY BECAUSE YOU'RE A MAN OF 605 00:21:40,020 --> 00:21:41,007 PRINCIPLE. 606 00:21:41,009 --> 00:21:42,029 I THINK PEOPLE DESERVE TO 607 00:21:43,001 --> 00:21:45,021 SUFFER THE CHOICE THEY MADE, YE 608 00:21:45,023 --> 00:21:46,013 YES. 609 00:21:47,001 --> 00:21:48,022 THAT'S THE POINT OF AN 610 00:21:48,024 --> 00:21:49,024 ELECTION ON A SCHEDULE, YOU CAN 611 00:21:49,026 --> 00:21:51,024 CAST JUDGMENT ON THAT PERSON IN 612 00:21:51,026 --> 00:21:52,007 THE NEXT ELECTION. 613 00:21:52,009 --> 00:21:55,013 HOPEFULLY WE CAN 614 00:21:55,015 --> 00:21:56,026 RECALL THE RECALL LAW, THAT 615 00:21:56,028 --> 00:22:03,007 WOULD BE SO CALIFORNIA. 616 00:22:03,017 --> 00:22:04,028 LET ME ASK ABOUT TEXAS, WHAT'S 617 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,025 GOING ON IN TEXAS, THIS IS WOW. 618 00:22:09,027 --> 00:22:11,001 INTERESTING STUFF, INTERESTING 619 00:22:11,003 --> 00:22:11,019 THAT THE SUPREME COURT ALREADY 620 00:22:11,021 --> 00:22:13,028 BASICALLY HEARD IT. 621 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,019 I HEARD THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, 622 00:22:16,021 --> 00:22:18,008 BIDEN'S DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO 623 00:22:18,010 --> 00:22:19,015 SUE TEXAS AND WHAT, TO GET ALL 624 00:22:19,017 --> 00:22:22,026 WAY TO THE SUPREME COURT? 625 00:22:22,028 --> 00:22:25,002 WAIT, WE DID THAT IN THE 626 00:22:25,004 --> 00:22:29,013 SUPREME COURT SAID TEXAS, YOU DO 627 00:22:29,015 --> 00:22:30,018 YOU. 628 00:22:30,020 --> 00:22:32,024 I'M WONDERING IF THIS COULD 629 00:22:32,026 --> 00:22:33,001 BACKFIRE. 630 00:22:33,003 --> 00:22:34,002 REPUBLICANS ALWAYS SEEM TO BE 631 00:22:34,004 --> 00:22:36,016 HAPPIER WHEN THEY ARE OUT OF 632 00:22:36,018 --> 00:22:37,019 OFFICE BECAUSE THEY JUST ARE SO 633 00:22:37,021 --> 00:22:41,001 GOOD AT THE BITCHING, AND THEY 634 00:22:41,003 --> 00:22:45,022 LOVE TO OWN THE LIBERALS AND 635 00:22:45,024 --> 00:22:47,006 COMPLAIN, WHEN THEY GET INTO 636 00:22:47,008 --> 00:22:48,019 OFFICE, AND GET TO ENACT SOME 637 00:22:48,021 --> 00:22:51,029 OTHER IDEAS, THEY SCARE THE SHIT 638 00:22:52,001 --> 00:22:53,009 OUT OF PEOPLE. 639 00:22:53,011 --> 00:22:54,015 ELECTIONS ARE WON ON FEAR A LOT 640 00:22:54,017 --> 00:22:55,012 OF THE TIME, THAT'S HOW TRUMP 641 00:22:55,014 --> 00:22:57,017 GOT IN, THE FEAR OF THE 642 00:22:57,019 --> 00:22:58,022 OVERREACHING OF THE LIBERALS AND 643 00:22:58,024 --> 00:23:00,022 SO FORTH. 644 00:23:00,024 --> 00:23:02,016 I'M WONDERING IF THIS COULD 645 00:23:02,018 --> 00:23:03,000 REALLY HELP -- I THINK 646 00:23:03,002 --> 00:23:05,006 GOVERNOR ABBOTT IS HELPING GAVIN 647 00:23:05,008 --> 00:23:06,020 NEWSOM COME I THINK PEOPLE ARE 648 00:23:06,022 --> 00:23:08,000 GOING TO LOOK AT THAT AND GO 649 00:23:08,002 --> 00:23:10,009 "OH, MY GOD, WE DON'T WANT A 650 00:23:10,011 --> 00:23:11,012 REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR HERE IN THIS 651 00:23:11,014 --> 00:23:13,004 STATE IF THAT'S WHAT A 652 00:23:13,006 --> 00:23:15,016 REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR MIGHT DO." 653 00:23:19,004 --> 00:23:20,024 DO YOU THINK THAT'S POSSIBLE? 654 00:23:20,026 --> 00:23:22,022 IT'S DEFINITELY POSSIBLE, IN 655 00:23:22,024 --> 00:23:25,010 MY LIFETIME, IN MY CAREER 656 00:23:25,012 --> 00:23:26,021 COVERING POLITICS SO MANY PEOPLE 657 00:23:26,023 --> 00:23:27,028 WOULD TALK ABOUT THIS CONCEPT 658 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,026 THAT IF ROE V. WADE WAS EVER 659 00:23:29,028 --> 00:23:31,023 OVERTURNED, IF WOMEN WOULD TAKE 660 00:23:31,025 --> 00:23:34,022 TO THE STREETS, THAT WOULD END 661 00:23:34,024 --> 00:23:36,015 EVERYTHING, YOU WOULD HAVE A 662 00:23:36,017 --> 00:23:37,022 PERMANENT DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. 663 00:23:37,024 --> 00:23:38,019 THIS HAS BEEN SLOWLY HAPPENING 664 00:23:38,021 --> 00:23:40,027 FOR A VERY LONG TIME, PEOPLE 665 00:23:40,029 --> 00:23:45,020 HAVE BEEN CHALLENGING, TRYING TO 666 00:23:45,022 --> 00:23:49,004 GET THINGS TO THE COURT -- WHAT 667 00:23:49,006 --> 00:23:53,022 TRUMP DID TO THE JUDICIARY -- 668 00:23:53,024 --> 00:23:55,001 DID, MEANING? 669 00:23:55,003 --> 00:23:57,009 MITCH McCONNELL AND TRUMP, 670 00:23:57,011 --> 00:23:58,015 COMPLETELY CHANGING THE 671 00:23:58,017 --> 00:24:00,019 JUDICIARY, JUSTICES WHO WOULD BE 672 00:24:00,021 --> 00:24:03,024 IN FAVOR OF THINGS THAT ARE 673 00:24:03,026 --> 00:24:05,015 HAPPENING IN TEXAS, I CAN GO 674 00:24:05,017 --> 00:24:06,015 INTO THE MERITS OF THAT IF 675 00:24:06,017 --> 00:24:10,003 THAT'S THE DEBATE YOU WANT TO 676 00:24:10,005 --> 00:24:10,009 HAVE. 677 00:24:10,011 --> 00:24:11,027 PARTICULARLY IN TEXAS WHERE THEY 678 00:24:11,029 --> 00:24:12,027 ARE TRYING TO RESTRICT VOTING 679 00:24:12,029 --> 00:24:14,021 RIGHTS BUT THEY ARE ALSO FORCING 680 00:24:14,023 --> 00:24:16,016 SPORTS TEAMS TO HAVE THE 681 00:24:16,018 --> 00:24:17,011 NATIONAL ANTHEM AT EVERY SINGLE 682 00:24:17,013 --> 00:24:18,018 GAME IN TEXAS. 683 00:24:18,020 --> 00:24:19,023 YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO 684 00:24:19,025 --> 00:24:22,019 SOMETHING WITH YOUR OWN BODY, IT 685 00:24:22,021 --> 00:24:23,010 IS DANGEROUS AND REALLY ALARMING 686 00:24:23,012 --> 00:24:28,022 FOR ANY PERSON. 687 00:24:34,010 --> 00:24:37,009 THE TEXAS LAW IS A SHORT 688 00:24:37,011 --> 00:24:40,008 LIVED SIDESHOW, AS SOON AS IT'S 689 00:24:40,010 --> 00:24:43,001 ENFORCED BY ONE OF THESE PRIVATE 690 00:24:43,003 --> 00:24:44,029 ATTORNEY GENERAL'S, IT WILL BE 691 00:24:45,001 --> 00:24:46,017 STRUCK DOWN SUMMARILY, THE BIG 692 00:24:46,019 --> 00:24:48,025 SHOW WILL BE COMING THIS FALL, 693 00:24:48,027 --> 00:24:50,002 ORAL ARGUMENTS IN A MISSISSIPPI 694 00:24:50,004 --> 00:24:51,024 CASE WITH THE COURT IS BEING 695 00:24:51,026 --> 00:24:53,026 ASKED EXPLICITLY TO OVERTURN 696 00:24:53,028 --> 00:24:55,012 ROE V. WADE. 697 00:24:55,014 --> 00:24:58,014 BY JUNE OF 2022, OFF YEAR 698 00:24:58,016 --> 00:24:59,001 ELECTIONS, THERE WILL BE AN 699 00:24:59,003 --> 00:25:00,025 ANSWER TO THAT. 700 00:25:00,027 --> 00:25:03,010 I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVER HAD AN 701 00:25:03,012 --> 00:25:03,028 ELECTION TURN ON AN ABORTION 702 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,002 ISSUE COME I DON'T LIKE WE EVER 703 00:25:06,004 --> 00:25:06,018 WILL. 704 00:25:06,020 --> 00:25:08,004 REALLY? 705 00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:09,021 I FEEL LIKE THE OPPOSITE, I FEEL 706 00:25:09,023 --> 00:25:10,013 LIKE ABORTION IS THAT ISSUE THAT 707 00:25:10,015 --> 00:25:14,022 IS ALWAYS THERE AND A VERY 708 00:25:14,024 --> 00:25:17,010 SIZABLE PART OF THE POPULATION 709 00:25:17,012 --> 00:25:20,020 VOTES PRETTY MUCH JUST ON THAT. 710 00:25:20,022 --> 00:25:22,014 IT CROSSES PARTY LINES, BY THE 711 00:25:22,016 --> 00:25:22,019 WAY. 712 00:25:22,021 --> 00:25:25,019 MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE 713 00:25:25,021 --> 00:25:26,025 SINGLE-ISSUE VOTERS ON THAT ARE 714 00:25:26,027 --> 00:25:29,001 ON THE PRO-LIFE SIDE. 715 00:25:29,003 --> 00:25:30,026 RIGHT, BUT THE 716 00:25:30,028 --> 00:25:32,023 DEMOCRATS DEPEND A LOT ON THE 717 00:25:32,025 --> 00:25:36,027 LATINO VOTE, THERE'S A LOT OF -- 718 00:25:36,029 --> 00:25:39,001 CHRISTIANS OF ALL STRIPES 719 00:25:39,003 --> 00:25:39,021 SOMETIMES. 720 00:25:39,023 --> 00:25:41,003 AND TEXAS DEMOCRATS ARE 721 00:25:41,005 --> 00:25:43,001 HOPING THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WILL 722 00:25:43,003 --> 00:25:44,026 HAPPEN, GALVANIZE EVERYONE, 723 00:25:44,028 --> 00:25:45,027 MONEY, RESOURCES, GETTING PEOPLE 724 00:25:45,029 --> 00:25:48,001 OUT TO VOTE AND I HOPE SO -- 725 00:25:48,003 --> 00:25:52,001 PEOPLE HAVE SHORT MEMORIES. 