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[00:00:00] Homeless people in New York freezing to
[00:00:01] death because of the insane quote
[00:00:03] unquote empathy of Zoron mom Donnie.
[00:00:05] Plus more insane empathy causing more
[00:00:08] death up in Canada where apparently
[00:00:10] pretending that boys can be girls
[00:00:12] actually does not prevent people from
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[00:01:06] at dailywire.com. You know, there's a
[00:01:09] professor named Gadsad. Gadsad coined a
[00:01:12] term called suicidal empathy. And the
[00:01:14] basic idea is that you're so empathetic
[00:01:16] to somebody that it ends up harming you.
[00:01:18] So, great example would be the way that
[00:01:20] the West has approached immigration from
[00:01:22] third world countries. You feel bad for
[00:01:23] people, you open your borders, lots of
[00:01:25] people come in and then they harm your
[00:01:26] civilization. But it seems like we are
[00:01:28] now moving beyond even suicidal empathy
[00:01:30] into homicidal empathy. By which I mean
[00:01:33] that your empathy for someone actually
[00:01:35] gets them killed. Great example of that
[00:01:38] happening today over in New York City.
[00:01:40] So Zoron Mamani who promised as producer
[00:01:43] Sarah points out the warmth of
[00:01:44] collectivism. Remember this. We're going
[00:01:46] to move beyond the grittiness of
[00:01:48] individuality and we're going to bask in
[00:01:51] the warm embrace, the warm bath that is
[00:01:53] collectivism. It turns out people are
[00:01:55] freezing to death in New York City. They
[00:01:57] are freezing to death on the streets of
[00:01:59] New York City despite all of his photo
[00:02:01] ops shoveling the snow. He was out
[00:02:03] shoveling. By the way, I was just in New
[00:02:05] York City. All snow ain't getting
[00:02:06] shoveled. All the trash ain't getting
[00:02:08] picked up. But here was mom Donnie doing
[00:02:10] his level best to look as though he
[00:02:11] cares about shoveling snow. That's a lot
[00:02:13] of snow, my dude. I don't think you are
[00:02:15] going to be able to do that by yourself.
[00:02:17] And and also for a man who cannot bench
[00:02:19] press 135 pounds once, it's gonna be a
[00:02:22] long day shoveling snow for Zor.
[00:02:26] I don't think the people of New York can
[00:02:27] count on his shoveling skills. He's
[00:02:28] usually shoveling horsecraft. Anyway,
[00:02:30] here he is.
[00:02:33] Do you feel safer? Do you feel better,
[00:02:34] New York?
[00:02:37] Exactly. This Pete Buddha Judge riding
[00:02:38] the bike. This is Wow. Everything is
[00:02:42] safer now. People are not slipping.
[00:02:44] People are not falling. The snow has
[00:02:46] ceased. All all is well. The the serious
[00:02:49] side of this is that as the New York
[00:02:51] Post points out, Zoramani has embraced a
[00:02:54] hands-off policy with regard to
[00:02:55] homelessness. This this was the policy
[00:02:57] in California. It remains the policy in
[00:02:59] places like Los Angeles. This hands-off
[00:03:01] policy that basically is empathetic
[00:03:03] toward the homeless to the point where
[00:03:04] you're killing the homeless. You you say
[00:03:06] that they should be able to live out on
[00:03:07] the streets. That it is a form of
[00:03:09] cruelty and intolerance to involuntarily
[00:03:12] commit people who are usually
[00:03:14] drugaddicted or schizophrenic serious
[00:03:17] mental illnesses. People who can't take
[00:03:19] care of themselves. Somehow it is more
[00:03:21] empathetic to leave them out on the
[00:03:22] streets to get scabies or to die in the
[00:03:25] cold. This seems to be the way that the
[00:03:28] left-wing brain is working in
[00:03:29] Mandaniland and also out in California
[00:03:31] and other liberal areas of the country.
[00:03:35] 18 people have died in the cold snap
[00:03:39] that has hit New York City.
[00:03:41] Brian Steden, who served as a senior
[00:03:43] adviser to Mayor Eric Adams's
[00:03:45] administration, told the New York Post,
[00:03:46] quote, "When a person is in imminent
[00:03:47] danger, there's no debate. Whatever
[00:03:49] ideological divides we have should not
[00:03:51] have any impact on these policies during
[00:03:52] a code blue." Apparently, there was a
[00:03:56] mumbling homeless woman who braved sub
[00:03:59] Antarctic temperatures on the front
[00:04:01] cover of the post on Monday.
[00:04:05] According to the post, the unidentified
[00:04:06] woman was wearing a hooded sweatshirt,
[00:04:08] slippers, and two blankets as she
[00:04:09] clipped her nails, put lotion on her
[00:04:11] hands, and talked to herself while
[00:04:12] hunkered down on East 34th Street across
[00:04:14] from the New York University Langon
[00:04:16] Hospital as temperatures neared 0
[00:04:18] degrees early on Sunday. She then
[00:04:20] refused repeated offers for help from
[00:04:22] EMS workers and cops who explained to
[00:04:24] the post that they had to leave the
[00:04:25] shivering vagrant in the extremely
[00:04:27] dangerous bone chilling weather because
[00:04:28] she could answer basic questions which
[00:04:31] again is mom Donni sticktick is that if
[00:04:32] you can answer basic questions like what
[00:04:34] day of the week is it and what is your
[00:04:35] name then they will leave you out on the
[00:04:37] streets to freeze assuming that you are
[00:04:39] totally fine. Again that was those are
[00:04:41] literally the kinds of questions that
[00:04:42] that she was asked. According to a
[00:04:43] firefighter she knew the year 2026 she
[00:04:46] knew where she was New York. She knew
[00:04:48] who the president is. Since she has
[00:04:50] mental capacity, there's nothing we can
[00:04:51] do. We can't force her to go inside. We
[00:04:53] can't kidnap her. Said some people
[00:04:55] survive, some people don't. EMS workers
[00:04:59] said their hands are tied.
[00:05:01] Well, Zor Mamani did a presser over the
[00:05:04] weekend in which she said, "Yeah, we did
[00:05:06] have to force some homeless people
[00:05:08] inside because they weren't wearing
[00:05:09] enough clothes.
[00:05:11] >> Stay warm. Stay inside if you can, and
[00:05:14] please stay safe." Tonight you've
[00:05:16] implored the people in the streets who
[00:05:17] don't want to who feel more comfortable
[00:05:19] on the streets to come inside, but what
[00:05:21] happens if they don't at this point? I
[00:05:23] mean, you even said it 20 minutes out in
[00:05:25] the cold could lead to a fatality. So,
[00:05:27] is are you not using as a last resort at
[00:05:30] this point to bring them inside and
[00:05:31] voluntarily remove them even if it's
[00:05:33] just a few hours doesn't lead to a
[00:05:34] placement. So involuntary transport
[00:05:38] continues to be used in the same manner
[00:05:39] it was as the prior administration. And
[00:05:41] thus far we have seen clinical
[00:05:43] determinations of a number of New
[00:05:45] Yorkers who have been deemed to be a
[00:05:46] danger to themselves or to others. And
[00:05:48] sometimes that designation comes from an
[00:05:51] assessment that a New Yorker is not
[00:05:52] adequately clothed given the weather
[00:05:54] that they are living through in that
[00:05:56] moment. And that is going to continue to
[00:05:57] be part of the assessments that outreach
[00:05:59] workers are making over the course of
[00:06:01] tomorrow, the next day.
[00:06:03] >> Okay. So again, the last resort policy
[00:06:06] under Mam Dani says that you can only be
[00:06:09] forced indoors if you are deemed a
[00:06:10] danger to yourself or others. But the
[00:06:13] problem of course is that if you're a
[00:06:14] Zoran Mandani and you have spent your
[00:06:16] entire career ripping down cops and
[00:06:18] treating people as though they are
[00:06:20] committing a human rights violation by
[00:06:22] pushing people indoors, people might be
[00:06:24] a little hesitant to actually take
[00:06:26] responsibility for calling somebody a
[00:06:28] danger to themselves or others.
[00:06:32] Down in Baltimore, Mayor Brandon Scott,
[00:06:34] according to the New York Post, late
[00:06:35] last month called the cold a life or
[00:06:37] death issue and ordered the PD to take
[00:06:38] people off the streets even if they were
[00:06:40] refusing services. He said that
[00:06:42] direction order came from me because we
[00:06:43] can't allow folks to be out in this kind
[00:06:45] of weather.
[00:06:48] And the the fact that this has somehow
[00:06:50] become a matter of public controversy is
[00:06:53] totally insane. Obviously,
[00:06:55] Zor Mamani apparently has so much
[00:06:57] sympathy for people and I'm just going
[00:06:59] to put it out there. If you are out on
[00:07:01] the streets sleeping on the sidewalk,
[00:07:04] that is not a housing problem in the
[00:07:05] middle of a of a cold snap. That is a
[00:07:08] crazy problem if other options are given
[00:07:10] to you. No sane and rational person
[00:07:13] definitionally who is not a danger to
[00:07:16] themsel is sleeping out on the street in
[00:07:18] zero degree weather. That is not a thing
[00:07:21] that sane and rational people do unless
[00:07:23] they are Arctic explorers of some type.
[00:07:26] Again, this comes down to Mani's
[00:07:30] bizarroal world empathy that
[00:07:32] legitimately gets people killed. This
[00:07:34] sort of policy, when you apply it to
[00:07:36] crime, it leads to more criminals on the
[00:07:38] streets. When you apply it to
[00:07:39] homelessness, it leads to more homeless
[00:07:40] on the streets. The empathy that you
[00:07:42] have for the purported victim of
[00:07:44] America's evil, racist, abusive system
[00:07:47] leads to the very people you are
[00:07:48] supposedly trying to help sometimes
[00:07:50] dying.
