The Megyn Kelly Show - May 09, 2022


Activists Target Justices' Homes, and Meghan Markle's Woke Show Canceled, with Piers Morgan and Tom Bevan | Ep. 317


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 39 minutes

Words per Minute

199.97058

Word Count

19,943

Sentence Count

211

Misogynist Sentences

55

Hate Speech Sentences

40


Summary

Former Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan is back with host Meghan Markle's ex-husband, Lord Andrew Yang, to discuss the fallout from Meghan's controversial comments about Princess Pinocchio in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 When I found out my friend got a great deal
00:00:02.160 on a wool coat from Winners,
00:00:03.760 I started wondering,
00:00:05.440 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?
00:00:08.560 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
00:00:10.900 Are those from Winners?
00:00:12.780 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?
00:00:15.260 Did she pay full price?
00:00:16.600 Or that leather tote?
00:00:17.620 Or that cashmere sweater?
00:00:18.840 Or those knee-high boots?
00:00:20.280 That dress?
00:00:21.060 That jacket?
00:00:21.740 Those shoes?
00:00:22.780 Is anyone paying full price for anything?
00:00:25.720 Stop wondering.
00:00:26.980 Start winning.
00:00:27.920 Winners.
00:00:28.500 Find fabulous for less.
00:00:30.580 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:00:32.520 Your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
00:00:41.500 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly.
00:00:43.240 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Monday.
00:00:46.500 As expected, abortion activists
00:00:49.020 congregated outside of the homes of Justices Kavanaugh and Roberts
00:00:52.860 over the weekend and on church steps.
00:00:55.600 They literally did go to the homes
00:00:57.840 of the Chief Justice of the United States
00:01:00.040 as well as Justice Brett Kavanaugh
00:01:02.060 to their homes.
00:01:03.740 People tearing baby dolls apart,
00:01:06.560 images of red hangers displayed
00:01:09.220 and rather prevalent.
00:01:10.940 We still don't know who the Supreme Court leaker is.
00:01:13.100 I'm starting to doubt the marshal,
00:01:15.060 but the story of what will happen
00:01:17.140 in, you know,
00:01:19.440 in the wake of this ruling
00:01:20.460 when it finally comes out
00:01:21.700 and to abortion in America
00:01:23.220 is not going away anytime soon.
00:01:25.700 Piers Morgan is my guest today.
00:01:27.340 He's the host of the new show
00:01:28.580 Piers Morgan Uncensored,
00:01:31.060 airing on Fox Nation here in America
00:01:32.700 and in the UK and Australia.
00:01:34.420 And he's back with us today.
00:01:36.340 Hey, Piers, how's it going?
00:01:41.980 Hi, Megan.
00:01:42.500 How are you?
00:01:43.420 I'm great.
00:01:44.200 How are you?
00:01:44.600 How's it going over there with the new show?
00:01:46.460 Great.
00:01:47.100 And incredibly, the sun is out.
00:01:49.640 It's actually quite warm in England,
00:01:50.980 which for this time of year is unprecedented.
00:01:53.340 And I think it's almost warming up
00:01:54.740 in time for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
00:01:56.360 where the whole country
00:01:57.240 will go start raving bonkers in the pubs
00:02:00.540 for four days in about three weeks.
00:02:02.780 So we're gearing up for one hell of a royal party.
00:02:05.120 Here, too, we finally have sunshine
00:02:07.840 after weeks of rain.
00:02:09.160 It's been downright depressing.
00:02:10.540 So it's I mean, I know it's always rainy
00:02:12.500 over there in England,
00:02:13.700 but it's nice to see a little sunshine.
00:02:15.760 So can I just before we get into the news,
00:02:17.600 can I just say I'm so proud of you
00:02:19.460 for landing on your feet.
00:02:21.280 You left Good Morning Britain
00:02:22.460 because they tried to make you apologize
00:02:25.140 for a totally fair comment
00:02:27.380 that turned out to be 100 percent right
00:02:29.140 about Meghan Markle.
00:02:30.700 You didn't believe she was telling the truth
00:02:32.360 in her Oprah interview.
00:02:33.360 You called her a liar.
00:02:35.120 Princess Pinocchio.
00:02:36.520 And they wanted you to apologize.
00:02:38.160 You didn't believe her claims
00:02:40.000 and you wouldn't do it.
00:02:41.940 And that's why your relationship
00:02:42.800 with them ended.
00:02:43.820 And there was a while there
00:02:45.020 where it was unclear
00:02:45.780 what you were going to do.
00:02:47.020 You know, I had faith in you, of course,
00:02:48.840 but you really have landed
00:02:50.160 on your feet with a great deal.
00:02:51.840 So what is the lesson
00:02:53.040 for other people in that story?
00:02:55.020 I think you've got to stand up for yourself.
00:02:56.820 You know, I remember
00:02:57.200 the great Winston Churchill line,
00:02:58.840 which is you've got enemies.
00:03:00.180 Good.
00:03:00.400 It means that at some stage in your life,
00:03:02.500 you stood up for yourself.
00:03:03.780 And I think you've got to be true to yourself.
00:03:05.860 You've got to look in the mirror
00:03:06.740 and be comfortable
00:03:08.520 with what comes back at you
00:03:09.880 in terms of principle.
00:03:11.420 And I had a choice.
00:03:12.500 I could have apologized
00:03:13.640 for disbelieving Meghan Markle
00:03:15.460 and kept my job.
00:03:16.940 But if I had done,
00:03:17.940 I would have kicked myself
00:03:19.160 all day, every day, ever since.
00:03:21.500 Because as her tissue of untruths
00:03:24.720 began to be unraveled
00:03:26.580 by the world's media
00:03:28.260 after the Oprah interview,
00:03:29.480 it was quite clear that I was right,
00:03:31.140 that you could barely believe
00:03:32.160 in words she was saying.
00:03:33.400 So the idea that I couldn't express
00:03:35.360 that opinion
00:03:36.020 when it was so obviously true,
00:03:39.060 I thought was extraordinary.
00:03:40.640 And the idea that a media company
00:03:41.920 would bow to the Twitter mob
00:03:44.340 who were baying for my blood
00:03:46.000 and say, look, you either cave
00:03:48.260 and issue a groveling apology,
00:03:50.300 or you have to leave,
00:03:51.960 I thought was ridiculous.
00:03:53.100 So I took the option of leaving.
00:03:54.460 And I've been so pleased about that
00:03:56.320 ever since I was true to myself.
00:03:58.820 And I think that you've got to also,
00:04:00.180 and you know this better than most,
00:04:01.400 Meghan, you've got to back yourself.
00:04:03.380 There's no point expecting
00:04:04.860 other people to back you
00:04:06.320 or support you
00:04:07.560 if you don't do it to yourself.
00:04:09.480 And I think we live in an era
00:04:10.400 where I think people
00:04:12.040 need to have a bit more of a backbone.
00:04:14.460 They've got to understand
00:04:15.060 a bit like Rocky Balboa
00:04:16.440 in the famous speech he gave
00:04:18.260 to his son in the sixth movie
00:04:19.980 as a franchise
00:04:20.500 when the son's being a spoiled brat.
00:04:22.480 And Rocky Balboa says,
00:04:23.580 look, life's not a box of rosies.
00:04:26.700 It's, you know, it's tough.
00:04:27.960 It's hard.
00:04:28.720 And it's not about how many times
00:04:30.160 you can hit something.
00:04:32.300 It's how many times you can get hit
00:04:33.880 and get up and keep going forward.
00:04:36.100 That is what life's about.
00:04:37.300 And I think it applies
00:04:38.200 whether you're in my position
00:04:39.620 a year ago
00:04:40.480 or what you went through
00:04:42.200 or what everyone has to face
00:04:44.680 at some stage in life.
00:04:45.620 You've got to dust yourself down.
00:04:47.160 My family's a bunch of tough women.
00:04:49.140 I grew up around.
00:04:50.680 My mom, my grandmother,
00:04:51.900 tough women have been
00:04:52.720 to a hell of a lot.
00:04:53.660 You've got to dust yourself down
00:04:55.020 and just crack on
00:04:55.840 because the world
00:04:56.760 doesn't owe you any favors.
00:04:58.920 That's right.
00:04:59.500 And if you have talent,
00:05:00.820 there will be another opportunity.
00:05:02.580 You know, if you have that willingness,
00:05:04.040 you're willing to work hard,
00:05:05.260 you know who you are,
00:05:06.240 there will be another opportunity.
00:05:07.360 You'll create it.
00:05:08.240 So anyway, that's why
00:05:09.300 one of the many reasons
00:05:10.360 why I'm proud of you.
00:05:11.820 I'm rooting for you.
00:05:12.460 And I'm so happy
00:05:13.460 to see you back at the helm.
00:05:15.180 And good morning, Britain,
00:05:16.540 to their loss
00:05:17.440 because it was a special dynamic
00:05:18.720 you had on that show
00:05:19.560 and, you know,
00:05:20.000 they haven't recaptured it.
00:05:21.380 OK, so on to the news over here.
00:05:23.000 I'll start with some domestic news,
00:05:24.500 which I know you have been
00:05:25.440 keeping an eye on.
00:05:26.460 And that is this
00:05:27.100 the insanity
00:05:27.880 of people protesting
00:05:29.320 at the homes
00:05:30.320 of our Supreme Court justices.
00:05:32.620 First of all,
00:05:32.980 these are dumbass protesters,
00:05:34.460 Piers,
00:05:34.640 because according to the reports,
00:05:36.260 Chief Justice Roberts
00:05:37.080 isn't even in the majority
00:05:38.600 in this draft opinion.
00:05:40.080 He might actually already
00:05:41.080 be siding with the liberals.
00:05:42.200 We're not sure where he is.
00:05:43.200 So they're just dopes, right?
00:05:44.660 So they just go
00:05:45.120 to the chief justice's home
00:05:46.080 for actually no reason.
00:05:47.540 Justice Kavanaugh
00:05:48.260 seems to be part of the majority.
00:05:49.500 So they go to his house.
00:05:50.680 He's got two young daughters.
00:05:52.760 No one cares.
00:05:53.620 Let's go ahead and scare him.
00:05:54.960 There are other protests planned,
00:05:56.180 including, we're told,
00:05:56.840 at Amy Coney Barrett's house.
00:05:58.300 She's got young children,
00:05:59.200 including a 10 year old
00:06:00.000 who happens to have Down syndrome.
00:06:01.760 Great, great idea
00:06:02.560 to go to that house
00:06:03.480 and scare the child.
00:06:04.560 No problem.
00:06:06.160 So to me, it's disgusting.
00:06:07.840 And it's it's actually
00:06:09.100 deeply problematic
00:06:09.840 because I think it's
00:06:10.920 an open attempt
00:06:11.820 to intimidate a court
00:06:14.620 that's currently adjudicating
00:06:17.580 a really important matter.
00:06:19.540 It's obvious intimidation
00:06:21.360 or at least attempted intimidation.
00:06:23.140 You can make a very strong case
00:06:24.220 that it's actually criminal
00:06:25.180 for that reason.
00:06:26.220 It's not just a normal protest.
00:06:27.860 And our White House here
00:06:28.960 continues to shrug it off like,
00:06:30.840 oh, protest is a good thing.
00:06:32.540 This is really just
00:06:33.180 a run of the mill protest.
00:06:34.440 What do you make of it?
00:06:35.020 It's not a run of the mill protest
00:06:37.460 when you basically terrorize
00:06:39.600 the senior judges of the country
00:06:41.860 at their homes
00:06:42.700 when they have young kids.
00:06:43.740 That's a form of domestic terrorism
00:06:45.540 that's going on.
00:06:46.540 And you saw it in Wisconsin,
00:06:47.800 I think,
00:06:48.140 when an anti-abortion building
00:06:49.920 was targeted overnight
00:06:51.160 with a firebomb.
00:06:52.800 It's completely outrageous behavior.
00:06:54.700 This is domestic terrorism
00:06:55.880 you're witnessing.
00:06:57.220 And yeah,
00:06:57.500 I believe in fair
00:06:58.780 democratic protests,
00:07:00.520 but none of the homes of judges
00:07:01.700 making these important decisions.
00:07:03.100 You know, abortion,
00:07:04.240 I understand completely
00:07:05.500 in America
00:07:06.420 is an extremely emotive issue
00:07:07.980 and it's very divided,
00:07:09.780 this issue in America,
00:07:10.720 far more than it is, say,
00:07:12.060 in the UK,
00:07:12.780 where I am now,
00:07:13.360 where it got settled
00:07:13.920 many decades ago
00:07:15.300 and people have sort of
00:07:16.140 accepted that and moved on.
00:07:17.180 In America,
00:07:17.900 people feel incredibly strongly.
00:07:19.400 I come from a Catholic family
00:07:20.860 and a lot of members
00:07:22.420 of my family
00:07:22.980 feel very strongly
00:07:23.940 against abortion.
00:07:25.600 I happen,
00:07:26.680 for what it's worth,
00:07:28.020 believe in a woman's right
00:07:29.400 to choose,
00:07:29.860 but that's just
00:07:30.220 my personal opinion.
00:07:31.080 I certainly don't want to
00:07:31.960 force that onto America
00:07:33.080 Americans
00:07:33.200 who have to make
00:07:34.280 their own minds up
00:07:35.020 about what kind of laws
00:07:36.020 they want in their country.
00:07:37.200 So,
00:07:37.580 have you put all that
00:07:38.220 on the table?
00:07:39.560 Surely we can all agree
00:07:40.800 that whatever side
00:07:41.580 of this debate you're on,
00:07:43.020 whether you're pro-abortion
00:07:44.340 or anti-abortion,
00:07:45.960 and most people I know
00:07:47.480 who support
00:07:48.140 a woman's right to choose,
00:07:49.640 they don't want to be seen
00:07:50.520 as pro-abortion anyway,
00:07:51.860 actually.
00:07:52.220 They don't want to be seen
00:07:53.240 that this is something good.
00:07:54.780 I think we can all agree
00:07:55.640 it's not a good thing.
00:07:56.520 No woman wants
00:07:57.160 to go through it.
00:07:57.880 The argument becomes
00:07:59.060 about whether it should be legal,
00:08:00.840 whether it should be run by.
00:08:01.700 That's why you're wrong.
00:08:02.700 That's why you're wrong.
00:08:03.420 I know you took some guff
00:08:04.160 on Twitter for saying that
00:08:05.060 from the left.
00:08:06.380 I would say
00:08:07.200 you're wrong.
00:08:08.760 You're giving too much
00:08:10.100 credit in character
00:08:11.780 to a lot of the loudest activists
00:08:14.000 whose largest group
00:08:15.160 over here
00:08:15.580 is called
00:08:16.300 Shout Your Abortion.
00:08:18.400 They are proud.
00:08:19.480 We had Letitia James,
00:08:20.660 the Attorney General
00:08:21.340 of New York,
00:08:21.820 the gal who brought down
00:08:23.200 Andrew Cuomo
00:08:23.780 and went after Harvey Weinstein,
00:08:25.680 literally say
00:08:26.380 she was proud
00:08:27.220 to walk into Planned Parenthood
00:08:28.420 and get an abortion
00:08:29.120 not long ago,
00:08:30.220 right when she took over
00:08:31.180 as AG.
00:08:32.220 There are women
00:08:33.080 who are loving it.
00:08:33.900 I accept that, actually.
00:08:35.180 I did get sent
00:08:35.840 some tweets about that,
00:08:37.560 which I wasn't really aware
00:08:38.540 of what had been going on there.
00:08:40.240 And I accept that.
00:08:41.480 I think there are some people
00:08:42.360 maybe who are proud of it.
00:08:43.560 It's very like you.
00:08:44.200 That to me is completely,
00:08:45.460 that to me,
00:08:46.500 whatever side you are
00:08:47.460 on about the argument,
00:08:48.420 that's wrong.
00:08:49.240 I don't think anyone
00:08:49.820 should be proud of it.
00:08:50.880 I think it's something
00:08:51.560 which is, you know,
00:08:52.800 never a desirable outcome.
00:08:54.180 Nobody, I don't think,
00:08:56.120 if you have a conscience
00:08:57.020 or a heart,
00:08:57.620 thinks this is a good thing.
00:08:59.120 It's whether you think
00:08:59.860 a woman should have
00:09:00.440 a right to choose.
00:09:01.120 I happen to think they should.
00:09:02.500 But other people
00:09:03.080 I know in America in particular,
00:09:04.480 it's very divisive,
00:09:05.840 very emotional.
00:09:07.000 And I think you've got to respect
00:09:07.960 both sides of the argument.
00:09:09.320 What you can't have
00:09:10.220 is people on either side
00:09:11.960 using intimidation
00:09:13.640 and arson and terrorism
00:09:15.740 to try and enforce
00:09:17.400 their view through.
00:09:18.480 And, you know,
00:09:18.820 I think also it was a tragedy
00:09:20.540 for American democracy
00:09:21.640 that you have this leak
00:09:23.220 about a first draft
00:09:24.140 of such an important issue
00:09:25.600 from the Supreme Court.
00:09:26.960 And we still don't know,
00:09:28.040 really,
00:09:28.280 what the motivation
00:09:29.020 for that leak was.
00:09:30.380 Was it somebody on the left
00:09:31.580 who wants to stop
00:09:32.720 the overturning
00:09:33.580 of Roe versus Wade?
00:09:34.740 Or was it perhaps
00:09:35.480 somebody on the right
00:09:36.380 who wants the judges
00:09:37.660 and the court
00:09:38.280 to keep to that
00:09:39.240 first draft conclusion?
00:09:40.520 We don't know yet.
00:09:41.240 So the idea that you can,
00:09:42.640 you know,
00:09:43.320 act out these protests
00:09:44.740 and forms of terrorism
00:09:46.200 based on what you believe
00:09:47.640 has happened here
00:09:48.480 and what you believe
00:09:49.500 they may end up concluding,
00:09:51.140 I think is completely ridiculous.
00:09:52.680 And it flies in the face
00:09:54.400 of what a free democratic society
00:09:56.020 should be.
00:09:56.860 It shouldn't be predicated
00:09:57.900 on people getting their own view
00:09:59.200 because they use forms of terrorism.
00:10:02.640 Well, and it's so crazy
00:10:03.300 because people don't seem
00:10:03.980 to understand
00:10:04.620 what the Supreme Court does.
00:10:06.080 They don't make the laws.
00:10:07.220 They say what the ultimate
00:10:08.320 interpretation
00:10:08.920 of the Constitution
00:10:09.740 and the law is.
00:10:10.660 They don't make it.
00:10:11.920 And this is up
00:10:12.560 to their legislatures.
00:10:13.720 So it's very democratic
00:10:14.860 to have this go back
00:10:15.720 to the states
00:10:16.200 and have each state figure out
00:10:17.460 what its citizens want.
00:10:18.860 And while it will result
00:10:20.800 in probably the loss of abortion
00:10:22.640 if this opinion comes out
00:10:23.860 as the draft looked
00:10:24.800 in places like Mississippi
00:10:26.460 and I know it's,
00:10:28.040 you know,
00:10:28.260 it's easy for me to say
00:10:29.080 get up and vote with your feet,
00:10:30.180 walk away,
00:10:30.940 that that's the way
00:10:31.600 the country works.
00:10:32.540 I mean, you know,
00:10:33.460 that's the way it was set up
00:10:34.480 and people do it
00:10:35.220 on all sorts of issues
00:10:36.120 from guns to,
00:10:37.720 you know,
00:10:37.920 whatever taxes.
00:10:40.180 So that's where
00:10:41.360 this is likely to land
00:10:42.300 if the decision comes down.
00:10:43.640 You mentioned Madison, Wisconsin.
00:10:45.360 Just want to inform
00:10:46.240 the audience.
00:10:46.740 What happened there
00:10:47.440 was an anti-abortion
00:10:49.100 headquarters was hit
00:10:50.120 by a Molotov cocktail,
00:10:51.860 by vandalism,
00:10:52.580 by graffiti.
00:10:53.940 There was a slogan
00:10:54.860 and a phrase sprayed
00:10:55.920 if abortions aren't safe,
00:10:57.600 then you aren't either.
00:10:59.560 And the threat
00:11:00.800 is starting to grow
00:11:01.720 at places that
00:11:02.860 are anti-abortion
00:11:04.880 because the pro-abortion side
00:11:06.940 is getting very upset,
00:11:09.280 very angry
00:11:10.060 before we even know
00:11:11.800 what the decision is, Pierce.
00:11:12.720 That's what's so crazy.
00:11:13.840 I was listening to my pals
00:11:14.740 on National Review
00:11:15.520 over the weekend
00:11:16.160 and they're sort of
00:11:17.480 more establishment
00:11:18.060 Republican types
00:11:18.820 and they were saying
00:11:20.000 all of them,
00:11:20.840 they hate, you know,
00:11:22.240 Roe versus Wade
00:11:22.880 and they're pro-life.
