I'm going to cure a number of you of some anxiety problems. If you don't think that's real, stick around, because I know some of you don't. Others of you are saying to yourself, I've been watching this guy for a while and I didn't believe any of the other things he predicted until they happened, and I didn't believe the effect it would have on me until it did.

How many of you joined me in the simultaneous sip today and actually raised a glass? Or in many cases, I'm hearing, John, I know your wife is watching, sometimes they do the simultaneous sip without a cup in their hands. Did you think that you would ever be addicted to the simultaneous sip? Probably not. And that was a very small example of your brain being rewired in a way that's just fun, right? Nobody gets hurt. It's just fun to do the simultaneous sip.

After I talk about some news, I'm going to rewire your brains again and you are going to be amazed. In some cases. Other cases. Everybody's different, so you'll all have a different experience.

Let's talk about the news first. The New York Times had a big article today about an app called Clearview AI. And it's an app that runs on the phone, I guess mobile devices, and law enforcement is using it to identify faces, to get the identification of somebody just by their face.

Now apparently what the app has done is it has scraped, that's sort of a technical word, scraped. In other words it went into other databases and grabbed faces. Apparently there's access to Facebook data, at least the photos that are available. Venmo has a bunch of faces and some other sources. So this app has an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude more available faces in this database than even the ones the systems that law enforcement was already using.

So law enforcement already could identify a face in some cases if they had you in their database. But until this app came along you couldn't just take a picture of a dead guy on the street and his name would pop up. They didn't have that. So there are actually a whole bunch of examples around the country where police literally, they'll find a body with no identification, snap a picture of it, and the social media or any kind of social media or internet presence pops up immediately. So they've apparently solved a whole bunch of crimes from this.

Now people of course are worried about the privacy aspect of it. And I think the founder, when he was interviewed, I totally agree with his take. I think somebody else was interviewed for it. And that is the privacy sort of a thing of the past. There really isn't any chance that this won't be a universal kind of product. So they're just providing the service that solves a whole bunch of crimes and it's a technology you're probably going to see anyway. There wasn't any way around it. But wow, just think about that.

Now the future uses that people talk about but are not yet the actual uses. So at the moment it's sort of focused on law enforcement, so they're the ones who get the contracts to use this thing. But people are saying what happens someday when you've got the goggles on and you can just tell everybody's identity just walking through a crowd. You know, what kind of abuse would there be, etc. So those are all issues that society needs to grapple with. But wow, just the fact that that exists and it works and it's solving crimes. Pretty amazing. It's called Clearview AI.

The teams for the impeachment defense and prosecution, if you can call that loosely speaking, have been formed. It looks like the Democrats have on their team a bunch of people who are unheard of and some I have that don't seem too impressive. So that's what the Democrats have. Now maybe they're great because, like I said, I haven't heard of them, so they might be terrific. I don't know.

But it turns out that the Republicans have wisely lined up their own team and they have the ultimate kill shot on the team. So Alan Dershowitz is on. He would say, I just saw an interview with him, he would say he's on the side of the Constitution. So in his view of his job he's not defending this president, he's defending all presidents because this is such an important thing. It'll reverberate through time. It would affect any president.

He, Dershowitz, says, and I think it's completely credible when he says it, that he would give exactly the same defense for a Clinton or a Democrat. It wouldn't matter who it was because it's not about the person. It's not about even the situation. It's about the Constitution.

But here's the fun part. Remember this. The Senate can kind of make up its own rules and they can decide whenever they want to, after hearing I think the opening arguments, then they can decide whether they want more witnesses.

Do you know what Dershowitz is going to do to this thing? Dershowitz is going to be presumably part of the opening statements. After Dershowitz says even if everything that is alleged about the president is true, the Constitution does not recognize this as impeachable, what will the Republican-led Senate do?

After Dershowitz, one of the most renowned, respected, knowledgeable, experienced experts on constitutional law, after he says yeah, it wouldn't matter what the details are, everything that they've alleged falls into the category of not impeachable, here's why. And I heard a brief explanation on one of his interviews. So the abuse of power charge for example is not one of the intended impeachable offenses. Indeed apparently there's a history, a written documented history of the founders discussing whether that should be part of impeachment, and they expressly discussed it and specifically declined to put it in the Constitution. It was a decision.

So you don't have to worry about the gray area. There's no gray area. It was discussed, it was documented, they decided clearly not to put it in the Constitution because they didn't want that to be one of the things you could be impeached for. And that's their case. That's the end.

