Fact-checking the Harris Trump Debate

[00:00:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Hello everyone, welcome to tonight's episode of the Average Intelligence Podcast.

[00:00:08] [SPEAKER_03]: We have a special treat for you tonight.

[00:00:11] [SPEAKER_03]: We are doing a deep dive, or should I say I am doing a deep dive fact check.

[00:00:18] [SPEAKER_05]: Just doing our obligatory audio check.

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_03]: And we're good.

[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_03]: We are doing a deep dive fact check.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_03]: I know it's a little late, but we're doing a deep dive fact check on the Trump-Harris

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Debate.

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_03]: So without further ado, we will get right into it.

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Now obviously, I'm not covering every single point.

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_03]: What I have selected here are definitive statements made by both of the candidates

[00:00:49] [SPEAKER_03]: during the debate that are verifiable.

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_03]: And what I mean by that is Kamala at one point said that she would continue to

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_03]: support Israel.

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_03]: There's no way to fact check that.

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_03]: You can only look at her record, but there's no way you can definitively say

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_03]: yea or nay as to whether or not she's actually going to do that.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Hence why that is not one of the fact checks.

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_03]: But we're going to get into it.

[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_03]: And these are in order, say for the last one, which I say for last, just because

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_03]: it's a doozy.

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_03]: So the first came.

[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_03]: The first claim.

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_03]: And Lindsay Davis, one of the moderators is Kamala Harris's sorority sister.

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_03]: This is somewhat true.

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Both did join Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, but went to different colleges at

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_03]: different times.

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Harris joined the sorority while attending Howard University where she

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_03]: graduated in 1986 and Davis joined while attending the University of Virginia

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_03]: where she graduated in 1999.

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_03]: So yes, they were in the same sorority.

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, you could technically consider them sorority sisters, but it's a stretch.

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Although it is worth noting that oftentimes sororities and fraternities

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_03]: have alumni organizations.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_03]: So that's what I mean by it's it's true, but not in the true, not not

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_03]: true in the way most people thought it was.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_05]: So moving on.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_03]: There have been reports that an ABC insider.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Shared the debate questions with Kamala Harris, according to a whistleblower.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_03]: This is ruled as unknown at this time, an alleged whistleblower whose name was

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_03]: redacted claims to be an ABC news employee with knowledge that the network

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_03]: provided the Harris campaign with sample questions, promised the campaign

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_03]: it would only fact check Trump and agreed not to ask questions on topics

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_03]: the Harris campaign deemed off topic.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_03]: It is worth noting this allegation came out after the debate.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_03]: So a lot of people are connecting the dots like, oh, they only did fact check Trump.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that would be easy enough to that would be easy enough to claim after the fact.

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_03]: The document.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, I apologize. That is not right.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't mean to know the document is dated September 9th, a day before the debate,

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_03]: but it did not come out until after.

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_03]: And this is as this is reported by Spectrum News, New York.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_03]: ABC for its part denies these claims, citing the document as unverified.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_03]: And for your viewing pleasure, I happen to have.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Unopened.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry about that.

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_05]: Let me get these up here.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Bear with me once again, I had these open and then I had to restart the computer.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_03]: So like I said, though, we're bringing receipts tonight.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_05]: OK, cool.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_05]: So let me just switch to this view.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_05]: It did not do what I told it to.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it did.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_05]: Because I'm in that view.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Here are the first ones as you can see, state of New York dated September 9th.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_03]: The name is redacted, but I'm going to leave this on the screen a bit so

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_03]: that you can read it.

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Feel free to pause if you want to read through it.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_03]: And it's a six page page affidavit.

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_05]: I am going through two pages at a time, though.

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_05]: Now on to page two.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_05]: Which again, this seems like a smoking gun, but.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_03]: This would be easy enough to draft in a word document after the fact.

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_03]: However, it is noticed it should be noted that this does appear to be

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_03]: notarized.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_05]: And that's good.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Apparently you can't hear my asshole neighbor who's deciding to blast

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_03]: music in his car across the street at 10 p.m.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_03]: night.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_03]: So that claim, as I said, remains unknown at this time.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_03]: And we'll probably if it's true, we'll probably never know.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_03]: The next claim made by the moderate arms are made by Kamala Harris

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_03]: that Trump's tax cuts only benefited the wealthy.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_03]: This is false, but basically in the frageology.

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me explain.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_03]: So under the Trump tax cuts, the top rate fell from 39.6% to 37%.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_03]: The 33% bracket dropped down 1% to 32%.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_03]: The 28% bracket went down to 24%.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_03]: And the 25% bracket dropped to 22.

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_03]: The 15% bracket dropped to 12.

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_03]: The lowest bracket remained at 10%, and the 35% bracket was unchanged.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_03]: So many other things affected the various tax brackets in the Trump

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_03]: tax cuts, the you know, the tax cuts that were signed into law.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_03]: But these things were all over the various tax brackets, and it was

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_03]: a very long list and I want to keep this somewhat concise.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_03]: You can look this up though.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_03]: You could make the argument that the Trump tax cuts benefited the rich

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_03]: more, but based on what I can tell, that's really just because

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_03]: it wouldn't be a false statement, but it's only because the tax bracket

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_03]: percentages are dealing with higher incomes.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_03]: So in a way you can make that argument, but not in the way that

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Harris is making it.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_03]: And the next claim, general claim that was made is that tariffs

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_03]: are bad for the consumer.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_03]: This one, it's not sure or false.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_03]: It really depends on what the product is, how expensive it is,

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_03]: whether there's an American competitor, you know, there's a

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_03]: myriad of factors.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_03]: It also depends on what the intent of the tariff is.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_03]: For example, Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports were meant to

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_03]: take business away from China.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_03]: In that regard, they succeeded.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Manufacturing opened up in various parts of the world,

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_03]: including parts of the US and the US and you.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm sorry.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_03]: And US exports actually grew to China in 2019 by 2019.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_03]: And again, this is verifiable.

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala referred to Trump's proposed tariffs as a national

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_03]: sales tax costing family families an extra $4,000 per year.

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_03]: This is false.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_03]: First point, tariffs are not a tax on the consumer, not

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_03]: literally.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_03]: And Harris is being disingenuous at best here because

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_03]: it's a complete unknown what the economic impacts would be.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_03]: And they would vary widely by household because it depends on

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_03]: what goods are being tariffed, how much they're being

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_03]: tariffed again, if there's an American alternative that

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_03]: would then become more affordable by comparison, all those

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_03]: kinds of things.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_03]: And it is worth noting that the Biden administration kept

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_03]: the Biden administration kept the Trump tariffs and even

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_03]: added a few more most notably on electric vehicles,

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_03]: which I thought were a good thing.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_03]: And hey, I drive an EV.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, I'm not hating on it, but, you know, the

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_05]: doger, the Green New Deal crowd, you would think they

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_05]: wouldn't want an import tariff on those.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_03]: But there went Biden.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump stated in the bait that he had no inflation as

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_03]: president.

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_03]: This is I'm not even going to say liar, liar, pants on

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_03]: fire, false.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_03]: This is just ignorant false.

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Now, if Trump had said that he had low inflation, he

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_03]: would have been 100% correct.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_03]: As President Trump's highest inflation rate during his

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_03]: presidency was 2.44% slightly above the Federal

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Reserve's goal of 2%.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_03]: But his lowest was at 1.23%, which he does not hold

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_03]: the record for the lowest inflation for by the way.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_03]: But that's really good.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_03]: 1.23% is really good.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Biden's highest inflation rate was around 9.1%.

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_05]: While his lowest was about 3.1%.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump stated also that inflation under Biden hit 21%.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Now, this one's interesting because it's true, but it

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_03]: needs context, which I'm about to give you.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_03]: The inflation rate under Biden hit at 9.1%, however,

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_03]: inflation on prices of everything on everyday

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_03]: goods rose significantly higher than that.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_03]: According to an article in Yahoo Finance, several

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_03]: prices across the board rose just shy of 20%.

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_03]: This would include things like groceries, energy,

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_03]: anything energy went up even more.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_03]: It's also important to keep in mind during this time,

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Dollar Tree became Dollar 25 Tree, meaning that

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_03]: everything used to be a dollar.

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Now it's $1.25.

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_03]: This is the first time that it's happened in the

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_03]: country's history since opening in 1989 as Dollar

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Tree proper.

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_03]: They had some smaller stores a year prior.

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_03]: They follow the same model, but Dollar Tree, 1989.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Next, Trump claimed that many illegal immigrants are

[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_03]: from insane asylums in prison.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_03]: This one is honestly impossible to prove, but unlikely.

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_03]: At least for a majority, not to say that some of

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_03]: the people who crossed weren't, but Trump's

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_03]: making it sound like the majority of them are.

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Immigration officials arrested 103,700 people crossing

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_03]: the border illegally between 2021 and 2024, according

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_03]: to their official numbers.

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_03]: But these numbers don't count people crossing the

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_03]: border that weren't caught.

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Even if Trump's claim was correct, it would be

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_03]: impossible to prove because we just don't have the data.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris claimed Trump's Kamala Harris claims

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump left the worst unemployment rate since

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_03]: the Great Depression.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_03]: This is just blatantly false.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't beep at me.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_03]: The academically accepted end of the Great

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Depression is the year 1939.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_03]: In January 2021, the January 2021, the unemployment

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_03]: rate was at 6.8%.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_03]: The following years had higher unemployment rates

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_03]: after the Great Depression.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_03]: 1940, 14.6%, 1941, 9.9%, 1974, 7.2%, 1975, 8.2%, 1976, 7.8%,

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_03]: 1980, 7.2%, 1981, 8.5%, 1982, 10.8%, 1983, 8.3%, that's interesting.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_03]: 1984, 7.3%, 1985, 7%.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_03]: 1991, 7.3%, 1992, 7.4%, 2009, 9.9%, 2010, 9.3%,

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_03]: 2011, 8.5%, and 2012 was 7.9%.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_03]: All were above the unemployment rate in 2021

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_05]: when Trump left office.

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris also claimed that Trump left them with the

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_03]: worst public health crisis in a century.

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_03]: This is somewhat true, but it requires a lot of context.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_03]: So Harris's assertion, if you look solely at reported

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_03]: death tolls is technically correct.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_03]: The overall COVID-19 mortality rate according to the CDC was,

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry, the overall COVID-19 mortality number

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_03]: is 1,202,183.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_03]: It might have fluctuated over the past couple of days

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_03]: since I did this research, but it's around 1.2 million.

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_03]: However, even the National Institute of Health's

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_03]: reporting says that only 20.3% of these deaths had no

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_03]: comorbidity information recorded, assuming they have

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_03]: complete accuracy, which is debatable.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_03]: That moves the COVID number to 244,043.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_03]: The AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s had an official

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_03]: death toll of 100,777 between 1981 and 1990.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_03]: But as of today, approximately 700,000 people have died

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_03]: from AIDS in the United States.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_03]: The mortality rate for AIDS between the years 1981 and 1990

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_03]: was about 63%.

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_03]: The mortality rate for COVID-19 stands at about 2.3%.

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_03]: So this whole thing really depends on your perspective,

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_03]: but to sort of put it into a clearer perspective for you,

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_03]: which diagnosis would you rather get?

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_05]: COVID-19 or HIV, just food for thought.

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_05]: It is also worth noting that technically speaking,

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_03]: AIDS deaths also require home morbidities

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_03]: since it is an immunodeficiency virus.

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_03]: So if you're going to get really nitpicky here.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_03]: But I stand with that rhetorical question.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Would you rather be diagnosed with COVID-19 or HIV AIDS?

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think that proves that point.

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris also claimed Trump was responsible for the worst

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_03]: attack on our democracy since January 6th.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Mostly false, but it does depend on your perspective.

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_05]: But September 11th comes to mind.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_05]: And I don't think that's just me.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_05]: And they did hit the Pentagon and it's debated

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_03]: where the Pennsylvania flight was headed to,

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_03]: but one could make the case it might have been headed

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_03]: for the Capitol or the White House.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_03]: So just perspective, Kamala referred several times

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_03]: to Project 2025 being Donald Trump's.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_03]: As far as what's out in the public, this is false.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump has repeatedly disassociated himself

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_03]: with Project 2025 without being able to read his mind.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_03]: All evidence points to that being false.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_03]: And just for some proof, here is some video evidence.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_21]: Let me ask you about Project 2025.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_21]: So you've publicly said that you don't have any direct connection

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_21]: to the White House.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_18]: Nothing. I know nothing about it.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_18]: And they know that too. Democrats know that.

