you feel close to your military? Do you feel that? I feel close to them. Meaning, you know, connected. Like, you know, we're sort of all in this together. That wasn't always the case. You know, it's a luxury in this country that you can let the military go off and fight their wars and you can think about other stuff. I mean that's a gigantic luxury. But at the moment we do feel close to them.

And so when CNN does a story about an Army veteran who died because the evil people — this would be their take, not mine — because the evil people who didn't get vaccinations filled up all the ICUs and now an Army veteran who we should be respecting and showing our best died from it. Died from it. Now this, assuming the reporting is correct, this would be a huge tragedy. But it's worse than that, right, because of the Army veteran part. Like here's an Army veteran who risks his life and gave his living life to the country and what the country gave back to him was a big fuck you and no ICU bed and I guess you're just gonna die. So it's a horrible anecdotal persuasion story, but it's pretty good persuasion-wise.

So watch the technique. Once you see it you can't unsee it. And the technique is this: one headline per day on this topic on CNN's site. Every day. Every day until everybody's vaccinated or we all die from COVID.

Well, apparently when Biden was at the military ceremony for the returning deceased veterans, he did check his watch about five times. Now if you go to honor the dead, especially military, and their families are there, please have your aides take your watch away. Because you do not want to be seen checking your watch in this situation. But Joe Biden was. Five separate times. Why does the president need to check his watch? Can somebody tell me why he would need to check his watch? What exactly? Somebody says meds. I feel like that might be it. I feel like it might be his meds. It could also be a nervous tic. Yes, I was going to say that. If I don't have anything to do I check the time a lot. It doesn't really mean anything. It just means I didn't have anything to do so I checked the time a lot. So I'm not sure that this was anything except an old man who wasn't thinking clearly because he's the president of the United States. I suppose that's a pretty big deal. But oh my God, could he embarrass us anymore?

Now even CNN, as you know, has turned against him. I don't — I haven't watched enough MSNBC to see if they've turned against Biden yet, but CNN has turned against him. And I would say that as a compliment to CNN. Sorry, sorry, I know nobody here wants to hear me compliment CNN. But I didn't know if they would be able to turn against him no matter what he did. But boy did they.

And I'm going to speculate here. You know, a big network like CNN, there will be lots of voices and people in charge and the on-air talent has a certain amount of credibility and weight, etc. But there is one voice on CNN that I think is stronger than the others. Who would you say that is if I told you there's one voice on CNN that's probably stronger than the others? I imagine — all right, so I'm just speculating here, but I imagine that when we're not watching there's somebody there who's stronger than the other players. Yeah, it's funny. I'm watching over on Locals. Everybody's guessing it's Jake Tapper. That's who I think it is. Yeah, I think Jake Tapper. Just guessing. I think he has a larger — let's say just a little bit more weight there. Partly because his show is popular. He does a good job and he knows what he's talking about.

But as you know I've worked with Jake in the past. We did some fundraising for veterans. Now if you've watched Jake Tapper you know that his concern and interest for veterans has been consistent and ten out of ten. Right? Say what you will about the reporting about CNN. You can say what you want. But Jake Tapper's consistent respect for veterans has been unquestionable. Would you give me that? Would you give me that that Jake Tapper's respect for veterans has been a ten out of ten consistent over the years? Yeah, he's really good on that topic. And I've worked with him on that.

So I think maybe he's their biggest influence. Because I can't imagine that given Jake Tapper's affection for the military, etc., that he could be on CNN and give Biden a pass. I don't think Jake Tapper could ever give Biden a pass for what he did in Afghanistan. And I think that that basically forces CNN's hand. Because you couldn't have one of your main people saying Biden is screwing everything up while the other opinion people were saying the opposite. They kind of need to get on the same page. So I'm just speculating. I think he's probably the strongest voice there behind the scenes. Just a guess based on what I know of him and his capabilities. And I'll bet that once he flipped on Biden that the rest of them kind of had to follow suit. Just a guess. Pure speculation.

All right. As you know, the Afghanistan withdrawal — we've called that the big botch, the big botch — and even Stefan Collinson over at CNN is writing an opinion piece saying that Biden completely screwed the pooch on that. So once you've got the main anti-Trumper writing anti-Biden opinion pieces, which he did today — I think it's not the first one. I think he's done a few — that's pretty serious. CNN is done with Biden. What does that mean? I feel like that's a big deal. Because not only is CNN done with Biden, I think they're done with Democrats. Because who else are they promoting? Not Kamala Harris, right? You don't see them praising Nancy Pelosi even though I think she's a pretty credible person for her team. I don't know. I feel like something's happening here. I think Biden just destroyed the narrative that the Democrats had a better plan. It just looks like it's been destroyed.

