Kamala Harris Deep Dive

[00:00:01] Oh, I need to fix that. There, good enough. Okay, I have no idea what's going on here.

[00:00:38] So, I'm assuming I'm live, but for some reason, there it is. Geez. Sorry everyone, that took a minute.

[00:00:53] Welcome to the Average Intelligence Podcast. I know, I know, we've been gone, been going through some stuff.

[00:01:01] And I totally forgot to label this solo special. I will remedy that after the live stream is done.

[00:01:08] But we are here today to talk about Kamala Harris. But first, I have to let you know that this podcast is brought to you by both by the RTA Podcast and the RTA Podcast Pantheon.

[00:01:18] I'll speak more about each of those here in a moment. However, we are here, like I said, to talk about Kamala.

[00:01:25] But I also have to address something. This isn't so much a fuck-up as a response to some comments.

[00:01:32] A few days ago, actually, I think it was last week, we uploaded a short.

[00:01:39] Excuse me, I've also been sick. So, I apologize in advance for coughing or sniffling.

[00:01:44] But anyway, we uploaded a short about, this was talking about Dune.

[00:01:50] And I was talking about the names of certain characters, some of which were kind of like really exotic sounding.

[00:01:57] Arrakis comes to mind. You know, sci-fi soundy names.

[00:02:03] And then others are super normal, like Paul and Jessica.

[00:02:08] And one comment even said, Duncan Idaho does it for me.

[00:02:12] Now, a lot of the comments were...

[00:02:16] And again, I have thick skin. I don't really care.

[00:02:18] But I would just like to clarify one thing.

[00:02:20] Because a lot of comments were essentially saying something to the effect of like,

[00:02:25] Well, yeah, but they're from other planets, you moron.

[00:02:29] Or like, wait till he finds out, you know, this, that, and the other.

[00:02:32] And it's like, I didn't do a fantastic job of...

[00:02:36] Well, I was also ignorant.

[00:02:39] But the thing is here though, is like, since seeing the first Dune movie,

[00:02:45] I've read more about it.

[00:02:46] I plan on reading the books.

[00:02:48] I've seen the second movie.

[00:02:49] And I now understand that the Dune universe is literally the future,

[00:02:55] the year 10,000 something or other, of our same universe.

[00:02:58] And all of these people are humans, literal humans, descended from Earth.

[00:03:05] So Atreides is a legitimately Greek name.

[00:03:09] And it would make sense that some of the more typical, you know, names of today

[00:03:13] in the Western world are, you know, Paul and Jessica.

[00:03:18] But then you would also have some, you know, crazier names like...

[00:03:23] Oh.

[00:03:25] But anyway, just wanted to address that.

[00:03:27] So I was ignorant.

[00:03:28] But y'all don't have to be mean about it.

[00:03:30] You can just educate me because I wasn't a fan.

[00:03:33] Not so much me, but other people.

[00:03:35] And then the other thing I want to address is...

[00:03:37] Woo!

[00:03:39] Boy, uploaded a short about Kamala Harris.

[00:03:42] And I'm going to speak more on this here in a little bit.

[00:03:44] About Kamala Harris never receiving a primary vote ever for president.

[00:03:50] Not once, even though she's now running...

[00:03:53] This is the second time she's run for president.

[00:03:56] And she is now basically the de facto candidate, even though it's unofficial.

[00:04:01] And she never received a primary vote.

[00:04:03] And woo!

[00:04:04] Some of the comments are...

[00:04:06] A lot of them were positive.

[00:04:10] But like I said, I'm going to address that a little bit more later.

[00:04:12] But now, it's time to start our deep dive on Kamala Harris.

[00:04:17] And I will say this.

[00:04:19] I was inspired to do this because there's a lot of information going around.

[00:04:25] And I like to fact check everything I can.

[00:04:27] And I apologize.

[00:04:29] Because some of these things I actually have perpetuated without doing my due diligence.

[00:04:33] And I will address those in this podcast.

[00:04:36] Others have been correct.

[00:04:38] Probably the most important thing I want to address, though, is...

[00:04:41] I was primarily inspired to do this particular episode based on the Daily Wire series Scamala,

[00:04:48] which Ben Shapiro purports to show...

[00:04:52] Expose, rather, is probably a more appropriate word.

[00:04:55] Expose Kamala Harris for the fraud and scammer that she is.

[00:05:00] Because this three episode series was the political expose equivalent of the Hobbit trilogy.

[00:05:06] In that it could have been done in one movie, and it was not particularly good.

[00:05:12] It was pretty underwhelming.

[00:05:15] He didn't...

[00:05:16] And in fact, some of the things he said were flat out wrong, which I'm going to address some of those too.

[00:05:21] Like, inaccurate.

[00:05:22] So from a journalistic standpoint, it's like, really?

[00:05:25] Google's free.

[00:05:26] Like, I got all the information I have.

[00:05:28] All of my sources.

[00:05:30] I googled myself.

[00:05:33] And I will give the sources.

[00:05:35] And I'm not going to put them in the description because I'll be honest.

[00:05:38] I'm lazy.

[00:05:39] But I will tell you where I got it.

[00:05:41] But yeah.

[00:05:42] So Daily Wire Scamala leaves a lot to be desired.

[00:05:48] After I finished it, my final thoughts were kind of like, this is pretty desperate.

[00:05:53] They just...

[00:05:53] They wanted ratings.

[00:05:55] And it wasn't very good.

[00:06:01] But I did use it for a bit of an outline.

[00:06:03] So it was not a total loss.

[00:06:09] And I also want to say something here too.

[00:06:11] I was expecting to find a lot more bad stuff when it comes to Kamala Harris.

[00:06:15] Now don't get me wrong.

[00:06:17] Not a Kamala supporter.

[00:06:19] I am not.

[00:06:20] My major issues with her are policy, consistency, and just general...

[00:06:26] This is not valid whatsoever.

[00:06:29] But I've got a pretty good instinct.

[00:06:31] I've seen over the course of my life when it comes to people.

[00:06:34] And I can't put my finger on it.

[00:06:36] I just...

[00:06:37] I don't like her.

[00:06:37] I don't trust her.

[00:06:42] I think she's very fake, phony, and disingenuous.

[00:06:47] And I have a...

[00:06:48] I'm fully convinced that we will see more and more of that happening in the months to come.

[00:06:54] But one of the better examples of this are her wonderful quote that she loves.

[00:06:59] That she loved.

[00:07:00] I don't know that she says it so much anymore.

[00:07:01] But she loves it.

[00:07:02] What can be unburdened...

[00:07:05] Oh, what can be unburdened by what has been?

[00:07:10] And then another clip that's been making the rounds.

[00:07:13] You exist in the context of what came before you.

[00:07:17] And that is almost a perfect microcosm of Kamala Harris insofar as she is a person who...

[00:07:25] And I want to say this properly.

[00:07:28] Because I have zero issue with people changing their minds with new information.

[00:07:33] But I generally use the term...

[00:07:37] The political term flip-flopping when someone flip-flops all the time.

[00:07:43] They basically go where the wind blows.

[00:07:45] And Kamala Harris is one of the worst offenders I've ever seen in my lifetime of this.

[00:07:51] Several examples.

[00:07:52] I uploaded a short not that long ago.

[00:07:56] Or a video, rather.

[00:07:58] Yeah, honestly, JoJo, I think...

[00:08:01] I don't know that I'll do it next week.

[00:08:02] But I am going to do a video on J.D. Vance.

[00:08:04] Because I've got...

[00:08:06] I've got concerns.

[00:08:09] I've got concerns.

[00:08:10] I was going to do another deep dive on Trump.

[00:08:12] But honestly, we've done so many...

[00:08:15] Well, yeah, J.D. Vance calling Trump Hitler.

[00:08:18] But at the end of the day, I mean, all politicians are hypocrites.

[00:08:21] But what I was going to say is...

[00:08:22] I thought about doing a deep dive on Trump.

[00:08:23] But I'll be honest.

[00:08:25] We've done so many Trump-centric episodes that I think that it's pretty well already been covered.

[00:08:33] So, I'm going to like not to do Trump.

[00:08:35] But I will probably do J.D. Vance.

[00:08:37] Not next week, but in the near-ish future.

[00:08:40] Because I don't want to speak too much.

[00:08:43] And because...

[00:08:44] Tim Wall is another good example.

[00:08:46] Like, I'm...

[00:08:47] So, before I get into...

[00:08:49] I'm not calling it Stolen Valor.

[00:08:51] Valor.

[00:08:52] Because I have a policy of not speaking about the military because I did not serve.

[00:08:57] I'm illustrating a point.

[00:08:59] Nothing more.

[00:09:00] So, the whole Tim Wall Stolen Valor thing is a lot more complicated than either side is owning up to.

[00:09:09] J.D. Vance included.

[00:09:10] It's more complex.

[00:09:11] It's not as cut and dry.

[00:09:13] And that's all I'm going to say about it.

[00:09:14] Because like I said, I don't speak...

[00:09:15] I don't speak about the military because I did not serve.

[00:09:19] I don't...

[00:09:21] I don't know.

[00:09:22] Unless I'm quoting someone that was in the military.

[00:09:24] And then I just simply attribute the statement to them and nothing more.

[00:09:27] But that'll come up in the J.D. Vance episode.

[00:09:31] So, anyway.

[00:09:32] Yeah.

[00:09:32] So, yeah.

[00:09:33] Daily Wire tried to do this big like...

[00:09:35] Cracking Kamala through the years.

[00:09:36] And, again.

[00:09:37] There's some fishy stuff.

[00:09:38] But it's not so much exposed fishy as like obviously fishy.

[00:09:41] And you'll see what I mean by that in a moment.

[00:09:44] So, the first thing I want to address too is that...

[00:09:48] That's been going around.

[00:09:50] Trump was quoted as saying at a rally that Kamala Harris failed the bar exam.

[00:09:54] And she did her first time.

[00:09:57] But then she obviously...

[00:09:58] She took the bar again because you can take the bar more than once.

[00:10:02] However...

[00:10:03] I...

[00:10:04] In my research, I found...

[00:10:06] This is wonderful.

[00:10:07] There's a website, JD Advising.

[00:10:09] Which looks as though it's a...

[00:10:11] Basically like a study course for the bar.

[00:10:15] And they've got like a blog post on their site.

[00:10:18] This famous people who failed the bar exam.

[00:10:20] And I'm going to read this list of people.

[00:10:22] And I want you to see if you can spot the pattern.

[00:10:25] And this is obviously not a list of everyone that failed the bar on their first try.

[00:10:30] But it's interesting that they picked these people.

[00:10:34] Yeah.

[00:10:35] Oh, you...

[00:10:35] Okay.

[00:10:36] You mean RFK Jr.?

[00:10:38] Or JFK Jr.?

[00:10:42] But anyway, so famous people that failed the bar.

[00:10:45] Vice President Kamala Harris.

[00:10:47] Former First Lady Michelle Obama.

[00:10:50] Secretary of State and past presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

[00:10:55] FDR.

[00:10:56] John F. Kennedy...

[00:10:57] Oh, okay.

[00:10:57] Yeah, you...

[00:10:58] Never mind.

[00:10:59] Several governors, including...

[00:11:02] Former California Governor Pete Wilson.

[00:11:04] And two-time Governor of California Jerry Brown.

[00:11:11] Several mayors have failed the bar, including New York Mayor Ed Polk.

[00:11:15] Chicago Mayor Richard Daly.

[00:11:17] And Los Angeles Mayor Antonio...

[00:11:20] Via...

[00:11:22] Ragosa.

[00:11:25] Did you spot the pattern?

[00:11:27] Those are all Democrat politicians.

[00:11:31] That's a very interesting choice for the blog post there.

[00:11:43] So the next thing that Shapiro brought up was Kamala Harris's...

[00:11:48] Well, I'm not even going to say association because it was a straight-up relationship with Willie Brown.

[00:11:54] And I wanted to get a legitimate source on this, so I did.

[00:11:57] I found an LA Times article from November 29, 1994.

[00:12:03] And the headline reads,

[00:12:04] More Brown associates get well-paid posts.

[00:12:07] Government.

[00:12:08] The Speaker appoints his frequent companion and a longtime friend to state boards as his hold on his own powerful position, Wayne's.

[00:12:15] And this is talking about Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, who, for those of you who don't know, Kamala Harris was allegedly...

[00:12:24] And by allegedly, I mean she was...

[00:12:28] In an illicit relationship with Willie Brown when she was younger.

[00:12:32] And Willie Brown was married.

[00:12:33] Now, Willie Brown had a reputation as being a womanizer.

[00:12:36] But it appeared things that, according to the sources, it appeared that things were getting somewhat serious with Kamala.

[00:12:43] And I believe he was running for mayor at the time.

[00:12:47] I...

[00:12:47] Oh, I should have written that down.

[00:12:48] I apologize.

[00:12:49] But he was running for office.

[00:12:51] And the story goes that his wife basically clamped down.

[00:12:55] And he and Kamala had a falling out for obvious reasons.

[00:12:59] However, and as per usual, for those who aren't familiar with how I do articles, unless I specify, I'm not going to read the whole thing.

[00:13:05] I have highlighted snippets.

[00:13:08] But this is...

[00:13:09] And you can actually find this one.

[00:13:11] Wikipedia is a wonderful source because you use it as a skeleton.

[00:13:15] And this is one of the citations.

[00:13:20] So, again, November 29th, 1994.

[00:13:23] Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, continuing his rush to hand out patronage jobs while he retains his powerful post,

[00:13:28] has given high-paying appointments to his former law associate and former Alameda County prosecutor,

[00:13:33] who is Brown's frequent companion.

[00:13:35] Meaning girlfriend.

[00:13:40] Brown, exercising his power even as his speakership seems near an end,

[00:13:45] named attorney Kamala Harris to the California Medical Assistance Commission,

[00:13:48] a job that pays $72,000 a year.

[00:13:51] Now, remember, this is $72,000 in 1994.

[00:13:54] And it is also worth knowing, Shapiro pointed this out, that this Medical Assistance Commission was made up of people in the medical field.

[00:14:04] And at the time, Kamala Harris had no experience in medicine in any capacity, even medical law,

[00:14:10] at least according to Shapiro.

[00:14:11] Harris, a former deputy district attorney in Alameda County, was described by several people at the Capitol as Brown's girlfriend.

[00:14:21] In March, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Cain called her, quote,

[00:14:25] the speaker's new steady.

[00:14:26] Harris declined to be interviewed Monday, and Brown's spokeswoman did not return phone calls.

[00:14:31] Harris accepted the appointment last week after serving six months as Brown's appointee to the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board,

[00:14:38] which pays $97,088 a year.

[00:14:41] After Harris resigned from the Unemployment Board last week, Brown replaced her with Philip S. Ryan,

[00:14:45] a lawyer and longtime friend and business associate.

[00:14:49] Brown is making the appointments at a time when his 14-year hold on the speakership is tenuous at best.

[00:14:55] The Assembly will reconvene Monday with Republicans holding 41 seats and Democrats 39,

[00:14:59] making it likely the GOP will oust Democrat Brown as Speaker and replace him with a Republican.

[00:15:04] Quote,

[00:15:04] It's safe to say that these are not appointments we would necessarily make, said Phil Perry, spokesman for Assembly Republican Leader Jim Rulte,

[00:15:14] or Rulte, the frontrunner, to replace Speaker Brown.

[00:15:20] Article continues.

[00:15:21] Salary for the California Medical Assistance Commission is tied to legislators' pay.

[00:15:25] A government commission earlier this year voted to grant legislators a 37% pay increase from the current $52,500 a year to $72,000,

[00:15:33] effective when the new legislature takes office Monday.

[00:15:38] So a California state legislature makes, after this pay raise went into effect,

[00:15:46] quickly, $72,000 a year.

[00:15:48] And Kamala's new position is the same.

[00:15:55] Okay, so it is the same.

[00:15:56] So she makes as much as a state legislator, and you'll find out why I pointed that out here in a moment.

[00:16:01] The California Medical Assistance Commission, established during Governor Jerry Brown's tenure,

[00:16:06] meets monthly and is not seen as a full-time post.

[00:16:09] It is responsible for negotiating contracts on behalf of the state with hospitals to limit medical costs.