00:11:24.800 Not one of them
00:11:25.500 believes this is going
00:11:26.200 to come down
00:11:26.600 the way it was written.
00:11:27.460 They're all,
00:11:27.920 they're saying
00:11:28.440 it's too good to be true.
00:11:30.200 That was an initial draft.
00:11:31.600 Chief Justice Roberts
00:11:32.320 is probably going to break away
00:11:33.400 a Brett Kavanaugh
00:11:34.040 or somebody
00:11:34.600 and the odds
00:11:35.960 of Roe versus Wade
00:11:37.640 being overturned
00:11:38.240 are probably rather slim.
00:11:39.900 So what is all this about?
00:11:41.280 We have to wait
00:11:41.880 to see what the actual opinion is.
00:11:44.040 Well, I think that's the problem
00:11:44.960 with the leak, isn't it?
00:11:45.960 Because if you leak
00:11:46.660 a first draft
00:11:47.560 before it's actually gone
00:11:48.560 through the normal
00:11:49.280 due process of the court,
00:11:51.120 then this is the kind
00:11:52.180 of mayhem that can erupt.
00:11:53.860 And now whatever happens,
00:11:55.460 there's going to be fury
00:11:56.740 from one side
00:11:57.580 or the other.
00:11:58.740 You know,
00:11:59.000 I was really struck by,
00:12:00.620 you know,
00:12:00.820 I learned when I was
00:12:02.280 at CNN
00:12:03.080 and did a lot of debating
00:12:04.940 about gun control,
00:12:06.140 for example,
00:12:07.020 that Americans really
00:12:07.920 don't want to hear
00:12:08.460 someone with my accent
00:12:09.460 tell them
00:12:10.000 how they should be
00:12:11.280 abiding by their own
00:12:12.460 constitution.
00:12:13.060 So let me just say,
00:12:14.340 I accept that,
00:12:15.340 that, you know,
00:12:15.720 I can have my personal views
00:12:17.200 about some of these issues,
00:12:18.760 but I'm not an American
00:12:19.600 and I'm not an American citizen
00:12:21.500 and it's down to American citizens
00:12:23.320 to have this debate
00:12:24.100 amongst each other
00:12:24.880 and work out what they want.
00:12:26.700 Now,
00:12:27.160 I was struck by
00:12:27.960 when I read all the detail
00:12:28.960 in the fallout of this leak,
00:12:30.940 that actually a lot of
00:12:32.040 legal minded people,
00:12:33.280 I know you're
00:12:33.780 a very keen legal brain,
00:12:35.860 a lot of legal people
00:12:36.600 thought the original law,
00:12:38.580 which was laid down
00:12:39.640 50 odd years ago
00:12:40.720 on Roe versus Wade,
00:12:41.600 was flawed.
00:12:42.780 And that has been
00:12:43.820 the problem all along.
00:12:45.280 The original opinion.
00:12:46.340 But actually many people
00:12:46.620 in the legal world
00:12:47.640 think that it should have
00:12:48.400 always reverted back
00:12:49.260 to states.
00:12:50.200 Now,
00:12:50.660 I thought that was
00:12:51.480 quite interesting.
00:12:51.980 I thought it was interesting
00:12:52.480 that two thirds of Americans
00:12:53.840 in the polls
00:12:54.600 do not want Roe versus Wade
00:12:56.920 overturned.
00:12:57.500 But if it then goes
00:12:58.260 to a question about
00:12:59.140 how would you see it
00:13:00.260 if it went back
00:13:00.780 to states,
00:13:02.500 they then actually
00:13:03.440 are more draconian
00:13:04.840 in the kind of way
00:13:06.400 they would want
00:13:07.020 abortion laws
00:13:07.880 than even Roe versus Wade
00:13:09.660 would be.
00:13:09.940 So it's an interesting
00:13:10.860 inconsistency there
00:13:12.740 which I think
00:13:13.280 plays to the fact
00:13:14.040 that I think
00:13:14.380 a lot of Americans
00:13:15.300 feel very, very strongly
00:13:17.080 and are entrenched
00:13:17.960 on their views
00:13:18.560 and many other Americans
00:13:19.460 are unsure
00:13:21.080 about exactly
00:13:21.840 where they think
00:13:22.360 the line should be.
00:13:23.640 You know,
00:13:23.860 should the term limit
00:13:24.700 be here?
00:13:25.520 Here?
00:13:25.860 Should there be
00:13:26.560 no term limit?
00:13:27.580 I think there's lots
00:13:28.300 of debates to be had
00:13:29.440 but this is a debate
00:13:30.560 that has to be had
00:13:31.700 without the people
00:13:32.860 involved in it
00:13:33.760 being intimidated
00:13:34.360 because the moment
00:13:35.420 you do that
00:13:36.160 you are becoming
00:13:37.600 a fascist
00:13:38.880 totalitarian state.
00:13:40.700 You're becoming
00:13:41.240 like Russia,
00:13:41.940 North Korea,
00:13:42.460 China
00:13:42.740 where this kind
00:13:43.540 of intimidation
00:13:44.220 and terrorism
00:13:44.640 goes on all the time.
00:13:46.160 That's right.
00:13:46.760 The thing that suffers
00:13:47.720 most is democracy.
00:13:49.760 It's crazy how
00:13:50.220 we're not even hearing
00:13:51.080 the sort of placeholder
00:13:53.120 the leak was wrong
00:13:54.320 but let's focus
00:13:55.100 on the opinion
00:13:55.620 from the left.
00:13:56.360 No one's even
00:13:57.200 condemning the leak
00:13:57.900 at all.
00:13:58.660 In fact,
00:13:58.920 the Washington Post
00:13:59.820 this weekend
00:14:00.380 did a pretty
00:14:01.300 fawning piece
00:14:02.360 on one of the protesters
00:14:03.300 going in front of
00:14:04.260 Brett Kavanaugh
00:14:05.060 or John Roberts' house.
00:14:07.000 The press is loving it.
00:14:08.220 Get them.
00:14:08.740 They're in favor
00:14:09.500 of the protests.
00:14:10.700 They're in favor
00:14:11.080 of the leak
00:14:11.640 and we have a sitting
00:14:13.480 court right now
00:14:14.240 that hasn't yet
00:14:14.840 issued an opinion
00:14:15.840 and the reason
00:14:16.840 this is so dangerous
00:14:17.780 is because
00:14:18.940 there are lunatics
00:14:20.120 out there.
00:14:20.780 I don't have to tell you
00:14:21.480 that.
00:14:22.020 They're in your country.
00:14:23.100 They're in mine
00:14:23.540 and this is a 5-4
00:14:26.000 decision right now
00:14:26.980 at best
00:14:27.680 for the conservatives
00:14:28.360 so it looks
00:14:29.360 and so
00:14:30.360 there really is
00:14:31.400 a limited number
00:14:32.040 of Supreme Court justices
00:14:33.180 and who's to say
00:14:34.480 some lunatic's
00:14:35.200 not going to get it
00:14:35.740 in his head
00:14:36.480 that before this thing
00:14:37.580 comes out
00:14:38.040 he could take out
00:14:38.720 one of those justices.
00:14:39.680 God forbid.
00:14:40.740 I'm not putting ideas
00:14:41.620 into people's heads.
00:14:42.360 It's already been spoken
00:14:43.080 about in many forums
00:14:44.040 and so the longer
00:14:46.020 this sits
00:14:46.680 with the intimidation
00:14:48.060 campaign ramping up
00:14:49.320 with the protesters
00:14:50.000 essentially saying
00:14:50.940 we know where you live
00:14:52.960 and we published it
00:14:54.320 on the internet
00:14:55.240 the more danger
00:14:56.760 the justices are in
00:14:58.120 justice itself
00:14:59.940 is in
00:15:00.560 and we can't
00:15:01.660 get our White House
00:15:02.500 to even shrug
00:15:03.720 a shoulder.
00:15:04.620 I mean here's
00:15:05.380 what they just said
00:15:06.160 Piers about
00:15:06.620 the Wisconsin
00:15:07.300 Molotov cocktail
00:15:08.600 attack on the
00:15:09.860 anti-abortion
00:15:10.600 facility.
00:15:11.840 The White House
00:15:12.280 just released this.
00:15:13.480 I'll read it to you.
00:15:14.080 President Joe Biden
00:15:14.740 strongly condemns
00:15:15.840 the arson attack
00:15:17.300 on a Wisconsin
00:15:18.240 anti-abortion group
00:15:19.240 the White House
00:15:19.700 announced Monday.
00:15:20.840 He released a statement
00:15:21.540 roughly a day after
00:15:22.440 an unknown assailant
00:15:23.260 threw at least
00:15:24.000 one Molotov cocktail
00:15:24.860 into the office.
00:15:26.120 President Biden
00:15:26.520 strongly condemns
00:15:27.320 this attack
00:15:27.720 and political
00:15:28.360 violence of any
00:15:29.000 stripe.
00:15:29.600 He's made clear
00:15:30.280 throughout his time
00:15:30.920 in public life
00:15:31.460 that Americans
00:15:31.920 have the fundamental
00:15:32.560 right to express
00:15:33.220 themselves under
00:15:33.760 the Constitution
00:15:34.380 whatever their
00:15:34.880 point of view
00:15:35.360 but that expression
00:15:36.520 must be peaceful
00:15:37.260 and free of violence
00:15:38.140 vandalism
00:15:38.880 or attempts to
00:15:40.360 intimidate.
00:15:41.480 Why can't he say
00:15:42.980 that about
00:15:44.060 the protesters
00:15:45.220 in front of
00:15:46.040 the chief justice's
00:15:47.460 home
00:15:47.760 Justice Kavanaugh's
00:15:49.660 home
00:15:49.940 the longer he lets
00:15:51.700 it go on
00:15:52.540 without saying
00:15:53.380 this is wrong
00:15:54.800 yes it's public
00:15:55.860 property
00:15:56.340 the sidewalk
00:15:56.980 in front of
00:15:57.420 the justice's
00:15:57.940 home
00:15:58.080 that doesn't
00:15:58.800 change what
00:15:59.260 they're doing
00:15:59.700 and there's a
00:16:00.180 very good case
00:16:00.760 to be made
00:16:01.100 that it's illegal
00:16:01.720 because if you
00:16:02.260 protest even on
00:16:03.400 public property
00:16:04.020 outside of a
00:16:04.620 justice's home
00:16:05.220 in an attempt
00:16:05.700 to change the
00:16:06.180 outcome of a
00:16:06.740 verdict or an
00:16:07.840 opinion you are
00:16:08.880 violating a
00:16:09.640 criminal statute
00:16:10.220 so it shouldn't
00:16:10.980 be that hard for
00:16:11.620 our president to
00:16:12.580 say it's wrong
00:16:13.180 no it shouldn't
00:16:14.220 and it's a very
00:16:15.320 straightforward thing
00:16:16.120 for any president
00:16:16.780 to say if they
00:16:18.020 are inclined to
00:16:19.180 say it I just
00:16:19.840 don't Joe Biden
00:16:20.560 wants to annoy
00:16:21.840 his own side
00:16:22.980 as he would see
00:16:23.720 it by going that
00:16:24.940 far but he should
00:16:25.680 if the situation
00:16:27.000 was reversed
00:16:27.720 absolutely the
00:16:29.580 same people
00:16:30.180 defending this
00:16:30.920 would be howling
00:16:31.660 their rage about
00:16:32.800 it happening
00:16:33.260 so let's be
00:16:34.780 crystal clear
00:16:35.340 there's a rank
00:16:35.980 hypocrisy here
00:16:36.960 and that is
00:16:37.960 that's one of the
00:16:38.840 problems at the
00:16:39.280 moment I think
00:16:39.860 with the hyper
00:16:41.080 partisan tribal
00:16:42.340 nature of political
00:16:43.740 debate now not
00:16:44.500 just in America
00:16:45.160 but around the
00:16:45.720 world we certainly
00:16:46.720 got it here in the
00:16:47.360 UK I see in other
00:16:48.260 countries I feel it
00:16:49.780 very strongly in
00:16:50.520 America now where
00:16:51.460 there are tribes
00:16:53.180 whipped up by
00:16:53.980 social media you
00:16:55.340 dare deviate from
00:16:56.500 your tribe's view
00:16:57.520 about whatever the
00:16:58.280 issue may be
00:16:59.060 facts don't matter
00:17:00.360 it's purely about
00:17:01.420 winning and beating
00:17:02.780 the opposition and
00:17:04.000 if you can intimidate
00:17:04.900 them and terrorize
00:17:05.860 them to doing that
00:17:06.480 all well and good
00:17:07.200 but there's a lot of
00:17:08.340 hypocrisy here too
00:17:09.340 you know I think the
00:17:10.520 best thing you can do
00:17:11.300 for a civilized
00:17:11.980 democracy is you
00:17:12.820 you take any issue
00:17:13.860 like this and you
00:17:14.540 reverse it and say
00:17:15.960 what would the people
00:17:16.900 saying this about
00:17:18.640 this say if it was
00:17:19.300 the other way around
00:17:19.820 it was their side
00:17:20.580 and almost
00:17:21.920 invariably you
00:17:22.940 reach the conclusion
00:17:23.680 that they would be
00:17:24.780 saying something
00:17:25.340 completely different
00:17:26.220 Joe Biden would be
00:17:26.940 saying something
00:17:27.300 very different
00:17:28.040 and that's the
00:17:29.960 problem with this
00:17:30.600 when our new
00:17:31.480 Supreme Court
00:17:31.960 justice comes on
00:17:32.740 Ketanji Brown
00:17:33.400 Jackson who's the
00:17:34.220 first African-American
00:17:34.980 woman to sit on
00:17:35.820 the Supreme Court
00:17:36.300 she's not on yet
00:17:36.980 she's taking
00:17:37.520 Justice Breyer's
00:17:38.800 seat and Justice
00:17:39.280 Breyer's still on
00:17:40.100 until the end of
00:17:41.060 this term which is
00:17:41.720 next month
00:17:42.360 can you imagine
00:17:43.540 if she were one
00:17:44.360 of the justices
00:17:44.880 being protested
00:17:45.700 you think the
00:17:46.220 White House
00:17:46.560 this White House
00:17:47.920 wouldn't be saying
00:17:49.040 you're racist
00:17:49.720 misogynistic
00:17:50.740 disgusting MAGA
00:17:51.740 Republicans
00:17:52.320 it would be
00:17:52.820 outrage
00:17:53.500 right
00:17:54.060 I mean it would
00:17:54.640 be total outrage
00:17:56.000 from the left
00:17:56.740 if that was
00:17:57.620 happening
00:17:57.980 and that's my
00:17:58.940 problem with
00:17:59.960 the hypocrisy
00:18:00.680 because they're
00:18:01.240 targeting a
00:18:02.320 White middle-aged
00:18:03.980 man who happens
00:18:05.180 to be a
00:18:05.900 Republican a
00:18:06.580 conservative
00:18:07.020 that's fine
00:18:08.320 but if they were
00:18:09.240 targeting her
00:18:10.360 it would be an
00:18:11.460 outrage
00:18:12.040 and that's exactly
00:18:12.680 what I'm talking
00:18:13.180 about that's the
00:18:13.960 hypocrisy
00:18:14.540 there's no moral
00:18:15.700 consistency to this
00:18:16.840 in fact it's the
00:18:17.520 opposite
00:18:17.840 there's a deliberate
00:18:19.140 moral vacuum
00:18:20.780 here
00:18:21.160 but people aren't
00:18:22.040 making principled
00:18:23.120 statements
00:18:23.640 they're just simply
00:18:24.760 saying what suits
00:18:25.500 their sign
00:18:26.080 it's even worse
00:18:27.280 for him
00:18:27.660 that way
00:18:28.680 undemocratic
00:18:30.080 hell lies
00:18:30.880 honestly
00:18:31.420 it's from
00:18:32.680 to me what the
00:18:33.540 president is doing
00:18:34.180 is selfish
00:18:35.240 he sees a chance
00:18:36.640 to turn the
00:18:37.260 national narrative
00:18:37.920 which has been
00:18:38.500 terrible for him
00:18:39.420 given our 8%
00:18:40.580 inflation rates
00:18:41.600 the crime rates
00:18:42.780 and so on
00:18:43.320 and he sees a
00:18:44.680 political opportunity
00:18:45.440 to shore up his
00:18:46.240 party before the
00:18:46.920 midterms not to
00:18:47.600 mention his own
00:18:48.200 poll numbers
00:18:48.780 and that requires
00:18:50.160 him to let the
00:18:51.100 supreme court sit
00:18:51.940 there endangered
00:18:52.680 for him to provide
00:18:53.880 absolutely no
00:18:54.820 back out
00:18:55.220 not even a
00:18:55.780 back up
00:18:56.140 not even a
00:18:56.640 word of support
00:18:57.400 or condemnation
00:18:58.460 for people getting
00:18:59.060 a little too
00:18:59.660 close for comfort
00:19:01.220 when it comes to
00:19:02.020 our supreme court
00:19:02.820 justices
00:19:03.300 this is not
00:19:03.800 speaking of
00:19:04.340 protests at the
00:19:04.960 high court
00:19:05.380 that's always
00:19:05.940 happened
00:19:06.300 at the homes
00:19:07.260 is a different
00:19:07.680 thing
00:19:07.880 it's selfish
00:19:08.500 about him
00:19:08.980 and his
00:19:10.140 poll numbers
00:19:10.860 which speaks
00:19:11.640 to the man's
00:19:12.160 character
00:19:12.560 yeah
00:19:13.160 totally agree
00:19:14.500 and it's
00:19:15.480 exactly the kind
00:19:16.720 of behavior
00:19:17.200 if this was
00:19:17.680 Donald Trump
00:19:18.260 doing it
00:19:18.740 on an issue
00:19:19.340 that the left
00:19:20.940 felt strongly
00:19:21.540 about
00:19:21.860 they would be
00:19:22.460 outraged by it
00:19:23.540 yes
00:19:24.000 they would call
00:19:24.620 it cowardly
00:19:25.420 and they would
00:19:25.880 call it pathetic
00:19:26.720 and shameful
00:19:27.980 but because it's
00:19:29.040 Joe Biden doing
00:19:29.860 it to appease
00:19:30.540 the left
00:19:31.160 because they think
00:19:32.280 that Kavanaugh
00:19:32.940 and the other
00:19:34.000 conservative judges
00:19:34.880 are easy pickings
00:19:36.640 then it's fine
00:19:37.800 and that's
00:19:39.100 it's just not
00:19:39.680 acceptable to be
00:19:40.540 that brazenly
00:19:41.540 hypocritical
00:19:42.400 they better pray
00:19:43.820 pray that nothing
00:19:44.940 happens to these
00:19:45.540 supreme court
00:19:45.940 justices
00:19:46.440 pray
00:19:46.900 and I
00:19:48.540 believe as well
00:19:49.460 that God forbid
00:19:50.600 something were to
00:19:51.120 happen in one of
00:19:51.660 them
00:19:51.860 I believe that
00:19:52.680 Chief Justice Roberts
00:19:53.520 if he really is
00:19:54.240 the sixth vote
00:19:55.220 sitting out
00:19:55.820 he'd cross over
00:19:56.920 he would vote
00:19:57.620 as that person
00:19:58.160 there's zero chance
00:19:59.440 the supreme court
00:20:00.080 is going to sit
00:20:00.760 back and let
00:20:01.300 their vote
00:20:01.920 on this case
00:20:02.580 be manipulated