[00:07:52] Mom Donnie, by the way, had not actually
[00:07:54] budged on his plans, his last resort
[00:07:58] policy as of last weekend.
[00:08:01] On February 6th, for example, the New
[00:08:03] York Post reported that Zamani was still
[00:08:05] refusing to clear homeless camps and
[00:08:06] forcibly remove people from the streets
[00:08:08] despite a rising death toll and a fresh
[00:08:10] snap of deadly deep freeze. Instead, he
[00:08:13] implored people to come inside as you
[00:08:14] heard. Well, I mean, imploring people to
[00:08:16] come inside ain't enough. Again, if
[00:08:18] people are refusing to come inside in
[00:08:20] the middle of zero degree weather,
[00:08:21] living on the streets, that is not going
[00:08:24] to be solved by you imploring them.
[00:08:27] And to those who may consider themselves
[00:08:29] more comfortable on the streets, I want
[00:08:31] to speak directly to you, to employer to
[00:08:34] come inside. These temperatures are too
[00:08:37] low and too dangerous to survive. Please
[00:08:41] wait out the cold in a safe place with a
[00:08:43] warm bed.
[00:08:45] By the way, during last year's campaign,
[00:08:47] Mandani, according to the City Journal,
[00:08:49] had promised to end a program initiated
[00:08:51] by his predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams,
[00:08:52] that deploys clinicians backed by police
[00:08:54] officers to assess people's ability to
[00:08:56] care for themselves and if necessary, to
[00:08:58] transport them involuntarily to a
[00:08:59] hospital for psychiatric treatment. So,
[00:09:02] that was a proactive move by Adams to
[00:09:04] determine whether somebody ought to be
[00:09:05] on the streets or not. and Mani wanted
[00:09:07] to kill that because I guess the
[00:09:10] presumption is that unless they are in
[00:09:12] the throws of some sort of crime, they
[00:09:14] should never have an engagement with law
[00:09:15] enforcement.
[00:09:18] He has disavowed dismantling homeless
[00:09:19] encampments.
[00:09:22] The message that's being sent is
[00:09:23] basically you have a right to live on
[00:09:25] the streets. The message that is sent to
[00:09:27] public service workers, cops, and mental
[00:09:30] health professionals is that you're
[00:09:31] going to be called on the carpet if you
[00:09:33] make the mistake of bringing somebody
[00:09:34] in.
[00:09:36] It's nuts and it's bad and it's stupid.
[00:09:38] And again, it's indicative of a deeper
[00:09:39] brain rot that has set in on large parts
[00:09:42] of the left. That empathy amounts to
[00:09:44] humoring people in their delusions, even
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[00:12:18] So, it has now been confirmed that the
[00:12:20] school shooter in British Columbia,
[00:12:22] Canada, was in fact a boy who believed
[00:12:26] he was a girl, a transgender girl. The
[00:12:29] media, of course, covered this up. They
[00:12:30] knew this right away. The media and the
[00:12:32] cops knew this right away. We reported
[00:12:34] it as a quasi rumor yesterday because it
[00:12:36] was basically being uncovered by places
[00:12:37] like Juno News. But everyone knew this
[00:12:40] from the very be. I mean, how could you
[00:12:41] not know it from the very beginning? If
[00:12:43] the cops come upon a dead body and the
[00:12:45] dead body is dressed in a dress and has
[00:12:48] a penis, it is pretty clear what is
[00:12:49] going on. But the cops covered that up
[00:12:52] yesterday.
[00:12:54] They said that they were not going to
[00:12:55] provide details and in fact referred to
[00:12:58] the person as a gun person and the media
[00:13:00] did the same. ABC News quote, "The
[00:13:03] person who carried out a school massacre
[00:13:04] is an 18-year-old woman with mental
[00:13:06] health issues, but she did not give a
[00:13:08] motive for one of the worst mass
[00:13:09] shootings in in Canada's history." What?
[00:13:12] I'm I'm sorry. You can't blame this one
[00:13:13] on the ladies, folks. This was a man who
[00:13:16] had a mental health problem and
[00:13:18] pretended he was a woman. And you quote
[00:13:20] unquote respecting the pronouns is part
[00:13:22] of the problem. You are leading more
[00:13:24] people to engage in the delusion that
[00:13:26] their problems can be solved by quote
[00:13:28] unquote switching sexes. And if society
[00:13:30] refuses to accept them, it's society's
[00:13:32] fault. And now you are a victim of
[00:13:34] erasure, which means that if somebody
[00:13:36] tries to erase you, you must
[00:13:37] preemptively erase them. It is a
[00:13:38] permission structure actually for
[00:13:40] violence and for mental degradation.
[00:13:44] Nonetheless, you have an entire
[00:13:46] left-wing thought structure that has
[00:13:48] been established that says two people
[00:13:50] who are suffering from gender confusion
[00:13:52] and body dysmorphia. It tells them that
[00:13:54] we are so empathetic to you that we're
[00:13:56] going to pretend along with you. And if
[00:13:58] we pretend along with you, that won't
[00:13:59] have any harm. Well, it turns out it has
[00:14:01] massive harm. Here are the Canadian
[00:14:03] police yesterday playing along with the
[00:14:05] gun. man was a man
[00:14:08] >> and we're not hiding it. In fact, you're
[00:14:10] the first uh media to ask the question.
[00:14:12] I will say this, we identify the suspect
[00:14:15] as they chose to be identified in public
[00:14:17] and in social media. I can say that
[00:14:19] Jesse was born as a biological male who
[00:14:22] approximately the information that I
[00:14:24] have approximately 60 years ago began to
[00:14:26] transition to female and identified as
[00:14:29] female uh both socially and um publicly.
[00:14:34] And then the cops said they would quote
[00:14:36] unquote respect the pronouns. Okay,
[00:14:37] first of all, human beings are not
[00:14:40] magical butterflies where they go into
[00:14:42] the gender cocoon and come out a
[00:14:44] different gendered butterfly. That is
[00:14:45] ridiculous. It is ridiculous and it is
[00:14:47] delusional and it is bad and yes, it has
[00:14:49] damage connected to it. As I've said
[00:14:52] before, there is a permission structure
[00:14:54] that is deeply embedded in the entire
[00:14:56] argument of the trans identity movement,
[00:14:59] which is that if people refuse to
[00:15:00] acknowledge your version of fake
[00:15:03] reality, then they are a threat to you
[00:15:05] and they must be removed. that is
[00:15:07] inherent in the in the entire ideology
[00:15:10] because it is rooted in the idea that
[00:15:12] the society is harming you and is
[00:15:14] genocidally denying you what you are in
[00:15:17] your deepest recesses of self if they
[00:15:19] don't go along with the nonsense that
[00:15:21] you're spewing. The shooter launched a
[00:15:24] horrifying attack, according to the New
[00:15:25] York Post, at a private residence in a
[00:15:27] remote community before continuing the
[00:15:28] carnage at a high school where
[00:15:29] authorities said he died of a
[00:15:31] self-inflicted gunshot wound.
[00:15:34] This person was known to authorities.
[00:15:36] Police had visited the family home
[00:15:37] several times over the years over
[00:15:39] concerns about mental health. But the
[00:15:42] beauty of this insane thought structure
[00:15:44] is that if you go there and you say,
[00:15:46] "Okay, this person has depression,
[00:15:47] suicidality, we can't connect it to, you
[00:15:50] know, the fact that the man is saying
[00:15:52] that he's a woman. We have to pretend
[00:15:53] these are two completely separate
[00:15:54] issues.
[00:15:56] In fact, we have to humor one part of
[00:15:58] the delusion while trying to clamp down
[00:16:00] on the depression and suicidal ideiation
[00:16:02] that result. Good luck with that.
[00:16:05] Firearms had been seized from the home,
[00:16:07] according to the New York Post, but the
[00:16:08] lawful owner successfully petitioned to
[00:16:10] have them returned.
[00:16:13] Six people were discovered dead inside
[00:16:15] the school. Roughly 25 others were
[00:16:17] wounded during the chaotic shooting.
[00:16:21] We have details about the family.
[00:16:24] Again, you want to talk about suicidal
[00:16:26] and homicidal empathy. A great example
[00:16:29] here is mom. So the mom of this person
[00:16:34] who
[00:16:35] described herself apparently
[00:16:39] as a conservativele leaning libertarian
[00:16:43] in July 2024 unleashed a profanityfueled
[00:16:46] rant on Instagram
[00:16:48] yelling at people who refused to
[00:16:52] acknowledge boys becoming girls.
[00:16:56] quote, "As a conservativeleaning
[00:16:58] libertarian who lives in the north and
[00:16:59] loves living in a small town, I really
[00:17:01] hope the hate I see online is just bored
[00:17:02] old people and not true hatred." And
[00:17:04] then she urged people to evolve and do
[00:17:06] better and educate yourself before
[00:17:08] spewing BS online. I normally don't say
[00:17:10] anything and I normally don't go on
[00:17:12] Bleep Book to see the keyboard warriors.
[00:17:13] And I know I can't control everything or
[00:17:15] shield my kids from everything, but
[00:17:16] please, for the love of F, can you get
[00:17:17] your bleep together so we don't have to
[00:17:19] bring our kids up in a world full of
[00:17:21] hatred? Do you have any idea how many
[00:17:23] kids are killing themselves over this
[00:17:24] kind of hate? Please stop the BS. She
[00:17:27] was one of the people murdered by her
[00:17:28] own son. So it turns out that the
[00:17:30] empathy
[00:17:32] materialized in treatment of her son as
[00:17:35] a quote unquote daughter. It did not in
[00:17:38] any way obviously alleviate the mental
[00:17:40] pain and suffering that this person was
[00:17:42] undergoing and she ended up the victim
[00:17:45] of her own empathy.
[00:17:48] This is not how sane and rational
[00:17:50] societies behave. This is bad adulting.