726 00:25:52,003 --> 00:25:55,000 THIS CONSTANT NEEDING TO CHANGE, 727 00:25:55,002 --> 00:25:57,017 THEN YOU END UP WITH THINGS LIKE 728 00:25:57,019 --> 00:25:59,010 THIS. 729 00:25:59,012 --> 00:26:02,023 YOU MENTION THEY'RE 730 00:26:02,025 --> 00:26:04,002 GOING TO MAKE SPORTS TEAMS PLAY 731 00:26:04,004 --> 00:26:05,014 THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, THAT IS ONE 732 00:26:05,016 --> 00:26:07,010 OF THE THINGS THEY'RE GOING TO 733 00:26:07,012 --> 00:26:08,000 DO. 734 00:26:08,002 --> 00:26:08,016 ALSO, YOU CAN CARRY A GUN 735 00:26:08,018 --> 00:26:11,007 ANYWHERE, I THINK. 736 00:26:11,009 --> 00:26:13,007 OPEN CARRY IF YOU'RE 21 AND 737 00:26:13,009 --> 00:26:13,013 OVER. 738 00:26:13,015 --> 00:26:14,013 WE GOT A HOLD OF SOME 739 00:26:14,015 --> 00:26:19,008 OF THE OTHER -- I LOVE THE 740 00:26:19,010 --> 00:26:22,019 ANTICIPATORY -- 741 00:26:23,025 --> 00:26:26,028 I LOVE THAT "I KNOW THE BULLSHIT 742 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,021 IS COMING NOW, BILL" LAUGHED. 743 00:26:31,023 --> 00:26:36,014 THEY PASSED LITERALLY 666 LAWS. 744 00:26:36,016 --> 00:26:38,028 ABORTION ONE GOT ALL THE PRESS, 745 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,025 BUT SOME OF THE OTHER ONES, 746 00:26:41,027 --> 00:26:44,015 THESE PEOPLE ARE OUT TO OWN THE 747 00:26:44,017 --> 00:26:47,016 LIBERALS. 748 00:26:47,018 --> 00:26:49,025 FOR EXAMPLE, ALL DOGS MUST BE 749 00:26:49,027 --> 00:26:50,010 NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE 750 00:26:50,012 --> 00:26:51,015 GENERALS. 751 00:26:55,028 --> 00:26:58,006 JEAN SHORTS -- WHAT THE FUCK 752 00:26:58,008 --> 00:27:00,007 HAPPENED THERE? 753 00:27:00,009 --> 00:27:00,025 JEAN SHORTS MUST SHOW AT LEAST 754 00:27:00,027 --> 00:27:03,000 ONE INCH OF ASS. 755 00:27:04,006 --> 00:27:04,024 A BALD EAGLE TATTOO IS NOW AN 756 00:27:04,026 --> 00:27:09,016 ACCEPTABLE FORM OF VOTER ID. 757 00:27:14,001 --> 00:27:14,019 "ITCHY TRIGGER FINGER" IS NOW A 758 00:27:14,021 --> 00:27:18,018 LEGAL DEFENSE. 759 00:27:19,012 --> 00:27:20,004 SAN ANTONIO WILL BE RENAMED ST. 760 00:27:20,006 --> 00:27:22,028 TONY'S. 761 00:27:24,002 --> 00:27:24,017 CHIROPRACTORS MUST OFFER GAY 762 00:27:24,019 --> 00:27:29,026 CONVERSION THERAPY. 763 00:27:30,020 --> 00:27:34,000 AND MY FAVORITE. 764 00:27:34,002 --> 00:27:41,000 ORDERS THE CITY OF AUSTIN TO 765 00:27:41,002 --> 00:27:45,024 REDUCE ITS WEIRDNESS 766 00:27:45,026 --> 00:27:47,014 BY 25%. 767 00:27:47,016 --> 00:27:48,004 DON'T DO IT AUSTEN! 768 00:27:48,006 --> 00:27:49,015 BEAR WEIRD AND PROUD. 769 00:27:49,017 --> 00:27:53,004 I LOVE IT. 770 00:27:53,006 --> 00:27:56,018 I FEEL LIKE THE BATTLEGROUND FOR 771 00:27:56,020 --> 00:27:57,009 THE NEXT ELECTIONS ARE MOVING 772 00:27:57,011 --> 00:28:00,006 INTO THE SCHOOL ROOM. 773 00:28:00,008 --> 00:28:02,023 UNIVERSITIES, BUT ESPECIALLY 774 00:28:02,025 --> 00:28:06,014 SCHOOLS, GRAMMAR SCHOOLS, HIGH 775 00:28:06,016 --> 00:28:09,017 SCHOOLS, A PROFESSOR BECAME THE 776 00:28:09,019 --> 00:28:10,020 LATEST TEACHER AND PROFESSOR TO 777 00:28:10,022 --> 00:28:14,001 RESIGN THIS WEEK BECAUSE OF 778 00:28:14,003 --> 00:28:15,001 WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE SCHOOLS 779 00:28:15,003 --> 00:28:16,012 AND I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS 780 00:28:16,014 --> 00:28:18,027 FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. 781 00:28:18,029 --> 00:28:20,013 AT FIRST PEOPLE ARE DOING WHAT 782 00:28:20,015 --> 00:28:21,005 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? 783 00:28:21,007 --> 00:28:23,002 IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE KIDS AND A 784 00:28:23,004 --> 00:28:24,016 LOT OF TIMES KIDS COME HOME FROM 785 00:28:24,018 --> 00:28:25,012 SCHOOL, THEY DIDN'T TELL PARENTS 786 00:28:25,014 --> 00:28:27,001 WHAT THEY ARE BEING TOLD IN 787 00:28:27,003 --> 00:28:28,013 SCHOOL -- PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW. 788 00:28:28,015 --> 00:28:33,021 NOW IT'S MUCH MORE OF AN ISSUE. 789 00:28:33,023 --> 00:28:34,001 WHO VOTES? 790 00:28:34,003 --> 00:28:35,009 PARENTS VOTE. 791 00:28:35,011 --> 00:28:37,005 FOR YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE PARTIES TO 792 00:28:37,007 --> 00:28:38,005 GO TO, YOU'RE SINGLE, YOU DON'T 793 00:28:38,007 --> 00:28:44,009 HAVE A MORTGAGE, PARENTS VOTE. 794 00:28:44,011 --> 00:28:46,022 THIS GUY, HE SAYS ABOUT HIS 795 00:28:46,024 --> 00:28:48,022 UNIVERSITY, HE HAS TRANSFORMED A 796 00:28:48,024 --> 00:28:50,028 BASTION OF FREE INQUIRY INTO A 797 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,019 SOCIAL JUSTICE FACTORY WHICH 798 00:28:52,021 --> 00:28:54,020 ONLY INPUTS ARE RACE, GENDER, 799 00:28:54,022 --> 00:28:55,013 AND VICTIMHOOD, THE ONLY OUTPUTS 800 00:28:55,015 --> 00:29:00,001 ARE GOOD THEM A GRIEVANCE AND 801 00:29:00,003 --> 00:29:00,009 DIVISION. 802 00:29:00,011 --> 00:29:01,007 THIS IS EVERYWHERE. 803 00:29:01,009 --> 00:29:04,009 A TEACHER IN CONNECTICUT 804 00:29:04,011 --> 00:29:05,021 RESIGNED "I DECIDED TO RESIGN 805 00:29:05,023 --> 00:29:07,003 FROM WHAT I THOUGHT WAS MY 806 00:29:07,005 --> 00:29:08,015 FOREVER CAREER BECAUSE I FELT 807 00:29:08,017 --> 00:29:09,014 MORE LIKE A POLITICAL ACTIVIST 808 00:29:09,016 --> 00:29:12,002 THAN A TEACHER IN MY OWN 809 00:29:12,004 --> 00:29:13,000 CLASSROOM. 810 00:29:13,002 --> 00:29:14,021 WHAT'S GOING ON IN CLASSROOMS 811 00:29:14,023 --> 00:29:16,019 ACROSS OUR COUNTRY IS PITTING 812 00:29:16,021 --> 00:29:17,006 STUDENTS AGAINST EACH OTHER 813 00:29:17,008 --> 00:29:20,014 BASED ON THE COLOR OF THEIR 814 00:29:20,016 --> 00:29:20,020 SKIN. 815 00:29:20,022 --> 00:29:22,004 "IN VIRGINIA "I WAS TOLD IN ONE 816 00:29:22,006 --> 00:29:25,019 OF MY SO-CALLED EQUITY TRAININGS 817 00:29:25,021 --> 00:29:26,025 THAT WHITE CHRISTIAN ABLE-BODIED 818 00:29:26,027 --> 00:29:28,003 FEMALES CURRENTLY HAVE THE POWER 819 00:29:28,005 --> 00:29:28,028 IN OUR SCHOOLS AND THAT HAS TO 820 00:29:29,001 --> 00:29:32,027 CHANGE. 821 00:29:32,029 --> 00:29:35,020 "SHE SAID A DISSENTING OPINION 822 00:29:35,022 --> 00:29:36,020 IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE SPOKEN IN 823 00:29:36,022 --> 00:29:40,003 MY PERSONAL LIFE. 824 00:29:40,005 --> 00:29:40,024 IN LOUISIANA, JONATHAN COBLE 825 00:29:40,026 --> 00:29:42,021 SAYS THEY ARE TELLING OUR BLACK 826 00:29:42,023 --> 00:29:44,010 CHILDREN THEY ARE OPPRESSED BY 827 00:29:44,012 --> 00:29:46,011 WHITE PEOPLE SO THEY DON'T HAVE 828 00:29:46,013 --> 00:29:46,020 A CHANCE. 829 00:29:46,022 --> 00:29:48,023 WE WANT TO TEACH EDUCATION, NOT 830 00:29:48,025 --> 00:29:50,006 LEFT WING IDEAS THAT AREN'T 831 00:29:50,008 --> 00:29:53,012 BACKED UP BY FACTS OR SCIENCE. 832 00:29:53,014 --> 00:29:54,002 YOU'VE WRITTEN ABOUT THIS 833 00:29:54,004 --> 00:29:55,006 RECENTLY, I THINK IT'S ON A LOT 834 00:29:55,008 --> 00:30:00,002 OF PEOPLE'S MINDS NOW. 835 00:30:00,004 --> 00:30:01,017 WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE 836 00:30:01,019 --> 00:30:02,008 THE REPERCUSSIONS FROM THE NEXT 837 00:30:02,010 --> 00:30:06,009 ELECTION FOR THIS ISSUE? 838 00:30:06,011 --> 00:30:08,020 ORWELLIAN IS AN OVERUSED 839 00:30:08,022 --> 00:30:10,022 ADJECTIVE BUT HERE IT APPLIES. 840 00:30:10,024 --> 00:30:12,026 IN 1984, ORWELL SAID WATCH THE 841 00:30:12,028 --> 00:30:13,016 LANGUAGE BECAUSE IT BECOMES 842 00:30:13,018 --> 00:30:17,003 TURNED INSIDE OUT. 843 00:30:17,005 --> 00:30:18,026 IN 1984, LOVEMAN TATE, WAR MEANT 844 00:30:18,028 --> 00:30:20,016 PEACE COME ON CAMPUS TODAY 845 00:30:20,018 --> 00:30:22,021 DIVERSITY MEANS ENFORCE 846 00:30:22,023 --> 00:30:26,007 CONFORMITY. 