I don't often give White House press secretary Jane Psaki a lot of credit.
In fact I feel like the liberal press is too in love with her drives
me a little bit crazy.
However, she did handle a question from conservative reporter
Peter Doocy really well.
And it had to do with the number of Covid deaths under the Biden administration
versus the Trump administration.
This is the latest talking point from the right wing and
I think she handled it pretty well.
So let's watch.
>> In 2021 roughly 220,000 Americans had already died of Covid.
Joe Biden said about Trump.
Anyone who is responsible for
that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America.
Is that still the standard now that more Americans have died under president Biden
and president Trump?
>> I think the fundamental question here is what are you doing to save lives and
protect people.
And the former president was suggesting people inject bleach?
>> Right and then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute,
one minute.
And is there a way we can do something like that.
By injection inside or almost a cleaning cuz you see it gets in the lungs and
it, there's a tremendous number of the looks.
>> He apparently reportedly didn't even share with people he was going to interact
with that he had tested positive for Covid himself.
>> As we learn also from what the Guardian is reporting about Mark Meadows
book the Trump was actually symptomatic right?
Throughout this whole process as early as September 26, he was a little tired.
They suspected he had a little cold and this one on for
days obviously until we found out many days later that he was positive.
>> He continued to provide a forum for misinformation which probably
led to people not taking steps forward to get to protect themselves, to wear a mask,
to eventually get vaccinated.
>> Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous whether it's ultraviolet or
just very powerful light.
And I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're gonna test it.
And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body which you can do
either through the skin or in some other way.
And I think you said you're gonna test that too?
Sounds interesting.
>> This president has made the vaccine widely available.
He's relied on the advice of his health and medical experts and
he is trying to be a part of solving this crisis.
Getting the pandemic under control.
And I think there's a pretty stark difference between their approaches.
>> And there is a stark difference between their approaches and
we should talk about Covid deaths under Trump versus under Biden because
the talking point isn't accurate.
Wow, what a shocker.
Lemme just quickly give you the numbers Jake.
Thus far according to data from the CDC, Biden has presided over about
353,000 deaths in little over 10 months compared to about
425,000 deaths for Trump in his final 10 plus months.
So there have still been fewer deaths under Biden than under Trump in a similar
time period.
But you've got to actually have a nuanced argument.
Like look at the numbers and why there's still so many deaths happening.
Where are the deaths happening?
And wow, what a shocker, if you take a look at the numbers,
Blue States have far less deaths because people who identify as democrats are far
more likely to get vaccinated and if they might have a breakthrough infection,
they're not gonna get hospitalized or die from it.
It's very unlikely that that happens.
But you look at the numbers and
most of the deaths are happening among unvaccinated individuals in Red States.
People who are in a conservative filter bubble, a conservative media bubble.
And I'll give you more details into that in just a moment.
But Jake, why don't you.
>> So I agree with you, she does deserve credit.
It's, the first time I've seen anyone in Democratic leadership,
even tweak Republicans.
So congratulations, okay I, >> Do know about.
>> Yeah, you're not gonna be surprised when I tell you,
I would have gotten much further.
I would have said, well, most of the on back.
Well the overwhelming majority of the unvaccinated are the right wing.
And Peter, they'll watch your channel and
you misinform them on a daily basis and hundreds of thousands have died
cuz of the misinformation largely coming out of your channel.
So don't ask me how we're doing when we're trying to get people to take
the vaccine and you're trying super hard to make sure they don't take the vaccine.
And honestly you're killing your own voters.
So I would ask you and the CEO of Fox News and most especially the owner of Fox News,
how do you feel about killing your own viewers?
Okay, so but of course democrats, my God, they would never do.
This is as far as they'll ever go.
But it is good.
It's way better than any other democrat I can't believe.
I mean it's so the exception proves the rule.
Like since the Biden White House, never ever fights back against Republicans,
the one time they do a tweak.
Yes, >> It's true, it's so true.
>> Like guys look that we inserted the clips of Trump saying what he did in
between Psaki's comments.
Why didn't the democrats run that 24 7 as an ad?
>> Totally.
So like there's no you can debate whether republican voters what their
intelligence is or if they're really stuck in a bubble, as Anna says.
And I think they are right.
But you cannot debate Trump's intelligence.
You saw it, we all saw it with our own eyes.
>> No, but Jake they can insert the UV light either through the skin or
by some other means.
Like by what like through your butthole?
Like what are you talking about?
>> He's like you can take the light.
What did you say the light into the body?
It could put the light into the body.
Okay, so look if you're a dentist, well you actually are in the medical field.
You should know to let's take another.
You're an architect, okay.
You're smart guy etcetera.
But this is that not your field right?
So you don't know that injecting bleach into your lungs is a bad idea.
I'd be a little surprised by that.
But I'm gonna let it go cuz not my job to rule your life, right?