[00:16:15] So that position, that part-time position, was paid $72,000 a year in 1994.

[00:16:28] That doesn't sound like a scam at all.

[00:16:36] Let's see.

[00:16:39] According to the Washington Examiner, that medical commission met two times a month,

[00:16:45] and Kamala still missed one-fifth of the meetings during her tenure.

[00:16:51] And then there are some other very interesting stories for Kamala's various runnings for office

[00:16:56] when she was still in California, including one in 2003 where her campaign manager impersonated a rival

[00:17:02] to get inside information on the impersonated arrival campaign member

[00:17:08] to get inside information on her opponent's campaign.

[00:17:15] Then also, when she was district attorney, there were confirmed reports that she kept people in prison

[00:17:22] to be used as free labor, fire camp labor, which is basically, as far as I understand it,

[00:17:28] that is something that the state of California has, that they don't go out and fight wildfires,

[00:17:33] but they use prisoners to basically do labor for projects that help prevent wildfires.

[00:17:38] That is my understanding of what that is.

[00:17:40] Anyone in California that can correct me if I'm wrong, please do so in the comments.

[00:17:46] I apologize, guys.

[00:17:47] It hurts to talk.

[00:17:53] Now, another thing that has plagued Harris many times over the years...

[00:17:58] Oh, sorry.

[00:17:59] We're not that far yet.

[00:18:01] So some other stuff came out about Kamala during her presidential run back in 2019,

[00:18:09] because for those of you who remember, she dropped out in November of 2019

[00:18:13] before the primary for 2020 actually began.

[00:18:16] During the debate, Biden alluded to a crime lab scandal,

[00:18:19] and this is from the Sacramento Bee, I apologize, August 15th, 2020.

[00:18:28] And this one, I'm actually going to read the whole thing because it's short.

[00:18:33] Biden, I skipped the very, very first part, but this was during her time as attorney general,

[00:18:41] the state's attorney general, and San Francisco district attorney.

[00:18:44] So both of these tenures they're talking about.

[00:18:47] Biden alluded to a crime lab scandal that involved her district attorney's office

[00:18:50] and resulted in more than a thousand drug cases being dismissed.

[00:18:54] Tulsi Gabbard claimed Harris, quote,

[00:18:56] blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row

[00:18:59] until the courts forced her to do so.

[00:19:03] Biden's claim that a thousand drug cases have been dismissed when Harris was a DA is accurate,

[00:19:07] although Harris has denied knowing about her problems with the crime lab

[00:19:11] that triggered those dismissals until the issue became public.

[00:19:14] Gabbard is correct that Harris did not pursue all evidence in the case she referenced,

[00:19:17] but the innocence of the inmate in question had yet to be determined,

[00:19:21] and still to this day has yet.

[00:19:23] And I'm going to speak a little bit more on this in a moment.

[00:19:28] Longtime San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi criticized Harris' handling

[00:19:35] of the crime lab situation back in 2010,

[00:19:38] and during a January interview in the Sacramento Bee,

[00:19:40] the San Francisco drug lab was shut down after a lead technician

[00:19:44] who testified on behalf of prosecutors on drug cases

[00:19:47] was found to have systematically mishandled the drug sample seized from suspects,

[00:19:52] even consuming some herself.

[00:19:55] While San Francisco Police Department was responsible for running the lab,

[00:19:59] not Harris' district attorney's office,

[00:20:01] the court ruled in 2010 that the district attorney's office

[00:20:04] violated defendant's constitutional rights by not disclosing

[00:20:06] what it knew about the tainted drug evidence.

[00:20:08] So basically what they're alleging,

[00:20:10] and I think what was proven eventually was that

[00:20:15] her office wasn't responsible for handling the lab,

[00:20:17] but when they found out about it,

[00:20:19] they didn't publicly disclose it.

[00:20:20] Now Kamala, like I said, claims that she was unaware of this.

[00:20:25] She was unaware of this happening

[00:20:27] until it became a matter of public record.

[00:20:31] And I always love it when politicians do that,

[00:20:33] and granted, because it's like you can't win.

[00:20:37] So even if she didn't know, that shows incompetence

[00:20:40] because the district attorney doesn't know something like that

[00:20:43] until after she reads about it,

[00:20:44] he or she reads about it in the newspaper,

[00:20:45] or she's lying.

[00:20:48] So it's not good either way.

[00:20:57] But the article continues.

[00:20:58] Judge Ann Christine Masullo wrote in her decision

[00:21:03] that prosecutors, quote,

[00:21:10] That be a problem, which explains why all these cases were dismissed.

[00:21:17] And the Wall Street Journal reported in June

[00:21:19] that Harris ignored staff recommendations back in 2005

[00:21:22] urging her office to establish a defendant's rights policy

[00:21:25] known as the Brady Doctrine

[00:21:27] that would have mandated her staff to disclose

[00:21:29] such information to defendants.

[00:21:32] Harris has denied being aware of the drug lab issues

[00:21:35] at the time and also noted that her office

[00:21:37] implemented a Brady policy

[00:21:38] after the drug lab scandal came to her.

[00:21:41] Now, this is where we get to one of the biggest...

[00:21:45] I'll just come out and say it.

[00:21:46] Biggest pieces of misinformation

[00:21:47] when it comes to Kamala Harris.

[00:21:49] So this is actually quite complicated.

[00:21:51] So I'm not going to go into every little detail.

[00:21:53] However, you absolutely can.

[00:21:57] And this is the one that I'm actually least proud of.

[00:21:59] And I'm going to...

[00:22:00] I'm going to eat some crow and own up to this.

[00:22:03] So a lot of people have asked me,

[00:22:06] you know, why I don't like Kamala Harris.

[00:22:09] And one of the things that I cited

[00:22:10] was the Kevin Cooper case

[00:22:12] in which Kamala Harris...

[00:22:14] And this is what Tulsi Gabbard was talking about

[00:22:16] during the debate.

[00:22:16] Kamala Harris allegedly withheld evidence

[00:22:19] that would have exonerated Kevin Cooper,

[00:22:21] who was on death row, charged for murder.

[00:22:24] However...

[00:22:26] I'm just going to come out and say it.

[00:22:27] It's not accurate.

[00:22:28] That is not...

[00:22:29] Well, it's true,

[00:22:30] but there's a lot of context.

[00:22:32] And I'll be honest,

[00:22:33] I don't really blame her.

[00:22:34] And she actually later changed position on this,

[00:22:38] which nobody talks about.

[00:22:39] But...

[00:22:40] Quick.

[00:22:42] So the Kevin Cooper...

[00:22:43] In February, California Governor Gavin Newsom

[00:22:45] ordered new DNA testing...

[00:22:48] So this would have been February of 2019...

[00:22:51] Or 2020, I believe.

[00:22:53] Ordered new DNA testing

[00:22:55] in the 1983 murder case of Kevin Cooper.

[00:22:58] Cooper came within hours of execution in 2004

[00:23:00] after being charged with the murders

[00:23:02] of an adult couple and two children.

[00:23:04] Harris opposed the testing

[00:23:05] when she was the state's attorney general.

[00:23:07] She has since said she supports DNA testing

[00:23:09] and encouraged Newsom to approve Cooper's request.

[00:23:11] She did not offer specifics

[00:23:13] on why she did not approve the testing

[00:23:14] during her tenure.

[00:23:16] Actually, if you go to the...

[00:23:17] If you Google Kevin Cooper

[00:23:19] and you go to the Wikipedia page,

[00:23:21] did you actually...

[00:23:22] Like, this...

[00:23:23] It made me so mad at myself

[00:23:25] when I read the information about this case.

[00:23:28] The evidence against this guy

[00:23:30] was astounding.

[00:23:32] I mean, it was mountains of evidence.

[00:23:34] So I'll be honest.

[00:23:35] I can understand why a prosecutor would be like,

[00:23:38] No.

[00:23:39] Because there's a literal mountain of evidence.

[00:23:43] It's beyond a reasonable doubt.

[00:23:46] And it's worth noting

[00:23:47] the new DNA evidence did not exonerate him.

[00:23:50] Except there's a lot of posts on social media

[00:23:52] claiming that the new DNA evidence exonerated him

[00:23:55] and it did not.

[00:23:56] He is still in prison.

[00:23:59] In response to a request for comment,

[00:24:01] Harris's campaign pointed to a past statement

[00:24:03] where the senator called

[00:24:05] a New York Times columnist last year

[00:24:06] telling him,

[00:24:07] I feel awful about this.

[00:24:09] The testing is not yet complete.

[00:24:10] Whether Gabbard's claimed

[00:24:11] that the testing, quote,

[00:24:12] would have exonerated him

[00:24:14] remains an open question.

[00:24:17] Which, apparently,

[00:24:18] it has been complete

[00:24:19] because it's my understanding

[00:24:21] unless I misread

[00:24:23] that it did not exonerate him.

[00:24:24] In fact, I'm going to check this right now

[00:24:25] in real time

[00:24:26] because I don't want to misspeak again on this.

[00:24:30] So bear with me in my coughs for a moment.

[00:24:36] Let's see.

[00:24:37] Kevin Cooper.

[00:24:37] All right.

[00:24:47] Searching for it.

[00:24:48] Searching for it.

[00:25:16] Now there was,

[00:25:17] to be fair,

[00:25:18] there was some fuckery

[00:25:20] and alleged evidence tampering.

[00:25:24] Manipulation of evidence.

[00:25:29] I'm sorry.

[00:25:30] I don't want to keep you guys

[00:25:32] hanging,

[00:25:37] but he is currently on,

[00:25:38] he is currently sitting on death row.

[00:25:44] I'm sorry.

[00:25:45] I'm trying to find this.

[00:25:47] There's a president of both

[00:25:56] and there's a president of three victims.

[00:26:04] I'm still looking for it.

[00:26:20] Then.

[00:26:24] Exonerated.

[00:26:30] That's Wikipedia again.

[00:26:43] Okay.

[00:26:44] Clemency Pro fails to exonerate

[00:26:46] Kevin Cooper

[00:26:46] and quadruple Chino Hills murders.

[00:26:48] This is January 15th, 2023.

[00:26:51] The fresh analysis of DNA evidence

[00:26:54] conducted as part of clemency bid

[00:26:56] for Kevin Cooper

[00:26:56] has failed to exonerate

[00:26:57] the death row inmate

[00:26:58] who made national headlines

[00:26:59] for the 1983 slaying

[00:27:01] of three members of Chino Hills family

[00:27:02] and a neighbor boy

[00:27:03] according to.

[00:27:10] Oh, you're probably not wrong, Gary.

[00:27:13] You're probably not wrong.

[00:27:16] The DNA quote.

[00:27:18] The DNA evidence corroborates

[00:27:20] the testimonial, physical, forensic,

[00:27:22] and circumstantial evidence

[00:27:23] that was presented at trial

[00:27:24] which was sufficient

[00:27:25] to persuade the jury of Cooper's guilt

[00:27:26] even without the DNA evidence

[00:27:28] that became available later.

[00:27:30] Cooper has not established

[00:27:31] that the evidence of his guilt

[00:27:33] has been fabricated or planted.

[00:27:34] The evidence,

[00:27:35] including the DNA evidence itself,

[00:27:36] dispels the contention

[00:27:37] that the evidence was fabricated

[00:27:39] or planted.

[00:27:40] So, yes.

[00:27:41] He was,

[00:27:42] he's still legally guilty.

[00:27:44] He was not exonerated.

[00:27:46] So,

[00:27:46] if you see those posts

[00:27:47] about Kamala Harris

[00:27:49] withholding DNA evidence

[00:27:50] and the man being,

[00:27:51] because the courts forced,

[00:27:53] until the courts forced her to,

[00:27:55] I believe Tulsi Gabbard

[00:27:56] actually said

[00:27:56] the California Supreme Court

[00:27:58] forced her to,

[00:27:59] which is not the case.

[00:28:00] I believe,

[00:28:01] it said Gavin Newsom ordered it.

[00:28:03] So,

[00:28:03] I don't even think,

[00:28:04] it didn't even go

[00:28:05] to the California Supreme Court.

[00:28:08] But,

[00:28:08] and Kamala actually

[00:28:09] later would support

[00:28:11] like I had read.

[00:28:15] So,

[00:28:16] yeah.

[00:28:16] So,

[00:28:17] if you see those social media posts

[00:28:19] saying that Kamala

[00:28:19] did that,

[00:28:20] that is not true.

[00:28:23] That is,

[00:28:24] Kamala is not somebody

[00:28:25] that I like,

[00:28:26] but I can't hold

[00:28:26] that against her

[00:28:27] because she

[00:28:28] did not do it.

[00:28:30] Oh.

[00:28:35] So,

[00:28:35] another thing

[00:28:36] that really seems

[00:28:37] to plague Kamala,

[00:28:38] and this should be

[00:28:38] very concerning,

[00:28:39] but hardly anybody's

[00:28:40] really talking about this,

[00:28:42] is the fact that

[00:28:45] both her campaign,

[00:28:46] she doesn't do good,

[00:28:48] she doesn't do well

[00:28:48] with staffing.

[00:28:49] Now,

[00:28:50] I don't know if that's

[00:28:50] Kamala specifically

[00:28:51] or the people she

[00:28:52] puts in charge

[00:28:54] of her staff.

[00:28:56] However,

[00:28:56] it still falls back

[00:28:57] to Kamala

[00:28:58] because if it's

[00:28:58] her directly,

[00:28:59] then that's a major

[00:29:00] problem,

[00:29:01] managerially speaking.

[00:29:02] But,

[00:29:03] if it's the people

[00:29:04] that she puts in

[00:29:05] charge of these

[00:29:05] things,

[00:29:05] which she tends

[00:29:06] to,

[00:29:07] as far as I know,

[00:29:08] her senior staff

[00:29:08] tends to be pretty

[00:29:09] much from the same

[00:29:10] group of people,

[00:29:11] including her sister,

[00:29:12] which,

[00:29:19] which,

[00:29:19] but,

[00:29:20] anyway,

[00:29:21] that's also a problem

[00:29:22] because it kind of

[00:29:23] illustrates that she

[00:29:23] can't pick people,

[00:29:24] so Kamala's cabinet

[00:29:26] will very likely

[00:29:27] be a shit show.

[00:29:29] But,

[00:29:30] we have an article

[00:29:31] from Politico,

[00:29:32] November 15th,

[00:29:34] 2019,

[00:29:35] regarding

[00:29:37] information about

[00:29:38] the Harris campaign.

[00:29:39] And,

[00:29:39] again,

[00:29:39] this is a very big

[00:29:40] article,

[00:29:40] so I'm not going to

[00:29:41] read the whole thing,

[00:29:42] but,

[00:29:42] as the California

[00:29:43] senator crisscrosses,

[00:29:44] this is during her

[00:29:45] primary in 2019,

[00:29:49] as the California

[00:29:49] senator crisscrosses

[00:29:50] the country trying

[00:29:51] to revive her

[00:29:52] sputtering presidential

[00:29:53] bin,

[00:29:54] aides at her

[00:29:54] fast-drinking

[00:29:55] headquarters are

[00:29:56] deep into

[00:29:56] finger-pointing

[00:29:57] stages,

[00:29:57] and much of the

[00:29:58] blame is being

[00:29:59] placed on campaign

[00:30:00] manager Juan

[00:30:00] Rodriguez.

[00:30:02] Quote,

[00:30:02] it's a campaign

[00:30:03] of id,

[00:30:04] said one senior

[00:30:04] Harris official,

[00:30:05] laying much of

[00:30:06] the blame on

[00:30:06] Rodriguez,

[00:30:07] but also pointing

[00:30:08] to a leaderless

[00:30:09] structure at the

[00:30:11] top that's been

[00:30:11] allowed to flail

[00:30:12] without accountability.

[00:30:13] Quote,

[00:30:13] what feels right,

[00:30:14] what impulse you

[00:30:15] have right now,

[00:30:16] what emotion,

[00:30:17] what frustration,

[00:30:17] the official added.

[00:30:18] The person

[00:30:19] described the

[00:30:19] current state of

[00:30:23] and no

[00:30:24] strategy.

[00:30:31] Dustin made a

[00:30:32] comment,

[00:30:32] but I can't

[00:30:32] scroll down to

[00:30:33] see it.

