d there were quote fine people on both sides. Now when he said there were fine people on both sides the context was different. In that case he defined his terms and that's the part that gets edited out of the videos. So if you haven't seen the full video you were intentionally being hoaxed basically by the media because they've left out the context intentionally.

Now the context is the president very clearly and explicitly said I'm not talking – he said this actual sentence, this is his actual sentence – "I'm not talking about the white nationalists and the neo-Nazis. They should be condemned totally." As clear as you could possibly be. And then he explained to who he was talking about was people who had showed up on both sides of the question of whether the statue should stay or whether it's offensive and should leave. And his argument is that they were fine people who could disagree on the statue who have nothing to do with the people who are marching with the tiki torches.

Now whenever I point this out to people. And so here's the insight. The insight is that the original statement of bad people on both sides seemed untrue when he said it but over time we now know it was true, completely true. Bad people on both sides, just not all of them. That there were bad people there. And now we also – and then that gets conflated with the fine people on both sides and then people forget that that context was about the non-racist protesters and that he defined his terms very clearly.

So that's my insight. I think that what makes this special is not just the fake news, not just the fact that the people primed to believe it are primed to believe it. Those would be enough. But when you add those two events that are similar enough that your brain conflates them automatically – I mean even when I described it to you it was you probably had a thought of right I got to pay attention because it's a little hard to follow. And that's what makes it so sticky. That bad people on both sides and fine people on both sides got conflated in your mind.

So those of you who are on this Periscope who said when I started that "Scott that was wrong," how do you feel right now now that you've actually heard the explanation? And I would invite you to look at the hashtag #FinePeopleHoax and you can see some stuff on Twitter that will lead you to the actual transcript and the actual videos and it's gonna blow your mind. It's gonna blow your mind to learn how badly you were wrong about one of the most basic stories of our reality.

All right, so enough on that. I saw SE Cupp – who's what would you call her? I know analyst, pundit, host. I don't know what title she has on CNN. I think she was allegedly Republican-ish but sort of is anti-Trump-ish. So she's more of a – she's sort of leaning left at the moment for CNN. I don't know her whole story. Commentator. Somebody says let's call her a commentator. She did a very good piece about how the Democrats are almost not even trying to win. And I thought it was really well done even with her facial gestures. So if you get a chance to see that SE Cupp little video clip, it's pretty short, which she goes through how the Democrats are so incompetent, the group of them, that it's almost as if – not almost, it looks like, not literally but you know just on the surface it looks like they're trying to lose. It's so bad. But it's a really good piece.

All right, see what else we got going on. Kyle Bass, investor Kyle Bass who seems to be one of the strongest voices against doing business with China at all, tweeted today that apparently – and he seems credible enough that I believe this is true but like everything that I hear I always go at it with a little bit of skepticism – the claim is that the Chinese telecom company has some nodes in America. In other words some American companies have at some point bought Chinese technology for switches or routers or whatever and put it in the network in the United States proper. But that that has allowed China to look at our traffic. Now I don't know is that true? Apparently some of the traffic is being routed from the United States to China so they can look at it if they want to. If that's true and Kyle Bass is saying that we have to take that equipment out of the country if it's even a little bit true that the Chinese equipment might be sending our private traffic over to China so they can take a look at it. We have to change that tomorrow. That's not even the next week. Anything. Isn't that sort of you've got to go to those telecom companies. The President of the United States or whatever agency needs to say you've got to tell your customers that their traffic is not private from China and you've got to get rid of that.

So yesterday I was talking to an international business person. So I'll tell this story without the details because the international business person is listening to this. He's going to be having the simultaneous sip on his commute. So without naming names somebody told me that he recently went to China and the result of a short business trip to China is that his laptop was so infected with, presumably you know hacks from official or unofficial Chinese sources, that his tech people are telling him to grind it up. It is so infected and so dangerous to even go into China and use their Wi-Fi in a hotel that his laptop is almost unfixable, corrupted by sp