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All right, some statistics that may or may not surprise you,

but

still has a list of the states that are doing the best right now with COVID and also states that are doing the worst.

And I would say this is a look at the entire year, right?

So it's not just where they are right now right now.

How do they do over the past year?

Yeah.

And so we went through, did a formula.

Let me give you some of the factors that went into this.

One, obviously, how well did you avoid people dying in your state?

You know what I mean?

Like

that's obviously a big factor.

But number two, I mean, this, because we, all we hear from the, you know, the news media is trying to compare death totals and everything else.

We also looked at the economy.

How well were you able to protect the economy through this?

It was a really difficult thing for states to do.

Some states did a lot better than others.

We also looked at what is from, there's an

University of Oxford stringency index, which is basically a measure of how hard the government cracked down.

How long did they put the people into relative shutdown levels, right?

Did they have a light touch?

Did they have a heavy touch when it comes to that?

And I think that's somewhat controversial in that people would say, well, what does that matter?

I think if you have two states that had the same results with the economy and deaths, but one gave you complete freedom, the other one

locked you down in individual plastic bubbles.

That matters.

Yeah, that matters, right?

I mean, this is the United States of America here.

So I use that as a factor.

Those are the three biggest factors.

However, there's also, you know,

we factored in the age of the population.

So a state that has an older population should get a break in comparing the death rate, you know, to a state that has a younger population.

Same thing with a density.

If you have a state with a population density that's high, we looked at vaccine rollout, all sorts of different things, and kind of came up with a final score 0 to 100 for all 50 states.

So let me give you some of the bottom states.

I'll start seventh from the bottom for a reason because it was California.

Score of 35.7 out of 100.

They did, they actually didn't do terribly as far as the rate of COVID, but as we point out, they have a relatively young population

in California.

So that does make a difference as far as the death rate.

But we factored that in.

They finished seventh from the bottom.

Sixth from the bottom was Massachusetts, 28.1 out of 100.

Fifth from the bottom,

Connecticut, our old home state, Pat.

Now, again,

can you blame some of its neighbors for this?

I think you could.

Yes,

Connecticut also didn't do all that well.

Rhode Island is fourth from the bottom.

25.2 is the score out of 100.

Third from the bottom, Red State, Louisiana,

20.6 out of 100.

Now, you can probably fairly note that part of the reason Louisiana had a really bad outbreak of COVID was

Mardi Gras, which happened at the end of February last year, and of course was held in a very blue area of Louisiana, not a very red area of Louisiana.

But, you know, as long as you have New Orleans in your state, you're responsible for it, Louisiana.

I apologize for that.

But, you know, I didn't put it in your state.

That was your thing.

So you're responsible for

the outbreak in New Orleans.

So they came at third to worst, 20.6 out of 100.

Then there's quite a drop-off.

From third to worst, at 20.6

to second to worst,

New Mexico, 7.9 out of 100.

Wow.

So from 20.6 to 7.9.

People don't realize that New Mexico had the hardest lockdown in the nation, harder than any other state, California, New York, nobody.

Lockdown, harder than New Mexico.

I know that.

Their economy was a disaster as well.

And they didn't even get good results as far as COVID.

I mean, really, they didn't do anything well throughout this entire process.

So New Mexico finishes second to last and in dead last place,

without anyone's surprise, of course, is New York with a score of 6.8 out of 100.

They had the second strongest lockdown in the country.

Despite that, had the second worst COVID numbers, only to New Jersey, which is completely New York's fault anyway.

And also their economy was a disaster.

Despite the fact they have a giant industry there that could work from home, they still couldn't protect the economy at all.

So they finish in dead last place.

Of course, AndrewCuomoisAwful.com should be noted at this time.

Shall we give you some of the

top picks?

Yeah, who did the best?

Let's see.

All right.

Well, who did the best?

And we're starting at...

Let me give you 10.

All right.

Alaska, number 10, score 66.7.

And again, we take into account population density.

But again,

there's some asterisks in this, like Hawaii.

What do you do with it?

You know, Hawaii obviously is going to have a really good result on COVID because they're an island, but also a really bad result on the economy because they're dependent on flights.

Yeah.

So it's a tough one to measure.

But Alaska came in 10th, South Dakota in ninth.