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_18]: And I purposely haven't read it because I want to say to you,

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_18]: I have no idea what it's all about.

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_18]: It's easier than saying I read it and all of the things.

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_18]: No, I purposely haven't read it.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_18]: And I've heard about it.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_18]: I've heard about things that are in there that I don't like.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_18]: And there's some things in there that everybody would like,

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_18]: but there are things that I don't like at all.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_18]: And I think it's unfortunate that they put it out,

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_18]: but it doesn't mean anything because it has nothing to do with me.

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_18]: Project 25 has absolutely nothing to do with me.

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_18]: We have nothing to do with Project 25.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_18]: I don't even know what the hell it is.

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_18]: I don't know anything about it.

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_12]: And now for his first television interview,

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_12]: since he stepped down as the director of Project 2025 in July,

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_12]: I am joined by Paul Danz.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_12]: It's great to have you here.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_12]: I mean, as you know, given what we've seen from the conventions,

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_12]: it's almost inevitable that this will be brought up on the debate stage

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_12]: tomorrow night.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_12]: Are you worried that your work could be a liability

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_12]: for Trump when he's on stage up there tomorrow?

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_16]: No, not at all.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_16]: And thank you for having me, Katelyn.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_16]: Look, President Trump's the greatest debater, bar none of our time.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_16]: And you know, breaking news is Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025.

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_16]: Sure, a lot of us have worked in the admin and came together,

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_16]: but this started long before he even announced for president.

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_03]: There is that.

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it will.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's a lot of research.

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_03]: And I did ignore.

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_03]: So I had some of the claims that were on my list

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_03]: that honestly, I'm ignoring because I ended up ignoring

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_03]: because this research took a very long time.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_03]: But Trump claimed that he handed the Biden administration

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_03]: a stock market higher than before the pandemic.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true.

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_03]: On January 20th, 2021, when Biden was sworn in,

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_03]: the stock market closed at $31,188.38.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_03]: One year prior, the stock market closed at $29,348.10.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump also claimed that America made PPE for the world.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_03]: This is partially true.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_03]: So in the early days of COVID-19,

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_03]: the U.S. ramped up production and exports of masks, PPE garments,

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_03]: and ventilators mostly to China.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_03]: However, this contributed to a shortage domestically

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_03]: since the Trump administration had not replenished

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_03]: the national stockpile of PPE, including N95 masks.

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_03]: After though, keep in mind,

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_03]: after the supply had been depleted by about 75%

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_03]: under the Obama administration

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_03]: and was never significantly replenished.

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claimed that the Biden job growth was

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_03]: bounce-back jobs.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_03]: This is partially true.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_03]: According to data collected by Snopes,

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_03]: and see I'm not, I'm going with all kinds of sources here.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_03]: So everybody on the left loves Snopes.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_03]: So even according to Snopes,

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_03]: it's true that under Biden,

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_03]: the U.S. employment grew by 15.6 million jobs as of May 2024.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_03]: However, about 9 million of those jobs were lost

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_03]: due to the pandemic directly.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_03]: So over half the jobs reported were in fact bounce-back jobs.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_03]: So not all, but Trump made a point,

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_03]: but in very Trumpian fashion,

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_03]: if he'd said it slightly different,

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_03]: he would have been 100% on the money.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris claimed Goldman Sachs said Trump's plan,

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump's economic plan, would make the economy worse.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Hers would make it better.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly false.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_03]: The CEO Goldman Sachs did an interview

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_03]: explaining that the difference

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_03]: between the two policy plans came down to a difference

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_03]: of about two-tenths of 1%.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_03]: And here he is saying just that.

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_17]: That report, which was mentioned last night

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_17]: in the debate, came from an independent analyst.

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_17]: And it's interesting, Scott.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_17]: I think a lot more has been made of this than should be.

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_17]: What the report did is it looked at a handful of policy issues

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_17]: that have been put out by both sides

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_17]: and it tried to model their impact on GDP growth.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_17]: The reason I say a bigger deal has been made of it

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_17]: is what it showed is the difference between

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_17]: the sets of policies that they put forward

[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_17]: was about two-tenths of 1%.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_03]: And as you can see, that was courtesy of the New York Post.

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_03]: It's also worth mentioning that Goldman Sachs

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_03]: received a $10 billion bailout

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_03]: from the federal government in the 2008 financial crisis.

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_03]: So take their financial analysis

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_03]: with a massive grain of salt.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala also claimed that the Wharton School of Business

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_03]: said Trump's financial plan would explode the deficit.

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, but again, it needs context.

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_03]: So the Penn-Wharton budget model did find

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_03]: that Trump's tax and spending plans

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_03]: would significantly expand the deficit

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_03]: by $5.8 trillion over 10 years.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_03]: But it also found that Harris' plan

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_03]: would increase the deficit by about $1.2 trillion

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_03]: over the same period.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Also, and this is very important,

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_03]: the model wouldn't account for any spending cuts.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Their numbers assume the current

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_03]: spending rates of the federal government.

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_03]: The report also says though

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_03]: that low, middle, and high-income households

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_03]: in 2026 through 2034 all fare better

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_03]: under the campaign proposals on a conventional basis,

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_03]: the campaign proposals referring to Donald Trump's.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_03]: These conventional gains and losses do not include

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_03]: the additional debt burden on future generations

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_03]: who must finance almost the entirety of the tax decreases.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_03]: But again, that is assuming

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_03]: that there is not a decrease in spending,

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_03]: which Trump has promised to do, but we'll see.

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_03]: If we're being nitpicky though,

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_03]: technically speaking, tax cuts

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_03]: do not grow the deficit.

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Spending grows the deficit if money is borrowed to do so.

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Tax cuts can cause a deficit to grow

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_03]: if the government borrows more money

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_03]: to cover the lack of tax revenue

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_03]: instead of cutting spending,

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_03]: which is the main point I've been making the whole time.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump then claimed that professors

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_03]: at the Wharton School say his plan was good.

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_03]: This is unverifiable.

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_03]: I looked.

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_03]: I looked.

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_03]: I couldn't find a single source

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_03]: quoting a professor directly or a video

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_03]: saying that Trump's plan is good.

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm labeling this one false,

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_03]: but it's due to lack of information

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_03]: not necessarily being proven false.

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_03]: So unverifiable.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump also claimed

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_03]: that Biden had the highest inflation rate

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_03]: of any president in U.S. history.

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_03]: And this is false.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_03]: The following presidents had an average inflation rate

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_03]: higher than Biden's highest rate of 9.1.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_03]: So technically these are not even,

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_03]: his is even worse than these guys

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_03]: because these are their average rates.

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_03]: These aren't their piece.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_03]: So FDR in 1941 had 9.9%.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Truman in 1946 had 18.1%.

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Nixon and Ford in 1974 had 12.35%.

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Carter had 13.3% in 1979

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_03]: and 12.5% in 1980.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claims polls say 90% of people

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_03]: thought his economy was great.

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly false,

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_03]: but his point was made.

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_03]: He just inflated the numbers.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_03]: So I couldn't find any poll showing 90%.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_03]: But most polls do show the majority agreeing

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_03]: that the economy was much better under Donald Trump.

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Based on the polls I looked at,

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_03]: which admittedly was a limited sample,

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_03]: it seems about 60-ish percent

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_03]: felt that Trump's economy was good.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris claimed Trump's tariffs

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_03]: resulted in the highest trade deficit

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_03]: in U.S. history.

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly false.

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_03]: According to PBS fact-checkers,

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_03]: at its largest, the trade deficit

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_03]: for goods and services under Trump

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_03]: was about $654 billion in 2020.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_03]: So $654 billion.

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_03]: That's larger than most post-World War II president,

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_03]: but Harris glosses over the fact

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_03]: that the final four years

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_03]: under President George W. Bush

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_03]: each produced a larger trade deficit

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_03]: than Trump's biggest.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_03]: And the trade deficit has been even bigger

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_03]: under the Biden-Harris administration.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_03]: In each of the first three years

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_03]: under Biden and Harris from 2021 to 2023,

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_03]: the trade deficit has been larger

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_03]: than it was during Trump's worst year,

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_03]: which it actually set a record in 2022.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_03]: So don't put your glasshouse

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_03]: on the market quite yet, Kamala.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Harris also claimed that Trump

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_03]: sold American chips to China.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_03]: This is almost completely false.

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_03]: So, and you'll see why I say almost

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_03]: instead of completely false as I go through.

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_03]: According to the national review,

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_03]: as President Trump and his administration

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_03]: took several steps to prevent

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_03]: China from requiring advanced American-made chips.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_03]: In 2017, for example,

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_03]: he blocked state-owned China Venture Capital Fund

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Corporation Limited

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_03]: from purchasing Portland's largest tech company,

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation,

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_03]: citing national security concerns.

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump's policies towards the Huawei technologies

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_03]: or the Huawei Technologies Company

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_03]: can hardly be called nice,

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_03]: quote,

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_03]: The Trump administration notified

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Huawei suppliers,

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_03]: including chipmaker Intel,

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_03]: that it is revoking certain licenses

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_03]: to sell to the Chinese company

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_03]: and intends to reject dozens of other applications

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_03]: to supply the telecommunications firm,

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_03]: people familiar with the matter,

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_03]: told Reuters.

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_03]: The Trump administration also added

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_03]: prominent Chinese semiconductor

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_03]: and drone manufacturers

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_03]: to an export blacklist,

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_03]: although this was not until 2020.

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_03]: That's why I say it was almost completely false,

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_03]: because it's possible some chips were sold prior to that,

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_03]: but the Trump administration did take action.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_03]: So Kamala Harris claimed

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_03]: that Trump thanked President Xi during COVID.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true.

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_03]: On January 24th, 2020,

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump posted a tweet saying, quote,

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_03]: China has been working very hard

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_03]: to contain coronavirus.

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_03]: The United States greatly appreciates

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_03]: their efforts and transparency.

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_03]: It will all work out well,

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_03]: in particular on behalf of the American people.

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to thank President Xi.

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Obviously opinions would change,

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_03]: but what Harris said was actually true.

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump's claim about former Virginia governor

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_03]: about the former Virginia governor statement

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_03]: about if a baby is born during an abortion

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_03]: or an abortion that was wanted

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_03]: and the mother is in labor.

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true.

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_03]: The former governor later recanted his statement

[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_03]: and wished he would have said it differently.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_03]: However, we have the clip for you

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_03]: because nothing is better than video evidence.

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_07]: There's no exception.

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_07]: There was a very contentious committee hearing yesterday

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_07]: when Fairfax County delegate Kathy Tran

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_07]: made her case for lifting restrictions

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_07]: on third trimester abortions

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_07]: as well as other restrictions now in place.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_07]: And she was pressed by Republican delegate

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_07]: about whether her bill would permit an abortion

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_07]: even as a woman is essentially dilating,

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_07]: ready to give birth.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_07]: And she answered that it would permit an abortion

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_07]: at that stage of labor.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Do you support her measure and explain her answer?

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_25]: Yeah, I wasn't there, Julie,

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_25]: and I certainly can't speak for delegate Tran,

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_25]: but I would tell you one first thing I would say

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_25]: this is why decisions such as this

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_25]: should be made by providers, physicians,

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_25]: and the mothers and fathers that are involved.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_25]: There are, when we talk about third trimester abortions,

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_25]: these are done with the consent of obviously the mother

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_25]: with the consent of the physicians,

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_25]: more than one physician by the way.

[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_25]: And it's done in cases where there may be

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_25]: severe deformities.

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_25]: There may be a fetus that's non-Bible.

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_25]: So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor,

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_25]: I can tell you exactly what would happen.

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_25]: The infant would be delivered,

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_25]: the infant would be kept comfortable,

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_25]: the infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_25]: and the family desired,

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_25]: and then a discussion would ensue

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_25]: between the physicians and the mother.

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_25]: So I think this was really blown out of proportion,

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_25]: but again, we want the government not to be involved

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_25]: in these types of decisions.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_25]: We want the decision to be made by the mothers

[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_25]: and their providers.

