>> Harris: SENATOR DIANNE
FEINSTEIN OF CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN
AROUND FOR DECADES IN OFFICE.
NOW HAS A NEW AIDE BY HER SIDE.
SOMEBODY TO HELP HER GET AROUND.
IT IS RAISING SOME QUESTIONS
ABOUT HER FITNESS TO CARRY OUT
THE REMAINDER OF HER TERM.
FORMER SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI’S
OLDEST DAUGHTER HAS BEEN A
CONSTANT PRESENCE BY THE SIDE OF
THE 89-YEAR-OLD SENATOR SINCE
SHE RETURNED TO WASHINGTON AFTER
TEN WEEKS SICK LEAVE FOR
COMPLICATIONS FROM SHINGLES.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" YESTERDAY
REPORTED THE ILLNESS WAS MUCH
MORE FRIGHTENING THAN INITIALLY
REVEALED.
"POLITICO" SUGGESTING THE FORMER
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, NANCY
PELOSI, MAY BE PROPPING UP THE
SENATOR FOR THE BENEFIT OF ADAM
SCHIFF WHO SHE ENDORSED TO TAKE
FEINSTEIN’S SEAT.
A FRIEND SAYS THEIR FRIENDSHIP
IS PERSONAL, NOT POLITICAL.
PROMINENT CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS
CONTINUE TO VOUCH FOR
FEINSTEIN’S ABILITY TO SERVE HER
CONSTITUENTS.
>> DON’T GET IN THE WAY OF
CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN PATIENT
AND THEIR DOCTORS.
SENATOR FEINSTEIN CAME BACK LAST
WEEK AND SHE VOTED.
IT WAS VERY GOOD.
>> I DON’T HAVE A MEDICAL DEGREE
SO I WON’T COMMENT ON HOW SHE IS
FEELING OR WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE.
I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT SHE
IS BACK WORKING.
>> I THINK SHE CAN SERVE.
I THINK SECOND RUN CIRCLES
AROUND HALF THE PEOPLE OVER
THERE.
>> Harris: STEVE HILTON.
THEY HAVE TO SAY THAT.
AFTER LETTING JOHN FETTERMAN
COME BACK AND LEAVE AND COME
BACK AND LEAVE IN PENNSYLVANIA,
IT WOULD LOOK PRETTY SEXIST FOR
THEM -- WE KNOW WHICH PARTY IT
IS.
THEY HAVE TO BE FAIR TO THE
WOMEN, DON’T THEY?
>> EXACTLY.
THE SAME WITH BIDEN.
YOU CAN SEE WITH BIDEN HE IS NOT
CAPABLE OF PROPERLY DOING HIS
JOB.
HE IS A SENILE, FEEBLE
FIGUREHEAD AS WELL.
BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT THE
POLITICS LET’S REMEMBER THE
HUMANITY.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS AN
ABSOLUTELY LEGENDARY FIGURE, A
GIANT OF CALIFORNIA POLITICS.
PLAYED A HUGE ROLE IN TURNING
AROUND SAN FRANCISCO WHEN SHE
WAS MAYOR IN THE 1970s.
IT IS SAD AND TRAGIC AND
HORRIBLE TO SEE THE WAY HER
REPUTATION IS BEING DESTROYED
AND DEGRADED BY THESE
SELF-INDULGENT, SELFISH AND
TOTALLY PARTISAN DEMOCRATS.
THIS THEORY THAT NANCY PELOSI IS
TRYING TO KEEP HER THERE IN
ORDER TO STOP GAVIN NEW SOME
APPOINTING ONE OF ADAM SCHIFF’S
RIVALS, BARBARA LEE.
NEWSOM PROMISED TO REPLACE IF IT
CAME TO THAT THE SENATOR WITH A
BLACK WOMAN.
BARBARA LEE IS THE ONLY BLACK
WOMAN IN THE RACE.
I BELIEVE THAT THEORY.
WHY?
THIS IS THE KIND OF ARROGANCE
YOU GET FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE
BEEN IN POWER WITHOUT CHALLENGE
OR COMPETITION FOR SO LONG THAT
THEY BELIEVE THAT THESE PUBLIC
OFFICES ARE THEIRS BY RIGHT.
IT IS PERSONAL AND THEY THINK IT
IS SOMETHING YOU CAN HAND DOWN
TO THE FAVORED NEXT GENERATION
AS IF IT WAS A PIECE OF
FURNITURE.
THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FROM THESE
SAN FRANCISCO DEMOCRATS AND THE
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS GENERALLY.
THEY FEEL THAT THERE IS NO
POLITICAL PRESSURE.
IT IS ALL THEIRS.
>> Harris: REAL QUICKLY BECAUSE
YOU BROUGHT UP PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL ALL OF THAT. PELOSI’S SPOKESPERSON SAYING
PELOSI’S SPOKESPERSON SAYING
THEY ARE FRIENDSHIP IS NOT
POLITICAL.
HER DAUGHTER SAYING I’M NOT HER
DOCTOR BUT WITH HER ALL THOSE
HOURS EVERY DAY HELPING HER TOOL
AROUND AND THAT’S NOT POLITICAL?
>> OF COURSE IT’S POLITICAL.
WITH PELOSI EVERYTHING IS
POLITICAL.
THAT’S THE BIG SELLING POINT OF
NANCY PELOSI.
SHE IS POLITICAL TO HER
FINGERTIPS.
NO ONE SHOULD BELIEVE THESE
PROTESTATIONS THERE IS NO
POLITICS INVOLVED HERE.
THE THEORY MAKES TOTAL SENSE TO
ME AND A COMPLETE -- LET’S GO
BACK TO THE POINT.
IT IS SCANDALOUS THAT BY DOING
THIS THEY ARE SLOWLY AND VISIBLY
DESTROYING THE REPUTATION OF
WHATEVER YOU THINK ABOUT HER
POLITICS, ONE OF THE GREAT
FIGURES OF MODERN POLITICAL LIFE
IN AMERICA.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN.
AWFUL TO SEE THEM DO IT.
>> Harris: THIS IS INTERESTING.
U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NEIL
GORSUCH CALLING GOVERNMENT
RESPONSES TO THE PANDEMIC, A
QUOTE, THE GREATEST INTRUSIONS
ON CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE
PEACETIME HISTORY OF THIS
COUNTRY, END QUOTE.
HIS COMMENTS COMING IN RESPONSE
TO THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION
TO DISMISS A CASE PUSHED BY RED
STATES TO KEEP TITLE 42 IN
PLACE.
JUSTICE GORSUCH WENT AFTER AN
ARRAY OF EMERGENCY POWER ABUSES
AS HE CALLED THEM FROM LOCKDOWNS
TO CHURCH CLOSURES.
JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO MADE
SIMILAR REMARKS IN THE FALL OF
2020.
>> THE PANDEMIC HAS RESULTED IN
PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE
RESTRICTIONS ON INDIVIDUAL
LIBERTY.
I THINK IT IS AN INDISPUTABLE
STATEMENT OF FACT.
WE HAVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN
RESTRICTIONS AS SEVERE,
EXTENSIVE AND PROLONGED AS THOSE
EXPERIENCED FOR MOST OF 2020.
>> Harris: STEVE, WHAT HAPPENED
TO NEIL GORSUCH?
>> WELL LOOK, YES, OF COURSE HE
IS RIGHT.
ALITO IS RIGHT.
IT IS ALL TRUE.
WHAT IT REMINDS ME OF IS THE
FACT THAT EVEN NOW, YEARS
AFTERWARDS, WE STILL DON’T HAVE
-- WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY KIND OF
REAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE
PEOPLE WHO PUSHED THE LOCKDOWNS.
ANY KIND OF LEGAL
ACCOUNTABILITY.
NO POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY.
THEY HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT.
LET’S REMEMBER THIS WASN’T SOME
KIND OF INNOCENT MISTAKE, THE
LOCKDOWN PEOPLE PUSHED.
WE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WHAT’S
HAPPENING AND WE WERE BEING
OVERCAUTIOUS.
THAT’S NOT TRUE.
THEY KNEW, WE KNEW FROM THE
BEGINNING THAT SPECIAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS VIRUS,
FIRST OF ALL IT WAS TRANSMITTED
THROUGH AEROSOLS THAT TRAVELED
THROUGH THE AIR.
THEREFORE THE JUSTIFICATION FOR
SOCIAL DISTANCING, WHICH WAS THE
BASIS FOR THE LOCKDOWN, WHICH
SAID YOU CAN’T REALLY OPERATE A
SHOP OR BUSINESS BECAUSE YOU
HAVE TO KEEP SIX FEET SOCIAL
DISTANCING.