And I think a lot of people would think South Dakota would do really well on this.

They were number two on the stringency index.

So it's the second least amount of time in lockdown.

But they really, they're 44th as as far as COVID per million.

So they that hurt them.

Like they they had a very open

attitude towards this, which I respect and I like Chris Denome quite a bit.

But

look, they just had a really

rough battle with that when it comes to their rates.

Eighth place, Nebraska, 67.8 out of 100.

Then Virginia actually did pretty well.

In seventh place, 68.9.

Iowa in sixth place, 69.9 out of 100.

Iowa, another one that never,

they had that initial shutdown period and then were pretty open after that and had

relatively good results, certainly good economic results.

Number six,

number five, Oregon.

That's a surprise.

That one is a surprise to me.

And I, so I was thinking about this because the score is 70.1 out of 100 for Oregon.

Again, best COVID results by state for the entire year.

They had very low rates of COVID, but they'd locked down.

I mean, they were middle of the pack when it comes down to

how long they locked down.

My theories on this was, one,

Portland in particular was burning down most of the year, so probably people were terrified to go outdoors at all and see anyone.

Plus, you also have a, and their economy did relatively well compared to some of these other more locked down type states.

And I think you might have a population population that was more able to work from home.

You know, the industries there are friendlier to being able to work at home.

So there wasn't as much of a need for that.

But that's where that finished.

Number, let's see, number four,

Idaho,

74.1 score out of 100.

Idaho did pretty much everything pretty well.

Every one of their categories was pretty good.

Not at the top of the list, but in the top third on pretty much every single thing.

A couple of surprises here towards the top here.

Number three, and there's an asterisk on this one a little bit too.

Number three was Wisconsin.

And I would think Wisconsin,

how the heck,

really?

They have a Democratic governor,

yet they ranked on this, you know,

how long did they lock down the stringency index?

They were only fifth.

They were somehow fifth.

Now, I looked into that a little bit more thinking, how the hell

did Wisconsin finish fifth in this measure?

Because it's really the strongest thing that they had going for them in this, in the little formula here.

And the reason was

the courts kept overturning all the things the Democratic governor wanted to do.

So they never, they were on and off again a little bit, but

the courts were like, no, you can't do any of this crap.

So they didn't go into lockdown as much as a lot of other blue states did, which is kind of an interesting factor.

Score of 83.9 out of 100.

Number two, New Hampshire, 84.9 out of 100.

I wouldn't have guessed that one either.

Yeah, you know, I wouldn't have either.

Although you got live free or die, right?

They were actually, they did not lock down all that hard.

They had pretty good results from COVID, and their economy was relatively well protected.

They are also

an older population, which helps them in this measure.

I mean, considering they were eighth overall in death rate and have the second oldest population in the country, it's pretty impressive that that stuck together.

And I don't know, it kind of makes sense in some ways.

You know, it's a state that has a motto where you're supposed to be taking responsibility for your own actions, and maybe that helped play in.

Number one, though, are you ready?

Score of 90.1 out of 100.

I am.

90.1 out of 100, the number one score in the entire union.

This was a surprise to me.

I will say, I didn't see this one coming.

Number one,

the state of...

Wait, does this end or?

Confusion.

The state of confusion?

No.

Okay.

The state of Utah.

Utah.

That is what I was going to guess.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what I was going to guess.

That's pretty interesting.

I would not have guessed it.

Really?

Just because I don't know.

I mean,

it didn't get any press.

You know, like people talk, the right has talked about Texas.

They've talked about Florida.

They've talked about Arizona.

They've talked about South Dakota.

They've talked about a lot of different states.

Georgia got press at the beginning quite a bit.

Really, I haven't heard much conversation about Utah, but Utah kind of sat there and did incredibly well in every measure here.

Number three, as far as how long were they in lockdown?

Third least amount of time.

So they were third, say, on the Freedom Index, right?

Okay.

Economy, they finished seventh in the entire country.

And their COVID results, they finished sixth.

Wow.

So really did.

Now, I will say they are the youngest state in the Union, which I did not know either until doing this research.

Youngest state in the union.

However, they get punished

in this measure for that.

Like if you're a young state, you lose points on the formula because

an older state has a tougher time with something like this.