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_25]: And this is why Julie, that legislators,

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_25]: most of whom are men by the way,

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_25]: shouldn't be telling a woman what she should

[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_25]: and shouldn't be doing with her body.

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_07]: And do you think multiple physicians

[00:29:34] [SPEAKER_07]: should have to weigh in as is currently required?

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_07]: She's trying to lift that requirement.

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_25]: Well, I think it's always good to get a second opinion

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_25]: and for at least two providers to be involved

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_25]: in that decision because these decisions

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_25]: shouldn't be taken lightly.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_25]: And so I would certainly support more than one provider.

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_07]: All right, let's go back to the phones now for the governor.

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_05]: We're going to talk now with Mike who's calling in.

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I said, he did later express regret

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_03]: on how he phrased it, but again,

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_03]: we're going with the validity of the statement.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump also claimed that Tim Wall said

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_03]: nine month abortions are fine.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly true, but it needs clarifying.

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Tim Walls did not literally ever say that statement.

[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_03]: You won't find a video or a quote of that.

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_03]: However, he did sign into law as governor of Minnesota

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_03]: protecting full abortion rights in the state.

[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Now what does that mean?

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_03]: According to abortionfinder.com,

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_03]: there are no restrictions in Minnesota

[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_03]: based on how far along in the pregnancy you are.

[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_03]: There's also no requirement to notify parents

[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_03]: of a minor to get an abortion.

[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_03]: So he may not have literally said it, but he said it.

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump also claimed though that everyone

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_03]: wanted abortion to go back to the states.

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I didn't even have to look this up.

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_03]: This is false.

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_03]: If this were true, there wouldn't have been such an uproar

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_03]: when the Supreme Court's draft decision was leaked.

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_03]: So I mean, that's just BS.

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Moderators claim there is no state

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_03]: where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_03]: This really depends on your point of view.

[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_03]: So this is the part where I actually warned a few people

[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_03]: who are friendly with the podcast.

[00:31:29] [SPEAKER_03]: This might get us banned, but I have to go into description here

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_03]: so that people understand the point I'm making.

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_03]: So this does depend on your point of view.

[00:31:40] [SPEAKER_03]: There are procedures in which a fetus is partially delivered,

[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_03]: meaning instead of dismembering the body inside the womb,

[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_03]: the body is pulled out, say for the head,

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_03]: which is then rushed and then taken out.

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_03]: This procedure is actually what gave way

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_03]: to the term partial birth abortion.

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_03]: There are states where the practice is not illegal,

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_03]: but often the language is vague

[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_03]: and hard to parse through outside of a court of law

[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_03]: or probably even inside of a court of law.

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_03]: If one doesn't consider the partial removal of a fetus

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_03]: from a uterus, then I suppose the claim is factual.

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_03]: So depends on your point of view.

[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_03]: And we haven't been kicked off yet, so we should be good to go.

[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Pamela Harris makes several claims

[00:32:31] [SPEAKER_03]: regarding the so-called Trump abortion bans.

[00:32:35] [SPEAKER_03]: She claimed that life in prison sentences

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_03]: are in place for abortion.

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, but only in Texas

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_03]: and it is up to life in prison.

[00:32:45] [SPEAKER_03]: She also claimed that miscarriage cases are being denied care.

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, however, again, there's some context needed.

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_03]: So there have been reported incidents

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_03]: since treatment and medication for miscarriages

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_03]: can often be objectively the same for an abortion.

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Some medical providers aren't giving the treatments

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_03]: for fear of running afoul of the abortion restrictions.

[00:33:09] [SPEAKER_03]: She also made claims that 12 to 13 year olds

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_03]: are being denied abortion cases

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_03]: in abortion in cases of incest.

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, but it depends on the case.

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_03]: So Pamela was likely citing a case in Florida

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_03]: where a 13 year old girl who was a victim of incest

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_03]: had to travel outside the state

[00:33:26] [SPEAKER_03]: because her pregnancy was past 15 weeks.

[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Florida does facilitate exceptions for rape and incest,

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_03]: but only up to 15 weeks.

[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_03]: There was another case in Louisiana,

[00:33:36] [SPEAKER_03]: but accounts vary on this.

[00:33:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Some publications say she was denied an abortion,

[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_03]: but Louisiana does have an exemption for rape and incest.

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_03]: ABC News published a story, however,

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_03]: that says the girl's mother didn't know

[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_03]: she qualified for an abortion under the state's exemptions.

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_03]: So I mean true, but some context is good.

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_03]: So Pamela was right on that claim.

[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_03]: She also claimed that Project 2025

[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_03]: wants the government to monitor miscarriages.

[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly false.

[00:34:12] [SPEAKER_03]: According to an article from ABC News,

[00:34:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Project 2025 doesn't use the term monitoring,

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_03]: but it does state that the CDC's collection of abortion data

[00:34:21] [SPEAKER_03]: is both woefully inadequate,

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_03]: pointing to some states reporting data on a voluntary basis.

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_03]: It also says the Department of Health and Human Services

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_03]: should mandate states report how many abortions are provided,

[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_03]: the stage of pregnancy,

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_03]: the pregnant woman's state of residence,

[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_03]: and the method of termination.

[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_03]: It does not say monitoring of miscarriages.

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Moderators claim that JD Vance said that Trump said

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_03]: he would veto a federal abortion ban.

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, JD Vance said in an interview with NBC News,

[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_03]: and we have Ziklit.

[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_08]: Democrats made the case this week

[00:34:58] [SPEAKER_08]: and beyond this week

[00:35:00] [SPEAKER_08]: that Donald Trump, if elected,

[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_08]: will impose a federal ban on abortion if he wins.

[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_08]: Now, Donald Trump says he won't,

[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_08]: but can you commit, Senator,

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_08]: sitting right here with me today,

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_08]: that if you and Donald Trump are elected,

[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_08]: that you will not impose a federal ban on abortion?

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_26]: I can absolutely commit that, Kristen.

[00:35:18] [SPEAKER_26]: And Donald Trump has been as clear about that as possible.

[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_26]: I think it's important to step back and say,

[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_26]: what does Donald Trump actually said on the abortion question,

[00:35:25] [SPEAKER_26]: and how is it different

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_26]: from what Kamala Harris and the Democrats have said?

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_26]: Donald Trump wants to end this culture war

[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_26]: over this particular topic.

[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_26]: If California wants to have a different abortion policy

[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_26]: from Ohio, then Ohio has to respect California

[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_26]: and California has to respect Ohio.

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_26]: Donald Trump's view is that we want the individual states

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_26]: and their individual cultures

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_26]: and their unique political sensibilities

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_26]: to make these decisions

[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_26]: because we don't want to have a nonstop federal conflict

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_26]: over this issue.

[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_26]: The federal government ought to be focused

[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_26]: on getting food prices down,

[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_26]: getting housing prices down,

[00:35:57] [SPEAKER_26]: issues of course where Kamala Harris

[00:35:59] [SPEAKER_26]: has been a total disaster.

[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_26]: So I think Donald Trump is right.

[00:36:02] [SPEAKER_26]: We want the federal government to focus

[00:36:03] [SPEAKER_26]: on these big economic and immigration questions.

[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_26]: Let the states figure out their own abortion policy.

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_08]: Let me just follow up with you a little bit on that point

[00:36:10] [SPEAKER_08]: because I've been talking to Republicans,

[00:36:12] [SPEAKER_08]: including Senator Lindsey Graham just last week

[00:36:15] [SPEAKER_08]: who've made it very clear that if Donald Trump is elected,

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_08]: if you are elected,

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_08]: they will continue to press this point.

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_08]: Senator Graham said to me,

[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to keep saying that there should be a federal ban

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_08]: if such a piece of legislation landed on Donald Trump's desk.

[00:36:31] [SPEAKER_08]: Would he veto it?

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_26]: Well, I think it'd be very clear

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_26]: if he would not support it.

[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_26]: I mean, he said that explicitly.

[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_26]: Yeah, I think, I mean,

[00:36:36] [SPEAKER_26]: if you're not supporting it as the president of the United States,

[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_26]: you fundamentally have to veto it.

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_08]: So he would veto a federal abortion ban?

[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_26]: I think he would.

[00:36:41] [SPEAKER_26]: He said that explicitly that he would.

[00:36:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for watching.

[00:36:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Stay out.

[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_05]: Forgot that there was some,

[00:36:50] [SPEAKER_03]: and forgot there was some additional video tagged on there.

[00:36:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris claimed that IVF treatments

[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_03]: are being denied under abortion laws.

[00:37:00] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly false and ignores wider facts.

[00:37:03] [SPEAKER_03]: So she's likely referring to the Alabama Supreme Court

[00:37:07] [SPEAKER_03]: decision, which did rule that frozen embryos

[00:37:10] [SPEAKER_03]: are legally protected children.

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_03]: But, and this is a very important but,

[00:37:15] [SPEAKER_03]: this decision came down not for abortion,

[00:37:19] [SPEAKER_03]: but for couples wanting to sue an IVF provider

[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_03]: for losing their frozen embryos in an accident

[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_03]: at one of their storage facilities.

[00:37:28] [SPEAKER_03]: The ruling means those couples can now sue

[00:37:30] [SPEAKER_03]: under the state's wrongful death law.

[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Three providers in the state have paused their IVF services

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_03]: while they sort through,

[00:37:43] [SPEAKER_03]: while they sort through the legal implications of this,

[00:37:46] [SPEAKER_03]: but this is not a government ban.

[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_03]: So important context there.

[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris also claimed that Donald Trump said,

[00:37:56] [SPEAKER_03]: when mills cause cancer?

[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly true.

[00:38:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Donald Trump didn't directly say that

[00:38:02] [SPEAKER_03]: windmills calm cancer,

[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_03]: cause cancer, but he did say they tell me

[00:38:06] [SPEAKER_03]: the noise causes cancer and here is the video.

[00:38:10] [SPEAKER_18]: Hillary wanted to put up wind, wind.

[00:38:14] [SPEAKER_18]: If you, if you have a windmill anywhere near your house,

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_18]: congratulations, your house just went down 75% in value

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_18]: and they say the noise causes cancer.

[00:38:25] [SPEAKER_18]: You tell me that one, okay?

[00:38:27] [SPEAKER_18]: You know, the thing makes it so,

[00:38:29] [SPEAKER_18]: and of course it's like a graveyard for birds.

[00:38:33] [SPEAKER_18]: If you love birds, you'd never want to walk under a windmill.

[00:38:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claims Kamala Harris paid people

[00:38:45] [SPEAKER_03]: and bust them in to attend her rallies.

[00:38:48] [SPEAKER_03]: False at least as far as I could tell.

[00:38:52] [SPEAKER_03]: So Trump is likely referencing a Craigslist post

[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_03]: that made the rounds on social media

[00:38:56] [SPEAKER_03]: looking for people to wave anti-Trump signs

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_03]: at an event at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona.

[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Now, seems like a smoking gun, except even if this post

[00:39:08] [SPEAKER_03]: had been verifiably true,

[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_03]: the Harris campaign rally was held 18 miles away

[00:39:13] [SPEAKER_03]: at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.

[00:39:17] [SPEAKER_03]: The post also claimed that everyone at the rally was paid,

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_03]: but the post claim, oh I'm sorry,

[00:39:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump also claimed, in his claim,

[00:39:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump said that everyone at the rally was paid

[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_03]: and so did the post,

[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_03]: but the screenshot of the Craigslist post even said

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_03]: they were only looking to fill about 500 spots.

[00:39:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Rally attendance was much higher than that.

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claimed that Haitian migrants are eating,

[00:39:43] [SPEAKER_03]: they're eating the dogs, eating the cats.

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Eat the cat, eat the cat in Springfield, Ohio.

[00:39:50] [SPEAKER_03]: This is false as far as we can tell.

[00:39:53] [SPEAKER_03]: There is no substantial evidence to suggest

[00:39:55] [SPEAKER_03]: that any of this is true and certainly not widespread.

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_03]: The city manager did make a statement saying this was not happening.

[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Before you mention this, the viral video of a woman being arrested

[00:40:06] [SPEAKER_03]: by police for killing a cat,

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_03]: that took place in Canton, Ohio and she was in fact an American,

[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_03]: not a Haitian immigrant.

