In this episode of Captain Morgan's Drunk Tank, Captain Morgan is joined by his good friend and former co-worker Gerald Ford to discuss the Kamala Harris' interview with Oprah Winfrey. They also talk about the latest in sports and politics.
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00:08:46.000All right, this is not going to be fixing my bill.
00:10:36.000Now, in case you are unfamiliar with Rule and why Kamala Harris decided to do an interview with her, she has spent the last several weeks saying that Kamala Harris actually does not need to do any hard-hitting interviews, and there's nothing wrong with only taking softballs.
00:10:52.000Here's a clip from her on Chameleon Bill Marshall.
00:10:56.000I just said I'm not gonna vote for her.
00:10:58.000Kamala Harris is not running for perfect.
00:11:58.000um having listened to it it was and as someone who has you know my entire life going to school uh i never i couldn't open a textbook i wouldn't pay attention i'd wander off daydream and then the bell would ring it's very hard for me to follow things uh that are nonsensical and fundamentally uninteresting it took me multiple listens to try and make sense of what she was saying comment below did you find it incredibly difficult and i Really, not saying it's a guarantee, there could be a red wall landslide.
00:12:26.000You're going to see the polls be affected by this.
00:12:29.000I think the strategy of gaslighting, of just claiming the opposite of what you've done, we're going to make things more affordable.
00:12:35.000People go, we're going to bring down inflation.
00:12:50.000I know you have a lot, but let's talk about on the individual issues because we... Hold on, I don't want to say anything on this.
00:12:54.000I just want to, to your point, she did an interview with Chris Hayes.
00:12:56.000I want the researchers to pull that for the very end because even Chris Hayes is having a hard time justifying how that interview went and the answers on inflation specifically.
00:14:21.000And so my vision for the economy, I call it an opportunity economy, is about making sure that all Americans, wherever they start, wherever they are, have the ability to actually achieve those dreams and those ambitions, which include, for middle class families, just being able to know that their hard work allows them to get ahead, right?
00:14:35.000I think we can't and we shouldn't aspire to have an economy that just allows people to get by.
00:14:38.000People want to do more than just get by.
00:15:28.000Here's a question where Rule asks how Kamala would raise corporate tax rates but would stop companies from leaving the United... Good question.
00:15:52.000Well listen, I work with a lot of CEOs, I have spent a lot of time with CEOs, and I'm going to tell you that the business leaders who are actually part of the engine of America's economy No!
00:17:46.000And one of the main problems are regulations and rules, strict, strict rules at a local level.
00:17:52.000How does the federal government cut through all that red tape and get down to, I don't know, the suburbs of Pittsburgh and say, we're going to have to build some affordable housing here.
00:19:08.000And looking holistically at the connection between that and housing.
00:19:12.000And looking holistically at the incentives municipal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in a holistic manner.
00:19:17.000That includes prioritizing affordable housing.
00:20:28.000Regardless of what somebody says in a small rally somewhere.
00:20:31.000And I think that's really important, and that's part of what I'm doing in this campaign, is to remind people, just like here in Pittsburgh, of the reality of who has stood with union labor, who stands for American manufacturing, who stands for American jobs.
00:21:10.000Here's another question on which, by the way, the answer makes... I hope you can appreciate that we are making sure you see all of it because people would not believe it.
00:21:23.000They would say you edited out the key parts.
00:21:24.000So tell me if you think there was anything there that we fast-forwarded that you could still hear that, you know, was a valid plan.
00:21:31.000Here's Rule pressing Harris on Banning the sale of U.S.
00:21:50.000But if the deal doesn't go through, they have said people could lose jobs, they could close mills, they could leave the state of Pennsylvania.
00:21:57.000I mean, that is like moving the Liberty Bell to Newark.
00:22:02.000It's not like that at all, but here is the answer.
00:22:07.000It's most important that we maintain America's ability to have American manufacturing of steel by American workers for a number of reasons.
00:22:21.000which includes investing in new industries
00:22:25.000there is not a new industry that I can imagine that is not going to require steel
00:22:27.000manufacturing steel is a fundamental part of what yes industries need steel
00:22:31.000manufacturing that steel for those new
00:22:35.000industries is going to be critically important not only in terms of our economy
00:22:39.000but also in the context of national security most people now
00:22:43.000understand that steel is important Harris.