So despite the fact that they got punished for that, still finished number one in the union with a score of 90.1.

And really has had no press and no credit and

no love.

I mean, I haven't heard anybody saying, well, you know, who's doing a good job is Utah.

And this comes back to something

I think has proved since the beginning of this to be really important.

We've talked so much about about what the government does.

Am I going to sit here and say that everything that Utah did from the government level was right?

I doubt it.

I mean, I don't know all the details.

I don't live in Utah, but I guarantee if we open up the phone lines, we get lots of people complaining about what the government was saying or doing in Utah, as we would from every state.

But, like, there's something to do with this coming back to, instead of the government, the people.

You know, this is the United States of America.

We lead the government.

The government doesn't lead us.

That's not the way this works.

And, you know, if you look at the type of population you'd want to potentially have in the form in the, in the time of a pandemic, I got to say, you might draft Mormons number one.

You might.

First of all, they're pretty healthy.

Second of all, as you point out, pretty young.

Yeah.

I would say they do a good job following rules.

Would you say that's an accurate statement?

I would say

they're not like the type of people who are like going to, you know,

they're not like people who are going to go out and like, you know, burn down government buildings because they don't like a policy.

They're going to argue with it.

They're going to say what they believe, but

they're not going to do that.

They're not activists.

Yeah, they're not like, yeah.

And I think that's, you know, I mean that in a good way, in this particular measure

specifically.

And then also, there are people who tend to do a lot of thinking about others, right?

Like they're much, I would say less focused on like, well, damn it, it's my right.

Then, you know what?

Like, I don't like this, but I don't want to make anyone else sick.

I want to make sure that like every, I think there's a very selfless aspect of that culture that makes a state like Utah perform really well.

And I will note, too, number four was Idaho.

Yes, also quite Mormon.

Also quite Mormon.

And I, you know,

it's an interesting thing.

And I think that it comes down to that a little bit more than...

cable news and even talk shows and politicians have talked about.

You just mentioned this with the masks.

The government policy has been such a factor.

But really, I mean, you look at the states with no mask mandates

and compare them to the ones with mask mandates, there's about a 10 to 12% difference of mask usage.

It's really not that different.

Yeah.

It really doesn't make all that much difference.

It's really about what the people wind up doing.

We lead this government.

They don't lead us.

So would this be a good time to send a couple of guys in white shirts and bicycles over to your house?

Seems like a pretty good time, maybe, for that.

I'll make the call.

I'll make the call while you do the commercial.

I have COVID.

They can't come in.

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All right.

So in Israel, apparently people are pretty open to getting the vaccine.

I have kind of a different impression of many Americans because I hear from a lot who just have no intention of ever being vaccinated.

Yeah, the polling has been pretty consistent.

It's improved as far as people wanting to take the vaccine, which is what you would expect, right?

It's been basically the entire time broken down like this.

About 40% of people are like, absolutely, give me the vaccine.

Like, give it to me.

I'm ready for it.

Day one.

I'm rushing down.

Throw some needles at me, whatever sticks in, and I'll take that one.

They're fine.

About 30% of people are like, say basically, I'm open to it, but I want to kind of see if everyone starts dropping dead first.

You know, like, can you have, can I not be first in line?

Let me just see if people, these needles go in people's arms and they just spontaneously combust.

If that doesn't happen, all right, I'll go check it out.

Then there's about 20% of the population who says, I don't want to get it, but like if I have to.

Like if work tells me I need to do it, or I can't get into any, I can't take any flights because I can't get a vaccine.

All right, whatever, I'll do it.

And then there's about 10% of the population that is like sign up ideologically against

vaccines in general or this particular vaccine for some reason.

So the polling's been pretty consistent in that general format.

Some of the people who have, were in that 30% group that say, look,

I'm open to getting it, but I'm a little worried.

Some of those people have now moved into.

the I'm going to get the vaccine group.

So it's, and some of the people have received the vaccine already in that group.

So it is, most people are fine getting it.

They realize, you know, they might not be excited about getting a shot, but they're going to go through it and get it anyway.

I think there's a certain percentage of people, you know, it seems to be about 10% that are just, you know, ideologically against the vaccine for whatever reason or just don't think it's going to work or don't think it's safe or healthy.