847 00:30:26,009 --> 00:30:27,017 THROUGH THE MAGIC OF MODERN 848 00:30:27,019 --> 00:30:34,012 PARENTING, IS AN ISN'T IT 849 00:30:34,014 --> 00:30:35,015 INTERESTING THAT PARENTS BECAME 850 00:30:35,017 --> 00:30:37,017 A VERB RIGHT THIS HAPPENED? 851 00:30:37,019 --> 00:30:40,026 PEOPLE NEVER SAID PARENT WAS 852 00:30:40,028 --> 00:30:41,021 A VERB BEFORE? 853 00:30:41,023 --> 00:30:44,016 IT'S VERY RECENT. 854 00:30:44,018 --> 00:30:47,001 NOW WE ARE SKILLFUL AT PARENTING 855 00:30:47,003 --> 00:30:48,018 AND THIS PRODUCES PERFECTIONIST 856 00:30:48,020 --> 00:30:50,006 PARENTING, IF YOU ARE RELEASED 857 00:30:50,008 --> 00:30:50,026 CAREFUL OF IT, NO ONE WAS 858 00:30:50,028 --> 00:30:55,029 CHILDREN BELIEVE THIS, IF YOU'RE 859 00:30:56,001 --> 00:30:57,013 REALLY GOOD AT PARENTING YOU 860 00:30:57,015 --> 00:30:58,012 WILL PRODUCE THE PERFECT CHILD 861 00:30:58,014 --> 00:31:00,013 TO WHICH YOU ARE ENTITLED. 862 00:31:00,015 --> 00:31:02,010 THE PROBLEM OF COURSE IS WHAT'S 863 00:31:02,012 --> 00:31:04,002 HAPPENING ON CAMPUS IS THEY ARE 864 00:31:04,004 --> 00:31:05,022 GIVING UP ON THE ESSENTIAL 865 00:31:05,024 --> 00:31:06,015 INGREDIENT OF DEMOCRACY WHICH IS 866 00:31:06,017 --> 00:31:10,009 THE CULTURE OF PERSUASION, AND 867 00:31:10,011 --> 00:31:14,022 THEY ARE GOING TO MANDATE 868 00:31:14,024 --> 00:31:19,002 EVICTION MORATORIUM, VACCINES, 869 00:31:19,004 --> 00:31:21,001 WE NOW MANDATE HARMONY ON CAMPUS 870 00:31:21,003 --> 00:31:22,025 BECAUSE WE HAVE RAISED CHILDREN 871 00:31:22,027 --> 00:31:24,020 TO BE SO RISK-AVERSE AND TO BE 872 00:31:24,022 --> 00:31:26,025 SO CONVINCED THAT THEY ARE 873 00:31:26,027 --> 00:31:27,029 AWESOME, THEY ALL GOT TO 874 00:31:28,001 --> 00:31:28,025 PARTICIPATION TROPHIES FOR 875 00:31:28,027 --> 00:31:31,000 SHOWING UP AT SOCCER PRACTICE 876 00:31:31,002 --> 00:31:32,017 AND THEY ARRIVE AT THE CAMPUS 877 00:31:32,019 --> 00:31:34,007 AND THEY WANT TO HAVE A SAFE 878 00:31:34,009 --> 00:31:37,026 SPACE TO BE SAFE FROM 879 00:31:37,028 --> 00:31:39,010 CHALLENGING IDEAS THAT MIGHT 880 00:31:39,012 --> 00:31:41,023 MAKE THEM SAD. 881 00:31:41,025 --> 00:31:43,016 DID YOU KNOW THAT 882 00:31:43,018 --> 00:31:45,007 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, THE PHRASE 883 00:31:45,009 --> 00:31:47,026 "TRIGGER WARNING" NOW REQUIRES A 884 00:31:47,028 --> 00:31:48,007 TRIGGER WARNING? 885 00:31:48,009 --> 00:31:49,001 WARNING SUGGESTS THERE'S A 886 00:31:49,003 --> 00:31:50,020 DANGER AND TRIGGER, YOU KNOW 887 00:31:50,022 --> 00:31:52,026 WHAT THAT MAKES PEOPLE THINK OF. 888 00:31:52,028 --> 00:31:53,014 THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 889 00:31:53,016 --> 00:31:58,005 PUT A TRIGGER WARNING ON THE 890 00:31:58,007 --> 00:31:58,029 CONSTITUTION AND THE DECLARATION 891 00:31:59,001 --> 00:31:59,014 OF INDEPENDENCE. 892 00:31:59,016 --> 00:32:00,016 THEY SAID DOCUMENTS MIGHT BE 893 00:32:00,018 --> 00:32:03,014 HARMFUL OR DIFFICULT TO VIEW. 894 00:32:03,016 --> 00:32:04,029 THIS IS ALWAYS MY 895 00:32:05,001 --> 00:32:06,021 THING WITH DEMOCRATS. 896 00:32:06,023 --> 00:32:08,024 IF WHAT YOU'RE DOING SOUNDS LIKE 897 00:32:08,026 --> 00:32:14,004 A HEADLINE IN THE ONION -- 898 00:32:14,006 --> 00:32:16,026 REALLY. 899 00:32:16,028 --> 00:32:18,002 NATIONAL ARCHIVES PUTS TRIGGER 900 00:32:18,004 --> 00:32:18,020 WARNING ON THE DECLARATION OF 901 00:32:18,022 --> 00:32:22,026 INDEPENDENCE, I WOULD SAY 902 00:32:22,028 --> 00:32:23,026 QUALIFIES -- 903 00:32:23,028 --> 00:32:25,027 SEATTLE BULLET WHETHER OR NOT TO 904 00:32:25,029 --> 00:32:28,026 DECRIMINALIZE CRIME. 905 00:32:28,028 --> 00:32:31,009 THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO DO 906 00:32:31,011 --> 00:32:33,024 THIS CAME WITHIN AN EYELASH OF 907 00:32:33,026 --> 00:32:36,002 REELECTING DONALD TRUMP WITH 908 00:32:36,004 --> 00:32:37,012 THREE WORDS, DEFUND THE POLICE. 909 00:32:37,014 --> 00:32:41,002 IF YOU THINK THAT'S THE CRAZIEST 910 00:32:41,004 --> 00:32:41,021 THINGS THAT THE PROGRESSIVES CAN 911 00:32:41,023 --> 00:32:43,015 COME UP WITH, YOU DON'T 912 00:32:43,017 --> 00:32:45,012 UNDERSTAND WILL'S LAW WHICH IS 913 00:32:45,014 --> 00:32:47,020 THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS 914 00:32:47,022 --> 00:32:49,015 ROCK-BOTTOM. 915 00:32:49,025 --> 00:32:51,005 THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT 916 00:32:51,007 --> 00:32:52,026 ISSUES, I'VE ONLY BEEN IN 917 00:32:52,028 --> 00:32:54,008 ACADEMIA FOR THREE YEARS, I'M 918 00:32:54,010 --> 00:32:57,003 NOT A CLASSIC ACADEMIC, I CAME 919 00:32:57,005 --> 00:32:57,016 UP AS A JOURNALIST. 920 00:32:57,018 --> 00:32:59,028 I WILL SAY DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT 921 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:00,017 IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AT LEAST 922 00:33:00,019 --> 00:33:03,006 AT THE UNIVERSITY I WORK AT, 923 00:33:03,008 --> 00:33:03,011 USC. 924 00:33:03,013 --> 00:33:06,027 I TEACH POLITICAL REPORTING, WE 925 00:33:06,029 --> 00:33:09,020 HAVE A VERY GENEROUS ALUM WHO 926 00:33:09,022 --> 00:33:11,025 WANTS TO HELP US EXPOSE STUDENTS 927 00:33:11,027 --> 00:33:13,019 TO THE REAL WORLD OF POLITICS. 928 00:33:13,021 --> 00:33:15,013 WE TAKE THEM ON TRIPS TO 929 00:33:15,015 --> 00:33:16,004 WASHINGTON, D.C., WHERE THEY 930 00:33:16,006 --> 00:33:17,023 MEET REPUBLICANS, THEY MEET 931 00:33:17,025 --> 00:33:18,001 DEMOCRATS. 932 00:33:18,003 --> 00:33:19,019 I TOOK A GROUP OF STUDENTS TO 933 00:33:19,021 --> 00:33:21,001 THE IOWA CAUCUSES WHERE THEY 934 00:33:21,003 --> 00:33:21,025 WERE HEARING PERSPECTIVES THEY 935 00:33:21,027 --> 00:33:23,026 HAD NEVER HEARD IN AREAS WHEN 936 00:33:23,028 --> 00:33:25,003 THEY GROW UP IN CALIFORNIA FOR 937 00:33:25,005 --> 00:33:26,015 THE FIRST TIME. 938 00:33:26,017 --> 00:33:28,006 I NEVER ACTUALLY TALKED TO A 939 00:33:28,008 --> 00:33:28,025 PRO-LIFE PERSON BEFORE ONE 940 00:33:28,027 --> 00:33:31,012 STUDENT TOLD ME. 941 00:33:31,014 --> 00:33:32,027 AT THE SAME TIME, WE KNOW -- 942 00:33:32,029 --> 00:33:34,003 THAT DOESN'T SOUND 943 00:33:34,005 --> 00:33:38,014 VERY DIVERSE. 944 00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:39,010 ACADEMICS IS PROPELLED BY 945 00:33:39,012 --> 00:33:42,000 LIBERALISM, I HAD A STUDENT RUN 946 00:33:42,002 --> 00:33:43,020 A REPORT ON THE USC PROFESSORS 947 00:33:43,022 --> 00:33:45,007 AND THERE WERE LESS THAN FIVE 948 00:33:45,009 --> 00:33:47,025 THAT HAD DONATED TO DONALD TRUMP 949 00:33:47,027 --> 00:33:48,013 IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 950 00:33:48,015 --> 00:33:50,021 ALL THE DONATIONS FOR ANYBODY 951 00:33:50,023 --> 00:33:52,019 WHO LISTED USC PROFESSOR AND 952 00:33:52,021 --> 00:33:54,002 WHAT YOUR TITLE IS WERE GOING TO 953 00:33:54,004 --> 00:33:56,019 DEMOCRATS, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE 954 00:33:56,021 --> 00:33:56,029 CANDIDATES. 