[00:30:35] I'll address your

[00:30:36] comment.

[00:30:37] It's literally,

[00:30:37] there's an icon

[00:30:38] in front of part

[00:30:39] of it.

[00:30:39] I can't,

[00:30:40] I think you're

[00:30:40] saying you kind

[00:30:41] of like her

[00:30:41] VP pick.

[00:30:45] Eh.

[00:30:47] Eh.

[00:30:48] You just like him

[00:30:49] because he's

[00:30:49] close to Canada.

[00:30:52] Sorry,

[00:30:53] that was a

[00:30:53] cheap shot.

[00:30:57] This account

[00:30:58] is based on

[00:30:58] interviews with

[00:30:59] more than a

[00:30:59] dozen current

[00:31:00] and former

[00:31:00] staffers,

[00:31:01] as well as

[00:31:02] other close to

[00:31:02] the campaign,

[00:31:03] including donors.

[00:31:04] The sources

[00:31:04] were granted

[00:31:05] anonymity to

[00:31:06] speak freely

[00:31:06] about the

[00:31:07] turmoil within

[00:31:07] the organization

[00:31:08] and protect

[00:31:09] them from

[00:31:09] repercussions.

[00:31:14] While staff

[00:31:15] ire centers

[00:31:15] on Rodriguez,

[00:31:16] his defenders

[00:31:17] argue he

[00:31:18] has stood

[00:31:18] loyally by

[00:31:18] the candidate

[00:31:19] despite being

[00:31:19] relegated to

[00:31:20] a role akin

[00:31:21] to deputy

[00:31:21] campaign manager

[00:31:22] by Maya

[00:31:22] Harris.

[00:31:23] They say

[00:31:24] he's had to

[00:31:25] get Maya

[00:31:25] Harris'

[00:31:26] buy-in even

[00:31:27] on routine

[00:31:27] decisions,

[00:31:28] which were

[00:31:29] often slow

[00:31:30] to materialize,

[00:31:31] further undermining

[00:31:32] staff's confidence

[00:31:32] in him as a

[00:31:33] supervisor.

[00:31:38] The article

[00:31:39] continues.

[00:31:41] Aids describe

[00:31:42] a bleak

[00:31:42] environment

[00:31:43] in which

[00:31:43] workers have

[00:31:44] started to

[00:31:44] openly question

[00:31:45] the judgment

[00:31:45] of managers

[00:31:46] after seeing

[00:31:46] colleagues

[00:31:47] marched out

[00:31:48] the door.

[00:31:48] During a

[00:31:49] recent meeting,

[00:31:51] Aids pressed

[00:31:51] Rodriguez and

[00:31:52] Maya Harris

[00:31:53] for answers

[00:31:53] about campaign

[00:31:54] strategy.

[00:31:55] At one point

[00:31:56] during the

[00:31:56] more than

[00:31:56] two-hour

[00:31:57] discussion,

[00:31:57] Maya Harris

[00:31:58] herself turned

[00:31:59] to Rodriguez

[00:31:59] and challenged

[00:32:00] him in front

[00:32:00] of about

[00:32:01] 20 staffers

[00:32:02] and several

[00:32:02] more listening

[00:32:03] in by

[00:32:04] phone.

[00:32:05] Rodriguez

[00:32:05] seemed unprepared

[00:32:06] for the exchange

[00:32:07] according to

[00:32:07] people present.

[00:32:08] They walked

[00:32:09] out with

[00:32:09] little

[00:32:10] consensus

[00:32:10] about how

[00:32:11] to prioritize

[00:32:11] upcoming events

[00:32:12] and strategy

[00:32:13] around advertising.

[00:32:16] I'm just going

[00:32:17] to see if I

[00:32:17] have anything

[00:32:18] else highlighted

[00:32:18] for you or

[00:32:19] if that was

[00:32:20] it.

[00:32:22] Yes.

[00:32:25] There's more

[00:32:26] than enough

[00:32:26] blame to go

[00:32:26] around at the

[00:32:27] top,

[00:32:27] one aide

[00:32:27] concluded.

[00:32:28] Quote,

[00:32:29] the whole

[00:32:29] campaign has

[00:32:29] been a bunch

[00:32:30] of people

[00:32:30] sitting around

[00:32:31] a table,

[00:32:31] giving opinions,

[00:32:32] and not backing

[00:32:33] them up when

[00:32:34] it comes down

[00:32:34] to it,

[00:32:35] the person

[00:32:35] said.

[00:32:46] I respect

[00:32:48] him calling

[00:32:48] them weird

[00:32:49] and speaking

[00:32:49] as a spectacle.

[00:32:51] See,

[00:32:51] that's one thing

[00:32:52] that's been

[00:32:53] kind of bugging

[00:32:53] me about

[00:32:55] not J.D.

[00:32:56] Vance as a

[00:32:56] candidate,

[00:32:57] but the race

[00:32:59] about J.D.

[00:33:00] Vance.

[00:33:01] Like,

[00:33:02] I saw a meme

[00:33:03] the other day

[00:33:03] with him

[00:33:04] sitting.

[00:33:05] I guess his

[00:33:06] legs were too

[00:33:06] wide,

[00:33:06] whatever.

[00:33:08] But people

[00:33:08] are calling

[00:33:09] J.D.

[00:33:10] Vance weird

[00:33:10] and I'm just

[00:33:11] like,

[00:33:11] why though?

[00:33:11] And nobody

[00:33:12] can tell me.

[00:33:13] Nobody can

[00:33:13] tell me

[00:33:14] exactly

[00:33:14] why they

[00:33:15] think J.D.

[00:33:15] Vance is

[00:33:16] weird.

[00:33:16] And they're

[00:33:17] cutting him

[00:33:17] up for

[00:33:18] sitting like

[00:33:18] a dude.

[00:33:21] Like,

[00:33:21] somebody showed

[00:33:22] it to me

[00:33:23] and thought

[00:33:23] I was going

[00:33:23] to laugh

[00:33:23] and I'm

[00:33:24] like,

[00:33:24] he has

[00:33:25] balls.

[00:33:27] That's why

[00:33:28] men sit

[00:33:28] that way

[00:33:29] sometimes

[00:33:29] because we

[00:33:31] have balls.

[00:33:34] They're there.

[00:33:36] And I'm

[00:33:36] sorry,

[00:33:36] sometimes we

[00:33:37] just want to,

[00:33:38] you can't see

[00:33:38] that I'm doing

[00:33:39] it right now

[00:33:40] because camera

[00:33:40] cuts off here,

[00:33:41] which is a

[00:33:42] good thing

[00:33:42] because as

[00:33:44] professional

[00:33:44] as this

[00:33:44] podcast is,

[00:33:45] I may or

[00:33:45] may not be

[00:33:46] in my

[00:33:46] underwear

[00:33:46] right now.

[00:33:48] But

[00:33:49] sometimes

[00:33:49] we just sit

[00:33:51] that way.

[00:33:54] And this

[00:33:54] is pretty

[00:33:55] typical and

[00:33:56] actually one

[00:33:56] of the

[00:33:56] biggest

[00:33:56] issues I

[00:33:57] have with

[00:33:57] Kamala,

[00:33:58] which I

[00:33:58] will address

[00:33:59] at the

[00:33:59] end,

[00:34:00] my biggest

[00:34:00] issue with

[00:34:01] Kamala Harris.

[00:34:03] And I

[00:34:04] actually have

[00:34:04] a letter,

[00:34:05] a resignation

[00:34:06] letter from

[00:34:07] a former

[00:34:07] campaign worker.

[00:34:09] I believe

[00:34:10] she was a

[00:34:10] campaign

[00:34:11] strategist.

[00:34:11] It says

[00:34:11] in the

[00:34:12] letter,

[00:34:12] but I

[00:34:12] will.

[00:34:13] Oh,

[00:34:13] first,

[00:34:14] it's time

[00:34:14] to pay

[00:34:15] for the

[00:34:15] show.

[00:34:15] If you

[00:34:16] enjoy content

[00:34:17] like this,

[00:34:18] long form,

[00:34:19] introspective,

[00:34:20] caring about

[00:34:20] the facts,

[00:34:22] you know,

[00:34:22] accuracy of

[00:34:23] information,

[00:34:23] you would

[00:34:24] probably enjoy

[00:34:25] my other,

[00:34:25] well,

[00:34:26] my solo

[00:34:26] podcast that

[00:34:27] I do.

[00:34:27] This isn't

[00:34:27] supposed to

[00:34:28] be solo,

[00:34:28] but it is

[00:34:29] this week,

[00:34:30] so deal

[00:34:30] with it.

[00:34:31] But if you

[00:34:31] enjoy stuff

[00:34:32] like this,

[00:34:33] you should

[00:34:33] check out my

[00:34:34] solo podcast,

[00:34:34] the Arte

[00:34:35] podcast.

[00:34:35] It's only

[00:34:36] once a month,

[00:34:36] so it

[00:34:37] doesn't take

[00:34:38] up a lot

[00:34:38] of your

[00:34:39] time,

[00:34:43] but basically

[00:34:43] I have

[00:34:44] Joe Rogan-esque

[00:34:45] style conversations

[00:34:47] with people

[00:34:47] I find interesting

[00:34:48] and I let

[00:34:49] people talk

[00:34:50] until they're

[00:34:50] tired of

[00:34:50] talking.

[00:34:51] So if that

[00:34:52] sounds like

[00:34:52] something you

[00:34:53] would like to

[00:34:53] check out,

[00:34:54] check out the

[00:34:54] first link in

[00:34:55] the description.

[00:34:55] It'll take

[00:34:55] you right

[00:34:56] to that

[00:34:56] podcast page,

[00:34:57] plus some

[00:34:58] of my other

[00:34:59] informative

[00:35:00] video pieces

[00:35:00] that are not

[00:35:01] podcasts,

[00:35:02] but are still

[00:35:02] fun and

[00:35:03] interesting,

[00:35:03] including my

[00:35:04] series,

[00:35:04] Five Things

[00:35:05] You May

[00:35:05] Not Know

[00:35:06] About,

[00:35:06] Whatever

[00:35:07] the topic

[00:35:08] may be.

[00:35:10] Alrighty,

[00:35:11] so this

[00:35:12] letter,

[00:35:14] oh,

[00:35:15] it's his

[00:35:16] tendency to

[00:35:16] say weird

[00:35:17] sexist things.

[00:35:18] I even

[00:35:19] saw a clip

[00:35:20] of a female

[00:35:21] conservative

[00:35:21] pundit saying

[00:35:22] he needs

[00:35:22] to tone

[00:35:23] down the

[00:35:23] crazy cat

[00:35:24] lady shit.

[00:35:27] Not gonna

[00:35:27] lie though,

[00:35:28] except he's

[00:35:28] kind of right,

[00:35:29] because,

[00:35:30] I mean,

[00:35:31] obviously not

[00:35:31] everyone on

[00:35:32] the left,

[00:35:32] but he,

[00:35:35] don't get me

[00:35:35] wrong,

[00:35:36] I have my

[00:35:36] issues with

[00:35:36] J.D.

[00:35:37] Vance,

[00:35:37] but I

[00:35:38] don't want

[00:35:38] to speak

[00:35:38] on him

[00:35:39] too much

[00:35:39] until I

[00:35:40] have a chance

[00:35:40] to do

[00:35:40] this amount

[00:35:41] of research.

[00:35:42] I would

[00:35:43] kind of like

[00:35:43] to find

[00:35:43] a left-leaning

[00:35:45] series that

[00:35:45] tries to

[00:35:46] expose him

[00:35:46] the way

[00:35:47] they try

[00:35:47] to expose

[00:35:47] Kamala,

[00:35:48] and I also

[00:35:49] want to

[00:35:49] watch

[00:35:49] Hillbilly,

[00:35:50] Hillbilly,

[00:35:52] Hillbilly,

[00:35:52] Hillbilly,

[00:35:52] Hillbilly,

[00:35:53] Hillbilly,

[00:35:53] Hillbilly,

[00:35:53] or whatever

[00:35:53] it is,

[00:35:55] the movie

[00:35:56] they made

[00:35:56] on Netflix

[00:35:57] about his

[00:35:57] book,

[00:35:57] because I'm

[00:35:58] not going

[00:35:58] to read

[00:35:58] his book.

[00:36:04] Yeah,

[00:36:04] and I know

[00:36:05] what you're

[00:36:05] talking about,

[00:36:06] and I,

[00:36:06] so,

[00:36:07] okay,

[00:36:07] so,

[00:36:07] I mentioned

[00:36:08] the Kamala

[00:36:09] video,

[00:36:09] where everybody

[00:36:10] kept,

[00:36:11] okay,

[00:36:11] so,

[00:36:11] I'm,

[00:36:12] I'm,

[00:36:12] I'm,

[00:36:12] I'm,

[00:36:12] I'm going

[00:36:12] to talk

[00:36:13] about J.D.

[00:36:13] Vance

[00:36:14] for a second,

[00:36:15] and I am

[00:36:16] going to,

[00:36:16] I am going

[00:36:17] to make this

[00:36:17] right,

[00:36:17] people.

[00:36:18] So,

[00:36:19] the most

[00:36:20] recent short

[00:36:21] is one

[00:36:22] where I'm

[00:36:23] criticizing Kamala

[00:36:23] Harris for

[00:36:24] saying that

[00:36:25] 18,

[00:36:26] 20,

[00:36:26] world-year-olds

[00:36:26] are stupid,

[00:36:27] and the

[00:36:28] number one

[00:36:28] hate comment

[00:36:29] is,

[00:36:29] yeah,

[00:36:30] you took

[00:36:30] that out

[00:36:31] of context.

[00:36:32] No,

[00:36:32] I did not.

[00:36:33] I absolutely

[00:36:34] did not.

[00:36:35] That clip

[00:36:36] is from a

[00:36:37] speech she

[00:36:37] gave in

[00:36:37] 2014,

[00:36:38] I believe,

[00:36:39] where she

[00:36:40] was talking

[00:36:41] about the

[00:36:41] need for

[00:36:42] criminal justice

[00:36:42] reform for

[00:36:43] young people.

[00:36:44] True,

[00:36:45] she said it

[00:36:45] with a giggle,

[00:36:46] but she

[00:36:47] meant it.

[00:36:47] Because the

[00:36:47] whole point

[00:36:48] of her

[00:36:48] talk was

[00:36:49] how when

[00:36:51] kids are

[00:36:51] 18 to 24

[00:36:52] in college,

[00:36:53] they're referred

[00:36:54] to as kids,

[00:36:54] but the

[00:36:55] system treats

[00:36:56] them as

[00:36:56] adults,

[00:36:56] starting at

[00:36:57] 18,

[00:36:57] and depending

[00:36:58] on the

[00:36:58] nature of

[00:36:58] the crime,

[00:36:59] sometimes younger

[00:36:59] than that,

[00:37:00] because you

[00:37:00] can be tried

[00:37:01] as an adult,

[00:37:01] even if you

[00:37:02] are a minor,

[00:37:03] if you are

[00:37:03] of appropriate

[00:37:04] age and the

[00:37:04] crime is

[00:37:05] appropriately

[00:37:05] heinous.

[00:37:07] So the

[00:37:07] point of

[00:37:08] her talk

[00:37:09] was actually

[00:37:09] that young

[00:37:10] people are

[00:37:10] stupid.

[00:37:11] So,

[00:37:12] yeah,

[00:37:12] I'm not

[00:37:13] going to

[00:37:13] take it

[00:37:13] back.

[00:37:16] But,

[00:37:16] Justin does

[00:37:17] point out,

[00:37:18] I also saw

[00:37:19] the J.D.

[00:37:20] Vance clip

[00:37:21] about,

[00:37:22] I'm paraphrasing,

[00:37:24] but basically

[00:37:24] he said people

[00:37:25] with kids should

[00:37:25] get more of a

[00:37:26] say,

[00:37:26] like their

[00:37:27] vote should

[00:37:27] count more.

[00:37:29] And I

[00:37:30] thought this was

[00:37:31] hilarious because

[00:37:31] I can't remember

[00:37:32] who.

[00:37:33] I want to say

[00:37:33] it might have

[00:37:33] been Ben

[00:37:34] Shapiro,

[00:37:35] but it

[00:37:35] might have

[00:37:36] been somebody

[00:37:36] else.