IT WAS ALL B.S. BECAUSE THE
SOCIAL DISTANCING THING WAS
BASED ON DROPLETS THAT FALL SIX
FEET FROM YOU.
WE KNOW MOST PEOPLE WHO GOT THE
VIRUS WOULD HAVE MILD OR 0
SYSTEMS THAT SKEWED TOWARD THE
ELDERLY AND THOSE OVERWEIGHT.
WE KNEW THIS AT THE BEGINNING.
THESE PEOPLE PUSHED THE
LOCKDOWNS ANYWAY.
YOU SAW THE DESTRUCTION OF
BUSINESSES, CHILDREN’S FUTURES
WITH THE SCHOOL CLOSURES AND
THEN DON’T FORGET THIS.
ALL THIS CONVERSATION WE’RE
HAVING NOW ABOUT THE DEBT
CEILING AND ALL THE REST OF IT
IS IN LARGE PART DUE TO THE
LOCKDOWNS, THE HUGE AMOUNTS OF
MONEY THAT WE WERE SHOVELING OUT
THE DOOR TO COMPENSATE PEOPLE
FOR LOCKDOWNS THAT SHOULD NEVER
HAVE HAPPENED.
WHEN ARE THESE PEOPLE GOING TO
BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE?
ALL THE GOVERNORS.
WHAT ABOUT MIKE PENCE?
HE WAS HEADING THE CORONAVIRUS
TASK FORCE LETTING IT ALL DRIFT
ON.
COMPLETELY OUTRAGEOUS.
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SUE THEM
AND SEE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST
THESE PEOPLE?
DAMAGES RECOVERED.
NEVER MIND GORSUCH SAYING IT WAS
A CIVIL LIBERTIES INFRINGEMENT,
IT WAS.
WHEN WILL WE SEE INDIVIDUAL
ACCOUNTABILITY THAT IS
CONTINUING TO HURT OUR COUNTRY
FOR DECADES TO COME THROUGH THE
DEBT BUILT UP TOTALLY
UNNECESSARILY.
>> Harris: I HEAR ALL THAT.
THE REASON I SAY WHAT ABOUT
GORSUCH NOW, WHO APPOINTED BY
DONALD TRUMP, I ASK THAT
QUESTION BECAUSE IF IT WERE NOT
FOR HIS VOICE REMINDING
APPARENTLY THE COURT AND
REMINDING THE COUNTRY THAT WE
HAVE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD FOR
THREE PLUS YEARS WE KNOW WHAT
BROKE US, WE KNOW WHAT BROKE US
AND WE’RE WILLING TO GO ALONG
AGAIN WITH THE CHARADE OF TITLE
42 DIDN’T HELP US.
YES IT DID.
IT DIDN’T COME FROM THE
PRESIDENT THAT BIDEN AND OTHER
DEMOCRATS REALLY LIKE.
IT CAME FROM DONALD TRUMP.
>> HONESTLY, WE SHOULD BE
CONTROLLING THE BORDER AND
HAVING A PROPERLY RUN
IMMIGRATION SYSTEM IN ITS OWN
RIGHT.
NOT RELYING ON SOME PANDEMIC
THING TO CONTROL THE BORDER.
A PROPERTY GOVERNMENT THAT
UNDERSTANDS ONE OF ITS PRIME
RESPONSIBILITIES IS TO PROTECT
OUR BORDER NOT RELYING ON SOME
PANDEMIC-ERA TITLE THAT WAS A
TEMPORARY PUBLIC HEALTH
EMERGENCY.
THAT’S RIDICULOUS.
>> Harris: LOOK WHAT IT TOOK TO
GET BIDEN TO THE TABLE TO EVEN
BEGIN TO NEGOTIATE FOR THE DEBT
CEILING JUST DAYS AWAY AS EARLY
AS JUNE 1ST.
LOOK WHAT KIND OF PRESSURE IT
TOOK FROM INSIDE HIS OWN PARTY
TO GET HIM TO DO THAT.
IT IS NO SHOCKER THE DEMOCRATS
WON’T COME TO THE TABLE IF
REPUBLICANS PUT SOMETHING DOWN,
ALTHOUGH YOU DON’T KNOW, KEVIN
MCCARTHY COULD NEXT LEVEL PUT
SOMETHING DOWN TO SOLVE WHAT’S
GOING ON AT THE BORDER.
THEY’VE ALREADY STARTED TO DO
THAT AND TACKLING SOME OF IT.
DO DEMOCRATS COME?
I DON’T KNOW.