955 00:33:57,001 --> 00:33:59,009 PEOPLE ARE NOT WRONG WHEN THEY 956 00:33:59,011 --> 00:34:01,019 SENSE A FEELING THERE BUT 957 00:34:01,021 --> 00:34:02,014 DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT IS JUST AS 958 00:34:02,016 --> 00:34:04,025 IMPORTANT AS DIVERSITY OF HOW WE 959 00:34:04,027 --> 00:34:06,010 LOOK IN PROSPECTUS WE COME TO IT 960 00:34:06,012 --> 00:34:07,025 WITH. 961 00:34:07,027 --> 00:34:09,008 THAT'S SOMETHING I BELIEVE MOST 962 00:34:09,010 --> 00:34:10,008 ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS ARE TRYING 963 00:34:10,010 --> 00:34:12,008 FOR EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE 964 00:34:12,010 --> 00:34:13,010 LIKE THAT PROFESSOR FROM 965 00:34:13,012 --> 00:34:14,018 PORTLAND STATE WHO HAS BEEN 966 00:34:14,020 --> 00:34:17,005 CHALLENGING -- HE HAS TRIED TO 967 00:34:17,007 --> 00:34:18,000 CHALLENGE THAT SCHOOL FOR A LONG 968 00:34:18,002 --> 00:34:19,000 TIME. 969 00:34:19,002 --> 00:34:20,022 HE BRINGS IN DIFFERENT SPEAKERS 970 00:34:20,024 --> 00:34:22,008 AND TRIES TO HAVE THIS 971 00:34:22,010 --> 00:34:22,028 CONVERSATION AND THAT'S 972 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,014 IMPORTANT TO EXPOSE STUDENTS TO 973 00:34:24,016 --> 00:34:26,002 SOMETHING ART EXPERIENCE TO, TO 974 00:34:26,004 --> 00:34:27,011 READ GEORGE WILL'S COLUMNS, I 975 00:34:27,013 --> 00:34:28,017 HAVE MY STUDENTS READ BILL 976 00:34:28,019 --> 00:34:30,002 KRISTOL COLUMNS BECAUSE THEY 977 00:34:30,004 --> 00:34:30,029 AREN'T EXPOSED TO IT AS MUCH AND 978 00:34:31,001 --> 00:34:33,008 THEY HAVE TO BE. 979 00:34:33,018 --> 00:34:37,011 JUST HAVE THEM READ 980 00:34:37,013 --> 00:34:41,007 GEORGE. 981 00:34:41,009 --> 00:34:42,024 WHAT ABOUT WHAT THESE TEACHERS 982 00:34:42,026 --> 00:34:44,008 ARE SAYING IN SPECIFIC, WHEN 983 00:34:44,010 --> 00:34:45,013 PEOPLE SAY TO ME SOMETIMES YOU 984 00:34:45,015 --> 00:34:46,025 GO AFTER THE LEFT A LOT THESE 985 00:34:46,027 --> 00:34:49,018 DAYS, WHY? 986 00:34:49,020 --> 00:34:52,000 AND I GO "BECAUSE YOU'RE 987 00:34:52,002 --> 00:34:52,020 EMBARRASSING ME!" 988 00:34:52,022 --> 00:34:54,010 THAT'S WHY I GO AFTER THE LEFT 989 00:34:54,012 --> 00:34:55,020 IN THE WAY YOU NEVER DID BEFORE 990 00:34:55,022 --> 00:34:58,008 BECAUSE YOU ARE INVERTING 991 00:34:58,010 --> 00:35:00,000 THAT -- I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE UP 992 00:35:00,002 --> 00:35:00,019 ON BEING LIBERAL. 993 00:35:00,021 --> 00:35:02,025 THIS IS WHAT THESE TEACHERS ARE 994 00:35:02,027 --> 00:35:04,016 TALKING ABOUT. 995 00:35:04,018 --> 00:35:05,018 YOU'RE TAKING CHILDREN AND 996 00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:06,024 MAKING THEM HYPER AWARE OF RACE 997 00:35:06,026 --> 00:35:09,013 IN THE WAY WOULDN'T OTHERWISE 998 00:35:09,015 --> 00:35:09,029 BE. 999 00:35:10,001 --> 00:35:12,005 I SAW LAST NIGHT ON THE FOOTBALL 1000 00:35:12,007 --> 00:35:15,007 GAME, ALICIA KEYS SANG "LIFT 1001 00:35:15,009 --> 00:35:17,018 EVERY VOICE AND SING" WHICH NOW 1002 00:35:17,020 --> 00:35:19,008 I HEAR IS CALLED THE BLACK 1003 00:35:19,010 --> 00:35:19,028 NATIONAL ANTHEM. 1004 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,025 MAYBE WE SHOULD GET RID OF OUR 1005 00:35:21,027 --> 00:35:23,001 NATIONAL ANTHEM BUT I THINK WE 1006 00:35:23,003 --> 00:35:24,011 SHOULD HAVE ONE NATIONAL ANTHEM. 1007 00:35:24,013 --> 00:35:27,000 I THINK WHEN YOU GO DOWN A ROAD 1008 00:35:27,002 --> 00:35:28,028 WE ARE HAVING TWO DIFFERENT 1009 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,026 NATIONAL ANTHEMS, COLLEGES 1010 00:35:30,028 --> 00:35:33,004 SOMETIMES -- MANY OF THEM HAVE 1011 00:35:33,006 --> 00:35:33,023 DIFFERENT GRADUATION CEREMONIES 1012 00:35:33,025 --> 00:35:36,010 FOR BLACK-AND-WHITE, SEPARATE 1013 00:35:36,012 --> 00:35:39,003 DORMS -- THIS IS WHAT I MEAN, 1014 00:35:39,005 --> 00:35:40,011 SEGREGATION. 1015 00:35:40,013 --> 00:35:42,021 YOU CONVERTED THE IDEA. 1016 00:35:42,023 --> 00:35:43,021 WE ARE GOING BACK TO THAT UNDER 1017 00:35:43,023 --> 00:35:47,027 A DIFFERENT NAME. 1018 00:35:50,029 --> 00:35:52,012 YOU'RE MAKING A FACE, HOW DO YOU 1019 00:35:52,014 --> 00:35:54,007 SAY THAT IS NOT SEGREGATION, I 1020 00:35:54,009 --> 00:35:54,021 DON'T UNDERSTAND? 1021 00:35:54,023 --> 00:35:56,003 ALL OF THOSE THINGS, THAT 1022 00:35:56,005 --> 00:35:57,020 DOES NOT SOUND GOOD TO ME, 1023 00:35:57,022 --> 00:35:58,013 THAT'S NOT THE EXPERIENCE I'M 1024 00:35:58,015 --> 00:36:02,006 SEEING IN ACADEMIA. 1025 00:36:02,008 --> 00:36:03,000 YOU'RE HAVING REAL 1026 00:36:03,002 --> 00:36:03,011 CONVERSATIONS -- 1027 00:36:03,013 --> 00:36:03,029 YOU'RE NOT 1028 00:36:04,001 --> 00:36:05,012 EVERYWHERE, THIS IS HAPPENING. 1029 00:36:05,014 --> 00:36:06,018 THIS IS MY OWN PERSONAL 1030 00:36:06,020 --> 00:36:09,004 EXPERIENCE I'M TALKING ABOUT 1031 00:36:09,006 --> 00:36:10,022 HERE. 1032 00:36:10,024 --> 00:36:13,002 IT IS A MOMENT PEOPLE ARE 1033 00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:13,019 RECOGNIZING OTHERS HAVE 1034 00:36:13,021 --> 00:36:15,008 DIFFERENT LIVED EXPERIENCES AND 1035 00:36:15,010 --> 00:36:16,020 THIS GENERATION, I KNOW WE ARE 1036 00:36:16,022 --> 00:36:18,022 GOING WITH THIS, THEY ARE TOO 1037 00:36:18,024 --> 00:36:19,021 WOKE AND ALL THAT. 1038 00:36:19,023 --> 00:36:22,015 I SPEND MY DAY AROUND 19 TO MY 1039 00:36:22,017 --> 00:36:23,003 25-YEAR-OLDS EVERY SINGLE DAY, 1040 00:36:23,005 --> 00:36:26,006 HUNDREDS OF THEM A WEEK. 1041 00:36:26,008 --> 00:36:26,024 GENERALLY, THEY HAVE A LOT OF 1042 00:36:26,026 --> 00:36:28,014 EMPATHY FOR OTHERS. 1043 00:36:31,009 --> 00:36:32,021 EVERYONE GETS A TROPHY, MY KID 1044 00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:35,029 LOST AT UNO AND HE WAS PISSED I 1045 00:36:36,001 --> 00:36:37,014 DIDN'T LET HIM WIN, THERE'S A 1046 00:36:37,016 --> 00:36:38,013 PURPOSE TO THAT I DON'T WANT HIM 1047 00:36:38,015 --> 00:36:39,027 TO FEEL LIKE HE'S PERFECTED 1048 00:36:39,029 --> 00:36:40,006 EVERYTHING. 1049 00:36:40,008 --> 00:36:43,007 THERE'S A MOMENT THESE YOUNG 1050 00:36:43,009 --> 00:36:46,021 PEOPLE ARE RECOGNIZING THE WORLD 1051 00:36:46,023 --> 00:36:48,023 ISN'T PERFECT AND THEY CAN WORK 1052 00:36:48,025 --> 00:36:50,023 TOGETHER TO COLLECTIVELY MAKE IT 1053 00:36:50,025 --> 00:36:51,000 BETTER. 1054 00:36:51,002 --> 00:36:52,009 YOU THINK THEY 1055 00:36:52,011 --> 00:36:54,001 DISCOVERED THAT? 1056 00:36:54,003 --> 00:36:54,019 YOU THINK THEY ARE THE FIRST 1057 00:36:54,021 --> 00:36:57,008 GENERATION THAT THOUGHT THAT, 1058 00:36:57,010 --> 00:36:59,027 THE WORLD ISN'T PERFECT? 1059 00:36:59,029 --> 00:37:00,013 EVERY GENERATION THINKS THE 1060 00:37:00,015 --> 00:37:08,003 WORLD'S TOTAL TO TO SHIT. 1061 00:37:08,005 --> 00:37:11,011 HENCE MY INSULT TO 1062 00:37:11,013 --> 00:37:13,023 BABY BOOMERS, I BELIEVE THE WAY 1063 00:37:13,025 --> 00:37:15,019 THIS GENERATION IS LOOKING AT 1064 00:37:15,021 --> 00:37:16,026 THINGS WILL BENEFIT THE 1065 00:37:16,028 --> 00:37:17,017 COLLECTIVE GOOD WHERE SO MUCH OF 1066 00:37:17,019 --> 00:37:20,006 IT IS SELFISH. 1067 00:37:20,008 --> 00:37:21,029 YOU THINK THIS 1068 00:37:22,001 --> 00:37:23,013 GENERATION IS LESS SELFISH? 1069 00:37:23,015 --> 00:37:26,012 WE'LL AND SEE HOW THAT COMES OUT 1070 00:37:26,014 --> 00:37:30,025 ON TIKTOK. 1071 00:37:30,027 --> 00:37:34,006 WHERE ARE RACE RELATIONS 1072 00:37:34,008 --> 00:37:35,003 WORSE, PROBABLY ON CAMPUS WHERE 1073 00:37:35,005 --> 00:37:37,003 THEY OBSESS ABOUT RACE 1074 00:37:37,005 --> 00:37:38,024 EXCESSIVELY. 1075 00:37:38,026 --> 00:37:44,011 AN ENORMOUS NU NUMBER OF PEOPLEA 1076 00:37:44,013 --> 00:37:44,029 MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR INCLUSION 1077 00:37:45,001 --> 00:37:45,028 INDUSTRY NOW EXISTS IN THIS 1078 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:46,021 COUNTRY TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT 1079 00:37:46,023 --> 00:37:47,022 THINGS ARE BAD AND GETTING 1080 00:37:47,024 --> 00:37:50,022 WORSE, ACTUALLY, THEY ARE 1081 00:37:50,024 --> 00:37:51,007 GETTING BETTER. 