00:20:03.320 by protesters
00:20:04.860 or violence
00:20:06.240 so whatever the
00:20:07.580 plan is
00:20:08.120 it's not going
00:20:08.560 to work
00:20:08.960 now you mentioned
00:20:10.340 Donald Trump
00:20:10.920 you had some
00:20:11.840 experience with him
00:20:12.580 recently
00:20:13.060 you've had many
00:20:14.500 years of experience
00:20:15.380 with him
00:20:15.980 let me ask you
00:20:18.080 this so just to
00:20:18.940 bring the audience
00:20:19.480 up to speed
00:20:19.880 if they have been
00:20:20.600 living under a rock
00:20:21.460 Pierce had Donald
00:20:22.740 Trump on his show
00:20:23.600 to launch it
00:20:25.160 two weeks ago
00:20:26.000 and it was a two
00:20:26.760 night affair
00:20:27.300 and it got
00:20:28.040 gangbuster ratings
00:20:29.240 but he claimed
00:20:31.260 to be upset
00:20:31.800 by the promo
00:20:32.680 which showed
00:20:33.280 Donald Trump
00:20:33.720 storming out
00:20:34.560 President Trump
00:20:35.200 storming out
00:20:35.740 of the interview
00:20:36.300 Pierce later said
00:20:37.640 you know
00:20:38.340 he did get up
00:20:39.220 and was angry
00:20:39.960 he didn't actually
00:20:41.280 storm out of the
00:20:41.900 interview but you know
00:20:42.560 he left under
00:20:43.080 tense circumstances
00:20:43.900 he's been
00:20:44.700 complaining about
00:20:45.520 it ever since
00:20:46.220 and my question
00:20:47.960 to you
00:20:48.480 he's at a rally
00:20:49.280 just this past
00:20:49.860 weekend
00:20:50.200 ripping on you
00:20:51.000 Pierce
00:20:51.300 you probably saw
00:20:52.120 I called you
00:20:52.500 crazy I think
00:20:53.220 I did yeah
00:20:53.820 okay wait
00:20:55.420 we'll just play
00:20:56.100 it so the audience
00:20:56.600 has soundbite
00:20:57.160 five
00:20:57.460 here he is
00:20:58.160 this crazy
00:21:00.040 Pierce Morgan
00:21:00.840 did you see
00:21:01.380 that show
00:21:02.020 Pierce Morgan
00:21:03.440 thank you sir
00:21:04.260 Pierce Morgan
00:21:05.600 show you see
00:21:06.340 Pierce Morgan
00:21:07.080 he sort of had it
00:21:08.080 I think Pierce
00:21:08.760 is over the hill
00:21:10.200 he opened the show
00:21:12.680 with an interview
00:21:13.420 of me I did him
00:21:14.160 a favor I didn't
00:21:14.800 want to do a stupid
00:21:15.580 show it's on
00:21:16.420 Fox Nation
00:21:18.960 what is Fox Nation
00:21:20.100 what is it
00:21:20.640 they're gonna love
00:21:21.100 me when I say
00:21:21.640 what is Fox
00:21:22.360 it's on Fox Nation
00:21:23.620 he opened with
00:21:24.680 great ratings
00:21:25.560 when he did me
00:21:26.560 and then after my
00:21:27.940 interview was finished
00:21:29.040 he bombed
00:21:30.280 and he's now down
00:21:31.120 over 70%
00:21:32.460 okay
00:21:33.640 so
00:21:34.660 so he's still
00:21:36.160 ripping on you
00:21:36.780 crazy
00:21:37.080 I've always wanted
00:21:37.880 to be one of his
00:21:38.780 rally
00:21:39.200 his rally targets
00:21:40.700 it's just so funny
00:21:41.620 to listen to
00:21:42.140 but anyway
00:21:42.460 so here's my
00:21:43.960 question to you
00:21:44.580 is this
00:21:45.460 do you think
00:21:46.040 his purported
00:21:47.120 anger
00:21:47.460 is real
00:21:48.880 or kind of
00:21:50.560 a favor to you
00:21:51.420 to gin up
00:21:52.280 you know
00:21:53.140 buzz
00:21:53.780 around your show
00:21:54.560 I think that
00:21:56.400 well
00:21:56.760 here's what I
00:21:57.400 really think
00:21:57.800 happened
00:21:58.100 he was
00:21:58.760 sent a document
00:22:00.160 just before we
00:22:01.300 sat down
00:22:01.880 by a guy called
00:22:03.080 Nigel Farage
00:22:03.860 who may be
00:22:04.340 familiar to
00:22:04.920 a lot of your
00:22:05.480 viewers here
00:22:06.600 and Nigel Farage
00:22:07.580 is a conservative
00:22:08.520 politician in the UK
00:22:09.440 who works for a
00:22:10.840 rival news network
00:22:12.080 here to my show
00:22:13.320 in the UK
00:22:13.740 and he deliberately
00:22:15.440 tried to sabotage
00:22:16.320 the interview
00:22:16.580 sending Donald Trump
00:22:17.560 a lot of very
00:22:18.420 critical things
00:22:19.100 I'd said about him
00:22:19.800 in his last year
00:22:20.540 of his tenure
00:22:21.720 as president
00:22:22.140 about the way
00:22:23.300 he handled the
00:22:23.880 pandemic
00:22:24.260 about his refusal
00:22:25.280 to accept defeat
00:22:26.160 about January
00:22:27.300 the 6th
00:22:27.740 and so on
00:22:28.420 when by the way
00:22:29.100 I wasn't the only
00:22:29.620 one criticizing him
00:22:30.460 and I've always
00:22:30.800 tried to be fair
00:22:31.480 with Donald Trump
00:22:32.440 in the 15 years
00:22:33.260 I've been friends
00:22:33.800 with him
00:22:34.220 where I criticize
00:22:35.720 him if I feel
00:22:36.440 he deserves it
00:22:37.060 and I praise him
00:22:37.680 when other people
00:22:38.480 are burying him
00:22:39.080 so I've always
00:22:39.440 tried to be fair
00:22:39.600 and it's not like
00:22:40.140 you were quiet
00:22:40.600 about that
00:22:40.800 you were publishing
00:22:41.640 it
00:22:41.800 to stop the
00:22:42.900 interview happening
00:22:43.520 but you were
00:22:44.480 publishing that
00:22:45.060 in the Daily Mail
00:22:45.600 I read a lot
00:22:46.200 of that at the time
00:22:46.800 it's not like
00:22:47.180 you were keeping
00:22:47.740 that a secret
00:22:48.200 it wasn't a secret
00:22:49.360 no but Donald Trump
00:22:50.400 hadn't seen
00:22:50.920 a lot of it
00:22:52.080 so he was set
00:22:53.020 the top line
00:22:56.160 he read them all
00:22:56.940 to me in his office
00:22:57.660 and was getting
00:22:58.120 very angry about it
00:22:59.020 and I said look
00:22:59.520 you didn't make me
00:23:00.420 your celebrity apprentice
00:23:01.200 for sitting on the fence
00:23:02.040 like some shrinking violet
00:23:03.220 you said when I was
00:23:05.080 made the winner
00:23:05.920 that I was tough
00:23:07.120 and ruthless
00:23:07.660 and beat the heart of everybody
00:23:09.200 of course I'm going
00:23:10.020 to criticize you
00:23:10.800 if I don't agree with it
00:23:11.500 but I've always
00:23:12.040 tried to be fair with you
00:23:13.020 anyway he agreed
00:23:13.980 to do the interview
00:23:14.580 it was supposed to do
00:23:15.080 20 minutes
00:23:15.620 I got 72 minutes
00:23:17.520 so clearly he couldn't
00:23:18.520 have been that annoyed
00:23:19.100 with the interview
00:23:19.580 if he sat there
00:23:20.160 for three times
00:23:20.720 as long as he should have been
00:23:21.520 and with Donald Trump
00:23:23.080 if you interview him
00:23:24.240 you just keep going
00:23:25.080 until he stops it
00:23:26.160 it doesn't matter
00:23:26.680 what his aides
00:23:27.220 are all saying
00:23:27.700 so the promo I did
00:23:29.400 was very much
00:23:30.260 in the style
00:23:30.840 of The Apprentice
00:23:31.580 where I tried to make it
00:23:32.700 as exciting
00:23:33.600 and tantalizing
00:23:34.960 as possible
00:23:35.560 and he was completely honest
00:23:37.220 I never said
00:23:38.280 Donald Trump
00:23:39.140 stormed out
00:23:39.960 of the interview
00:23:40.540 I just said
00:23:41.680 in a piece
00:23:42.180 I wrote
00:23:42.580 in the New York Post
00:23:43.580 the company
00:23:44.380 the promo being put out
00:23:46.280 I said he left
00:23:47.600 in a really bad mood
00:23:49.000 which he did
00:23:49.740 and it wasn't
00:23:50.740 about the promo
00:23:51.640 and it wasn't
00:23:52.580 about anything else
00:23:53.640 other than the fact
00:23:54.540 that I looked him
00:23:55.080 in the eye
00:23:55.500 and I said
00:23:56.200 I'm really sorry
00:23:56.980 President Trump
00:23:57.780 but I have to tell you this
00:23:59.500 I do not believe
00:24:00.500 the election
00:24:00.960 was stolen from you
00:24:01.900 I don't believe
00:24:02.760 it was rigged
00:24:03.860 and I don't
00:24:04.660 it's an honestly held opinion
00:24:05.820 and he then called me
00:24:07.060 a fool
00:24:07.340 seven times
00:24:08.720 he lost his rag
00:24:10.100 then he calmed down
00:24:11.220 then he was going to leave
00:24:12.080 then he stayed
00:24:12.800 and eventually
00:24:13.540 he went off
00:24:14.000 calling me dishonest
00:24:14.900 it wasn't dishonest
00:24:16.100 ironically
00:24:16.760 I was being honest
00:24:18.240 he just didn't like
00:24:19.340 me being honest
00:24:19.940 so that's what it was about
00:24:21.280 but look
00:24:21.580 I've had ups and downs
00:24:22.920 with him over the years
00:24:23.800 I think the really
00:24:25.540 strange thing about this
00:24:26.800 is most people
00:24:28.100 who watch the whole interview
00:24:29.080 felt it was one of the
00:24:30.300 best interviews he's done
00:24:31.400 and people who
00:24:32.780 I know don't even
00:24:33.660 like him very much
00:24:34.460 thought he came over
00:24:35.580 very well
00:24:36.040 so my message
00:24:36.960 to President Trump
00:24:38.020 is calm down
00:24:38.840 you don't have to
00:24:40.360 keep ranting
00:24:40.880 about an interview
00:24:41.480 that people actually
00:24:42.140 thought you came over
00:24:42.960 well on
00:24:43.420 and as for the promo
00:24:44.840 I learned all the art
00:24:46.620 of exciting promos
00:24:47.880 from you
00:24:48.580 on The Apprentice
00:24:49.380 so my experience
00:24:51.840 tells me that
00:24:52.540 he's not going to
00:24:53.340 listen to that
00:24:54.060 advice Pierce
00:24:54.820 I don't think
00:24:56.560 I don't think
00:24:57.680 he cares
00:24:58.260 how long it goes on
00:24:59.700 we'll have a cup of tea
00:25:01.020 and settle it over
00:25:01.960 over some scones
00:25:03.100 and a cup of tea
00:25:03.900 but I also think
00:25:05.120 I also think
00:25:05.980 President Trump
00:25:06.640 likes a storyline
00:25:07.940 and I
00:25:08.980 so I
00:25:09.500 my own impression
00:25:10.460 sitting over here
00:25:11.300 and I watched the whole interview
00:25:12.200 and I thought it was great
00:25:12.820 was
00:25:13.620 you're right
00:25:15.520 that's what annoyed him
00:25:16.640 he doesn't like being told
00:25:17.740 that he
00:25:18.080 actually lost the election
00:25:19.540 and we had
00:25:20.260 Bill Barr
00:25:20.880 his attorney general
00:25:21.680 on the program
00:25:22.200 talking about the same thing
00:25:23.160 that's why Bill Barr
00:25:23.820 got fired
00:25:24.320 basically forced to resign
00:25:25.620 because he said
00:25:26.860 Mr. President
00:25:27.400 your fraud claims are BS
00:25:28.760 and there's a whole host
00:25:30.100 of people
00:25:30.480 who he's sort of
00:25:31.080 broken up with
00:25:31.780 who have said
00:25:33.380 what you said to him
00:25:34.340 he doesn't like to hear it
00:25:35.840 so I think the anger
00:25:36.720 was real
00:25:37.960 but I think
00:25:39.120 you know
00:25:40.140 the beating of you
00:25:40.880 over and over
00:25:41.480 is part of a storyline
00:25:42.540 and on that front
00:25:44.600 so I think
00:25:45.260 you will
00:25:45.700 you know
00:25:46.060 he'll settle down eventually
00:25:46.820 but here's
00:25:47.680 here's what I wanted
00:25:48.240 to ask you about
00:25:48.720 the New York Post
00:25:50.440 did a headline about it
00:25:51.800 kind of
00:25:52.580 I don't know
00:25:53.320 if it was taking sides
00:25:54.160 but if it was taking a side
00:25:55.160 it was more your side
00:25:56.060 and then
00:25:57.560 Morning Joe
00:25:58.980 sorry to ask you
00:26:00.140 about these guys
00:26:00.740 but they went out there
00:26:02.100 and Joe Scarborough
00:26:03.220 was sort of
00:26:04.620 bemused
00:26:05.460 saying
00:26:05.960 this
00:26:06.620 the Piers Morgan interview
00:26:08.080 and then the New York Post
00:26:09.320 kind of siding with Piers
00:26:10.500 is the
00:26:11.580 the Murdochs
00:26:12.520 turning
00:26:13.420 on Trump
00:26:14.560 this is like
00:26:15.240 like you're
00:26:16.000 you're the Murdoch's puppet
00:26:17.240 and the New York Post
00:26:18.520 is the Murdoch's puppet
00:26:19.400 and Rupert Murdoch
00:26:20.260 is sitting up
00:26:20.820 in the ivory tower
00:26:21.700 saying
00:26:22.320 kill him
00:26:23.620 we're gonna
00:26:24.240 take him out
00:26:24.880 to me
00:26:26.060 this is so reminiscent
00:26:26.980 of what they said
00:26:27.680 about my debate
00:26:28.560 question to him
00:26:29.160 which was all mine
00:26:30.080 Rupert Murdoch
00:26:30.640 had nothing to do with
00:26:31.500 he's got more important
00:26:32.180 things to think
00:26:32.720 about debate questions
00:26:33.640 but what
00:26:34.600 what do you make
00:26:35.340 of that theory
00:26:35.980 that Joe Scarborough
00:26:36.740 is suggesting
00:26:37.260 that you and the Post
00:26:38.100 have been set out
00:26:38.660 to get him
00:26:39.320 because Rupert's
00:26:40.080 had it with Trump
00:26:40.720 it's just complete nonsense
00:26:43.100 I've had no instructions
00:26:44.120 from Mr Murdoch
00:26:45.280 or anyone at the Post
00:26:46.300 or anything else
00:26:46.820 it is what it is
00:26:48.060 you know if you watch
00:26:48.660 the interview
00:26:49.160 I agree with Donald Trump
00:26:50.720 about a number of things
00:26:51.760 that he said
00:26:52.300 in fact most things
00:26:54.040 I found myself
00:26:54.820 nodding in agreement
00:26:55.700 because he's actually
00:26:56.480 his gut instinct
00:26:57.500 about many things
00:26:58.480 going on in the world
00:26:59.380 is quite sound actually
00:27:01.000 despite the
00:27:01.760 inflammatory rhetoric
00:27:02.880 but on the central point
00:27:04.500 of whether the election
00:27:05.140 was stolen
00:27:05.720 I don't agree with him
00:27:07.040 and he just couldn't
00:27:08.000 handle it
00:27:08.680 and as you said
00:27:10.360 a number of other
00:27:10.920 senior Republicans
00:27:11.900 have had the same issue
00:27:12.640 with him
00:27:12.860 Mitch McConnell
00:27:13.420 Mike Pence
00:27:14.500 they've all been
00:27:15.240 disenfranchised by Trump
00:27:17.000 because they won't
00:27:17.640 buy into his
00:27:18.400 in my view
00:27:19.300 false narrative
00:27:20.360 with no substantial evidence
00:27:21.780 to support
00:27:22.360 what he's saying
00:27:23.160 that this was a rigged election
00:27:24.700 and I don't understand
00:27:25.840 why he wastes
00:27:26.360 all his energy on this anyway
00:27:27.420 because to me
00:27:28.980 he doesn't need to
00:27:29.600 if he wants to prove the point
00:27:30.740 he wants to prove the point
00:27:31.540 run again and win
00:27:32.740 that's the best
00:27:33.920 revenge is a dish
00:27:35.060 best tasting gold
00:27:36.160 and there wouldn't be
00:27:37.080 a more cold
00:27:37.760 or delicious dish
00:27:38.640 for Donald Trump
00:27:39.380 than to get re-elected
00:27:40.620 but I can assure you
00:27:41.660 this had nothing to do
00:27:42.940 with any instructions
00:27:43.940 of Rupert Murdoch
00:27:45.060 although he thought
00:27:45.900 it was a very good interview
00:27:46.900 and he thought
00:27:47.840 it was a good
00:27:49.220 robust exchange
00:27:50.180 of views and opinions
00:27:51.960 for 70 minutes
00:27:52.720 which it was
00:27:53.440 it wasn't really
00:27:54.920 about the way it ended
00:27:56.460 albeit Donald Trump
00:27:58.540 I think reveled in that
00:28:00.080 and whipped up his base
00:28:01.040 to think that it was
00:28:01.740 a rigged promo
00:28:02.880 and therefore
00:28:03.860 a rigged interview
00:28:04.820 but he's got to stop
00:28:05.640 thinking everything's rigged
00:28:06.640 he doesn't care
00:28:07.720 about a rigged promo
00:28:08.760 I'm just going to go out
00:28:09.820 and say he doesn't care
00:28:10.720 about the promo
00:28:11.440 you're right
00:28:12.460 it was that question
00:28:13.380 that upset him
00:28:14.200 and he doesn't care
00:28:15.240 that he handled it
00:28:16.200 just fine or not
00:28:17.060 in the moment
00:28:17.580 he's mad you even
00:28:18.580 raised that issue
00:28:20.000 been there
00:28:21.260 I think your relationship
00:28:23.300 with him over the years
00:28:24.120 will show
00:28:24.620 you'll come back
00:28:25.880 you'll come back together
00:28:26.760 and I think so
00:28:28.160 it's net net
00:28:29.640 it's all great promo
00:28:30.520 for you
00:28:30.920 so all right
00:28:31.500 more with Piers Morton
00:28:32.260 coming up after this
00:28:33.020 we're going to get
00:28:33.400 into the latest
00:28:34.060 from the palace
00:28:34.800 and Netflix
00:28:35.860 giving Meghan Markle
00:28:37.300 some rather bad news
00:28:38.700 at the same time
00:28:39.400 she gets some
00:28:39.920 from the queen
00:28:40.600 all right Piers
00:28:46.460 so your old pal
00:28:47.800 Meghan Markle
00:28:48.440 had some bad news
00:28:49.320 double shot of bad news
00:28:50.460 over the past week
00:28:51.380 first Netflix
00:28:52.520 canceled her debut
00:28:53.780 animated series
00:28:54.860 Pearl
00:28:55.460 which is going to be
00:28:56.680 about some