[00:37:37] It might have

[00:37:37] actually been

[00:37:38] Michael Knowles

[00:37:38] now that I'm

[00:37:38] thinking about it.

[00:37:39] But anyway,

[00:37:39] regardless,

[00:37:41] someone said,

[00:37:42] well,

[00:37:42] yeah,

[00:37:43] but here's

[00:37:43] the whole

[00:37:43] clip.

[00:37:45] And the

[00:37:45] only thing

[00:37:46] J.D.

[00:37:46] Vance said

[00:37:47] was he said

[00:37:47] the bit

[00:37:48] and then he

[00:37:48] said,

[00:37:49] no,

[00:37:49] I understand

[00:37:49] some people

[00:37:50] can't have

[00:37:50] kids,

[00:37:50] but he never

[00:37:51] actually retracted

[00:37:52] the statement.

[00:37:53] So,

[00:37:54] yeah,

[00:37:55] I'm going to

[00:37:56] hold J.D.

[00:37:57] Vance to the

[00:37:57] same account.

[00:37:58] So look out for

[00:37:58] that and I know

[00:37:59] I'm going to get

[00:38:00] even more hate

[00:38:01] for that one,

[00:38:02] but it's what I

[00:38:03] do because I

[00:38:04] care about the

[00:38:04] truth.

[00:38:09] So anyway,

[00:38:09] this letter.

[00:38:10] So yes,

[00:38:10] Justin,

[00:38:10] I am going to

[00:38:11] bring that up.

[00:38:13] So this

[00:38:13] letter is from

[00:38:14] Kelly Mellenbacher.

[00:38:16] I hope I didn't

[00:38:17] mispronounce your

[00:38:18] name,

[00:38:18] but that's I'm

[00:38:19] guessing.

[00:38:21] November 11th,

[00:38:22] 2019.

[00:38:23] To whom it may

[00:38:23] concern,

[00:38:24] it is with a

[00:38:25] heavy heart

[00:38:25] that I submit

[00:38:26] my resignation

[00:38:26] as state

[00:38:27] operations

[00:38:28] director.

[00:38:29] Oh,

[00:38:29] she was

[00:38:30] state

[00:38:31] operations

[00:38:31] director at

[00:38:32] Kamala Harris

[00:38:33] for the

[00:38:33] people effective

[00:38:34] November 30th,

[00:38:35] 2019.

[00:38:36] This is my

[00:38:37] third presidential

[00:38:38] campaign and I

[00:38:39] have never seen

[00:38:39] an organization

[00:38:40] treat its staff

[00:38:41] so poorly.

[00:38:42] While I believe

[00:38:43] that Senator

[00:38:44] Harris is the

[00:38:44] strongest candidate

[00:38:45] in the

[00:38:45] No,

[00:38:49] you're not

[00:38:50] derailing.

[00:38:50] You're not

[00:38:51] derailing at

[00:38:51] all,

[00:38:52] Justin.

[00:38:52] I'd love to

[00:38:53] do a follow

[00:38:54] up on our

[00:38:54] episode because

[00:38:55] I've changed

[00:38:55] my position.

[00:38:56] So why don't

[00:38:57] we do it

[00:39:04] because I

[00:39:04] know Eric

[00:39:05] is still

[00:39:05] out for

[00:39:06] medical

[00:39:06] leave.

[00:39:06] I know

[00:39:07] we thought

[00:39:07] he was

[00:39:07] coming back

[00:39:08] but he

[00:39:08] had a

[00:39:08] flare up

[00:39:09] so he

[00:39:09] is still

[00:39:09] out.

[00:39:10] So yeah,

[00:39:11] buddy,

[00:39:11] come on

[00:39:11] next week.

[00:39:12] We'll discuss

[00:39:13] some politicking

[00:39:13] further.

[00:39:16] Then I am

[00:39:17] in.

[00:39:18] All right.

[00:39:21] And hopefully

[00:39:22] I won't be a

[00:39:22] coughing,

[00:39:23] hacking mess

[00:39:23] by then.

[00:39:28] Sorry,

[00:39:29] I laughed.

[00:39:30] While I

[00:39:30] still believe

[00:39:31] that Senator

[00:39:32] Harris is the

[00:39:32] strongest

[00:39:33] candidate to

[00:39:34] win the

[00:39:35] general election

[00:39:35] in 2020.

[00:39:37] I know.

[00:39:38] Well,

[00:39:38] I guess in a way

[00:39:38] she did,

[00:39:39] didn't she?

[00:39:40] I mean,

[00:39:40] nobody voted

[00:39:41] for her

[00:39:41] directly,

[00:39:42] but I guess

[00:39:42] she did

[00:39:43] technically

[00:39:43] win.

[00:39:45] So I

[00:39:46] guess you're

[00:39:47] calling it

[00:39:47] right.

[00:39:48] But anyway,

[00:39:48] I no longer

[00:39:49] have confidence

[00:39:50] in our

[00:39:50] campaign or

[00:39:51] its leadership.

[00:39:52] The treatment

[00:39:52] of our staff

[00:39:53] over the

[00:39:53] last two

[00:39:54] weeks was

[00:39:54] the final

[00:39:55] straw in

[00:39:55] this very

[00:39:56] difficult

[00:39:56] decision.

[00:39:58] This is one

[00:39:59] of the best

[00:39:59] examples.

[00:40:00] There's probably

[00:40:01] a dictionary

[00:40:02] word for this,

[00:40:02] but basically

[00:40:03] when somebody

[00:40:05] says something

[00:40:08] but by

[00:40:09] saying it

[00:40:09] the way

[00:40:09] they say

[00:40:10] it,

[00:40:10] they point

[00:40:10] out the

[00:40:11] validity of

[00:40:12] the statement

[00:40:12] or,

[00:40:13] I'm sorry,

[00:40:14] the invalidity

[00:40:15] of the

[00:40:15] statement.

[00:40:15] So she

[00:40:16] says she

[00:40:16] thinks Harris

[00:40:17] is the

[00:40:17] best

[00:40:17] candidate,

[00:40:18] but then

[00:40:19] she goes

[00:40:19] on to

[00:40:19] say that

[00:40:20] her campaign

[00:40:20] structure

[00:40:22] is so bad

[00:40:23] and is

[00:40:24] lacking so

[00:40:24] much leadership

[00:40:25] that she

[00:40:25] has to

[00:40:26] leave.

[00:40:28] Those two

[00:40:28] things don't,

[00:40:30] they're not

[00:40:30] kosher,

[00:40:31] they don't go

[00:40:31] together.

[00:40:34] It is not

[00:40:34] acceptable to

[00:40:35] me that we

[00:40:36] encourage people

[00:40:36] to move from

[00:40:37] Washington,

[00:40:37] D.C.

[00:40:38] to Baltimore

[00:40:38] only to lay

[00:40:39] them off

[00:40:40] with no

[00:40:40] notice,

[00:40:41] with no

[00:40:41] plan for

[00:40:42] the campaign

[00:40:42] and without

[00:40:43] thoughtful

[00:40:43] consideration of

[00:40:44] the personal

[00:40:44] consequences to

[00:40:45] them or the

[00:40:46] consequences that

[00:40:47] their absence

[00:40:47] would have on

[00:40:48] the remaining

[00:40:48] staff.

[00:40:49] It is

[00:40:49] unacceptable

[00:40:50] that we

[00:40:51] would lay

[00:40:51] off anyone

[00:40:51] that we

[00:40:52] hired only

[00:40:52] weeks earlier.

[00:40:53] It is

[00:40:54] unacceptable

[00:40:54] that with

[00:40:55] less than 90

[00:40:55] days until

[00:40:56] Iowa we still

[00:40:57] do not have

[00:40:57] a real plan

[00:40:58] to win.

[00:41:01] Our campaign

[00:41:02] for the people

[00:41:03] is made up

[00:41:04] of diverse

[00:41:04] talent which is

[00:41:05] being scored

[00:41:05] squandered by

[00:41:06] indecision and

[00:41:07] a lack of

[00:41:08] quote,

[00:41:08] leaders who

[00:41:09] will lead.

[00:41:10] That is

[00:41:10] unacceptable.

[00:41:11] But she's

[00:41:12] the best

[00:41:13] candidate.

[00:41:14] When morale

[00:41:15] has never been

[00:41:16] lower and

[00:41:16] additional people,

[00:41:17] even if only

[00:41:17] three,

[00:41:18] are laid off

[00:41:19] and neither

[00:41:19] the campaign

[00:41:20] manager or

[00:41:21] the chair

[00:41:21] addresses the

[00:41:22] staff to

[00:41:22] explain,

[00:41:23] apologize,

[00:41:24] or reassure

[00:41:24] us of the

[00:41:25] decision being

[00:41:26] made and the

[00:41:27] path forward,

[00:41:28] something has

[00:41:28] got to give.

[00:41:29] Presidential

[00:41:30] campaigns

[00:41:30] are incredibly

[00:41:31] challenging work

[00:41:32] and for good

[00:41:33] reason.

[00:41:33] We're asking

[00:41:34] people to trust

[00:41:35] us,

[00:41:35] to look out

[00:41:36] for them,

[00:41:37] to have

[00:41:37] their best

[00:41:38] interests at

[00:41:38] heart.

[00:41:39] Actually,

[00:41:39] they're looking

[00:41:40] for you to

[00:41:41] win an election,

[00:41:42] but campaigns

[00:41:47] have highs and

[00:41:49] lows,

[00:41:49] mistakes and

[00:41:50] miscalculations,

[00:41:51] lessons learned,

[00:41:51] and adjustments

[00:41:52] made.

[00:41:52] But because we

[00:41:53] have refused to

[00:41:54] confront our

[00:41:55] mistakes,

[00:41:55] foster an

[00:41:56] environment of

[00:41:56] critical thinking

[00:41:57] and honest

[00:41:58] feedback,

[00:41:58] or trust the

[00:41:59] expertise of

[00:42:00] talented staff,

[00:42:01] we find ourselves

[00:42:02] making the same

[00:42:03] unforced errors

[00:42:04] over and

[00:42:05] over.

[00:42:06] And it

[00:42:06] certainly does

[00:42:07] not help

[00:42:07] the team to

[00:42:09] read about

[00:42:09] campaign discord

[00:42:10] in Politico

[00:42:10] or various other

[00:42:11] publications,

[00:42:12] because those

[00:42:13] with things to

[00:42:15] say have

[00:42:15] decided the

[00:42:16] best way to

[00:42:16] air their

[00:42:17] grievances is

[00:42:18] in the press

[00:42:19] instead of

[00:42:19] the leadership.

[00:42:21] This is not

[00:42:22] how I would

[00:42:22] have ever imagined

[00:42:23] my time at

[00:42:24] this campaign

[00:42:24] ending.

[00:42:25] And like I

[00:42:25] said, this

[00:42:26] was not an

[00:42:27] easy decision.

[00:42:28] I only hope

[00:42:29] my departure

[00:42:30] might result

[00:42:31] in some

[00:42:32] serious

[00:42:32] consideration

[00:42:33] of our

[00:42:33] structure,

[00:42:34] our goals,

[00:42:35] our internal

[00:42:35] communications,

[00:42:36] and what our

[00:42:37] organizational

[00:42:38] values are.

[00:42:39] We have

[00:42:39] really amazing

[00:42:40] people on

[00:42:41] staff, and

[00:42:41] I'd hate for

[00:42:42] any more to

[00:42:43] get to the

[00:42:43] point where I

[00:42:44] find myself

[00:42:45] writing this

[00:42:45] letter of

[00:42:46] resignation.

[00:42:47] Sincerely,

[00:42:48] Kelly

[00:42:48] Mellenbacher.

[00:42:53] Now again,

[00:42:55] as Kelly said

[00:42:56] in her letter,

[00:42:57] campaigns are

[00:42:58] full of

[00:42:59] struggle and

[00:42:59] rife and

[00:43:00] you know,

[00:43:00] just problems.

[00:43:01] Any organization

[00:43:02] is.

[00:43:03] The difference

[00:43:03] is this seems

[00:43:04] to be a

[00:43:04] trend with

[00:43:05] Kamala,

[00:43:06] because I

[00:43:07] also have an

[00:43:07] article from

[00:43:08] Politico from

[00:43:12] June 30th,

[00:43:14] 2021.

[00:43:15] This is when

[00:43:16] Harris is

[00:43:16] vice president.

[00:43:18] Again, this

[00:43:19] is a long

[00:43:19] one.

[00:43:21] When vice

[00:43:22] president Kamala

[00:43:22] Harris finally

[00:43:23] made the

[00:43:23] decision to

[00:43:24] visit the

[00:43:24] Mexico border

[00:43:25] last week,

[00:43:26] people inside

[00:43:27] her own

[00:43:27] office were

[00:43:28] blindsided by

[00:43:28] the news.

[00:43:30] Oh, and

[00:43:31] this goes in,

[00:43:31] I'll talk about

[00:43:32] the whole

[00:43:32] borders arc.

[00:43:34] For days,

[00:43:36] aides and

[00:43:36] outside allies

[00:43:37] had been calling

[00:43:38] and texting with

[00:43:38] each other about

[00:43:39] the political

[00:43:40] fallout that a

[00:43:41] potential trip

[00:43:41] would entail.

[00:43:42] But when it

[00:43:43] became known

[00:43:43] that she was

[00:43:44] going to El

[00:43:44] Paso, it

[00:43:45] left many

[00:43:46] scrambling,

[00:43:47] including

[00:43:48] officials who

[00:43:48] were responsible

[00:43:49] for making

[00:43:49] travel arrangements

[00:43:50] and others

[00:43:51] outside the

[00:43:51] VP's office

[00:43:52] charged with

[00:43:52] crafting the

[00:43:53] messaging across

[00:43:54] the administration.

[00:43:55] The handling

[00:43:56] of the border

[00:43:56] visit was the

[00:43:57] latest chaotic

[00:43:58] moment for a

[00:43:58] staff that's

[00:43:59] quickly become

[00:43:59] mired in them.

[00:44:00] Harris's team

[00:44:02] is experiencing

[00:44:02] low morale,

[00:44:04] forest lines

[00:44:04] of communication,

[00:44:05] and diminished

[00:44:05] trust among

[00:44:06] aides and

[00:44:07] senior officials.

[00:44:09] Much of the

[00:44:10] frustration internally

[00:44:11] is directed at

[00:44:13] Tina

[00:44:14] Flowernoy,

[00:44:15] Flowernoy,

[00:44:16] I hope I'm

[00:44:17] pronouncing that

[00:44:17] right,

[00:44:18] Harris's chief

[00:44:18] of staff,

[00:44:19] a veteran of

[00:44:20] democratic politics

[00:44:21] who began working

[00:44:21] for her earlier

[00:44:22] this year.

[00:44:23] In interviews,

[00:44:24] 22 current and

[00:44:25] former vice

[00:44:25] presidential aides

[00:44:26] administration

[00:44:27] officials and

[00:44:27] associates of

[00:44:28] Harris and

[00:44:29] Biden described

[00:44:30] a tense and

[00:44:30] at times dour

[00:44:31] office atmosphere.

[00:44:33] Aides and

[00:44:34] allies,

[00:44:34] said Flowernoy,

[00:44:36] in an apparent

[00:44:37] effort to protect

[00:44:38] Harris,

[00:44:38] has instead

[00:44:39] created an

[00:44:39] insular environment

[00:44:40] where ideas are

[00:44:42] ignored or met

[00:44:42] with harsh

[00:44:43] dismissals.

[00:44:44] And decisions

[00:44:45] are dragged out.

[00:44:46] Often,

[00:44:46] they said,

[00:44:47] she refuses to

[00:44:47] take responsibility

[00:44:49] for delicate

[00:44:50] issues and

[00:44:51] blame staffers

[00:44:52] for the negative

[00:44:52] results that

[00:44:53] ensue.

[00:44:55] Quote,

[00:44:56] people are

[00:44:56] thrown under

[00:44:57] the bus

[00:44:58] from the very

[00:44:59] top.

[00:45:00] There are

[00:45:01] short fuses

[00:45:01] and it's an

[00:45:02] abusive environment,

[00:45:03] said another

[00:45:03] person with

[00:45:04] direct knowledge

[00:45:04] of how

[00:45:05] Harris's office

[00:45:05] is run.