1082 00:37:51,009 --> 00:37:52,009 YES! 1083 00:37:52,011 --> 00:37:54,025 THE BEST EXAMPLE, THE ONLY 1084 00:37:54,027 --> 00:37:56,019 ESTABLISHED RELIGION IN THIS 1085 00:37:56,021 --> 00:37:58,006 COUNTRY IS SEC FOOTBALL DOWN 1086 00:37:58,008 --> 00:37:58,026 SOUTH, TURN ON THE FOOTBALL GAME 1087 00:37:58,028 --> 00:38:03,029 AND YOU WILL SEE GEORGIA, 1088 00:38:04,001 --> 00:38:05,012 ALABAMA, AND THE HEAD REFEREE IS 1089 00:38:05,014 --> 00:38:06,022 AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN, HE'S 1090 00:38:06,024 --> 00:38:08,028 BOSSING EVERYONE AROUND. 1091 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,014 THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED TO PLAY IN 1092 00:38:10,016 --> 00:38:15,006 THE SEC UNTIL 60 YEARS AGO. 1093 00:38:15,008 --> 00:38:16,013 NOW THE DAILY INTERACTIONS OF 1094 00:38:16,015 --> 00:38:17,023 NORMAL AMERICANS WERE NOT 1095 00:38:17,025 --> 00:38:18,022 OBSESSING ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT 1096 00:38:18,024 --> 00:38:19,023 THE UNITED STATES WAS FOUNDED ON 1097 00:38:19,025 --> 00:38:23,001 RACE IN 1619, NOT OBSESSING 1098 00:38:23,003 --> 00:38:23,028 ABOUT CRITICAL RACE THEORY, 1099 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,018 THEY'RE GETTING ON WITH THEIR 1100 00:38:26,020 --> 00:38:28,010 LIVES AND RACE RELATIONS IN THE 1101 00:38:28,012 --> 00:38:32,027 VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS 1102 00:38:32,029 --> 00:38:33,027 INTERACTIONS HAVE NEVER BEEN 1103 00:38:33,029 --> 00:38:34,004 BETTER. 1104 00:38:34,006 --> 00:38:36,002 TO THE POINT ABOUT 1105 00:38:36,004 --> 00:38:36,028 INVERTING WITH THE GOALS WERE, 1106 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,004 WHEN I WAS A KID I WAS TOO YOUNG 1107 00:38:38,006 --> 00:38:40,020 TO UNDERSTAND BUT MY FATHER WAS 1108 00:38:40,022 --> 00:38:42,003 TELLING ME JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS A 1109 00:38:42,005 --> 00:38:43,012 GREAT PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE SENT 1110 00:38:43,014 --> 00:38:47,006 THE TROOPS SO THAT BLACK KIDS 1111 00:38:47,008 --> 00:38:48,011 COULD GO TO SCHOOL, BECAUSE THE 1112 00:38:48,013 --> 00:38:50,006 GOAL WAS TO HAVE AS GOOD 1113 00:38:50,008 --> 00:38:50,025 EDUCATION FOR EVERYBODY. 1114 00:38:50,027 --> 00:38:53,022 NO I THINK I READ IN YOUR COLUMN 1115 00:38:53,024 --> 00:38:54,029 ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 1116 00:38:55,001 --> 00:38:57,019 WHICH HAS DIFFERENT GRADUATION 1117 00:38:57,021 --> 00:39:01,019 STANDARDS FOR "PEOPLE OF COLOR," 1118 00:39:01,021 --> 00:39:02,000 LOWER STANDARDS. 1119 00:39:02,002 --> 00:39:04,019 WHICH TO ME IS SUCH AN INSULT. 1120 00:39:04,021 --> 00:39:06,001 OREGON HAS SAID PROFICIENCY 1121 00:39:06,003 --> 00:39:08,018 REQUIREMENTS IN MATH AND READING 1122 00:39:08,020 --> 00:39:10,005 ARE NOW GOING TO BE SUSPENDED 1123 00:39:10,007 --> 00:39:13,019 FOR EQUITY REASONS BECAUSE THERE 1124 00:39:13,021 --> 00:39:14,026 ARE DISPROPORTIONATE OUTCOMES. 1125 00:39:14,028 --> 00:39:16,001 THIS IS THE SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW 1126 00:39:16,003 --> 00:39:18,006 EXPECTATIONS APPLIED. 1127 00:39:18,008 --> 00:39:19,020 THAT'S RIGHT. 1128 00:39:24,008 --> 00:39:24,018 NO? 1129 00:39:24,020 --> 00:39:25,020 EVERY TIME YOU MAKE A FACE I 1130 00:39:25,022 --> 00:39:29,023 HAVE TO ASK WHY. 1131 00:39:29,025 --> 00:39:31,013 I THINK THIS IS A 1132 00:39:31,015 --> 00:39:33,001 CONVERSATION -- TAKING 1133 00:39:33,003 --> 00:39:35,001 STANDARDIZED TESTING AND 1134 00:39:35,003 --> 00:39:36,011 DISCUSSING HOW THAT HAS APPLIED 1135 00:39:36,013 --> 00:39:40,007 THE LAWSUIT AGAINST HARVARD AND 1136 00:39:40,009 --> 00:39:41,023 HOW -- THERE IS A MOMENT TO LOOK 1137 00:39:41,025 --> 00:39:44,014 AT WHAT IT MEANS TO GET A 1138 00:39:44,016 --> 00:39:46,002 COLLEGE EDUCATION NOW, THERE'S A 1139 00:39:46,004 --> 00:39:47,024 MOMENT TO LOOK AT HOW 1140 00:39:47,026 --> 00:39:50,005 STANDARDIZED TESTS APPLY TO 1141 00:39:50,007 --> 00:39:50,026 GROUPS OF PEOPLE. 1142 00:39:50,028 --> 00:39:52,023 THIS IS NOT MY AREA OF 1143 00:39:52,025 --> 00:39:53,022 EXPERTISE, AND TEACHING 1144 00:39:53,024 --> 00:39:55,010 JOURNALISM, I'M NOT LOOKING AT 1145 00:39:55,012 --> 00:39:57,013 ACADEMIA AS A WHOLE AND 1146 00:39:57,015 --> 00:39:59,000 ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE IT BUT 1147 00:39:59,002 --> 00:39:59,026 UNDERSTANDING WHY THESE 1148 00:39:59,028 --> 00:40:00,014 CONVERSATIONS ARE HAPPENING I 1149 00:40:00,016 --> 00:40:03,012 THINK IS IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW. 1150 00:40:03,014 --> 00:40:07,002 OKAY, LAST QUESTION. 1151 00:40:08,017 --> 00:40:09,002 ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11, I THINK 1152 00:40:09,004 --> 00:40:09,026 WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT A LOT 1153 00:40:09,028 --> 00:40:14,002 MORE ABOUT THE SAUDIS, FINALLY, 1154 00:40:14,004 --> 00:40:15,027 BIDEN SEEMS TO WANT TO GET INTO 1155 00:40:15,029 --> 00:40:17,005 WHAT WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO 1156 00:40:17,007 --> 00:40:17,027 SEE FOR YEARS. 1157 00:40:17,029 --> 00:40:19,015 I REMEMBER SEEING ALL OF THOSE 1158 00:40:19,017 --> 00:40:23,013 REPORTS, INTERNAL REPORTS, 1159 00:40:23,015 --> 00:40:24,002 SECURITY REPORTS WERE EVERYTHING 1160 00:40:24,004 --> 00:40:26,009 WAS BLACKED OUT. 1161 00:40:26,011 --> 00:40:29,007 EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SAUDIS, WE 1162 00:40:29,009 --> 00:40:30,020 CAN KNOW. 1163 00:40:30,022 --> 00:40:31,029 I'M JUST WONDERING, SINCE THIS 1164 00:40:32,001 --> 00:40:34,013 IS A FEW YEARS PAST WE KNOW WHEN 1165 00:40:34,015 --> 00:40:37,007 THEY KILLED JAMAL KHASHOGGI WITH 1166 00:40:37,009 --> 00:40:40,019 A BONE SAW, WILL THAT COLOR OUR 1167 00:40:40,021 --> 00:40:41,011 THINKING OF WHAT THE SAUDIS ARE 1168 00:40:41,013 --> 00:40:42,020 CAPABLE OF AND WHAT THEY MIGHT 1169 00:40:42,022 --> 00:40:44,026 HAVE BEEN DOING PRE9/11? 1170 00:40:44,028 --> 00:40:45,020 THAT'S WITH LUDACRIS ABOUT 1171 00:40:45,022 --> 00:40:47,009 THE FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS 1172 00:40:47,011 --> 00:40:49,015 BEEN HIDING AND TOLD BIDEN UNDER 1173 00:40:49,017 --> 00:40:51,015 EXTREME PRESSURE WAS TOLD BY 1174 00:40:51,017 --> 00:40:52,004 SURVIVORS OF THE FAMILIES WOULD 1175 00:40:52,006 --> 00:40:54,023 NOT BE WELCOME AT 111 1176 00:40:54,025 --> 00:40:56,024 COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS, IF HE 1177 00:40:56,026 --> 00:40:58,028 DIDN'T RELEASE HITHERTO KEPT 1178 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,006 SECRET REPORTS OF THE 9/11 1179 00:41:01,008 --> 00:41:04,021 COMMISSION -- THAT MIGHT CAUSE 1180 00:41:04,023 --> 00:41:07,005 THE SAUDIS TO HAVE A BAD 1181 00:41:07,007 --> 00:41:09,021 REPUTATION. 1182 00:41:10,023 --> 00:41:12,009 HOW DO YOU LOSE A REPUTATION YOU 1183 00:41:12,011 --> 00:41:14,022 FORFEITED WITH 15 OF YOUR MEN 1184 00:41:14,024 --> 00:41:16,010 WITH OBVIOUS AID AND COMFORT 1185 00:41:16,012 --> 00:41:18,022 FROM SAUDI OFFICIALS AND 1186 00:41:18,024 --> 00:41:19,013 CHARITIES, SO-CALLED, RUN BY THE 1187 00:41:19,015 --> 00:41:23,001 GOVERNMENT -- FLEW THE PLANES. 1188 00:41:23,003 --> 00:41:25,014 THE IDEA WE ARE PROTECTING THE 1189 00:41:25,016 --> 00:41:26,018 SAUDIS FROM FORFEITING A 1190 00:41:26,020 --> 00:41:28,011 REPUTATION HE FORFEITED LONG AGO 1191 00:41:28,013 --> 00:41:29,016 IS ABSURD. 1192 00:41:29,018 --> 00:41:32,007 SECRECY MAKES US IGNORANT, 1193 00:41:32,009 --> 00:41:33,005 SECRECY IS GOVERNMENT 1194 00:41:33,007 --> 00:41:33,014 REGULATION. 