we have to get to the bottom of this a cargo ship hasn't taken out of bridge in decades and a ship
as far as we can tell has never sustained a power failure before a bridge knockdown we
need answers and someone has to pay Speaker 1: The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland,
has collapsed. All indications, from what we know so far, are that this was not a terrorist attack
or an attack of any kind. President Joe Biden has pledged that the federal government will
provide the funds to rebuild it. And yet we are seeing conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory
about the collapse of this bridge for many of the usual suspects. And as is often the case,
we are led to ask the question what's in it for them in trying to convince others that this was a
terrorist attack? And the answer is, quite simply, it feeds the preexisting agenda that they've
already determined is what they're going to talk about in the absence of being able to bring
forward any coherent, substantive, or beneficial package of ideas for helping the average person.
Let's start with some examples of this. It's important to remember that much of what you were
going to hear, there is no evidence of whatsoever. We will talk about facts related to the collapse,
including, for example, that the U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for six individuals who
were lost. We will talk about that later on or on the bonus show if we don't get to it.
But understand that what I'm about to play for you, there's no evidence for any of this stuff,
but these things are getting millions and tens of millions of clicks and views. It
started very quickly with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News attempting to connect the collapse of the
bridge in Baltimore to the so-called wide open border in an attempt to somehow blame Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Here is let me also get your take on what's going on in terms of world affairs. The
white House has issued a statement on this, saying that there's no indication of nefarious intent in
the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The ship involved in the collapse of the bridge
is 948ft long, called the Dolly, a Singaporean flagged container. But of course, you've been
talking a lot about the potential for wrongdoing or potential for foul play, given the wide open
border. That is why you have been so adamant. Why has the Republicans had such a hard time securing
this border? The president says he's not going to take his executive action. You know that.
Speaker 3: Well, we all have to stand together. We all have to say that. That
it takes 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate. Speaker 1: There you go. We got to stand together.
No actual evidence. Understand it. Zero actual evidence linking the bridge to the border. And
in fact, I would I would go further. One of the few presidents in recent history
who really has the credibility to say, oh, this is something we can deal with. And by the way,
I've been putting forth infrastructure funds to not only repair roads and replace lead pipes,
but also to make our bridges modern and get up to date on maintenance so that these sorts of things
wouldn't happen. If anything, we should be looking to Biden saying, hey, it seems like Biden's right
about the need to pour money into some of these things rather than, well. Biden's open border
must connect to this somehow, right? Right. Here's Matt Schlapp on Newsmax saying he's not an expert,
but drug addled employees and Covid lockdowns may be to blame for the bridge collapse there.
Speaker 2: But what kind of questions do you want to see? Answered Matt?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, as I said, you look at our critical infrastructure and
I'm one of these people that believes we've never fully come out of all the
lockdowns and. Right, and the Covid issues. Speaker 1: And this is still because of
Covid lockdowns that basically didn't exist. Speaker 3: Look, whether you look at our air
traffic controllers, where we have critical problems with filling slots. You know,
I'm no expert on what's going on on the seas, but all I would say is, is that,
if you talk to employers in America, they'll tell you that, filling slots with employees who aren't
drug addled is a very huge problem. So I'm making no specific charges here because we don't know.
Right. But, you know, anybody who flies in America can see that you're constantly waiting on a tarmac
somewhere for some crew to show up. There's more, maintenance problems than we've ever had,
which I think are euphemisms for the problems. Speaker 1: By the way, everything he's listed
so far are problems at corporations. But I think the key line here was,
I'm no actual expert in this. And of course, the idea that it's always too soon to talk about
politics when it comes to gun safety. It doesn't matter if the labs I mean, in the United States,
it's never been too long, actually, since the last mass shooting, because they happen constantly,
but it's always too soon to interject politics. It's always too soon to inject partizanship.