[00:40:14] [SPEAKER_03]: There have been several other videos

[00:40:16] [SPEAKER_03]: making the rounds on social media claiming

[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_03]: these events are happening.

[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_03]: They either show video that cannot be verified

[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_03]: to be part of these claims

[00:40:24] [SPEAKER_03]: or only show people talking about this happening.

[00:40:27] [SPEAKER_03]: This is what I like to call the speed wagon problem.

[00:40:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I heard it from a friend who, I heard it from a friend who.

[00:40:37] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what I'm saying, Hailey.

[00:40:38] [SPEAKER_03]: There have been no verified claims.

[00:40:40] [SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of people however.

[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_03]: I do the songs hilarious.

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_03]: They're eating the dogs, eating the cats, eat the cat.

[00:40:52] [SPEAKER_03]: It's been stuck in my head.

[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not gonna lie but to Hailey's point, yes that's true.

[00:40:56] [SPEAKER_03]: They've been largely debunked.

[00:40:58] [SPEAKER_03]: My point is though I'm seeing a lot,

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean I'm seeing a lot of videos online claiming

[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_03]: that this is in fact happening.

[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm saying false as far as I can tell

[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_03]: because there's been no evidence substantiating it

[00:41:13] [SPEAKER_03]: but there's a lot of testimony.

[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_03]: So probably 100% false but I'm a skeptic at heart.

[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala claimed that she has the endorsement of 200 Republicans.

[00:41:28] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly true but it is honestly a bit of a stretch.

[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_03]: There are about 10 high profile current

[00:41:37] [SPEAKER_03]: or former well-known Republicans

[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_03]: that have endorsed Kamala Harris

[00:41:41] [SPEAKER_03]: but the 200 number comes from including people

[00:41:44] [SPEAKER_03]: like former staffers, some going all the way back

[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_05]: to the Reagan administration.

[00:41:59] [SPEAKER_05]: Trump claimed no one was fired by the Biden administration

[00:42:03] [SPEAKER_03]: particularly after Afghanistan.

[00:42:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I almost messed this up.

[00:42:10] [SPEAKER_03]: What audio did you play for your dog Hailey,

[00:42:12] [SPEAKER_03]: the actual clip from Trump or the song remix?

[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to know.

[00:42:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Honestly I gotta say when I was actually no,

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_03]: I forgot there's video evidence of this.

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_03]: If you go back to us live streaming the debate

[00:42:25] [SPEAKER_03]: when he said that I actually went off.

[00:42:29] [SPEAKER_03]: No, I knew he was gonna do it.

[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_03]: He can't help himself.

[00:42:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see where was I?

[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_03]: I almost messed this up with the Biden administration

[00:42:40] [SPEAKER_03]: not firing anybody because I misread the context of it.

[00:42:43] [SPEAKER_03]: It's actually true.

[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_03]: The Biden administration has had turnover, yes,

[00:42:49] [SPEAKER_03]: but these have been mostly resignations

[00:42:51] [SPEAKER_03]: and some were promotions.

[00:42:53] [SPEAKER_03]: No one has been outright terminated

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_03]: although some are labeled as resigned under pressure.

[00:42:59] [SPEAKER_03]: So that's essentially a

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_03]: resign or we're gonna fire you.

[00:43:04] [SPEAKER_03]: But Trump was right.

[00:43:06] [SPEAKER_03]: The Biden administration has not actually fired anyone

[00:43:09] [SPEAKER_03]: in their cabinet or upper levels.

[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump also claims that in 2020

[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_03]: he received more votes than any Republican

[00:43:17] [SPEAKER_03]: or sitting president in history.

[00:43:19] [SPEAKER_03]: I honestly thought this was not true.

[00:43:22] [SPEAKER_03]: It is, it's verifiably true.

[00:43:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump is not lying.

[00:43:28] [SPEAKER_03]: The key is to how he worded it.

[00:43:30] [SPEAKER_03]: He said he received more votes

[00:43:31] [SPEAKER_03]: than any Republican or sitting president in history

[00:43:34] [SPEAKER_03]: because obviously Biden got more votes than he did

[00:43:36] [SPEAKER_03]: but Biden was not a sitting president or a Republican.

[00:43:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claimed that FBI crime stats

[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_03]: don't include the worst cities.

[00:43:45] [SPEAKER_03]: This one is debatable.

[00:43:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Crime stats are really tricky

[00:43:49] [SPEAKER_03]: because many crimes go unreported

[00:43:51] [SPEAKER_03]: to police and by police to hire authorities.

[00:43:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump's main claim is probably unlikely on purpose.

[00:44:04] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't understand what I meant by that.

[00:44:06] [SPEAKER_05]: Trump's main claim is probably unlikely on purpose.

[00:44:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I apologize.

[00:44:13] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what I meant by that.

[00:44:14] [SPEAKER_03]: No, however, FBI crime data shows

[00:44:16] [SPEAKER_03]: that crime isn't soaring

[00:44:17] [SPEAKER_03]: but it isn't falling either

[00:44:19] [SPEAKER_03]: according to an article from The Washington Post.

[00:44:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris claimed Mike Pence

[00:44:25] [SPEAKER_03]: called for defunding federal law enforcement.

[00:44:28] [SPEAKER_03]: This is false.

[00:44:29] [SPEAKER_03]: In fact, Pence actually called on Republicans

[00:44:32] [SPEAKER_03]: to stop calling for this.

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_03]: And here is Pence saying just that.

[00:44:36] [SPEAKER_24]: I also want to remind my fellow Republicans

[00:44:40] [SPEAKER_24]: we can hold the Attorney General accountable

[00:44:45] [SPEAKER_24]: for the decision that he made

[00:44:50] [SPEAKER_24]: without attacking a rank and file law enforcement personnel

[00:44:54] [SPEAKER_24]: at the FBI.

[00:45:01] [SPEAKER_24]: The Republican Party is the party of law and order.

[00:45:05] [SPEAKER_24]: Our party stands with the men and women who serve

[00:45:07] [SPEAKER_24]: on the thin blue line at the federal and state

[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_24]: and local level.

[00:45:12] [SPEAKER_24]: And these attacks on the FBI must stop.

[00:45:16] [SPEAKER_24]: Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong

[00:45:18] [SPEAKER_24]: as calls to defund the police.

[00:45:20] [SPEAKER_24]: And in the wake of the four years that we endured

[00:45:25] [SPEAKER_24]: the politicization of the FBI,

[00:45:28] [SPEAKER_24]: the American people have a right to know

[00:45:32] [SPEAKER_24]: the basis for this.

[00:45:36] [SPEAKER_24]: This unprecedented action does demand unprecedented

[00:45:39] [SPEAKER_24]: transparency.

[00:45:42] [SPEAKER_03]: As you can see courtesy of Newsweek.

[00:45:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala claimed Donald Trump said he would terminate

[00:45:50] [SPEAKER_03]: the Constitution.

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_03]: This is misleading.

[00:45:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump never said he would terminate the Constitution.

[00:45:56] [SPEAKER_03]: He did post on truth social regarding the results

[00:46:01] [SPEAKER_03]: of the 2020 election.

[00:46:02] [SPEAKER_03]: And I realize I should have had this pulled up.

[00:46:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I apologize.

[00:46:05] [SPEAKER_03]: So we're going to bring this up right now.

[00:46:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Where's that truth social?

[00:46:09] [SPEAKER_05]: There it is right there.

[00:46:12] [SPEAKER_05]: Just so you can see it.

[00:46:15] [SPEAKER_03]: And to quote Mr. Trump.

[00:46:18] [SPEAKER_03]: So with the revelation of massive and widespread fraud

[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_03]: and deception and working closely with big tech companies,

[00:46:27] [SPEAKER_03]: the DNC and the Democrat Party,

[00:46:30] [SPEAKER_03]: do you throw the presidential election results of 2020 out

[00:46:35] [SPEAKER_03]: and declare the rightful winner?

[00:46:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Or do you have a new election?

[00:46:40] [SPEAKER_03]: A massive fraud of this type and magnitude

[00:46:44] [SPEAKER_03]: allows for the termination of all rules, regulations,

[00:46:48] [SPEAKER_03]: and articles, even those found in the Constitution.

[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Our great founders did not want and would not condone

[00:46:56] [SPEAKER_03]: false and fraudulent elections.

[00:47:02] [SPEAKER_03]: So that is what Donald Trump had to say about that.

[00:47:04] [SPEAKER_03]: So you can see it's a misleading claim.

[00:47:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala also said that Trump said that he would weaponize

[00:47:14] [SPEAKER_03]: the Department of Justice against political enemy,

[00:47:19] [SPEAKER_03]: This is false.

[00:47:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump said in an interview that he would,

[00:47:25] [SPEAKER_03]: based on the precedent set by the Biden Department of Justice

[00:47:28] [SPEAKER_03]: justice case against him.

[00:47:31] [SPEAKER_03]: And here is a clip of Trump saying just that with the full context.

[00:47:36] [SPEAKER_22]: Former President Donald Trump says he could weaponize

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_22]: the Department of Justice to suit his agenda if he wins back the presidency.

[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_22]: He made the remarks during an exclusive interview with

[00:47:45] [SPEAKER_22]: Artur Enrique de Cevado on Noticas Univision.

[00:47:48] [SPEAKER_22]: He said that the DOJ's current investigations of him set a precedent

[00:47:52] [SPEAKER_22]: that he could take advantage of.

[00:47:54] [SPEAKER_18]: They have done something that allows the next party.

[00:47:57] [SPEAKER_18]: I mean, if somebody, if I happen to be president

[00:47:59] [SPEAKER_18]: and I see somebody who's doing well and beating me very badly,

[00:48:02] [SPEAKER_18]: I say go down and indict them.

[00:48:05] [SPEAKER_18]: Mostly that would be, you know, they would be out of business.

[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_18]: They'd be out.

[00:48:10] [SPEAKER_18]: They'd be out of the election.

[00:48:12] [SPEAKER_22]: Enrique C. Cevado joins us now.

[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_22]: He's a CBS News contributor and also an anchor for the Mexican News

[00:48:17] [SPEAKER_22]: streaming service NMS.

[00:48:19] [SPEAKER_22]: Enrique, good to see you, my friend.

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_22]: Let's get into this really interesting interview that you had

[00:48:23] [SPEAKER_22]: with the former president.

[00:48:24] [SPEAKER_22]: Do you take the comments that we just heard from him

[00:48:27] [SPEAKER_22]: as a threat towards President Biden?

[00:48:30] [SPEAKER_15]: Thanks, Lana.

[00:48:31] [SPEAKER_15]: I think the president is convinced really that

[00:48:34] [SPEAKER_15]: the indictments against him are more of a political prosecution

[00:48:38] [SPEAKER_15]: and then a legal process.

[00:48:40] [SPEAKER_15]: He views this as a witch hunt.

[00:48:42] [SPEAKER_15]: So he's saying this is a very dangerous president,

[00:48:45] [SPEAKER_15]: not just for him, but for anyone who comes to office

[00:48:48] [SPEAKER_15]: and plans to use the Department of Justice

[00:48:52] [SPEAKER_15]: or the FBI weaponizes the Department of Justice

[00:48:55] [SPEAKER_15]: or the FBI to go after political opponents.

[00:48:59] [SPEAKER_15]: That's why he was talking about the genie being out of the bottle, I think.

[00:49:02] [SPEAKER_22]: Let's also listen to...

[00:49:05] [SPEAKER_03]: And that, I think the other anchor really puts it in the context quite well

[00:49:12] [SPEAKER_03]: because Trump was saying that he could, based on the precedent,

[00:49:17] [SPEAKER_03]: not saying that he would necessarily.

[00:49:20] [SPEAKER_03]: That's one of those things where you would have to be able to prove intent

[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_03]: and I don't have a crystal ball that works.

[00:49:25] [SPEAKER_03]: So as far as the information that's available to us right now,

[00:49:29] [SPEAKER_03]: that is false.

[00:49:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris said that she would not ban fracking.

[00:49:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Again, this is going into the future a bit,

[00:49:39] [SPEAKER_03]: so this is a little unfair, I will admit,

[00:49:42] [SPEAKER_03]: but it's only because she has said differently in the past,

[00:49:45] [SPEAKER_03]: so I have this listed as debatable.

