skepticism. we should investigate them if they actually are real crimes. we should not be surprised that incidents like the jussie smollett incident where they are simply invented to promote a political narrative even though they end up hurting real victims. mike: chris rufo, manhattan institute senior fellow. thanks so much for your time. have a great day. thank you. gillian: president biden s covid vaccine mandate for federal workers would ultimately derail his favorite ride. amtrak joe going head-to-head against his favorite railroads cheese. the amtrak president says he plans to cut long-distance routes next year because amtrak is not going to have enough workers once the bible vaccine and a takes effect. hillary vaughn has the latest on this. you re right, president joe biden is not shy about his love of amtrak but you re right, this vaccine mandate could be throwing his beloved amtrak off the rails.
so gross and divisive. it is worthy of meeting with the vice president? vivek: i don t feel it is worthy of a response, let alone a meeting with the vice president. it was disgraceful for her to meet with someone like this on a zoom call? it probably was. it doesn t surprise me? absolutely not. if i look at everything kamala harris has done or comments about the jussie smollett incident after she is confronted with the facts, trying to change course and backpedal afterwards, claiming she is the last person in the room when the afghanistan decision was made, and claimant saying she will not take the vaccine, then laughing at anti-vaxxers at three months later. this is a disaster for the vice presidents. i hate to say it this way, but if she is going to spend the rest of her time in office taking zoom calls with people who don t matter, the country might be well served. it would just give her busywork that keeps her far away from public policy. i think that is a win. let s keep her
In the nearly three years since former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett reported being attacked by two men in Chicago, the case went from being an alleged.
was flipped by the individual who you see punching the man and then from there i started to record and i was lucky enough to get the most egregious parts of the incident on camera. brian: you didn t get everything. but, first off, how is it that we haven t found this guy yet? you have a full shot of his face on video. i mean, come on. he is most likely a student. it looks like he has a backpack on. is there any effort being made to find this guy. honestly, i can t weigh in on that. i know that the university, the response from the university has been very weak in my opinion. the statement that chancellor sent out was a very blanket condemnation of violence. and it really didn t go into the specifics of the case. brian: what an embarrassment. ainsley: let me read that statement so folks at home can make their own judgments. she says let there be no mistake we strongly condemn
what? ainsley: gosh. poor guy. alexander szarka is a student at uc berkeley and witnessed that exchange. he joins us now. thank you for joining us, alexander. tell us what happened. effectively what happened was i got out of class and i went to the plaza which is the main area on campus in which students and other people are free to table and give out fliers this sort of thing. i noticed that there was a table that said something to the effect of beware of false hate crimes. obviously a reference to the recent jussie smollett incident. and right when i as soon as i noticed that i was drawn to a verbal altercation that was occurring between the individual tabling hayden and a few other people. and then that quickly escalated from a verbal altercation into a violent altercation where the table