00:23:59.000Let's go to a quick fact check, because she did make a couple of claims, and here's the funny thing.
00:24:02.000The few things that she said that you could actually sort of, I guess, rebut, because there might actually be a leg for her to stand on, it comes from an answer that you could have heard verbatim somewhere else.
00:24:21.000She does not do well in one-on-ones, and the only answers that she ever gives where you may be able to see a case And I mean this is very paper-thin.
00:24:31.000You can hear it verbatim, repeated, repeated, repeated.
00:24:33.000I'm telling you, I think this is going to play poorly for her.
00:24:36.000I don't think she's going to get many more bumps, if any at all.
00:24:39.000So let's go through some claim truths really quickly.
00:25:06.000Reference is available for all of these.
00:25:08.000Donald Trump created 414,000 manufacturing jobs during his term and it was a trend throughout the term with increased manufacturing and supporting industries therein.
00:25:16.000Here's the next claim that Donald Trump will make it harder to earn overtime and to get small business loans.
00:25:22.000He has an agenda that would include making it more difficult for workers to earn overtime.
00:26:24.000Top economists in our country from Nobel laureates to people at Moody's and Goldman Sachs have compared my plan with his and said my plan would grow the economy, his would shrink the economy.
00:26:47.000They say that the Harris plans would decrease economic activity by 800 billion and the Trump plans would increase economic activity by 1.7 trillion.
00:26:56.000Using the main one that she cites, just to be clear.
00:27:00.000Because you can find economists, you know, you can find a bunch of economists who are professors who've never actually worked in the private sector and they may support her.
00:27:06.000I'm just using the one that she's Pointing you to.
00:27:11.000Claim that Kamala's going to make it easier for all of you with her child tax credit or something.
00:27:18.000Taxes for 100 million Americans will actually be cut, including $6,000 a year for young couples for the first year of their child's life in a tax cut, a tax credit essentially, by expansion of the child tax credit.
00:27:42.000Everyone called him weird and said he talked about crazy cat ladies and then Kamala copied it five days after his announcement of the child tax credit.
00:28:12.000Yeah, and Donald Trump's plan, you can sum it up as, I want you to keep more money, I want there to be less regulation, I want there to be lower taxes, because I think you guys know better what to do with your money than we do, right?
00:28:21.000And she is basically saying, I want everybody who I think is wealthy to pay more money so that I can give it away to other people.
00:28:31.000It is not about letting you have freedom.
00:28:33.000It is about making sure that the government goes, $25,000 for a house, yes, more tax credits because they announced theirs five days before mine.
00:30:44.000What she thinks is a strong point, you can tell because then she repeats it verbatim.
00:30:48.000And I'm going to play this clip for you, then play it side by side with her interview on Oprah.
00:30:52.000So the claim is that Kamala is only taking on, though, these predatory companies as far as price gouging.
00:31:00.000How do you go after price gouging without implementing price controls?
00:31:05.000Because once we get in this zone, people start to get worried and they say, I don't know what she stands for.
00:31:10.000So just to be very frank, I am never going to apologize for going after Companies and corporations that take advantage of the desperation.
00:31:22.000I'm glad she's frank when she takes a risk.
00:31:24.000And as Attorney General, I saw this happen.
00:31:27.000In the midst of an emergency, whether it be an extreme weather event or even the pandemic, we saw it.
00:31:32.000Where those few companies, not the majority, not most, but those few companies that would take advantage of the desperation of people and jack up prices.
00:31:49.000Let me be frank, you know, bad corporations, not all donors, donors, donors, not all corporations, but I'm gonna go after bad corporations.
00:31:56.000Of course, that's an easy, just, just, just say that.
00:33:00.000Like, I'm serious, I'm asking like, I know there have been cases like where the guy, what was it, the EpiPen, he jacked up prices or something like that and that was a big issue, but I think that was, I don't remember when that exactly was, but Outside of that, I'm like, you think Kroger's jacking up prices for eggs or something like that right now?
00:33:16.000She's getting her talking points from Code Pink during Hurricane Katrina.
00:33:20.000Remember, they're going like, oh, they're raising the price of batteries.
00:33:23.000Yeah, well, I don't know if you know this, too.
00:33:24.000I'm not even against what you would call price gouging in those events, because I don't know if you know that someone goes in and just buys every single battery.
