Trump Eyes Greenland & the Panama Canal. David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning Author

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrmLPULar48

Zusammenfassung

TLDRThe video is a comprehensive discussion on Donald Trump's approaches, focusing on his territorial claims like Greenland and the Panama Canal, and his attitudes towards the press and governance. The guest explains Trump's transactional mindset regarding territory acquisition, likening it to personal property claims. His unfounded interest in the Panama Canal is tied to economic motives, whereas his pursuit of Greenland suggests distractions or strategic interests. The participant also unravels Trump's overarching strategy to control news media, highlighting voluntary compliance from some sectors to avert being labeled enemies of the state. It discusses his attempts to sideline media organizations like ABC and the incoming changes to the FCC under a pro-Trump head. There's a detailed exploration of Trump's plans against renowned journalists and news outlets, intending to undermine their credibility. Finally, the video speculates on Trump's overarching pursuit of dictatorial power, potentially jeopardizing democratic principles and processes, evidenced by his prior and planned actions regarding appointments and alleged claims to have absolute rights under Article II of the Constitution. The discourse underscores the chilling effect on journalism and forecasts a persistent media siege if Trump's administration resumes.

Mitbringsel

  • 🗝️ Trump's territorial interests like Panama Canal and Greenland are part of a broader strategy.
  • 🔍 Climate change impacts economic dynamics of regions like the Panama Canal.
  • 📰 Trump's tactics involve undermining media credibility to enhance authoritarian control.
  • ⚖️ There's an alleged plan to challenge the First Amendment through media intimidation.
  • 🌍 Greenland is strategically important and serves as a distraction in the news.
  • 📰 Voluntary media compliance indicates a shift in journalistic independence.
  • 💼 Trump's appointments aim to destabilize traditional government structures.
  • 🛡️ Chaos tactics are central to Trump's strategy to control narratives.
  • ⚠️ Trade wars with allies like Canada and Mexico could result from Trump's policies.
  • ⏳ The increased lawsuit trend threatens journalistic freedom and ethical reporting.

Zeitleiste

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Discussion on Trump's intentions to claim the Panama Canal and Greenland despite international laws; highlights his disposition to claim ownership and lack of understanding of legal boundaries. Mention of previous statements about having unlimited executive power.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Concerns raised about Trump's potential actions against the First Amendment. Instances of media intimidation by threatening legal actions. Mention of Trump-appointed FCC head challenging media credibility and independence.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Speculation on Trump's potential measures to further control the media, such as exclusive access to certain media outlets in the White House. Concerns about attempts to undermine independent journalism and vacuum of credible news being filled with disinformation.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Trump's strategy of maintaining control through chaos, likened to tactics used by dictators who suppress press freedom. Discussion of historical and constitutional contexts of media manipulation and how this undermines democracy.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Reflections on media trust erosion due to persistent narratives of 'fake news.' This leads to silos of information and public skepticism towards established journalism, affecting public's understanding and democratic process.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Analysis of strained media relations under Trump and issues like Arctic claims. Discussion on Greenland's strategic importance and Trump's desire to purchase it despite geopolitical impracticalities. Noted as another distraction tactic by Trump.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:45

    Overview of challenges facing independent journalism and the implications of Trump's governance style towards media and misinformation. Emphasizes the necessity for vigilance in protecting the First Amendment and maintaining transparent journalism.

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Video-Fragen und Antworten

  • What are Trump's views on territorial acquisitions like Greenland and the Panama Canal?

    Trump has expressed interest in acquiring territories such as Greenland and the Panama Canal, displaying a mindset that views territories as personal transactions.

  • How is Trump handling news media regulation?

    It's a strategic plan to manage news organizations in favor of Trump, potentially restricting voices and encouraging those who support his narratives.

  • Why is Trump interested in Greenland?

    For strategic minerals and geopolitical reasons, Greenland's location makes it significant. Trump's interest may relate to these factors and the potential for distraction it provides.

  • What is Trump's perceived motive behind attacking news organizations?

    The ongoing attempts to challenge and intimidate media servicing factual news to shift focus and distract from important issues.

  • How does Trump use distractions in his tactics?

    Trump aims to control the narrative by creating distraction, such as the Greenland issue, to divert focus from other governance concerns.

