So outer space still remains almost impossibly far away. Thats very sad. But that wasnt the only option. He also offered one other next best option for humankind. He called it, quote, much more realistic than space travel. He declared that what we humans must do at this point in Human History is that we must move into the sea. We should become sea dwellers. Quote, between cyber space and outer space lies the possibility of settling the oceans. We may have reached the stage at which it is economically feasible or where it will soon be economically feasible. It is a realistic risk. I eagerly support this. The idea was that we should basically build new teeny, tiny personal cities, citystates, unlike Shipping Containers that are floating in the ocean. Impossible and the only way that human sorry, humans can ever be free again is to move into space, presumably with no girls allowed. If we cant move into space, we have to move into the oceans. Weird dude, right . That is why i thought it was weird when the Republican Party gave that dude a prime time Speaking Slot on the last night of the Republican National convention this summer. I remember covering the convention at the time. And everybody else involved in covering the convention is like, oh, yeah, this is where the internet Billionaire Guy is going to be talking, this early trump supporter from Silicon Valley. Okay, yes, those things are true, good to know those things about him. But also he really does want us all to form new countries on Shipping Containers floating in the ocean because democracy and freedom cant exist as long as women vote. Hes the guy with the
antidemocracy manifesto. How can the Republican Party be showcasing somebody who thinks we vul have to abandon this country and move into the sea in how can they be doing this . Sometimes in space no one can hear you scream. Its probably true in Shipping Containers on the open seas as well. But there he was at the rnc, which was freaking nuts, but there he was. And today we learn that, at his request, the trump folks have put two people from his hedge fund in charge of Transition Efforts at the department of treasury and the department of commerce. And beyond that the big one hes apparently going for in the new administration is the fda of all things, the food and drug administration, which is in charge of keeping our food safe and making sure that vaccines and drugs and stuff are not just safe but also effective. Peter thiel, this eccentric Silicon Valley billionaire who
is convinced that women voting killed the country and we need to abolish democracy and move into the sea. Hes suggested that one of the executives from his Financial Firms is the guy who the Trump Administration should appoint to run the fda. This guy is not a doctor. No medical background unlike every other fda director for the last half a century. But he does share two grand plans, at least two that we know of. He shares two grand plans with this Billionaire Eccentric who apparently has Donald Trumps ear. And who the rnc had speak at their convention. They apparently share at least two big ideas, two big plans. The first thing that we know theyre on the same page about is moving into the sea. Honestly, this guy is on the board of the let us live in Shipping Containers on the ocean group. Hes on the board of the sea studding organization that wants to give everybody their own country in the form of a Floating Island on the ocean. This is from the very start of peter thiels manifesto. He published right after obama was inaugurated in 2009. Quote, i stand against the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. Did you know that was an ideology . Thats quite an ism. Some people inevitably have to die, but according to peter thiel not everybody has to die. I stand against the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. That is part of thats the prologue of peter thiels manifesto why we shouldnt have democracy anymore, how women voting killed the country and how we have to move either into space or into the sea. Its something hes been working on as a secret plan for years. We dont know exactly how peter thiel is doing it but there have been multiple reports that hes involved in some sort of regimen he believes will prevent his death forever. Which makes me want to go mwahhaha, make you say hide the bats. His colleague, this person hes now having the trump transition consider as the leading candidate to run the food and drug administration. Heres that guy just two years ago giving a speech On Immortality and how Venture Capitalists and investors need to change the way theyre spending money and investing and stuff in order to get us there if we can only invent good new Business Models that will make us live forever. Ill play you a little clip. Ill warn you hes a very, very boring speaker, but immortality really is what this whole speech is about. What he calls rejuvenation and reversing aging. So at least the right people just dont have to die anymore. Rejuvenation and reversing aging does not fit the narrow definition of singularity. Theres no business model. Its scientifically achievable. I think most of us believe that. Scientifically achievable. Most of us believe that. When he says rejuvenation and reversing aging, to be clear, hes not talking about better skin care that makes your wrinkles disappear as if you have reverse aged. Hes literally reverse aging. So like youre 71. Youre never going to be 72 and thats not because youre going to die because next year youll be 68 or maybe 38, depends on how much you take. You can stay the same age forever or you can get even younger if you want to. The lucky ones who presumably can afford it or whatever can live forever with or without the Vampiric Feeding on others. So ahem, what do we make of this . You can see why peter thiel is putting this guy forward for a high ranking influential position in the new administration, right . This guy is right out of his Crazy Billionaire Wheelhouse moving into private Floating Islands in the sea for freedom. Also eternal hif. Life. But now heres Bloomberg News reporting him as the first named candidate for the position of fda administrator in the new Trump Administration. Incidentally, he said in that same speech, the sboring speech that i just showed you that clip from, he said that maybe when it comes to pharmaceuticals in this country we shouldnt have Clinical Trials for drugs anymore. We should just put drugs out on the open market, just sell them, let people use them. See what happens and the free market will sort it out. If anything got attention about this guy today, that proposal got attention. And i get that, i get that that would be a very intense change at the fda. That would be sort of undoing the whole process of the fda. Even as a person who kind of cares about the fda, i am a person who cares about the drug approval process, i find it hard to care about that statement from him. I find it hard to focus on that statement about the futility of Clinical Trials. When he made that statement in the context of a broader overall speech of how we really all can live forever, mwahhaha. This is not part of you get right with god and you can live forever. This is you get to live in san leandro for the rest of your life. You get to be 1,000 years old and look 30. Theyre working on it. Thats apparently who trump is considering to run the food and drug administration. That happened today. The Incoming Administration also announced today that Linda Mcmahon who is a wrestling