00:33:56.000Like Kroger, they almost make no money.
00:33:59.000Look at Kroger, their Q2 profit, their margins are 1.37%.
00:34:03.000So if you want to villainize the companies that you most rely on, we're not talking about BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, the ones that people like Kamala Harris deem too big to fail.
00:34:14.000They love the big international investors with DEI and ESG scores.
00:34:19.000What they're talking about is they want you to hate the local gas stations that are owned by people who maybe have a few franchises, the grocery stores, your local shops, people who sell most marketable goods or services with razor-thin profit margins.
00:34:48.000You can have smaller mom and pop shops, bodegas, whatever you want to have, but you're going to pay two or three times as much for this stuff.
00:34:53.000Have you ever gone to some of these places and you're like, Oh, I can get this for three bucks here, but it's $5 at the local mom and pop scale thing.
00:35:00.000So you have to pick which one you want.
00:35:01.000Do you want really cheap food for everybody to be able to eat?
00:35:04.000Or do you want it to be local and small companies?
00:35:06.000If not, Kroger needs to be left alone.
00:35:21.000Here's another claim that she made on immigration, and we're getting very close to the end of her actual claims to refute now, that Trump, and this is one she is repeating on every platform, and by that I mean her two interviews ever, that Trump is the one who killed the border bill.
00:35:43.000And if we take a step back... Okay, borders are... Some of the most conservative members of the United States Congress came together with others, proposed a border security bill.
00:35:53.000That would have put 1,500 new border agents on the border to help those hard-working border agents who are there right now, working around the clock.
00:36:00.000The ones who would put money into stemming the flow of fentanyl, which is killing.
00:36:06.000Americans around our country and devastating communities would have put more resources into our ability to prosecute transnational criminal organizations, which in my career, I've prosecuted.
00:36:16.000Donald Trump got word of the bill, realized it was going to fix a problem he wanted to run on, and told them to kill the bill, don't put it up for a vote.
00:36:25.000He killed a bill that would have actually been a solution because he wants to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.
00:36:30.000Now I'm going to show you another side-by-side, but I love when she says, you can, when she says, and fentanyl, Which is killing people.
00:36:53.000She, like, this is just, this is the same, again, and Oprah, she went even further and said that the Border Patrol agents endorsed her and their pinned, their pinned post on X says, we didn't.
00:37:07.000Yeah, their pinned, it was like, yes, they went out of their way to not only post it, but Pin it, because she still kept repeating the line.
00:37:12.000Of course, Oprah's not going to call her on it.
00:37:14.000But let's actually do this again, a side-by-side.
00:37:16.000This is a point she thinks is really strong.
00:37:18.000She's obviously been prepped because she's been in charge of the border, and it's something she wants to hit back on.
00:37:23.000I still don't think she does it very well, but I'll let you be the judge.
00:37:29.000This is her plan because she repeats herself almost verbatim.
00:37:33.000Months ago, some of the most conservative members of the United States Congress came together with others, proposed a border security bill that would have put 1,500 new border agents on the border to help those hard-working border agents who are there right now working around the clock.
00:37:49.000Would have put more money into stemming the flow of fentanyl, which is killing Americans around our country and devastating communities would have put more resources into our ability to prosecute transnational criminal organizations which in my career I've prosecuted.
00:38:05.000Donald Trump got word of the bill, realized it was going to fix a problem he wanted to run on, and told him to kill the bill, don't put it up for a vote.
00:38:13.000He killed a bill that would have actually been a solution because he wants to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.
00:38:19.000When the United States Congress, members of the Congress, including some of the most conservative Republicans, came up with a border security bill And here's what that border security bill would have done.
00:38:31.000It would have put 1,500 more border agents at the border.
00:38:35.000It would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl.
00:38:38.000For those on audio, this is not on repeat.
00:38:42.000So I don't need to tell the folks who are watching this what Sentinel has done to families, to kids in our country, and the need to take seriously stemming the flow coming into our country.
00:38:54.000The bill would have allowed us to have more resources to prosecute transnational criminal organizations.
00:39:01.000And it would have been part of the solution.
00:39:04.000And Donald Trump Called up those folks and said, don't put that bill on the floor for a vote.
00:39:24.000I'm using that term loosely these days.
