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s the right tone. It's very weird to watch Trump be low-energy and read off a teleprompter because you can tell he's not in his comfort zone. My take on it was it was fine in terms of the presentation. It was fine. It wasn't great and he's capable of being great. But fine was all we needed. We just needed to hear from the president. We needed to feel like he's in charge, taking it seriously. He ha…

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her one. So I think it was, fact-check me on this but I think I'm right on this. It was January 28th that President Trump called for the ban on travel to China. January 28th. On January 24th most of you watched me go absolutely crazy on Periscope yelling that we should close the borders. So that's a four-day difference. So January 24th I was aggressively calling for the Chinese travel to stop. And when I said it I don't know if anybody else had. Somebody says, wow Scott you love that Harris lady don't you. Apparently you're new here. Nobody has criticized Kamala Harris more than I have. But that doesn't change the fact that demographically she's a good fit for the ticket and it doesn't change the fact that she has real good chemistry with Joe Biden. They have, you know honestly let's look at it this way. If you assume that Joe Biden has some declining mental situation there, who do you want as the vice president? Do you want somebody that he picked who is just some governor that he doesn't have any connection with that just fits well on the ticket but wouldn't have any special connection to him? That would be kind of dangerous wouldn't it? Because if the risk that you're looking at is that Joe Biden might not be fully able to complete a term as president, you want that vice president to not just be capable of taking over the job but you want them to have a really good connection with the boss because that's a delicate conversation. And it might not be a case of where a medical doctor says okay I'm calling it. I'm a medical doctor. You know we need to replace the president. But I don't know if you wait for that. You want somebody who's close enough to the president to say in a private conversation, you know Joe you saw what you did yesterday. I'm worried about it. I think we ought to have a serious conversation about this. I think Kamala Harris might be close enough to him personally that she could have that conversation. I don't know if a governor could, just some random vice president he picks because it fits good on the ticket. So I think she's a guarantee.

Anyway so what I'm going to say about, I called for the travel ban on January 24th. The president did it on the 28th. He's being praised for doing it early. I would like to add this to my correct predictions even though it wasn't in the form of a prediction because I don't know if anybody in the country said it before I did. Can anybody confirm that for me? Was there any public person, I'm sure there were private individuals plenty of them, but was anybody in public calling for the Chinese travel to be shut down completely before I did on January 24th? Let me know because I'd like to feel like I was a constructive voice in that but there's no way to really know.

All right let's see. How's the social distancing incoming for all of you? I've just sort of tracked my social distancing. You know putting numbers on it. I'm doing it in my mind. I'm not keeping a spreadsheet. But yesterday for example I shook zero hands and I was in zero crowds and the only person I touched was Christina. So I'm doing okay. I've not stood. And by the way have you noticed that everybody in public is squirrelly? Have you noticed that? Somebody says something says shut the fuck up. Kamala sucks and everyone knows that. Maybe some of you are new but on this Periscope we're allowed to say that somebody does things well but also does some other things not well. If you can't handle that you're on the wrong Periscope. Yeah the minimum requirement for being able to watch this Periscope is that you have to be able to say that people are not all bad or all good and groups are not all bad or all good. Well oka

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y there's probably some groups that are all bad but we don't talk about them too much. So you know try to improve your game so that you can accept that people could be good at things and bad at other things. It's the thing. It really is. NBA got cancelled. All the rallies are canceled. Remember I told you yesterday that the president should have gone first because whoever goes first just looks l…

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