[00:45:06] Quote,

[00:45:06] it's not a

[00:45:07] healthy

[00:45:07] environment and

[00:45:08] people often

[00:45:08] feel mistreated.

[00:45:09] It's not a

[00:45:10] place where

[00:45:10] people feel

[00:45:10] supported,

[00:45:11] but a place

[00:45:11] where people

[00:45:12] feel treated

[00:45:12] like shit.

[00:45:15] The

[00:45:16] dysfunction of

[00:45:16] the VP's

[00:45:17] ranks threatens

[00:45:18] to complicate

[00:45:18] the White

[00:45:19] House's

[00:45:19] carefully crafted

[00:45:20] image as a

[00:45:21] place staffed

[00:45:21] by a close-knit

[00:45:22] group of

[00:45:22] professionals working

[00:45:24] in concert to

[00:45:24] advance the

[00:45:25] president's agenda.

[00:45:26] It's pronounced

[00:45:27] enough that members

[00:45:28] of the president's

[00:45:29] own team have

[00:45:30] taken notice and

[00:45:30] are concerned about

[00:45:32] the way Harris's

[00:45:32] staffers are

[00:45:33] treated.

[00:45:34] Simone Sanders,

[00:45:36] senior advisor and

[00:45:37] chief spokesperson for

[00:45:38] Harris, pushed

[00:45:38] back against the

[00:45:39] complaints and

[00:45:40] defended

[00:45:40] Flower Noise,

[00:45:41] saying she has a,

[00:45:42] quote, open-door

[00:45:44] policy and that

[00:45:45] quote, black women

[00:45:46] like me would not

[00:45:46] have the opportunity

[00:45:47] to work in

[00:45:48] politics without

[00:45:49] Tina.

[00:45:50] Never mind

[00:45:51] Condoleezza Rice

[00:45:53] and many others,

[00:45:54] but 2001-ish, by

[00:45:58] the way.

[00:45:59] Actually, what she

[00:45:59] brought on in

[00:46:00] 2003, I can't

[00:46:01] remember.

[00:46:02] Somebody will

[00:46:03] Google it if they

[00:46:04] think I'm wrong.

[00:46:06] Of the chief of

[00:46:07] staff's anonymous

[00:46:08] critics, she added

[00:46:09] quote, people are

[00:46:10] cowards to do this

[00:46:11] this way.

[00:46:12] Well, unless you

[00:46:13] don't want to get

[00:46:14] fired or punish,

[00:46:16] you know.

[00:46:18] Harris and

[00:46:18] Flower Noise

[00:46:19] defenders also note

[00:46:20] that women in

[00:46:21] power, black women

[00:46:22] in particular,

[00:46:25] are subjected to

[00:46:27] standards that men

[00:46:27] often don't have to

[00:46:28] clear.

[00:46:29] A tough and

[00:46:30] demanding offense

[00:46:31] environment may seem

[00:46:32] like as a virtue

[00:46:33] for one and a sign

[00:46:34] of disorder and

[00:46:35] lack of leadership

[00:46:35] for acumen for

[00:46:36] another.

[00:46:37] I'm going to

[00:46:37] address this real

[00:46:38] quick because I

[00:46:39] feel like this was

[00:46:40] probably true in the

[00:46:41] 80s and maybe even

[00:46:42] the 90s.

[00:46:43] Maybe even the

[00:46:44] early 2000s, although

[00:46:45] I doubt it.

[00:46:46] Here's the thing

[00:46:47] though.

[00:46:47] If you work in an

[00:46:48] office and your

[00:46:49] boss is a dick, it

[00:46:50] doesn't matter what

[00:46:51] gender they are.

[00:46:54] It's like, I've

[00:46:55] been in workplace

[00:46:55] environments where the

[00:46:56] boss was a guy and

[00:46:57] he was an asshole.

[00:46:58] And everybody hated

[00:47:00] him just as much.

[00:47:02] So a dick is a

[00:47:03] dick is a dick and a

[00:47:04] bitch is a bitch is a

[00:47:04] bitch and they're all

[00:47:05] the same.

[00:47:07] So if you're a bad

[00:47:08] leader, you're a bad

[00:47:08] leader.

[00:47:09] It doesn't matter

[00:47:09] what genitals you

[00:47:11] have.

[00:47:12] But for some

[00:47:13] people who know

[00:47:13] Harris best, it's

[00:47:15] because an all too

[00:47:16] familiar pattern for

[00:47:17] a politician who has

[00:47:18] churned through several

[00:47:18] iterations of staff on

[00:47:20] her rise and took

[00:47:21] office with a team

[00:47:21] almost entirely new to

[00:47:23] her.

[00:47:23] Just six months in,

[00:47:25] some of those aides

[00:47:26] in the office of the

[00:47:27] vice president said

[00:47:28] they are eyeing other

[00:47:29] employment opportunities.

[00:47:30] Others have left

[00:47:31] already.

[00:47:31] In recent days, two

[00:47:32] top advanced staffers,

[00:47:37] Carly Setkawiak and

[00:47:39] Gabriel Defranceschi

[00:47:43] or Defranceschi

[00:47:45] started ways with

[00:47:46] Harris and what they

[00:47:48] and Harris officials

[00:47:49] said were long

[00:47:50] planned departures,

[00:47:50] a point disputed by

[00:47:51] two people familiar

[00:47:52] with the matter.

[00:47:53] For Defranceschi,

[00:47:56] the deputy director of

[00:47:57] advance, the departure

[00:47:59] came down to quote a

[00:48:01] difference in opinion

[00:48:02] on how things should

[00:48:03] run, according to

[00:48:04] another person familiar

[00:48:05] with the matter, who

[00:48:06] said that Harris's

[00:48:07] office is run,

[00:48:09] quote, very different

[00:48:10] from the Obama

[00:48:11] operation, where

[00:48:13] Defranceschi previously

[00:48:14] worked.

[00:48:15] Quote, if you have an

[00:48:16] opinion about how

[00:48:16] things should run and

[00:48:18] it's not listened to,

[00:48:19] it can be frustrating.

[00:48:24] Sorry, I'm just going

[00:48:25] to keep thumbing

[00:48:26] through this.

[00:48:30] Recently, a Harris

[00:48:32] friend personally

[00:48:33] reached out to

[00:48:33] Flowernoy on behalf

[00:48:35] of one of the party's

[00:48:36] top donors to try to

[00:48:37] arrange a brief meeting.

[00:48:39] They were ignored.

[00:48:40] The friend said it

[00:48:41] wasn't clear whether

[00:48:42] Flowernoy knew who

[00:48:43] they were.

[00:48:43] The donor also

[00:48:44] contacted Harris's

[00:48:45] office personally to

[00:48:46] connect, and it

[00:48:47] didn't hear back for

[00:48:48] weeks.

[00:48:48] They eventually were

[00:48:49] told the VP was too

[00:48:50] busy to schedule some

[00:48:52] time.

[00:48:53] Crypto.

[00:48:55] Gosh, I apologize,

[00:48:56] everyone.

[00:49:02] Quote, this is someone

[00:49:04] who has raised hundreds

[00:49:05] of thousands of

[00:49:05] dollars, millions even,

[00:49:07] for your boss and

[00:49:08] yours blowing them

[00:49:08] off, the Harris

[00:49:09] friend asked.

[00:49:10] Quote, next time

[00:49:11] Kamala wants me for

[00:49:13] something, it's like,

[00:49:14] hey, I couldn't even

[00:49:16] get a call back from

[00:49:17] your chief of staff.

[00:49:21] Harris's staff

[00:49:22] struggles are nothing

[00:49:23] new.

[00:49:23] People who have

[00:49:24] worked for her in

[00:49:24] the past described

[00:49:25] days as, quote,

[00:49:27] managed chaos.

[00:49:27] Quote, the boss's

[00:49:28] expectations won't

[00:49:29] always be predictable,

[00:49:30] said one former

[00:49:31] Harris Senate aide.

[00:49:33] Her presidential

[00:49:34] campaign operation

[00:49:35] imploded in a painful

[00:49:36] maze of finger-pointing

[00:49:38] and leaks.

[00:49:38] Harris jettisoned

[00:49:40] nearly everyone from

[00:49:41] that campaign and

[00:49:41] returned to the

[00:49:42] Senate in 2020 with

[00:49:43] her government staff

[00:49:44] on a small outside

[00:49:45] political operation in

[00:49:46] tow.

[00:49:47] When she was put on

[00:49:49] the presidential

[00:49:50] ticket, she was

[00:49:50] given a staff of

[00:49:51] mostly hand-picked

[00:49:52] trusted aides from

[00:49:53] Biden world.

[00:49:54] It did the job.

[00:49:55] The team avoided

[00:49:56] the spiral of

[00:49:57] internal backbiting.

[00:49:59] Well, there it is

[00:50:00] right there.

[00:50:01] Harris can't pick

[00:50:02] people.

[00:50:03] Because when she

[00:50:04] was given a team,

[00:50:05] it was functional.

[00:50:09] So if Harris does

[00:50:10] win the presidency,

[00:50:11] her cabinet choices

[00:50:11] are going to be,

[00:50:14] it's going to be a

[00:50:14] bit of a shit show.

[00:50:18] So in a few other

[00:50:19] examples of Harris

[00:50:22] backtracking, so

[00:50:31] earlier in the

[00:50:32] primary, there were

[00:50:34] seven women that

[00:50:36] came forward

[00:50:36] alleging that

[00:50:38] sexual harassment

[00:50:39] allegations against

[00:50:39] Biden.

[00:50:40] And this is a

[00:50:42] fact-check piece

[00:50:43] from USA Today.

[00:50:45] And I do

[00:50:46] understand the

[00:50:46] difference here,

[00:50:47] so I don't want to

[00:50:47] act like these are

[00:50:48] the same things,

[00:50:49] but I'm just going to

[00:50:49] read it to you, and

[00:50:51] you can do with this

[00:50:53] information as you

[00:50:54] will.

[00:50:54] Harris said she

[00:50:55] believes some, not

[00:50:56] all, of Biden's

[00:50:57] sexual harassment

[00:50:58] accusers.

[00:50:59] As the nature of

[00:51:00] sexual harassment

[00:51:01] allegations against

[00:51:02] Biden, now keep in

[00:51:02] mind Harris was a

[00:51:03] bulldog in the

[00:51:05] Brett Kavanaugh

[00:51:06] incident.

[00:51:06] I'm not even going

[00:51:07] to call it a case

[00:51:07] because technically

[00:51:08] it wasn't a case.

[00:51:09] It was testimony

[00:51:11] during his selection

[00:51:13] and confirmation to

[00:51:14] the Supreme Court.

[00:51:15] He was never on

[00:51:16] trial.

[00:51:17] As the nature of

[00:51:18] sexual harassment

[00:51:18] allegations against

[00:51:19] Biden have changed,

[00:51:20] so too has Harris'

[00:51:21] response to them.

[00:51:23] In March 2019,

[00:51:24] Lucy Flores, a

[00:51:25] former state

[00:51:26] lawmaker in

[00:51:26] Nevada, accused

[00:51:27] Biden of

[00:51:28] inappropriate touching

[00:51:29] and kissing her

[00:51:29] head at a

[00:51:30] campaign event.

[00:51:31] Following that,

[00:51:32] six other women

[00:51:32] came forward and

[00:51:33] shared stories of

[00:51:33] unwanted touching

[00:51:34] by Biden.

[00:51:36] Biden said his

[00:51:37] touching was about

[00:51:38] making, quote, a

[00:51:38] human connection, but

[00:51:39] vowed to be more,

[00:51:40] quote, mindful and

[00:51:41] respectful.

[00:51:41] In April 2019,

[00:51:43] Harris said she

[00:51:43] believed the

[00:51:44] women who said they

[00:51:45] felt uncomfortable

[00:51:45] after Biden touched

[00:51:46] them.

[00:51:48] quote, I

[00:51:49] believe them and

[00:51:50] I respect them

[00:51:50] being able to

[00:51:51] tell their story

[00:51:52] and having the

[00:51:53] courage to do

[00:51:53] it, Harris said.

[00:51:54] At the time, none

[00:51:55] of the allegations

[00:51:56] included rape or

[00:51:57] sexual assault.

[00:51:58] In March 2020,

[00:51:59] though, Tara

[00:52:00] Reed, not the

[00:52:01] actress, a former

[00:52:02] Biden Senate

[00:52:03] staffer, accused

[00:52:04] Biden of sexual

[00:52:05] assault.

[00:52:06] In April, Harris

[00:52:07] said in the San

[00:52:08] Francisco, I'm

[00:52:09] sorry, in April,

[00:52:10] Harris said in a

[00:52:11] San Francisco

[00:52:12] Chronicle podcast,

[00:52:13] she believes that,

[00:52:14] quote, Reed has a

[00:52:15] right to tell her

[00:52:16] story.

[00:52:17] Not that she

[00:52:18] believed Reed's

[00:52:19] allegation, which

[00:52:20] Biden is, which

[00:52:23] Biden is vehemently

[00:52:24] denied.

[00:52:25] Quote, I believe

[00:52:26] that and I believe

[00:52:27] Joe Biden believes

[00:52:28] that too, Harris

[00:52:29] said.

[00:52:30] She added she

[00:52:31] can, quote, only

[00:52:32] speak to the Joe

[00:52:33] Biden I know.

[00:52:34] Quote, the Joe

[00:52:35] Biden I know is

[00:52:36] somebody who really

[00:52:37] has fought for

[00:52:37] women and

[00:52:38] empowerment of

[00:52:38] women for

[00:52:39] women's equality

[00:52:40] and rights, she

[00:52:40] said.

[00:52:41] Now, it's worth

[00:52:42] noting that this,

[00:52:43] the,

[00:52:44] the,

[00:52:45] the,

[00:52:45] it is worth

[00:52:46] noting that when

[00:52:47] she made this

[00:52:48] statement, this

[00:52:49] was when she had

[00:52:51] been tapped to

[00:52:52] run as vice

[00:52:53] president by

[00:52:54] Biden.

[00:52:55] So during the

[00:52:56] debate, she

[00:52:56] believed the

[00:52:57] accusers and

[00:52:58] granted, I

[00:52:58] understand the

[00:52:59] difference.

[00:53:00] So I'm not

[00:53:00] saying this is

[00:53:01] all of it, but

[00:53:03] it's just do with

[00:53:04] that information

[00:53:06] as you will.

[00:53:07] And then the

[00:53:07] whole thing with

[00:53:08] the media now

[00:53:10] denying that

[00:53:11] Kamala Harris

[00:53:12] was named

[00:53:13] border czar.

[00:53:15] The media

[00:53:16] certainly called

[00:53:16] her that.

[00:53:17] Now, it is

[00:53:18] true that

[00:53:19] Harris was not

[00:53:19] tapped to

[00:53:20] quote unquote

[00:53:21] enforce the

[00:53:22] border.

[00:53:23] She was tasked

[00:53:23] to figure out

[00:53:24] which this is,

[00:53:25] this is even

[00:53:25] dumber.

[00:53:27] So she was

[00:53:28] tasked to

[00:53:28] figure out why

[00:53:29] people were

[00:53:29] trying to come

[00:53:30] into the United

[00:53:31] States from

[00:53:31] South America.

[00:53:34] He could have

[00:53:35] just asked

[00:53:36] them.

[00:53:37] I mean,

[00:53:38] they'll tell

[00:53:38] you it's

[00:53:40] better money

[00:53:40] here.

[00:53:41] Some people are

[00:53:42] trying to do

[00:53:43] bad things

[00:53:43] here, but the

[00:53:44] vast majority

[00:53:44] of people are

[00:53:45] trying to

[00:53:45] escape, you

[00:53:46] know, bad

[00:53:47] situations, bad

[00:53:48] economies,

[00:53:49] dictators, what

[00:53:50] have you,

[00:53:50] violence.

[00:53:51] It's, it

[00:53:52] ain't that

[00:53:53] complicated.

[00:53:53] And I've

[00:53:54] said this, I

[00:53:54] actually had a

[00:53:54] conversation

[00:53:55] today with

[00:53:56] somebody about

[00:53:57] how the

[00:53:59] solution to

[00:54:00] immigration isn't

[00:54:02] easy, but

[00:54:02] it's simple.

