WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:05.679 But at least the Constitution remains intact and is there 2 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:08.039 to ensure that we have the First Amendment. 3 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:11.839 The Second Amendment is there to ensure that we have 4 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:12.720 the first Amendment. 5 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:21.280 Guns don't protect our free speech. Our free speech is 6 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:24.760 protected by the consent of the governed, laid out through 7 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:28.440 the Constitution. It's not based on the threat of violence. 8 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:33.200 It's based on elections, organizing referendums, and judicial system. Our 9 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:37.920 social contract offers many, many avenues to remedy these issues 10 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.200 and allows sides to be heard and adjudicated. Guns, from 11 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.759 what I can tell, seem to mostly protect the speech 12 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:49.479 of the people holding the gun. 13 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:57.280 It's a tool of intimidation. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Oh boy, man, 14 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.479 did you get that one wrong? All right? Look, that 15 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.759 is the That is a masterpiece of faulty logic. So 16 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.480 I'm going to break it all down for you, because 17 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:08.599 as soon as I saw it, I was like, oh 18 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:13.159 my god, this is terrible. This is a terrible argument. 19 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:16.680 And on its face, it in fact is quite evident 20 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:20.640 how terrible the argument is. For instance, early on in it, 21 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:25.120 he says guns don't protect our free speech. Less than 22 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:29.439 one minute later he says, and I quote guns, from 23 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:32.959 what I can tell, seem to mostly protect the speech 24 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:39.439 of the people holding the guns. Yeah, that's the whole point. 25 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:42.159 The people that have the guns are actually able to 26 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:46.120 speak freely because they can defend themselves. Hence why Elon 27 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:50.439 said that the second Amendment protects the first. Now, I'll 28 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:56.040 grant you, mister Stewart, that, yes, it is preferable to 29 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.280 not have to resort to guns. That is what everybody 30 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:02.599 would like to stay in the land of. When you 31 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:05.840 talk about society, when you talk about the social compact. Yeah, 32 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.719 once you have a civilization, you try and turn towards 33 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:14.319 the court systems to adjudicate differences of opinion or fights 34 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:19.840 over contract law, property rights. That's all preferable. But if 35 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:23.039 all of that breaks down, which it has throughout human 36 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.680 history many many times, well, that is when you have 37 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:32.560 the final recourse of defense for yourself, your property, et cetera, 38 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:36.159 et cetera. That's exactly why it exists. In fact, that's 39 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:40.919 the entire reason that America exists. We didn't just declare 40 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:43.639 our independence, though we did that as well, we actually 41 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:45.960 had to fight for it. Now, I know we would 42 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:49.639 all like to pretend as if you can just redress 43 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:53.080 your grievances. But when you have a tyrant, that's not 44 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.479 really an option, now, is it. That's the whole reason 45 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.080 that our founders put in the Second Amendment. If it 46 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.159 wasn't necessary, they wouldn't have done that. And let's break 47 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.800 down some other aspects of this argument, because they were 48 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.240 all so atrocious. But let's hear from mister Stewart once more. 49 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:12.800 Guns don't protect our free speech. 50 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:14.759 Our free speech is. 51 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:18.120 Protected by the consent of the governed laid out through 52 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.840 the Constitution. It's not based on the threat of violence. 53 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:27.599 Well, that's a mistake, or right off the bat, the 54 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:32.759 whole purpose of the state is essentially to take violence 55 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.960 out of the individual level and make it more systemic. 56 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:38.919 I mean, if you're actually being honest about the nature 57 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:42.159 of what the state is, it's saying that we don't 58 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.319 like to have this chaotic violence. We want to have 59 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:48.360 regimented violence that is only brought to bear by the 60 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:52.560 state under the parameters by which the governed have allotted 61 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:57.080 them that power. But sometimes that breaks down at its core, 62 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:01.719 what is the state but the threat of violence? Everything 63 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:06.039 it does is at the threat of violence. So this 64 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:10.639 is just such a pollyanna ish perspective on how government 65 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:14.120 works broadly or what the state is itself. It's totally 66 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.839 detached from the actual nature of the state. 