00:28:57.200 woke little 12 year old
00:28:58.820 discovering her wokeness
00:29:00.040 as far as I can tell
00:29:01.060 from the descriptions
00:29:01.720 shockingly even Netflix
00:29:03.260 has decided
00:29:04.000 that won't work
00:29:05.400 so they pulled it
00:29:07.060 and she's scrubbed it
00:29:08.080 now from her
00:29:08.640 Archwell
00:29:09.280 Foundation website
00:29:11.420 nobody wants to see that
00:29:12.360 they're absolutely right
00:29:13.340 so first project
00:29:14.860 does not even get
00:29:15.540 off the ground
00:29:16.100 before it's canceled
00:29:16.940 and then secondly
00:29:17.900 the queen
00:29:19.120 you mentioned
00:29:19.480 she's going to have
00:29:20.080 her jubilee
00:29:20.700 her 75th anniversary
00:29:22.040 on the throne
00:29:22.920 in a couple of weeks
00:29:24.380 and she has decided
00:29:25.500 who will be
00:29:25.940 on the official balcony
00:29:27.020 which you know
00:29:28.080 you can explain to us
00:29:28.960 why that matters
00:29:30.060 but not everybody
00:29:30.920 gets up there with her
00:29:31.880 and these two
00:29:33.160 did not make the cut
00:29:34.760 Meghan and Harry
00:29:35.420 are not on the list
00:29:36.420 neither is Prince Andrew
00:29:37.540 and it almost seems
00:29:38.640 like there's sort of
00:29:39.180 an A list of royals now
00:29:40.300 and a B or D list
00:29:41.680 of royals now
00:29:42.400 and these two
00:29:43.160 are suddenly realizing
00:29:44.000 they're on the ladder
00:29:45.340 yeah well
00:29:46.180 and quite rightly too
00:29:47.420 I think it's a very
00:29:49.080 interesting double whammy
00:29:50.120 because what these two
00:29:51.800 have tried to do
00:29:52.540 is set up a rival
00:29:53.400 royal family
00:29:54.320 but without any
00:29:55.100 of the boring bits
00:29:56.000 they don't want to do
00:29:56.900 any of the duty
00:29:57.740 that goes with
00:29:58.400 having royal titles
00:29:59.560 what they've done
00:30:00.760 is move out of the country
00:30:02.200 go to California
00:30:03.460 set up a rival
00:30:04.840 royal entity
00:30:05.780 which exploits
00:30:07.640 their royal titles
00:30:08.620 Duke and Duchess
00:30:09.600 for hundreds of millions
00:30:10.980 of dollars
00:30:11.460 to gullible companies
00:30:12.640 like Spotify
00:30:13.640 and Netflix
00:30:14.200 you think they're interesting
00:30:15.240 well they're not interesting
00:30:16.520 they just
00:30:17.080 they just
00:30:17.860 blather away
00:30:19.140 with their
00:30:19.640 hypocritical
00:30:20.800 pious
00:30:21.500 woke homilies on life
00:30:22.940 and it gets very boring
00:30:24.400 over time
00:30:25.180 and as we now see
00:30:26.960 when she comes up
00:30:28.300 with this idea
00:30:29.000 of an animated series
00:30:30.980 based on her own
00:30:31.860 wondrously inspiring story
00:30:33.480 Netflix
00:30:34.260 who are having
00:30:34.800 financial problems
00:30:35.820 at the moment
00:30:36.320 have looked at the numbers
00:30:37.500 and gone
00:30:37.880 no one's going to watch this
00:30:39.120 why would they
00:30:39.780 why would they want to
00:30:40.980 talk about her
00:30:42.720 being some
00:30:43.300 iconic inspiring figure
00:30:44.960 she's not
00:30:45.620 so they've canned it
00:30:46.820 which is I would think
00:30:47.920 a really worrying moment
00:30:49.320 for the Sussex brand
00:30:51.420 because
00:30:51.920 they rely
00:30:52.860 on their nonsense
00:30:54.280 being worth a lot of money
00:30:55.580 to these companies
00:30:56.320 then you have
00:30:57.300 the double whammy
00:30:58.080 of the Queen
00:30:58.880 deciding
00:30:59.420 that the balcony
00:31:00.620 is not going to have them
00:31:02.120 for the famous
00:31:03.500 Trooping of the Colour
00:31:04.360 which is a huge celebration
00:31:05.660 of pageantry
00:31:06.360 in the UK
00:31:06.860 around the Queen's
00:31:08.320 birthday
00:31:08.820 and this time
00:31:09.640 we'll be honouring
00:31:10.240 of course
00:31:10.640 the Platinum Jubilee
00:31:11.840 70 years on the throne
00:31:12.900 and if you're on the balcony
00:31:14.740 you're one of the top
00:31:15.660 royal players
00:31:16.340 and the royals
00:31:17.760 in the end
00:31:18.380 are probably the biggest stars
00:31:19.540 in the world
00:31:20.360 and have been
00:31:21.460 for the last century
00:31:22.660 so if you're on
00:31:24.020 the top tier
00:31:24.980 literally
00:31:25.860 the balcony
00:31:26.660 you're one of the biggest stars
00:31:28.460 in the world
00:31:28.840 the moment you get shoved
00:31:29.960 off the balcony
00:31:30.600 then you're deemed
00:31:32.000 to be a lesser royal
00:31:33.180 so they've got problems
00:31:34.900 in their renegade royal life
00:31:36.660 and they've now got problems
00:31:38.280 in the real world
00:31:39.480 of their royal status
00:31:40.760 because the royal family
00:31:41.800 have gone
00:31:42.100 you know what
00:31:42.660 we're only going to have
00:31:44.020 people on the balcony
00:31:44.720 who actually put a shift in
00:31:46.140 who actually do their duty
00:31:47.780 who earn their royal titles
00:31:49.580 who don't trash us
00:31:51.220 and the monarchy
00:31:51.860 morning, noon, or night
00:31:53.220 who don't constantly
00:31:54.540 give interviews
00:31:55.340 rubbishing everything
00:31:56.760 that we stand for
00:31:57.660 and I say
00:31:58.460 hallelujah
00:31:59.280 should have done that
00:32:00.320 a long time ago
00:32:01.180 your majesty
00:32:01.720 and go a bit further
00:32:03.000 and take away
00:32:03.800 their royal titles
00:32:04.600 altogether
00:32:05.300 they don't deserve them
00:32:06.800 and by their own yardstick
00:32:08.360 if the monarchy's that bad
00:32:09.460 they shouldn't want them
00:32:10.460 there's reporting out
00:32:12.760 right now
00:32:13.160 that Tina Brown's
00:32:14.180 got this new book out
00:32:15.000 about the royals
00:32:15.620 and her reporting
00:32:16.640 is that Meghan Markle
00:32:17.700 didn't understand
00:32:19.020 that Princess Diana
00:32:20.040 who she wanted to be just like
00:32:21.720 quote
00:32:22.700 had to work like a dog
00:32:23.840 for more than a decade
00:32:24.800 within the royal family
00:32:25.720 before becoming
00:32:26.520 a global humanitarian
00:32:28.080 superstar
00:32:28.860 she says
00:32:30.240 Tina Brown says
00:32:31.280 it was Diana's charisma
00:32:32.660 that she brought to the job
00:32:34.380 that made her
00:32:34.960 so extraordinarily special
00:32:36.740 but Meghan didn't realize
00:32:38.520 that for 16 or 17 years
00:32:40.020 Diana was working like this
00:32:41.440 doing a great deal
00:32:42.580 of very humdrum assignments
00:32:44.240 before the world
00:32:45.180 fell in love with her
00:32:46.200 you can't just
00:32:47.380 snap your fingers
00:32:48.320 and be Diana
00:32:50.080 no you can't
00:32:51.460 and she isn't fit
00:32:52.900 to lace Diana's
00:32:54.080 regal boots
00:32:55.260 I knew Diana well
00:32:56.340 had lunch with her
00:32:58.020 and William
00:32:58.420 just the three of us
00:32:59.340 at Kensington Palace
00:33:00.220 used to speak to her
00:33:01.240 on the phone
00:33:01.620 quite regularly
00:33:02.320 I knew her well
00:33:03.480 she was the biggest
00:33:04.300 superstar in the world
00:33:05.360 that I've ever seen
00:33:06.520 actually
00:33:07.100 bigger than anyone
00:33:08.540 you could think of
00:33:09.380 a mesmerizing beauty
00:33:11.160 who captivated the world
00:33:13.360 and when she died
00:33:14.460 it was one of the biggest
00:33:15.860 shocks to the planet
00:33:16.960 that any individual's
00:33:18.460 death has ever caused
00:33:19.720 so the idea that
00:33:21.080 Meghan Markle
00:33:22.040 is anywhere near
00:33:22.840 that level of fame
00:33:24.840 or reverence
00:33:25.900 or that the public
00:33:28.140 feel the same way
00:33:28.920 about her
00:33:29.260 is complete nonsense
00:33:30.280 as is by the way
00:33:32.080 her continued
00:33:32.800 kind of
00:33:33.440 oh I didn't know
00:33:34.200 that's what royal life
00:33:35.000 was like
00:33:35.360 yes you did
00:33:36.100 you just didn't fancy
00:33:37.180 putting the shifts in
00:33:38.160 she just didn't want
00:33:39.500 to go to
00:33:40.160 the north of England
00:33:41.220 on a wet Wednesday
00:33:42.080 and open a flower show
00:33:43.380 but that's what
00:33:44.240 all the royals do
00:33:45.040 they do stuff like that
00:33:46.360 they do dreary
00:33:47.240 dutiful work
00:33:48.300 because in return
00:33:49.160 they live in palaces
00:33:50.000 and have servants
00:33:50.800 and the rest of it
00:33:51.520 but Meghan Markle
00:33:52.540 wanted all the good stuff
00:33:53.620 she didn't want to
00:33:54.660 didn't want to do
00:33:55.240 any work for it
00:33:55.980 so instead she thought
00:33:56.980 I'll take Harry
00:33:57.920 back to California
00:33:58.800 set up a rival
00:33:59.920 royal family
00:34:00.580 and we'll sell
00:34:01.980 the royal status
00:34:03.020 we have
00:34:03.540 to the highest bidder
00:34:04.680 which is
00:34:05.520 ruthlessly commercial
00:34:06.880 and is now
00:34:07.800 falling flat
00:34:08.640 on their faces
00:34:09.220 because these companies
00:34:10.120 like Netflix
00:34:10.780 have overstretched themselves
00:34:12.400 with their commitment
00:34:13.100 to these two
00:34:13.760 realise they're getting
00:34:14.840 nothing of any value back
00:34:16.340 and they're seeing
00:34:17.460 the status of Meghan
00:34:18.500 and Harry
00:34:18.940 diminished by the Queen
00:34:20.320 with this balcony decision
00:34:21.740 so they're thinking
00:34:22.480 well who have we got here
00:34:23.380 we've got some
00:34:24.120 lower tier royals
00:34:25.900 who constantly
00:34:26.840 whine about everything
00:34:28.180 produce very boring
00:34:29.720 woke content
00:34:30.960 at a time
00:34:31.940 when we need
00:34:32.640 more rivals
00:34:33.300 no thanks
00:34:34.000 so my prediction
00:34:35.100 is that they will
00:34:35.840 carry on losing
00:34:36.600 their deal
00:34:37.160 because they have
00:34:38.620 nothing else of value
00:34:39.600 other than trashing
00:34:40.360 the family
00:34:40.900 and the family's decided
00:34:42.340 we're going to distance
00:34:43.280 ourselves from these two
00:34:44.300 and so they can't even
00:34:45.420 get the access
00:34:46.020 they want
00:34:46.440 to their own
00:34:47.500 members of their own
00:34:48.080 family
00:34:48.400 I mean quite
00:34:48.760 extraordinary situation
00:34:49.700 but that's where we are
00:34:50.760 so you're exactly right
00:34:51.920 because the Netflix
00:34:52.720 is reportedly
00:34:53.660 a angry
00:34:54.900 that Prince Harry
00:34:55.580 gave an interview
00:34:56.180 to NBC
00:34:56.800 while he's on their
00:34:57.940 payroll for a hundred
00:34:58.760 million dollars
00:34:59.380 trying to give them
00:35:00.040 supposed to give them
00:35:01.020 content
00:35:01.540 about the royals
00:35:02.960 and his life
00:35:03.460 and so on
00:35:03.900 meanwhile they got stuck
00:35:04.780 doing some documentary
00:35:05.720 about his Invictus games
00:35:06.960 and the real dish
00:35:08.340 he saved apparently
00:35:10.240 and there's a report
00:35:11.380 that they want him
00:35:12.620 and Meghan
00:35:13.540 to start talking
00:35:14.280 about the royal family
00:35:15.460 in order to earn
00:35:16.520 that hundred million bucks
00:35:17.580 and they don't want
00:35:18.480 to hear about
00:35:19.000 12 year old little Pearl
00:35:20.200 and they're not that
00:35:21.180 into the backstories
00:35:22.260 of the Invictus games
00:35:23.320 and in the same way
00:35:24.360 Spotify just dumped
00:35:25.360 Michelle Obama
00:35:26.160 who didn't want to
00:35:27.380 talk about Michelle Obama
00:35:28.600 she wanted to talk
00:35:29.460 about just whatever
00:35:30.180 woke content
00:35:30.820 she was pushing
00:35:31.520 they dumped her
00:35:32.700 Meghan Markle's
00:35:33.740 first project
00:35:34.240 gets dumped
00:35:34.760 and now they're
00:35:35.440 reportedly under pressure
00:35:36.460 by Netflix
00:35:36.960 to deliver
00:35:37.980 what they
00:35:39.220 implicitly
00:35:40.180 promised
00:35:40.760 which is
00:35:41.420 stories about
00:35:42.480 the royal family
00:35:43.140 and now
00:35:43.520 Piers you tell me
00:35:44.400 I'm thinking
00:35:45.580 because I read
00:35:46.060 that the
00:35:46.440 British royal guard
00:35:48.860 or the palace royal guard
00:35:49.680 is trying to say
00:35:50.320 no
00:35:50.740 no Netflix cameras
00:35:52.620 when you come over here
00:35:53.800 for the Jubilee
00:35:54.440 you're not going to be
00:35:55.240 filming this
00:35:55.960 but now
00:35:56.700 with or without
00:35:57.240 those cameras
00:35:57.840 they're going to
00:35:58.380 have to worry
00:35:58.960 that everything
00:35:59.620 these two attend
00:36:00.460 is going to wind up
00:36:01.940 on some Netflix show
00:36:03.500 it's such a
00:36:04.940 tacky
00:36:05.540 tacky situation
00:36:06.740 and the queen
00:36:08.160 has to be protected
00:36:09.120 for Miss Nonstance
00:36:09.840 she's been so
00:36:10.680 magnificent
00:36:11.340 for seven decades
00:36:12.840 on the throne
00:36:13.460 one of the longest
00:36:14.560 serving leaders
00:36:15.340 in the history
00:36:15.980 of this planet
00:36:16.600 one of the most
00:36:17.500 respected
00:36:18.100 even if you don't
00:36:19.120 like the monarchy
00:36:20.200 people respect her
00:36:21.400 deeply beloved
00:36:22.920 in this country
00:36:23.620 96 years old
00:36:24.780 lost her husband
00:36:25.580 after 70 years
00:36:26.960 of marriage
00:36:27.400 Prince Philip
00:36:27.980 still grieving him
00:36:29.540 got the terrible
00:36:30.500 scandal of her son
00:36:31.940 Andrew
00:36:32.460 paying millions
00:36:33.780 to pay off
00:36:35.000 a woman who claimed
00:36:35.720 that she was underage
00:36:37.220 when he had sex
00:36:37.820 with her and so on
00:36:38.660 but she had a real
00:36:39.340 series of batterings
00:36:40.540 and the very last
00:36:41.340 thing she needs
00:36:42.100 are these two
00:36:43.120 yapping
00:36:43.680 whining
00:36:44.660 moaning hypocrites
00:36:46.460 the Sussexes
00:36:47.700 cashing in on being
00:36:49.600 royals
00:36:50.080 dumping on the royal
00:36:51.120 family
00:36:51.540 dumping on the monarchy
00:36:52.720 making her look bad
00:36:54.480 making her life
00:36:55.360 more difficult
00:36:55.900 at a time when
00:36:56.800 she's supposed to be
00:36:57.360 celebrating
00:36:57.900 the platinum jubilee
00:36:59.360 which makes her the
00:37:00.140 longest reigning
00:37:00.980 monarch in British
00:37:02.100 history
00:37:02.520 and this country
00:37:03.700 wants to celebrate
00:37:04.440 that
00:37:04.820 not have to worry
00:37:05.920 about these two
00:37:06.700 with their
00:37:07.120 Netflix crew
00:37:08.300 trying to exploit it
00:37:09.940 for personal
00:37:10.460 financial gain
00:37:11.320 if I was a queen
00:37:12.100 I'd just ban them
00:37:12.760 from coming altogether
00:37:13.580 that's the same thing
00:37:15.480 you stay in California
00:37:16.300 you made your bed
00:37:17.200 you made your bed
00:37:18.260 with your soya lattes
00:37:19.460 you drink those
00:37:20.600 on your Montecito
00:37:21.920 gardens
00:37:22.720 and leave us alone
00:37:23.660 thanks
00:37:23.960 yeah
00:37:24.200 Oprah's your new queen
00:37:25.460 what do you make
00:37:28.020 of the fact that
00:37:28.480 they're dangling
00:37:29.100 the grandkids now
00:37:30.240 as the lure
00:37:31.380 I guess
00:37:31.720 the great grandkids
00:37:32.920 so they're saying
00:37:33.800 they are going to bring
00:37:34.620 all of it is shameless
00:37:35.160 the little Archie
00:37:36.560 and Lilibet
00:37:37.460 whose name they stole
00:37:38.520 from the queen
00:37:39.080 as they were calling
00:37:39.820 her family racist
00:37:40.660 they're saying
00:37:41.600 we're going to come back
00:37:42.200 and we're taking
00:37:42.660 the children too
00:37:43.340 so more attention
00:37:44.260 to them
00:37:44.660 if you may remember
00:37:46.420 one of the reasons
00:37:47.000 they left the country
00:37:47.900 was to protect
00:37:48.560 the privacy of their kids
00:37:49.820 and yet all they do
00:37:51.540 is put them out there
00:37:52.800 and you can bet your life
00:37:55.260 they're going to pop up
00:37:56.060 in their Netflix documentaries
00:37:57.440 right
00:37:58.160 you can see it now
00:37:58.900 right
00:37:59.160 yes
00:37:59.580 we already
00:38:00.520 when she did her
00:38:01.180 one Spotify
00:38:01.940 podcast
00:38:02.800 you heard
00:38:03.680 one of the kids
00:38:04.220 voices on that
00:38:05.020 they're completely
00:38:06.380 shameless
00:38:06.860 and rankly hypocritical
00:38:08.440 they always do
00:38:09.360 the opposite
00:38:09.760 to what they say
00:38:10.360 they're about
00:38:10.800 they claim to be