executive, also a very wealthy republican donor, she donated 6. 5 million to the trump for president effort. She was announced today as the Trump Administrations nominee to lead the Small Business administration. Transition also announced that the long serving republican governor of iowa, Terry Branstad will be the Incoming Administrations new choice to be the ambassador to china. The transition announced a name to head up the epa. Thats an interesting one. Well have more on him in just a moment. But the really big position that was announced today, not just floated like this epa guy but actually announced today was the designated nominee for the department of Homeland Security. The Largest Agency in government. In fact, i think, the Largest Organization of any kind in the world is the u. S. Department of defense. The second Largest Agency after that in our government is Veterans Affairs and the third Largest Agency after that is department of Homeland Security. After 9 11, 22 different
agencies, everything from Airport Security to the coast guard to the Secret Service to the plum island animal disease center, all these different organizations and agencies from all these different parts of the government were all cobbled together into a giant, giant new mega agency. It was the biggest reorganization of government since right after world war ii when we created the defense department. We created Homeland Security, it created this sort of mega domestic Security Remit under one cabinet official. We never had Something Like this before as a country. Something much more like having a Home Secretary in britain or in lots of other countries they call somebody in this position the Minister Of The Interior. Weve never had something this overarching in terms of domestic security. But because this kind of job is specifically a domestic job focused on things that happen at home, focused on things that happen at homeland as weve all learned to be comfortable saying. One thing that you see Around The World in democratic countries that have this kind of position is when you have a Home SecretaryType Position or you have a Minister Of The InteriorType Position in democracies all Around The World, one hallmark of that type of Government Position is that it is not held by somebody from the military. Because democracies dont use their militaries on their own soil, right . Democracies dont use their militaries to control their own people. They dont use Military Force for domestic security. In democracies you dont want the military becoming a political weapon used at home by the nations leader. You dont want the military becoming a separate political actor on their own terms with their own designs on domestic power, like egypt or the military took over after democracy had picked a bad leader. For all those big picture civics reasons, Military Leaders all over the world are kept pretty deliberately separate and apart
from this specific piece of domestic governing. When you have mennisters of the interior, secretaries of the interior, theyre not military officials, theyre not military officer. Around the world. Despite that norm and the reasons for it, the Incoming Administration announced for the fist time in the history of having a department of Homeland Security, the person they want to hd it will be a general who has been out of the service for less than a year. A general who has a 45year career in the armed services. And that does not speak at all to general john kellys good reputation and the high esteem people have for him inside and outside the serve,t doesnt say anything about whether he personally will be good for this job, but its just unprecedented to have three generals and counting in cabinet level leadership jobs in our civilian government. I mean, weve got a general as National Security adviser, a general heading up the department of defense, a general heading up department of Homeland Security and counting. Will there be more . It is unprecedented and even a little bit of an International Shock wave for a democracy like ours to put a Military Leader into this specific job. Because putting a Military Leader in charge of domestic security, thats something that nondemocracies do a lot of, but other democracies dont tend to do that. This is something that weve certainly never done before. But when the going gets weird, the going tends to get really weird. And things are getting weird and none of this is weird enough that i think we should start planning on living forever on floating Shipping Containers until all the democracies die and we can be free again. But the people who are counting on that and see that as the kind of solution that we ought to be thinking about for our nation and our world right now, im not
kidding, those folks are helping make decisions right at the top right now in our country. This is not a time to stop paying attention. Well be right back. Thats why were hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. Im very proud of him. Male vo comcast. Lots of focus right now in the news on Whats Going On with the Incoming Administration. Tonight im here to tell you eres also really interesting news on the states that are digging in their heels and planning on not going along with the new direction of the country. Very interesting news on that front ahead. Plus music. Terrible, terrible music played by me straight ahead. Get involved in your schools because if our kids go down the tubes, we go with them. The more you know. And now to our offbrand Cable News Version of that called you know more now. [ laughter ] thank you, nick. So sometimes theres something in the news that ends in a bit of a cliffhanger. We dont know how its going to turn out. But then later we find out how it turned out. We find out more about how the whole situation resolved and the cliffhanger is essentially solved. We learn how it all worked out. When that happens, we call it you know more now. So on monday, one of the more unexpected stories in politics was that former vice presint
al gore showed up at trump tower, and he was not lost. He was there to meet with the President Elect. It was a weird thing, right . The guy whose Climate Change documentary won an oscar, the guy who made it his lifes work to convince people about Climate Change and get them to fight pit. There he is meeting with the guy who says Climate Change is a hoax invented by and for the chinese. So an interesting thing. Kind of a conundrum, if donald trump is willing to meet with somebody like al gore, what does this mean that we should expect from him on Environmental Policy . Well, you know more now. Because today we learned who donald trump plans to nominate to lead the Environmental Protection agency. And it turns out its the negative photo image of al gore. Its al gore backwards. Its erog la. Backwards al gore, erog la. Its scott pruitt. Heres a taste of scott pruitt on Climate Change. Global warming has inspired one of the major Policy Debates of our time. That debate is far from settled. Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of Global Warming and its connection to the actions of mankind. He wrote this in 2016. In 2011 an oil and gas Company Called devon, says epa letter draft. Thats a threepage draft letter. And its addressed to then Epa Administrator lisa jackson. And it complains that the epa vastly overstated how much Air Pollution is coming out of drilling for natural gas in the state of oklahoma. Devon energy and this draft letter, they suggested letting the epa know how wrong they are about this issue. So devon energy drafted this
letter. But they did no