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    uh the last day or so has been uh one
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    that's been punctuated with again the
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    president elect Trump who you've written
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    about so extensively and you've
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    researched so extensively talking about
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    grabbing the pan Panama Canal and also
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    grabbing Greenland uh he spoke of
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    Greenland in his first Administration uh
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    the Panama Canal is something new I
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    wonder if you could speak to this just
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    general disposition of uh grabbing
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    territory which he seems to feel some
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    predisposition toward doing and if you
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    can give us maybe a little something on
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    these specifics Panama Canal and
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    Greenland please well you know most of
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    us have a sense of this is my property
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    that's your property and it's improper
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    to take your property Donald isn't one
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    of those people Donald has spent his
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    entire life saying oh you have something
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    it belongs to me and figuring out how to
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    get it from people I mean that's the
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    essence of what con artists are and
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    do now the Panama Canal matter he's
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    complaining about pricing uh ships that
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    move through the Panama Canal are
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    primarily American ships followed by
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    Chinese uh either owned or commissioned
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    ships the problem the Panama Canal is
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    facing is that because of climate
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    disruption which is a hoax right it's a
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    Chinese hoax the vast amounts of water
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    they were using to raise ships up and
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    then lower them back down as they go
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    from the Pacific to the Atlantic and
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    vice versa they can't
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    do uh there's an obvious solution to
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    this which is uh building a huge network
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    of pipes and tunnels to capture the
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    water and minimize the losses at each
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    end uh that's clearly not going to be
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    cheap uh rates have gone up there are
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    fewer ships going through as a result of
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    of this but you know we have no rights
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    to the Panama Canal um it's a case I
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    know well because my father my late
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    father-in-law was the lawyer who argued
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    the case before the US Supreme Court on
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    behalf of the losing side uh his friend
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    Senator Jesse Helms um and we have no
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    rights to the Panama Canal and this is
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    just Donald demonstrating two things he
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    doesn't know anything he is just
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    appallingly ignorant but more
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    importantly Donald said something in his
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    first term that didn't get nearly enough
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    attention he said I have an article two
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    that's the executive article of the
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    Constitution I have an article two that
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    says I can do anything I want well it
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    doesn't say that at all it's not very
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    long you can go read it on the internet
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    the it 700 words I think total and 400
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    of them are the operative section we
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    care
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    about but Donald believes that he
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    believes that as president he has
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    Supreme dictatorial monarchal powers and
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    he's going to try and behave that way
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    and he's now surrounded by a bunch of
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    ideologues many of whom have a track
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    record as managers you know unlike
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    Donald who's an utterly incompetent
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    manager uh they know how to manage and
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    they're going to guide him in various
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    ways and then also remember that a key
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    to Donald's success is
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    chaos keep things stirred up get people
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    focused on what you want them focused so
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    they don't focus on the important things
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    that are happening so here I think is
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    the most important thing we've seen in
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    the past
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    week uh early on an earlier episode I
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    said you're going to see an allout
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    assault on news
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    organizations and the ABC Network which
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    is owned by Disney indicated that it
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    decided that it was going to settle a
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    suit it was sure to win