00:38:11.640 about privacy
00:38:12.240 they do endless
00:38:13.240 interviews
00:38:13.660 they claim they want
00:38:14.620 to protect
00:38:14.960 their kids privacy
00:38:15.640 they constantly use them
00:38:17.120 and they will continue
00:38:18.020 to use them
00:38:18.640 and so on and so on
00:38:19.840 they're going to go
00:38:20.740 full Kardashian
00:38:21.420 with those children
00:38:22.240 they don't want privacy
00:38:23.960 I think they're already there
00:38:25.080 already there
00:38:26.020 in fact the Kardashians
00:38:27.600 make them look
00:38:28.100 almost regal
00:38:29.280 one other question
00:38:30.160 on the Tina Brown book
00:38:33.620 she's reporting
00:38:34.460 that the Queen's
00:38:36.860 2019 Christmas broadcast
00:38:38.320 was the final straw
00:38:39.420 for Harry and Meghan
00:38:40.180 before Megxit
00:38:41.000 Pierce
00:38:41.780 that they stepped down
00:38:43.740 as senior working royals
00:38:44.800 because their photo
00:38:46.660 was not displayed
00:38:47.760 during the Queen's
00:38:49.080 annual Christmas broadcast
00:38:50.600 this pushed them
00:38:51.760 over the edge
00:38:52.220 in their decision
00:38:52.700 to leave
00:38:53.340 because they understood
00:38:55.900 they'd been kicked
00:38:56.540 to the margins
00:38:57.120 of the monarchy
00:38:57.900 the year before
00:38:59.140 their engagement portrait
00:39:00.380 had been displayed
00:39:01.240 on her desk
00:39:02.160 so they felt
00:39:03.100 snubbed
00:39:03.820 by Her Majesty
00:39:04.900 Boo
00:39:06.020 Boo
00:39:06.680 I couldn't give
00:39:07.640 them monkeys
00:39:09.000 about it
00:39:09.980 are you familiar
00:39:10.820 with the phrase
00:39:11.300 monkeys
00:39:11.800 us
00:39:12.200 it means you just
00:39:12.740 don't care
00:39:13.440 who cares
00:39:14.900 about their
00:39:15.940 bruised little feelings
00:39:16.940 about a picture
00:39:17.580 on the piano
00:39:18.140 when the Queen's
00:39:18.800 talking
00:39:19.080 or whatever
00:39:19.500 whatever it was
00:39:20.540 the sideboard
00:39:21.280 the Queen can do
00:39:22.300 what the hell
00:39:22.840 she likes
00:39:23.240 she's earned that right
00:39:24.300 she's a magnificent
00:39:25.760 woman
00:39:26.200 who's earned the right
00:39:27.500 not to have to be bothered
00:39:28.900 with the pathetic
00:39:29.820 antics of these two
00:39:30.920 and Prince Harry
00:39:32.240 should grow up
00:39:33.020 and show his grandmother
00:39:33.860 more respect
00:39:34.580 the idea they want
00:39:36.040 on Oprah Winfrey
00:39:36.700 knowing Prince Philip
00:39:37.400 was ill
00:39:37.860 is unconscionable
00:39:39.260 and the idea
00:39:40.280 they've carried on
00:39:41.060 all this
00:39:41.460 knowing the Queen
00:39:42.140 did mourning
00:39:42.680 is unconscionable
00:39:44.180 so I think
00:39:45.440 they should just
00:39:46.120 honestly
00:39:46.540 the whole thing
00:39:47.700 is
00:39:48.540 deeply unedifying
00:39:51.060 for any member
00:39:52.160 of the royal family
00:39:52.880 and I think
00:39:53.920 I fear
00:39:54.460 they're going to
00:39:54.880 come to London
00:39:55.640 for the Jubilee
00:39:56.740 and just try
00:39:57.180 and hijack it
00:39:58.000 with their Netflix
00:39:58.720 crew in tow
00:39:59.500 and they're going
00:40:00.260 to try and make
00:40:00.680 it all about them
00:40:01.460 because that's
00:40:01.980 what their currency
00:40:02.620 is
00:40:02.980 their only value
00:40:04.200 in America
00:40:04.800 where they now live
00:40:05.740 is if they're
00:40:06.580 perceived to be
00:40:07.340 really big
00:40:07.980 important members
00:40:08.720 of the royal family
00:40:09.560 so they're going
00:40:10.240 to do everything
00:40:10.900 they can
00:40:11.500 including bringing
00:40:12.040 the kids
00:40:12.600 getting them
00:40:13.320 on camera
00:40:13.880 trying to boost
00:40:14.980 their royal status
00:40:15.940 because that's
00:40:16.760 where the money is
00:40:17.500 but that's not
00:40:18.820 how it works
00:40:19.420 I'm afraid
00:40:19.840 that's called
00:40:20.260 having a royal cake
00:40:21.020 and eat it
00:40:21.500 well we hope
00:40:22.860 they go back
00:40:23.520 across the pond
00:40:24.220 and they stay there
00:40:24.860 you can have them
00:40:25.620 we don't appreciate
00:40:26.460 this gift from England
00:40:27.600 this is not one
00:40:28.400 of your better gifts
00:40:29.200 no you can keep them
00:40:31.620 I'm allowing them
00:40:32.280 all right
00:40:34.100 let's talk about
00:40:35.040 speaking of woke
00:40:35.760 let's talk about
00:40:36.380 a couple of news headlines
00:40:37.140 that are out there
00:40:38.400 on this
00:40:38.820 you know Frank Langella
00:40:40.220 the actor
00:40:40.940 he's the latest
00:40:42.560 yes I do
00:40:43.280 he's the latest
00:40:44.100 victim of wokeism
00:40:45.800 or me tooism
00:40:47.160 and here's why
00:40:48.000 here's why I have a problem
00:40:49.440 with this story
00:40:50.240 Deadline broke the story
00:40:51.660 just last month
00:40:53.220 about the fact
00:40:53.780 that he got fired
00:40:55.260 from this Netflix
00:40:56.500 limited series
00:40:57.400 The Fall of the House of Usher
00:40:59.120 in which he was the star
00:41:00.100 he was the star
00:41:00.920 and he got booted
00:41:02.460 because of an alleged
00:41:03.400 Me Too situation
00:41:04.320 and here's the problem
00:41:05.280 I have
00:41:05.680 they won't name the woman
00:41:07.260 they won't name the actress
00:41:09.020 her name has been scrubbed
00:41:10.520 from the internet
00:41:11.020 TMZ apparently
00:41:11.800 initially reported it
00:41:12.800 you can't even get it
00:41:13.620 on the way way back machine
00:41:14.580 so she gets her
00:41:15.920 total anonymity
00:41:16.820 he gets fired
00:41:18.200 without an investigation
00:41:19.680 he says
00:41:20.320 no one ever
00:41:21.600 let him provide
00:41:23.000 his side of the story
00:41:23.780 anything
00:41:24.100 just booted
00:41:25.340 publicly smeared
00:41:26.300 gone
00:41:27.060 at age I think 84
00:41:28.700 and the allegation
00:41:30.700 so he's now come out
00:41:31.800 to say what his side
00:41:32.800 of the story is
00:41:33.640 and he says
00:41:34.960 look my first instinct
00:41:36.520 when they came to me
00:41:37.340 to say like
00:41:38.160 you've been accused
00:41:39.260 was to surround myself
00:41:41.800 by these professionals
00:41:42.660 these PR reps
00:41:43.820 these lawyers
00:41:44.540 all of whom said
00:41:45.960 you know
00:41:46.520 say nothing
00:41:47.280 you know
00:41:48.660 just be quiet
00:41:49.840 at most
00:41:51.340 go out there
00:41:52.400 and say you're sorry
00:41:53.160 do the talk shows
00:41:54.280 show contrition
00:41:55.360 feign humility
00:41:56.560 say you've learned a lot
00:41:57.960 apologize
00:41:58.500 apologize
00:41:58.980 apologize
00:41:59.460 and he says
00:42:01.120 no
00:42:02.060 right
00:42:02.400 like that's
00:42:02.900 I didn't do anything wrong
00:42:04.460 this is his description
00:42:05.860 on March 25th of this year
00:42:07.540 I was performing a love scene
00:42:08.600 with the actress
00:42:09.040 playing my young wife
00:42:09.980 both of us were fully clothed
00:42:11.380 I was sitting on a couch
00:42:12.360 she was standing in front of me
00:42:13.420 the director called cut
00:42:14.840 she said
00:42:15.960 the actress said
00:42:16.640 he touched my leg
00:42:18.300 that was not in the blocking
00:42:20.220 she turned and walked off the set
00:42:21.920 followed by the director
00:42:22.700 and the intimacy coordinator
00:42:24.460 peers
00:42:24.840 glad we don't have that
00:42:25.880 in our news sets
00:42:26.780 she left
00:42:28.760 she left the thing
00:42:29.560 and they told him
00:42:30.460 to give her some space
00:42:31.940 he waited for an hour
00:42:33.280 was told she would not be returning
00:42:34.840 and we were wrapped
00:42:35.620 not long after
00:42:37.140 an investigation did begin
00:42:38.560 but it didn't include much input
00:42:39.980 from him apparently
00:42:40.800 and one week later
00:42:42.020 HR asked to speak to him
00:42:43.140 by phone
00:42:43.680 they said
00:42:44.700 you were told
00:42:46.440 where to put your hands
00:42:47.480 it was brought to our attention
00:42:48.960 that you said
00:42:49.700 that's absurd
00:42:50.540 he said
00:42:51.380 of course I said
00:42:51.960 that's absurd
00:42:52.440 I'm an actor
00:42:53.140 it was a love scene
00:42:53.840 on camera
00:42:54.400 you're legislating
00:42:55.180 the placement of hands
00:42:56.240 it's ludicrous
00:42:57.480 it undermines instinct
00:42:58.640 and spontaneity
00:42:59.580 they said
00:43:00.200 intention is not our concern
00:43:02.560 because he said
00:43:03.080 I didn't intend to offend anybody
00:43:04.780 Netflix deals only
00:43:06.520 with impact
00:43:07.860 long story short
00:43:09.160 he got fired
00:43:09.820 and he thinks
00:43:11.440 his reputation
00:43:12.320 has been smeared
00:43:13.040 and probably
00:43:13.800 he's not going to work again
00:43:14.820 after this termination
00:43:16.560 late in his career
00:43:17.980 meanwhile
00:43:18.500 we don't know
00:43:19.160 who she was
00:43:19.840 what actually happened
00:43:21.140 and you tell me
00:43:22.100 whether any of this
00:43:22.940 is fair
00:43:23.540 I think if
00:43:24.520 what he has said
00:43:25.640 is true
00:43:26.260 it's completely outrageous
00:43:27.720 and it shows
00:43:28.620 just how
00:43:29.660 crazy
00:43:30.620 this situation
00:43:32.340 now is
00:43:33.040 I mean the idea
00:43:33.880 you have to have
00:43:34.360 intimacy coordinators
00:43:35.400 anyway on movie sets
00:43:36.320 seems to be ridiculous
00:43:37.340 when they're doing
00:43:38.280 love scenes
00:43:38.900 but a guy
00:43:39.940 of that age
00:43:40.740 and he apparently
00:43:41.560 put his hand
00:43:42.420 on the wrong part
00:43:43.820 of her leg
00:43:44.840 and that's it
00:43:46.140 that ruins his entire career
00:43:48.280 his reputation
00:43:49.040 he's branded a predator
00:43:50.680 for the rest of his life
00:43:51.660 really
00:43:52.060 is that where we've got to
00:43:53.560 you know
00:43:54.480 I just think
00:43:56.280 I interviewed Brian Cox
00:43:57.460 last week
00:43:57.860 Star of Succession
00:43:58.720 plays Logan Roy
00:43:59.700 one of my favourite characters
00:44:00.740 and he was bemoaning
00:44:02.140 this whole
00:44:02.740 cancelled culture
00:44:03.660 talking about
00:44:04.620 what happened
00:44:04.900 with Bill Murray
00:44:05.480 last week
00:44:06.160 in a similar situation
00:44:07.280 said something inappropriate
00:44:08.640 we don't know
00:44:09.020 what it was
00:44:09.720 we don't know
00:44:10.140 why it was so offensive
00:44:11.080 but you know
00:44:12.020 Bill Murray
00:44:12.420 again the guy
00:44:13.220 in his dotage
00:44:14.320 as an actor
00:44:14.800 hugely popular
00:44:15.720 and he now gets smeared
00:44:17.160 and may not work again
00:44:18.120 and you think
00:44:18.400 where does this end
00:44:19.160 this sort of
00:44:20.100 puritanical
00:44:20.980 slightly fascist
00:44:22.760 in its nature
00:44:23.540 cancel culture
00:44:25.080 where the slightest
00:44:26.140 deviation
00:44:27.080 from perfection
00:44:28.660 in terms of behaviour
00:44:29.820 or something you say
00:44:31.280 means you have to be
00:44:32.040 completely destroyed
00:44:33.000 I think we've become
00:44:34.160 an incredibly intolerant
00:44:35.680 unforgiving society
00:44:37.280 and it's being driven
00:44:38.180 by people who claim
00:44:40.020 to be representing tolerance
00:44:41.620 but they're the least
00:44:42.640 tolerant people
00:44:43.340 on God's earth
00:44:44.120 you know
00:44:44.660 the woke cancel culture
00:44:45.920 brigade
00:44:46.380 are a societal menace
00:44:48.780 to me
00:44:49.280 I want to hear
00:44:50.540 what this woman
00:44:51.340 wants to say about
00:44:52.360 I want to hear
00:44:53.980 exactly what she says
00:44:55.440 happened
00:44:56.020 because if it's
00:44:57.220 the same story
00:44:58.020 that he tells
00:44:58.920 then I think
00:45:00.100 we all just think
00:45:00.880 surely this is ridiculous
00:45:02.020 maybe it isn't
00:45:03.400 and maybe we're doing
00:45:04.300 her a disservice
00:45:05.020 I also don't get the
00:45:06.540 why does she get
00:45:07.220 to keep her anonymity
00:45:08.060 this is not
00:45:08.720 even arguably
00:45:09.720 a sexual abuse victim
00:45:10.820 this is somebody
00:45:11.580 who's claiming
00:45:11.960 he put his hand
00:45:12.900 on her leg
00:45:13.440 after the scene
00:45:14.160 wrapped
00:45:14.480 and another allegation
00:45:15.900 is he allegedly
00:45:16.380 told an off-color joke
00:45:17.520 I mean please
00:45:18.420 right
00:45:18.840 so since when
00:45:20.860 does the accuser
00:45:21.900 get to keep
00:45:22.500 her anonymity
00:45:23.960 in a workplace
00:45:25.220 sexual harassment
00:45:26.660 complaint situation
00:45:28.620 I mean the same thing
00:45:29.260 happened
00:45:29.560 I'll defend Chris Cuomo
00:45:30.620 here for a minute
00:45:31.380 when he was
00:45:32.540 hanging by a thread
00:45:33.580 and some woman
00:45:35.100 comes out
00:45:35.600 and anonymously
00:45:36.240 comes forward
00:45:36.800 and levies a complaint
00:45:38.060 and we get to know
00:45:38.660 all the
00:45:39.040 you know
00:45:39.560 okay so she's
00:45:40.240 levied this devastating
00:45:41.000 complaint that helps
00:45:41.800 lead to his termination
00:45:42.940 but we don't get to
00:45:44.060 know who she is
00:45:44.700 so nobody gets to
00:45:45.280 assess her credibility
00:45:46.140 her history of making
00:45:47.460 accusations
00:45:47.940 and so on
00:45:48.460 all of which are relevant
00:45:49.240 this is very lopsided
00:45:50.780 and it seems to me
00:45:51.800 unfair
00:45:52.380 I have to say
00:45:52.920 well it's Salem
00:45:53.860 wish trials
00:45:54.540 isn't it
00:45:55.000 and it's
00:45:55.560 you know
00:45:56.360 the trouble is
00:45:57.040 anyone can make
00:45:57.680 any accusation
00:45:58.400 about anybody
00:45:59.000 and that can be
00:46:00.420 enough to ruin
00:46:01.040 their entire reputation
00:46:02.080 and career
00:46:02.620 it cannot be fair
00:46:03.920 it cannot be right
00:46:04.540 it's got to be
00:46:04.820 due process here
00:46:05.820 and I think
00:46:07.340 you're right
00:46:07.720 if one half
00:46:08.900 of the debate
00:46:09.540 remains anonymous
00:46:10.840 and is protected
00:46:11.640 from having to
00:46:12.820 reveal who they are
00:46:13.900 and we can assess
00:46:14.900 whether they are
00:46:15.420 credible
00:46:15.800 then it's
00:46:16.780 completely skewed
00:46:17.640 against the person
00:46:18.400 that the allegations
00:46:19.000 made against
00:46:19.660 and like I say
00:46:21.080 if what Frank says
00:46:22.580 is true
00:46:23.000 about what happened
00:46:23.760 it seems preposterous
00:46:25.260 overreaction
00:46:25.980 and terrible
00:46:27.320 that he's now
00:46:27.940 having to
00:46:28.560 fight for his career
00:46:29.800 he writes
00:46:30.960 the indignities
00:46:32.160 are to my mind
00:46:33.540 the real definition
00:46:34.240 of unacceptable behavior
00:46:35.440 cancel culture
00:46:36.240 is the antithesis
00:46:37.240 of democracy
00:46:38.080 couldn't agree more
00:46:39.220 quick story
00:46:39.740 before you go
00:46:40.280 Brian Cox
00:46:41.260 who you just mentioned
00:46:41.880 from Succession
00:46:42.580 Logan Roy
00:46:43.180 he used to be
00:46:44.960 my neighbor
00:46:45.760 in New York City
00:46:46.880 when I first
00:46:47.540 moved to New York
00:46:48.440 yes
00:46:48.800 when I first moved
00:46:49.660 to New York
00:46:50.040 I rented
00:46:51.040 like the
00:46:52.140 second floor
00:46:53.340 apartment
00:46:53.840 in a little brownstone
00:46:55.180 so I had just
00:46:55.740 the second floor
00:46:56.440 I had a neighbor
00:46:56.940 downstairs
00:46:57.380 and a few
00:46:57.920 neighbors upstairs
00:46:58.520 and he had
00:46:59.900 the same apartment
00:47:01.460 in the neighboring
00:47:02.400 brownstone
00:47:03.140 and in this
00:47:04.220 neighborhood
00:47:04.600 down in Chelsea
00:47:05.460 in Manhattan
00:47:06.400 Halloween
00:47:08.040 is next level
00:47:09.340 Pierce
00:47:09.600 I mean it's crazy
00:47:10.560 so you know
00:47:11.560 as one neighbor
00:47:12.800 said to me
00:47:13.380 they said
00:47:14.000 whatever you're
00:47:15.040 doing
00:47:15.300 it's too little
00:47:16.060 so you go nuts
00:47:17.260 and you put out
00:47:17.760 a table in front
00:47:18.440 of your brownstone
00:47:19.160 and you get wine
00:47:19.980 and cheese and crackers
00:47:21.840 so Logan Roy
00:47:23.240 and I
00:47:23.660 were dealing
00:47:24.340 you know
00:47:24.780 candy out
00:47:25.540 to the children
00:47:26.160 having some wine