After Dershowitz speaks, Mitch McConnell can say all right, let's make this a two-stage process. And I think this would be very fair. Stage one: Are the things that are alleged, we don't even have to worry about if they're true or untrue, we don't have to worry about the way you're spinning it, you don't want our version or their version. If it's all true, would it be impeachable? We just heard our expert say no. Let's first vote on that. If these allegations are true, would it be impeachable? Before we dig into witnesses and finding out if it's true.

I think once he says it's not impeachable you can just end the whole thing or at least you could vote to end the whole thing and you would have all the cover you need.

So one of the things about Dershowitz is if you watch him long enough, I've been watching him for a long time and I'm actually blown away every time he talks. I'm blown away at this skill. Dershowitz never wastes a word. Now he's really good at hitting the two-minute hits so he can put more content in fewer words than anybody you've ever seen. I mean he's really amazing. So I think he's the kill shot. I don't think anything else is going to matter. Dershowitz is going to just clean the table and there's not going to be anything left to discuss after he's done. I think anyway.

That's an option.

Senator Martha McSally insulted CNN's Manu Raju. Manu Raju asked her a question as she was walking down the hall and she said you're a hack. I'm not answering your question. You're a hack.

Now of course the CNN hosts were deeply offended and want an apology and think that's inappropriate. But I have to say this has got to be some of the blowback from the last debate and the way they treated Bernie. I mean it kind of felt, remember I said the other day it felt like a turning point. It felt like the point where people no longer accepted that the news is anything like news but rather it's just part of that political process.

The funniest part was watching, I just watched a little clip of Jeffrey Toobin, their legal, one of their legal experts, and he was defending the accusation that CNN makes up its news. And he said unambiguously that's not true. You know, I'm paraphrasing. He didn't use these exact words but he was defending the accusation that CNN is fake news.

And I thought to myself, if you're on TV defending whether your news channel is actually making up the news, you've already lost. Here's what you never want to do on the air under your own news network: defend the accusation that you're making up the news in general. He's not defending that there was one particular thing that was right or wrong but rather that the entire network does or does not just make up the news. It just invents it. And if you're defending that, well that's a weak position. I think I would have rather maybe stayed away from that if I were him.

So there's a new hit piece book by two Washington Post reporters. Do I need to say more? There's an anti-Trump book written by two Washington Post reporters. Can I just stop there? Anything else we need to say? I don't think so. And I think that's a whole story because everything else you hear about this has no credibility whatsoever.

But here's their allegation. Reportedly in 2017 I think it was, President Trump was alleged to have been angry at his generals about not winning in Afghanistan and not winning at all. And this is what the two totally credible Washington Post reporters, I say with a twinkle in my eye, totally credible because the Washington Post of course is an anti-Trump organization. He's alleged to have said, quote, you're all losers. Do you think that President Trump looked at a room full of the greatest generals in American, at least currently in American history, and said to them you're all losers? You don't know how to win anymore.

The commander in chief told the meeting attendees, allegedly according to the book, quote, the president's tirade continued with Trump telling the military officials I wouldn't go to war with you people. You're a bunch of dopes and babies. He told the room, according to the Post excerpts. And then apparently that's after that is when Rex Tillerson insulted the president saying he was, and eventually Tillerson got fired.

Now do you believe that those were his exact words? Okay, I don't. Now they could be. I think it's entirely possible that those are somewhere in the general neighborhood of his message. I think that's very believable. I think it's very believable that he thought his generals could be more, let's say, winning-oriented than they have been, especially in Afghanistan. That all makes perfect sense.

But do you think he looked at them and said you're all losers, you're a bunch of dopes and babies? To which I say maybe. Somebody said maybe at the same time I did in the comments. Maybe. Suppose he did. How do you feel about it? How do you feel about it? Suppose, suppose that's exactly what he said to the generals. You're all losers. You're a bunch of dopes and babies. I wouldn't go to war with you. What if he did say that? Do you care? I don't. Not really. I don't really care.

What happened since then? They happened in 2017. What has been our experience with the military since then? We're doing a lot of winning, seems like to me. So it's possible he gave them some tough love. I don't know if that's true or not. You certainly couldn't take that as true. But I'm not sure it matters in any real way.

Dan Bongino tweeted out, that's how I saw it, a campaign ad by somebody who's a Democrat. No it must be a Republican competitor to Ilhan Omar. So somebody who's competing for Ilhan Omar's seat. And it is one of the most amazing videos or ads you've ever seen.

I turned it on just because Dan Bongino knows that it was great. He had like little fireballs at his tweet. I thought, oh that's a lot of little fireballs, Dan. It must mean something. So I turn it on and I'm hooked in the first five seconds. It's kind of a long ad but five seconds in I was so hooked I went into a separate room so I wouldn't be disturbed until I got to the end.