1195 00:41:33,016 --> 00:41:34,023 MOST GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS -- 1196 00:41:38,028 --> 00:41:42,020 OBVIOUSLY YOU NEED SOME SECRETS 1197 00:41:42,022 --> 00:41:43,023 TO PROTECT GOVERNMENT 1198 00:41:43,025 --> 00:41:46,001 DELIBERATIONS AND SOURCES AND 1199 00:41:46,003 --> 00:41:48,006 METHODS OF INTELLIGENCE, BUT 1200 00:41:48,008 --> 00:41:49,001 MOST REGULATION TELLS US WHAT WE 1201 00:41:49,003 --> 00:41:51,018 CANNOT DO. 1202 00:41:51,020 --> 00:41:55,002 SECRECY TELLS US WHAT WE CANNOT 1203 00:41:55,004 --> 00:41:56,002 KNOW AND GOVERNMENT ALWAYS HAS 1204 00:41:56,004 --> 00:41:58,001 AN INTEREST TO MAXIMIZE SECRECY 1205 00:41:58,003 --> 00:41:59,017 AS ITS PRIVATE PROPERTY WHICH IS 1206 00:41:59,019 --> 00:42:02,005 WHY I SALUTE THE FAMILIES, MORE 1207 00:42:02,007 --> 00:42:04,000 THAN 2,000 PEOPLE PUT PRESSURE 1208 00:42:04,002 --> 00:42:05,025 ON THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND 1209 00:42:05,027 --> 00:42:06,013 THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAID 1210 00:42:06,015 --> 00:42:10,010 "WELL, OKAY, WE'LL WE THINK 1211 00:42:10,012 --> 00:42:11,005 THIS. 1212 00:42:11,007 --> 00:42:12,010 WATCH THEM COME AFTER 9/11 HAS 1213 00:42:12,012 --> 00:42:13,029 PASSED AND THE FLEETING 1214 00:42:14,001 --> 00:42:15,004 ATTENTION SPAN OF THE AMERICAN 1215 00:42:15,006 --> 00:42:17,002 PEOPLE MOVES ON, WE'LL SEE IF 1216 00:42:17,004 --> 00:42:17,019 THEY ACTUALLY RELEASE THIS. 1217 00:42:17,021 --> 00:42:20,023 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT 1218 00:42:20,025 --> 00:42:21,019 SECRECY, I MUST SAY THE THING I 1219 00:42:21,021 --> 00:42:24,012 ALWAYS THINK OF AS A SECRET IS 1220 00:42:24,014 --> 00:42:25,014 MONEY. 1221 00:42:25,016 --> 00:42:27,008 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 1222 00:42:27,010 --> 00:42:29,010 $3.5 TRILLION WHICH USED TO BE A 1223 00:42:29,012 --> 00:42:30,024 LOT OF MONEY. 1224 00:42:30,026 --> 00:42:36,003 I KIND OF STILL THINK IT IS, AND 1225 00:42:36,005 --> 00:42:37,028 WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT THIS? 1226 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,015 ALL I KNOW AND EVEN WHEN I READ 1227 00:42:40,017 --> 00:42:42,016 DETAILED ARTICLES, WHAT THE HECK 1228 00:42:42,018 --> 00:42:45,003 ARE THEY DOING WITH THIS MONEY, 1229 00:42:45,005 --> 00:42:46,018 WITH THAT KIND OF MONEY? 1230 00:42:46,020 --> 00:42:50,017 WHERE IS IT GOING, DO WE HAVE 1231 00:42:50,019 --> 00:42:51,020 ANY IDEA? 1232 00:42:51,022 --> 00:42:53,025 PEOPLE JUST VOTE BASED ON THAT'S 1233 00:42:53,027 --> 00:42:58,012 MY TEAM AND THIS COUNTRY, THE 1234 00:42:58,014 --> 00:43:01,024 WRONG DIRECTION UNDER TRUMP, 1235 00:43:01,026 --> 00:43:02,019 LET'S VOTE $3.5 TRILLION TO GO 1236 00:43:02,021 --> 00:43:03,018 IN THE OTHER DIRECTION AND I 1237 00:43:03,020 --> 00:43:04,014 DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO BE 1238 00:43:04,016 --> 00:43:07,005 SPENT WISELY. 1239 00:43:07,007 --> 00:43:09,025 NEVER MIND IF THE MY TEAM 1240 00:43:09,027 --> 00:43:11,012 THAT IS DOING THINGS THAT 1241 00:43:11,014 --> 00:43:12,024 CONFLICT WITH ITS OWN VALUES 1242 00:43:12,026 --> 00:43:13,025 WITH DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE. 1243 00:43:13,027 --> 00:43:15,024 YOU CAN COMPARE THIS TO THE 1244 00:43:15,026 --> 00:43:16,021 FIGHT OVER INFRASTRUCTURE, 1245 00:43:16,023 --> 00:43:18,020 THAT'S ONE REASON WHY JOE BIDEN 1246 00:43:18,022 --> 00:43:21,017 IS TWISTED UP ABOUT WHAT'S GOING 1247 00:43:21,019 --> 00:43:23,019 TO HAPPEN WITH SOME VERY 1248 00:43:23,021 --> 00:43:24,010 IMPORTANT BUDGET PRIORITIES FOR 1249 00:43:24,012 --> 00:43:26,012 THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THEY ARE 1250 00:43:26,014 --> 00:43:27,008 ALLOWING SENATOR MANCHIN TO HAVE 1251 00:43:27,010 --> 00:43:29,002 HIS SAY HERE AND THAT SHOULDN'T 1252 00:43:29,004 --> 00:43:29,029 SURPRISE ANYONE. 1253 00:43:30,001 --> 00:43:30,024 WE KNOW GOING AND THAT'S WHAT 1254 00:43:30,026 --> 00:43:32,018 JOE BIDEN WAS GOING TO DO, HE 1255 00:43:32,020 --> 00:43:33,015 WAS GOING TO BE A CREATURE OF 1256 00:43:33,017 --> 00:43:35,001 THE SENATE AND MAKE SURE HE'S 1257 00:43:35,003 --> 00:43:36,002 LISTENING TO HIS FORMER 1258 00:43:36,004 --> 00:43:38,009 COLLEAGUES THERE AND THAT'S 1259 00:43:38,011 --> 00:43:39,016 GOING TO DICTATE THEIR 1260 00:43:39,018 --> 00:43:40,014 DECISIONS. 1261 00:43:40,016 --> 00:43:41,027 THAT IS ALL PARTY LINES DRAWN 1262 00:43:41,029 --> 00:43:46,005 AND UNTIL SOMETHING CHANGES AT A 1263 00:43:46,007 --> 00:43:48,004 LEVEL WHERE YOU HAVE BIGGER 1264 00:43:48,006 --> 00:43:49,017 MAJORITIES AND MORE POWER, 1265 00:43:49,019 --> 00:43:52,017 YOU'RE GOING TO CONTINUE SEEING 1266 00:43:52,019 --> 00:43:52,023 THIS. 1267 00:43:52,025 --> 00:43:54,021 PEOPLE TAKING THEIR SIDES AND 1268 00:43:54,023 --> 00:43:54,029 THAT'S IT. 1269 00:43:55,001 --> 00:43:57,015 YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT WHERE 1270 00:43:57,017 --> 00:43:59,009 THE MONEY'S GOING, I'M WORRIED 1271 00:43:59,011 --> 00:44:00,020 ABOUT WHERE IT'S COMING FROM. 1272 00:44:00,022 --> 00:44:02,002 FOR ALL THE TALK ABOUT THE 1273 00:44:02,004 --> 00:44:03,016 DISCORD IN WASHINGTON, MUCH MORE 1274 00:44:03,018 --> 00:44:06,018 FRIGHTENING IS THE CONSENSUS, 1275 00:44:06,020 --> 00:44:10,005 IT'S AS BROAD AS THE REPUBLIC, 1276 00:44:10,007 --> 00:44:11,005 DEEP AS THE GRAND CANYON AND IT 1277 00:44:11,007 --> 00:44:13,008 IS THIS. 1278 00:44:13,010 --> 00:44:16,004 WE SHOULD HAVE A LARGE, EVERMORE 1279 00:44:16,006 --> 00:44:17,005 AMBITIOUS ENTITLEMENT STATE AND 1280 00:44:17,007 --> 00:44:18,003 NOT PAY FOR IT, EVERYONE'S 1281 00:44:18,005 --> 00:44:20,021 AGREED ON ITS. 1282 00:44:21,015 --> 00:44:23,008 ALSO A LARGE, 1283 00:44:23,010 --> 00:44:25,010 EVERMORE UNNECESSARY BLOATED 1284 00:44:25,012 --> 00:44:28,005 PENTAGON. 1285 00:44:28,015 --> 00:44:29,016 THAT'S AT LEAST AS BIG A PROBLEM 1286 00:44:29,018 --> 00:44:31,006 AS THE ENTITLEMENT STATE, IS IT 1287 00:44:31,008 --> 00:44:31,020 NOT TO? 1288 00:44:31,022 --> 00:44:33,008 THAT WE CONSTANTLY ARE PUTTING 1289 00:44:33,010 --> 00:44:35,001 MORE MONEY AND VERY OFTEN, THE 1290 00:44:35,003 --> 00:44:37,001 PENTAGON WILL SAY, NO, WE DON'T 1291 00:44:37,003 --> 00:44:39,006 NEED THESE TANKS, WE CAN'T USE 1292 00:44:39,008 --> 00:44:39,012 THEM. 1293 00:44:39,014 --> 00:44:41,000 AND THEY STILL MAKE THEM, 1294 00:44:41,002 --> 00:44:46,014 BECAUSE THAT'S REAL SOCIALISM. 1295 00:44:46,016 --> 00:44:48,011 OKAY, I GOT TO GO TO NEW RULES, 1296 00:44:48,013 --> 00:44:51,024 EVERYBODY, THANK YOU. 1297 00:44:56,020 --> 00:44:57,022 JOHN BENNETT, CHAIRMAN 1298 00:44:57,024 --> 00:44:58,014 OF THE OKLAHOMA REPUBLICAN 1299 00:44:58,016 --> 00:44:59,005 - PARTY, - IF THIS 1300 00:44:59,007 --> 00:45:01,004 REALLY IS YOU POSING WITH YOUR 1301 00:45:01,006 --> 00:45:02,009 FAMILY, ISN'T THE LIBERAL 1302 00:45:02,011 --> 00:45:03,019 CARICATURE OF REPUBLICANS RIGHT 1303 00:45:03,021 --> 00:45:09,024 ON THE MONEY? 1304 00:45:10,028 --> 00:45:11,029 AND ISN'T YOUR CARICATURE OF 1305 00:45:12,001 --> 00:45:15,016 LIBERALS A LITTLE OFF? 1306 00:45:15,018 --> 00:45:16,019 BECAUSE THIS IS ALICIA ANDREWS, 1307 00:45:16,021 --> 00:45:17,028 CHAIR OF THE OKLAHOMA DEMOCRATS, 1308 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:18,019 AND I DON'T SEE HER POSING WITH 1309 00:45:18,021 --> 00:45:24,020 HER FAMILY LIKE THIS. 1310 00:45:27,020 --> 00:45:29,009 SOMEONE HAS TO TELL ME 1311 00:45:29,011 --> 00:45:30,017 WHY THE FIRED GUY ALWAYS HAS A 1312 00:45:30,019 --> 00:45:34,026 BOX WITH A SMALL POTTED PLANT. 