00:47:27.000 together years ago
00:47:27.940 little
00:47:28.740 I mean I knew
00:47:29.340 he'd been in
00:47:29.760 Braveheart
00:47:30.180 which was exciting
00:47:30.820 enough
00:47:31.140 but little
00:47:31.560 did I know
00:47:32.360 what he would
00:47:33.140 go on to do
00:47:33.800 so I'm jealous
00:47:34.500 that you interviewed
00:47:35.140 him
00:47:35.440 it sounds amazing
00:47:36.280 and you know
00:47:37.060 what was great
00:47:37.700 Megan about him
00:47:38.520 what was great
00:47:39.200 was he's so
00:47:40.220 thrilled
00:47:40.940 that at this stage
00:47:42.040 of his career
00:47:42.460 in his mid-70s
00:47:43.360 he's got the role
00:47:44.000 of his life
00:47:44.600 he loves playing
00:47:45.760 Logan Roy
00:47:46.380 he loves how big
00:47:47.680 he's going
00:47:47.980 so he walks out
00:47:48.560 on stage now
00:47:49.160 at events
00:47:49.560 and he gets
00:47:50.400 reaction like
00:47:51.160 he's Mick Jagger
00:47:51.880 he can't believe it
00:47:52.680 but he also told me
00:47:53.540 a wonderful little story
00:47:54.680 which we can
00:47:55.460 end this with
00:47:56.320 which really moved me
00:47:57.920 my middle boy
00:47:59.440 is an actor
00:47:59.940 my middle son
00:48:00.660 and he was at
00:48:01.920 a big drama school
00:48:02.680 in London
00:48:03.080 called Lambda
00:48:03.700 and that's where
00:48:04.140 Brian Cox had gone
00:48:05.080 and he went back
00:48:06.320 as an alumni
00:48:07.280 to speak to the
00:48:08.180 current students
00:48:08.860 when my son was there
00:48:09.680 and he was asked
00:48:11.480 what's the most
00:48:12.080 important thing
00:48:12.780 we should all remember
00:48:13.560 and he said
00:48:14.240 honestly
00:48:15.260 he said
00:48:15.580 do what I do
00:48:16.260 he said
00:48:16.520 carry a picture
00:48:17.700 of yourself
00:48:18.240 when you were a child
00:48:19.320 in your wallet
00:48:20.500 and just look at it
00:48:21.860 occasionally
00:48:22.280 remind yourself
00:48:23.180 of the childlike
00:48:24.160 enthusiasm
00:48:24.700 you had for life
00:48:26.040 so that you never
00:48:26.920 lose it
00:48:27.420 and I asked him
00:48:28.320 on air about the story
00:48:29.200 and I said
00:48:29.480 by the way
00:48:29.860 do you still have it
00:48:31.020 and he pulled out
00:48:31.840 his phone
00:48:32.240 and there was
00:48:32.720 the picture
00:48:33.120 on his phone
00:48:33.620 and he said
00:48:34.400 I look at this
00:48:34.920 regularly
00:48:35.360 and it was a picture
00:48:36.880 of him aged
00:48:37.480 seven or eight years old
00:48:38.560 and I said
00:48:39.320 what would you
00:48:39.780 feel if you were
00:48:41.560 that boy now
00:48:42.120 looking at
00:48:42.580 what's happened to you
00:48:43.400 do you feel
00:48:43.760 like you lived
00:48:44.260 all your dreams
00:48:44.900 and he thought
00:48:45.880 for a bit
00:48:46.320 and he said
00:48:46.720 you know what
00:48:47.180 yes
00:48:47.660 I've actually
00:48:48.840 managed to enjoy
00:48:50.640 all the dreams
00:48:52.020 that I had
00:48:52.440 as that boy
00:48:52.980 and maintain
00:48:54.160 my enthusiasm
00:48:54.900 for life
00:48:55.380 and I thought
00:48:55.680 that was a wonderful
00:48:56.360 little lesson
00:48:56.900 everyone should just
00:48:58.100 get a picture
00:48:58.720 of themselves
00:48:59.080 as a kid
00:48:59.660 put it in your pocket
00:49:00.880 and occasionally go
00:49:02.240 have I still
00:49:03.280 got that childlike
00:49:04.660 enthusiasm for life
00:49:05.740 and if not
00:49:06.280 how do I go
00:49:06.920 and get it again
00:49:07.540 I think I'd be thinking
00:49:09.400 this is a testament
00:49:10.700 to the modern medicine
00:49:11.940 of orthodontics
00:49:12.820 and hair dye
00:49:13.380 Piers Morgan
00:49:19.120 the one and only
00:49:20.020 good luck with the show
00:49:21.160 it's such a pleasure
00:49:21.800 to catch up
00:49:22.440 we'll be watching
00:49:23.060 thanks Megan
00:49:23.920 great to talk to you
00:49:25.060 all the best
00:49:25.800 up next
00:49:26.420 Tom Bevan
00:49:27.420 of Real Clear Politics
00:49:28.740 is with us
00:49:29.380 on all the latest
00:49:30.760 insanity in this country
00:49:31.920 and there's a lot
00:49:32.400 to go over
00:49:32.860 many in the media
00:49:37.500 have continued
00:49:38.080 their hysterical reaction
00:49:39.760 to the Supreme Court
00:49:40.940 leak
00:49:41.840 of their one time
00:49:43.620 draft opinion
00:49:44.540 on Roe vs. Wade
00:49:45.700 and whether it should
00:49:46.340 be overturned
00:49:47.120 something we have
00:49:47.600 no idea
00:49:47.960 whether it remains
00:49:49.380 in that same form
00:49:50.360 whether that will be
00:49:51.080 the final looking opinion
00:49:52.120 whether justices
00:49:53.300 may still switch over
00:49:55.520 and joining us now
00:49:56.760 to discuss all of it
00:49:57.660 is Tom Bevan
00:49:58.420 co-founder and president
00:49:59.560 of Real Clear Politics
00:50:00.960 if you don't go
00:50:01.560 to realclearpolitics.com
00:50:02.860 every morning
00:50:03.780 you're missing out
00:50:04.600 I've been doing it
00:50:05.180 for 15 years
00:50:06.340 I don't know how long Tom
00:50:07.380 but it's really how
00:50:08.580 I get my news
00:50:09.140 in the morning
00:50:09.560 I read the journal
00:50:10.380 and I read the times
00:50:11.460 I like the New York Post
00:50:12.980 and then I go to
00:50:13.580 realclearpolitics.com
00:50:14.880 because you can see
00:50:16.140 editorials from the left
00:50:17.060 and the right
00:50:17.620 and it allows your
00:50:18.280 brain not to be corrupted
00:50:20.080 by anyone's side
00:50:22.160 right
00:50:22.480 and even if you're
00:50:23.480 a diehard Republican
00:50:24.640 or a diehard lib
00:50:25.480 you want to know
00:50:27.040 what the other side
00:50:27.460 is saying
00:50:27.860 don't let anybody
00:50:28.480 manipulate your mind
00:50:29.740 take in information
00:50:30.960 from both sides
00:50:31.660 you guys do a great
00:50:32.300 great job of that
00:50:32.960 alright so let's
00:50:34.260 kick it off here
00:50:35.060 the latest news
00:50:36.220 is that yes
00:50:37.240 they're publishing
00:50:37.760 the justices addresses online
00:50:39.180 yes they protested
00:50:40.460 at Kavanaugh's
00:50:41.140 and Roberts houses
00:50:41.820 over the weekend
00:50:42.480 yes tonight
00:50:44.000 they're planning
00:50:45.040 shut down DC
00:50:46.840 announced a quote
00:50:47.820 vigil
00:50:48.960 at Justice Alito's house
00:50:50.780 I don't know what that means
00:50:51.820 vigil
00:50:52.300 okay
00:50:53.080 we'll see
00:50:54.140 so far they've been
00:50:55.480 rather ugly
00:50:56.080 and obnoxious
00:50:57.500 and Justice Thomas
00:50:59.500 spoke out saying
00:51:00.560 the court
00:51:01.040 will not
00:51:01.800 be bullied
00:51:02.580 according to Reuters
00:51:03.780 he went on to say
00:51:04.680 we are becoming
00:51:05.700 addicted
00:51:06.260 to wanting
00:51:07.280 particular outcomes
00:51:08.320 not living
00:51:09.380 with the outcomes
00:51:10.740 we don't like
00:51:11.980 and he goes on to say
00:51:12.980 we cannot be an institution
00:51:14.100 that can be bullied
00:51:14.980 into giving you
00:51:15.640 just the outcomes
00:51:16.360 you want
00:51:16.860 the events from earlier
00:51:18.100 this week
00:51:18.600 are a symptom
00:51:19.240 of that
00:51:20.820 so what do you make
00:51:22.320 of the fact that
00:51:23.060 still today
00:51:24.020 the White House
00:51:25.040 comes out
00:51:25.500 condemns
00:51:26.180 the Molotov cocktail
00:51:28.020 bombing
00:51:28.480 of a pro-life
00:51:29.440 organization
00:51:30.040 in Wisconsin
00:51:30.760 but still cannot
00:51:32.260 bring itself
00:51:32.780 to condemn
00:51:33.340 the protests
00:51:34.240 at the homes
00:51:34.940 of our justices
00:51:35.840 yeah well
00:51:36.440 first of all
00:51:37.020 Megan
00:51:37.300 it's great
00:51:37.580 to be with you
00:51:38.060 and thanks
00:51:38.420 for the kind
00:51:38.820 words about RCP
00:51:39.640 we do
00:51:40.200 we work pretty
00:51:41.040 hard every day
00:51:41.700 to try and bring
00:51:42.400 a variety
00:51:43.220 of opinions
00:51:43.740 from across
00:51:44.220 the political
00:51:44.600 spectrum
00:51:45.020 and I think
00:51:45.520 now more
00:51:47.000 than ever
00:51:47.620 it's more
00:51:48.540 important
00:51:49.200 for people
00:51:49.740 to read
00:51:50.440 you know
00:51:51.080 both sides
00:51:51.640 of an argument
00:51:52.160 and to try
00:51:52.860 and you know
00:51:53.480 figure out
00:51:53.860 for themselves
00:51:54.460 what they
00:51:55.760 believe
00:51:56.400 because there's
00:51:56.980 a lot of
00:51:57.520 you know
00:51:58.400 there's a lot
00:51:58.780 of opinion
00:51:59.160 now even
00:51:59.600 in the news
00:52:00.100 stories
00:52:00.480 so
00:52:00.800 but to your
00:52:02.200 point
00:52:02.500 you know
00:52:03.460 Jen Psaki
00:52:04.020 just released
00:52:05.020 a tweet
00:52:05.840 I guess
00:52:06.520 about an
00:52:07.400 hour ago
00:52:07.860 saying that
00:52:08.500 you know
00:52:09.200 POTUS strongly
00:52:10.040 believes in the
00:52:10.780 constitutional right
00:52:11.500 to protest
00:52:12.080 but that should
00:52:12.520 never include
00:52:13.060 violence
00:52:13.400 threats
00:52:13.700 or vandalism
00:52:14.380 judges perform
00:52:15.440 an incredibly
00:52:15.880 important function
00:52:16.560 in our society
00:52:17.160 and they must
00:52:17.620 be able to
00:52:17.960 do their
00:52:18.220 jobs
00:52:18.460 without concern
00:52:19.060 for their
00:52:19.380 personal safety
00:52:20.100 great
00:52:21.480 fantastic
00:52:22.660 should have
00:52:23.580 been said
00:52:23.880 five days
00:52:24.440 ago
00:52:24.680 six days
00:52:25.920 ago
00:52:26.260 when these
00:52:27.480 protests
00:52:27.900 started to
00:52:28.420 take shape
00:52:28.900 I think
00:52:29.280 it's
00:52:29.560 it's too
00:52:29.960 little
00:52:30.160 too late
00:52:30.600 the signal
00:52:31.000 has already
00:52:31.320 been sent
00:52:31.920 when she
00:52:32.760 was asked
00:52:33.140 at the
00:52:33.320 White House
00:52:33.600 podium
00:52:33.920 about this
00:52:34.440 directly
00:52:34.860 and refused
00:52:35.360 to condemn
00:52:35.840 it
00:52:36.120 that was
00:52:37.660 all the
00:52:38.320 signal
00:52:38.600 that people
00:52:39.580 needed to
00:52:40.140 know
00:52:40.520 at least
00:52:41.300 folks on
00:52:41.700 the left
00:52:42.020 that this
00:52:42.620 was going
00:52:42.980 to be
00:52:43.540 tolerated
00:52:44.300 and we
00:52:45.820 saw a lot
00:52:46.600 of that
00:52:46.880 in the
00:52:47.180 media
00:52:47.420 as well
00:52:48.000 a lack
00:52:49.480 of condemnation
00:52:50.400 of what
00:52:51.480 is clearly
00:52:52.080 an effort
00:52:52.560 to intimidate
00:52:53.400 justices
00:52:54.100 you can call
00:52:54.680 it free
00:52:55.100 speech
00:52:55.500 but it
00:52:55.880 is expressly
00:52:57.140 prohibited
00:52:57.560 by the
00:52:57.980 law
00:52:58.240 and so
00:52:59.260 unless that
00:52:59.780 law changes
00:53:00.400 what these
00:53:01.420 folks are
00:53:01.780 doing
00:53:02.160 is illegal
00:53:03.380 and should
00:53:03.960 be condemned
00:53:04.480 but they
00:53:05.820 they won't
00:53:06.620 it won't be
00:53:07.160 condemned
00:53:07.560 in any
00:53:08.040 explicit terms
00:53:08.900 it will be
00:53:09.480 encouraged
00:53:10.020 I mean
00:53:10.600 Barack
00:53:10.920 Obama
00:53:11.280 his only
00:53:11.960 the Obamas
00:53:12.520 are saying
00:53:12.840 get out
00:53:13.120 there and
00:53:13.340 protest
00:53:13.600 they're not
00:53:13.980 saying at
00:53:14.260 the Supreme
00:53:14.580 Court's
00:53:14.920 house
00:53:15.120 but that's
00:53:15.820 their answer
00:53:16.300 get out
00:53:16.640 there and
00:53:16.860 protest
00:53:17.160 get out
00:53:17.460 there and
00:53:17.660 protest
00:53:18.040 and I
00:53:19.020 don't
00:53:19.100 know
00:53:19.180 I would
00:53:19.380 say
00:53:19.640 I think
00:53:20.100 overall
00:53:20.660 it's been
00:53:21.100 a little
00:53:21.320 lackluster
00:53:22.060 I haven't
00:53:22.680 I haven't
00:53:23.100 been exactly
00:53:23.520 moved by
00:53:24.220 the number
00:53:24.560 of people
00:53:24.960 I've seen
00:53:25.400 out there
00:53:25.800 I have
00:53:26.660 been surprised
00:53:27.240 at some
00:53:27.720 of the
00:53:28.000 lunacy
00:53:28.680 that we've
00:53:29.660 seen out
00:53:30.060 there in
00:53:30.320 the punditry
00:53:30.980 why this
00:53:32.000 woman was
00:53:32.400 on MSNBC
00:53:33.120 in the first
00:53:33.540 place I have
00:53:33.900 no idea
00:53:34.380 it's somebody
00:53:34.920 named Laurie
00:53:35.460 Kilmartin
00:53:36.140 I guess
00:53:36.520 she's a
00:53:36.960 she's a
00:53:37.860 comedian
00:53:38.340 I don't
00:53:38.840 know what
00:53:39.180 she is
00:53:39.640 why she's
00:53:40.600 asked to
00:53:40.980 speak on
00:53:41.580 Roe versus
00:53:42.120 Wade
00:53:42.520 says a lot
00:53:43.660 about the
00:53:44.060 level of
00:53:44.680 commentary
00:53:45.100 we're getting
00:53:45.660 in today's
00:53:46.180 day and age
00:53:46.680 but take a
00:53:47.480 listen to this
00:53:47.940 nutcase over
00:53:48.760 on MSNBC
00:53:49.500 soundbite
00:53:50.000 nine
00:53:50.280 here's my
00:53:51.100 feeling about
00:53:51.760 the leaker
00:53:52.300 I would like
00:53:53.480 to find out
00:53:54.220 who the
00:53:54.560 leaker is
00:53:56.660 sweet love
00:53:57.500 to that
00:53:58.000 person
00:53:58.480 because
00:53:59.320 that person
00:54:00.440 is a hero
00:54:00.960 to me
00:54:01.480 okay
00:54:02.700 and if the
00:54:04.180 leaker
00:54:04.520 a lot of
00:54:04.900 people are
00:54:05.200 saying it
00:54:05.520 could be
00:54:05.780 a conservative
00:54:06.340 if the
00:54:07.060 leaker
00:54:07.300 is a
00:54:07.700 Republican
00:54:08.180 and if
00:54:09.580 I get
00:54:09.860 pregnant
00:54:10.200 during our
00:54:10.780 lovemaking
00:54:11.300 I will
00:54:11.960 joyfully
00:54:12.660 abort
00:54:13.180 our fetus
00:54:13.960 lovely
00:54:15.920 nice
00:54:17.020 right
00:54:18.560 look I
00:54:19.860 agree
00:54:20.560 I mean
00:54:20.900 the level
00:54:21.740 of hysteria
00:54:22.620 and commentary
00:54:23.560 around this
00:54:24.600 has been
00:54:25.140 has been
00:54:25.680 ridiculous
00:54:26.120 and again
00:54:27.160 going back
00:54:28.580 to specifically
00:54:29.680 the leaker
00:54:30.140 I think
00:54:30.400 we're going
00:54:30.600 to find
00:54:30.860 out who
00:54:31.080 this person
00:54:31.500 is pretty
00:54:32.480 quickly
00:54:32.920 and they
00:54:35.180 should be
00:54:35.520 condemned
00:54:35.860 and they
00:54:36.620 won't be
00:54:37.160 in certain
00:54:37.540 circles
00:54:37.860 they'll be
00:54:38.360 celebrated
00:54:39.260 and probably
00:54:42.180 get a book
00:54:42.860 deal or maybe
00:54:43.360 even a
00:54:43.660 contributorship
00:54:44.260 on MSNBC
00:54:45.100 but they
00:54:46.380 have definitely
00:54:46.900 undermined the
00:54:47.920 institution of
00:54:48.520 the Supreme
00:54:48.800 Court
00:54:49.140 and that's
00:54:51.080 something that
00:54:51.520 all Americans
00:54:52.420 regardless of
00:54:53.900 your political
00:54:54.340 perspective
00:54:54.860 should be
00:54:55.840 should be
00:54:56.740 concerned about
00:54:57.320 I will say
00:54:58.020 this Megan
00:54:58.480 too
00:54:58.720 you know
00:54:59.040 you read
00:54:59.640 as we're
00:55:00.120 as we're
00:55:00.400 going through
00:55:00.980 and if you
00:55:01.740 can sort
00:55:02.200 through the
00:55:02.840 the partisan
00:55:04.100 you know
00:55:05.140 hysteria on
00:55:06.080 this
00:55:06.400 and I think
00:55:07.480 one of the
00:55:07.840 reasons Jen
00:55:08.440 Psaki released
00:55:09.040 that tweet
00:55:09.380 is I don't
00:55:09.980 think this
00:55:10.740 is certainly
00:55:11.220 not the
00:55:11.680 silver bullet
00:55:12.280 the Democrats
00:55:12.960 think it's
00:55:14.140 going to be
00:55:14.840 for them
00:55:15.260 politically
00:55:15.760 as as
00:55:17.600 their savior
00:55:18.040 for the
00:55:18.360 midterm
00:55:18.600 elections
00:55:19.000 there's an
00:55:19.460 article this
00:55:19.900 morning in
00:55:20.240 Reuters
00:55:20.560 they went
00:55:21.980 walked around
00:55:22.640 Scottsdale
00:55:23.660 suburb of
00:55:25.000 Phoenix and
00:55:25.980 fairly well to
00:55:27.500 do suburb
00:55:28.180 and interviewed
00:55:29.540 about 40
00:55:30.400 women and
00:55:31.200 one of the
00:55:31.760 women that
00:55:32.360 they cite
00:55:33.000 very prominently
00:55:34.180 up high in
00:55:34.540 the article is
00:55:35.020 a 61 year old
00:55:35.900 woman who's a
00:55:36.420 who was a
00:55:37.080 Biden voter
00:55:37.820 who knew
00:55:39.660 about the
00:55:40.220 decision had
00:55:41.180 heard about
00:55:41.660 the draft
00:55:42.600 of overruling
00:55:43.620 Roe v.