And yet here, when we have one side that doesn't want to do infrastructure spending,
one side that's doing it, they still somehow find a way to immediately. I mean,
this was before the Coast Guard search was even over for potential survivors,
and he's injecting politics into it by blaming Covid woke, Covid lockdowns or wokeness. We'll
hear Di blamed in a moment. Here's Fox News's Jesse Waters, and he says to his viewers,
don't fall for the official story on the bridge. Speaker 4: Okay, well, the bridge has never had
train tracks, so I don't know what he's talking about, but there will be more where that came from
in the next week. Made up stories, misdirection and blame games. But don't fall for it. We
have to get to the bottom of this. A cargo ship hasn't taken out a bridge in decades, and a ship,
as far as we can tell, has never sustained a power failure before. A bridge knocked down.
We need answers. Someone has to pay. Speaker 1: This is always the. If it
hasn't happened before or recently to this particular ship, then it must be made up. No,
I don't believe anything I'm being told about Covid because it's been like a hundred years
since something like this happened. Well, yeah, it's called a 100 year pandemic for a reason.
It happens roughly every 100 years. No, no, no, it doesn't sound like anything I've lived through, so
it can't possibly be real. But they put forward no evidence whatsoever, only circumstantial questions
and conspiracy theories. On Newsmax, Victor Davis Hanson blamed the Baltimore Bridge collapse
on diversity hiring code for Brown people. Speaker 3: I don't know the exact relation
to cause and effect, but we do know this, that the world is much more interconnected.
It's much more fragile than it ever has been. It's much more sophisticated, and it demands
an ever greater level of expertise. But just at the time that we're building bigger and bigger
and more dangerous ships, or we're assembling longer and longer trains that derail like we
saw it use Palestine with more and more toxic. We're not upping our game as far as increasing
the level of expertise and especially Eric, meritocracy. So we're not hiring necessarily
the best people. We used to say we're going to hire the best people regardless of their color,
of their skin, their sexual orientation. Now we're saying, well, we may, hire the best people,
but more importantly, are is their ideology or their ethnicity or their gender or their sexual
orientation. And. Unfortunately, by the way. Speaker 1: Ethnicity. City. Ethnicity city. If
you're going to be a known racist, you should at least get the word ethnicity,
right? But anyway, ethnicity, city or ethnicity? This city notwithstanding no evidence whatsoever
that Dei diversity, hiring or any of this hiring gay people had anything to do with what happened
in Baltimore. And then here's Laura Ingraham on Fox News defending the conspiracy theorist,
saying, listen, it makes sense that we'd be getting all of these conspiracy theories, but.
Speaker 2: Why is it that so many Americans, following this collapse, right, believe that
the Biden team isn't telling us the whole truth? Axios today bemoaning this situation,
writing that misinformation runs rampant after Baltimore Bridge.
Speaker 1: Collapse, true. Speaker 2: Theories about whether hostile
actors were involved, questions about economic terrorism, and even wilder speculation. I won't
go into tonight, but these ideas don't spring out of nowhere. They grow, and they fester in
situations where either the facts are hard to square with reality, or where those in charge
themselves have proven to be not credible. Speaker 1: There you go. I mean, listen, what
we're being told by people we can't trust doesn't square with reality. So it's natural that people
would be skeptical and weaponized. Disinformation would be spread. It's simply natural. A couple
more these are not videos. These are from Twitter. Andrew Tate and Alex Jones piling on with paint,
saying, quote, this ship was cyberattack. Lights go off and it deliberately steers towards the
bridge supports. Remember what we know is it lost power and kept steering in the direction
it was going. He goes on foreign agents of the USA attack digital infrastructure is nothing is
safe. Black swan event imminent and Alex Jones, quoting paint and adding looks deliberate to
me. A cyber attack is probable. World War three has already started, so of course the truth is,
officials have said there is simply no evidence that this was intentional. There is no evidence
that it was an act of terrorism. This is all being investigated. It appears the ship lost propulsion,
filed, a mayday. And, all evidence right now is consistent with that official story. Now,
if that changes, then I will bring it to you. But this is all what happens when you create
a vacuum of sanity. You eliminate sanity. You eliminate facts, you eliminate any policy. And
all you have is, I don't know. There was a bridge collapse. How about we try to blame it on Biden
and the hiring of supposedly unqualified gay and black people? That's what it comes down to. And I
know it sounds crazy to hear it summarized that way, but that's fundamentally what it is. There
is no evidence for any of the claims they are making, if any such evidence should surface.
And I'm not making a pun, but if any such evidence should surface, I will let you know.