And I don't think you're going to change those people's minds.

You know, that's just the way, you know, the way they've, you know, processed the information.

A larger part of that area, though, are people who just don't go to the doctor all that often.

You know, people who, those are the people that are reachable on the vaccine.

People who just like, I don't tend, like, there's a lot of people who like never go to the dentist, for example.

Like, you know, they just don't ever do it.

And it's, it's a surprisingly high percentage of the population that, you know, don't get dental care for decades on end.

Right.

And the same thing happens with doctors, you know, especially

in minority communities, in communities and inner cities that just don't have access access or don't have money or don't desire to go see the doctor for every little thing.

And they just don't come in contact that often with medical professionals.

So there's some skepticism there as well.

And I think those are the people they're going to try to reach.

In Israel, they have kind of the same problem where the Orthodox communities are much less likely to want to get the vaccine for ideological reasons.

So those communities are much harder for the government to get the vaccine to.

But they are at, as you point out, Pat, over now 50% fully vaccinated in Israel.

They lead the world by a very large margin in that world.

Let's see if I can get to the exact

numbers.

This is fully vaccinated numbers right now.

Here we go.

50.4% in Israel.

Number two is Bahrain at 12.9.

Wow.

So a huge, huge gap there.

Because we're at between partially and fully vaccinated.

I think we're at around 20%, aren't we?

And we're between those who have gotten one of the two shots and those who have gotten both of them.

I've got that right here.

It's not quite.

Oh, you mean between both?

Yes.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, here we go.

So

at least one dose in the United States,

18 plus population, 27.9% has already received one dose.

But more importantly here, right, for this particular virus is the 65 plus population.

Now, 65% of that population has received at least one dose.

Which was the important group.

Yeah.

And look, you know, the Biden administration can try to take credit for all of this, which is completely ridiculous, right?

Like

during the Trump administration, they developed the vaccine.

They got it all ready.

They did all the testing.

They got it all prepared.

They designed the entire rollout strategy.

And then Biden comes in office.

It's like, look what we just did with the vaccines.

Right.

We're great.

We inherited a broken system.

A completely broken, non-existent system.

A lot of the people who are from the Trump administration who are running this effort are still there.

Yeah.

You know, they're not partisans.

They're just, you know, people who are really good at logistics.

And you know what the record was?

The record development time before this for a vaccine from start of the disease to when you have a vaccine for it before now,

10 years.

Measles took,

I think it was a measles vaccination, 10 years.

I thought there was one for like whooping cough or something that was like more like four or five years.

But still, maybe it was multiple years.

Yeah, it's a long time.

It's a lot longer than a year.

Yeah.

I mean, from start to finish, this thing happened in less than a year.

Yeah.

Really incredible.

It's incredible.

Whether you like it or not, it is absolutely impossible.

It's a miracle.

Which is, it really is incredible.

And really more exciting than this particular vaccine is the technology behind the vaccine, this

mRNA technology, which

offers

the ability to develop vaccines quickly like this,

not just like pandemics.

I'm talking about like, you know, diseases that have existed in the third world for generations and no one's really been able to get them under control because the development cost is so high and it takes so long.

And obviously these countries don't have the money and all of this.

This technology can be adapted really easily to things we've been fighting for a really long time.

So I think long-term, the upside is even more exciting than just what we have here.

Hey, we can go back to restaurants in a couple of weeks.

But we're now fully vaccinated in the country, 15% of the 18-plus population and 37% of 65-plus.

So you're going to see, you know, the one thing you're seeing in Israel is

when they break down the death rates from the vaccinated population and the non-vaccinated population, it's remarkable how well this is working.

You know, know, more than half of the deaths right now and cases are coming from only like the 5% of the population that isn't vaccinated in the older groups.

And the other 95% of the population is

accounting for less than the 5%, which is really remarkable.

You look at it when it comes down, they break it down by age.

The older population, their deaths are dropping like crazy in Israel.

And they're down by

over 70% now as far as just cases overall with the entire population.

So, you know, it's encouraging.

You know, what do you make of all the stories, though, of people, you know, dying within a day or two of this and or

becoming

uncontrollably shaky for,

you know, the rest of, I mean, I don't know how long it's going to last, but there was, for instance, there was a woman who did a video and she couldn't stop shaking.