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    give $15 million to the Future Trump
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    library and a million dollars to Trump
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    lawyers when there's no case there this
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    is what the great Professor Timothy
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    Snyder at Yale calls a voluntary
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    obedience uh Brian stelter uh briefly a
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    colleague of mine at the New York Times
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    longtime CNN U media reporter has a
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    piece out
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    today uh showing that the incoming
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    head of the FCC he's already a
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    commissioner Trump will promote him to
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    be a
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    chairman uh is going after ABC and
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    saying you know you're you're a bad
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    influence you're he doesn't quite call
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    him an enemy of the people but basically
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    trying to intimidate them in their
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    national news reports and their
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    relationship with affiliate
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    stations um there is um in Europe
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    uh as the link you sent me showed a
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    significant increase in lawsuits brought
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    to slap reporters around a strategic
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    lawsuit brought to try and stop
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    publication of
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    something
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    and uh I think you're we're going to see
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    beginning January 20th a really severe
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    attack on the First Amendment now
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    finally uh the incoming chair of the FCC
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    has gone after um Steven
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    Brill the journalist entrepreneur who
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    was behind Court TV and the American
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    lawyer who is a very very deeply
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    fact-based
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    person anybody who ever worked for him I
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    did not but anybody who does they will
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    always tell you he was fanatical about
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    making sure every detail was correct and
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    was in its proper place in the universe
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    and his partner the former publisher of
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    the Wall Street Journal are running a
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    news service dealing with how reliable
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    are the various big news organizations
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    they got 50 people on their payrolls
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    that's a real
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    business and the incoming Trump FCC
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    chair is going after them right this is
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    a they really literally just rate The
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    credibility of uh news sites and that's
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    right and and some news sites notably
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    Newsmax and oan get very very low
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    credibility ratings and the reason is
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    they don't have any
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    credibility but the incoming FC d c
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    chairman is suggesting that this is an
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    improper business well what's improper
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    here is Congress shall pass no
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    law the the administration is not in a
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    place to police in in any news
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    organization they can complain if they
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    want but they should not be using their
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    police powers in any way and even the
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    Imp implication in this letter is enough
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    that it's a violation and and after all
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    the guy who is brill's partner he was
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    the publisher of the Wall Street Journal
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    he's not some bleeding heart liberal
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    Democrat who thinks Nancy Pelosi is too
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    conservative he's on the other end of
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    the spectrum but this is the campaign
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    will be to reign in news
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    organizations um I expect you're going
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    to see civil suits filed against the New
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    York Times The Washington Post other big
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    ners organizations if nothing else to
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    soak up their resources so they can't
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    put them into news oh that's just such a
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    great point I didn't even think of that
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    they just essentially want to keep them
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    busy distract them and and and soak them
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    because it costs money to fight these
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    things uh News Guard is what it's called
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    that's what David's talking about it
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    launched uh fighting disinformation it
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    was still a bipartisan battle it's noted
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    in the Washington Post in discussing
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    newsguard re Revelations the year before
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    that Kremlin back to operatives had
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    manipulated American social networks to
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    mislead and divide Americans had shaken