1313 00:45:35,008 --> 00:45:36,015 PEOPLE WHO KNOW AMERICA ONLY 1314 00:45:36,017 --> 00:45:37,014 FROM MOVIES MUST THINK A BEGONIA 1315 00:45:37,016 --> 00:45:41,003 IS SEVERANCE PAY. 1316 00:45:41,013 --> 00:45:42,017 BUT DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS GUY, 1317 00:45:42,019 --> 00:45:43,008 HE'S GOING HOME TO A GOOD WOMAN 1318 00:45:43,010 --> 00:45:44,020 WHO JUST BOUGHT THE FOOD ALL 1319 00:45:44,022 --> 00:45:52,024 AMERICANS EAT AFTER A TRIP TO 1320 00:45:52,026 --> 00:45:54,021 CELERY AND FRENCH 1321 00:45:54,023 --> 00:45:57,008 BREAD TO. 1322 00:45:57,010 --> 00:45:57,029 JANET 1323 00:45:58,017 --> 00:45:59,026 CHEN, WHO CREATED THESE EAR 1324 00:45:59,028 --> 00:46:00,013 COVERINGS FEATURED AT CHINA 1325 00:46:00,015 --> 00:46:01,003 FASHION WEEK, MUST FIRE HER 1326 00:46:01,005 --> 00:46:02,008 TRANSLATOR. 1327 00:46:02,010 --> 00:46:03,012 I'M PRETTY SURE THIS IS NOT WHAT 1328 00:46:03,022 --> 00:46:04,021 THOSE AMERICANS MEANT WHEN THEY 1329 00:46:04,023 --> 00:46:06,001 ASKED HER TO DESIGN HEADPHONES 1330 00:46:06,003 --> 00:46:13,014 FOR HOUSE MUSIC. 1331 00:46:14,029 --> 00:46:16,021 NOW THAT ABBA ARE 1332 00:46:16,023 --> 00:46:17,016 GOING ON TOUR AS 1333 00:46:17,018 --> 00:46:18,026 COMPUTER-GENERATED AVATARS 1334 00:46:18,028 --> 00:46:20,001 SOMEONE HAS TO ASK THEM, 1335 00:46:20,003 --> 00:46:21,002 "WEREN'T YOU ALWAYS 1336 00:46:21,004 --> 00:46:27,023 COMPUTER-GENERATED AVATARS?" 1337 00:46:28,026 --> 00:46:29,025 YOU MEAN HUMANS WROTE "GIMME 1338 00:46:29,027 --> 00:46:30,010 GIMME GIMME A MAN AFTER 1339 00:46:30,012 --> 00:46:32,024 MIDNIGHT?" 1340 00:46:32,026 --> 00:46:34,015 I ALWAYS ASSUMED IT WAS AN IBM 1341 00:46:34,017 --> 00:46:35,006 SUPER-COMPUTER SET TO "FULL 1342 00:46:35,008 --> 00:46:43,008 CAUCASIAN." 1343 00:46:43,028 --> 00:46:46,002 THE COVID PATIENTS AT 1344 00:46:46,004 --> 00:46:47,006 A THAILAND FIELD HOSPITAL WHO 1345 00:46:47,008 --> 00:46:49,006 WERE DOING SO MANY DRUGS AND 1346 00:46:49,008 --> 00:46:55,005 HAVING SO MUCH GROUP SEX THAT 1347 00:46:55,015 --> 00:46:56,014 THE POLICE HAD TO RAID THE 1348 00:46:56,016 --> 00:46:57,015 PLACE, HAVE TO TELL US. 1349 00:46:57,017 --> 00:47:05,011 WHAT DRUGS? 1350 00:47:06,008 --> 00:47:10,009 BECAUSE IT SURE SOUNDS LIKE THEY 1351 00:47:10,011 --> 00:47:12,000 WORKED. 1352 00:47:12,010 --> 00:47:13,011 AND FINALLY, NEW RULE. 1353 00:47:13,013 --> 00:47:14,001 BEFORE WE SPREAD DEMOCRACY 1354 00:47:14,003 --> 00:47:14,026 AROUND THE WORLD, AMERICA HAS TO 1355 00:47:14,028 --> 00:47:15,026 FIGURE OUT HOW TO SPREAD WATER 1356 00:47:15,028 --> 00:47:21,027 AROUND AMERICA. 1357 00:47:23,008 --> 00:47:24,029 WE DON'T KNOW IF AFGHANISTAN 1358 00:47:25,001 --> 00:47:27,000 EVEN WANTED DEMOCRACY, BUT I'VE 1359 00:47:27,002 --> 00:47:27,022 BEEN TO BURBANK -- I KNOW THEY 1360 00:47:27,024 --> 00:47:31,010 DRINK WATER. 1361 00:47:31,020 --> 00:47:33,028 BUT FOR HOW MUCH LONGER? 1362 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,016 OUR NEW NORMAL IS NEVER-ENDING, 1363 00:47:35,018 --> 00:47:37,010 LIFE THREATENING DROUGHT AND 1364 00:47:37,012 --> 00:47:40,027 WILDFIRES IN THE WEST, AND IN 1365 00:47:40,029 --> 00:47:42,015 - THE EAST, - THAT'S 1366 00:47:42,017 --> 00:47:44,000 THE "EXTREME RAINFALL" AREA, 1367 00:47:44,002 --> 00:47:52,026 WHAT I CALL THE CARDI B REGION, 1368 00:47:53,006 --> 00:47:54,007 BECAUSE IF YOU LIVE THERE, YOUR 1369 00:47:54,009 --> 00:47:57,029 ASS IS GOING TO BE WET. 1370 00:48:00,015 --> 00:48:01,015 RIVERS HERE IN THE WEST DRY 1371 00:48:01,017 --> 00:48:02,017 UP, THE EAST COAST WILL BE 1372 00:48:02,019 --> 00:48:03,024 GETTING BRAND NEW RIVERS, LIKE 1373 00:48:03,026 --> 00:48:07,010 THIS ONE IN MANHATTAN. 1374 00:48:07,012 --> 00:48:08,023 IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN ON THE 1375 00:48:08,025 --> 00:48:09,020 SUBWAY, THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S 1376 00:48:09,022 --> 00:48:12,011 SUPPOSED TO LOOK. 1377 00:48:12,021 --> 00:48:13,021 AND I GOTTA TELL YOU, WHEN I SAW 1378 00:48:13,023 --> 00:48:14,020 THAT VIDEO, I THINK I HAD THE 1379 00:48:14,022 --> 00:48:15,018 SAME THOUGHT AS EVERYONE HERE IN 1380 00:48:15,020 --> 00:48:24,022 CAN WE HAVE SOME? 1381 00:48:26,003 --> 00:48:27,013 WHENEVER I WATCH FLOOD FOOTAGE 1382 00:48:27,015 --> 00:48:28,023 FROM ANYWHERE, I FEEL LIKE A 1383 00:48:28,025 --> 00:48:29,012 GIRL WITH NO ASS STARING AT KIM 1384 00:48:29,014 --> 00:48:32,019 KARDASHIAN. 1385 00:48:32,021 --> 00:48:34,020 JUST ONCE, I'D LIKE TO BE THE 1386 00:48:34,022 --> 00:48:35,009 DUMBASS WHOSE CAR STALLS OUT IN 1387 00:48:35,011 --> 00:48:38,027 THE INTERSECTION. 1388 00:48:38,029 --> 00:48:39,021 FOR MORE ON THIS, LET'S GO TO 1389 00:48:39,023 --> 00:48:43,025 ME, WITH THE WEATHER. 1390 00:48:43,027 --> 00:48:44,029 "OKAY, ON THIS SIDE OF THE 1391 00:48:45,001 --> 00:48:45,022 COUNTRY IT DOESN'T RAIN ANYMORE, 1392 00:48:45,024 --> 00:48:46,019 EVER. 1393 00:48:46,021 --> 00:48:47,022 AND ON THIS SIDE OF THE COUNTRY, 1394 00:48:47,024 --> 00:48:49,004 THEY'RE DROWNING. 1395 00:48:49,006 --> 00:48:58,017 NOW HERE'S SPORTS." 1396 00:48:59,020 --> 00:49:04,013 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PLEASE. 1397 00:49:05,002 --> 00:49:06,027 YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T AN 1398 00:49:06,029 --> 00:49:08,018 IMPONDERABLE QUANDARY, LIKE COLD 1399 00:49:08,020 --> 00:49:09,023 FUSION OR WHY THEY CAN'T FIND A 1400 00:49:09,025 --> 00:49:13,001 HOST FOR JEOPARDY. 1401 00:49:13,011 --> 00:49:14,026 AS THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE 1402 00:49:14,028 --> 00:49:16,020 SOUTHERN NEVADA WATER AUTHORITY 1403 00:49:16,022 --> 00:49:17,019 ONCE SAID, "ONE MAN'S FLOOD 1404 00:49:17,021 --> 00:49:18,017 CONTROL IS ANOTHER MAN'S WATER 1405 00:49:18,019 --> 00:49:20,019 SUPPLY." 1406 00:49:20,021 --> 00:49:21,023 DOES ANYONE SEE WHERE I'M GOING 1407 00:49:21,025 --> 00:49:26,024 WITH THIS? 1408 00:49:26,026 --> 00:49:27,027 THAT IT WOULD BE A GIANT WIN-WIN 1409 00:49:27,029 --> 00:49:30,017 IF WE JUST BUILT PIPELINES FROM 1410 00:49:30,019 --> 00:49:31,016 WHERE THE WATER IS, TO WHERE THE 1411 00:49:31,018 --> 00:49:40,005 WATER ISN'T. 1412 00:49:40,021 --> 00:49:41,008 I'M NOT A CIVIL ENGINEER BUT IF 1413 00:49:41,010 --> 00:49:42,022 WE CAN EXTRACT SHALE OIL FROM 1414 00:49:42,024 --> 00:49:44,003 TAR SANDS TWO MILES BELOW THE 1415 00:49:44,005 --> 00:49:45,016 FROZEN SURFACE OF CANADA AND 1416 00:49:45,018 --> 00:49:49,024 PIPE IT TO LOUISIANA, WHY NOT 1417 00:49:49,026 --> 00:49:52,007 WATER? 1418 00:49:53,029 --> 00:49:55,000 WATER IS A LOT EASIER TO GET 1419 00:49:55,002 --> 00:49:57,009 THAN OIL -- I'VE HEARD THERE ARE 1420 00:49:57,011 --> 00:49:58,016 PLACES WHERE IT LITERALLY FALLS 1421 00:49:58,018 --> 00:50:05,017 FROM THE SKY. 1422 00:50:05,027 --> 00:50:06,015 NOW, IN THE PAST WHEN I'VE 1423 00:50:06,017 --> 00:50:07,013 BROUGHT UP THE IDEA OF A WATER 1424 00:50:07,015 --> 00:50:08,020 PIPELINE, I WAS DETERRED FROM 1425 00:50:08,022 --> 00:50:10,011 PRESSING THE POINT BY THE 1426 00:50:10,013 --> 00:50:12,021 CONVENTIONAL WISDOM THAT THIS 1427 00:50:12,023 --> 00:50:14,012 HAS BEEN PROPOSED AND STUDIED 1428 00:50:14,014 --> 00:50:16,028 AND IT'S JUST NOT FEASIBLE. 1429 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:18,011 BUT I LOOKED INTO THE DETAILS 1430 00:50:18,013 --> 00:50:19,006 AND TONIGHT I'D LIKE TO CALL 1431 00:50:19,008 --> 00:50:21,008 BULLSHIT ON THAT. 1432 00:50:21,010 --> 00:50:23,024 WHAT'S NOT FEASIBLE IS US. 1433 00:50:23,026 --> 00:50:26,024 THIS IDEA IS ONLY A 1434 00:50:26,026 --> 00:50:28,017 "NON-STARTER" BECAUSE OF PETTY 1435 00:50:28,019 --> 00:50:29,026 POLITICAL SQUABBLES, INSANE 1436 00:50:29,028 --> 00:50:32,009 LEVELS OF GRAFT AND RED TAPE -- 1437 00:50:32,011 --> 00:50:33,026 IT'S COMPLETELY DOABLE, AND IN 1438 00:50:33,028 --> 00:50:35,017 FACT HAS BEEN PROPOSED MANY 1439 00:50:35,019 --> 00:50:37,022 TIMES BY SERIOUS PEOPLE. 