[00:49:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris said in 2019 both that she was in favor of banning fracking

[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_03]: and that the Biden administration would definitely ban fracking.

[00:49:56] [SPEAKER_03]: She has changed her position on this since then,

[00:49:59] [SPEAKER_03]: but here is the video from 2019 in which Kamala Harris says that.

[00:50:05] [SPEAKER_14]: We can do both.

[00:50:07] [SPEAKER_14]: Jesse Bludorn, I want to go to you.

[00:50:09] [SPEAKER_14]: She's a climate activist from New York City.

[00:50:11] [SPEAKER_14]: She works with the Climate Organization 350.org.

[00:50:15] [SPEAKER_14]: Jesse has a question on fracking.

[00:50:16] [SPEAKER_14]: Hi.

[00:50:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[00:50:18] [SPEAKER_01]: My family lives in Western Pennsylvania

[00:50:19] [SPEAKER_01]: where fracked gas wells have become a common site,

[00:50:23] [SPEAKER_01]: yet the toxic impacts of fracking on the community are immense

[00:50:26] [SPEAKER_01]: from contaminated groundwater to poisonous emissions.

[00:50:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Will you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking

[00:50:33] [SPEAKER_01]: your first day in office, adding the United States

[00:50:37] [SPEAKER_01]: to the list of countries who have banned this devastating practice?

[00:50:40] [SPEAKER_13]: There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.

[00:50:45] [SPEAKER_13]: Starting with what we can do on day one around public lands.

[00:50:49] [SPEAKER_13]: And then there has to be legislation, but yes,

[00:50:52] [SPEAKER_13]: and this is something I've taken on in California.

[00:50:54] [SPEAKER_13]: I have a history of working on this issue.

[00:50:55] [SPEAKER_13]: And to your point, we have to just acknowledge

[00:50:59] [SPEAKER_13]: that the residual impact of fracking is enormous

[00:51:02] [SPEAKER_13]: in terms of the impact on the health and safety of communities.

[00:51:05] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, so thank you.

[00:51:07] [SPEAKER_13]: So would you ban offshore drilling?

[00:51:08] [SPEAKER_13]: Yes.

[00:51:09] [SPEAKER_13]: And I've again worked on that.

[00:51:13] [SPEAKER_13]: You could talk to the folks in Santa Barbara

[00:51:16] [SPEAKER_13]: about the work that I've done there

[00:51:17] [SPEAKER_13]: where it's a big problem,

[00:51:18] [SPEAKER_13]: but it's a big problem in many areas of our country.

[00:51:21] [SPEAKER_13]: And yes, I would.

[00:51:22] [SPEAKER_03]: And Kamala Harris also claimed

[00:51:28] [SPEAKER_03]: that under the Inflation Reduction Act,

[00:51:30] [SPEAKER_03]: new fracking leases were open.

[00:51:32] [SPEAKER_03]: This is somewhat true, but once again,

[00:51:34] [SPEAKER_03]: requires a lot of context and kind of ruins her point.

[00:51:38] [SPEAKER_03]: It is somewhat true,

[00:51:39] [SPEAKER_03]: but it pales in comparison compared to Trump and even Obama.

[00:51:43] [SPEAKER_03]: As of 2023, the Biden-Harris administration has opened up

[00:51:46] [SPEAKER_03]: new drilling leases on 91,000 acres.

[00:51:49] [SPEAKER_03]: That sounds like a lot.

[00:51:50] [SPEAKER_03]: But when you compare, 1.7 million by 2012 under Obama

[00:51:56] [SPEAKER_03]: and 2.2 million by 2019 under Donald Trump.

[00:52:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala claimed that Trump was given $400 million by his father.

[00:52:11] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly false.

[00:52:13] [SPEAKER_03]: It depends on how you look at it.

[00:52:15] [SPEAKER_03]: But this also explains how Kamala thinks

[00:52:17] [SPEAKER_03]: that you can tax unrealized gains, capital gains.

[00:52:21] [SPEAKER_03]: So Trump did receive an inheritance

[00:52:22] [SPEAKER_03]: of what would be around $413 million in today's dollars,

[00:52:27] [SPEAKER_03]: but this was back in the 1990s.

[00:52:30] [SPEAKER_03]: So it wasn't $400 million in 1990s.

[00:52:33] [SPEAKER_03]: It would be considered that much by today's standards.

[00:52:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Where was I?

[00:52:43] [SPEAKER_03]: I lost my spot.

[00:52:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it was also in the form of various properties and investments.

[00:52:47] [SPEAKER_03]: So to say it was $400 million is a little overly simplistic.

[00:52:51] [SPEAKER_03]: However, this is the kind of stuff

[00:52:52] [SPEAKER_03]: that Kamala wants to tax unrealized capital gains.

[00:52:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Now, Trump would have paid taxes on this under the estate tax laws.

[00:53:00] [SPEAKER_03]: However, it is alleged that through various means of tax sheltering,

[00:53:05] [SPEAKER_03]: he allegedly didn't pay very much of any taxes on that inheritance.

[00:53:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala also claimed that Trump filed bankruptcy six times.

[00:53:15] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly true.

[00:53:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump's businesses have filed bankruptcy six times.

[00:53:22] [SPEAKER_03]: So if you're going to get nitpicky,

[00:53:23] [SPEAKER_03]: technically Trump didn't, his businesses did,

[00:53:25] [SPEAKER_03]: but that's why it's mostly true because Trump did for his businesses.

[00:53:31] [SPEAKER_03]: And so this part of the debate really brought up a,

[00:53:35] [SPEAKER_03]: every time they bring up social security,

[00:53:37] [SPEAKER_03]: I just lose my mind a little bit.

[00:53:38] [SPEAKER_03]: So here's a social security fun fact for you.

[00:53:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Back in 2002, George W.

[00:53:45] [SPEAKER_03]: All right, I can't remember if it was 2001 or two,

[00:53:47] [SPEAKER_03]: but it was early in his presidency.

[00:53:48] [SPEAKER_03]: George W. Bush provost privatizing at least some of social security,

[00:53:53] [SPEAKER_03]: and people before him have said that the whole thing should be privatized.

[00:53:58] [SPEAKER_03]: And for some reason people push back on this,

[00:54:01] [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's because they don't understand what that means.

[00:54:06] [SPEAKER_03]: So to put this into perspective for you,

[00:54:09] [SPEAKER_03]: and don't worry, I didn't do the math.

[00:54:12] [SPEAKER_03]: I had somebody else do the math.

[00:54:14] [SPEAKER_03]: The current Social Security Trust Fund today,

[00:54:17] [SPEAKER_03]: or at least a couple of days ago,

[00:54:18] [SPEAKER_03]: sits at about $2.9 trillion.

[00:54:22] [SPEAKER_03]: In 2002 when Bush was president,

[00:54:24] [SPEAKER_03]: the fund was at $1.2 trillion.

[00:54:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Seems good, right?

[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_03]: It seems like it's pretty much, it's more than doubled, right?

[00:54:32] [SPEAKER_03]: However, if social security had followed the Dow Jones rate of return

[00:54:36] [SPEAKER_03]: via something like an index fund, for example,

[00:54:40] [SPEAKER_03]: and had been left alone,

[00:54:42] [SPEAKER_03]: meaning no money was spent and no money was added,

[00:54:45] [SPEAKER_03]: social security would have around $8.2 trillion in the fund today.

[00:54:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Now, you may say, well, that's not a fair comparison

[00:54:53] [SPEAKER_03]: because money gets taken out and put in all the time.

[00:54:55] [SPEAKER_03]: So obviously it wouldn't grow that much.

[00:54:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Ah, using the same equation,

[00:55:01] [SPEAKER_03]: but at the high average return on the Social Security Trust Fund,

[00:55:05] [SPEAKER_03]: historically, which is, I looked it up today,

[00:55:09] [SPEAKER_03]: it's like 4.25% somewhere along there, slightly above four.

[00:55:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Assuming no money was added or taken out just like the other example,

[00:55:17] [SPEAKER_03]: the fund would sit at today around $2.96 trillion,

[00:55:24] [SPEAKER_03]: as opposed to $8.2 trillion by following the stock market trend.

[00:55:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Social security is a scam, and the reason it is a scam

[00:55:33] [SPEAKER_03]: is because the government borrows from social security quite often,

[00:55:37] [SPEAKER_03]: and when they borrow from social security,

[00:55:40] [SPEAKER_03]: it pays the money back with interest, but through taxes.

[00:55:45] [SPEAKER_03]: So, the government takes the money that was taken out of your paycheck

[00:55:48] [SPEAKER_03]: that was supposed to be set aside for your retirement,

[00:55:51] [SPEAKER_03]: borrows from it, and pays you back with your tax money.

[00:55:58] [SPEAKER_05]: If it weren't the government, that shit would be illegal

[00:56:00] [SPEAKER_05]: because it's a scam.

[00:56:07] [SPEAKER_05]: It's like the bank taking your money, giving you a loan.

[00:56:11] [SPEAKER_05]: No, it's even worse than that.

[00:56:12] [SPEAKER_05]: The bank takes your money,

[00:56:16] [SPEAKER_05]: borrows it, and then makes you pay it back.

[00:56:20] [SPEAKER_03]: That's ridiculous.

[00:56:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Whereas a privatized social security system would basically be

[00:56:26] [SPEAKER_03]: like the government still takes it out of your check,

[00:56:27] [SPEAKER_03]: but puts it into like I said, an index fund that is yours.

[00:56:33] [SPEAKER_03]: It is your index fund, and that retirement grows

[00:56:36] [SPEAKER_03]: based along with the stock market, which historically gains,

[00:56:40] [SPEAKER_03]: I think on average it gains about 7% annually.

[00:56:43] [SPEAKER_03]: It can be anywhere from 4 to 12 really.

[00:56:45] [SPEAKER_03]: That's where they get the 7% figure, and it's 7-ish.

[00:56:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't eviscerate me in the comments, but it's spicy to say

[00:56:52] [SPEAKER_03]: if social security were privatized,

[00:56:54] [SPEAKER_03]: you'd have a lot more money for retirement.

[00:56:58] [SPEAKER_03]: And ironically, the government could borrow it

[00:57:00] [SPEAKER_03]: and you'd still come out ahead.

[00:57:03] [SPEAKER_03]: The next time somebody pushes for privatizing social security,

[00:57:06] [SPEAKER_03]: let them do it.

[00:57:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claimed that Harris helped raise funds

[00:57:11] [SPEAKER_03]: for the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

[00:57:12] [SPEAKER_03]: This is mostly true.

[00:57:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Her help raising funds was her posting a link on Twitter,

[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_03]: but it doesn't appear to be directly involved,

[00:57:21] [SPEAKER_03]: that she was directly involved with the fundraising.

[00:57:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump also claimed that Kamala used taxpayers' money

[00:57:27] [SPEAKER_03]: to pay for transgender surgery for illegal migrants in prison.

[00:57:31] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, and here is the video of her saying that.

[00:57:34] [SPEAKER_13]: That they were standing in the way of surgery.

[00:57:39] [SPEAKER_13]: For prisoners.

[00:57:40] [SPEAKER_13]: For prisoners.

[00:57:41] [SPEAKER_13]: And there was a specific case.

[00:57:43] [SPEAKER_13]: And when I learned about the case,

[00:57:45] [SPEAKER_13]: I worked behind the scenes to not only make sure

[00:57:47] [SPEAKER_13]: that that transgender woman got the services she was deserving.

[00:57:52] [SPEAKER_13]: So it wasn't only about that case.

[00:57:54] [SPEAKER_13]: I made sure that they changed the policy

[00:57:56] [SPEAKER_13]: in the state of California so that every transgender

[00:58:02] [SPEAKER_13]: inmate in the prison system would have access

[00:58:04] [SPEAKER_13]: to the medical care that they desired and need.

[00:58:08] [SPEAKER_13]: And I believe it was not only...

[00:58:10] [SPEAKER_13]: I know it was historic in California,

[00:58:11] [SPEAKER_13]: but I believe actually it may have been one of the first,

[00:58:14] [SPEAKER_13]: if not the first in the country,

[00:58:16] [SPEAKER_13]: where I pushed for that policy in a department of corrections.