I mean, every part of her body was shaking and it had been going going on for days and couldn't stop.

And the only thing she could attribute it to was the vaccines.

So, I mean, you're hearing these stories.

And I don't, you know, maybe some people are just not able to handle it.

I don't know.

It's possible.

I mean, I think, you know, look,

science via YouTube video is never a good idea.

Are you sure?

Yeah, that's actually the first scientific principle.

Don't do science based on YouTube videos.

What about internet stories?

Internet stories are a different thing.

Well, if it's forwarded, then it's science.

If people forward it enough times, it becomes science.

So like I get it in my email in my inbox, I can take it directly to the bank.

Yes, definitely.

I can believe it's true.

As long as the person sending it to you is not the source.

If it's been passed three or four times, then it becomes science.

I mean, look, you have to look at the anecdotal cases as

what they are.

And some of them,

there are some people who have had bad reactions to it, I guess.

It's pretty minor.

I mean, we we know this, that the people who are taking the vaccine are dying at a much lower rate than people that are not taking the vaccine.

And getting extremely sick at a much lower rate.

At a much lower rate.

And that's not just COVID.

That's overall.

Now, there could be a reason for that, in that people who are maybe healthier and more engaged in the healthcare system are more likely to get the vaccine.

But it's certainly not showing.

There's no evidence whatsoever of these effects in a large scale.

For example,

there's a debate going on with this AstraZeneca vaccine in Europe.

And AstraZeneca is not approved for use here in the United States.

They're in the middle of the test that would get it to approval, but it is not approved in the United States yet.

It was approved very early on, as you might expect, because it has to do with Oxford in the UK.

And that's really what they're using in the UK.

It went over to

Europe, and there's a debate now about a lot of the European countries have pulled it from usage.

And because they believe there was, I believe, five cases of

blood clots, or maybe it might have been up to about 30 cases of blood clots related to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Again, totally different technology than Pfizer and Moderna, but still

this was the concern.

And so people were freaked out about it.

They pulled it off the market.

It's interesting, though, to look at the numbers there in that Europe, the people that pulled it off the market, are saying that blood clots are happening in one in 167,000 people who get the vaccine.

Now,

in Britain, who's been using this vaccine the entire time, they're saying it's one in 500,000.

So there's a disagreement between 1 in 167,000 and 1 in 500,000.

However, both of those numbers are better numbers than the population in general.

So the idea that it's the vaccine causing this, the people,

more than one in 167,000 people just get blood clots on a normal everyday life basis.

So there's no reason to believe none of this, you know, none of the science shows that any of this stuff is happening.

Now, look, that does not mean, and

as you can probably tell,

I'm very pro-vaccine.

I want to get back to normal life.

I think this is the best path to do it.

I love what the Trump administration did on this.

I love the fact that capitalism was involved.

I love the fact that the ultimate enemy of every single left-wing newspaper in America, big pharmaceutical companies, were involved.

I think it's hilarious.

And I love the fact that this is the, the, I feel like the American way out of something like this.

We just innovate, come up with something great and get out of it and go on with our lives.

So I do like that.

I am pro.

However, nobody should be forcing you to take it if you don't want to take it.

And that is, you know, we have not seen anyone in the United States yet require it.

And they don't even require it in Israel.

But it is something that you could see Gavin Newsome or Andrew Cuomo doing and saying that it is required.

And you should not have to take any of these things if you don't want to to take them.

That's an important part of liberty.

Even if you don't have to do that, it's like you shouldn't have to wear a mask if you don't want to wear a mask.

Same thing.

Right.

Like, even if, even if it was the best idea in the world,

you still get to.

I mean, look,

I would not for

this is a country in which we're not supposed to be forcing people through the government to do pretty much anything.

You know, I mean, with the exception of don't murder, you know, don't steal.

There's a bunch of things.

There's a few commandments that outline some of these ideas at one point in an old book.

But I mean, really, the government should have very limited access to your life as far as managing it.

And so, you know, the people who are much more skeptical in the vaccine than I am, I stand with them in the idea that they should not be forced to take it.

That's a terrible idea.

And it also will just turn people off from wanting to take it.

You know, people who are on the fence are just going to be like, screw you.