[00:17:54] Okay. It is bad adulting. Whether you
[00:17:56] are the mayor of New York or whether you
[00:17:57] are the mom of a person suffering from a
[00:17:59] mental illness, it is bad adulting to
[00:18:01] pretend that empathy
[00:18:03] is manifested in treating people who
[00:18:06] have delusions or mental illness as
[00:18:09] though they are acting perfectly
[00:18:10] normally and they ought to be given
[00:18:13] every quote unquote right to sleep on
[00:18:15] the streets in the freezing cold or they
[00:18:17] have a right from the rest of the world
[00:18:18] to be told that they are in fact a
[00:18:19] member of the opposite sex. it ends
[00:18:22] really, really, really badly. And
[00:18:24] meanwhile, in general news here in the
[00:18:27] United States,
[00:18:29] the economic reports continue to be very
[00:18:31] healthy coming out of the Trump
[00:18:32] administration. There's a lot of dispsy,
[00:18:35] as I've mentioned before, a lot of
[00:18:36] heartburn over the state of the economy.
[00:18:40] January's numbers, the jobs numbers were
[00:18:42] quite good. The reality is that it's
[00:18:44] happening kind of differently in
[00:18:45] different sectors. So if you look at the
[00:18:47] losers and winners in terms of change in
[00:18:49] payrolls 24 2024 2025 according to the
[00:18:51] Wall Street Journal the big winners in
[00:18:53] terms of payroll have been healthcare,
[00:18:56] leisure and hospitality.
[00:19:00] Government has actually increased. Trump
[00:19:02] has cut it a little bit but it increased
[00:19:04] pretty significantly in 2024 obviously.
[00:19:07] So the the areas of the market that have
[00:19:09] really been growing hand overfist are
[00:19:12] the healthcare areas of the market which
[00:19:13] is not a gigantic shock. Number one,
[00:19:15] because Americans are using more and
[00:19:17] more healthcare, but also because health
[00:19:20] care does require hands-on actual
[00:19:23] treatment of people. You're going to
[00:19:24] need more nurses. You need more doctors.
[00:19:25] It's an area where there's high demand
[00:19:27] and where AI can supplement, but it
[00:19:28] cannot replace. And so, you're going to
[00:19:30] see that increase, I would assume.
[00:19:33] However, all other private jobs sectors
[00:19:36] combined have actually shrunk according
[00:19:38] to the Wall Street Journal, which is why
[00:19:40] I think people are a little worried.
[00:19:43] According to the Wall Street Journal,
[00:19:44] the past year was lackluster for many
[00:19:46] white collar workers. The financial
[00:19:47] activities sector, which includes
[00:19:48] banking and insurance in January, had
[00:19:50] about 25,000 fewer jobs than a year
[00:19:52] earlier. Employment in the field, has
[00:19:54] been basically unchanged since 2024.
[00:19:57] Professional and business services
[00:19:58] sector fared worse, driven by a large
[00:20:00] decline in employment at temporary
[00:20:02] staffing agencies.
[00:20:04] You know, manufacturing payrolls since
[00:20:06] January 2024 have dropped by almost
[00:20:08] 300,000.
[00:20:10] The manufacturing sector again is being
[00:20:12] replaced by technology. It it is not
[00:20:14] going to come back simply as a result of
[00:20:17] tariff policy.
[00:20:20] When it comes to construction payrolls,
[00:20:22] those have been going up in
[00:20:23] non-residential areas. That would be AI
[00:20:25] data centers for example. Heavy
[00:20:27] construction, civil engineering, that is
[00:20:29] up. Residential has been down. That is
[00:20:32] because actually the rents are dropping.
[00:20:37] the unemployment rate has remained
[00:20:39] essentially stable.
[00:20:42] So, so this is why people are feeling a
[00:20:43] disconnect. The the economy continues to
[00:20:45] soar in terms of the stock market, but
[00:20:47] it is largely accreing to certain
[00:20:48] sectors of the job market. And while
[00:20:51] wages are generally rising, there's not
[00:20:53] a lot of turnover in the job market.
[00:20:55] People are basically keeping their jobs,
[00:20:56] they're not leaving their jobs and
[00:20:57] opening up new jobs or any of the rest.
[00:20:59] Now, President Trump seems to believe
[00:21:00] that some of this can be solved by
[00:21:02] injections of liquidity. This is the
[00:21:04] reason why he's pushing very hard for
[00:21:06] lower interest rates from the Federal
[00:21:07] Reserve. Here's President Trump talking
[00:21:09] about that.
[00:21:11] >> Every point is $600 billion. Think of
[00:21:15] that. $600 billion. All he has to do if
[00:21:19] we went down two points, we don't have a
[00:21:21] deficit anymore. And that's without
[00:21:23] cutting. And it's just a paper charge.
[00:21:25] When you think about it, it's a paper
[00:21:27] charge. We should be the lowest interest
[00:21:30] rate in the world.
[00:21:33] So he essentially would like for us to
[00:21:35] have a weaker dollar so that our deficit
[00:21:37] is not as large. That that essentially
[00:21:39] is the deal that he is attempting to
[00:21:40] make. Now it'll be interesting to see
[00:21:43] again what Kevin Walsh as the new
[00:21:45] selected Fed chair does once confirmed
[00:21:47] because he tends to agree with President
[00:21:49] Trump about lowering those interest
[00:21:50] rates but simultaneously he wants to
[00:21:52] sell off a bunch of assets owned by the
[00:21:54] Fed which is somewhat deflationary
[00:21:56] because it draws money back into the
[00:21:57] Federal Reserve. The case being made by
[00:22:00] Scott Bessant is that the goal here is
[00:22:01] to put the jobs into the private sector
[00:22:03] economy and and that is one of the
[00:22:05] things that's happening. You have seen
[00:22:06] very significant private sector job
[00:22:08] growth although again it is largely
[00:22:10] located in the healthcare sector overall
[00:22:11] over the course of the last year or so.
[00:22:14] >> Look this is what we've been setting the
[00:22:16] table for for all of 2025. I've said
[00:22:19] that repeatedly. We put the necessary
[00:22:22] ingredients uh policies into place and
[00:22:25] now they're starting to pay off. And
[00:22:27] what's more impressive here is the
[00:22:29] number that you just gave is the uh
[00:22:33] total jobs. There were more than 170,000
[00:22:36] private sector jobs and there were about
[00:22:38] there was about a 40,000 decrease in
[00:22:41] government jobs. So as I've been saying
[00:22:44] since we this administration came into
[00:22:46] office, we are reprivatizing the
[00:22:48] economy.
[00:22:50] >> That that is absolutely right. Now, one
[00:22:52] of the beautiful things about being a
[00:22:53] socialist, like say a Bernie Sanders, is
[00:22:55] that you can always rip on the state of
[00:22:57] the capitalist economy and pretend that
[00:22:59] you have a solution, even if your
[00:23:00] solution basically involves
[00:23:02] collectivizing all of the economy. It
[00:23:04] must be wonderful to be Bernie Sanders.
[00:23:06] He he has the intellect of a
[00:23:07] seven-year-old. Truly, he he stands
[00:23:09] around and he rails against things that
[00:23:10] he thinks are unfair cosmically about
[00:23:12] the universe without any real solutions
[00:23:14] to offer other than the government will
[00:23:16] solve it if you give us enough money.
[00:23:18] And um you know some somehow people
[00:23:20] resonate to this. I suppose
[00:23:23] >> uh you wonder whether Trump is
[00:23:24] completely crazy and delusional
[00:23:27] uh or just a pathological liar. But the
[00:23:31] idea that anybody would believe that
[00:23:33] this is a great economy when 60% of our
[00:23:37] people are living paycheck to paycheck
[00:23:40] when the cost of the health care is
[00:23:42] going up. People can't afford housing.
[00:23:45] Uh people can't afford their basic
[00:23:46] groceries. child care system is
[00:23:49] dysfunctional. People can't afford to go
[00:23:51] to college. And if this is the greatest
[00:23:53] economy in the history of the world, God
[00:23:55] help us.
[00:23:58] Well, I mean, what would he say was the
[00:24:00] greatest economy in the history of the
[00:24:01] world? Truly, like I I want a comp. He
[00:24:04] never has asked for that comp. It's
[00:24:06] always, you know, all the all the
[00:24:08] shortcomings that everyone feels. And of
[00:24:09] course, everyone feels it in their
[00:24:11] pocketbook.
[00:24:12] Everyone feels that costs are too high.
[00:24:14] There's never been a point across my
[00:24:15] entire life, and I've earned many
[00:24:17] different amounts of money in a given
[00:24:18] year, where I've said, "You know what?
[00:24:19] Things are really, really affordable."
[00:24:20] Until your income goes up dramatically.
[00:24:23] If you walk around to any middle class
[00:24:24] person, you say, "Are things wildly
[00:24:26] affordable right now?" The answer is no,
[00:24:28] because that because you're middle
[00:24:29] class. I mean, that's the way that it
[00:24:30] works.
[00:24:32] And realistically speaking, when you
[00:24:35] talk about self-reported figures of
[00:24:36] people feeling like they live paycheck
[00:24:38] to paycheck, it doesn't necessarily mean
[00:24:39] they are living paycheck to paycheck.
[00:24:40] Number one. But number two, the the the
[00:24:43] reality is that virtually for as long as
[00:24:46] we have data, a huge percentage of
[00:24:47] Americans have said that they live
[00:24:49] paycheck to paycheck.
[00:24:53] When it comes to hardship figures, you
[00:24:56] know, actual data, the number tends to
[00:24:57] drop. The Bank of America Institute, for
[00:25:00] example, found in 2024 that about 25% of
[00:25:04] households were living paycheck to
[00:25:06] paycheck.
[00:25:07] The Federal Reserve estimates that it's
[00:25:09] 37 to 40% of people who are living pay.