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    Silicon Valley and troubled Republicans
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    and Democrats alike that's the odd thing
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    to me David it's become this thing as
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    you suggested now it's just pursued um
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    the Jihad against it is really from this
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    Administration I guess the GOP to the
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    extent that they've signed on with this
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    Administration but as you've also said
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    they balance their entire board they
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    balance those involved so beautifully
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    that it would seem to be a fairly
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    neutral kind of evaluation of these news
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    sites and credibility and credible and
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    and rounded news is the worst possible
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    thing to Donald Trump because he knows
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    that places like o and fox basically
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    appeal to people who already just can't
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    so what he needs to do is destroy the
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    credibility or destroy the capacity of
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    serious Independent News organizations
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    to do their work now I forget who it is
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    but somebody in the
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    administration um it may have been musk
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    or Bannon and when I say the
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    administration in this case you know
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    there are people who will never have an
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    official title but they're clearly part
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    of this
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    Administration uh he has proposed that
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    all news organizations be banned from
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    the White House Press Room except
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    fox now there's no constitutional
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    requirement that there be press
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    briefings uh there was discussion in the
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    first Trump administration of moving The
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    Press Room out of the White House to a
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    building some distance
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    away um they did cut down on those
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    briefings too David remember they there
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    weren't daily anymore under a trump
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    Administration Absolut and and um I and
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    you know when when you're in the White
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    House Press Room you have some access to
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    the nearby area of the White
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    House um they can cut that off they can
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    do what they do at the press conferences
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    is pen people in and issue orders you
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    may only point a camera in this
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    direction things like that and that's
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    what you're about to see is is after all
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    if you want to be a dictator you need to
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    control information there's no
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    Independent News in
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    Russia uh many Russian bureaus are now
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    actually run out of places like uh
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    ankora or
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    Istanbul or other countries they're not
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    in Russia because it's dangerous for the
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    journalist to be there as we saw with
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    Evan gersich who spent more than a year
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    uh held by Putin uh as part of his
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    campaign to intimidate journalists and
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    Trump's going to go full bore on this
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    he's going to go after the New York
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    Times every way he can he uh may go so
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    far as to literally ask Congress to pass
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    a law that journalists have to submit
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    articles to him for his approval which
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    is completely against the First
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    Amendment but don't be shocked that
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    somebody prop it won't happen that
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    somebody proposes something like this
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    and a constant drum beat of they're the
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    liars trust me I am the only source I
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    Donald Trump I alone I'm your savior I
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    alone know the truth and all these other
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    people you know you can't trust them
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    they're the enemy of the people and it's
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    interesting too David that that that's
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    maybe and I really think back to some of
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    what you said when you talk about his
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    fight against the press it may be one of
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    the more effective things he's done I
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    mean effective awful I mean I think it's
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    despicable and it's
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    it it's had a toxicity though that has
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    had a rippled effect across media so
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    that people don't trust what they're
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    seeing you know you don't trust your
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    liing eyes type thing and so his attack