67 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:21.639 It's based on elections, organizing, referendums, and judicial system. Our 68 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:26.360 social contract offers many many avenues to remedy these issues 69 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:31.600 and allows sides to be heard and adjudicated. Guns, from 70 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:35.199 what I can tell, seem to mostly protect the speech 71 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:37.920 of the people holding the gun. 72 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:42.639 So by his logic, you would disarm the people because 73 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.920 it's not necessary to defend our rights. After all, you 74 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.639 have this social contract, right, But you're going to leave 75 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.759 the state with the capacity for violence with the guns themselves, right, 76 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:55.240 So you're not actually eliminating the threat of violence, you're 77 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:58.439 monopolizing it and you're offering it to someone other than 78 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:01.480 the people. Now, for someone who advocates on behalf of 79 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:03.720 the little guy, which I will credit mister Stewart with, 80 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:05.600 he does that quite often. He has been a very 81 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.800 outspoken advocate on behalf of the nine to eleven first responders. 82 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:12.519 What happened to them? Well, they were kind of left 83 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.560 in the dust, now, weren't they. And mister Stewart has 84 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.480 done his best going through the judicial system and speaking 85 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.759 in front of Congress and trying to demand that these 86 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:24.759 people get taken care of, and to some extent it's worked, 87 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:26.879 and to some extent it hasn't. Now, I would not 88 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.120 advocate that he then takes up firearms over it. That's 89 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.319 not at all what I'm saying. But he has already 90 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.720 experienced the darkness within the system itself. He understands the 91 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.279 nature of it. He understands that, in fact, the little 92 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:43.800 guy gets stomped by the state, and yet he can't see. 93 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:48.680 He can't possibly hypothesize a moment at which you would 94 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.920 actually require firearms. You can't even theorize about it. No, really, John, 95 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.839 let's use his own rationale too. I mean, he and 96 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:02.040 many on the left have argued ad nauseam that Donald 97 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:06.480 Trump is a existential threat to humanity, to this country, 98 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:10.759 to democracy. They say it all the time. And if 99 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:14.600 he is correct in that assessment, what would you prefer? 100 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:19.399 Would you prefer that Donald Trump then disarms you, mister Stewart, 101 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.839 or you and your private security guards, and leaves nothing 102 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:30.319 in between you and this fascistic totalitarian dictator in Donald Trump, 103 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.720 as they usually refer to him as, would you like 104 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.199 to have no capacity to defend yourself from the state 105 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:39.839 in that environment, Well, the obvious answer is no. You 106 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:42.839 would love to be able to either defend yourself personally 107 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:46.959 or hire someone to defend yourself when the aspects of 108 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:51.279 the state that you favor break down, Well, then what then? 109 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:56.680 What do you do? You just beg you plead, you protest, 110 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.839 you speak out? What if they silence you? What if 111 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:02.040 they kick you off of the Internet and the TV 112 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:06.360 and everything else. Oh but you can still meet in 113 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:09.399 the town square and speak your mind. What if they 114 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:11.560 make that illegal? What if they start to round up 115 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:17.759 people who attempt to protest? Then what? Ah? So, In fact, 116 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.160 at the end of the day, the First Amendment is 117 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.439 at its core defended by the second. That's just a fact, 118 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:30.360 and to deny it is to lack all logic or 119 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:35.279 understanding of history. And what made America special? Banned from 120 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:41.120 you owning it? Totally totally legal and allowed and in 121 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:46.160 fact preferred to be possessed and wielded exclusively by the state. 