[00:54:03] The fact of

[00:54:04] the matter is

[00:54:05] you got a lot

[00:54:05] of people that

[00:54:06] are trying to

[00:54:06] come into this

[00:54:06] country and

[00:54:07] if they could

[00:54:07] do so legally

[00:54:08] and it wasn't

[00:54:09] a giant pain in

[00:54:10] the ass or if

[00:54:10] they knew how

[00:54:11] to, because

[00:54:12] there's a lot

[00:54:12] of misinformation

[00:54:13] for people trying

[00:54:14] to immigrate to

[00:54:15] the United

[00:54:15] States, they

[00:54:17] would.

[00:54:17] And these are

[00:54:18] things that

[00:54:19] could be pretty

[00:54:20] easily solved,

[00:54:21] including these

[00:54:21] asylum cases,

[00:54:22] which the

[00:54:23] whole thing

[00:54:23] could be

[00:54:24] streamlined so

[00:54:24] easily.

[00:54:26] But they're

[00:54:26] not going to

[00:54:27] do it because

[00:54:27] both the

[00:54:28] Republicans and

[00:54:29] the Democrats

[00:54:29] will never

[00:54:29] fix immigration

[00:54:30] because they

[00:54:31] need it to

[00:54:32] run on.

[00:54:33] Every election

[00:54:34] cycle.

[00:54:34] So every

[00:54:35] two years,

[00:54:36] depending on

[00:54:37] your state,

[00:54:38] sometimes more

[00:54:39] frequently, you're

[00:54:40] going to see

[00:54:40] immigration pop

[00:54:41] up as an

[00:54:41] issue.

[00:54:42] Nobody's ever

[00:54:43] going to

[00:54:43] actually solve

[00:54:44] it because they

[00:54:44] technically can't

[00:54:45] at the state

[00:54:46] level.

[00:54:48] So it's a giant

[00:54:50] clusterfuck.

[00:54:51] But yes, Harris

[00:54:52] was called a

[00:54:53] border czar, at

[00:54:55] least by the

[00:54:56] media.

[00:54:56] And I believe

[00:54:57] by Harris or

[00:54:58] not Harris herself

[00:54:59] at one point, but

[00:55:00] I believe by the

[00:55:01] administration, but

[00:55:02] certainly by the

[00:55:03] media.

[00:55:05] And if you want

[00:55:06] videos, I can

[00:55:07] show you videos.

[00:55:13] Let's see.

[00:55:18] I'm going to

[00:55:18] talk about two

[00:55:19] things real quick

[00:55:20] that are probably

[00:55:21] my biggest issues

[00:55:22] with Kamala

[00:55:23] Harris as a

[00:55:24] politician and

[00:55:24] as a candidate.

[00:55:25] And then I'm

[00:55:26] going to breeze

[00:55:26] through some of

[00:55:27] her political

[00:55:29] positions so that

[00:55:30] you all know

[00:55:31] and can make an

[00:55:32] informed decision.

[00:55:33] But before we do

[00:55:34] that, have you

[00:55:37] ever had an idea

[00:55:37] for a podcast and

[00:55:38] you thought, wow,

[00:55:39] that would be

[00:55:39] amazing to make,

[00:55:40] but you just

[00:55:41] didn't know where

[00:55:42] to start?

[00:55:43] Well, I got good

[00:55:44] news for you.

[00:55:45] We can help you

[00:55:46] with that.

[00:55:46] The RSA Podcast

[00:55:47] Pantheon has

[00:55:48] brought you several

[00:55:49] podcasts.

[00:55:50] I believe the

[00:55:50] official count is

[00:55:51] what's available

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[00:55:53] eight.

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[00:56:56] Okay, so I'm not

[00:56:57] sure which one of

[00:56:58] these I dislike

[00:57:00] more.

[00:57:01] Well, this one's

[00:57:02] shorter.

[00:57:02] So one of the

[00:57:03] issues I have with

[00:57:04] Kamala is she's

[00:57:05] not good at all

[00:57:07] about talking about

[00:57:08] her policy.

[00:57:09] And this is

[00:57:10] evidenced by, and

[00:57:11] I'm going to

[00:57:11] double check this

[00:57:11] right now because

[00:57:13] I wouldn't want to

[00:57:14] eat crow right now

[00:57:15] because I checked it

[00:57:16] earlier today even.

[00:57:25] So if you go to

[00:57:27] Donald Trump's

[00:57:27] presidential website,

[00:57:29] on the first page,

[00:57:30] it has, you know,

[00:57:32] his policies and

[00:57:33] his views right

[00:57:33] there on the front

[00:57:34] page.

[00:57:34] You can't miss it.

[00:57:35] It's right there.

[00:57:36] However, if you go

[00:57:37] to KamalaHarris.com,

[00:57:39] you are met with a

[00:57:40] banner asking you to

[00:57:42] donate, which that's

[00:57:42] not rare.

[00:57:44] But when you

[00:57:44] close that, and

[00:57:45] you go to her

[00:57:46] website, at the

[00:57:46] very top is the

[00:57:47] same thing asking

[00:57:48] you to donate.

[00:57:50] Then you scroll

[00:57:50] down, you can join

[00:57:51] the campaign.

[00:57:53] And then the

[00:57:54] links below, so

[00:57:55] there's a drop

[00:57:55] down menu on the

[00:57:56] top right, it

[00:57:57] says meet

[00:57:57] Kamala Harris,

[00:57:58] meet Tim Waltz,

[00:57:59] take action,

[00:58:00] events, store,

[00:58:00] donate.

[00:58:03] And then at the

[00:58:03] bottom of the

[00:58:04] page, we've got

[00:58:04] store, donate,

[00:58:05] donate by mail,

[00:58:06] FAQs, work with

[00:58:07] us, your privacy

[00:58:08] rights, terms and

[00:58:09] conditions, website

[00:58:10] accessibility statement,

[00:58:11] and before you

[00:58:13] say anything, I

[00:58:14] check the FAQs,

[00:58:15] none of them have

[00:58:16] anything to do with

[00:58:17] her policy.

[00:58:18] None.

[00:58:20] Kamala Harris does

[00:58:20] not have a single

[00:58:21] policy view listed

[00:58:23] on her website.

[00:58:24] This is the first

[00:58:25] time I've ever seen

[00:58:26] that for any

[00:58:27] candidate running

[00:58:28] for any office

[00:58:28] ever.

[00:58:29] She's got nothing

[00:58:29] on her website

[00:58:30] talking about her

[00:58:31] policy ideas, her

[00:58:33] views.

[00:58:33] Now, I suspect it's

[00:58:35] a continuation of the

[00:58:36] Biden administration,

[00:58:37] but she hasn't

[00:58:39] come out and said

[00:58:39] it.

[00:58:40] The only thing she

[00:58:40] has come out and

[00:58:41] said that I'm

[00:58:41] aware of is

[00:58:42] recently she

[00:58:43] continued the

[00:58:44] proud legacy of

[00:58:45] the Biden

[00:58:46] administration

[00:58:46] stealing Trump

[00:58:47] era policies or

[00:58:48] Trump ideas and

[00:58:49] trying to pass

[00:58:50] them off as

[00:58:50] their own by

[00:58:51] announcing that

[00:58:52] she was going

[00:58:52] to basically

[00:58:53] make it so

[00:58:55] that people,

[00:58:57] there would be

[00:58:58] no income tax

[00:58:59] on tips,

[00:59:01] which Trump

[00:59:02] announced months

[00:59:03] ago that he

[00:59:04] was going to

[00:59:05] make that part

[00:59:05] of his platform.

[00:59:06] on.

[00:59:09] So it's and

[00:59:11] then J.D.

[00:59:11] Vance, actually, I

[00:59:12] will say this as

[00:59:13] much as I have

[00:59:14] problems with J.D.

[00:59:15] Vance, but this

[00:59:16] was a baller move.

[00:59:20] So I get he and

[00:59:21] Kamala had landed

[00:59:22] at the same place.

[00:59:23] I can't remember

[00:59:24] where now.

[00:59:26] God, I wish I could

[00:59:27] remember because it

[00:59:28] was.

[00:59:28] But anyway, they

[00:59:28] landed at the same

[00:59:29] airport and there

[00:59:31] were a bunch of

[00:59:31] reporters outside

[00:59:32] Kamala's plane

[00:59:33] wanting to ask her

[00:59:33] questions, but she

[00:59:34] wasn't coming out.

[00:59:35] So J.D.

[00:59:35] Vance walked over

[00:59:36] and started talking

[00:59:37] to him and basically

[00:59:38] was like, well,

[00:59:38] since Kamala is not

[00:59:39] going to answer your

[00:59:39] questions, I guess

[00:59:40] I'll answer some

[00:59:42] baller move.

[00:59:42] Just stupendous.

[00:59:45] And I've talked

[00:59:46] to so many people

[00:59:47] and this guys,

[00:59:50] I'm telling you

[00:59:53] the thing about

[00:59:54] Kamala, Kamala

[00:59:55] is not good at

[00:59:57] impromptu speaking.

[00:59:58] She's just and some

[00:59:59] people just aren't

[01:00:00] good at it.

[01:00:00] Kamala is particularly

[01:00:01] bad about it.

[01:00:03] And I've heard a lot

[01:00:04] of people say things

[01:00:05] like, oh, I can't

[01:00:05] wait for a first

[01:00:06] debate.

[01:00:06] Against Trump.

[01:00:07] She's going to

[01:00:07] destroy him.

[01:00:08] No, she's not.

[01:00:09] No, she's not.

[01:00:12] Because any of you

[01:00:13] does anybody just

[01:00:15] forget about her

[01:00:16] VP debate against

[01:00:17] Mike Pence, where

[01:00:19] if it hadn't been

[01:00:19] for the fly, like

[01:00:21] from a debate

[01:00:22] standpoint, which

[01:00:24] I didn't know

[01:00:24] fly was hilarious,

[01:00:25] but from a debate

[01:00:26] standpoint, he

[01:00:27] destroyed her.

[01:00:28] She had nothing.

[01:00:30] She had nothing.

[01:00:32] She's going to do

[01:00:33] a bunch of circle

[01:00:33] talk and Trump's

[01:00:35] going to Trump's

[01:00:36] going to get under

[01:00:36] her skin because

[01:00:37] Kamala Harris is

[01:00:38] offended by her

[01:00:39] own shadow.

[01:00:43] So it's going to

[01:00:44] be entertaining as

[01:00:45] hell, but she's

[01:00:47] Kamala Harris's

[01:00:48] campaign is going

[01:00:49] to suffer as soon

[01:00:50] as she starts

[01:00:50] talking policy

[01:00:51] because she can't

[01:00:52] do it.

[01:00:53] Policy is bad and

[01:00:54] she can't do it.

[01:00:55] That's the big

[01:00:56] thing.

[01:00:58] And I'm going to

[01:00:59] talk more about

[01:01:00] her policy in a

[01:01:00] moment.

[01:01:00] You'll see it is

[01:01:01] basically just a

[01:01:02] clone of the Biden

[01:01:03] position, which is

[01:01:03] effectively a

[01:01:05] slightly more

[01:01:05] progressive clone

[01:01:06] of the Obama

[01:01:07] administration.

[01:01:09] My biggest problem

[01:01:10] with Kamala Harris

[01:01:11] and really the left

[01:01:12] and Democrats in

[01:01:13] general, so I've

[01:01:13] said it before and

[01:01:14] I'll say it again.

[01:01:17] Everything that they

[01:01:18] have accused Donald

[01:01:19] Trump of doing,

[01:01:21] in some capacity,

[01:01:22] the Democrats have

[01:01:23] done.

[01:01:24] And my absolute

[01:01:25] favorite lately is

[01:01:27] that Trump is going

[01:01:27] to be the death of

[01:01:28] democracy, the death

[01:01:30] of the democratic

[01:01:30] process.

[01:01:31] If he wins, it'll

[01:01:32] be the last election,

[01:01:33] never mind the fact

[01:01:34] that he's already

[01:01:35] won and was

[01:01:36] president for four

[01:01:37] years and he's

[01:01:38] not president now,

[01:01:39] but never mind.

[01:01:40] This time he's

[01:01:41] going to take over.

[01:01:44] So they keep

[01:01:45] calling Trump

[01:01:46] undemocratic.

[01:01:47] Kamala Harris

[01:01:49] has never received

[01:01:50] a vote from a

[01:01:52] single American

[01:01:54] to be president

[01:01:55] of the United

[01:01:57] States.

[01:01:58] She dropped out

[01:01:59] of the 2020

[01:01:59] primary before the

[01:02:00] primary officially

[01:02:01] began.

[01:02:02] She received zero

[01:02:03] votes.

[01:02:04] She wasn't on the

[01:02:05] ballot.

[01:02:05] She dropped out.

[01:02:06] She was appointed

[01:02:08] as Biden's VP.

[01:02:09] So that was the

[01:02:10] number one comment.

[01:02:10] People were like,

[01:02:11] well, we voted

[01:02:11] for technically

[01:02:13] you didn't.

[01:02:14] You voted for

[01:02:14] Joe Biden.

[01:02:15] She was the VP

[01:02:16] on the ticket.

[01:02:17] She was appointed.

[01:02:19] No one voted

[01:02:20] for her to be the

[01:02:20] vice president on

[01:02:22] that ticket.

[01:02:22] People voted for

[01:02:23] the Biden ticket,

[01:02:24] but that's not a

[01:02:25] vote for president.

[01:02:25] That's a vote for

[01:02:26] vice president.

[01:02:29] And then the

[01:02:31] Democrats did not

[01:02:31] have a primary

[01:02:33] because Joe Biden

[01:02:34] was the incumbent.

[01:02:35] And I'm not saying

[01:02:35] they even should

[01:02:36] have had a

[01:02:36] primary.

[01:02:36] Well, they

[01:02:36] should have

[01:02:37] because it

[01:02:38] was clear for

[01:02:39] much longer

[01:02:40] before that

[01:02:40] debate that Joe

[01:02:41] Biden was

[01:02:42] incompetent.

[01:02:43] Mentally, he

[01:02:44] was not

[01:02:45] competent to

[01:02:47] do the job.

[01:02:49] So Kamala

[01:02:50] Harris was

[01:02:51] appointed as

[01:02:53] the presidential

[01:02:53] nominee for

[01:02:54] the Democratic

[01:02:54] Party.

[01:02:55] Only at the

[01:02:56] Democrat National

[01:02:57] Convention will

[01:02:57] she receive

[01:02:58] votes from

[01:03:00] electors to

[01:03:00] be president.

[01:03:02] But no

[01:03:03] American

[01:03:04] citizens, like

[01:03:05] normal people,

[01:03:06] I shouldn't say

[01:03:06] that because the

[01:03:07] electors are

[01:03:08] citizens, the

[01:03:09] average American

[01:03:10] people in the

[01:03:11] various states

[01:03:12] across the

[01:03:12] union, the

[01:03:12] people themselves,

[01:03:13] the people,

[01:03:14] the we and

[01:03:16] we the people

[01:03:17] did not vote for

[01:03:19] Kamala Harris to

[01:03:20] be the Democrats

[01:03:20] of the country

[01:03:21] did not

[01:03:22] directly vote for

[01:03:23] Kamala Harris to

[01:03:24] be their nominee.

[01:03:28] That's not

[01:03:29] Democratic at

[01:03:30] all.

[01:03:31] It's even in

[01:03:32] your name.

[01:03:34] But I love

[01:03:35] the justification.

[01:03:36] The justification

[01:03:36] holds no bounds,

[01:03:38] no bounds

[01:03:38] whatsoever.

[01:03:39] It's like, well,

[01:03:40] what did you want

[01:03:40] them to do?

[01:03:41] They should have

[01:03:41] had a primary

[01:03:42] because there

[01:03:43] was enough

[01:03:43] dissenting,

[01:03:44] there were

[01:03:45] enough dissenting

[01:03:45] voices and

[01:03:46] concerns even

[01:03:48] before, even

[01:03:49] before 2024,

[01:03:50] before the

[01:03:52] election year,

[01:03:53] there was

[01:03:53] enough suspicion

[01:03:55] that Biden

[01:03:56] could not do

[01:03:56] the job, that

[01:03:58] they should have

[01:03:58] had a primary.