00:55:43.980 Wade and
00:55:44.820 said she's
00:55:45.240 still undecided
00:55:45.980 on who she's
00:55:46.480 going to vote
00:55:46.800 for because
00:55:47.320 inflation is the
00:55:48.960 most galvanizing
00:55:49.640 issue for her
00:55:50.240 not abortion
00:55:51.120 and that was
00:55:51.660 repeated over
00:55:52.920 the course of
00:55:53.460 these interviews
00:55:54.000 with these 40
00:55:54.640 separate women
00:55:55.200 and so I
00:55:56.900 just think that
00:55:57.500 this is not
00:55:58.520 going to
00:55:59.300 it's not going
00:56:00.600 to have the
00:56:00.920 political impact
00:56:01.720 that the
00:56:02.540 Democrats think
00:56:03.580 it's going to
00:56:04.040 be particularly
00:56:04.720 if there's
00:56:05.240 still $5 a
00:56:06.120 gallon $6
00:56:06.640 gallon gas
00:56:07.380 in November
00:56:07.820 and also if
00:56:09.360 the if all
00:56:10.160 of the all
00:56:11.220 of the hysteria
00:56:12.240 over you know
00:56:12.880 if America does
00:56:13.520 not turn into
00:56:14.120 the handmaiden's
00:56:14.780 tale over the
00:56:16.260 course of the
00:56:16.680 summer then you
00:56:18.540 know the
00:56:19.620 world isn't
00:56:20.300 going to come
00:56:20.640 to an end
00:56:21.180 and I think
00:56:21.580 a lot of
00:56:21.980 these conversations
00:56:22.560 have already
00:56:22.880 been happening
00:56:23.460 in states
00:56:24.760 around the
00:56:25.080 country as
00:56:25.460 people have
00:56:25.860 had debates
00:56:27.100 and laws
00:56:27.640 have been
00:56:27.860 passed and
00:56:28.440 the like
00:56:28.780 and so I
00:56:30.020 just don't
00:56:30.340 think it's
00:56:30.680 going to
00:56:30.820 have the
00:56:31.080 potency
00:56:31.500 it's going
00:56:32.100 to be
00:56:32.260 tough to
00:56:32.580 keep the
00:56:32.820 outrage
00:56:33.100 machine
00:56:33.420 cranked up
00:56:34.000 for six
00:56:34.400 more months
00:56:34.920 yeah well
00:56:36.380 I guess that
00:56:37.040 could arguably
00:56:37.520 support the
00:56:38.420 notion that
00:56:38.860 the conservatives
00:56:39.360 leaked it
00:56:40.260 that a
00:56:40.540 conservative
00:56:40.940 law clerk
00:56:41.460 leaked it
00:56:42.080 just get it
00:56:42.480 out rip
00:56:42.940 the band-aid
00:56:43.380 off get the
00:56:44.260 buzz going on
00:56:44.780 the opinion
00:56:45.100 as soon as
00:56:45.560 possible as far
00:56:46.240 away from
00:56:46.560 the midterm
00:56:46.920 again I
00:56:47.620 still think it
00:56:48.380 was a liberal
00:56:48.760 law clerk but
00:56:49.360 it could be
00:56:49.980 I'm open-minded
00:56:50.940 on that statement
00:56:52.640 just to read it
00:56:53.200 again because
00:56:53.660 this actually came
00:56:54.660 in while I was
00:56:55.040 on the air
00:56:55.400 so Jen Psaki
00:56:56.420 she said
00:56:56.840 nothing this is
00:56:57.460 her first tweet
00:56:58.000 since last
00:56:58.440 Thursday radio
00:56:59.380 silence from
00:57:00.560 the White
00:57:00.840 House other
00:57:01.280 than her
00:57:02.140 generic statement
00:57:03.020 last week
00:57:03.540 which was
00:57:04.040 when asked
00:57:04.920 whether the
00:57:05.260 White House
00:57:05.600 condones
00:57:06.320 posting
00:57:06.980 justices
00:57:07.520 addresses
00:57:08.460 online their
00:57:09.560 home addresses
00:57:10.260 the most she
00:57:11.120 could muster
00:57:11.640 was the
00:57:12.520 president's view
00:57:13.180 is that there's
00:57:13.660 a lot of
00:57:14.040 passion a lot of
00:57:15.200 fear a lot of
00:57:16.020 sadness for
00:57:17.100 many many people
00:57:17.700 across the
00:57:18.080 country about
00:57:18.820 what they saw
00:57:19.300 in that leaked
00:57:19.820 document we
00:57:21.040 obviously want
00:57:21.580 people's privacy
00:57:22.260 to be respected
00:57:22.840 we want people
00:57:23.460 to protest
00:57:23.900 peacefully if
00:57:24.660 they want to
00:57:24.960 protest that
00:57:25.860 is certainly
00:57:26.200 what the
00:57:26.460 president's view
00:57:26.940 would be
00:57:27.260 protest and
00:57:28.840 protest peacefully
00:57:29.640 that's it not
00:57:30.340 to condemn
00:57:30.800 going to the
00:57:31.340 private homes
00:57:32.400 of the justices
00:57:33.080 and now today
00:57:34.060 he strongly
00:57:35.380 believes in the
00:57:36.320 constitutional right
00:57:37.020 to protest
00:57:37.600 same but that
00:57:38.700 should never
00:57:38.980 include violence
00:57:39.660 threats or
00:57:40.100 vandalism okay
00:57:41.060 the mere fact that
00:57:42.180 you're protesting
00:57:42.680 outside of their
00:57:43.320 homes is a
00:57:43.920 threat it is a
00:57:45.000 threat you look
00:57:45.560 at what the
00:57:45.920 messaging was
00:57:46.440 last year about
00:57:46.960 how they need
00:57:47.440 new tactics
00:57:48.260 in order to
00:57:49.400 make the
00:57:49.680 justices understand
00:57:50.680 how angry
00:57:51.160 people are
00:57:51.740 then she goes
00:57:52.480 on to say
00:57:52.800 judges perform
00:57:53.420 it in an
00:57:53.800 incredibly
00:57:54.140 important function
00:57:54.900 in our society
00:57:55.840 and they must
00:57:56.680 be able to do
00:57:57.140 their jobs
00:57:57.560 without concern
00:57:58.220 for their
00:57:58.480 personal safety
00:57:59.180 she can't bring
00:58:00.700 herself to do
00:58:01.540 it tell them
00:58:02.900 to leave the
00:58:04.000 justices homes
00:58:05.060 with their young
00:58:06.100 children inside
00:58:07.020 alone it's not
00:58:08.880 hard she won't
00:58:10.860 do it because
00:58:11.800 they're that
00:58:12.360 worried about
00:58:13.120 muting the
00:58:14.560 anger of
00:58:15.800 this rather
00:58:16.620 small section
00:58:17.560 of their
00:58:18.120 base
00:58:18.520 yeah I
00:58:19.960 think it's
00:58:20.280 right and
00:58:20.920 again the
00:58:21.800 thing about
00:58:22.200 this too that
00:58:22.720 bothers me is
00:58:23.400 is it's it's
00:58:24.340 it's very clear
00:58:25.480 that if if this
00:58:26.640 was conservatives
00:58:27.760 you know protesting
00:58:28.960 outside of
00:58:29.800 Sotomayor's home
00:58:30.900 or Lenny Kagan's
00:58:31.700 home that that
00:58:32.700 that this would be
00:58:33.420 the end of
00:58:33.720 democracy this is
00:58:34.580 it it's over
00:58:35.340 right it would
00:58:36.080 be uh just
00:58:37.280 just you know
00:58:37.940 these authoritarian
00:58:38.720 fascist
00:58:39.320 republicans and
00:58:40.160 we need you
00:58:41.180 know new
00:58:42.100 laws and and
00:58:43.500 you know throw
00:58:44.080 them in jail
00:58:44.520 the whole thing
00:58:45.360 um and here
00:58:46.580 it's just it's
00:58:47.340 just glossed
00:58:48.520 over um and
00:58:50.000 again that's in
00:58:52.320 some ways it's
00:58:53.840 par for the
00:58:54.340 course um you
00:58:55.940 know given our
00:58:56.440 current politics
00:58:57.060 and how tribal
00:58:57.680 everything is and
00:58:58.560 everyone is and
00:58:59.480 to your point i
00:59:00.600 think there is i
00:59:01.520 mean there's great
00:59:02.100 fear among
00:59:02.580 democrats if you
00:59:03.220 talk to any
00:59:03.680 democrat in
00:59:04.260 washington or
00:59:04.880 you know even
00:59:05.760 around the
00:59:06.180 country um
00:59:07.600 about the
00:59:08.260 political landscape
00:59:09.000 right now and
00:59:09.540 where things are
00:59:10.320 and what's coming
00:59:11.240 their way in
00:59:12.380 november unless
00:59:13.340 they're able to
00:59:14.360 to really flip
00:59:15.040 the script and
00:59:15.480 this is the only
00:59:16.220 thing that was
00:59:17.680 out there there
00:59:18.260 there is no
00:59:18.760 legislation that's
00:59:19.640 going to be
00:59:20.060 passed on any
00:59:21.640 issue between now
00:59:22.500 and november there
00:59:23.220 is no uh even
00:59:24.820 even world events
00:59:25.780 ukraine hasn't
00:59:26.680 changed the
00:59:27.640 landscape for the
00:59:29.420 democrats as some
00:59:30.680 thought it would it
00:59:31.480 might rally around
00:59:32.120 the president that
00:59:32.700 hasn't happened
00:59:33.300 so they they
00:59:34.820 really saw this
00:59:36.080 or see this as
00:59:37.540 as their one
00:59:38.440 opportunity to
00:59:39.420 really both
00:59:40.460 energize their
00:59:41.440 base but also
00:59:42.440 potentially win
00:59:43.360 over swing voters
00:59:44.020 because everything
00:59:44.580 they've tried up
00:59:45.120 until now even
00:59:45.800 student loan debt
00:59:46.940 and the like has
00:59:47.920 pitted those two
00:59:48.600 groups against each
00:59:49.320 other pleases the
00:59:50.120 base it alienates
00:59:51.060 swing voters
00:59:51.560 pleases swing
00:59:52.180 voters it alienates
00:59:53.140 the base and they
00:59:53.980 thought this was
00:59:54.500 going to be the
00:59:54.900 issue that could
00:59:56.060 do both um but
00:59:57.360 it's not looking i
00:59:58.920 mean in the early
00:59:59.480 stages it's not
01:00:00.260 looking to to be
01:00:01.400 that for them and
01:00:02.980 so it is it's just
01:00:03.880 great great amount
01:00:05.120 of fear and
01:00:05.540 anxiety among
01:00:07.040 democrats in terms
01:00:08.000 of their their
01:00:08.560 electoral prospects
01:00:09.440 in november so i
01:00:10.840 want to get i want
01:00:11.480 to get more on
01:00:11.960 that uh and
01:00:12.680 whether you know
01:00:13.460 people care about
01:00:14.060 this as much as
01:00:14.660 the democrats think
01:00:15.340 but before that
01:00:16.140 the subject of
01:00:17.420 norms you know
01:00:18.240 of course we've
01:00:18.820 been lectured to
01:00:19.320 by this group for
01:00:20.040 a long time about
01:00:20.920 norms how much we
01:00:22.260 need our norms and
01:00:23.260 how much of a
01:00:23.900 norm buster trump
01:00:24.620 was and how
01:00:25.060 dangerous it was
01:00:25.820 this is not
01:00:26.760 normal this is not
01:00:27.840 normal to go to
01:00:28.480 the home of a
01:00:29.060 supreme to post their
01:00:29.800 home addresses online
01:00:30.800 to get groups over
01:00:31.920 there to start
01:00:32.540 bombing um pro-life
01:00:34.660 facilities with
01:00:35.400 molotov cocktails
01:00:36.220 before we even have
01:00:37.080 a ruling we don't
01:00:37.820 even know what the
01:00:38.260 ruling says this is
01:00:39.440 absurd um not
01:00:41.660 normal and to your
01:00:43.620 point of like you
01:00:44.900 know i just the
01:00:47.260 the tribalism we
01:00:48.560 don't want this to
01:00:49.320 become a norm we
01:00:50.160 don't want the right
01:00:51.360 to then respond in
01:00:53.040 kind when kagan and
01:00:55.500 sotomayor and you
01:00:57.400 know our our
01:00:58.400 incoming justice
01:00:59.180 katanji brown
01:00:59.780 jackson come
01:01:01.140 together with two
01:01:02.200 other court members
01:01:02.880 to issue a five
01:01:03.700 four decision the
01:01:04.280 other way this is
01:01:05.400 dangerous and a
01:01:06.380 hundred percent they
01:01:06.920 will be yelling
01:01:07.440 misogynist misogynist
01:01:09.200 and racist if you go
01:01:10.480 to katanji brown
01:01:11.200 jackson's house forget
01:01:12.240 about it forget about
01:01:13.200 it especially as a
01:01:13.780 white man protesting
01:01:14.620 out there no no it
01:01:15.900 will not be allowed a
01:01:16.880 very different messaging
01:01:17.660 from the white house
01:01:18.220 but we don't want that
01:01:19.300 to become the norm you
01:01:20.560 know i personally as a
01:01:21.760 court watcher and fan
01:01:22.800 revere all nine of
01:01:24.040 them i don't agree with
01:01:24.980 all nine of them i think
01:01:26.260 some are smarter and
01:01:27.040 better than others but i
01:01:28.160 really respect all nine
01:01:29.060 of them and not for
01:01:30.040 nothing but you see the
01:01:31.260 houses you know where
01:01:32.140 they live on these
01:01:32.940 pictures online these
01:01:33.720 are not rich people
01:01:34.400 they're not most of
01:01:35.520 these guys could have
01:01:36.040 made trust me they
01:01:37.380 could be making eight
01:01:38.060 nine million dollars a
01:01:38.920 year in in practice at
01:01:40.800 any of these law firms
01:01:41.660 they wanted they could
01:01:42.200 have the nicest home in
01:01:43.200 any town but they live
01:01:44.580 in pretty but not like
01:01:46.260 huge mansions they're
01:01:47.720 making a couple hundred
01:01:48.300 thousand bucks a year so
01:01:49.860 screw these people for
01:01:51.200 getting out there and
01:01:51.720 endangering them and
01:01:52.560 their children before we
01:01:53.340 even know what the
01:01:53.920 opinion is and for
01:01:55.080 taking the protest beyond
01:01:56.020 the steps of the
01:01:56.600 supreme court which
01:01:57.340 where it's totally
01:01:57.960 fair game it's not
01:01:59.360 fair game in front of
01:02:00.120 their homes it has a
01:02:00.880 different effect
01:02:01.400 especially with those
01:02:02.060 who have young
01:02:02.460 children and they're
01:02:04.500 breaking a norm that
01:02:05.680 they're going to wish
01:02:06.180 they didn't break
01:02:06.880 yeah i think that's
01:02:08.220 right i mean look
01:02:08.900 part of the the
01:02:10.040 broader landscape that
01:02:11.240 that this election and
01:02:12.920 and the last few
01:02:13.540 elections quite frankly
01:02:14.320 have the backdrop has
01:02:15.420 been this loss of trust
01:02:17.160 in institutions right
01:02:18.140 whether it's congress
01:02:18.960 whether it's the
01:02:19.600 presidency whether it's
01:02:21.480 the media obviously
01:02:22.660 my god the you know
01:02:23.740 the loss of trust in
01:02:24.460 media has just been
01:02:25.400 outrageous but the
01:02:27.080 supreme court is there
01:02:28.060 and gallup tracks this
01:02:29.120 and and even since
01:02:30.120 2000 with the supreme
01:02:32.020 court decision there of
01:02:33.480 uh bush v gore um
01:02:35.400 through 2021 the supreme
01:02:37.140 court does not have
01:02:38.240 majority uh who of
01:02:40.040 people who say they
01:02:40.740 have quite a lot of
01:02:41.660 trust or uh a decent
01:02:43.340 amount of trust in in
01:02:44.480 the institution and has
01:02:46.420 lost about 12 points
01:02:47.920 it's a downward trend
01:02:48.800 it's probably going to
01:02:49.940 continue and the problem
01:02:51.000 is democrats have been
01:02:52.280 actively since they've
01:02:53.440 lost control of the
01:02:54.380 court uh they've been
01:02:56.040 actively trying to
01:02:57.320 undermine it i mean
01:02:58.780 let's just be honest i
01:02:59.820 mean whether it's you
01:03:00.840 know chuck schumer
01:03:01.320 standing on the steps
01:03:02.240 of the supreme court
01:03:03.100 you know threatening
01:03:03.680 the justices by name
01:03:04.980 whether it's this push
01:03:06.360 among democrats uh in
01:03:07.900 congress to to you
01:03:09.440 know court reform
01:03:10.360 something that joe
01:03:11.100 biden backed when he
01:03:12.140 came into office which
01:03:13.120 is basically packing the
01:03:14.300 court they're going to
01:03:14.820 add as many justices
01:03:15.760 as they deem necessary
01:03:17.280 uh to to win back a
01:03:19.140 majority on that court
01:03:20.080 to get the decisions
01:03:21.280 that they want um and
01:03:23.160 so this has been a
01:03:23.960 a constant barrage
01:03:25.440 and to your point
01:03:26.520 it is it is
01:03:28.060 undermining an
01:03:28.800 institution that that
01:03:29.720 we very much need in
01:03:31.420 this country to be uh
01:03:33.820 as as you know
01:03:35.120 non-partisan but
01:03:36.800 unfortunately the court's
01:03:37.760 been politicized
01:03:38.800 become politicized as
01:03:40.280 has everything including
01:03:41.420 you know all aspects of
01:03:43.060 our government the
01:03:43.820 justice department uh
01:03:45.060 all of our intelligence
01:03:45.800 services and the like
01:03:46.720 and so it's an
01:03:48.120 unfortunate trend and
01:03:49.380 it's going to continue
01:03:49.960 because that's just
01:03:50.580 where we are and
01:03:51.380 democrats have been the
01:03:52.320 ones at least as far
01:03:53.460 as the supreme court
01:03:54.180 goes that have been
01:03:55.460 actively uh you know
01:03:57.080 undermining it for the
01:03:58.320 last few years
01:03:58.960 so on the subject of
01:04:00.520 whether abortion is the
01:04:01.700 thing that will appear
01:04:02.600 to the democrat base
01:04:03.700 and the swing voters
01:04:05.020 um i don't think it is
01:04:07.040 either i i think if you
01:04:09.380 if this is your issue
01:04:10.560 you know you're a pro
01:04:11.820 choice and you're
01:04:12.660 hardcore pro choice and
01:04:14.000 like this is your you
01:04:14.960 know single issue voter
01:04:15.920 thing you don't live in a
01:04:17.740 red state you don't you
01:04:19.800 wouldn't that you your
01:04:20.960 values wouldn't align i'm
01:04:22.180 not saying in every
01:04:22.840 single case but in the
01:04:23.540 vast majority of cases
01:04:24.360 you did not choose
01:04:25.420 mississippi uh as your
01:04:27.160 home to settle down with
01:04:28.340 your family in and that
01:04:30.120 there's a reason why
01:04:31.100 generally in the red
01:04:32.300 states the voters are
01:04:33.860 pro-life and in the blue
01:04:35.700 states the voters tend to
01:04:36.880 be more pro-choice the
01:04:38.940 laws of each respective
01:04:40.400 state tends to reflect the
01:04:42.660 will and opinion of the
01:04:44.080 voters and that's as it
01:04:46.080 should be and that's as
01:04:47.840 you would expect it to be
01:04:48.620 in a federalist society
01:04:49.860 like ours in a republic
01:04:50.860 a democratic republic
01:04:52.320 where the states get to
01:04:53.240 make up their own minds
01:04:54.060 about on most issues
01:04:55.000 about how things are
01:04:55.740 going to go so maybe
01:04:58.360 they're going to rally
01:04:59.100 like more democrats to
01:05:00.880 go to the polls in new
01:05:02.300 york but they don't need
01:05:03.660 that it's like you don't
01:05:05.260 really need that at the
01:05:05.960 federal level this isn't
01:05:06.840 going to be a federal
01:05:07.340 issue you know so i don't
01:05:09.080 think this is going to be
01:05:09.740 the issue i also think
01:05:10.540 that in in no scenario
01:05:12.580 realistically is this
01:05:13.580 going to be illegal on a
01:05:15.740 national basis no matter
01:05:17.220 what rattlings we're hearing
01:05:18.220 about what the feds might
01:05:19.120 do it's not going to go
01:05:20.000 national one way or the
01:05:20.940 other so this is this is
01:05:22.520 going to maybe spur
01:05:23.340 turnout in the local races
01:05:25.100 but not in the
01:05:26.660 congressional midterms i
01:05:28.200 mean am i wrong tom
01:05:29.060 well i think again um where
01:05:32.360 democrats think that they
01:05:33.820 they can win some ground
01:05:35.420 back which they've lost is
01:05:37.100 in the suburbs right they
01:05:38.200 this is a particularly among
01:05:40.460 moderate suburban women
01:05:41.700 right you look at a of a
01:05:43.880 certain age like yeah well
01:05:45.720 of a certain age no no
01:05:47.700 because this is my theory
01:05:48.680 this is what this is part
01:05:49.580 of my theory younger women
01:05:50.840 tend to care more about
01:05:51.640 abortion rights younger
01:05:52.860 women women who are in
01:05:53.740 their 20s and 30s who
01:05:54.920 actually might need an
01:05:55.660 abortion are the ones who
01:05:57.000 are the biggest advocates
01:05:57.840 of of abortion rights and
01:05:59.240 as women tend to get
01:06:00.020 older and they tend to have
01:06:00.820 their own families i've
01:06:02.520 seen this anecdotally and
01:06:03.480 in polls it just seems like
01:06:04.900 it's less of a top
01:06:05.840 priority i i think i would
01:06:09.180 agree with that um but
01:06:10.800 again you look at a state
01:06:11.620 like a purple state like
01:06:12.520 arizona we just mentioned
01:06:13.640 the scottsdale suburbs uh
01:06:15.560 suburbs of phoenix you
01:06:16.700 look at a place like
01:06:17.980 georgia suburbs of
01:06:19.180 atlanta i mean this is
01:06:20.640 where the democrats and
01:06:21.380 again those are areas
01:06:22.360 that they made up a lot
01:06:23.800 of ground during the trump
01:06:25.060 years but have have given
01:06:27.160 background over the last
01:06:28.400 year and a half the first
01:06:29.440 term of this
01:06:30.020 administration so um but
01:06:32.780 to your point uh i think
01:06:35.440 you know we we've already
01:06:37.240 seen the story that i
01:06:38.840 mentioned earlier and
01:06:39.440 we've seen prior to the
01:06:42.140 leak of the draft
01:06:43.740 uh polling showed
01:06:46.240 quinnipiac had a poll
01:06:47.040 out last week that
01:06:47.760 showed that inflation
01:06:49.380 was the number one
01:06:50.020 issue by far 31 percent
01:06:51.780 an order of magnitude
01:06:52.540 higher than anything
01:06:53.260 else the next highest
01:06:54.260 was immigration like 10
01:06:55.320 or 11 abortion was
01:06:56.840 tied for ninth out of
01:06:58.460 13 issues listed it's
01:06:59.860 just not an issue now
01:07:00.920 that is that going to
01:07:01.920 jump up of course it
01:07:02.940 will we'll see how high
01:07:04.200 it rises we'll see how
01:07:05.160 long it lasts um but as
01:07:07.820 other issues um have
01:07:09.860 you know sort of risen
01:07:10.760 up in the mind of the
01:07:11.620 public whether it's
01:07:12.840 been ukraine for example
01:07:14.660 or covid which was the
01:07:15.740 number one issue for a
01:07:16.520 long time and is now at
01:07:17.340 the bottom of the list
01:07:18.100 um you know we'll see
01:07:19.960 how that how that issue
01:07:21.380 uh probably fades
01:07:23.600 particularly is is it is
01:07:25.780 it going to sublimate
01:07:26.580 you know the economy is
01:07:27.640 it going to sublimate
01:07:28.260 uh you know inflation is
01:07:30.040 the number one issue
01:07:30.640 very very very unlikely i
01:07:33.000 don't see that happening
01:07:33.760 and so uh there are there
01:07:36.220 are just bigger concerns
01:07:37.140 out there and again
01:07:38.020 it's you know when
01:07:39.300 people see the sky
01:07:39.980 isn't going to fall or
01:07:41.020 the states that they
01:07:42.040 live in aren't going
01:07:42.800 to necessarily uh you
01:07:44.500 know outlaw abortion
01:07:45.500 altogether or what have
01:07:46.600 you it's not going to
01:07:47.180 become the handmaid's
01:07:47.880 tale i i think it'll be
01:07:49.640 even more of of or even
01:07:52.020 less of an issue uh for
01:07:53.700 voters as they approach
01:07:54.860 the midterms and uh but
01:07:56.660 again in some swing
01:07:57.680 states this is where
01:07:58.340 democrats think they they
01:07:59.360 can recover some ground
01:08:00.240 it's not just blue states
01:08:01.440 it's in those in those
01:08:02.680 suburbs but we'll see
01:08:04.120 whether it happens i
01:08:04.760 don't i think it might
01:08:05.500 happen on the margins
01:08:06.520 but it's not going to
01:08:07.160 be enough to do much
01:08:08.640 of anything a lot of
01:08:10.260 the political cake is
01:08:11.460 already baked um we're