[00:25:11] Again, these are not wonderful. There
[00:25:12] could be better numbers, you would
[00:25:13] assume, but Bernie Sanders sort of
[00:25:16] claiming that the economy is somehow
[00:25:18] down in the dumps when you have a 4.3%
[00:25:20] unemployment rate. Dow Jones Industrial
[00:25:22] Average over 50,000 and rising wages,
[00:25:25] like real rising wages under President
[00:25:28] Trump and the inflation rate down at 2
[00:25:31] and a half, 3%. It's a pretty good
[00:25:33] economy historically speaking. So if the
[00:25:35] economic numbers are so solid, then then
[00:25:38] why are people feeling so bad about them
[00:25:41] and they are feeling bad about them? I
[00:25:42] mean that just is the reality. According
[00:25:44] to Axios, one year in, President Trump
[00:25:47] has squandered a bunch of political
[00:25:49] advantages.
[00:25:50] Apparently a new Harvard Caps poll shows
[00:25:54] that 51% of registered voters say Trump
[00:25:56] is doing a worse job than Biden.
[00:25:58] According to Rasmusen, 48% of likely
[00:26:01] voters say Biden did a better job
[00:26:02] compared with 40% who chose Trump.
[00:26:04] According to Yuggov, 46% of US adults
[00:26:07] say Trump is doing a worse job than
[00:26:08] Biden, compared with 40% who saying that
[00:26:10] he is doing better and another seven who
[00:26:12] say he's doing about the same. Those are
[00:26:14] not resounding numbers for President
[00:26:16] Trump. Obviously, when it comes to
[00:26:18] issues including immigration and on
[00:26:20] economy, he has lost some serious steam.
[00:26:22] His net approval on the economy is at
[00:26:25] minus 18, which is 26 points lower than
[00:26:27] it was at this point in his first term.
[00:26:29] And young voters have moved away from
[00:26:31] Trump in large numbers. Yuggov polls
[00:26:33] show that Trump is at negative -42 among
[00:26:36] 18 to 29 year olds. That is a 51 point
[00:26:38] swing from his plus nine at the start of
[00:26:40] the presidency. So what exactly is going
[00:26:43] on? Well, I will theorize that one of
[00:26:45] the things that is going on is that what
[00:26:47] people actually want at this point, it
[00:26:48] has been many years in American politics
[00:26:50] since we've had any level of quietude
[00:26:53] truly.
[00:26:55] I I said in 2024 that Trump's victory
[00:26:58] was the normie revolution. It was people
[00:26:59] looking at Joe Biden and saying none of
[00:27:01] this is actually normal. You have a
[00:27:03] brain dead president who is promoting
[00:27:04] extraordinarily radical policies and
[00:27:06] then he's replaced at the last minute by
[00:27:09] another befuddled politician who is only
[00:27:12] there because she was elected for
[00:27:13] certain pre-existing characteristics and
[00:27:16] then she is pledging more radicalism. We
[00:27:18] don't need any of that. What we need is
[00:27:20] sort of the normie middle just like a
[00:27:21] normie policy president. And the thing
[00:27:24] that's happened with President Trump is
[00:27:26] in many areas he has delivered a normie
[00:27:28] policy and in some areas and these are
[00:27:30] the areas where he is the most loud he's
[00:27:32] delivered very not normmy policy. So I
[00:27:34] think that you know regardless of how
[00:27:36] you think the tariffs have gone and and
[00:27:37] I think it's pretty obvious that tariffs
[00:27:39] have not done nearly the amount of
[00:27:40] damage to the American economy that I
[00:27:42] for one thought they might do. And maybe
[00:27:44] that bleeds in, maybe it doesn't. But so
[00:27:46] far, President Trump's tariff policy,
[00:27:48] while not fulfilling the promises that
[00:27:50] he suggested that it would make, it
[00:27:52] hasn't brought back manufacturing by
[00:27:53] leaps and bounds, for example. His
[00:27:55] tariff policy hasn't created the
[00:27:57] economy, clearly, but that is also the
[00:28:00] thing that he talks the most about. He
[00:28:02] talks about it incessantly, and it also
[00:28:04] happens to be the area of his economic
[00:28:06] program that is the most unpopular by
[00:28:08] the polls. So when President Trump
[00:28:10] suggests that he is raising
[00:28:12] Switzerland's tariffs because for
[00:28:14] example he just doesn't like how they
[00:28:15] talk to him that is not the sort of
[00:28:17] solid normal quiescent presidency that I
[00:28:20] think people are actually looking for.
[00:28:22] They just want the good policy and and
[00:28:24] they don't want the feeling of chaos.
[00:28:27] So I put on a 30% tariff which is very
[00:28:31] low. Still we were having a big deficit
[00:28:33] but it was half the deficit. Then I got
[00:28:36] an emergency call from I believe the
[00:28:39] prime minister of Switzerland and she
[00:28:41] was very aggressive but nice but very
[00:28:43] aggressive. Sir, we are a small country.
[00:28:46] We can't do this. We can't do this. We
[00:28:48] are I couldn't get her off the phone. We
[00:28:50] are a small country. I said you may be a
[00:28:53] small country but we have a $42 billion
[00:28:56] deficit with you. No, no, we are a small
[00:28:58] country again and again and again. I
[00:29:00] couldn't get off the phone. So it was at
[00:29:02] 30%.
[00:29:04] and I didn't really like the way she
[00:29:05] talked to us. And so instead of giving
[00:29:09] her a reduction, I raised it to 39%.
[00:29:13] And then they I got inundated by people
[00:29:17] from Switzerland. And I figured, you
[00:29:19] know what, we'll do something that's a
[00:29:21] little bit more palatable at least now.
[00:29:25] I mean this sort of vacasillating
[00:29:26] variable policy based on how he feels
[00:29:28] about a particular nation's leader at a
[00:29:30] particular time that is not the sort of
[00:29:32] sort of solid steady leadership that
[00:29:34] Americans are looking for in a time
[00:29:35] that's very chaotic. We have a very
[00:29:36] chaotic time again a lot of the policy
[00:29:38] coming out of the administration is
[00:29:40] excellent but if it's retailed as up and
[00:29:42] down and all around people are going to
[00:29:44] feel a little bit unbalanced
[00:29:47] that that is not the way that you retail
[00:29:48] this policy which brings us to Pam
[00:29:50] Bondi. So yesterday, the attorney
[00:29:53] general of the United States, who I
[00:29:55] think has done truly a poor job as the
[00:29:56] attorney general, I think that her
[00:29:58] victories have been limited and her and
[00:29:59] her losses have been many and myriad on
[00:30:02] a PR level, most obviously with regard
[00:30:05] to the Epstein files and and the roll
[00:30:06] out of the Jeffrey Epstein case. I said
[00:30:09] this from literally the day that they
[00:30:10] did this that the roll out of the of the
[00:30:12] announcement there would be no further
[00:30:14] prosecutions in the Epstein case and
[00:30:15] that there was no foreign intelligence
[00:30:18] intervention and and that there's no
[00:30:20] evidence that he was trafficking minors
[00:30:22] to other people that you can't just put
[00:30:24] that out as a as a written statement on
[00:30:27] a random day and not explain that to the
[00:30:30] American people after all the rumors
[00:30:31] fostered by many in the administration.
[00:30:33] You can't do that. You actually owe it
[00:30:35] to the American people to be
[00:30:36] transparent. So what they did is they
[00:30:38] were very non-transparent at the
[00:30:39] beginning about their thought process
[00:30:41] and then over time the pressure built
[00:30:42] and then they basically just vomited
[00:30:44] into the public view millions of
[00:30:45] documents leading to the crowdsourcing
[00:30:48] of terrible ideas and all of that blew
[00:30:50] up onto the internet. Some of the
[00:30:52] information that came out I think is is
[00:30:53] fascinating and interesting. We've
[00:30:54] talked about that with regard to again
[00:30:56] some of the people in the British
[00:30:58] government. We talked about it with
[00:30:59] regard to Steve Bannon. And that they're
[00:31:00] a bunch of figures who are mentioned.
[00:31:01] And it's interesting, but it also has
[00:31:04] meant the revealing, for example, of
[00:31:06] some of the alleged victim's names. It
[00:31:08] has led to the revealing of people's
[00:31:10] names who are not actually accused of a
[00:31:12] crime. And it has led to the crowd
[00:31:14] sourcing of pretty much every tip in
[00:31:16] there. And a lot of those tips are
[00:31:17] trash. Like truly trash.
[00:31:20] So Pam Bondi appeared on the Hill
[00:31:23] yesterday.
[00:31:25] She showed up in front of the House
[00:31:27] Judiciary Committee
[00:31:29] and Democrats went after her largely a
[00:31:31] few Republicans went after her as well.
[00:31:34] And the reason that this is not good for
[00:31:36] the Trump administration is because
[00:31:37] again what you need it's true for
[00:31:38] immigration policy as well. You know
[00:31:40] what was really bad? Christine Gnome's
[00:31:41] roll out of our immigration policy
[00:31:44] very very bad. Our immigration policy as
[00:31:46] a country under the president is to
[00:31:48] deport criminal illegal immigrants and
[00:31:50] shut the border. And Christine Gnome was
[00:31:53] flying on down to El Salvador to tour
[00:31:55] detention facilities wearing a cowboy
[00:31:56] hat and tailored clothing and it just
[00:31:59] like we don't need that. You need Tom
[00:32:01] Holman in there calmly explaining how
[00:32:03] policy works when it comes to the
[00:32:05] economy. You don't need Howard Lutnick
[00:32:07] the commerce secretary on TV talking
[00:32:08] about how we are going to solve the
[00:32:10] entire national debt with tariffs. You
[00:32:11] need Scott Bessant, a calm and collected
[00:32:13] presence to to actually explain how the
[00:32:15] economy works to people. And when it
[00:32:17] comes to the law and the effectuation of
[00:32:18] the law, you need a calm presence to
[00:32:21] explain how the law is being impartially
[00:32:24] implemented equal justice before the law
[00:32:26] and why you make the decisions you're
[00:32:28] making. What you don't need is
[00:32:31] performative TV theatrics that are
[00:32:33] almost certainly designed to earn more
[00:32:37] kudos from the president who watches
[00:32:39] these sorts of hearings and looks for
[00:32:40] the clips. And the more militant you
[00:32:42] are, particularly if you are are
[00:32:43] praiseworthy of President Trump, the
[00:32:44] more President Trump likes that. That
[00:32:46] might help President Trump and it might
[00:32:47] help his cabinet officials who are
[00:32:49] managing up with him, but it doesn't
[00:32:50] help the Trump administration as a whole
[00:32:52] with the broader American public.