But when the president of the United States in the middle of
the worst pandemic of our lives does not realize that you should
not inject disinfected into your body, he is incredibly stupid.
Like one of the dumbest people I have ever seen in my life.
>> Yeah I will allow it, that is correct [LAUGH].
There's 100% >> And does everybody acknowledged.
And that's the thing that why rip my hair out if everyone in the country said
no obviously Trump is a moron.
We all saw it with our own eyes.
You know this infected in the UV rays and all that stuff going into the body.
And he talked about the lungs.
He said the lungs injecting disinfectant into your lungs.
Yes, obviously he's a moron.
But I like him anyway.
Okay well that's a different conversation.
>> But that is the case.
Like, I think that there is something lost in translation because
to us hearing the leader of the country say incredibly dumb and
dangerous things is not appealing, not in favor of that.
Like I would like a leader who knows what he's doing.
I wanna feel safe being led by someone, as president of the United States.
However, there is a portion of the country
that actually gets super turned off by us calling him dumb or
mocking his intelligence because they identify with him.
>> Yeah, I get that.
>> And so, but like that's where it's coming from.
>> No but Anna look if it was that and that alone, I'll say, hey,
look, it is what it is and it's a democracy by the way.
Okay, if you like that you like, hey, maybe we should inject this or hey,
I like leaders who are dumb.
We will get lost, it'll be an adventure, it'll be great.
Like a bunch of people will die.
But look, it'll be more fun and more adventurous, right?
Okay, fine, that's >> Definitely not fun or adventurous.
>> No, not for me but apparently for the right wing they love it.
Okay, that's fine.
Okay, what is not fine is, Anna we do not agree to that.
They think Trump's a genius and part of the reason why they think that and
you think the mainstream media is tough on Trump.
I think they haven't, they barely laid a glove on him.
So the mainstream media non stop talks about Trump's strategy and
he's doing this is a distraction and his strategy for this.
And how is he contemplating the attack on 24 and it's a strategy.
What are you guys talking about?
The guy's a blithering idiot, but they won't say it because all that's offensive.
Well if the news is offensive then go be a plumber and or
be an architect, it's a good job.
But don't do news.
The news is the news.
Whether you find it offensive or not, he did say those things.
He is a moron.
Anyone who doesn't say he's a moron is not in the news business.
That's an opinion really is it?
You think it's debatable?
You think it's debatable if you think it's just an opinion you're saying it's
debatable.
Whether we should inject bleach into our lungs, secure coronavirus.
>> I just can't get over the UV light and how the UV light would be applied.
Like [LAUGH] that's my face.
Yeah, I feel like that was really underplayed by the press.
We should have focused on that more.
Anyway, let's get back to the substance of the argument that we're hearing from
the right in regard to Covid test.
First of all, let me just note hundreds of thousands of Covid deaths under
any president is awful and I'm not giving Biden like a round of applause.
He has handled Covid better than Donald Trump.
However, he's so terrified of doing anything that requires real leadership
because it would offend the right wing.
And to be sure his mild vaccine mandates which have all sorts of loopholes for
private businesses is now being challenged in the courts, right?
So yes, the Republicans fight tooth and
nail to ensure that as many Americans die from this virus as humanly possible.
Great, but nonetheless, lemme go to what the real numbers are because if you look
at the number of Covid deaths, state by state,
you see a difference between blue states and red states.
So in October 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump
counties died from Covid more than three times higher than the rate
in heavily Biden counties, meaning counties that voted for Biden.
So in those blue counties it's 7.8 per 100,000 deaths.
October was the fifth consecutive months that the percentage gap between
the death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened.
So we're still seeing not only are we still seeing more deaths in red states and
red counties, that gap between blue counties and red counties,
it continues to widen.
Meaning less democratic voters are dying from Covid cuz they're getting vaccinated
and more Republican voters are dying because they refuse to get vaccinated.
The vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing severe Covid at
almost 40% of Republican.
A Republican adults remaining unvaccinated compared with about just 10% of democratic
adults.
>> Look, they ruin it for everybody else in 1000 different ways that you've got
the immuno compromised and we're all still having to wear masks and
the variants keep popping up because of the unvaccinated.
But overall, I'm exhausted from trying to save your lives.
And so you're dying at three times the rate that we are here.
We are ripping our hair out trying to save republican lives.
And they're like, yeah, cash that freedom, I got the right to die.
All right, okay.
What I'm gonna do, go for it.
So now to Biden, Anna I look,
I think Biden has fallen flat on 1000 things.
If you watch a minute of the young Turks, you know how harsh I am on Joe Biden and
I will be in this context to in a second.
But in terms of what he's doing to fight it.
He is1000 times better than Trump.
>> Yeah I agree.
>> He's trying desperately trying to get people date the vaccine to save their
lives as Trump is going, okay, man, don't wear stupid mask, who cares.