00:39:26.000And the border bill was giving $60 billion to Ukraine and $20 billion to the border, none of which actually went to enhance border security.
00:39:32.000All references available at ladderwithcutter.com, and you can click through to Reuters, that bastion of right-wing extremism, lest you question the sources.
00:39:40.000The border bill had nothing to do with Donald Trump.
00:40:16.000People who hate Donald Trump are going to go, yeah, but I hated him because I said he was a racist because didn't he want to build a wall or something?
00:40:22.000Like, wasn't that kind of his whole thing?
00:40:23.000I feel like for all the reasons I hate Donald Trump was because, you know, you told me he was a racist because he wanted to secure the border.
00:40:29.000Now you're telling me that you wanted to secure the border and Donald Trump didn't?
00:40:33.000Yes, because none of it means anything.
00:40:36.000She's incapable of thinking critically or speaking at a level that is not, and I say this without a hint of exaggeration, potentially functionally retarded.
00:40:47.000I think it's going to backfire with the people who are on the fence.
00:40:50.000I can't believe people are on the fucking fence between these two.
00:40:55.000The independents, so-called independents, the people who, you know, she was saying, he's a racist, you can't change your mind, you're just retarded.
00:41:03.000But yes, it's going to backfire for sure.
00:41:06.000I would hope, or are we at that point where, no, that's your team, this is my team?
00:41:10.000She will do very well with the, you know, the special needs independents.
00:41:23.000By the way, I know we have a little bit more here, but I just wanted to let people know, I forgot to put it in the map for you, sorry, that Jeremy the Quartering is going to be here at 10 o'clock.
00:45:02.000For Stephanie Rule, this is the home team, and Chris Hayes can't even get over it.
00:45:05.000And by the way, just before people ask, we are not able to fact check whether Chris Hayes is in transition.
00:45:13.000The question about inflation and prices, this to me is one of the most frustrating aspects of this campaign.
00:45:21.000The thing that people are 100% correctly, rationally, and understandably reacting to is two or three years of the highest rate of inflation we've had in a generation, which has been incredibly unpleasant.
00:45:35.000Despite the prices of things, things got more expensive.
00:45:39.000The issue, of course, is that that period was basically born of the end of the pandemic and the supply crunch, and a combination of that and monetary policy has brought it down.
00:45:49.000So now you've got this weird situation where both major party candidates kind of got to say what they're going to do to bring prices down, even though what everyone's reacting to is an issue that is a little bit in the past.
00:46:27.000And about 10 seconds prior to the start of that clip, she gives the answer of, like, the economy's not a simple thing, so you're not necessarily going to get straightforward answers or simple answers.
00:46:56.000Cupp used to be, whenever I was on Fox News, every single day she would show up as a naughty librarian, like, let me guess, I have it, hold on, are you in the group?
00:47:02.000Let me guess, a blouse and, uh, library nurses.
00:47:05.000You know, she did that until, like, she got fat and blamed it on men, and so now, She doesn't wear it anymore, but it's like, sexy librarian, this is my gimmick.
00:48:46.000I mean, she's the one who talks about natural disasters and price gouging, but don't take my word for it.
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00:53:08.000Let's bring in Jeremy of The Quartering.
00:53:15.000Jeremy, I apologize for the intro, but I don't.
00:53:18.000You knew what you were walking into anyway.
00:53:20.000It's one of those days after Kamala Harris, the interview, we were all dumber for having listened to it.
00:54:34.000My favorite answer was when she said how she was going to fix inflation was that she was going to go after those people that charged too much for toilet paper during the lockdowns.
00:54:56.000Have a tailgate party, register friends to vote.
00:54:59.000We put together a website with tons of like Goofy recipes like Kamala's Unburdened by What Has Bean Casserole.
00:55:06.000We've got like Nancy Pelosi's Gin Soaked Drizzle Cake.
00:55:10.000We've got Donald Trump's Spicy Margarita.
00:55:14.000We actually have a cookbook with like 42 different recipes on the website too.
00:55:19.000And also has all the resources you need to talk to somebody maybe who hasn't voted in a while.
00:55:23.000And so the idea is get people to the website, Have them have a party, talk to their friends, get them registered to vote, have another party during election season, during early voting in person.
00:55:34.000You know, can't drink until you vote, or until after you vote.