[00:32:55] Now again, not everything that Pam Bondi
[00:32:57] said is wrong. I think some of the
[00:32:59] things she said were right, but as per
[00:33:02] usual arrangements, many of the things
[00:33:03] that were right were obscured by the
[00:33:05] things that were wrong. So there was a
[00:33:06] bit of good Bondie, bad Bondi going on
[00:33:07] yesterday. So Pam Bondi was asked about
[00:33:10] the idea that Trump was was covering
[00:33:11] things up with regard to the Epstein
[00:33:13] case. and she said, "President Trump has
[00:33:15] been the most transparent president in
[00:33:16] history, vomiting out all this
[00:33:18] information in the public." That that is
[00:33:19] true.
[00:33:22] >> The American people need to know this.
[00:33:24] They are talking about Epstein today.
[00:33:27] This has been around since the Obama
[00:33:29] administration. This administration
[00:33:32] released over 3 million pages of
[00:33:35] documents. Over three million. And
[00:33:38] Donald Trump signed that law to release
[00:33:41] all of those documents. He is the most
[00:33:45] transparent president in the nation's
[00:33:48] history.
[00:33:50] >> Now again, I don't know that he's the
[00:33:52] most transparent president in all of
[00:33:53] American history. Although there's a
[00:33:54] case to be made that that given the fact
[00:33:56] that his thoughts are constantly in the
[00:33:57] public view and he talks to the press
[00:33:59] all the time that that's that that's the
[00:34:00] case. The manner that she says this
[00:34:03] stuff matters. However, remember when I
[00:34:05] said calm and cool and collected, making
[00:34:08] people feel a sense of steadiness.
[00:34:11] uh that that is not what what is
[00:34:12] happening right there. So even the
[00:34:14] content that she's delivering that I
[00:34:16] think is is largely true is being
[00:34:17] delivered in a a non useful fashion, a
[00:34:20] non-utilitarian fashion. Representative
[00:34:23] Jerry Nadler who is again I I've
[00:34:24] appeared in front of this committee. I
[00:34:26] mean I I I know a lot of the people on
[00:34:27] this committee represent Jerry Nadler
[00:34:30] was going after her on Russia and she
[00:34:32] went after him on the Russian collusion
[00:34:34] hoax. And again what she's saying here
[00:34:36] is not wrong. It's just that the way she
[00:34:38] says it is so performative that it sort
[00:34:39] of undercuts the point she's making.
[00:34:43] >> First, he brought up the president
[00:34:45] saying they indicted me twice. They sure
[00:34:48] did. They tried to impeach him twice.
[00:34:50] And you, Mr. Nadler, were one of the
[00:34:52] leads on the impeachment. I was on the
[00:34:54] other side. I lived that with you.
[00:34:56] During impeachment, you said the
[00:34:58] president conspired, sought foreign
[00:35:01] interference in the 2016 election.
[00:35:04] Robert Mueller found no evidence, none,
[00:35:07] of foreign interference in 2016. Have
[00:35:10] you apologized to President Trump? Have
[00:35:13] you apologized to President Trump? All
[00:35:16] of you who participated in those
[00:35:17] impeachment hearings against Donald
[00:35:19] Trump. You all should be apologizing.
[00:35:24] >> Again, performative, performative,
[00:35:26] performative.
[00:35:27] I I don't disagree with the stuff she's
[00:35:28] saying, but the performative nature of
[00:35:31] it does not make the American people
[00:35:32] feel as though there is a professional
[00:35:33] in charge of the Justice Department.
[00:35:37] So, Eric Swallwell questioned her. Eric
[00:35:40] Swallwell, man, that dude, the the
[00:35:42] representative from California who wants
[00:35:43] to run for governor over there. He uh he
[00:35:46] asked her about political violence and
[00:35:47] here was her response.
[00:35:50] >> Congressman, I completely agree with
[00:35:52] you. Uh I I know about several of those
[00:35:55] personally involving you. Um I believe
[00:35:59] one has been charged publicly and
[00:36:02] there's something I would be happy to
[00:36:04] talk to you about um off camera. Um but
[00:36:07] I can assure you that they are very
[00:36:09] serious. They are being looked into and
[00:36:12] I I can give you more details on those.
[00:36:15] None of you should be threatened ever.
[00:36:17] None of your children should be
[00:36:19] threatened. None of your families should
[00:36:21] be threatened and I will work with you
[00:36:24] can come into my office any day. I will
[00:36:26] work with all of you on both sides of
[00:36:28] the aisle if you are ever threatened and
[00:36:30] and I would gladly talk to you after
[00:36:33] this hearing about your cases.
[00:36:36] >> Okay. So again, this is actually like
[00:36:37] the high point of her testimony. Then we
[00:36:39] got to the stuff that was really the
[00:36:40] problem. So, as I said before, when it
[00:36:43] came to the revelation of what exactly
[00:36:45] the DOJ was doing on Epstein, I I know
[00:36:48] for a fact from people who were in the
[00:36:49] DOJ at the time, there needed to be the
[00:36:51] DOJ, the FBI, there needed to be a
[00:36:54] fullscale explanation with full Q&A with
[00:36:57] the revelation of particular documents
[00:36:59] to demonstrate why the DOJ was doing
[00:37:00] what it was doing. That's a thing that
[00:37:02] needed to happen.
[00:37:04] So, when you show up, you should at
[00:37:06] least be able to do that in sort of a
[00:37:08] calm, collected fashion. This is again
[00:37:10] why I think that William Bar who was AG
[00:37:11] under President Trump the first time
[00:37:13] Bill Bar was a very good AG. I do not
[00:37:15] think the same of Pam Bondi. I do not
[00:37:17] think she's good at her job. So here is
[00:37:19] Pam Bondi. This this was the most
[00:37:21] awkward moment by far. So she was was
[00:37:25] asked about Epstein and she promptly
[00:37:28] started doing a cable news spot about
[00:37:32] how no one should ever mention Epste
[00:37:33] again. should only talk about the stock
[00:37:35] market which listen I generally agree
[00:37:38] that that the coverage of Epstein given
[00:37:40] the evidence that we have far exceeds
[00:37:43] the claims made about Epste exceed the
[00:37:45] evidence that we have and thus the
[00:37:46] coverage of Epstein far exceeds the the
[00:37:49] actual evidentiary claims.
[00:37:53] With that said, I'm not sure the
[00:37:55] attorney general's job is to go out
[00:37:56] there and be like, why are you even
[00:37:58] covering this? It's the Dow Jones is
[00:37:59] doing great. This was not great here.
[00:38:02] Not great at all, Bob.
[00:38:04] The Dow right now is over The Dow is
[00:38:08] over $50,000. I don't know why you're
[00:38:11] laughing. You're a great stock trader as
[00:38:12] I hear Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000
[00:38:17] right now. The S&P at almost $7,000
[00:38:21] and the NASDAQ smashing records.
[00:38:24] Americans 401ks and retirement savings
[00:38:28] are booming. That's what we should be
[00:38:31] talking about. We should be talking
[00:38:33] about making Americans safe. We should
[00:38:36] be talking about what does a DAO have to
[00:38:38] do with anything? That's what they just
[00:38:39] asked. Are you kidding?
[00:38:43] I mean, it's kind of a good question. I
[00:38:46] mean, she was being asked question. I
[00:38:48] mean, what? That's not a crazy question.
[00:38:49] What does the Dow have to do with
[00:38:50] anything? I mean, it has some I mean,
[00:38:52] like with Epstein, not a ton, actually.
[00:38:57] as as it turns out. Again, not not not a
[00:38:59] good showing by the attorney general.
[00:39:01] She went up against Thomas Massie.
[00:39:03] Listen, I think Thomas Massie has been
[00:39:04] grandstanding on this. I think that
[00:39:05] Thomas Massie believes and has
[00:39:07] propagated stories about the Epstein
[00:39:10] evidence that that go well beyond what
[00:39:12] the facts show at this point.
[00:39:15] Still, I don't think she did a great job
[00:39:17] handling him. She suggested that Massie
[00:39:18] has Trump derangement syndrome, which
[00:39:20] again, I don't think she's wrong. It's
[00:39:22] just this is not particularly useful.
[00:39:25] Within 40 minutes, you asked me a
[00:39:28] question. Within 40 minutes, Wexner's
[00:39:31] name was added back.
[00:39:32] >> Within 40 minutes of me catching you
[00:39:34] redhanded.
[00:39:35] >> Red hand. [laughter] There was one
[00:39:37] redaction where he's listed as a coach
[00:39:41] and we invited you in. We This guy has
[00:39:44] Trump derangement syndrome. He needs to
[00:39:46] get You're a failed politician.
[00:39:49] I want you to watch. Mr. Chairman,
[00:39:50] please restore his time.
[00:39:54] >> Okay. So again, like I think that she's
[00:39:57] actually right on this and I think that
[00:39:58] Massie is wrong on this, but there's a
[00:40:01] good way to do this and there's a bad
[00:40:02] way to do this and she was not doing
[00:40:04] this the the the good way. Jamie Raskin,
[00:40:05] I think, is one of the most scalless
[00:40:07] members of Congress. The congressman
[00:40:09] from Maryland, he went after Pam Bondi,
[00:40:11] but it turned into her just saying that
[00:40:13] she was a a washed up loser. Like, who
[00:40:17] are you winning over? Who's the audience
[00:40:19] for this? The audience is the base. I
[00:40:20] get it. The audience is President Trump.