[00:58:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump also claimed that Ashley Babbit

[00:58:26] [SPEAKER_03]: was the only person killed on January 6th.

[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, but again, requires some context.

[00:58:34] [SPEAKER_03]: There were other fatalities.

[00:58:37] [SPEAKER_03]: But Babbit was the only person who could be said

[00:58:40] [SPEAKER_03]: to have been definitively killed because

[00:58:42] [SPEAKER_03]: of the January 6th riot on the day of.

[00:58:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Initial reports were different,

[00:58:47] [SPEAKER_03]: but after other information came to light,

[00:58:49] [SPEAKER_03]: this became clear again.

[00:58:50] [SPEAKER_03]: This is verifiable.

[00:58:51] [SPEAKER_03]: You can Google it.

[00:58:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I said, other people did die on that day,

[00:58:56] [SPEAKER_03]: but you can't definitively say it was because of the riot.

[00:59:03] [SPEAKER_03]: What's the worst about Kamala,

[00:59:07] [SPEAKER_03]: the using taxpayer funds for transgender surgeries in prison?

[00:59:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think that's what you're referring to.

[00:59:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump also claimed that Kamala Harris was appointed

[00:59:18] [SPEAKER_03]: as Borders are by President Biden through.

[00:59:22] [SPEAKER_03]: The title of borders are is an unofficial title,

[00:59:24] [SPEAKER_03]: but Harris was referred to as the borders are on several occasions.

[00:59:29] [SPEAKER_03]: And here is again, I always say nothing is better than video evidence.

[00:59:35] [SPEAKER_03]: So here you go.

[00:59:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, first, you know,

[00:59:38] [SPEAKER_02]: there is nothing we love here on the US report

[00:59:41] [SPEAKER_02]: more than the media getting caught out lying for the left.

[00:59:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, everyone knows that one of the jobs Joe Biden gave Kamala Harris

[00:59:51] [SPEAKER_02]: back in the start of the administration

[00:59:53] [SPEAKER_02]: was to look after illegal immigration.

[00:59:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And she was given the informal title of borders are.

[01:00:01] [SPEAKER_02]: But now that Harris is running for president,

[01:00:05] [SPEAKER_02]: there's a huge push on to deny that the southern border,

[01:00:10] [SPEAKER_02]: which has seen around 11 million illegal crossings in the past four years,

[01:00:14] [SPEAKER_02]: was ever part of her responsibility.

[01:00:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Check this out put together by our friends at the media resource center

[01:00:22] [SPEAKER_02]: about what the media used to say about Harris and what they're saying now.

[01:00:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Now that the campaign has put the word out to do an about face.

[01:00:32] [SPEAKER_27]: What unquote borders are.

[01:00:34] [SPEAKER_27]: Vice President Harris was not a borders are.

[01:00:37] [SPEAKER_19]: Being time vice president and borders are Kamala Harris facing some backlash.

[01:00:41] [SPEAKER_27]: What he said about Harris and immigration was not true.

[01:00:44] [SPEAKER_27]: She was never appointed borders are.

[01:00:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And this will be her first visit to the US Mexico border region.

[01:00:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Since she was appointed as the borders are by President Biden,

[01:00:53] [SPEAKER_19]: people have to counter the misinformation.

[01:00:55] [SPEAKER_19]: You already hear folks talking about the borders are.

[01:00:57] [SPEAKER_12]: She wasn't the borders are president Biden tapped Kamala Harris,

[01:01:00] [SPEAKER_12]: vice president Kamala Harris to be the borders are now.

[01:01:03] [SPEAKER_23]: She wasn't the borders are.

[01:01:05] [SPEAKER_23]: That's what Republicans labeled her.

[01:01:07] [SPEAKER_14]: They were very critical of Kamala Harris,

[01:01:10] [SPEAKER_14]: especially in her role as borders are now what she's up against

[01:01:13] [SPEAKER_14]: is folks lying about her border record calling her a border are Kamala Harris

[01:01:17] [SPEAKER_26]: who was appointed as the borders are.

[01:01:19] [SPEAKER_14]: The Biden team didn't declare her the borders are.

[01:01:21] [SPEAKER_14]: They wanted her to work on kind of the root causes of immigration.

[01:01:23] [SPEAKER_20]: There has been so much criticism against Kamala Harris.

[01:01:26] [SPEAKER_27]: You know, she was the borders are calling her sort of the borders are,

[01:01:29] [SPEAKER_27]: which wasn't necessarily the case.

[01:01:31] [SPEAKER_20]: So the border if they weren't planning to address it in a major way,

[01:01:34] [SPEAKER_20]: do not make her your borders are.

[01:01:36] [SPEAKER_20]: She met with some of the Northern Triangle countries,

[01:01:37] [SPEAKER_20]: but nothing has effectively changed.

[01:01:40] [SPEAKER_02]: You can just see.

[01:01:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Like to think are well, they're not our friends,

[01:01:46] [SPEAKER_03]: but I appreciate their work at Sky News Australia.

[01:01:49] [SPEAKER_03]: It's interesting to know that every time they say about Trump,

[01:01:53] [SPEAKER_03]: that the international community is laughing at us.

[01:01:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Sky News Australia has a segment on just about every one of their cast

[01:01:59] [SPEAKER_03]: making fun of the Biden Harris administration.

[01:02:01] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's not exclusively Trump.

[01:02:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claims that Nancy Pelosi rejected the National Guard for January 6th.

[01:02:10] [SPEAKER_03]: This is hard to say exactly whether this is true or false,

[01:02:13] [SPEAKER_03]: but Pelosi did say on tape that she takes responsibility for what's that work,

[01:02:18] [SPEAKER_03]: for what that's worth.

[01:02:19] [SPEAKER_03]: I am going to show you the clip in its entirety.

[01:02:21] [SPEAKER_03]: However, it is worth noting that this is lacking some context here,

[01:02:25] [SPEAKER_03]: but here it is.

[01:02:27] [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, but I feel responsible.

[01:02:30] [SPEAKER_10]: I mean we asked them to put out a piece of paper saying

[01:02:34] [SPEAKER_10]: you know, go through the tunnel, don't go outside.

[01:02:37] [SPEAKER_10]: They say they got stuff, but they can't tell us what it is.

[01:02:40] [SPEAKER_10]: It's too prepay, they want the other side to know.

[01:02:43] [SPEAKER_10]: We have responsibility, Terry.

[01:02:46] [SPEAKER_10]: We did not have any accountability for what was going on there,

[01:02:50] [SPEAKER_10]: and we should have.

[01:02:52] [SPEAKER_10]: This is ridiculous.

[01:02:54] [SPEAKER_10]: You're going to ask me in the middle of the thing

[01:02:56] [SPEAKER_10]: when they've already breached the, the, the inaugural stuff that,

[01:03:01] [SPEAKER_10]: that should we call the Capitol Police?

[01:03:06] [SPEAKER_10]: I mean the National Guard.

[01:03:08] [SPEAKER_10]: Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?

[01:03:12] [SPEAKER_10]: They thought that they had sufficient resources.

[01:03:14] [SPEAKER_10]: That is not a question of how they had made,

[01:03:16] [SPEAKER_10]: they don't know.

[01:03:18] [SPEAKER_10]: They clearly didn't know, and I take responsibility

[01:03:21] [SPEAKER_10]: for not having them just prepare for war,

[01:03:25] [SPEAKER_10]: because it's stupid that we should be in a situation like this,

[01:03:29] [SPEAKER_10]: because they thought they had what?

[01:03:31] [SPEAKER_10]: They thought these people would act civilized.

[01:03:34] [SPEAKER_10]: They thought these people gave a damn.

[01:03:37] [SPEAKER_10]: What is it that is missing here in terms of anticipation?

[01:03:54] [SPEAKER_10]: So what's the prospect?

[01:03:55] [SPEAKER_10]: We're going to stay here all day for the rest of our lives, or what?

[01:03:59] [SPEAKER_10]: We're here until what?

[01:04:01] [SPEAKER_10]: Until the National Guard decides to come and get rid of these people.

[01:04:06] [SPEAKER_10]: I'm going to take full responsibility.

[01:04:27] [SPEAKER_09]: Just feel sick that what you did to the Capitol and to the country today.

[01:04:36] [SPEAKER_11]: We've strictly taken on to protect our country from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

[01:04:43] [SPEAKER_11]: There is a domestic enemy in the White House.

[01:04:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Would like to point out I did not edit any of that clip.

[01:04:54] [SPEAKER_03]: That was the news outlet that did the editing on that.

[01:04:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala claimed that Trump incited a violent mob on January 6th.

[01:05:01] [SPEAKER_03]: This is partially true, but false on the main point, meaning the incitement part.

[01:05:06] [SPEAKER_03]: So Trump did direct supporters to go to the Capitol after his speech,

[01:05:10] [SPEAKER_03]: but he indicated to do so to peacefully protest.

[01:05:14] [SPEAKER_03]: And here is Trump saying just that.

[01:05:17] [SPEAKER_18]: I'm to demand that Congress do the right thing

[01:05:21] [SPEAKER_18]: and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated,

[01:05:26] [SPEAKER_18]: lawfully slated.

[01:05:28] [SPEAKER_18]: I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building

[01:05:33] [SPEAKER_18]: to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard today.

[01:05:38] [SPEAKER_18]: We will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections,

[01:05:45] [SPEAKER_18]: but whether or not they stand strong for our country.

[01:05:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Again, video evidence is a beautiful thing.

[01:05:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala also claimed that 140 officers were hospitalized on January 6th.

[01:06:00] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm writing this down as true because it's close enough.

[01:06:03] [SPEAKER_03]: She rounded up by two, there were 138.

[01:06:06] [SPEAKER_03]: She also brought back to Charlottesville good people on both sides claim.

[01:06:14] [SPEAKER_03]: As Trump pointed out during the debate, this has been debunked.

[01:06:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump did not say that.

[01:06:18] [SPEAKER_03]: What he was referring to as far as the people on both sides,

[01:06:23] [SPEAKER_03]: he was referring to people on both sides of the statues argument,

[01:06:26] [SPEAKER_03]: not the violent acts.

[01:06:28] [SPEAKER_03]: And here is the full clip in full context.

[01:06:35] [SPEAKER_18]: I'm not putting anybody on a moral plan.

[01:06:38] [SPEAKER_18]: What I'm saying is this, you had a group on one side and you had a group on the other

[01:06:42] [SPEAKER_18]: and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible.

[01:06:45] [SPEAKER_18]: And it was a horrible thing to watch.

[01:06:48] [SPEAKER_18]: But there is another side.

[01:06:49] [SPEAKER_18]: There was a group on this side, you can call them the left or you've just called them the left

[01:06:54] [SPEAKER_18]: that came violently attacking the other group.

[01:06:57] [SPEAKER_18]: So you can say what you want but that's the way it is.

[01:07:05] [SPEAKER_26]: I do think there's blame.

[01:07:07] [SPEAKER_18]: Yes, I think there's blame on both sides.

[01:07:09] [SPEAKER_18]: You look at you look at both sides.

[01:07:12] [SPEAKER_18]: I think there's blame on both sides and I have no doubt about it

[01:07:15] [SPEAKER_18]: and you don't have any doubt about it either.

[01:07:19] [SPEAKER_18]: And if you reported it accurately, you would say.

[01:07:34] [SPEAKER_18]: But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.

[01:07:40] [SPEAKER_18]: You had people in that group.

[01:07:42] [SPEAKER_18]: Excuse me, excuse me.

[01:07:43] [SPEAKER_18]: I saw the same pictures as you did.

[01:07:45] [SPEAKER_18]: You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of to them

[01:07:51] [SPEAKER_18]: a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.

[01:07:58] [SPEAKER_18]: George Washington was a slave owner.

[01:08:01] [SPEAKER_18]: Was George Washington a slave owner?

[01:08:03] [SPEAKER_18]: So will George Washington now lose his status?

[01:08:06] [SPEAKER_18]: Are we going to take down?

[01:08:07] [SPEAKER_18]: Excuse me.

[01:08:09] [SPEAKER_18]: Are we going to take down?

[01:08:10] [SPEAKER_18]: Are we going to take down statues to George Washington?

[01:08:13] [SPEAKER_18]: How about Thomas Jefferson?