122 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.240 The state, which I might add is about thirty days 123 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:55.800 away from potentially being handed back over to Donald J. Trump. Oops. 124 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:59.160 The whole point of a society is guns don't decide it. 125 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:02.720 I would prefer at this moment not to trade in 126 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:06.040 a government that offers me many remedies for my concerns, 127 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:09.240 legitimate or illegitimate, for a situation where my rights are 128 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.959 determined by how many militia members agree with me. 129 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.360 And I too would prefer that militias not have to 130 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.120 march on the capitol to make sure that I'm able 131 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:23.199 to speak freely or worship freely. But actually, at its core, 132 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:26.600 the entire reason that the state respects our rights at 133 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.399 all is that we do have the capacity to defend ourselves. 134 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:33.120 So while you have this obvious intention to try and 135 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:35.960 sanitize the nature of the state and what it is, 136 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:39.559 it would be better if you would just be honest 137 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:44.240 and say what Maosee Dong once said, which is that 138 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.919 political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. 139 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:53.879 End quote. That's actually the nature of the state. Now, 140 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:59.039 Ze Dong actually said that in a gleeful fashion because 141 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.000 he wanted to have as big a state as possible 142 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.480 and he wanted to preside over it. Unfortunately, we have 143 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.120 the largest state in human history. And if you think 144 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.639 that it is going to remain a rights respecting organization, 145 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:15.960 which by the way it's not currently. But if you 146 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.240 think it's going to maintain your perception of what it 147 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:23.519 does today, if you were to be disarmed, you'd be 148 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:26.720 sorely mistaken. You don't have to look very far. You 149 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:30.320 could just look at New Zealand or Australia, or the 150 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:34.320 UK or Canada and see what happened to them in 151 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:38.159 twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. In contrast that to 152 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:41.559 what happened to the United States. Now, it wasn't good here, 153 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:45.559 but we had it pretty good comparatively, And I would 154 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:49.399 argue strongly that the reason for that is that they 155 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:55.759 were disarmed and we were not. Now, I understand a 156 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.919 desire to believe the state is simply there to look 157 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:04.360 out for our best interests. But John, of all people, 158 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:07.399 after your advocacy on behalf of the nine to eleven 159 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.120 first responders, you know damn well that's not true. And 160 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.720 if you know that's not true, then you should want 161 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:18.600 to have the capacity for personal self defense and you 162 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:23.879 should stop arguing in favor of disarmament because it will 163 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.679 end in catastrophe, as it always does. Donald Trump went 164 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:32.159 on Andrew Shol's show yesterday and dropped an absolute bombshell 165 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:33.919 that I had never heard before, and I wanted to 166 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:35.480 bring to your attention and discuss. 167 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:39.759 We were close to a deal for getting rid of 168 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:40.639 nuclear weapons. 169 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.799 It would be so good from all countries or just Russia. 170 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:47.600 We were talking about Russia ourselves and China, oh wow. 171 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.080 And we would then bring everyone else into it, and. 172 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.080 So you all strongly, you all would get rid of 173 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:56.960 your nuclear capabilities d nuclearized. 174 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:01.440 Yes, we were going to get more totally because it's 175 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:02.960 too powerful, it's too much. 176 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.919 Now, this is Donald Trump we're talking about, and he 177 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.200 has a bit of a track record of embellishing stories 178 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.440 or overstating things, so I don't know. I don't know 179 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.279 if he's telling the truth entirely. But just to have 180 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:23.559 a former president and potentially future one talking about denuclearization, 181 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:27.360 you know, drawing down the arsenals at a minimum, and 182 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:31.639 doing so with the two other largest nuclear powers on Earth, 183 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:34.440 in China and Russia, gave me a lot of hope. 184 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:37.919 And I'm stunned that he's never brought this up before. 