Now I'm not going to say it's the best political ad I've ever seen in my life because the stuff that Brad Parscale is creating is pretty darn good. And you know I praised Bernie Sanders in his last campaign. Had a great commercial, one of the best. So there have been some great campaign commercials. But when I saw this, this is in the top three. I mean it's really, really good. So you'd have to see it yourself to know what I'm talking about.

But here's the cool part. She's very qualified. Well the cool part is that she's an American born in Iraq. So she had experience with a lot of the Saddam Hussein reign. Now she's an American. She's running for Congress. And here's the amazing part. Her charisma. Oh my God, her charisma.

You know one of the things we talked about with AOC and with, yeah, and I would say with Ilhan Omar, you could dislike their policies or you could like the policies but independent of their politics their charisma just jumps off the page. You could just like Ilhan Omar all you want. I know some of a lot of you are Republicans. You probably do. But you got to give it to her. She is really charismatic. When Ilhan Omar is on the screen I do stop and watch because she's got that x-factor, that thing that makes you want to pay attention. And it's not her looks. It's just, it's not any one thing. It's a little package.

Anyway the woman who is running for Ilhan Omar's seat, her first name is Dalia, and I'll tell you her last name but not until later because there's a story there. So Dalia has a voice and a presentation that reminded me of my favorite actress on a series called "The Expanse." How many of you have seen the sci-fi show "The Expanse"? There's a character there who plays the, I don't know, she's the president of Earth or Mars, I can't remember, president of one of them. And she's got this really interesting Iranian accent. So she speaks English but she's got an Arabian accent and it's the kind of accent you could listen to all day. I mean it's just delicious. You're just listening to this actress. Every moment she's on screen, again, in movie terms she chews up scenery. When she is on screen you stop what you're doing and you listen to every word. It's just like listening to music when she talks. It's just beautiful.

And this competitor to Ilhan Omar, Dalia, she has that voice, you know, a version of that. And you listen to it, you're like, oh my God, do I want to listen to more of that? Apparently it's an Iraqi accent and it's just beautiful. It's just a beautiful voice. I mean really powerful. So it's got power, it's got passion, and man does she have charisma. I would love to know how she was discovered.

Now she's got all kinds of experience across different fields so she's got the full talent stack experience because she's been through different domains. And I did not think that it would be possible to have an able competitor to Ilhan Omar but there it is. That is a really strong politician.

All right, so look for that. Oh here's the punch line and I hate to say this because I only have good things to say about her. Somebody's telling me she's Iranian. So is her accent also Iranian? Because Iraq is our experience but she may have some Iranian blood. I don't know. It doesn't matter.

But here's the unfortunate part. This is her last name: Dalia Al-Aqidi. Now when I pronounce that you say well that's a nice last name, Al-Aqidi. I like that. Sounds good. Here's the problem. When you see it written it looks like Al Qaeda. Now it doesn't look like it but your brain just goes there automatically because Al Qaeda is a little too close. So that is the simulation. Just with us because she's got that much talent and then she has that last name. Hmm. I hope that doesn't stop her.

You know I've told you how the republic has morphed into more of a, social media is driving politics now. Here's a good example of that. I'm looking through my Twitter feed and I see a tweet by Congressperson Tim Burchett, Tennessee congressman. And the Tennessee congressman tweets this to President Trump. He says keep pushing development of fast reactors using 95 percent of nuclear waste for fuel is a game-changer.

So he's talking about generation four, you know, new types of nuclear power. And I thought to myself, whoa this is great. There's a congressman tweeting at the president. You know this obviously he understands the importance of this field. And I thought this is great. So I thought I should follow this guy. So I go to follow him and I noticed he follows me. So he was already following me and he might be listening to this for all I know.

He's also following Mark Shellenberger who you know as our favorite advocate for generation four and nuclear power. And so I'm pretty sure that some of his, at least some of whatever formed his opinion probably came from a variety of sources but I think Mark Shellenberger probably helped inform this guy, this congressperson, who is now informing the president.

And when you see this it just gives you chills because you see something close to like a curated democracy or a best-idea-wins democracy where only the good ideas are the ones that bubble up. And so you can see these good ideas bubbling up from social media. You know that Congress just heard from Michael Shellenberger and he was using the phrase green nuclear deal. And you see all these ideas basically coming from Mark Shellenberger. He's been promoting them. I boost Mike Shellenberger's signal. I boost Mike Shellenberger's signal and now there's a congressperson boosting the signal to the president exactly the way it's supposed to work.

All right, that's just some good news.

All right, we're going to change topics right now. I'm going to raise my hands in the air because later when I edit this I might edit down to the first part with the politics and just keep the second part that's coming up.

In the second part I told you I was going to cure some of you of anxiety-related problems. Some of you may not believe that's true. Some of you probably think it's probable. Now all of you are going to have a different experience and some will have a profound experience. Some of you may cry. Some of you may scoff. A lot of you will just change the channel.