[00:40:22] I get it. But if again the thing that
[00:40:25] the Trump administration is seeking
[00:40:26] right now is a feeling of quiet, steady
[00:40:30] success, which is the thing that you
[00:40:31] need in a second term if you wish to
[00:40:33] have a successor who wins a third.
[00:40:36] This is not the stuff that's going to
[00:40:37] get it done.
[00:40:39] >> You can let her filibuster all day long,
[00:40:41] but not on our watch.
[00:40:43] >> Not on our time. No way. And I told you
[00:40:45] about that, Attorney General, before you
[00:40:47] started.
[00:40:47] >> You don't tell me.
[00:40:48] >> Oh, I did tell you because we saw what
[00:40:50] you did in the Senate. You're a lawyer.
[00:40:52] Not even a lawyer.
[00:40:55] >> Yeah. I think this this just goes to my
[00:40:56] general point here, folks. Open
[00:40:58] congressional hearings are the dumbest
[00:41:00] thing in the world. They're truly
[00:41:01] stupid. Nothing happens of any value
[00:41:03] other than political gamesmanship,
[00:41:06] opportunism, and all the rest. Well,
[00:41:08] there was one headline that emerged from
[00:41:12] all of this, aside from from the
[00:41:13] attorney general's behavior, and that
[00:41:15] was apparently there was a photo of a
[00:41:16] black binder that Bondi had at the
[00:41:18] hearing showing the words Jiaipal
[00:41:20] Primila search history with a list of
[00:41:23] documents whose numbers coincided with
[00:41:25] the number of Epstein files.
[00:41:28] So, what it looks like right there, what
[00:41:30] Jipal is accusing her of is having a
[00:41:33] burn book that held a printed search
[00:41:35] history of exactly what emails she
[00:41:37] searched.
[00:41:39] I mean, obviously not not a great look.
[00:41:41] I'm not sure exactly why the DOJ should
[00:41:45] be monitoring Congress people as they go
[00:41:48] through the the Epstein files or the
[00:41:50] documents. That doesn't seem like a a
[00:41:52] smart thing to do. The DOJ did not
[00:41:55] immediately respond to CNBC when asked
[00:41:57] if Bondie had a print out of the
[00:41:58] congresswoman's search history, why she
[00:42:00] had it, or if the DOJ kept track of
[00:42:01] searches by other members of Congress.
[00:42:02] But again, this is another area where
[00:42:05] the the alleged cover up or the
[00:42:07] purported cover up or the dumb behavior
[00:42:09] of members of the administration is
[00:42:11] significantly worse than the thing that
[00:42:12] they are supposedly covering up. They've
[00:42:15] revealed 3.5 million pages of documents
[00:42:18] into the public view and they're still
[00:42:20] being accused of coverups because again
[00:42:22] of the the poor baery that is the PR
[00:42:25] roll out and and that goes to the
[00:42:26] professionalism of some of the people in
[00:42:28] charge of particular agencies. Joining
[00:42:31] me on the line to discuss the latest on
[00:42:32] the economy is Professor Jason Ferman,
[00:42:34] Harvard professor of economics.
[00:42:36] Professor Ferman, thanks so much for the
[00:42:37] time. Really appreciate it.
[00:42:39] >> Great to be with you.
[00:42:41] So, why don't we start with the obvious?
[00:42:43] The economic numbers that are coming out
[00:42:44] right now appear to be pretty good. I
[00:42:46] mean, we we obviously have a 4.3%
[00:42:48] unemployment rate. We had a pretty good
[00:42:49] jobs report in January. The revisions
[00:42:51] down from last year, you know, basically
[00:42:53] mean that that hiring was was flat, but
[00:42:55] it certainly didn't decline. And real
[00:42:57] wages seem to be going up, but American
[00:42:59] dispsia about the economy is very, very
[00:43:02] high right now. Where do you think the
[00:43:03] disconnect is? And and what could the
[00:43:05] Trump administration theoretically do to
[00:43:06] reverse that?
[00:43:08] Yeah, I don't know exactly where the
[00:43:10] disconnect is coming from. If you look,
[00:43:13] um, wages are outpacing inflation by
[00:43:16] about one to one and a half percentage
[00:43:18] points. That's been true for a couple
[00:43:20] years now. Um, the unemployment rate has
[00:43:23] basically stabilized. Overall economic
[00:43:26] growth is very good. I do think people
[00:43:28] at the very top are doing even better
[00:43:30] than people in the middle. Um, but
[00:43:32] people in the middle are doing better
[00:43:34] than they were um, a year ago.
[00:43:38] So when you look at what President Trump
[00:43:40] has has been talking about doing, a lot
[00:43:42] of it is is sort of for show. I mean,
[00:43:44] he's talking about, you know, freezing
[00:43:46] credit card rates, which he can't do
[00:43:47] unilaterally from the White House, or
[00:43:49] when he's talking about borrowing
[00:43:50] corporations from buying single family
[00:43:51] homes. None of this is actually going to
[00:43:53] change systemically the direction of the
[00:43:55] economy, just as tariffs were unable to
[00:43:57] change the directionality with regard to
[00:43:59] manufacturing jobs in in the United
[00:44:01] States.
[00:44:02] Some of the things that that I think are
[00:44:04] are weighing here are the general
[00:44:06] American nervousness about AI and also
[00:44:09] the fact that the president talks so
[00:44:10] extensively about some of the least
[00:44:12] popular things in his platform like
[00:44:14] tariffs. You know, let's start with AI
[00:44:16] there. There there's a lot of worry
[00:44:18] about what AI is going to do to jobs
[00:44:19] markets. Pretty much every college
[00:44:20] graduate that I know is is worried about
[00:44:22] what the job market will look like when
[00:44:23] they get out. I think there are a lot of
[00:44:25] white collar people who are worried that
[00:44:26] AI is going to wipe out their job. what
[00:44:27] do you think about where where we are
[00:44:29] going with the jobs market and AI as
[00:44:31] productivity increases?
[00:44:34] >> Yeah. So, first of all, um I absolutely
[00:44:36] agree with you. Every college student I
[00:44:38] talk to is either terrified about AI,
[00:44:41] thrilled about AI, or often some
[00:44:43] combination of the two. So far, it
[00:44:47] doesn't appear to have taken a lot of
[00:44:49] jobs. And so far, it doesn't appear to
[00:44:51] be showing up very much um in
[00:44:53] productivity growth. In fact, the main
[00:44:55] way it's showing up in the jobs numbers
[00:44:57] is the people being hired to build data
[00:45:00] centers to run um these models. But I do
[00:45:03] think that that's going to change um in
[00:45:05] the coming years. And just really big
[00:45:07] question that no one knows the answer to
[00:45:08] is to what degree does it complement
[00:45:10] people's skills and enable them to be
[00:45:12] better workers and paid more or
[00:45:14] substitute for those skills and lead
[00:45:16] them to be, you know, more dispensable
[00:45:19] um and paid less. Historically,
[00:45:21] technology was much more about
[00:45:22] complimenting and raising wages. I'd
[00:45:25] place a soft bet on that for AI too, but
[00:45:28] with a huge amount of uncertainty and
[00:45:30] and a certain amount of dread about the
[00:45:32] downside here.
[00:45:34] So to go back to sort of the second
[00:45:36] point that I was making with regard to
[00:45:37] tariffs, it seems to me that one of the
[00:45:39] problems is that that President Trump
[00:45:41] actually himself expresses a fair bit of
[00:45:43] upset at various factors in the economy
[00:45:46] up to including his attacks on for
[00:45:47] example Jerome Powell and and his open
[00:45:50] statements that he wants the interest
[00:45:51] rate lowered which seems to again
[00:45:53] express that there's lack of liquidity
[00:45:54] in the economy which I I really don't
[00:45:56] think is is the case right now. I don't
[00:45:57] think that the problem is liquidity. I
[00:45:58] think the problem is if there is a
[00:46:00] problem is sort of uncertainty. It seems
[00:46:02] like all all of the investors that that
[00:46:04] I know have been stacking their
[00:46:05] investments at the top end of the
[00:46:07] market. The Mag 7 have been growing by
[00:46:09] leaps and bounds. The rest of the market
[00:46:10] is is up, but but certainly not by that
[00:46:13] same that same sort of margin. What do
[00:46:15] you think the president could be doing
[00:46:17] differently in terms of PR, how he
[00:46:18] addresses these issues?
[00:46:20] >> Yeah. Look, I mean, we' said that the
[00:46:22] economy is getting better for most
[00:46:24] people. The question though is would it
[00:46:27] be doing even better but for President
[00:46:29] Trump? And when it comes to the tariffs,
[00:46:31] I think that is certainly true. Prices
[00:46:34] are probably about a half a point, maybe
[00:46:36] even a percent higher than they
[00:46:38] otherwise would be because of the
[00:46:40] tariffs. Um economic growth would be
[00:46:42] even better um were it not for the
[00:46:44] tariffs. And in some sense, I think the
[00:46:46] president understands this because when
[00:46:48] it comes to certain politically
[00:46:50] sensitive ideas, he's taken the tariffs
[00:46:52] off of it. Um you know, things like
[00:46:53] coffee, he's taken the tariffs off. He's
[00:46:55] tried to reduce them on other countries.
[00:46:57] He's delayed some of the tariffs on
[00:46:59] furniture. So if tariffs are so good and
[00:47:01] if they're being paid by foreign
[00:47:03] countries, why would we be dropping them
[00:47:06] on certain sensitive consumer goods, but
[00:47:08] we need to drop them on, you know,
[00:47:10] everything. And then, as you said,
[00:47:12] they're not even achieving one of the
[00:47:14] goals they had, which is to add
[00:47:15] manufacturing jobs. We've lost jobs
[00:47:17] almost every month since Liberation Day.