00:55:37.000But have your party, and then we're doing it by word of mouth and begging friends for favors like I've done here, and through sticker activism.
00:55:46.000We've deployed already 60,000 of these stickers in just a few weeks out there across the country.
00:55:52.000Oh, that would look good on one of my many Lambos.
00:55:54.000I'll have one of my servants put it on.
00:55:56.000Yeah, right. I know that. I saw them. You had a garage full of them when I was down there.
00:56:00.000But these are doing really well. You can get them on the website too.
00:56:04.000The idea is that, you know, don't get yourself in trouble.
00:56:06.000But people see these. Remember the I did that stickers?
00:56:11.000They see these stickers, which is one for Trump that talks about no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security.
00:56:18.000The Comrade Kamala version, also very popular, talks about a lot of the terrible stuff, but then it's got the website on there and the QR code.
00:56:24.000So they see this sticker that he hasn't voted in a while.
00:56:27.000Look at how, you know, and then inspire people to just make voting fun.
00:56:31.000Because I think a lot of people get scared off a little bit, like they think of the lines and stuff.
00:56:36.000I appreciate all the information, but more importantly, what does your shirt think?
00:56:40.000I've seen more subdued pants on golfers.
00:56:48.000I think, Stephen, I think this is the shirt I wore at the RNC.
00:56:53.000Don't let me have that much influence.
00:56:54.000Yeah, and I'm like, I think that, and then every, my comment section on my videos were full of something about, comments about plaid nonstop for the next two days.
00:58:01.000I want to ask you, because a lot of people don't know how closely you pay attention to this, right?
00:58:05.000You do a lot of cultural stuff, obviously, on your YouTube channel, but you were there at the RNC and you have your ear to the ground there, particularly in the Milwaukee area.
00:58:12.000Do you think that Donald Trump could see a repeat of 2016.
00:58:40.000So he hasn't even bothered to replace the sign.
00:58:42.000He might not even know that we know what's going on.
00:58:45.000So it is Trump country heavy here in America or in Wisconsin.
00:58:50.000And that's why I'm really hoping that, you know, hey, man, have a party, make it fun, register people to vote and then have a party on early in person voting day and like, Did you see that map of drunkest counties in the United States?
00:59:00.000there. You know, guys are really easy to influence food and beer
00:59:04.000and drinks is basically all they need.
00:59:06.000Did you see that map of drunkest counties in the United States?
00:59:09.000And it was like, 50 out of the top 51 were Wisconsin.
00:59:13.000I've never been more proud, Steven. I've never I'm doing my part, okay?
00:59:20.000I will tell you this, I have family in Wisconsin, you know, I also have family in Michigan.
00:59:24.000I'm always surprised, and maybe you have more insight being there, when you see a wider spread You know, when they have the polls saying Kamala's winning Wisconsin by a wider margin than she is in Michigan, or sometimes Trump is even winning in Michigan.
00:59:38.000I've noticed that Wisconsin seems like a consistently more conservative state overall than Michigan, so I'm always surprised when I see that.
00:59:47.000Yeah, well, we have Madison, which is kind of a dump, and then Milwaukee.
00:59:54.000You know, again, for people that, if I'm here, I'm on the ground, I do not foresee, it's all going to be voter turnout.
01:00:33.000So, I mean, I think, especially after what they did to Mayor Adams this morning, I think Wisconsin is absolutely Trump plus two. I think you should be more offended what
01:02:23.000We did a limited print run of, like, 42 different recipes that are all, like, you know, Trump Tower Zinger or Adam Kinzinger's Cry Baby Back Ribs and all sorts of stuff like that.
01:02:34.000But they're, like, actually good recipes.
01:02:36.000Wait, is it made of real Adam Kinzinger?
01:03:03.000And I think people having these Trump-themed tailgates, you know, mine is a more degenerate version of what Scott Pressler's out there doing, but I'm from Wisconsin, so I thought naturally, alcohol and fried food.
01:03:17.000That's how we'd flip Wisconsin red again, and then we'll probably all have massive heart attacks.
01:05:13.000They're right now talking about the federal indictment, and we're going to go to chat Thursday, but on CNN, I guess we were about to talk on this subject earlier, but he hadn't been charged yet.
01:05:23.000Well, it's interesting that Mayor Adams comes out and speaks and gets a group of Somali pirates to back him up.