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    on media and and the fake news thing has
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    been the gift that Trump has been uh
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    giving himself and it's I think been
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    extremely effective and it's it's thrown
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    us into these silos of of news and Echo
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    chambers that essentially lead us to the
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    kind of election outcome that we've just
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    seen absolutely Mark um every day I see
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    things that come across the social media
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    I follow the news media won't tell you
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    this and I often take a moment go find a
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    couple of eclips sorry about the
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    visiting dog um go find a couple of news
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    clips and say that's simply not true
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    here found in 5 seconds are two links to
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    show you that that's not true and people
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    come back and say well that's all you
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    can find link so you know we know that
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    you're a liar too and once you get
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    people into this mindset that
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    journalists are the enemy of the people
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    the only people who are paid to tell you
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    the truth as best they can establish it
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    we that's the only occupation where
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    that's what you get paid to do is tell
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    the truth as best you
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    can once you break that down then you
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    can begin to get people to believe you
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    know that you you are the Savior you
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    know God God anointed you um and and
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    there are all sorts of people who will
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    say yeah right the guy had the kids by
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    with three wives and lots of Affairs and
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    cheated people here and there but God
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    chose him for my reasons that are
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    mysterious to us this is God's choice
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    and once you get to that level of
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    thinking there's no more reason and
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    rational thought going on and democracy
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    requires reasonable and rational thought
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    that's the principles on which it was
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    based um then this is not limited to
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    people with the limited reading skills
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    that we've talked about previously um I
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    once sat down next to a guy on a Coast
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    to Coast Flight wearing his $4,000 suit
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    who he saw my New York Times and said
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    you know read that it's just opinions
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    and I said I well I just bought it in
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    the airport and I cajoled him into going
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    through the paper and he couldn't find
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    anything until he got to Paul krugman's
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    column and he goes well look at this
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    this just opinion that point I
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    introduced myself explained who I was
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    and this guy is a a high level executive
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    at one of the Wall Street Banks he
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    doesn't read this is this was 20 years
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    ago this happened by the way I'm almost
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    25 now he um he never had read a
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    newspaper he didn't know that there's an
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    opinion section and an oped page and a
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    news
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    department and he is not unique about
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    that he's unusual but he is absolutely
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    not unique about that
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    yeah it's um it's fascinating and also
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    just yesterday I was having a
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    conversation with someone to your first
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    point and talking about the it's a
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    slight of hand thing that's done where
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    you go well the main you you preface
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    whatever you're going to say by saying
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    well the mainstream media won't tell you
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    this but and then you continue with
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    whatever you're going to say it's become
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    so hacked that it it it couldn't
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    possibly be true and yet it is the thing
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    that's repeated over and over and
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    everybody goes yeah well I'm not into
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    the mainstream media of course
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    mainstream media won't tell you
  • 00:15:02
    corporate media I mean there is still
  • 00:15:04
    real journalism being done by the
  • 00:15:05
    mainstream media by corporate there's
  • 00:15:07
    lots of real journalism being done and
  • 00:15:08
    there's a dispute going on right now
  • 00:15:10
    between the New York Times And The Wall
  • 00:15:12
    Street Journal the journal ran an editor
  • 00:15:14
    an oped by a contributor not a staff
  • 00:15:17
    member I don't think he is a staff
  • 00:15:18
    member that said the New York Times
  • 00:15:20
    didn't cover at all a big issue to help
  • 00:15:24
    Biden the editors of the times sent them
  • 00:15:26
    a letter pointing out that here are 24
  • 00:15:28
    articles that ran in the last several
  • 00:15:30