185 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:41.399 So a lot of people are responding to that post 186 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.000 that I put out about it, saying, well, he's just lying, 187 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:47.879 and I'm like, I don't know, if he's lying, I 188 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:50.879 think there's a decent chance that he's embellishing how close 189 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.919 they were to making a deal. But still I think 190 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:57.720 that it's probably provable whether or not these conversations ever happened, 191 00:11:57.759 --> 00:11:59.559 and if it comes out that he was in fact 192 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:01.679 just totally making it up, I'll be the first to 193 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:03.519 report back to you guys that that's the case. But 194 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:05.799 I kind of doubt it. I think he probably was 195 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:07.759 having conversations with them about doing so in the fact 196 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:09.440 that he's interested in doing so. If you've ever read 197 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.960 Scott Horton's book Hotter Than the Sun, then you're already 198 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:17.879 aware that Ronald Reagan in fact had similar conversations with 199 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:21.480 I don't know if it was Yeltsin, I'm not sure 200 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:23.639 which leader of Russia it was at the time, but 201 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:26.480 they were very close to doing the same thing with 202 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:31.799 the USSR what like. That was a very serious conversation 203 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:34.399 and they actually came very close to doing so. The 204 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.159 fact that that is back on the table, particularly given 205 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.480 that the current administration in Joe Biden, or really the 206 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:46.879 State Department that's actually running everything, this very provocative, escalatory 207 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:50.519 kind of war footing that our State Department currently has 208 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:53.840 with Russia and with China to a lesser extent. Now, 209 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:57.639 the counter offer of like, hey, would you like to 210 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:00.399 go a different direction? Would you like to have a 211 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:05.159 president who's actually talking about denuclearization as opposed to escalation 212 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:08.039 with the largest nuclear power on Earth in Russia? Yeah, 213 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.000 I kind of would like that. I'm gonna be honest 214 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:12.039 with you. I would prefer that. In fact, I would 215 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:16.120 prefer it tremendously. As Donald Trump might say, it would 216 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:19.600 be a huge step in the right direction. Now, will 217 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:25.279 he succeed? Probably not. Can anyone who wins the presidency 218 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:30.279 actually denuclearize? Probably not. I think that at the end 219 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:34.159 of the day, the military industrial complex actually runs this country, 220 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:37.159 along with the intelligence agencies, So I doubt any president 221 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:41.240 could actually accomplish this. But to have someone who's at 222 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:45.039 least giving lip service to it, who's opening people's eyes 223 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:50.320 to the dangers of nuclear proliferation, is that not a positive? 224 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:51.679 Is that not a step in the right direction? I 225 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:56.080 think it obviously is amazing, amazing that that ever happened, 226 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.799 assuming that it did, and amazing that the potential that 227 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:01.399 he could be back in the White House and maybe 228 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:04.559 maybe there can be more progress made you know, I 229 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:07.559 genuinely doubt that they would ever get rid of their 230 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:12.120 nuclear arsenals altogether, because it's always kind of like game 231 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.919 theory of it. Well, they got rid of theirs, but 232 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:16.799 we got to we're gonna keep two. You know, we're 233 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:20.200 gonna hide tool away just they won't know. So probably 234 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:22.360 unlikely that you could ever get rid of them entirely. 235 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.360 But if you actually had an agreement where it said, hey, 236 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.759 we're all gonna we're gonna draw down our nuclear arsenals 237 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:32.320 to let's say five, we can all have five monster 238 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:35.200 nukes just to make sure no one gets froggy, and 239 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.279 we'll just leave it at that. Would that not be 240 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:40.519 progressed from the six thousand that nuke that uh Russia 241 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.480 is sitting on right now, or the thousands that America 242 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.720 is sitting on, or the three hundred plus that China 243 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.279 is sitting on. Yeah, it'd be a huge, huge step 244 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.799 in the right direction. So fingers crossed. I rarely get 245 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:53.360 to bring a good news. That was a bit of 246 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.080 good news. Now on the other side of the aisle, 247 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:58.960 we got comedian Eddie Griffin taking Kamala Harris to task 248 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:05.399 choices America Lion or a crook. I think I might 249 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:06.320 be going with the crook. 250 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:06.879 Goddamnit. 