Don't tell me what to do.

It's exactly how I'd be if they started to mandate it.

Well, now I don't want it.

Yeah.

Now I don't want it.

And the messaging of this has been terrible.

It's basically like in Israel, they're saying, hey, get the vaccine, then go do what you want.

As soon as you're vaccinated, none of these rules apply to you anymore, basically.

That's what they're trying to communicate to the people.

That's not entirely true in Israel, but it is what they're trying to communicate.

That's the messaging.

Here, the messaging is the opposite.

It's like, hey, get the vaccine.

And then in the year 2027, you'll be able to see another person again.

You know, you may even be able to eat outdoors before 2050.

We'll let you know.

You know, we get to tell you when that happens.

And the American people are just like, wait a minute, what?

I know.

Yeah.

And

if you behave yourself, if you do everything we tell you to do,

then maybe you can get together and have a backyard barbecue the 4th of July.

We'll see.

And we'll see.

And we'll let you know, by the way.

Do you think any of this, Pat, is them just trying to underplay it?

It's like, you know, when a, when an airplane company, you know, air, a flight tells you that you're going to be there at three o'clock when they know you're supposed to be there at 2:30.

So they have that, like, that wiggle room in there.

Yes.

They're just trying to say, like, it's like he's like, oh, a million vaccines a day.

It's like, well, we're already doing that.

Like, he's trying to set expectations so low that he's definitely going to clear them.

And maybe it's just that way.

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Joe Biden last night

with George Stephanopoulos.

And Stephanopoulos actually pressed him on the crisis going on at the border, which, of course, to the Biden administration isn't a crisis at all.

It's the same thing that's been happening for years.

And this is all Donald Trump's fault anyway.

Here's Stephanopoulos actually asking him some decent questions about the border.

A lot of the migrants coming in saying they're coming in because you promised to make things better.

It seems to be getting worse by the day.

Was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge?

Well, first of all, there was a surge the last two years and

19 and 20, there was a surge as well.

This one might be worse.

No, well, it could be, but here's the deal.

We're sending back people to first of all,

the idea that Joe Biden said come, because I heard the other day that they're coming because they know I'm a nice guy and I won't do a job

because you told them to.

Well, here's the deal.

They're not.

You have to say quite clearly.

I mean, they're not good follow-up there.

Yes.

I can say quite clearly.

Here's the deal.

They're not.

In the process of getting this set up, don't leave your town or city community.

Democrats get to say this every time and it's not hateful.

Unbelievable.

Don't leave your town or city is the thing that Donald Trump would say and that would be hateful when he said it.

And xenophobic.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You should.

Well, you shouldn't.

You know, he's right on that point.

If you want to give him a very narrow, he's correct.

You shouldn't illegally come to another country in any circumstance.

Others

potentially like a massive war going on in your country and you're escaping as a refugee.

Really, there's no reason to do this.

It's not for economic benefit.

That's not what these laws are set up to do.

And honestly, illegally, you shouldn't ever come.

You should come as a refugee in certain circumstances.

Well, Biden denies that he is responsible at all for this.

But let's go back to the campaign and the promise he made essentially to the people of Mexico and Central and South America when he talked about the first hundred days of his administration.

Cut number two.

They're there seeking asylum.

First time ever we've told people they can't come to America.

That ends.

The cage is closed.

That ends.

Cages are closed.

And in the first 100 days, he goes on to say, you know,

they can come here essentially

and receive asylum from the United States of America.

Like, we've never told them before not to come.

Yeah.

And by the way, the cages are open, just so you know.

They're now open.

Come on in.

You're going to Cageville, everybody.

Right.

Cage Town.

And they're at full capacity, too, beyond full capacity.

Yep.

The cages.

I mean, the average is something like 300% of pre-COVID capacity.

So.

I mean, Democrats were weeping over it.

They would literally have press conferences where they would break down and weep openly about how inhumane it was Donald Trump treating

these children that came across the border that were ripped, that were torn from the arms of their crying mothers and then tossed into these cages like animals.

All of that was

so tragic under Donald Trump.

And now

it's just the humane thing to do.

Now, what else are we supposed to do with them?

They're just all here without their parents, and we've got to find some place for them.

And we don't know where they belong.