    months before the election uh and here's
  • 00:15:33
    how many of them ran on the front page
  • 00:15:35
    so what the journal person wrote is just
  • 00:15:38
    a flat out either completely wrong
  • 00:15:41
    factually or a lie if he knew it was a
  • 00:15:43
    true and did it anyway that that's a lie
  • 00:15:46
    which would constitute actual
  • 00:15:49
    malice um and by way Journal has not run
  • 00:15:52
    a correction Mark they have not run a
  • 00:15:55
    correction and that that's surprising
  • 00:15:58
    because whatever I might think of the
  • 00:16:01
    opinions in the opinion pages of the
  • 00:16:03
    Wall Street Journal which are pretty out
  • 00:16:05
    there and they've written many
  • 00:16:07
    editorials about my work without ever
  • 00:16:09
    naming
  • 00:16:10
    me they all at least had a color of you
  • 00:16:13
    know they're in the they're they're
  • 00:16:15
    taking a jaundice view of what I wrote
  • 00:16:18
    but just being completely wrong and not
  • 00:16:21
    correcting the record that's a very
  • 00:16:24
    troubling sign of where things are going
  • 00:16:26
    and let's remember that the Immigrant
  • 00:16:28
    rert Murdoch is very closely allied with
  • 00:16:32
    Donald Trump and so is his son laan whom
  • 00:16:34
    he's trying he's failing so far in court
  • 00:16:37
    but trying to make sure Lan runs the
  • 00:16:39
    business not the other children who are
  • 00:16:42
    somewhat more Centrist in their view
  • 00:16:45
    yeah that's a tug of- War that's going
  • 00:16:46
    on in the Murdo in the Murdoch world and
  • 00:16:48
    and by the way it's funny on that New
  • 00:16:49
    York Times thing because the libs will
  • 00:16:51
    tell you anybody left or anybody even in
  • 00:16:54
    the Biden sort of Centrist area that
  • 00:16:56
    they view the New York Times as carrying
  • 00:16:58
    the water for the GOP carrying the water
  • 00:17:00
    for Trump I mean that was a big
  • 00:17:01
    criticism so the idea somehow that the
  • 00:17:03
    New York Times was the opposite they
  • 00:17:05
    were tough on Trump but they were they
  • 00:17:07
    were quiet about Biden no I just don't
  • 00:17:09
    see that squaring with with anything I
  • 00:17:11
    saw I want to double back to Greenland
  • 00:17:13
    for a second David and just give me a
  • 00:17:15
    give me a second on that all right and
  • 00:17:17
    and because Greenland um is increasingly
  • 00:17:21
    strategically important I get it I mean
  • 00:17:24
    I understand why it's in Trump's brain
  • 00:17:26
    probably because somebody mentioned it
  • 00:17:27
    to him but could you speak to you know
  • 00:17:29
    his plans the reality the follow through
  • 00:17:32
    and the strategy so so Greenland which
  • 00:17:35
    is a lot smaller than you might think if
  • 00:17:37
    you get a proper map perspective you'll
  • 00:17:39
    see it's about 9% or 10% the size of
  • 00:17:42
    Africa but on maps because of the marada
  • 00:17:45
    projection it looks huge um Greenland at
  • 00:17:48
    one time in the history of the earth you
  • 00:17:50
    know was a Tropical Paradise just like
  • 00:17:51
    Michigan and where I am uh were uh full
  • 00:17:55
    of things like alligators and swamps and
  • 00:17:58
    and Cor coral reefs and there's a lot of
  • 00:18:01
    valuable minerals underneath the
  • 00:18:03
    Greenland ice cap uh Donald has this
  • 00:18:07
    notion that he can just buy Greenland I
  • 00:18:09
    mean it's just a piece of property never
  • 00:18:11
    mind that it's a semi Sovereign uh
  • 00:18:14
    entity under Danish control the Danes
  • 00:18:18
    aren't going to give it up and the I
  • 00:18:20
    think they're about only about 16,000
  • 00:18:22
    permanent residents of Greenland they're
  • 00:18:24
    not going to want to be part of the us
  • 00:18:26
    either but Donald has this this notion
  • 00:18:29
    that you know everything's for sale
  • 00:18:31
    everything has a price um and and the
  • 00:18:34
    few times in his life he's discovered
  • 00:18:35
    people don't have a price my friend
  • 00:18:37
    Wayne Barrett me you know that we don't
  • 00:18:40
    have a price he doesn't know what to do
  • 00:18:43
    because in his world everything is
  • 00:18:44
    transactionally you just put up enough
  • 00:18:46
    money and or whatever it is someone
  • 00:18:48
    wants and you'll get it um so this idea
  • 00:18:53
    that Greenland should become part of the
  • 00:18:56
    us I think is fundamentally just one of
  • 00:18:59
    his distraction things to get us to look
  • 00:19:01
    at something that isn't going to happen
  • 00:19:04
    instead of focusing our attention
  • 00:19:07
    elsewhere distraction is very important
  • 00:19:09
    Donald's one of Donald has many skills
  • 00:19:11
    that I admire and one of them is there's
  • 00:19:14
    an issue where the water is Crystal
  • 00:19:16
    Clear what the issue is and Donald has
  • 00:19:18
    this incredible ability to muddy the
  • 00:19:21
    waters and then we go well I don't know
  • 00:19:23
    we can't quite see what's going on there
  • 00:19:26
    or isn't that fascinating there's colors
  • 00:19:28
    in that mud instead of you know being
  • 00:19:33
    established with the facts and satisfied
  • 00:19:35
    with the
  • 00:19:37
    facts yeah that's interesting and kind
  • 00:19:39
    of I guess given the as you suggest sort
  • 00:19:42
    of the limitations in terms of what you
  • 00:19:44
    could actually do uh as a leader even of
  • 00:19:47
    the most powerful Nation on Earth it
  • 00:19:49
    makes sense that it would fall into the
  • 00:19:50
    distraction category although success
  • 00:19:52
    with the distraction because it's what
  • 00:19:53
    we're talking about it's made the news
  • 00:19:55
    cycle and it's quite prominent you know
  • 00:19:57
    I I want to get to a quickly his uh
  • 00:19:59
    appointments and his nominees and and
  • 00:20:02
    and handicapping them I mean we saw
  • 00:20:04
    Gates go away and now we've seen the
  • 00:20:06
    gates report laid bare and you could see
  • 00:20:08
    all that ugliness you can see why he
  • 00:20:10
    didn't want that report out there yeah
  • 00:20:12
    that's exactly right um but uh the other
  • 00:20:16
    appointments that he's made and these
  • 00:20:18
    nominations they involve I'd suggest
  • 00:20:21
    questions uh except maybe Pete hegi does
  • 00:20:24
    have some overlap in the area of uh you
  • 00:20:26
    know kind of a decad and frat boy Dr
  • 00:20:28
    call the time um sexual abuser type
  • 00:20:31
    person uh apart from him it would be a
  • 00:20:34
    question of competence and a question of
  • 00:20:36
    uh being compromised like at Tulsi
  • 00:20:38
    gabard I wonder if you can just give us
  • 00:20:40
    a sense for whether or not many of these
  • 00:20:44
    still highly controversial nominations
  • 00:20:47
    will likely get through the process well
  • 00:20:50
    I how many of them will get through the
  • 00:20:53
    process is going to depend on how Craven
  • 00:20:55
    the Senate Republicans are I mean we we
  • 00:20:58
    know that most of them people like Tommy
  • 00:21:00
    tuberville or tuberville they're just
  • 00:21:02
    going to vote for whatever Donald wants
  • 00:21:04
    but you know Susan Collins always speaks
  • 00:21:07
    a good game and then she folds but Lisa
  • 00:21:10
    marowski probably not going to fold on
  • 00:21:13
    issues some important issues and we'll
  • 00:21:16
    see how a couple of others do Donald has
  • 00:21:18
    made it clear that if you're a senator
  • 00:21:20
    and you don't just do what he says uh
  • 00:21:22
    he'll primary you um and jod Ernst I
  • 00:21:26
    believe is up in two years in Iowa um so
  • 00:21:29
    she may well back down from her
  • 00:21:32
    disapproval of Heth and Patel but the
  • 00:21:35
    bigger picture the thing we need to keep
  • 00:21:37
    our mind on is Donald Trump intends to
  • 00:21:40
    destroy the federal government as we
  • 00:21:43
    have known it so that he can be our
  • 00:21:46
    dictator a dysfunctional government