[01:08:15] [SPEAKER_18]: What do you think of Thomas Jefferson?

[01:08:16] [SPEAKER_18]: You like him?

[01:08:17] [SPEAKER_15]: Okay, good.

[01:08:18] [SPEAKER_18]: Are we going to take down the statue because he was a major slave owner.

[01:08:21] [SPEAKER_18]: Now we're going to take down his statue.

[01:08:24] [SPEAKER_18]: So you know what?

[01:08:25] [SPEAKER_18]: It's fine.

[01:08:25] [SPEAKER_18]: You're changing history.

[01:08:27] [SPEAKER_18]: You're changing culture and you had people and I'm not talking

[01:08:30] [SPEAKER_18]: about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists

[01:08:33] [SPEAKER_18]: because they should be condemned totally.

[01:08:35] [SPEAKER_18]: But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.

[01:08:40] [SPEAKER_18]: Okay.

[01:08:41] [SPEAKER_18]: And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.

[01:08:45] [SPEAKER_18]: Now in the other group also, you had some fine people

[01:08:48] [SPEAKER_18]: but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits

[01:08:54] [SPEAKER_18]: and with the helmets and with the baseball bats.

[01:08:57] [SPEAKER_18]: You got a lot of bad people in the other group too.

[01:09:01] [SPEAKER_12]: I'm sorry.

[01:09:02] [SPEAKER_12]: I'm sorry.

[01:09:02] [SPEAKER_12]: I just didn't understand what you were saying.

[01:09:03] [SPEAKER_12]: The press has treated white nationalists unfairly.

[01:09:05] [SPEAKER_12]: I just didn't understand what you were saying.

[01:09:06] [SPEAKER_18]: There were people in that rally and I looked the night before.

[01:09:10] [SPEAKER_18]: If you look, they were people protesting very quietly,

[01:09:16] [SPEAKER_18]: the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.

[01:09:21] [SPEAKER_18]: I'm sure in that group there was some bad ones.

[01:09:22] [SPEAKER_18]: The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people.

[01:09:27] [SPEAKER_18]: Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.

[01:09:31] [SPEAKER_18]: But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest

[01:09:35] [SPEAKER_18]: and very legally protest because, I don't know if you know,

[01:09:39] [SPEAKER_18]: they had a permit.

[01:09:40] [SPEAKER_18]: The other group didn't have a permit.

[01:09:42] [SPEAKER_18]: So I only tell you this.

[01:09:45] [SPEAKER_18]: There are two sides to a story.

[01:09:47] [SPEAKER_18]: I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country,

[01:09:52] [SPEAKER_18]: a horrible moment.

[01:09:53] [SPEAKER_18]: But there are two sides to the country.

[01:09:56] [SPEAKER_03]: And there was Trump in full context.

[01:10:00] [SPEAKER_03]: So Kamala also said that Donald Trump had said, quote,

[01:10:04] [SPEAKER_03]: there would be a bloodbath if he lost the election.

[01:10:07] [SPEAKER_03]: This was taken out of context.

[01:10:09] [SPEAKER_05]: Trump was referring to the economic future.

[01:10:17] [SPEAKER_05]: What did I...

[01:10:19] [SPEAKER_05]: Sorry, Will.

[01:10:22] [SPEAKER_03]: You told them to go...

[01:10:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you give me some more context in your comment there?

[01:10:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Where was I going?

[01:10:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, there would be a bloodbath.

[01:10:35] [SPEAKER_03]: There's a thing in that context.

[01:10:36] [SPEAKER_03]: The bloodbath comment, Trump was referring to the economic future of the country

[01:10:40] [SPEAKER_03]: using bloodbath as an expression of a bad situation

[01:10:43] [SPEAKER_03]: while talking with auto workers.

[01:10:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Here is the full clip with context.

[01:10:47] [SPEAKER_18]: And ahead of the United Auto Workers,

[01:10:50] [SPEAKER_18]: never probably shook hands with a Republican before.

[01:10:53] [SPEAKER_18]: They're destroying...

[01:10:54] [SPEAKER_18]: You know, Mexico has taken over a period of 30 years,

[01:10:58] [SPEAKER_18]: 34% of the automobile manufacturing business in our country.

[01:11:03] [SPEAKER_18]: Think of it.

[01:11:03] [SPEAKER_18]: Went to Mexico.

[01:11:05] [SPEAKER_18]: China now is building a couple of massive plants

[01:11:08] [SPEAKER_18]: where they're going to build the cars in Mexico

[01:11:11] [SPEAKER_18]: and think, they think that they're going to sell those cars

[01:11:14] [SPEAKER_18]: into the United States with no tax at the border.

[01:11:17] [SPEAKER_18]: Let me tell you something to China.

[01:11:19] [SPEAKER_18]: If you're listening, President Xi,

[01:11:20] [SPEAKER_18]: and you and I are friends,

[01:11:21] [SPEAKER_18]: but he understands the way I deal,

[01:11:24] [SPEAKER_18]: those big monster car manufacturing plants

[01:11:28] [SPEAKER_18]: that you're building in Mexico right now,

[01:11:30] [SPEAKER_18]: and you think you're going to get that,

[01:11:32] [SPEAKER_18]: you're going to not hire Americans,

[01:11:34] [SPEAKER_18]: and you're going to sell the cars to us.

[01:11:35] [SPEAKER_18]: No, we're going to put a 100% tariff

[01:11:38] [SPEAKER_18]: on every single car that comes across the line,

[01:11:41] [SPEAKER_18]: and you're not going to be able to sell those cars.

[01:11:44] [SPEAKER_18]: If I get elected, now if I don't get elected,

[01:11:47] [SPEAKER_18]: it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole...

[01:11:49] [SPEAKER_18]: That's going to be the least of it.

[01:11:51] [SPEAKER_18]: It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.

[01:11:52] [SPEAKER_18]: That'll be the least of it.

[01:11:54] [SPEAKER_18]: But they're not going to sell those cars.

[01:11:56] [SPEAKER_18]: They're building massive factories.

[01:11:57] [SPEAKER_18]: A friend of mine, all he does is build car manufacturing plants.

[01:12:01] [SPEAKER_18]: He's the biggest in the world.

[01:12:03] [SPEAKER_18]: I mean, honestly, I joke about it.

[01:12:06] [SPEAKER_18]: He can't walk across the street in that way.

[01:12:08] [SPEAKER_18]: He's like Biden, but for building a plant,

[01:12:11] [SPEAKER_18]: he can do the greatest plants in the world, right?

[01:12:14] [SPEAKER_18]: That's all he cares about.

[01:12:15] [SPEAKER_18]: I said, I'd like to see one of your plants recently.

[01:12:18] [SPEAKER_18]: I said, I'd like to see where can we go?

[01:12:20] [SPEAKER_18]: Well, we have to travel to Mexico.

[01:12:22] [SPEAKER_18]: I said, why Mexico?

[01:12:24] [SPEAKER_18]: He said, because that's where the big plants are building.

[01:12:26] [SPEAKER_18]: China is building really big plants in Mexico

[01:12:28] [SPEAKER_18]: and Mexico is building.

[01:12:30] [SPEAKER_18]: What about here?

[01:12:30] [SPEAKER_18]: Well, we're building much smaller plants here.

[01:12:33] [SPEAKER_18]: Can you believe it?

[01:12:34] [SPEAKER_18]: Can you believe it?

[01:12:35] [SPEAKER_18]: So what they're saying, Jim Jordan,

[01:12:38] [SPEAKER_18]: is that we're going to make cars in Mexico

[01:12:41] [SPEAKER_18]: and they're going to do...

[01:12:42] [SPEAKER_18]: You're not going to stand for that Bernie J.D.?

[01:12:44] [SPEAKER_18]: I have a feeling J.D. is not big into that policy.

[01:12:49] [SPEAKER_18]: 100 percent tariff.

[01:12:50] [SPEAKER_18]: They won't sell any cars over here.

[01:12:52] [SPEAKER_18]: And I'll tell them if they want to build a plant

[01:12:57] [SPEAKER_18]: in Michigan, in Ohio, in South Carolina,

[01:13:01] [SPEAKER_18]: they can using American workers.

[01:13:04] [SPEAKER_18]: They can.

[01:13:05] [SPEAKER_18]: They can't send Chinese workers over here,

[01:13:07] [SPEAKER_18]: which they sometimes do.

[01:13:09] [SPEAKER_18]: But if they want to do that, we're welcome, right?

[01:13:11] [SPEAKER_18]: But they're not going to build them in Mexico

[01:13:13] [SPEAKER_18]: and they're not going to do that.

[01:13:14] [SPEAKER_18]: We're going to tariff them at 100 percent,

[01:13:17] [SPEAKER_18]: just like I've done.

[01:13:18] [SPEAKER_18]: I saved the steel industry.

[01:13:20] [SPEAKER_18]: The people that liked me the most

[01:13:21] [SPEAKER_18]: are the steel companies.

[01:13:22] [SPEAKER_18]: But now I've been out for a little while

[01:13:24] [SPEAKER_18]: and guess what?

[01:13:25] [SPEAKER_18]: United States Steel, 50 years, 60 years ago,

[01:13:30] [SPEAKER_18]: maybe the greatest company in the world,

[01:13:32] [SPEAKER_18]: was just sold to Japan.

[01:13:34] [SPEAKER_18]: How do you like that?

[01:13:35] [SPEAKER_18]: U.S. Steel owned and controlled by Japan.

[01:13:39] [SPEAKER_18]: I wouldn't have allowed it to happen.

[01:13:41] [SPEAKER_18]: Hopefully they won't allow it to happen.

[01:13:43] [SPEAKER_18]: When I'm...

[01:13:45] [SPEAKER_03]: And that was...

[01:13:46] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry I had to put you through that,

[01:13:48] [SPEAKER_03]: but it was the full, full clip.

[01:13:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claims that Biden could close the border on his own.

[01:13:56] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, at least temporarily,

[01:13:58] [SPEAKER_03]: through executive action.

[01:14:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Could use a section of U.S. immigration law, AMNA,

[01:14:05] [SPEAKER_03]: that's known as 212F authority,

[01:14:07] [SPEAKER_03]: that gives President Biden the power,

[01:14:09] [SPEAKER_03]: or any president, powers to suspend entry

[01:14:13] [SPEAKER_03]: of migrants temporarily across the southern border.

[01:14:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure what you mean by that,

[01:14:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Quill, by either one.

[01:14:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Who told who to go and you're not in the third world?

[01:14:25] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure of your context there.

[01:14:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claimed that judges said his election case

[01:14:33] [SPEAKER_03]: were dismissed because they didn't have standing.

[01:14:36] [SPEAKER_03]: This is partially false, it depends on your point of view.

[01:14:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Courts dismissed more than 50 lawsuits

[01:14:42] [SPEAKER_03]: of alleged electoral fraud and irregularities

[01:14:45] [SPEAKER_03]: presented by Trump and allies.

[01:14:47] [SPEAKER_03]: U.S. election security officials have said

[01:14:50] [SPEAKER_03]: the election was, quote,

[01:14:51] [SPEAKER_03]: the most secure in American history.

[01:14:54] [SPEAKER_03]: But Trump's case made the opposite argument

[01:14:56] [SPEAKER_03]: and they were not taken up by the courts.

[01:14:59] [SPEAKER_03]: So I don't know necessarily that they said,

[01:15:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I know there was one case where they said

[01:15:03] [SPEAKER_03]: they didn't have standing.

[01:15:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if that's true for all of them.

[01:15:06] [SPEAKER_03]: The fact of the matter is the cases were not taken up,

[01:15:09] [SPEAKER_03]: allegedly due to lack of evidence,

[01:15:11] [SPEAKER_03]: but the fact that the people that they were basically

[01:15:16] [SPEAKER_03]: suing against said they were the most secure elections in history

[01:15:19] [SPEAKER_03]: and I'm not saying they were insecure.

[01:15:21] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm just saying it's very curious that the plaintiff of a case

[01:15:28] [SPEAKER_03]: is alleging that the elections were not secure

[01:15:30] [SPEAKER_03]: and the election's governing body said no they were

[01:15:33] [SPEAKER_03]: and that was enough to not take the case up.

[01:15:35] [SPEAKER_03]: So there had to have been more to it than that.