251 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:09.919 Yeah, the crook, the crook. He's he's he's got a 252 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.759 lot of men. He got three baby mamas, forty three 253 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:17.879 fold the cases and count selling hot top tennis shoes, 254 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:23.080 just like Michael Drudd got shot, just like two drop outs. 255 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:25.440 We'll be right back. Eddie Griffin was one of my 256 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:27.240 favorite comics back in the day, so I thought I 257 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.279 thought we'd have a little, uh, it's gonna be a 258 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.679 more lighthearted episode. I agree with a lot of it 259 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:37.559 is to say, man, I do you got this lion fraudulent, transparent, 260 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.240 just conduit for the regime and Kamala Harris, or you 261 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:46.639 got the crook? Now. I think almost all of the 262 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.879 charges against Donald Trump are total nonsense, so I think 263 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.200 it's probably unfair to call him a crook. It seems, 264 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:56.320 especially after all the investigations he's been put through, he's 265 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:59.120 probably not much of a crook in that fashion actually 266 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.639 at all. But I did think it was interesting, you know, 267 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:05.080 Eddie Griffin's take on it, and I wonder, I wonder 268 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.679 if that sentiment is shared more broadly that in fact, 269 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:12.679 Kamala Harris, like her true nature, the fact that she 270 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:16.200 is such a chameleon that her entire campaign for the 271 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:23.200 presidency in twenty twenty has just been obliterated, Like, none 272 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:26.559 of the values that she held back then, basically, none 273 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:29.840 of the value she held just four years ago does 274 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:33.360 she carry forward to today. And when asked about it, 275 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.759 she really doesn't have much pushback. She just goes, I've 276 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.639 been listening. I've been listening to the people. I've as 277 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.399 vice president for the past three and a half years. 278 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:47.279 I've been traveling across the country and I've been listening. Okay, great, 279 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:54.759 but what happened? Why? Why are you no longer a 280 00:16:54.799 --> 00:17:01.799 fracking banning, gun grabbing, basically hard left or socialist candidate 281 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:04.119 for the presidency as you were in twenty twenty. Oh, 282 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:06.759 you were just going around. Oh you believe in consensus. 283 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:08.720 So you've been going around the country and you've been 284 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:10.880 talking to people, and you realize that those ideas are 285 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:13.799 actually really not popular. So now you don't hold those 286 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:17.519 values anymore. Well, this is the problem. Is that really 287 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.000 what we're voting for? At least in my opinion, the 288 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:25.920 more educated voters are usually voting for a value system. 289 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:31.839 What are your principles? I don't know. I don't know, 290 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:33.440 and I don't think Eddy Griffin knows, and I don't 291 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:35.359 think most people in America know, And I don't think 292 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:36.680 your supporters know either. 293 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.119 The reason so many voters don't know you is that 294 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.799 you have changed your position on so many things. You 295 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:46.119 were against fracking, now you're for it. You supported looser 296 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:50.759 immigration policies, now you're tightening them up. 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And I 319 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.039 think the answer is no, because I don't know, and 320 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.559 I have followed your or career extensively for the past 321 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.039 four years, and I don't have a clue at the 322 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:08.440 end of the day, what your actual values are. What 323 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:12.359 are your principles? Kamala Harris. My suspicion is that your 324 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:17.519 primary driving force behind every policy position that you put 325 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:24.119 out is can it get me one ounce more power? 326 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:31.319 That's it. That's how you decide your entire list of 327 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:36.240 principles is can I get more power over these plubs 328 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:39.400 Because let's be honest, you don't much care about us 329 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:43.359 when you talk about arresting parents because their kids are 330 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:45.920 true in the state of California when you talk about 331 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:47.799 or I don't know if you've ever talked about it, 332 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:50.839 you've denied it, but it's on the record. It's true that, 333 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:55.079 in fact, you were involved in holding exculpatory evidence from 334 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:58.759 prisoners on death row. Does that sound like someone who's 335 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:05.799 genuinely concerned earned with the American people or in building consensus. No, no, 336 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:08.880 actually it doesn't doesn't sound like that at all. It 337 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:13.200 sounds like a power med tyrant who will shape shift 338 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:16.599 and just put on a different mask for whatever belief 339 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:20.119 system will get you more votes and therefore more power. 