[01:03:59] And if Biden

[01:04:00] had won the

[01:04:00] primary and

[01:04:01] then dropped

[01:04:01] out, that's

[01:04:03] a different

[01:04:03] story.

[01:04:03] It truly is.

[01:04:05] They did not

[01:04:06] have a primary.

[01:04:08] What they

[01:04:09] should have

[01:04:09] done, Joe

[01:04:10] Biden honestly

[01:04:11] should have

[01:04:11] stepped down

[01:04:12] earlier, they

[01:04:12] should have

[01:04:12] had a primary

[01:04:13] and Kamala

[01:04:13] Harris should

[01:04:14] have been a

[01:04:15] part of that

[01:04:15] primary.

[01:04:16] She wasn't

[01:04:17] because they

[01:04:17] didn't have a

[01:04:18] primary because

[01:04:19] the left in

[01:04:19] their hubris

[01:04:20] was so

[01:04:21] certain, was

[01:04:22] so certain that

[01:04:24] Joe Biden was

[01:04:25] going to be able

[01:04:25] to stick it

[01:04:26] out and probably

[01:04:27] their plan was

[01:04:28] to have Kamala

[01:04:28] quote-unquote

[01:04:29] take over.

[01:04:30] Not going to

[01:04:30] lie, that seems

[01:04:31] pretty selfish.

[01:04:31] As quickly as

[01:04:32] she was sort of

[01:04:33] slid in, that

[01:04:34] seems pretty

[01:04:34] evident.

[01:04:35] I'm not saying

[01:04:35] that is the

[01:04:36] case because I

[01:04:36] don't know,

[01:04:37] but all signs

[01:04:39] point to yes if

[01:04:40] I were a

[01:04:40] Magic 8-ball.

[01:04:44] So yes, they

[01:04:45] should have had a

[01:04:45] primary, they

[01:04:46] did not.

[01:04:47] RFK Jr.

[01:04:47] said they should

[01:04:48] have had a

[01:04:48] primary.

[01:04:48] He was

[01:04:49] snubbed.

[01:04:51] Tulsi Gabbard

[01:04:51] said they

[01:04:52] should have

[01:04:52] had a

[01:04:52] primary, which

[01:04:53] she's not a

[01:04:54] Democrat anymore,

[01:04:55] nor was she at

[01:04:55] the time when

[01:04:56] she said this,

[01:04:56] but she was

[01:04:57] correct.

[01:04:58] And now she's

[01:04:59] on a terror

[01:05:00] watch list.

[01:05:04] So that's

[01:05:05] fun.

[01:05:05] And mark my

[01:05:06] words, I'm

[01:05:07] looking forward

[01:05:08] to watching the

[01:05:09] Democratic

[01:05:10] National Convention

[01:05:10] because I think

[01:05:11] you're going to

[01:05:11] see some

[01:05:12] fuckery similar

[01:05:13] to the 2016

[01:05:14] Democratic

[01:05:15] National Conventions

[01:05:16] where some mics

[01:05:17] were silenced

[01:05:17] when people

[01:05:18] were trying to

[01:05:18] dissent vote

[01:05:19] for Bernie

[01:05:20] Sanders.

[01:05:21] You can look

[01:05:21] it up.

[01:05:24] So yeah, I

[01:05:25] think that's

[01:05:26] going to be a

[01:05:27] very interesting

[01:05:28] watch.

[01:05:30] So the

[01:05:31] presidential

[01:05:32] candidate that

[01:05:32] didn't receive a

[01:05:33] single vote from

[01:05:34] the American

[01:05:35] people thus far

[01:05:36] to be a

[01:05:37] presidential

[01:05:37] candidate is

[01:05:38] going to defend

[01:05:39] us against the

[01:05:39] man that's going

[01:05:40] to destroy

[01:05:40] democracy.

[01:05:41] So yeah, okay.

[01:05:43] All righty, and

[01:05:43] real quickly now,

[01:05:44] well, not real

[01:05:45] quickly, but to

[01:05:45] wrap things up,

[01:05:47] these are some of

[01:05:48] the issues I have

[01:05:48] with Kamala

[01:05:49] Harris.

[01:05:49] And actually, I'm

[01:05:50] going to

[01:05:50] call out some

[01:05:51] good things

[01:05:51] too.

[01:05:53] So these are

[01:05:54] Kamala Harris's

[01:05:55] political positions.

[01:05:56] This is a

[01:05:57] Wikipedia article.

[01:05:58] Feel free.

[01:05:59] You can look up

[01:05:59] the whole because

[01:06:00] I'm not going to

[01:06:00] read all of this.

[01:06:02] On abortion,

[01:06:03] Harris supports

[01:06:03] abortion rights

[01:06:04] and is reportedly

[01:06:05] making reproductive

[01:06:06] health care central

[01:06:07] to her 2024

[01:06:07] presidential campaign.

[01:06:09] Funny, you're

[01:06:09] vice president now.

[01:06:14] You preside over

[01:06:15] the Senate.

[01:06:16] Why aren't you

[01:06:17] doing it now?

[01:06:19] Oh, yeah.

[01:06:19] It's like

[01:06:20] immigration.

[01:06:20] You're going to

[01:06:21] use it to run on

[01:06:21] and then do

[01:06:22] nothing.

[01:06:24] As of 2018,

[01:06:25] Harris has a

[01:06:26] 100% rating by

[01:06:27] the abortion

[01:06:27] rights advocacy

[01:06:28] group Planned

[01:06:29] Parenthood Action

[01:06:30] Fund and a 0%

[01:06:31] rating by the

[01:06:32] anti-abortion

[01:06:33] group National

[01:06:33] Right to Life

[01:06:34] Committee.

[01:06:35] On affirmative

[01:06:35] action, Harris

[01:06:36] opposed California's

[01:06:37] ban on affirmative

[01:06:38] action and filed an

[01:06:39] amicus curate

[01:06:40] brief in the Supreme

[01:06:41] Court case,

[01:06:42] Fisher v.

[01:06:42] University of

[01:06:43] Texas, asking

[01:06:44] the court to

[01:06:44] quote,

[01:06:44] reaffirm its

[01:06:45] decision that

[01:06:46] public colleges

[01:06:47] and universities

[01:06:47] may consider

[01:06:48] race as one

[01:06:49] factor of

[01:06:50] admissions decisions.

[01:06:53] On capital

[01:06:54] punishment, Harris

[01:06:55] is opposed to

[01:06:56] the death penalty

[01:06:56] but has said she

[01:06:57] would review each

[01:06:58] case individually

[01:06:59] so it sounds

[01:07:00] like you're not

[01:07:00] against the death

[01:07:01] penalty.

[01:07:01] Robert Dunham,

[01:07:02] executive director

[01:07:03] of Death Penalty

[01:07:04] Information Center

[01:07:04] called her positions

[01:07:05] quote, a mixed

[01:07:06] record.

[01:07:07] As the district

[01:07:08] attorney of San

[01:07:08] Francisco, Harris

[01:07:09] was opposed to

[01:07:10] the death penalty

[01:07:10] refusing to

[01:07:11] demand it against

[01:07:11] a man charged

[01:07:13] with the murder

[01:07:13] of a police officer.

[01:07:14] This decision was

[01:07:15] controversial and

[01:07:16] criticized by

[01:07:16] Senator Dianne

[01:07:17] Feinstein.

[01:07:18] As California

[01:07:18] attorney general,

[01:07:19] she was criticized

[01:07:21] for appealing a

[01:07:22] federal court ruling

[01:07:23] that might have

[01:07:24] resulted in the

[01:07:24] abolition of the

[01:07:25] death penalty in

[01:07:26] the state and

[01:07:26] faced criticism for

[01:07:27] not supporting two

[01:07:28] pallet initiatives

[01:07:28] that would have

[01:07:30] banned the death

[01:07:30] penalty there.

[01:07:31] However, in July

[01:07:32] 2019, as Attorney

[01:07:33] General William Barr

[01:07:34] announced the

[01:07:34] federal government's

[01:07:35] resumption of

[01:07:35] capital punishment

[01:07:36] nearly 20 years

[01:07:37] without an

[01:07:37] execution of a

[01:07:39] federal inmate,

[01:07:40] Harris criticized the

[01:07:42] move as quote,

[01:07:42] misguided and

[01:07:43] immoral and a

[01:07:44] quote, gross

[01:07:44] misuse of

[01:07:45] taxpayer dollars.

[01:07:46] As a senator,

[01:07:47] she also co-sponsored

[01:07:48] a bill in 2019

[01:07:49] that would have

[01:07:49] banned the death

[01:07:50] penalty if passed.

[01:07:52] This is also

[01:07:53] fairly common with

[01:07:54] the less like

[01:07:55] super progressive

[01:07:56] issues for

[01:07:57] Kamala Harris.

[01:08:00] In criminal justice,

[01:08:01] in December 2018,

[01:08:02] Harris voted for

[01:08:03] the First Step Act

[01:08:04] legislation aimed at

[01:08:05] reducing recidivism

[01:08:06] rates among federal

[01:08:07] prisoners through

[01:08:08] expanding job

[01:08:08] training and other

[01:08:09] programs.

[01:08:10] In addition to

[01:08:11] forming an expansion

[01:08:11] of early release

[01:08:12] programs and

[01:08:13] modifications on

[01:08:14] sentencing laws

[01:08:15] such as mandatory

[01:08:15] minimum sentences

[01:08:16] for nonviolent

[01:08:18] drug offenders,

[01:08:19] quote, to more

[01:08:19] equitably punished

[01:08:21] drug offenders.

[01:08:22] In March 2020,

[01:08:24] Harris was one of

[01:08:24] 15 senators to

[01:08:25] sign a letter to

[01:08:27] the Federal Bureau

[01:08:27] of Prisons and

[01:08:28] Private Prison

[01:08:29] Companies, GEO

[01:08:29] Group, or Civic,

[01:08:31] and Management and

[01:08:32] Training Corporation

[01:08:33] requesting information

[01:08:34] on the strategy to

[01:08:35] address the COVID-19

[01:08:36] pandemic, asserting

[01:08:38] that it was quote,

[01:08:39] critical that you

[01:08:39] have a plan to

[01:08:40] help prevent the

[01:08:40] spread of novel

[01:08:41] coronavirus to

[01:08:42] incarcerated

[01:08:43] individuals and

[01:08:46] correctional staff

[01:08:47] along with their

[01:08:48] families and loved

[01:08:49] ones and to provide

[01:08:49] treatment to

[01:08:50] incarcerated individuals

[01:08:51] and staff who

[01:08:53] have become infected.

[01:08:56] In June 2020,

[01:08:58] following a campaign

[01:08:58] by a coalition of

[01:08:59] community groups

[01:09:00] including Black Lives

[01:09:01] Matter, Los Angeles

[01:09:01] Mayor Eric Arsetti

[01:09:03] announced LAPD

[01:09:05] budget cuts of $150

[01:09:07] million, which

[01:09:08] Senator Harris'

[01:09:09] support, with

[01:09:10] Senator Harris'

[01:09:11] support for the

[01:09:12] decision.

[01:09:14] Harris also

[01:09:15] publicly advocated

[01:09:16] for donations to

[01:09:17] the Minnesota

[01:09:17] Freedom Fund, a

[01:09:18] bail fund assisting

[01:09:19] those arrested in

[01:09:20] the George Floyd

[01:09:22] protests, the

[01:09:24] mostly peaceful

[01:09:25] protests, with fire

[01:09:27] in the background,

[01:09:28] though she did not

[01:09:29] fund, though she

[01:09:31] did not donate to

[01:09:31] the fund herself.

[01:09:33] Harris' criminal

[01:09:33] justice record has

[01:09:34] been seen as mixed

[01:09:35] with critics of

[01:09:36] Harris calling her

[01:09:37] a, quote, tough

[01:09:37] on crime, calling

[01:09:39] her, quote, tough

[01:09:40] on crime despite

[01:09:41] her claim of being

[01:09:41] self-described,

[01:09:42] quote, progressive

[01:09:43] prosecutor, citing

[01:09:44] her reluctance in

[01:09:45] releasing prisoners

[01:09:46] and her anti-truancy

[01:09:48] policies.

[01:09:48] Harris has criticized

[01:09:49] liberals for what

[01:09:50] the so-called,

[01:09:51] quote, biases

[01:09:52] against law

[01:09:52] enforcement in

[01:09:54] her 2009 book.

[01:09:56] On drugs, Harris

[01:09:58] did not initially

[01:09:59] support the legalization

[01:10:00] of recreational

[01:10:00] cannabis, but later

[01:10:02] moved to support it,

[01:10:03] which that's fairly

[01:10:04] typical with some

[01:10:05] politicians, especially

[01:10:06] around this time.

[01:10:07] In 2010, while

[01:10:08] San Francisco DA

[01:10:09] and campaigning,

[01:10:10] while she was San

[01:10:11] Francisco DA and

[01:10:12] campaigning for

[01:10:13] attorney general of

[01:10:16] California, she

[01:10:17] opposed Proposition

[01:10:18] 19, a failed first

[01:10:20] attempt to legalize

[01:10:22] recreational marijuana

[01:10:23] in California,

[01:10:24] arguing selling drugs

[01:10:25] harms communities.

[01:10:26] In 2015, she

[01:10:26] called for an end to

[01:10:27] the federal prohibition

[01:10:28] of medicinal

[01:10:29] cannabis.

[01:10:31] So basically, she's,

[01:10:34] she was against it,

[01:10:35] now she's all for

[01:10:35] it.

[01:10:37] On education,

[01:10:39] Harris has argued

[01:10:40] for treating,

[01:10:41] quote, habitual

[01:10:42] and chronic truancy

[01:10:42] among children in

[01:10:43] elementary school as

[01:10:45] a crime committed by

[01:10:45] the parents of

[01:10:46] truant children.

[01:10:47] She agrees, she

[01:10:48] argues that there

[01:10:49] is a direct

[01:10:50] connection between

[01:10:52] habitual truancy in

[01:10:53] elementary school and

[01:10:54] crime later in life.

[01:10:58] And she supports

[01:10:59] busing for

[01:10:59] desegregation.

[01:11:01] Harris supports the

[01:11:02] creation of a

[01:11:03] government funding

[01:11:03] program to pay

[01:11:04] tuition and fees

[01:11:04] for students attending

[01:11:05] public colleges and

[01:11:06] universities for

[01:11:08] dependent students whose

[01:11:09] parents have incomes

[01:11:10] less than $125,000

[01:11:14] or less and

[01:11:15] independent students

[01:11:16] with income of

[01:11:17] $125,000 or less.

[01:11:18] The program would be

[01:11:19] funded by a fee on

[01:11:20] Wall Street firms of

[01:11:22] 0.5% per stock

[01:11:23] trade.

[01:11:24] And regarding student

[01:11:25] loans, Harris has

[01:11:25] proposed having up to

[01:11:27] $20,000 in student

[01:11:28] debt forgiveness for

[01:11:28] Pell Grant recipients

[01:11:29] who start a business and

[01:11:31] operate it for less,

[01:11:32] for at least three

[01:11:33] years in a disadvantaged

[01:11:34] community, which with

[01:11:36] the current gun laws

[01:11:37] in a lot of these

[01:11:37] disadvantaged communities,

[01:11:38] you would be fucking

[01:11:39] insane to do so.

[01:11:42] Eligible students would

[01:11:43] also have loans

[01:11:44] deferred interest free

[01:11:46] for a business

[01:11:47] formation period of up

[01:11:48] to three years.

[01:11:51] On election security,

[01:11:52] on December 21st,

[01:11:54] 2017, Harris was one

[01:11:55] of the six senators to

[01:11:56] introduce the, quote,

[01:11:57] Secure Elections Act,

[01:11:58] legislation authorizing

[01:11:59] block grants for

[01:12:00] states that would

[01:12:01] update outdated

[01:12:02] voting technology.

[01:12:03] The bill, if passed,

[01:12:05] would have also created

[01:12:06] a program for an

[01:12:07] independent panel of

[01:12:08] experts to develop

[01:12:09] cybersecurity guidelines

[01:12:10] for election systems

[01:12:11] that states could

[01:12:12] adopt if they choose,

[01:12:14] along with offering

[01:12:14] states resources to

[01:12:15] implement the

[01:12:16] recommendations.