  • 00:21:48
    benefits him it's bad for Commerce it's
  • 00:21:51
    bad for civil liberties it's bad for
  • 00:21:53
    economic growth but it's great for a
  • 00:21:57
    power monger
  • 00:21:58
    and that's Donald's Focus you know he he
  • 00:22:01
    used to say I only hire the best people
  • 00:22:03
    very best people hire the best people
  • 00:22:05
    and we saw the first Administration that
  • 00:22:07
    wasn't true and this time around that's
  • 00:22:09
    a joke he's hiring literally the worst
  • 00:22:12
    imaginable
  • 00:22:14
    people and the reason's very simple
  • 00:22:17
    Steve Bannon said in 2015 and 16 we're
  • 00:22:21
    going to deconstruct the administrative
  • 00:22:24
    State that's fancy language for we're
  • 00:22:26
    going to destroy the federal government
  • 00:22:28
    as you've known
  • 00:22:29
    it and having this uh fictional uh
  • 00:22:33
    division of government efficiency the
  • 00:22:36
    department of government efficiency with
  • 00:22:39
    the two billionaires I'm I'm assuming
  • 00:22:42
    ramaswami is really a billionaire um
  • 00:22:45
    musk clearly is who have no official
  • 00:22:48
    position that's just an opportunity to
  • 00:22:51
    further wreak havoc and and here's why
  • 00:22:55
    you should think about this matters I do
  • 00:22:56
    this did this with my law student
  • 00:22:59
    if if our classroom was the whole
  • 00:23:02
    world and somebody who makes food in our
  • 00:23:06
    group gets people sick we can deal with
  • 00:23:09
    that you know hey don't do it again and
  • 00:23:11
    if you do it again and somebody gets
  • 00:23:12
    sick and dies we may kill you we may
  • 00:23:14
    take away you're not going to make food
  • 00:23:16
    anymore but when you buy food today at
  • 00:23:18
    the grocery store you don't know where
  • 00:23:20
    it came from you know we have these huge
  • 00:23:23
    slaughter houses that mix beef from you
  • 00:23:25
    know different cows from cattle from
  • 00:23:28
    different Farms from different places um
  • 00:23:31
    uh there's a reason that cans if you buy
  • 00:23:34
    canned uh vegetables on the bottom of
  • 00:23:36
    the can there's a Code what what do all
  • 00:23:39
    those letters and numbers mean it allows
  • 00:23:41
    them with that can to in a matter of
  • 00:23:43
    minutes find out this is where this can
  • 00:23:46
    was filled here's the day it was done
  • 00:23:49
    and there are records on well where did
  • 00:23:51
    the products that went into it and who
  • 00:23:53
    was working at the time uh it's a food
  • 00:23:56
    safety measure and just just as you
  • 00:23:59
    don't want to live in a large city
  • 00:24:01
    without a police intelligence function
  • 00:24:04
    but you need to control that function so
  • 00:24:06
    they're actually working on things
  • 00:24:08
    police intelligence should work on and
  • 00:24:10
    not what we continually see around the
  • 00:24:11
    country the fer all of political games
  • 00:24:14
    and going after political enemies or
  • 00:24:17
    religious opponents you need to have
  • 00:24:21
    food
  • 00:24:23
    safety regulations and rules and the
  • 00:24:26
    money to make sure that we do the right
  • 00:24:28
    thing but we're about to put in charge
  • 00:24:31
    of Health Care in this country a man who
  • 00:24:33
    believes that vaccines cause harm and
  • 00:24:36
    wants to stop the polio virus vaccine
  • 00:24:39
    you know this is the prop polio
  • 00:24:42
    Lobby uh I think it would be reasonable
  • 00:24:45
    to argue the pro smallpox Lobby the uh
  • 00:24:48
    Pro measles Lobby uh which means by the
  • 00:24:51
    way the pro- death Lobby the pro
  • 00:24:53
    blindness Lobby and so we shouldn't lose
  • 00:24:57
    sight of Trump's game here Trump wants
  • 00:25:00
    absolute power the way to get absolute
  • 00:25:03
    power is to take the federal government
  • 00:25:05
    which is a huge sprawling fractious
  • 00:25:07
    operation with lots of different
  • 00:25:10
    contending things and Vanquish it so
  • 00:25:13
    that all bow down to
  • 00:25:16
    Donald you know David I'm reminded of
  • 00:25:19
    the fact that there was a push during
  • 00:25:22
    the coup
  • 00:25:24
    attempt uh after the 2020 election to
  • 00:25:27
    try to uh declare martial law it was
  • 00:25:30
    being suggested that's why I say it was
  • 00:25:31
    a push it was one of the strategies that
  • 00:25:32
    was being suggested and the way that you
  • 00:25:35
    could declare martial law is to declare
  • 00:25:38
    that there is such chaos that we must
  • 00:25:41
    impose this martial law so I I see that
  • 00:25:44
    kind of strategy that you've described
  • 00:25:46
    like where you install yourself as the
  • 00:25:48
    leader because the country has now
  • 00:25:51
    reached a threshold of chaos that is
  • 00:25:54
    such that we can't do it
  • 00:25:56
    constitutionally anymore I see that is
  • 00:25:58
    very much something that that Trump has
  • 00:26:00
    his eyes on I I I'm I'm not what I'm
  • 00:26:03
    going to say I'm not predicting will
  • 00:26:04
    happen but I will not be the least bit
  • 00:26:07
    surprised if it does happen that Donald
  • 00:26:10
    Trump invoking Abraham
  • 00:26:12
    Lincoln will suspend habius Corpus at
  • 00:26:16
    some point habius Corpus is the right to
  • 00:26:19
    be seen by a magistrate you get arrested
  • 00:26:21
    you know the infamous you get one phone
  • 00:26:23
    call
  • 00:26:26
    um Abraham Lincoln suspended habus
  • 00:26:28
    Corpus during the Civil War Donald keeps
  • 00:26:32
    saying we're in a state of National
  • 00:26:33
    Emergency you know we're in a disaster
  • 00:26:35
    we're in a crisis all of that is setting
  • 00:26:37
    up his ability to make that claim this
  • 00:26:40
    is the key and important point about
  • 00:26:42
    that that people don't know under our
  • 00:26:45
    constitution habius Corpus is not a
  • 00:26:48
    right go look at the Fifth Amendment it
  • 00:26:51
    says the privilege of habius Corpus
  • 00:26:55
    shall not be suspended except a time of
  • 00:26:57
    insurrection
  • 00:26:58
    or I think it's occupation or something
  • 00:27:01
    else I'm sorry I don't remember the
  • 00:27:02
    exact words at the moment but in a
  • 00:27:05
    wartime in a civil war it made sense
  • 00:27:07
    that um Lincoln would do this I I wish
  • 00:27:09
    he hadn't done it but he was within uh
  • 00:27:13
    his rights as president under the
  • 00:27:15
    Constitution Trump's going to try to do
  • 00:27:17
    the same thing then he can lock up
  • 00:27:19
    people who are Troublesome to him and he
  • 00:27:21
    doesn't have to give them their day in
  • 00:27:24
    court this is a classic dictatorial move
  • 00:27:28
    and they've already tried to go after
  • 00:27:31
    Congress Matt Gates went to court trying
  • 00:27:34
    to stop release of the Ethics Committee
  • 00:27:37
    report you know my goodness they've got
  • 00:27:39
    multiple Witnesses of this 17-year-old
  • 00:27:42
    girl he paid sex for that's statutory
  • 00:27:45
    rape in Florida uh
  • 00:27:47
    $90,000 spent on prostitution and drugs
  • 00:27:52
    $9,000 of course Matt Gates's a rich kid
  • 00:27:56
    so it's not like you know he was
  • 00:27:57
    flipping hamburgers before he got into
  • 00:28:00
    the Senate uh and Donald Trump was going
  • 00:28:02
    to make him the Attorney General the
  • 00:28:04
    chief law enforcement officer of the
  • 00:28:05
    United States but going to court trying
  • 00:28:09
    to ask a judge to block Congress from
  • 00:28:11
    doing something which no court has the
  • 00:28:12
    authority to do is a sign of how the
  • 00:28:16
    checks and balances built into our
  • 00:28:19
    Constitution are going to
  • 00:28:22
    be ignored they're going to be plowed
  • 00:28:25
    over they're going to be bent
  • 00:28:28
    uh so don't be surprised at at any of
  • 00:28:32
    these things just don't lose sight of
  • 00:28:34
    the big picture Donald's goal is
  • 00:28:36