340 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:23.920 And I am not interested in you having any more power. 341 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:26.200 In fact, you have too much already. Just to show you, 342 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:28.640 I'm not making it up that. In fact, I think 343 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:30.279 you're just interested in power, and I think that the 344 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.759 American people are starting to see through you. Here's CNN 345 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:35.759 with the latest update on your campaign. 346 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:38.880 We have some new CNN reporting today about what is 347 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.200 going on behind the scenes inside the Harris campaign and 348 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.680 more broadly among Democrats who are growing more and more 349 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:51.519 anxious about a twenty sixteen redoc CNNs. Pacelle Alparez joins me. Now, Priscilla, 350 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.240 we were just joking here at the table that anxious 351 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:56.920 Democrats happen on a day that ends in why this 352 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:02.279 is something that perhaps is warranted given the data that 353 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:04.559 they're seeing. Explain your great reporting. 354 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:07.359 Yeah, look, that's exactly right, Dana. And this has been 355 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:12.319 a campaign that was described by multiple Democrats, allies aids 356 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:15.519 to the vice president as a good vibes campaign. But 357 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:19.680 what's also creeping in now is that anxiety. The reason 358 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:23.039 for that is because these polls are not really moving. 359 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:28.079 Despite multiple battleground blitzes, despite the opportunities she has had 360 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:31.799 across media outlets, there is still not a lot of 361 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:35.240 movement from voters who are moving more towards her versus 362 00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:38.920 former President Donald Trump. In fact, I had one source 363 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.839 describe it to me this way, quote, people are nervous, 364 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:43.960 they know the polls are tight, and a lot of 365 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:47.880 us are having these flashbacks to twenty sixteen too. We 366 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:51.160 know when it can go the wrong way and it 367 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:52.440 can still feel. 368 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:56.599 Fresh, joy vibes and anxiety. That is that is how 369 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:59.799 they describe the campaign. And I gotta say that doesn't 370 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:02.039 say like a winning recipe, but it does sound like 371 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:06.400 an apt description of the average Democrat voter, someone who 372 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:10.400 is operating strictly off of vibes and anxiety or in 373 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:15.440 some cases vicotin and anxiety medication. I think it's probably 374 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:20.519 more the latter, Oh Jesus. So if they're getting nervous, 375 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:22.960 that means that they're talking to their friends, they're talking 376 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.640 to their coworkers, they're talking to their kids, their grandparents, whatever, 377 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.079 and they're realizing that a lot of people, a lot 378 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.200 of people are saying, hey, things aren't going so hot, 379 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:37.200 and this lady doesn't strike me as a solution to 380 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:40.000 the problems that I'm facing. Now you can judge for 381 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:42.160 yourself whether or not you think Donald Trump will actually 382 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:45.519 help solve any of your personal problems. Probably not many. 383 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.920 But they've weighed in on Kamala Harris's promises, and I 384 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:52.079 don't think they buying it. I don't think that you're 385 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:55.200 going to sell them on the lady who was in 386 00:22:55.240 --> 00:23:00.240 some aspects responsible for the border is all of a 387 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.359 sudden going to steal the border. The lady that was 388 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:05.319 in there for three and a half years is suddenly 389 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:09.000 going to remedy the inflation that we still suffer today. 390 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:12.599 Do you think that that, in fact she's capable of 391 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:15.200 doing so after three and a half years of not 392 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:20.400 doing so. The answer is obviously no, no. And then 393 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:24.039 when asked does she have any differences of opinion with 394 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:26.839 you know what Joe Biden has done? And she says 395 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:28.680 nothing comes to mind. 396 00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:32.000 Well, which you have done something differently than President Biden 397 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:34.000 during the past four years? 398 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:37.400 There is not a thing that comes to mind in 399 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:40.839 terms of and I've been a part of most of 400 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:42.920 the decisions that have had impact. 401 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:46.279