[01:12:18] In March 2019,

[01:12:19] Harris told Jimmy

[01:12:20] Kimmel that she was

[01:12:21] open to discussing

[01:12:22] abolishing the

[01:12:22] electoral college,

[01:12:23] given that there was,

[01:12:25] quote, no question

[01:12:26] that the popular vote

[01:12:27] has been diminished in

[01:12:28] terms of making the

[01:12:29] final decision about

[01:12:30] who's the president of

[01:12:31] the United States and

[01:12:32] we need to deal with

[01:12:33] that.

[01:12:33] It was never.

[01:12:34] It never was,

[01:12:36] Kamala.

[01:12:37] Tell me you don't

[01:12:38] know how your

[01:12:38] government works

[01:12:39] without saying you

[01:12:40] don't know how your

[01:12:40] government works.

[01:12:45] Oh, let's see.

[01:12:46] On gun, well, we

[01:12:47] all know the only

[01:12:48] thing I have is

[01:12:49] Harris consistently

[01:12:49] supported gun

[01:12:50] control has been

[01:12:50] great with an F

[01:12:51] rating from the NRA.

[01:13:10] Yeah, she's very,

[01:13:11] very.

[01:13:13] Oh, and then there's

[01:13:14] and during a 2019

[01:13:15] appearance on the

[01:13:16] Tonight Show with

[01:13:17] Jimmy Fallon, Harris

[01:13:18] explained her support

[01:13:19] for a mandatory

[01:13:19] buyback on assault

[01:13:20] weapons.

[01:13:21] Quote, I do believe

[01:13:22] that we need to do

[01:13:23] buybacks and I'll

[01:13:24] tell you why.

[01:13:25] First of all, let's

[01:13:25] be clear about what

[01:13:26] assault weapons are.

[01:13:28] Really?

[01:13:29] I doubt you are.

[01:13:30] They have been

[01:13:31] designed to kill a

[01:13:32] lot of people, a

[01:13:33] lot of human beings

[01:13:34] quickly.

[01:13:34] They are weapons of

[01:13:35] war with no place

[01:13:36] on the streets of a

[01:13:37] civil society.

[01:13:38] CNN reported in

[01:13:39] May 2019 that

[01:13:41] Harris's new

[01:13:41] proposal would ban

[01:13:42] AR-15 style assault

[01:13:44] weapon imports.

[01:13:46] A lot of them are

[01:13:47] made here, but

[01:13:48] you know, good try.

[01:13:52] On immigration, as a

[01:13:53] senator, Harris was

[01:13:54] an outspoken critic

[01:13:55] of the Trump

[01:13:56] administration's

[01:13:56] treatment of

[01:13:57] people, especially

[01:13:58] pregnant women,

[01:13:58] trying to

[01:14:00] immigrate to the

[01:14:01] U.S.

[01:14:01] seeking asylum in

[01:14:02] the U.S.

[01:14:02] in April 2018,

[01:14:04] Harris was one of

[01:14:04] the five senators

[01:14:05] to send a letter

[01:14:05] to Thomas

[01:14:06] Homan, acting

[01:14:08] director of ICE,

[01:14:10] on standards used

[01:14:11] by the emergency

[01:14:12] when determining

[01:14:13] how to detain

[01:14:14] pregnant women.

[01:14:15] And then there's

[01:14:16] a long paragraph

[01:14:16] that goes into it.

[01:14:20] Basically, Harris

[01:14:21] was really critical

[01:14:22] of Trump about

[01:14:22] separating families,

[01:14:23] but as we saw

[01:14:24] with the now

[01:14:25] famous video of

[01:14:26] AOC trying to,

[01:14:27] I believe it was

[01:14:28] the same person,

[01:14:29] of AOC trying

[01:14:29] to grill that

[01:14:30] man, and he

[01:14:31] said if you are

[01:14:32] arrested for a

[01:14:34] DUI and you

[01:14:34] have a child in

[01:14:35] your car, you

[01:14:35] are separated

[01:14:36] from that child.

[01:14:37] Now, I'm not

[01:14:37] even gonna,

[01:14:39] it's different.

[01:14:41] But again,

[01:14:44] the immigration

[01:14:44] policy is not

[01:14:45] easy, but it

[01:14:46] is simple.

[01:14:48] Harris has

[01:14:49] supported the

[01:14:50] DREAM Act.

[01:14:54] She had a lot

[01:14:56] of things to say

[01:14:56] about in November

[01:14:57] 2019, ICE had

[01:14:58] put thousands

[01:14:59] of immigrants

[01:14:59] in solitary

[01:15:00] confinement.

[01:15:04] In January

[01:15:05] 2019, Harris

[01:15:05] was one of 20

[01:15:06] senators that

[01:15:07] sponsored the

[01:15:07] DREAMer

[01:15:08] Confidentiality Act,

[01:15:09] which I actually

[01:15:11] do like this.

[01:15:12] A bill that,

[01:15:13] if passed,

[01:15:13] would have banned

[01:15:14] the Department

[01:15:14] of Homeland Security

[01:15:15] from passing

[01:15:16] information collected

[01:15:16] on DACA recipients

[01:15:17] to Immigration,

[01:15:19] Customs, and

[01:15:19] Enforcement, ICE,

[01:15:21] Border Patrol,

[01:15:22] the Department

[01:15:22] of Justice,

[01:15:23] or any other

[01:15:23] law enforcement

[01:15:24] agency with

[01:15:25] exceptions in

[01:15:26] the case of

[01:15:27] fraudulent claims.

[01:15:27] National Security

[01:15:28] Issues or

[01:15:29] Non-Immigrant

[01:15:30] Related Felonies

[01:15:30] Being Investigated.

[01:15:32] I actually do

[01:15:33] like that.

[01:15:33] I wish that

[01:15:34] had been a

[01:15:35] thing.

[01:15:44] In June, I

[01:15:44] also liked it.

[01:15:45] In June of

[01:15:46] that year,

[01:15:46] following the

[01:15:46] U.S.

[01:15:47] Department of

[01:15:47] Housing and

[01:15:48] Urban

[01:15:48] Developments

[01:15:49] confirmation that

[01:15:49] DACA recipients

[01:15:50] did not meet

[01:15:51] eligibility for

[01:15:52] federal-backed

[01:15:53] loans, Harris

[01:15:53] and 11 other

[01:15:54] senators introduced

[01:15:55] the Home

[01:15:55] Ownership

[01:15:56] Dreamers Act,

[01:15:57] legislation that

[01:15:58] if passed would

[01:15:59] have prevented

[01:15:59] the Federal

[01:16:00] Housing

[01:16:00] Administration,

[01:16:01] Fannie Mae,

[01:16:01] Freddie Mac,

[01:16:02] or the

[01:16:02] Agricultural

[01:16:03] Department from

[01:16:03] denying mortgages

[01:16:04] solely due to

[01:16:05] the immigration

[01:16:05] status of an

[01:16:07] applicant.

[01:16:17] So then I

[01:16:18] also, like,

[01:16:20] good on this.

[01:16:21] In August

[01:16:21] 2019, after the

[01:16:22] Trump administration

[01:16:23] released a new

[01:16:24] regulation imposing

[01:16:24] the possibility

[01:16:25] that any green

[01:16:26] card and visa

[01:16:27] applicants would

[01:16:28] be turned down

[01:16:29] in the event

[01:16:30] that they have

[01:16:30] low incomes or

[01:16:31] little education

[01:16:32] and have used

[01:16:33] benefits such as

[01:16:34] food stamps and

[01:16:34] housing vouchers.

[01:16:36] Oh, you know

[01:16:37] what?

[01:16:37] I take that

[01:16:37] back.

[01:16:39] I don't

[01:16:40] support that.

[01:16:41] Well, because

[01:16:42] Harris tore it

[01:16:43] apart.

[01:16:44] And I also

[01:16:45] misread.

[01:16:45] I didn't see

[01:16:46] applicants.

[01:16:46] I thought it

[01:16:47] hadn't.

[01:16:48] I apologize.

[01:16:49] I misread and

[01:16:50] thought it said

[01:16:50] recipients.

[01:17:01] Oh, and then in

[01:17:02] 2006, when she was

[01:17:03] San Francisco's DA,

[01:17:04] she expressed

[01:17:05] support for her

[01:17:06] city sanctuary

[01:17:06] city policy.

[01:17:12] And then on

[01:17:13] LGBT rights,

[01:17:14] that's hilarious.

[01:17:16] Like, we all

[01:17:18] know that.

[01:17:20] However, this is

[01:17:21] interesting.

[01:17:24] Harris has faced

[01:17:25] criticism for a

[01:17:26] 2015 federal

[01:17:27] court motion she

[01:17:28] filed to block

[01:17:28] gender-affirming

[01:17:29] medical care for

[01:17:30] a transgender

[01:17:31] inmate serving in

[01:17:32] California state

[01:17:33] prison while

[01:17:33] Harris was serving

[01:17:34] as California

[01:17:34] attorney general.

[01:17:36] After the

[01:17:36] Ninth Circuit

[01:17:37] Court of Appeals

[01:17:38] had ruled that

[01:17:39] denying that

[01:17:40] treatment violated

[01:17:40] the Eighth

[01:17:41] Amendment's

[01:17:41] prohibition of

[01:17:42] cruel and unusual

[01:17:42] punishment.

[01:17:53] And originally

[01:17:54] back in 2008,

[01:17:56] she was against

[01:17:57] decriminalizing sex

[01:17:58] work but has since

[01:17:59] changed her

[01:18:00] opinions.

[01:18:03] On voting rights,

[01:18:04] Harris attributed

[01:18:04] the 2008 gubernatorial

[01:18:06] losses of Stacey

[01:18:07] Abrams and Andrew

[01:18:09] Gillum in Georgia

[01:18:10] and Florida,

[01:18:10] respectively, to

[01:18:11] voter suppression.

[01:18:15] But everything was

[01:18:16] kosher for president

[01:18:17] in Georgia.

[01:18:20] You know,

[01:18:20] everything was

[01:18:21] kosher there,

[01:18:21] but there was

[01:18:22] voter suppression

[01:18:22] for these

[01:18:25] governor seats.

[01:18:27] Yeah.

[01:18:30] In 2020,

[01:18:31] along with the

[01:18:32] House Whip Jim

[01:18:33] Clyburn and

[01:18:34] Marcia Fudge,

[01:18:38] Harris introduced

[01:18:39] the Vote Safe

[01:18:40] Act, which

[01:18:41] proposed to

[01:18:42] uniform national

[01:18:42] standards for all

[01:18:44] the registered

[01:18:44] voters to use

[01:18:45] mail-in absentee

[01:18:46] voting, a

[01:18:49] minimum early

[01:18:49] in-person voting

[01:18:50] period of 20

[01:18:51] days, and

[01:18:52] $5 billion in

[01:18:53] funding and

[01:18:53] grants to states

[01:18:54] to increase the

[01:18:55] safety and

[01:18:56] availability of

[01:18:56] voting against

[01:18:57] the COVID-19

[01:18:59] pandemic.

[01:19:01] On economic

[01:19:02] issues, Harris

[01:19:03] identifies as a

[01:19:04] social democrat and

[01:19:05] has said that she

[01:19:06] is not a socialist

[01:19:07] but insists that

[01:19:08] more needs to be

[01:19:09] done to ensure

[01:19:10] equal opportunities,

[01:19:11] particularly for

[01:19:12] working people.

[01:19:13] on campaign

[01:19:16] finance.

[01:19:17] Harris's 2020

[01:19:18] presidential campaign

[01:19:19] disavowed most

[01:19:19] corporate donations

[01:19:20] and committed to

[01:19:22] rejecting money from

[01:19:23] corporate political

[01:19:24] action committees

[01:19:24] instead of relying on

[01:19:26] individual donors.

[01:19:27] others.

[01:19:28] However, it is worth

[01:19:29] knowing, Harris, along

[01:19:30] with candidates

[01:19:31] Cory Booker, Julian

[01:19:32] Castro, or maybe it was

[01:19:34] Julian, I think Julian

[01:19:35] Castro is how he says his

[01:19:36] name, Tulsi Gabbard,

[01:19:39] Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy

[01:19:43] Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders,

[01:19:48] Elizabeth Warren, and

[01:19:49] Marianne Williamson, has

[01:19:50] explicitly discouraged

[01:19:51] single-candidate super

[01:19:52] PACs from operating on her

[01:19:54] behalf, though she cannot

[01:19:55] prevent them from doing

[01:19:56] so.

[01:20:00] Let's continue here.

[01:20:15] Sorry, I just got a

[01:20:16] message from my buddy,

[01:20:17] Max.

[01:20:17] It's got a question.

[01:20:18] Or my friend, Virus.

[01:20:20] It's got a question for

[01:20:21] me.

[01:20:22] And I mean, we know

[01:20:23] about her COVID-19.

[01:20:26] We know where she was.

[01:20:29] And then on disaster

[01:20:30] relief, she basically just

[01:20:32] got Trump.

[01:20:39] So that kind of stuff.

[01:20:40] And like I said, you can

[01:20:41] find all this on

[01:20:41] Wikipedia.

[01:20:44] In January 2020, she was

[01:20:46] one of 10 senators to

[01:20:47] vote against the USMCA,

[01:20:48] the United States,

[01:20:49] Mexico, Canada

[01:20:50] agreement, stating,

[01:20:52] quote, by not

[01:20:53] confronting climate

[01:20:53] change, the USMCA

[01:20:55] fails to meet the

[01:20:56] crises of the moment.

[01:21:00] And we all know

[01:21:01] Kamala Harris has

[01:21:02] long time been a

[01:21:03] proponent of Medicare

[01:21:04] for all.

[01:21:11] Yeah.

[01:21:12] So that's nothing

[01:21:13] new.

[01:21:15] And we know where

[01:21:16] she stands on housing

[01:21:16] and labor unions.

[01:21:18] Again, she's right in

[01:21:19] line with Biden, if not

[01:21:20] even a little bit more

[01:21:21] progressive.

[01:21:23] So this one's

[01:21:27] interesting.

[01:21:27] In July 2019,

[01:21:29] Harris signed a

[01:21:29] letter to the United

[01:21:30] States Secretary of

[01:21:32] Labor, Alexander

[01:21:33] Acosta, that

[01:21:35] advocated for the

[01:21:36] for OSHA to

[01:21:37] initiate a full

[01:21:38] investigation into

[01:21:39] complaint file into a

[01:21:40] complaint filed on May

[01:21:41] 20th by a group of

[01:21:43] Chicago area employees

[01:21:44] of McDonald's, which

[01:21:45] detailed workplace

[01:21:46] violence incidents that

[01:21:47] included interactions

[01:21:48] with customers, such

[01:21:49] as customers throwing

[01:21:50] hot coffee and

[01:21:51] threatening employees

[01:21:52] with firearms and

[01:21:53] more.

[01:21:54] The senators argued

[01:21:55] that McDonald's could

[01:21:56] and needed to, quote,

[01:21:58] do more to protect its

[01:21:59] employees, but employers

[01:22:01] will not take

[01:22:01] seriously their

[01:22:02] obligations to

[01:22:03] provide safe

[01:22:04] workplace if OSHA

[01:22:05] does not enforce

[01:22:05] workers' rights to a

[01:22:06] hazard-free workplace.

[01:22:07] Now, let me ask you a

[01:22:09] question.

[01:22:10] I would think that it's

[01:22:13] probably a smidge more

[01:22:14] likely that, oh, I

[01:22:16] don't know, not letting

[01:22:19] people, you know, you

[01:22:22] have some of the strictest

[01:22:23] gun laws and yet some of

[01:22:24] the most violence.

[01:22:25] I don't know.

[01:22:26] Maybe cops?

[01:22:28] Just the thought?

[01:22:29] Maybe actually

[01:22:30] prosecuting people?

[01:22:32] I lost my paper.

[01:22:34] So that's, but yeah,

[01:22:35] blame McDonald's.

[01:22:36] Blame McDonald's for not

[01:22:37] taking bullets for people

[01:22:38] when, you know, it's not

[01:22:41] the guns, it's enforcement.