    dictatorial
  • 00:28:38
    power and the way you get dictatorial
  • 00:28:40
    power is you Vanquish the existing order
  • 00:28:45
    and you put in place people who will do
  • 00:28:47
    whatever you tell them to do and the
  • 00:28:49
    biggest thing people should be watching
  • 00:28:51
    for is if Trump starts firing Admirals
  • 00:28:55
    and Generals and promoting Junior
  • 00:28:57
    officers to replace them because that is
  • 00:29:00
    the classic sign of a dictatorial
  • 00:29:03
    takeover and there are always we we do a
  • 00:29:06
    really terrific job in this country of
  • 00:29:08
    having a non-political officer Corp even
  • 00:29:11
    though it's very heavily Republican it
  • 00:29:12
    was about 5050 Republicans in Democrats
  • 00:29:14
    until Reagan and then it began to change
  • 00:29:16
    and it's now overwhelmingly Republican
  • 00:29:19
    and in the Air Force we have a serious
  • 00:29:21
    problem that's gone on for years that
  • 00:29:24
    non-believers Jewish officers and
  • 00:29:28
    members of some Christian
  • 00:29:31
    denominations can't get their careers
  • 00:29:33
    going uh in that branch of the service
  • 00:29:36
    there's been a lot written about this by
  • 00:29:37
    the New York Times and others going back
  • 00:29:39
    I don't know 25 years uh but overall we
  • 00:29:42
    do a very good job of having a
  • 00:29:45
    professional officer cor at the top but
  • 00:29:48
    there are always Junior officers uh
  • 00:29:51
    captains Majors Lieutenant Colonels
  • 00:29:54
    Lieutenant Colonel is not quite a junior
  • 00:29:55
    officer who will sell out their country
  • 00:29:59
    for their own Glory or
  • 00:30:01
    ideology and Donald I assure you is
  • 00:30:05
    going to have people looking for who are
  • 00:30:07
    these people we can trust and rely
  • 00:30:09
    because he has said he wants to use the
  • 00:30:11
    American Military against the American
  • 00:30:14
    people well look at Mike Flynn I mean he
  • 00:30:17
    is someone who really scares me and he
  • 00:30:20
    is a Christof fascist with the military
  • 00:30:23
    experience and Trump has said he wants
  • 00:30:25
    to bring him back into the
  • 00:30:26
    administration and uh I mean and Barack
  • 00:30:29
    Obama told Donald Trump before Trump
  • 00:30:33
    took the oath of office this guy is
  • 00:30:37
    dangerous he's not loyal uh keep him
  • 00:30:41
    away so of course immediately Donald
  • 00:30:42
    Trump made him his uh National Security
  • 00:30:44
    adviser where if I recall he lasted 28
  • 00:30:47
    days four weeks that's right yeah so uh
  • 00:30:52
    well what I get from this here on your
  • 00:30:54
    birthday David K Johnston is that at
  • 00:30:56
    least Greenland and Panama Canal are
  • 00:30:59
    falling into the distraction category uh
  • 00:31:02
    the kind of Controlled Chaos that Trump
  • 00:31:05
    likes to uh stir up regularly uh the
  • 00:31:09
    appointment stuff really scares me
  • 00:31:11
    because you have people who are utter
  • 00:31:13
    novices don't know what they're doing I
  • 00:31:15
    mean Pete hegi couldn't find the men's
  • 00:31:17
    room at the Pentagon and he's going to
  • 00:31:19
    run it I mean it's absolutely out
  • 00:31:22
    outrageous but but he won't at least he
  • 00:31:24
    won't be drinking if he gets the
  • 00:31:25
    appointment that's right I'm Mark before
  • 00:31:28
    we go just one thing people should think
  • 00:31:31
    about the tariffs that are coming which
  • 00:31:34
    we talked about last week how that
  • 00:31:35
    allows domestic manufacturers to raise
  • 00:31:37
    prices and it's really a scheme to
  • 00:31:39
    redistribute money by pulling money out
  • 00:31:41
    of the pockets of consumers and turning
  • 00:31:43
    over to the pockets of people own
  • 00:31:45
    manufacturing companies we also
  • 00:31:47
    shouldn't forget that tariffs are not
  • 00:31:49
    are two-way two-way
  • 00:31:52
    streets uh China can mess with us a lot
  • 00:31:55
    because they have significant Reserves
  • 00:31:58
    of some of the rare earth Min minerals
  • 00:32:00
    like neodymium which we
  • 00:32:02
    need um uh Canada we do a great deal of
  • 00:32:07
    trade with Canada and a lot of it's
  • 00:32:09
    essential to our manufacturing processes
  • 00:32:12
    in the US the Canadians can respond uh
  • 00:32:16
    Mexico you you want grocery prices lower
  • 00:32:19
    don't mess with Mexico because when you
  • 00:32:21
    go to the grocery store whether it's
  • 00:32:23
    here in Rochester New York or it's in
  • 00:32:25
    Southern California where you live uh
  • 00:32:27
    it's highly likely that your raspberries
  • 00:32:30
    and your avocados and uh other fruits
  • 00:32:34
    that perish quickly come from
  • 00:32:36
    Mexico and the Mexicans Can Can U do all
  • 00:32:41
    sort things to drive up those
  • 00:32:43
    prices and interfere with our Commerce
  • 00:32:46
    so Donald's notion that you know he has
  • 00:32:48
    this power that no one can respond to
  • 00:32:51
    will get a very rude awakening because
  • 00:32:53
    president G is is no weakling here and I
  • 00:32:57
    think we'll see that our two biggest
  • 00:32:59
    trading partners Canada and Mexico are
  • 00:33:01
    not going to just roll over for Donald
  • 00:33:04
    well also I mean a trade War isn't it
  • 00:33:06
    true David you really just don't want to
  • 00:33:07
    get into multiple trade Wars I wouldn't
  • 00:33:09
    think especially I mean you're the
  • 00:33:11
    you're the new kid back into hey I'm
  • 00:33:12
    back and let's start some trade Wars I
  • 00:33:14
    mean that's kind of where he is right
  • 00:33:16
    but if you have a megalomaniac mind I
  • 00:33:19
    mean Donald really does believe people
  • 00:33:22
    need to know this it's not a fraud
  • 00:33:24
    Donald really believes that he should
  • 00:33:26
    run everything that everybody else is an
  • 00:33:28
    idiot and you know he's special and it's
  • 00:33:32
    this fictional World he's created he
  • 00:33:35
    when he creates his own reality but this
  • 00:33:37
    is not you know don't don't look at him
  • 00:33:39
    and think he's some cynical fraud he
  • 00:33:42
    believes this stuff and after all based
  • 00:33:45
    on the fact that he's gotten to the
  • 00:33:46
    White House twice why shouldn't he
  • 00:33:48
    believe it you know that someone like
  • 00:33:50
    him can can pull this off um he does
  • 00:33:54
    need to be reminded all the time he
  • 00:33:55
    never got 50% of the vote and he only
  • 00:33:58
    won by 1.5 percentage points this is not
  • 00:34:01
    a mandate although he keeps trying to
  • 00:34:04
    get that into the news and
  • 00:34:07
    unfortunately news organizations on
  • 00:34:09
    running stories tend to develop a sort
  • 00:34:12
    of herd mentality this or that
  • 00:34:14
    organization will break part of the
  • 00:34:15
    story but once a narrative is set for a
  • 00:34:18
    story everybody sort of goes along with
  • 00:34:20
    that so I've noticed the narrative that
  • 00:34:23
    U persistently out of control inflation
  • 00:34:26
    or or um uh High inflation is a
  • 00:34:30
    continuing theme in news accounts even
  • 00:34:32
    though inflation right now is
  • 00:34:35
    significantly below the postor War II
  • 00:34:39
    average so by no reasonable definition
  • 00:34:42
    is it high or out of control but once
  • 00:34:45
    that's in the narrative it's very hard
  • 00:34:49
    to change that because it becomes what
  • 00:34:51
    in newsrooms is called shorthand
  • 00:34:54
    shorthand is fine but it must be
  • 00:34:56
    truthful shorthand accurate shorthand
  • 00:34:59
    not what we're seeing with things like
  • 00:35:03
    you know persistent High inflation which
  • 00:35:05
    is
  • 00:35:06
    nonsense sure sure but as you say it's
  • 00:35:09
    become such a familiar refrain that it
  • 00:35:11
    continues to be to be used uh we're out
  • 00:35:14
    of time David I want to just let you
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