And we're trying really hard to find their parents.

So what are we supposed to do other than put them in these facilities?

They're facilities now.

They're not gauges.

No, now they're just facilities.

They're wonderful facilities.

I went back, by the way, Pat, and I think you'll remember the story when

Alexandria Casio-Cortez, these photos came out of her at the border and she was crying at a fence.

You remember these things?

I do.

Yeah.

And, you know, the people were kind of mocking them as sort of looking very staged.

And they were actually taken before AOC was like a figure, a public figure.

She was running for office, but like no one knew who she was at this point.

And I went back and just glanced at those.

They are among the most cringeworthy photos I've ever seen in my life.

Oh, I'd love to see them.

Now, she claims this was a real moment, and the photographer says it was a real moment of emotion overtaking her.

They look so cringey and staged.

And, you know, she's standing in front of this fence, and it is like down the road along like driveway, if you will, to a facility.

So people were saying, oh, she's just in front of an empty lot.

It's not true exactly.

Like, you know, she was near the facility.

It was as close as she could get.

I mean, they weren't allowing people inside.

But still, like, I just, I don't know.

It's like, can you, you know, I don't know, I'm trying to think of like if you were,

if you went to a meeting, a site that somehow meant something to you, but you could barely see it in the distance,

it doesn't seem like it would evoke the emotion.

And then it just like, it just doesn't look real.

It looks like she's just standing there fake crying for the camera.

I mean,

I don't know what it is seeing them again after knowing her.

Because when you first saw them, she was kind of in the news and it wasn't a huge story at the time.

Knowing how awful she is and how her only goal in life is to pander to cameras.

You know, all she does all the time is go on Instagram Live and run her mouth about God knows what, how she doesn't know how the freaking, you know, garbage disposal works or whatever she talks about.

And

to see these photos in that light now that we know kind of who she is, oh, they're cringy.

Are you looking at them?

Could you pray?

I'm trying to find them.

I haven't seen them yet.

I have to sell them to you.

They are so cringy.

I know we had them on the ⁇

we showed briefly on the show the other day on Studos America.

And it's just, oh, it gives you that feeling inside your stomach when you realize like someone's like.

Trying,

like a really bad actor or actress who's trying to pull off a role and failing.

And like everyone around you knows that they're failing to get that like tightness in your stomach.

And it's like, oh, God, this is so cringy.

That's what it feels like when you look at them.

I know she said something early on when it came out again that Biden is using the cages.

And she actually said something

negative about it.

Moderately negative.

Moderately negative.

It wasn't a literal concentration camp when Joe Biden was.

No, that's for sure.

But she's been amazingly silent since.

I think she said one thing about it and then she shut her mouth about it.

She said, like, this is wrong.

It's always been wrong.

That's what it was.

But Donald Trump is evil.

It was like that type of thing.

That's pretty much.

Yeah,

totally different standard.

And, of course, all these things that she talked about, you know, she complained about wanting this $15 minimum wage and how she was going to hold up the process.

She didn't vote against the bill.

It's amazing.

She let it go through anyway because she's just like so many other Democrats.

You know,

there's nothing there.

And back in late February, Glenn tweeted out.

Maybe you guys talked about this at the time.

Just for the record, the Biden administration is separating children and parents.

Did you talk about that at the time?

Because PolitiFact fact-checked that.

They are separating children and parents.

Yes.

Glenn Beck said that.

The evil Glenn Beck

with his hatefulness.

I love this one.

This is the one where he said a full sentence and they fact-checked half the sentence.

They actually broke the sentence into two pieces so they could give him a false ranking.

That's unbelievable.

And like, I don't understand why this is better.

What is happening now?

This is their argument.

When Donald Trump was president, a mom and a son would come across the border and the mom would get arrested for coming across the border.

They didn't want to throw the son into jail, right?

Yes.

So they would detain them in two different places.

That was the separation of children from parents that we heard so much about.

Right.

Right.

Right.

What's happening now is the parents at some point before they cross the border are having the children ahead of them by themselves.

So they're now crossing the border solo instead of with their parent.

They're still separate.

They just separated on the other side of the border.

And that means Donald Trump is evil and Hitler and literal concentration camp guy, and Joe Biden is totally fine.