[01:15:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see, Trump claimed Kamala wouldn't meet with

[01:15:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Benjamin Netanyahu when he came to D.C.

[01:15:49] [SPEAKER_03]: because she would rather go to a sorority event.

[01:15:51] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, but it's missing some context.

[01:15:54] [SPEAKER_03]: So Harris had that event scheduled prior,

[01:15:58] [SPEAKER_03]: which she kept the date.

[01:15:59] [SPEAKER_03]: She did meet with Netanyahu the next day.

[01:16:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claims Iran was broke under his administration.

[01:16:08] [SPEAKER_03]: This is pretty much true according to Politifact.

[01:16:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Well when I came into office,

[01:16:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Iran had 70 billion in foreign exchange reserves,

[01:16:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump said.

[01:16:17] [SPEAKER_03]: It was loaded up with money from Obama.

[01:16:20] [SPEAKER_03]: This piggy bank was full and it was also full of terrorists.

[01:16:24] [SPEAKER_03]: By the time I left, they had nothing.

[01:16:26] [SPEAKER_03]: They were broke.

[01:16:27] [SPEAKER_03]: They were broke.

[01:16:29] [SPEAKER_03]: So Trump's numbers are off,

[01:16:31] [SPEAKER_03]: but his description of the plummeting trend line

[01:16:34] [SPEAKER_03]: holds up according to Politifact as well.

[01:16:37] [SPEAKER_03]: The plunge was about 60% more dramatic

[01:16:39] [SPEAKER_03]: than the figures that he had used.

[01:16:41] [SPEAKER_03]: So Iran was actually worse off than he had alleged in his figures.

[01:16:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala Harris claimed that Trump invited

[01:16:50] [SPEAKER_03]: the Taliban to Camp David for negotiations.

[01:16:52] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, but the meeting was canceled

[01:16:54] [SPEAKER_03]: soon after the invitation was extended.

[01:16:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claimed that he got the Taliban

[01:16:59] [SPEAKER_03]: to stop killing American soldiers in Afghanistan

[01:17:02] [SPEAKER_03]: for 18 months.

[01:17:03] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true, but that 18 month period

[01:17:06] [SPEAKER_03]: did extend into the Biden administration.

[01:17:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claimed that the Biden administration

[01:17:17] [SPEAKER_03]: left $85 billion in military equipment in Afghanistan.

[01:17:21] [SPEAKER_03]: This is, it's half true.

[01:17:24] [SPEAKER_03]: So $83 billion had been allocated

[01:17:27] [SPEAKER_03]: from military use in Afghanistan since 2001.

[01:17:30] [SPEAKER_03]: But this included things like troop pay,

[01:17:33] [SPEAKER_03]: training, transportation, miscellaneous stuff.

[01:17:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Only about 18 billion went towards

[01:17:38] [SPEAKER_03]: arming the Afghan army and no one knows

[01:17:41] [SPEAKER_03]: the exact amount of equipment that was left behind.

[01:17:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump claims the agreement with the Taliban fell through

[01:17:49] [SPEAKER_03]: because they failed to hold up their end of the bargain.

[01:17:55] [SPEAKER_03]: It's true, but it needs rephrasing to be more accurate.

[01:17:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump should have said that the deal

[01:17:59] [SPEAKER_03]: could have fallen through if the Taliban

[01:18:03] [SPEAKER_03]: failed to hold up their end as laid out in the agreement.

[01:18:06] [SPEAKER_03]: This was laid out in the agreement

[01:18:07] [SPEAKER_03]: that the agreement would be null and void

[01:18:09] [SPEAKER_03]: if the Taliban didn't hold up their end.

[01:18:13] [SPEAKER_03]: And it's presumable that had Trump won the election,

[01:18:15] [SPEAKER_03]: he would have canceled it.

[01:18:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Or at the very least it's arguable,

[01:18:21] [SPEAKER_03]: but again, I don't have a crystal ball.

[01:18:23] [SPEAKER_03]: It's arguable that he would have had a troop surge

[01:18:25] [SPEAKER_03]: had things escalated.

[01:18:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala claimed that Trump was investigated

[01:18:31] [SPEAKER_03]: for refusing to rent to black tenants in the past.

[01:18:34] [SPEAKER_03]: True, Trump was investigated and charged.

[01:18:37] [SPEAKER_03]: The case ended up being settled out of court

[01:18:39] [SPEAKER_03]: with no admission of guilt.

[01:18:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Harris claimed that Trump took out a full page

[01:18:46] [SPEAKER_03]: ad in the New York Times calling

[01:18:47] [SPEAKER_03]: for the execution of five boys of color.

[01:18:50] [SPEAKER_03]: This is very misleading.

[01:18:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Some did take out a full page ad

[01:18:53] [SPEAKER_03]: and mentioned the Central Park Five,

[01:18:56] [SPEAKER_03]: not by name, but he mentioned the case.

[01:18:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Kind of in passing.

[01:19:01] [SPEAKER_03]: But didn't call specifically for their or anyone's execution.

[01:19:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Rather, he said, quote,

[01:19:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to hate these muggers and murderers.

[01:19:10] [SPEAKER_03]: They should be forced to suffer

[01:19:11] [SPEAKER_03]: and when they kill,

[01:19:12] [SPEAKER_03]: they should be executed for their crimes.

[01:19:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Kamala claims that Trump's spread birther lies

[01:19:18] [SPEAKER_03]: about Obama.

[01:19:20] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true.

[01:19:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Trump did at various times say things

[01:19:23] [SPEAKER_03]: that supported the belief

[01:19:24] [SPEAKER_03]: that Barack Obama was not born in the United States

[01:19:26] [SPEAKER_03]: and that his birth certificate had been fabricated.

[01:19:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Harris also claims that the Biden administration

[01:19:33] [SPEAKER_03]: created 800,000 new manufacturing jobs.

[01:19:35] [SPEAKER_03]: This is false.

[01:19:37] [SPEAKER_03]: While close to a and for 1000 manufacturing jobs

[01:19:39] [SPEAKER_03]: were added to the economy,

[01:19:41] [SPEAKER_03]: 589,000 of them were, quote,

[01:19:43] [SPEAKER_03]: recovered from the pandemic.

[01:19:45] [SPEAKER_03]: So those bounce back jobs,

[01:19:47] [SPEAKER_03]: meaning the number of new manufacturing jobs

[01:19:49] [SPEAKER_03]: created under the Biden-Harris administration

[01:19:51] [SPEAKER_03]: is closer to 175,000.

[01:19:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Harris claims Trump lost manufacturing jobs

[01:19:58] [SPEAKER_03]: during his presidency.

[01:19:59] [SPEAKER_03]: This is half true.

[01:20:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Some manufacturing jobs were lost under Trump's watch,

[01:20:03] [SPEAKER_03]: but many in the latter part were due to the pandemic,

[01:20:07] [SPEAKER_03]: not through Trump's action directly.

[01:20:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Harris claimed the war in Afghanistan

[01:20:13] [SPEAKER_03]: was costing the US taxpayers

[01:20:14] [SPEAKER_03]: $300 million per day.

[01:20:17] [SPEAKER_03]: This is true.

[01:20:18] [SPEAKER_03]: The number is a touch lower,

[01:20:19] [SPEAKER_03]: but it's close enough.

[01:20:21] [SPEAKER_03]: You round up a little bit, you get to 300 million.

[01:20:31] [SPEAKER_03]: And now we get to what is probably the worst one

[01:20:35] [SPEAKER_03]: of the entire debate.

[01:20:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Which again, you can go back and watch this.

[01:20:41] [SPEAKER_03]: I got hot when she said this.

[01:20:45] [SPEAKER_03]: So Kamala Harris claimed that there are no active duty

[01:20:48] [SPEAKER_03]: military personnel in a combat zone

[01:20:51] [SPEAKER_03]: anywhere in the world,

[01:20:52] [SPEAKER_03]: thanks to the Biden-Harris administration.

[01:20:56] [SPEAKER_03]: However, according to the IRS of all places,

[01:21:00] [SPEAKER_03]: the following areas are considered active combat zones

[01:21:02] [SPEAKER_03]: by the United States government.

[01:21:07] [SPEAKER_03]: The Sinai Peninsula, Afghanistan area,

[01:21:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Jordan, Herzegstan, Pakistan,

[01:21:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Ajikistan, Uzbekistan,

[01:21:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Yiboti, Yemen,

[01:21:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Sinalia, Syria, Yugoslavia,

[01:21:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Albania, Kosovo,

[01:21:22] [SPEAKER_03]: the Adriatic Sea,

[01:21:24] [SPEAKER_03]: the Lonean Sea, the Persian Gulf,

[01:21:27] [SPEAKER_03]: the Red Sea,

[01:21:28] [SPEAKER_03]: the Gulf of Oman,

[01:21:30] [SPEAKER_03]: the part of the Arabian Sea

[01:21:31] [SPEAKER_03]: that is north of 10 degrees north latitude

[01:21:34] [SPEAKER_03]: and west of 68 degrees east longitude,

[01:21:37] [SPEAKER_03]: the Gulf of Aden, or Aden,

[01:21:39] [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's Aden,

[01:21:40] [SPEAKER_03]: the total land areas of Iraq,

[01:21:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar,

[01:21:47] [SPEAKER_03]: and the United Arab Emirates, Jordan,

[01:21:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Lebanon, and Turkey east of 33.51 degrees east longitude

[01:21:55] [SPEAKER_03]: are all considered active combat zones,

[01:21:58] [SPEAKER_03]: but this video perhaps puts it best into perspective.

[01:22:20] [SPEAKER_13]: And as of today, there is not one member

[01:22:23] [SPEAKER_13]: of the United States military

[01:22:24] [SPEAKER_13]: who is in active duty

[01:22:26] [SPEAKER_13]: in a combat zone,

[01:22:28] [SPEAKER_13]: in any war zone around the world

[01:22:30] [SPEAKER_13]: the first time this century.

[01:22:32] [SPEAKER_13]: But let's understand.

[01:22:33] [SPEAKER_06]: So where the f*** are we right now?

[01:22:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I keep saying,

[01:22:42] [SPEAKER_03]: there's nothing quite better than video evidence.

[01:22:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I said, that was probably the most egregious,

[01:22:49] [SPEAKER_03]: which I'm not even going to say that's a lie.

[01:22:51] [SPEAKER_03]: That's just being clueless.

[01:22:55] [SPEAKER_05]: So that was, pardon me,

[01:23:00] [SPEAKER_03]: so that was all the fact checks

[01:23:01] [SPEAKER_03]: that we had for this particular debate.

[01:23:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, that wasn't all the claims made.

[01:23:06] [SPEAKER_03]: These were just the ones that were,

[01:23:08] [SPEAKER_03]: for the most part, verifiable

[01:23:09] [SPEAKER_03]: or that I thought were important

[01:23:12] [SPEAKER_03]: to lend some context to.

[01:23:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Also wanted to try out the inlay of video

[01:23:16] [SPEAKER_03]: and I don't know about you.

[01:23:18] [SPEAKER_03]: I think that was a massive success.

[01:23:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me know in the comments

[01:23:20] [SPEAKER_03]: if you like that format.

[01:23:21] [SPEAKER_03]: We'll do it more often

[01:23:22] [SPEAKER_03]: on some of them.

[01:23:23] [SPEAKER_03]: When we usually do the show live,

[01:23:26] [SPEAKER_03]: so now we have the capability to insert.

[01:23:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Probably going to start seeing that

[01:23:29] [SPEAKER_03]: in average intelligence news

[01:23:30] [SPEAKER_03]: when we bring it back.

[01:23:31] [SPEAKER_03]: But thank you everybody

[01:23:32] [SPEAKER_03]: for checking out this episode

[01:23:34] [SPEAKER_03]: of the Average Intelligence podcast.

[01:23:36] [SPEAKER_03]: I got to say not too bad

[01:23:37] [SPEAKER_03]: for a guy with average intelligence.

[01:23:39] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm kind of proud of this one.

[01:23:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully you too are a little bit

[01:23:43] [SPEAKER_03]: less average

[01:23:45] [SPEAKER_03]: and a little bit more intelligent.

[01:23:46] [SPEAKER_03]: After this one,

[01:23:47] [SPEAKER_03]: you honestly might be.

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[01:23:57] [SPEAKER_03]: and better content.

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