1440 00:50:37,024 --> 00:50:40,016 AVAILABILITY OF WATER IS NOT THE 1441 00:50:40,018 --> 00:50:43,012 PROBLEM. 1442 00:50:43,014 --> 00:50:44,029 TO THE EAST OF US, FLOODING, TO 1443 00:50:45,001 --> 00:50:46,012 THE WEST, A GIANT RESERVOIR 1444 00:50:46,014 --> 00:50:48,010 CALLED THE PACIFIC OCEAN -- OH 1445 00:50:48,012 --> 00:50:50,016 YES THE OCEAN. 1446 00:50:50,018 --> 00:50:51,027 DID YOU KNOW THAT ISRAEL GETS 1447 00:50:51,029 --> 00:50:54,002 MOST OF ITS WATER FROM THE 1448 00:50:54,004 --> 00:50:55,014 OCEAN, FROM DESALINIZATION? 1449 00:50:55,016 --> 00:50:57,023 WHY CAN'T WE DO DESALINIZATION 1450 00:50:57,025 --> 00:51:01,013 IF ISRAEL DOES? 1451 00:51:01,015 --> 00:51:05,017 WE HAVE JEWS HERE -- I'M SURE 1452 00:51:07,019 --> 00:51:09,005 THEY CAN FIGURE IT OUT. 1453 00:51:09,007 --> 00:51:11,004 WE HAVE LOTS OF SMART PEOPLE. 1454 00:51:11,006 --> 00:51:12,019 THE PROBLEM ISN'T ONE OF 1455 00:51:12,021 --> 00:51:13,026 KNOW-HOW EITHER -- IT'S WILL. 1456 00:51:13,028 --> 00:51:14,021 AND SELFISHNESS. 1457 00:51:14,023 --> 00:51:16,029 AND GREED. 1458 00:51:17,001 --> 00:51:18,029 WHY 1459 00:51:19,001 --> 00:51:19,018 WOULD IT REALLY BE HARDER TO GET 1460 00:51:19,020 --> 00:51:22,022 WATER THROUGH A PIPE THAN OIL? 1461 00:51:22,024 --> 00:51:24,000 THE U.S. ALREADY HAS 2.6 MILLION 1462 00:51:24,002 --> 00:51:25,017 MILES OF PIPELINES. 1463 00:51:25,019 --> 00:51:27,001 TO TRANSPORT OIL. 1464 00:51:27,003 --> 00:51:29,005 AND NATURAL GAS, AND HAZARDOUS 1465 00:51:29,007 --> 00:51:32,009 LIQUIDS -- ARE THEY ALL REALLY 1466 00:51:32,011 --> 00:51:34,019 EASIER TO MOVE THAN WATER? 1467 00:51:34,021 --> 00:51:35,020 IS A WATER PIPELINE REALLY MORE 1468 00:51:35,022 --> 00:51:37,011 OF AN ENGINEERING CHALLENGE THAN 1469 00:51:37,013 --> 00:51:39,002 WHEN WE BUILT RAILROADS THROUGH 1470 00:51:39,004 --> 00:51:40,029 THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, OR LAID THE 1471 00:51:41,001 --> 00:51:42,022 TRANS-ATLANTIC CABLE, OR MADE 1472 00:51:42,024 --> 00:51:44,024 THE PANAMA CANAL? 1473 00:51:44,026 --> 00:51:47,016 OR PUT A MAN ON THE MOON, WHICH, 1474 00:51:47,018 --> 00:51:49,022 EVEN IF YOU THINK WAS FAKED, YOU 1475 00:51:49,024 --> 00:51:51,004 PULLING OFF A 1476 00:51:51,006 --> 00:51:52,018 PRANK LIKE THAT WOULD IN ITSELF 1477 00:51:52,020 --> 00:51:53,009 BE QUITE A REMARKABLE 1478 00:51:53,011 --> 00:52:03,012 ACHIEVEMENT. 1479 00:52:07,027 --> 00:52:08,026 MOVING WATER IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE. 1480 00:52:08,028 --> 00:52:09,015 IT CAN BE DONE. 1481 00:52:09,017 --> 00:52:10,012 OTHERS HAVE DONE IT. 1482 00:52:10,014 --> 00:52:11,001 - THE ROMANS DID IT WITH 1 - ST 1483 00:52:11,003 --> 00:52:12,011 CENTURY TECHNOLOGY -- SOME OF 1484 00:52:12,013 --> 00:52:14,015 THEIR AQUEDUCTS ARE STILL IN 1485 00:52:14,017 --> 00:52:14,020 USE. 1486 00:52:14,022 --> 00:52:15,017 THE INCAS, THE MINOANS, THE 1487 00:52:15,019 --> 00:52:16,020 EGYPTIANS, LOTS OF ANCIENT 1488 00:52:16,022 --> 00:52:17,026 PEOPLE DID IT. 1489 00:52:17,028 --> 00:52:20,018 AND LET'S NOT FORGET MOSES 1490 00:52:20,020 --> 00:52:26,027 PARTING THE RED SEA. 1491 00:52:27,015 --> 00:52:29,011 CHINA DOES IT NOW. 1492 00:52:29,013 --> 00:52:31,011 BEIJING DEPENDS ON WATER THAT IS 1493 00:52:31,013 --> 00:52:33,016 PROVIDED BY THEIR MASSIVE 1494 00:52:33,018 --> 00:52:35,028 SOUTH-NORTH WATER TRANSFER 1495 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,016 PROJECT WHICH WAS BEGUN IN 1496 00:52:38,018 --> 00:52:40,019 DECEMBER OF 2002, AND OF COURSE, 1497 00:52:40,021 --> 00:52:42,000 BEING CHINA COMPLETED THE NEXT 1498 00:52:42,002 --> 00:52:50,026 DAY. 1499 00:52:51,015 --> 00:52:54,015 BUT IN AMERICA, WE DON'T EVEN 1500 00:52:54,017 --> 00:52:55,023 - START, - WHY 1501 00:52:55,025 --> 00:52:59,002 WOULD IT BE ANY DIFFERENT FROM 1502 00:52:59,004 --> 00:53:00,022 EVERY OTHER AMBITIOUS PROJECT -- 1503 00:53:00,024 --> 00:53:02,002 LIKE AFGHANISTAN -- THAT ALWAYS 1504 00:53:02,004 --> 00:53:03,002 JUST TURNS INTO A GIANT MONEY 1505 00:53:03,004 --> 00:53:05,009 GRAB? 1506 00:53:05,011 --> 00:53:07,005 WE 1507 00:53:07,007 --> 00:53:07,026 CAN'T HOUSE THE HOMELESS BECAUSE 1508 00:53:07,028 --> 00:53:09,023 THE COST OF A SINGLE UNIT HAS 1509 00:53:09,025 --> 00:53:12,017 RISEN TO 750,000 DOLLARS. 1510 00:53:12,019 --> 00:53:14,000 WE TRIED TO BUILD HIGH-SPEED 1511 00:53:14,002 --> 00:53:15,000 RAIL. 1512 00:53:15,002 --> 00:53:16,004 THEY FINALLY PULLED THE PLUG ON 1513 00:53:16,006 --> 00:53:17,009 THAT BECAUSE THE COST GOT SO OUT 1514 00:53:17,011 --> 00:53:18,017 OF HAND. 1515 00:53:18,019 --> 00:53:20,019 THAT'S WHY NOTHING EVER GETS 1516 00:53:20,021 --> 00:53:21,028 DONE IN THIS COUNTRY, BECAUSE SO 1517 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,014 MUCH BULLSHIT IS BUILT INTO 1518 00:53:23,016 --> 00:53:24,022 EVERYTHING, THAT IT'S A 1519 00:53:24,024 --> 00:53:26,018 BOONDOGGLE BEFORE IT STARTS. 1520 00:53:26,020 --> 00:53:29,002 THE 1521 00:53:29,004 --> 00:53:30,018 EVER BALLOONING COSTS, THE 1522 00:53:30,020 --> 00:53:32,023 INFLATED CONTRACTS, THE 1523 00:53:32,025 --> 00:53:34,028 BACK-SCRATCHING, THE KICKBACKS, 1524 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:35,027 THE PRIVATE CONTRACTORS, THE 1525 00:53:35,029 --> 00:53:37,029 PADDED EXPENSE ACCOUNTS, THE 1526 00:53:38,001 --> 00:53:40,015 LAYERS AND LAYERS OF 1527 00:53:40,017 --> 00:53:41,019 "CONSULTANTS," THE PERMITS, THE 1528 00:53:41,021 --> 00:53:43,028 FEES, THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 1529 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,022 STATEMENTS, THE LAWSUITS, THE 1530 00:53:46,024 --> 00:53:50,013 LAWYERS, THE LOBBYISTS, THE RED 1531 00:53:50,015 --> 00:53:50,019 TAPE. 1532 00:53:50,021 --> 00:53:52,014 GRAFT ON A SCALE UNTAMABLE. 1533 00:53:52,016 --> 00:53:53,017 BUT 78 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN 1534 00:53:53,019 --> 00:53:55,019 THE WEST. 1535 00:53:55,021 --> 00:53:56,027 WHAT DO WE DO IN THE NOT 1536 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,000 SO-DISTANT FUTURE WHEN THEY'RE 1537 00:53:58,002 --> 00:54:00,011 ALL WATER REFUGEES? 1538 00:54:00,013 --> 00:54:02,009 THE COLORADO RIVER SUPPLIES 1539 00:54:02,011 --> 00:54:03,014 FORTY MILLION PEOPLE WITH THE 1540 00:54:03,016 --> 00:54:05,020 WATER THEY NEED TO LIVE, AND 1541 00:54:05,022 --> 00:54:07,010 IT'S DRYING UP -- THOSE PEOPLE 1542 00:54:07,012 --> 00:54:09,016 CAN'T ALL GET IN COVERED WAGONS, 1543 00:54:09,018 --> 00:54:10,008 HEAD EAST AND MOVE BACK IN WITH 1544 00:54:10,010 --> 00:54:14,028 THEIR PARENTS. 1545 00:54:15,008 --> 00:54:15,020 OKAY, THAT'S OUR SHOW. 1546 00:54:16,004 --> 00:54:17,001 I'LL BE AT THE ECCLES THEATER IN 1547 00:54:17,003 --> 00:54:18,017 SALT LAKE CITY, THIS SUNDAY 1548 00:54:18,019 --> 00:54:20,008 - SEPTEMBER 12 - TH, AT CITY NATIONAL 1549 00:54:20,010 --> 00:54:26,027 CIVIC IN SAN JOSE, SEPTEMBER 1550 00:54:26,029 --> 00:54:30,005 AND INVENTING HIM CENTER IN 1551 00:54:30,007 --> 00:54:30,026 PITTSBURGH ON THE 1552 00:54:30,028 --> 00:54:31,027 I WANT TO THANK MY GUESTS 1553 00:54:31,029 --> 00:54:32,003 - 17 - TH. 1554 00:54:32,005 --> 00:54:32,021 CHRISTINA BELLANTONI, GEORGE 1555 00:54:32,023 --> 00:54:35,029 WILL AND BARBARA LEE. 1556 00:54:36,001 --> 00:54:38,017 NDU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!