[00:47:20] And you know, in part that's because
[00:47:23] we're raising the price of steel. That's
[00:47:25] not good for American automakers.
[00:47:28] So, one of the things the president is
[00:47:29] also focused on is weakening the dollar.
[00:47:31] So, he he's talked a lot about lowering
[00:47:33] the interest rates. He he's saying
[00:47:34] openly that he thinks a weak dollar will
[00:47:36] be good in terms of rectifying deficits.
[00:47:38] What do you make of the case that that
[00:47:40] he's that he's pushing for the weaker
[00:47:41] dollar?
[00:47:43] >> You know, here I actually don't mind so
[00:47:45] much. The dollar has still been at the
[00:47:48] strong end of its historical range for
[00:47:50] the last couple years. Even with the
[00:47:52] weakening we've seen, it's still on the
[00:47:54] relatively strong side. Um, so I don't
[00:47:56] think it's so bad. I do think it
[00:47:58] actually might be politically harmful to
[00:48:00] him. So I think he might be making a
[00:48:01] political mistake because a weaker
[00:48:03] dollar makes it more expensive for
[00:48:05] Americans to buy stuff. Historically,
[00:48:07] you look at other countries, governments
[00:48:08] are can even be toppled when their
[00:48:10] currency weakens um too much. But for
[00:48:13] the long run rebalancing of the of the
[00:48:16] US economy, it may not be so bad.
[00:48:19] >> And one of the other things that has
[00:48:20] come up a lot here is his pick of Kevin
[00:48:22] Walsh as as Fed chair. Kevin Walsh has
[00:48:24] some very interesting theories about
[00:48:26] exactly what the Federal Reserve should
[00:48:28] do. On the one hand, he wants to offload
[00:48:29] a bunch of assets uh that that the
[00:48:31] Federal Reserve he thinks is
[00:48:32] overinvested into. I tend to agree. And
[00:48:34] then he wants to at the same time lower
[00:48:36] the interest rates in order to present
[00:48:38] more liquid opportunities for for banks
[00:48:40] and and financial institutions. What do
[00:48:42] you make of that that sort of strategy?
[00:48:44] And and what do you think of Worsh as a
[00:48:45] as pick for Fed chair?
[00:48:48] >> So, I I'm happy about the Worsh pick. He
[00:48:50] should be confirmed. He's smart. I
[00:48:52] believe he'll be independent. Um, that
[00:48:55] being said, I plan to handle him the
[00:48:57] same way I've handled the Fed, which is
[00:48:58] respectfully to disagree when I disagree
[00:49:00] and explain what I disagree about. Um,
[00:49:02] in particular, his desire, as you just
[00:49:05] said, to dramatically shrink the balance
[00:49:07] sheet, would mean selling off um, a lot
[00:49:10] of the bonds the Fed holds that would
[00:49:12] drive up mortgage interest rates. Um, I
[00:49:14] don't think we need dramatic interest
[00:49:16] rate cuts in our economy, but I don't
[00:49:17] think we need dramatic interest rate
[00:49:19] increases either. Um my guess is in the
[00:49:22] seed he'll end up being pragmatic and
[00:49:24] some of the ideas that make less sense
[00:49:26] like that one will end up being um you
[00:49:29] know facing reality and being
[00:49:31] dramatically scaled back when you see
[00:49:32] what the data says. Um but to me that's
[00:49:35] going to be the most important test for
[00:49:36] Worsh. Two most important tests. One is
[00:49:38] is he independent and two can he change
[00:49:41] his mind when the data um changes.
[00:49:45] I mean his theory there is pretty
[00:49:46] interesting which is basically that the
[00:49:47] the United States government is
[00:49:49] overinvested in in particular areas like
[00:49:51] for example the mortgage market and that
[00:49:53] it would be better if the private sector
[00:49:54] were to we should shift essentially the
[00:49:57] air in the balloon over to the private
[00:49:58] sector and away from public investment
[00:50:00] in its own bonds. Uh what do you make of
[00:50:02] the actual generalized theory there?
[00:50:05] >> There's a lot of people in financial
[00:50:06] markets that think that and a lot of
[00:50:08] economists uh disagree with that and I
[00:50:10] guess I'm uh part of my tribe on this
[00:50:12] one. and I'll be with the economists,
[00:50:14] which is I don't think it's distorting
[00:50:18] the market that much. The market
[00:50:20] basically wants interest rates to be
[00:50:22] where they are now. That's roughly
[00:50:24] what's balancing supply and demand,
[00:50:26] roughly consistent with the inflation
[00:50:28] rate um that we want. And if the Fed
[00:50:31] dramatically sold off a lot of these
[00:50:33] assets, we'd get interest rates in a
[00:50:35] place um we'd rather not have them. Um
[00:50:37] the other thing to understand is the Fed
[00:50:38] has a lot of assets, but it also has a
[00:50:41] equal set of liabilities. Those
[00:50:42] liabilities are bank deposits with the
[00:50:45] Fed. They're called reserves. And that
[00:50:47] adds a lot of liquidity and safety to
[00:50:49] the system that wasn't there before the
[00:50:51] financial crisis. And I think is
[00:50:52] actually a good thing um to have.
[00:50:57] Well, that's Professor Jason Ferman,
[00:50:58] Harvard professor of economics. You can
[00:51:00] check his work out via his ex account
[00:51:02] and also in various publications ranging
[00:51:04] from the Free Press to the New York
[00:51:06] Times. Professor Ferman, thanks so much
[00:51:07] for the time and insight.
[00:51:09] >> Thank you. In cultural news, James
[00:51:11] Vanderbeek, who many people of my
[00:51:13] generation know of course from from
[00:51:15] Dawson's Creek, he died on Wednesday at
[00:51:18] the age of 48. Apparently, there's a
[00:51:21] GoFundMe page up for his family. He had
[00:51:24] six kids with his wife Kimberly
[00:51:26] Vanderbeek. He had financial
[00:51:28] difficulties because of the cost of
[00:51:29] coverage with regard to the the stage
[00:51:32] three colurectal cancer that that he was
[00:51:34] diagnosed with.
[00:51:36] It's truly a sad story. He put out a
[00:51:38] video March 8th, 2025 talking about what
[00:51:42] it means to be a human being looking
[00:51:44] death right in the face. It's actually
[00:51:45] quite moving. I wanted to play it.
[00:51:49] Today's my birthday [clears throat] and
[00:51:51] it has been the hardest year of my life.
[00:51:54] And I wanted to share something that I
[00:51:57] learned with y'all. Um, when I was
[00:51:59] younger, I used to define myself as an
[00:52:02] actor, right?
[00:52:04] Which it was never really all that
[00:52:07] fulfilling. And then I became a husband
[00:52:08] and that was much better. And then I
[00:52:09] became a father and that was the
[00:52:12] ultimate. I could define myself then as
[00:52:14] a a loving,
[00:52:16] capable, strong, supportive husband,
[00:52:20] father, provider, steward of the land
[00:52:23] that we're so lucky to live on. And for
[00:52:25] a long time, that felt like a really
[00:52:27] good definition to the question, you
[00:52:28] know, who who am I? What am I?
[00:52:32] And then this year, I
[00:52:36] had to look [clears throat] my own
[00:52:37] mortality in the eye.
[00:52:39] I had to come nose to nose with death.
[00:52:43] And all of those definitions that I
[00:52:45] cared so deeply about were stripped for
[00:52:47] me. I was away for treatment. So, I
[00:52:50] could no longer be a husband that was
[00:52:52] helpful to my wife. I could no longer be
[00:52:54] a father who could pick up his kids and
[00:52:55] put them to bed and be there for them. I
[00:52:58] could not be a provider because I wasn't
[00:52:59] working. I couldn't even be a steward of
[00:53:03] the land because at times I was too weak
[00:53:05] to prune all the trees during the window
[00:53:08] that you're supposed to prune them.
[00:53:11] And so I was faced with the question, if
[00:53:13] I am just a a too skinny, weak guy alone
[00:53:19] [clears throat]
[00:53:20] in an apartment with cancer.
[00:53:24] What am I?
[00:53:28] And I meditated and the answer came
[00:53:29] through. I
[00:53:32] am worthy of God's love
[00:53:36] simply because I exist.
[00:53:40] And if I'm worthy of God's love,
[00:53:42] shouldn't I also be worthy of my own?
[00:53:46] And the same is true for you. [snorts]
[00:53:49] And as I moved through this healing
[00:53:50] portal toward recovery, I wanted to
[00:53:53] share that with you because I think it
[00:53:54] that revelation that came to me was due
[00:53:56] in no small part to all the prayers and
[00:53:59] the love that have been directed toward
[00:54:01] me. So I offer that to you, however it
[00:54:03] sits in your consciousness, however it
[00:54:05] resonates,
[00:54:06] run with it. And if the word God trips
[00:54:09] you up, um I certainly don't know can't
[00:54:13] claim to know what God is or explain
[00:54:14] God. uh my efforts to connect to God are
[00:54:17] an ongoing process that is a constant
[00:54:20] unfolding mystery to me. But if it's a
[00:54:22] trigger, it feels too religious, you can
[00:54:24] take the word God out and your mantra
[00:54:25] can simply be
[00:54:27] I am worthy of love
[00:54:33] because you are.
[00:54:38] Thank you for the love and prayers
[00:54:39] everyone. Have a blessed day.
[00:54:43] >> It's quite quite a beautiful message.
[00:54:44] Obviously, he doesn't want you to take
[00:54:45] God out of that. And I think that um you
[00:54:47] know, in in the throws of of true pain
[00:54:49] and suffering, you know, reliance on the
[00:54:51] on the understanding that in the end,
[00:54:53] you're beloved of God is is really
[00:54:55] really important. Joining me on the line
[00:54:56] is Senator John Cornin, the Republican
[00:54:58] senator from Texas. Senator, thanks so
[00:55:00] much for your time. Really appreciate
[00:55:01] it.