But let me go through the presentation and you can leave whenever you feel you would like to. I'll give you this following warning. I am going to be rewiring the brains of the people who stay. I'm a trained hypnotist. Most of you know that. And what I'm going to be talking about has some basis. Now none of it is dangerous. There's no risk of anything bad happening to you. I promise you that.

Likewise for those who have been watching me for a while there are two things that hypnotists do that have already been accomplished. I wasn't trying to do that in this context but it happened. One of them is credibility. You have to have credibility in the hypnotist, your therapist, your doctor. It helps. I have credibility to many of you because you've been watching me for a long time and you wouldn't be watching unless you thought I had some credibility. So the first part is satisfied for most of you.

Second part is pacing. This is what hypnotists do. They match you in some way until you feel compatible with them and then whatever message comes from the hypnotist feels like it's something very comfortable and familiar because you've already paced them or matched them in some way.

Now unintentionally, wasn't what I was trying to do, but those of you who have been doing the simultaneous sip, those who've been watching me for a while have somewhat accidentally paced me, meaning that you feel some comfort with me. That's requirement number two.

So the first two requirements of hypnosis have been satisfied. I'm not going to put you into a trance per se but I am going to have you go through a guided visualization which I think you will find in some cases profound. In other cases you all feel, I think so. Everybody will have a different experience from this.

All right, let me give you some background. This is called the pre-talk in hypnosis. This is also a part of the technique. So I'm going to make you feel comfortable with what I'm going to do next as part of the technique.

All right, here's some background. I keep hearing from people, and maybe you saw yesterday, that I had cured them of their Trump derangement syndrome prior to the election in 2016 or in some cases after. And so many people have told me that independently they thought, huh, there must be something to that.

So here people had a specific kind of anxiety, fear that the world would be destroyed by this orange monster. And there's something I did or some things I did over time which caused people, and they're telling me, I'm not making this up, this is what they report to me, lots of people, lots of them lost their anxiety and felt comfortable with the president after they listened to me. So that's one example of where I know based on reports from lots of people they had a specific kind of anxiety that I cured.

But I heard an even more interesting example the other day and it came from somebody who reported having a lifetime of anxiety, crippling mental problem, anxiety, the kind that really ruins your life.

Now our anxiety disorders take many forms. You could be afraid of, and I may be using the language a little differently than maybe an expert in mental health would, so take it as an approximate. So anxiety would describe somebody with a phobia, fear of the public, fear of danger, fear of this. Might describe somebody who had OCD. OCD is kind of anxiety because you feel if I don't do this thing ten times or whatever the number is some bad luck will happen. So sort of this general anxiety, fear.

Many, many of you probably are experiencing anxiety in the last several years that you had never felt before. And there's something about modern life and about, I don't know, maybe it's about the news business that gets people worked up. Maybe it's our technology. But whatever it is there's a gigantic whole ball of different anxiety-related problems that people have.

So there's one individual told me a few days ago that I had cured a lifetime of anxiety problems. And I thought to myself I did? What was it I said? And so I asked what was it I said that cured a lifetime of anxiety problems that all the medical professionals couldn't make a dent in. And this person told me and I started to connect it with other things I knew and develop an idea of what causes it.

Now let me give you some more background and I'll pull this all together. I've talked, and of course you've seen it in the news, about how hallucinogens, specifically psilocybin that comes from hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, and some other hallucinogens are being used by medical professionals to cure various anxieties from PTSD to all kinds of stuff. And almost instantly, in other words one dose in some cases is curing people of a lifetime of mental problems. And there's so much of that and there's so many stories of it that it's considered one of the most exciting fields in mental health.

Now if you read up or if you've had the experience as I have of having any kind of hallucinogenic experience, I did mushrooms in my twenties and I talked about how it was one of my most meaningful experiences, and I read about other people's experience, and the most common thing that people say is that they describe it as ego death. Ego death.

Now if you've never experienced ego death and you've never experienced any kind of hallucinogenic experience at all that doesn't mean anything to you. If I said hey, ego death, what does that even mean? So everybody probably has sort of a personal experience that they tend to describe that way. It's exactly how I described it before I had ever heard anybody else use those terms. It was exactly the words I used. It's ego death.

Now for our purposes I'm going to define your ego as that part of you that makes you feel special. The thing that makes you feel like you're special and important. That's your ego. I'm giving you a very friendly definition. You know, so no deep psychology here. But the thing that makes you really feel special is your ego.

And let me tell you why this is important by an analogy. Now analogies are not good for persuading, as I often say, but they're good for explaining a new concept. So here's the new con