And they act as if Donald Trump had his minions down at the border stealing babies from the arms of their parents, when in fact, it was mostly teenagers then, like it's mostly teenagers now.

It was older children and teens.

I don't think a lot of babies were torn from the arms of their mothers as they carried across the border.

I mean, what we're looking at right now is 15, 16, and 17-year-olds largely.

Now, look, are those quote-unquote children?

I mean, in the lies of the law, sure, they're underage,

but

it's a different story than what you picture.

And, you know, they will use the photos

to elicit emotion.

They will find the one younger child who happens to be in a large group and focus on them, who doesn't know what's going on.

I mean, there's obviously they use this, they use these photos for their advantage, just like these AOC photos.

I think we have them now.

Oh, good.

Look at.

Oh, yeah, look at that.

It's just

typical.

That just happened to be somebody walking by with a camera at the same time that AOC started breaking down.

It is

clearly spontaneous.

If you happen to be on Blaze TV, it's worth watching because basically you have the...

There's a couple of different vibes here.

You have one vibe where she's looking like a sad puppy dog at the camera, which is just

hysterical.

And then the other one where she's standing by herself and awkwardly bending over in her pristine white clothing and her nice new watch.

And she's kind of just like crying.

It doesn't seem.

It bent her in half.

The grief.

The grief bent her in half.

The grief of these children being taken from their parents bent her in half.

And look, there are a lot of sad stories on the border.

This is why we say we should have it under control.

I mean, there are really terrible, tragic stories that happen on the border all the time.

People who are convinced by Democrats, largely, that this is not really an offense, that it's basically it's less than a speeding ticket because you don't even get fined.

And, you know, they come across the border thinking they're going to get a better life because Democrats are screaming that it's possible.

And now they see Biden as the, quote, migrant president.

The Mexican president said that these migrants see Joe Biden as the migrant president.

And

they are coming here because they believe it's okay.

They believe, because half the country and all of the media is saying it, it's okay.

And just to accentuate that point,

we have one of the migrants actually

speaking about this.

Let me see.

Did we have this today?

Yeah, okay.

Here's one of the migrants talking about Joe Biden, actually.

What I want from my people, I just want patience and pest that we can get to the U.S.

because they're having a new president, Verse Biden.

He's going to help all of us.

He's giving us 100 days to get to the U.S.

and give us legal mental paper so we can get a better life for our kids and family.

Isn't that great?

So they got it right from Joe Biden.

He's giving him 100 days to get here and just have a better life for him and his family.

And I, look, we, that's amazing.

It is amazing.

And we as conservatives would look at this and say, a lot of times we'll say, like, you shouldn't come across the border and, you know, it's a bad idea, blah, blah, blah.

And that's, of course, true.

But it's also like from their perspective, the messaging they're getting from the entire media.

And not to mention the candidate himself and all of his allies in Congress is, it's mean if we send you back.

If we say, hey, you know, we're going to deport you.

That's the mean thing.

We're not going to do that anymore.

He campaigned on it.

Of course they believe they can come in.

We've been telling you this for months and months and months and months.

If Joe Biden gets in, everything's going to be fine.

Well, of course they believe they can come in.

Of course they do.

He told them.

Yeah.

I mean,

he essentially.

told them that, look, I'm your guy.

I'm your president too, because I'm going to invite you in.

That's what what he did.

That's the message they got.

Yeah.

And they're not experts on the law of the United States.

Think about this.

Like, sure, you could say, okay, it's against the law.

But like when the leader of the nation and all of the big Democrats are all saying it's basically okay.

Well, of course that's the impression they're going to have.

It's basically okay.

Yeah, it might be frowned upon.

Yeah, you know, I mean, they're not going to like fly you in and give you a welcome ceremony.

But at the end of the day, you're going to come in, you're going to be in a facility for a couple couple of days and get released into the country.

And you're going to get what you want.

And anything other than that is mean and Hitler and literal concentration camps.

So of course they believe this is okay.

You know, I mean,

if you had a speeding limit of, you know, a speed limit of 55,

but the governor,

the sheriff, the police force were all saying it's actually 75.

You guys can all go 75.

What the hell would you do?

You'd go 75.

Right?

I do anyway.

So yes, the answer to that is yes.