Did you see the video of a helicopter? Looked like a Blackhawk helicopter. Say people who know what helicopters look like. And it was in Kabul and it looks like the Taliban somehow was flying a helicopter and hanging somebody from the bottom of the helicopter. It looks like they used the helicopter to dangle somebody. They hung from a rope and they were flying around. Did you see that? I'm going to call that fake news. All right, I saw it on social media and it was reported. It was reported that it was a hanging.

Now there are two things I doubt. Number one, I thought I saw his hands moving. I wasn't sure. But if his hands were moving, obviously he wasn't being hung. So that's my first question. Did I see his hands moving? Did anybody else see it? Looked like his hands were free. Number two, we don't know who it was or why. Now the place your brain goes to is that it was probably some American ally or a folk singer or something. So your mind immediately goes to it's whatever is the worst case scenario of a revenge killing. And it might have been. It might have been exactly that, which would be horrible. But it could have been just a criminal. It could have been a member of the Taliban who did something that the Taliban didn't like. Remember they hang people for all kinds of reasons. They kill people for all kinds of reasons. One of the reasons that they might want to kill somebody publicly is to gain further control over a city that's maybe hard to control. Now I'm not saying they should, but the more brutal you are, probably the more control you get over the population.

So it's possible that it could have been just a criminal. It could have been a Taliban who was a traitor. It could have been anything. So here's the thing. It looked like the worst thing I've ever seen and maybe it was. It could have been exactly what you think it was: a revenge killing that they did in public from one of our helicopters. Horrible. But there's a real good chance it wasn't that at all. I just don't know what it was. So I'm gonna call fake news on that only because there's so much fog of war that we don't even know if a person got hung or who it was or why.

You want to hear some good news? This is just about the best news I've ever heard. But we don't know if it's gonna go to completion yet. So Representative Maria Elvira Salazar and a dozen Republican lawmakers, they're launching this plan that would allow some kind of wireless communications for any place that didn't have it. Let's say there was a natural disaster and they needed to put quick communications up. So they would have some kind of either helium balloons or satellites or some kind of — I think it's somewhat undefined so far — but they would fund the development of some kind of an emergency internet that would be used not only where there's a natural disaster, which could make a huge deal, but also if there's a rogue regime that shuts down the internet access.

Now you're way ahead of me. Do I not understand that Elon Musk is putting in place and has put in place a lot of satellites that would give everybody everybody's cell phone an alternate network that's there all the time? Am I wrong that Elon Musk Starlink could do this? Now I don't know if he'd want to and I don't know what the capacity is and all that. And I also don't know if your phone would necessarily just automatically use this network. But are we right at the verge where Elon Musk can do what the government can't do, which is provide emergency internet to any place on earth by pushing a button? Is he building that? And do you know how important that would be?

Because like I said, for China to have an advantage over the United States they need to control the propaganda and the information. What happens if they can't do that anymore? What happens if anybody can just flip a switch and the next thing you know they're on the Starlink network? I mean I don't know if that's possible, but I've got a feeling that just the fact that we're seriously thinking about how to give internet to people who have been cut off of internet seems like a civilization-changing idea.

So let me give a shout out again to Representative Maria Salazar. You are doing good work and that would put you in the one percent of Congress because Congress is largely completely worthless. I'm not sure the details of the bill are exactly what it needs to be, but you're doing the right stuff. All right, so congratulations, elected Representative Salazar from Florida. It's always Florida. It's always Florida or Texas, isn't it, doing exactly the right stuff.

All right. I'm going to now mention some vaccination stuff without trying to make you feel like I'm talking you into it. Okay, can we agree on that? I don't know exactly how to talk about stuff without making you think that I'm persuading you, but I don't want to do that. I just want to mention some interesting new things.

Number one, a new study says the Moderna vaccination has twice as many antibodies as Pfizer. So remember, you know how you haven't heard about the Moderna needing a booster? You sort of assumed it was coming but it's conspicuously absent from the news, right? Wouldn't you think that would be in the news every single day? Oh, the Pfizer requires a booster and the other one is the Moderna and then what? Nothing. The Moderna doesn't need a booster. Nobody's saying it. Now I'm guessing that you still will need a booster or at least it will be recommended. Why am I saying that even though the Moderna has twice as many antibodies as the Pfizer shot? Why do I predict that the Moderna will need a booster too? Is it because of my great scientific understanding that even the Moderna could wear off over time? No. Follow the money.

Right? Even when the money shouldn't be predictive, why is it that it