>> Trump is all about the vaccine when he thought that it would help him
politically.
But once he realized that the vaccines wouldn't be developed in time for
him to use it as a campaigning tool.
Then all of a sudden he doesn't care about the vaccine at all.
Remember he wouldn't shut up about what was that operation?
>> Warp speed, >> Warp speed, exactly.
He wouldn't shut up about it, right.
>> But in fact,
he tried that in his speech in Alabama after the election, right?
When that happened fairly recently, that's a point Anna is making.
And when the crowd booed, he was like, ditch it.
He's like, I meant freedom.
Yeah, freedom not to do the, >> Operation freedom.
>> Okay, so but
buying is terrible on getting the vaccine to the rest of the world.
He says, yeah, I lifted the waiver.
No, he did.
He didn't do a single thing after that.
And he could use just a smidge up of his power to make sure that he gets to
the rest of the world because we're not even using it.
All right, wait here.
This won't take it.
They won't take it.
Give it to the rest of how many people have died since our greedy drug companies
have said that they're prioritizing their profits over people's lives
across the world because we will not share the vaccine?
Over four million people have died from Covid since we could have shared
the vaccine, but chose not to.
>> Right >> That's on Biden.
>> And this is about lifting the patent to allow other countries to manufacture
the vaccine themselves.
And I mean Biden just said, yeah, I will allow it.
But it takes more than that.
It takes conversations with other world leaders who tend to be more
favorable toward the drug companies than to their own citizens.
>> Yeah, no, he has to apply pressure and he has chosen on purpose not do that.
And there's reporting that in internal conversations.
He's basically winking and nodding to the other countries.
Hey, listen, I just said we'd lift a waiver here as a Pr move, okay.
And the mainstream media in this country works for me.
So they'll tell everybody I lifted the waiver and give me credit for
saving people's lives.
But then make sure that we're all supporting the drug companies and we don't
actually lift the waiver and that's what happened and four million people died.
Okay and a lot more are gonna die because our politicians are bought off by drug
companies.
And apparently they are in Norway and
even other countries as well because they're all Europe on this issue.
Europe normally is way better than us on many policies on this, they're awful.
They're despicable what they've done to protect drug companies.
Last thing and it's important we shouldn't gloss over it.
Trump clearly knew at a bare minimum that he might have been
Covid positive because he tested Covid positive.
He also tested Covid negative.
But guys, if you get to test once it's positive, another one negative?
>> You don't get to pick the one you like the most.
>> And you all know that you're taking a risk.
Like here's how you know right.
If you tested positive and negative and you don't even bother doing a third test,
would you go hug your grandparents if they were unvaccinated?
I hope to God you wouldn't write, would you breathe all over them?
Would you share the same food?
I said I hope to God you wouldn't right?
And Trump knowing that he might have Coronavirus, which it turns out he did
right, went to that debate with Joe Biden in an enclosed room and
this is important, he refused to get tested.
They were supposed to get tested and he said I showed up late so
I don't wanna get tested.
>> He met with Gold Star families.
>> Yeah I know for right wingers.
I guarantee you they think that's smart man.
Cuz then if he goes to the debate, then Biden gets Covid cuz Trump gets Covid then
Biden dies [LAUGH] cuz that's the right way in this country.
They would have loved it if he murdered his presidential opponent.
I'm not joking.
If trump had given Covid to Biden and Biden had died,
I guarantee you the majority of Republicans would have celebrated.
I guarantee it, they've become a party of death here.
It's a death cult okay.
But do you guys care about anything you've ever said in your lives we'll
support the troops.
He went and in that meeting with the Gold Star families.
He actually literally hugged them and kissed them.
Knowing he might be Covid positive, cuz it might have given him a little bit bad PR,
if people found out he was covid positive.
[COUGH] And so that was a super spreader event.
The Rose garden event for Amy Coney Barrett turned out to be a super spreader
event and people didn't know they're like we everybody was tested.
How could they?
So many people at that Rose garden event gotten Covid.
Well guess the one person who refused to get tested before the event and
who knew he might have Covid Donald Trump.
And he gave it to his own republican colleagues and allies.
On the other hand, he tried to murder his own voice and vice president.
They said hang my pence and he encouraged them.
And he never apologized for it.
The guy is a fascist.
He's just and the guy reason I get so
animated about it is if we all agreed that he's a monster but
you like him anyway, we all agree he's a moron, but you like him anyway.
I can live with it.
But when people deny obvious reality, if they said to you about your business
partner or your best friend, people try to murder him and hang him.
And it was because of something you said.
Wouldn't you apologize to the guy?
My God I'm so sorry, I never meant it.
I can't believe they tried to kill you Trump said no, you shouldn't have,
you shouldn't have certified the elections.
>> It's amazing.
>> He's a monster through and through.
And if you like him, what does that say about you?