[00:55:02] >> Great to be with you. Thank you.
[00:55:04] >> So, yeah, I want to start with the 2026
[00:55:06] election. Obviously, a lot of
[00:55:07] Republicans are looking at the map and
[00:55:10] and they are looking at the House map,
[00:55:11] which which looks, you know, not
[00:55:12] wonderful at the moment. They look at
[00:55:14] the Senate map and they say, "Okay,
[00:55:15] well, Republicans, they could afford to
[00:55:17] lose three seats, still retain a
[00:55:18] majority." The three most vulnerable
[00:55:20] seats for Republicans right now in the
[00:55:21] Senate are North Carolina, Ohio, and
[00:55:24] Maine. But the sort of firewall for
[00:55:27] Republicans is Texas, Iowa, Alaska.
[00:55:31] Obviously, you're the senator from
[00:55:32] Texas. You are now in a very hard-fought
[00:55:34] primary battle with the attorney general
[00:55:36] of the state of Texas, Ken Paxton. He
[00:55:38] has some some endorsements that have
[00:55:40] recently come in. Can you talk to me a
[00:55:41] little bit about the race? How how
[00:55:43] seriously should Republicans take the
[00:55:44] risk that possibly the the Texas Senate
[00:55:47] seat turns blue if you're not the
[00:55:49] nominee in Texas?
[00:55:51] >> Yeah, I think uh Republicans could blow
[00:55:53] it and Texas and you know, Texas has
[00:55:56] always been the uh the one state we
[00:55:58] could depend on to remain red. Democrats
[00:56:01] have been working for years to try to
[00:56:03] turn Texas blue without success. But
[00:56:06] unfortunately, um, the if the attorney
[00:56:08] general, uh, of Texas, Ken Paxton, is a
[00:56:10] nominee, it provides the opening they've
[00:56:12] been hoping and praying for for for
[00:56:15] years. And, uh, at the very least, if he
[00:56:18] were to win, which I think is in in
[00:56:20] doubt, um, it would require hundreds of
[00:56:22] millions of dollars to try to salvage
[00:56:24] him, he would not win by a substantial
[00:56:28] margin and would not be able to help
[00:56:29] with the down ballot races. Conversely,
[00:56:32] in 2020, I won by 10 points, and I think
[00:56:36] I could be a help to the president and
[00:56:38] his agenda for the last two years of his
[00:56:40] second term, uh, by helping carry some
[00:56:43] of these House seats, and of course, the
[00:56:45] House majority is is absolutely critical
[00:56:48] as well.
[00:56:50] >> So, for for those who are unfamiliar
[00:56:52] with sort of your record versus Ken
[00:56:54] Paxton's record, you know, Ken Paxton
[00:56:56] obviously is very controversial figure
[00:56:58] in Texas. uh you're a longtime senator
[00:57:01] in in your state. What what are the the
[00:57:03] sort of things that you can expect
[00:57:04] Democrats to attack Ken Paxton on were
[00:57:06] he to be the nominee?
[00:57:09] >> Well, you look at a website uh
[00:57:12] crookedken.com
[00:57:14] which is updated regularly, but I think
[00:57:16] a lot of his uh his baggage is is
[00:57:18] notorious. It's well known in some
[00:57:21] circles but not universally. And I think
[00:57:23] uh his impeachment by the Republican
[00:57:26] House uh his uh is 6.6 6 million
[00:57:30] judgment against Texas taxpayers for by
[00:57:33] whistleblowers who turned him into the
[00:57:34] FBI for interfering with a federal
[00:57:36] investigation of a donor. And then of
[00:57:39] course, you know, he's become so
[00:57:41] reckless he's even blown up his family.
[00:57:43] And I just don't think he's a
[00:57:46] trustworthy individual. This is a job
[00:57:48] not for performance artists, not for
[00:57:50] people who just want to be famous and
[00:57:52] get the most clicks on social media and
[00:57:54] raise money, but serious people who
[00:57:57] actually want to do important work. And
[00:57:59] uh I think that's I'm that guy.
[00:58:04] >> So meanwhile, the Senate, you obviously
[00:58:06] there's some important business that
[00:58:07] needs to be taken up in the Senate that
[00:58:09] includes the Save America Act, which has
[00:58:10] now passed the House. A lot of talk in
[00:58:12] the Senate about whether or not the the
[00:58:15] Senate majority leader is going to force
[00:58:16] a talking filibuster on the Save Act.
[00:58:18] First of all, why don't you tell people
[00:58:19] what the Save Act is? Second, do you
[00:58:21] think that the Senate is going to force
[00:58:22] a talking filibuster as opposed to the
[00:58:24] sort of the usual arrangement where
[00:58:26] people can claim a filibuster without
[00:58:28] actually having to get up there and
[00:58:29] jabber for 25 hours?
[00:58:32] Well, uh, the Save America Act is
[00:58:35] basically voter ID, which is a very
[00:58:38] popular bipartisan
[00:58:40] um, issue, and it seems like it should
[00:58:43] be a no-brainer, but uh, these days
[00:58:45] everything is contested by the
[00:58:48] resistance uh, on the Democratic side,
[00:58:51] and um, so I would say there's there's
[00:58:54] almost universal support in the Senate.
[00:58:56] I know the House has now passed the
[00:58:58] bill. The challenge as you mentioned is
[00:59:01] and typically in the Senate you need 60
[00:59:03] votes in order to proceed. Um and I
[00:59:05] think um regardless of the outcome I
[00:59:08] still think we need to vote on this bill
[00:59:09] and put people on the record and then
[00:59:12] that's needs to become one of the
[00:59:14] components of our campaign in the 2026
[00:59:16] midterms. But the talking filibuster is
[00:59:18] a is an innovation. It's something new.
[00:59:21] I know people who are of a certain age
[00:59:24] remember uh Jimmy Stewart and Mr. Smith
[00:59:27] goes to Washington, but that hasn't been
[00:59:29] the rule for a long time now and it
[00:59:32] requires 60 votes in order to proceed.
[00:59:34] The idea of course is that there needs
[00:59:36] to be some place in America where there
[00:59:39] is deliberation on important issues that
[00:59:41] affect 330 plus million Americans. And
[00:59:44] that place is the Senate. And so there's
[00:59:47] not the votes right now, as I know the
[00:59:49] majority leader Thoon has told President
[00:59:51] Trump, there's not the votes now to
[00:59:53] change that. So, uh, that's that's where
[00:59:55] we are.
[00:59:57] >> Okay. Meanwhile, one of the other bills
[00:59:59] that you've been promoting is the Ice
[01:00:00] Protection Act, which would apparently
[01:00:02] increase penalties for people who are
[01:00:03] attempting to resist law enforcement.
[01:00:04] Where does that stand?
[01:00:07] >> Well, we are at the early stages, but of
[01:00:09] course, this debate is raging on and
[01:00:11] it's not new. Uh, Democrats are the
[01:00:13] party of defund the police. Uh, that
[01:00:16] hadn't worked out too well for them. And
[01:00:18] then they wanted to abolish ICE and the
[01:00:21] two tragic incidents in Minneapolis
[01:00:24] where people uh interfered with law
[01:00:26] enforcement uh activities and and lost
[01:00:29] their lives. Those are obvious
[01:00:32] tragedies, but the lesson is I think two
[01:00:34] lessons. One is sanctuary cities are
[01:00:37] dangerous because ICE had no real
[01:00:39] alternative but to arrest these um these
[01:00:43] uh people with final orders of
[01:00:45] deportation, criminal aliens in the
[01:00:47] street uh where typically those handoffs
[01:00:50] occur in a county jail where the local
[01:00:53] government respects a federal detainer.
[01:00:56] And so you don't have that problem in
[01:00:58] places like Texas. But finally, I think
[01:01:01] uh one of the lessons that we should all
[01:01:04] know is to cooperate with law
[01:01:06] enforcement. Don't try to interfere with
[01:01:07] an ongoing law enforcement operation. Uh
[01:01:10] these folks are professionals are doing
[01:01:12] the best they can under very difficult
[01:01:14] circumstances. And I stand firmly with
[01:01:17] President Trump and those who believe
[01:01:19] that we need to enforce our immigration
[01:01:21] laws.
[01:01:23] >> Well, I mean, I will note at this point
[01:01:24] that you do have a 99.2% 2% record of
[01:01:27] voting with President Trump's policy
[01:01:29] proposals despite all sort of
[01:01:31] protestations to the contrary. Senator
[01:01:32] Cornin, thanks so much for the time.
[01:01:33] Really appreciate it.
[01:01:35] >> Thanks, Ben. Good to talk.
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[01:02:00] for romance.
[01:02:01] >> I was told this was a segment on Milton
[01:02:03] Friedman and the economics of
[01:02:04] giftgiving.
[01:02:05] >> He technically isn't a bachelor, but he
[01:02:07] sure is a professor of love. Find out
[01:02:10] what happens when 30 contestants looking
[01:02:13] for feelings run into the wall of facts.
[01:02:16] >> I don't trust anyone who says love is
[01:02:18] love. That is not an argument. That is a
[01:02:20] tautology.
[01:02:21] >> Yeah, he's a real catch.
[01:02:24] Get ready for bad advice, real viewer
[01:02:27] questions, Ben destroys, and the world's
[01:02:31] most famous millionaire matchmaker,
[01:02:33] [music] Patty Stanganger, who stops by
[01:02:36] to help us find that special someone on
[01:02:39] [music] the year's most intimate day.
[01:02:41] >> Guys, did anyone even try to clear this
[01:02:42] with me?
[01:02:42] >> Hey, look on the bright side. Dinner
[01:02:44] reservations are going to be easier to
[01:02:46] make for one. [music]
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