01:08:13.240 just you know about five
01:08:14.500 months away from the
01:08:15.040 election now and unless
01:08:15.960 until something changes
01:08:17.040 with inflation i mean
01:08:17.860 that's the ballgame
01:08:18.560 yeah you talk about kitchen
01:08:20.480 table issues driving
01:08:21.620 elections you know that's
01:08:22.960 been a phrase in politics
01:08:23.800 forever and that's like
01:08:25.360 you picture the the the
01:08:27.160 woman sitting at the
01:08:27.920 kitchen table looking at
01:08:28.880 the bills thinking i'm
01:08:30.160 stressed i can't i don't
01:08:31.600 know how i'm going to pay
01:08:32.260 these i can't pay my gas
01:08:33.840 bill i can't pay my
01:08:35.280 electric bill i can't pay
01:08:36.260 my grocery bill you know
01:08:37.840 i'm making the same money
01:08:38.820 as i used to make but my
01:08:39.960 my expenses have gone way
01:08:41.260 up i mean that's what's
01:08:41.980 happening right now and
01:08:43.740 especially to my point of
01:08:45.260 like the older women
01:08:46.000 abortion's not front and
01:08:47.380 center that's not their
01:08:48.220 main issue at that point
01:08:49.320 in their life even 40s and
01:08:50.420 beyond tends to be less of
01:08:51.780 a thing just given the way
01:08:52.740 biology works uh are those
01:08:54.820 people and those tend to
01:08:55.520 be the voters right young
01:08:56.580 voters are traditionally
01:08:57.380 hard to get to go to the
01:08:58.320 polls and so on so are
01:08:59.760 those people really going
01:09:00.440 to change their vote when
01:09:02.140 they're mad about the
01:09:03.280 inflation and they're mad
01:09:04.440 about the crime rate in
01:09:05.780 their neighborhood from red
01:09:07.940 to blue when abortions are
01:09:10.600 not about to be banned in
01:09:12.560 all 50 states and they know
01:09:13.820 that if they're paying any
01:09:15.240 sort of attention that's not
01:09:16.840 what's going to happen i
01:09:18.440 just don't see it but did
01:09:21.260 mitch mcconnell hurt the
01:09:23.280 republican argument this
01:09:24.380 weekend because he the the
01:09:26.260 left-wing media is really
01:09:27.960 enjoying this soundbite of
01:09:29.680 his uh where he came out and
01:09:32.840 said this is the headline he
01:09:34.960 acknowledges a national
01:09:36.100 abortion ban is possible if
01:09:38.720 rose overturned um i don't
01:09:41.540 know if i agree with that
01:09:42.520 characterization but here's
01:09:43.840 what he said he told
01:09:44.960 reporters you uh hold on
01:09:47.820 let me jump okay he was
01:09:49.160 speaking with usa today if
01:09:51.240 the leaked opinion becomes
01:09:52.260 the final opinion
01:09:53.080 legislative bodies not only
01:09:56.020 at the state level but at
01:09:57.400 the federal level certainly
01:09:58.980 could legislate in that area
01:10:01.400 and if this were the final
01:10:03.020 decision that was the point
01:10:05.320 that it that was the point
01:10:06.940 that it should be resolved one
01:10:08.560 way or another in the
01:10:10.360 legislative process so in
01:10:13.220 response to the question of
01:10:14.100 whether a national ban is
01:10:15.700 possible he said yeah it's
01:10:18.260 possible um and then said
01:10:21.920 the no carve out on the
01:10:23.960 filibuster even if the
01:10:24.920 republicans take over in
01:10:26.060 other words right if the
01:10:27.300 republicans take over the
01:10:28.100 senate he would not end the
01:10:29.000 filibuster to pass
01:10:29.980 legislation on abortion the
01:10:31.520 same situation the democrats
01:10:32.600 are in now where they can't
01:10:33.900 they can't uh get
01:10:34.940 legislation through uh that
01:10:36.560 would make abortion legal in
01:10:38.420 all 50 states because there's a
01:10:39.380 filibuster and they can't
01:10:40.240 break it and jen saki says
01:10:41.580 even if they break the
01:10:42.340 filibuster or get rid of
01:10:43.920 it she says we still don't
01:10:45.420 have the votes anyway right
01:10:46.960 i'll tell you my as i look
01:10:49.320 at those remarks i say why
01:10:51.340 would he say we wouldn't
01:10:53.060 have the power at the
01:10:53.960 federal level when the
01:10:55.100 democrats are talking about
01:10:56.360 doing that right now i my
01:10:58.460 guess is as the republican
01:10:59.540 leader of the senate he
01:11:00.600 doesn't want to say what's
01:11:02.900 good for the goose you know
01:11:04.240 what i mean he wants to say
01:11:05.340 we've got that we've got that
01:11:07.800 arrow to fire too if you
01:11:09.840 decide to go crazy and try
01:11:11.260 to make this a national
01:11:12.120 issue when it should be a
01:11:13.060 state's issue but maybe i'm
01:11:14.140 being too generous
01:11:14.840 you might be look mitch
01:11:17.580 mcconnell's a smart guy and
01:11:18.520 he knows what's going on but
01:11:19.460 but even smart people
01:11:20.400 sometimes say stupid things
01:11:21.640 and this is one of those
01:11:22.780 cases i think as he's sort of
01:11:24.640 pontificating and opining
01:11:26.280 about legislative bodies in
01:11:28.020 the state at the federal
01:11:28.720 level and what they can and
01:11:29.760 can't do and that this
01:11:31.000 decision would just open it
01:11:32.400 up for for bodies legislative
01:11:33.980 bodies to to make laws um i
01:11:37.400 think he sort of put his foot
01:11:38.360 in it there and and as you
01:11:39.720 mentioned the media is
01:11:40.640 making hay of it um because
01:11:42.340 they're very much aligned with
01:11:43.980 the democrats i think on this
01:11:45.060 issue um but yeah i mean the
01:11:48.100 the line for republicans
01:11:49.340 should be in washington and
01:11:50.720 everywhere else is that this
01:11:52.320 is you know it's it's it's
01:11:53.720 going to be left up to the
01:11:54.440 states which is where it
01:11:55.340 should be right and and if
01:11:57.380 democrats want to pass the
01:11:58.860 national legislation codifying
01:12:01.300 roe v wade then they
01:12:03.400 absolutely have the right to do
01:12:04.880 that and they're welcome to
01:12:05.780 give it a go and and as you
01:12:07.420 point out they're going to
01:12:08.620 they're going to try and do
01:12:10.300 that even though they know
01:12:11.260 they don't have the votes to
01:12:12.540 do it and the question is you
01:12:14.560 know are they going to are
01:12:15.580 they going to nuke the
01:12:16.700 legislative filibuster um or
01:12:19.240 try and do that i don't think
01:12:20.260 they would have the votes to
01:12:21.120 do that if the in if the
01:12:22.660 ensuing vote wasn't going to
01:12:24.400 pass so that would be
01:12:25.960 invoking that option for you
01:12:27.500 know for uh for for no reason
01:12:30.060 or for nothing so um yeah i
01:12:32.460 think it was a mistake by the
01:12:33.280 majority leader to to prattle on
01:12:35.260 about that he probably could
01:12:36.140 have been more succinct and
01:12:37.240 and helped you know
01:12:38.260 republicans but again um a
01:12:41.900 lot of these conversations
01:12:42.640 have already been happening
01:12:43.440 uh around the country it is
01:12:45.160 definitely going to be there's
01:12:46.580 no question the democrats are
01:12:47.640 going to try and use this as
01:12:48.800 best they can during the
01:12:49.840 election they will run ads on
01:12:51.200 it they might even use mitch
01:12:52.080 mcconnell's you know a
01:12:53.480 soundbite saying yes um so
01:12:56.320 we'll have to see uh you know
01:12:58.440 but again i i just don't think
01:13:00.060 it's going to matter much at the
01:13:01.060 end you mentioned i mean
01:13:02.020 immigration i mentioned is
01:13:03.000 number two issue among people
01:13:04.200 that is a much bigger issue
01:13:05.560 for people than abortion is
01:13:07.260 right now and will probably
01:13:08.400 continue to be particularly
01:13:09.940 um because right now it's an
01:13:12.220 issue we got title 42 coming
01:13:13.660 up and it splits it's an issue
01:13:14.900 that splits democrats it's
01:13:16.060 coming at the worst possible
01:13:16.980 time and then you throw crime
01:13:18.660 and education on top of that
01:13:19.800 and those are those are the
01:13:20.980 issues that that um voters care
01:13:23.200 about most and right now
01:13:24.040 republicans have an advantage
01:13:25.280 on all four of those issues
01:13:27.000 according to the latest
01:13:27.640 washington post poll
01:13:28.380 okay but this is all very
01:13:30.540 interesting to me because those
01:13:31.840 issues you're right they've been
01:13:33.280 driving the poll numbers for a
01:13:34.220 long time i've been watching it
01:13:35.100 too um they're about to be
01:13:38.440 shoved down in the national
01:13:40.180 media in a major way because
01:13:41.680 the supreme court's got more
01:13:42.640 decisions to issue
01:13:43.500 june's going to be big and this
01:13:45.280 is a conservative court now and
01:13:46.520 they've got gun rights they've got
01:13:48.220 religious rights first amendment
01:13:49.780 and then of course the abortion
01:13:51.620 decision which i remind the
01:13:52.820 audience is not yet out that was
01:13:54.680 a draft that was leaked we don't
01:13:56.040 know what the court is actually
01:13:57.100 going to rule
01:13:57.560 so all these sort of i forgive me
01:14:00.480 i'll refer to them as like old
01:14:01.620 school culture issues these are
01:14:02.920 like yesteryears culture issues
01:14:04.680 um you know that used to make
01:14:06.860 like the rudy giuliani's of the
01:14:08.280 world say well i'm like a more
01:14:10.580 socially liberal republican you
01:14:12.880 know i'm fiscally conservative and
01:14:14.280 i'm right pro a strong national
01:14:16.240 security uh sect but i'm pro choice
01:14:19.420 and i'm pro gay marriage that was
01:14:20.760 sort of the old rudy giuliani
01:14:22.060 the the republican party and the and
01:14:24.320 the partisan wars have changed since
01:14:26.800 then and now the democrats have been
01:14:28.720 saddled with wokeism which is like
01:14:30.680 i've got to not put boy or girl
01:14:33.120 down on my birth certificate now or
01:14:34.800 otherwise i'm a bigot you know gotta
01:14:36.300 let my kid figure it out despite the
01:14:38.340 fact that we can see a penis um in all
01:14:40.960 this weird radical race
01:14:42.360 essentialism and so on so the supreme
01:14:45.760 court's kind of giving them a gift if
01:14:47.520 these cases go the way we think
01:14:48.640 they're going to i think they're going
01:14:49.720 to line up almost uniformly on the
01:14:51.780 republican side the conservative side
01:14:53.280 and the press will have a heyday with
01:14:55.160 it and i think we're gonna have a
01:14:56.480 summer of trying to make today's
01:14:59.140 republicans who are emerging as like
01:15:00.700 working class warriors and fighting
01:15:04.200 back for parents rights against weird
01:15:06.060 wokeism in school and so on into
01:15:08.540 yesteryears republicans who want to like
01:15:11.320 take away your your contraception take
01:15:14.800 away your right to an abortion take
01:15:16.920 away gay marriage bring prayer right
01:15:19.480 into the schools walk around every city
01:15:22.180 in the nation sporting a gun and open
01:15:24.520 carry that's how the left will portray
01:15:26.620 all of this what do you make of it
01:15:28.360 i just don't think it's going to work
01:15:31.060 i just don't you know republicans i'm
01:15:33.780 sorry democrats have been have been
01:15:35.020 running that playbook for a long time
01:15:37.400 and you remember you know not too long
01:15:39.280 ago uh it was the year of the woman
01:15:41.680 remember mark udall in colorado they
01:15:43.400 called him mark uterus because he
01:15:44.640 talked about women's rights and
01:15:45.980 abortion the entire time uh it just it
01:15:48.380 didn't work if if those issues
01:15:51.420 aligned with the public's concerns then
01:15:54.760 perhaps it would have more traction
01:15:57.260 more purchase right but when when the
01:16:00.520 inflation is the number one issue and and
01:16:03.140 you've got a situation where again gas
01:16:05.540 prices food prices all of these things
01:16:08.140 people are having trouble and and
01:16:10.200 democrats are talking about you know
01:16:12.500 culture issues um it's it's they're
01:16:16.260 gonna they're going to come across as
01:16:18.220 out of touch and with the american
01:16:20.440 public and and that's not where you
01:16:22.140 want to be and so the other thing that
01:16:24.220 the problem the democrats have is
01:16:25.520 there's no one else to blame i mean
01:16:26.780 they they control the house they
01:16:28.140 control the senate they control the
01:16:29.220 white house and so even if there was
01:16:32.060 uh you know even if republicans had
01:16:34.880 won those two senate seats and had a
01:16:36.320 slim majority in the house or in the
01:16:37.860 senate um you know at least democrats
01:16:41.540 could try and blame republicans for
01:16:43.000 something but there is no one else to
01:16:44.300 blame and so i i just don't think that
01:16:47.060 you know we've already seen biden has
01:16:48.940 now taken to calling republicans the
01:16:51.000 ultimaga the ultimaga movement right
01:16:53.480 uh they're going to try and invoke
01:16:55.340 donald trump's name they're going to
01:16:56.820 invoke january 6th they're going to
01:16:58.660 talk about how authoritarian how
01:17:00.620 fascist republicans are they can't be
01:17:02.940 trusted to be put back in power um it
01:17:06.600 didn't work in virginia it didn't work
01:17:08.480 in new jersey it hasn't worked in some
01:17:10.020 of these special elections i don't think
01:17:11.540 it's going to work uh in in november it
01:17:14.840 might work in some of these races
01:17:16.020 depending on who the candidates are but
01:17:17.660 but across the board it's not going to
01:17:20.180 work because it's not addressing
01:17:21.340 the issue that that you know people are
01:17:24.240 most whether you're republican or
01:17:25.500 democrat and this is the other thing i
01:17:27.060 mean it's it's more of a these days in
01:17:30.220 the republican party i think what this is
01:17:31.940 one of the things donald trump has done
01:17:33.200 is we've seen hispanic voters fleeing
01:17:36.480 the democrats we've seen numbers that
01:17:38.260 suggest african americans uh some are as
01:17:41.580 well because it's more of a class issue
01:17:43.600 it's more of an economics issue it
01:17:45.040 doesn't matter what race you are it's
01:17:46.560 it's are you better off than you were
01:17:48.620 before economically and who do you trust
01:17:51.540 to better handle the you know current
01:17:54.080 economic situation and democrats are not
01:17:56.360 they're not inspiring a lot of confidence
01:17:58.360 uh in in the public right now
01:18:00.240 the other thing is uh mitch mcconnell just
01:18:04.720 gave the democrats a gift with that sound
01:18:06.680 bite however he meant it it'll it'll be
01:18:08.500 bastardized and used against him and other
01:18:10.140 republicans at the national level because
01:18:11.560 this is about to become a states issue as
01:18:13.860 it used to be as it should be in my view
01:18:15.560 um if the supreme court opinion goes as
01:18:18.740 the draft suggests so he's the one who
01:18:21.540 now sort of says well maybe the federal
01:18:23.060 feds will ban it that's that in again in
01:18:25.920 my view is because the democrats are now
01:18:27.180 saying at the federal level they're going
01:18:28.960 to try to make it legal nationwide so of
01:18:31.560 course he'd keep in his back pocket if we
01:18:33.920 get control maybe we'll make it illegal
01:18:35.380 nationwide okay so just saying so he's
01:18:38.280 given them a gift on that front but i do
01:18:40.740 think it matters who's in the senate right
01:18:44.240 and and we are seeing that now with
01:18:46.640 respect to the supreme court the reason
01:18:48.560 these justices got on the high court is
01:18:50.240 because there was a republican president
01:18:51.880 the last three who nominated them and
01:18:53.880 there were there was a senate a republican
01:18:55.760 controlled senate that got them in and you
01:18:58.640 know approved them and you look back at
01:19:00.480 each of the trump confirmation hearings you
01:19:02.360 know trump nominee confirmation hearings and
01:19:04.500 it's crazy like neil gorsuch that's a mitch
01:19:07.540 mcconnell gift to the republican party right
01:19:10.360 it was supposed to be merrick garland under
01:19:12.000 barack obama mcconnell wouldn't give him the
01:19:14.020 hearing saying it's an election year this is
01:19:16.380 we're not doing that there's historical
01:19:18.760 precedence for this that's how we got neil
01:19:20.880 gorsuch on the court um under trump then
01:19:24.120 comes justice kavanaugh brett kavanaugh who
01:19:26.260 the democrats did everything to try to stop
01:19:28.460 they he was going to change the balance they did they
01:19:31.120 pulled out every stop possible to try to get
01:19:33.600 him trump would not be bent it was a pivotal
01:19:37.060 moment for a lot of us watching he would not he
01:19:40.040 would not cave he stood behind his nominee who is
01:19:42.880 now one of the five votes so is gorsuch then comes
01:19:46.180 amy coney barrett right before ruth bader ginsburg dies
01:19:48.940 right before the election they didn't want it to go
01:19:53.160 through trump pushed it through they did in four weeks
01:19:56.520 they got um amy coney barrett on i mean it was kind of a
01:20:00.420 miracle and those three are all in the majority confirmed by
01:20:05.120 republican senate so i mean elections do matter tom we're going to
01:20:09.280 be hearing a lot about that that's why the democrats say it's an
01:20:11.920 illegitimate court well it was it was craftily done but it's not
01:20:15.980 illegitimate uh but that actually could potentially inspire some voters i
01:20:19.980 guess if this is your big issue these types of cultural things um and
01:20:23.980 you're doing okay in the in the wallet in the wallet which would be the
01:20:26.500 only way you're paying attention to this stuff yeah i mean the court is
01:20:30.940 always uh a rallying cry for for both sides and look under a
01:20:35.720 under a democratic administration um you know it's a republican senate
01:20:41.380 would um be able to to perhaps stop some folks but um the senate's a
01:20:48.380 little bit you know is going to be uh i think republicans are still a
01:20:52.200 favorite but not as much of a heavy favorite as they are in the house and if
01:20:54.980 republicans get control of either chamber right along with that comes in
01:20:59.780 the senate obviously you have the judiciary and to your point that is a
01:21:02.520 big deal um but if you get control of the house there will be oversight and
01:21:06.680 that's another thing that you know it's going to be a it's going to be a
01:21:09.320 different world uh in november if republicans win one or both of the
01:21:14.020 chambers uh it'll be a completely different
01:21:16.320 political landscape different issue mix and and obviously this administration is
01:21:20.280 going to be subject to the kind of scrutiny that it has not faced to this
01:21:23.500 point i i do want to pick it up there right after this break i mean justice
01:21:27.940 thomas is in his 70s um briar i think is the oldest and he's retiring and then
01:21:33.420 there's justice thomas and you know i don't know whether he is going to stay
01:21:37.580 for another administration if if joe biden or the democrats were to win a
01:21:41.960 second term would justice thomas stay i'm sure he would he would never
01:21:45.460 willingly pass the baton under a democratic administration but look ruth
01:21:51.340 bader ginsburg felt that way and life does what it does um in any event even
01:21:56.480 if one justice on the republican side were to retire or pass on it wouldn't
01:22:01.160 change the balance right now the dems need two okay we're going to pick it up
01:22:05.020 with what the midterms look like and what will it mean if the republicans take
01:22:10.100 back the house and or the senate more with tom bevin the man in the know right
01:22:14.100 after this quick break all right tom all eyes are on the midterms terms were
01:22:21.240 what you know six months away or so and um there was big news last week in
01:22:26.180 ohio when jd vance the trump back candidate won
01:22:28.580 against two other republicans that with whom he'd been slugging it out the trump
01:22:32.420 endorsement really seemed to help him it's funny how much the liberal media is
01:22:35.560 like it's a test it's the mar-a-lago primary
01:22:37.960 it's a test of trump and then when jd vance the trump back candidate wins it's like
01:22:42.300 crickets crickets if they wanted to be able to say trump's run out of power and
01:22:46.540 influence they're dying to be able to say that and
01:22:48.800 they cannot say that and uh people now looking at dr oz
01:22:52.460 in pennsylvania what does it mean for him what does it mean for other trump
01:22:55.780 back candidates going into the midterms what say you
01:22:58.720 well i i it was a great night for trump last week i mean he went 14 for 14 in
01:23:03.840 ohio not just jd vance but but other republicans that he backed in these house
01:23:08.840 races won some of them you know big upsets and convincingly and so um and
01:23:14.720 you're right i mean he picked jd vance up off the floor he was languishing in
01:23:17.820 third place you know in the middle of april um and
01:23:21.200 went you know straight to the top now jd vance was a good candidate though and in
01:23:25.120 some ways i mean he obviously you know said some nasty stuff about trump but
01:23:28.840 trump addressed that by you know in his in his famous way yeah um dr
01:23:34.040 if i didn't back anybody who had ever criticized me there'd be there'd be
01:23:37.460 nobody yeah said he said some nasty stuff but he
01:23:40.940 didn't use the word stuff uh yeah but but dr oz is a little
01:23:44.220 different i mean you can definitely sense that
01:23:46.440 uh you know republicans even people who like donald trump a lot in
01:23:52.040 pennsylvania were mystified by his choice of of oz over david mccormick and
01:23:58.400 also kathy barnett don't sleep on her latest poll trafalgar poll came out
01:24:01.920 yesterday has her at like 22 percent oz is up two points but it's a it's a
01:24:08.300 three-way race there right now and and i think it's it's within the margin of
01:24:12.160 error so anything can happen in pennsylvania which is a week from
01:24:16.000 tomorrow and so um you know and the the other race that
01:24:20.540 people point to about trump's influences is the governor's race in georgia where
01:24:24.180 you know trump very much wants to have brian kemp not win re-election but
01:24:28.840 trump's not happening candidate purdue is is uh not doing as well as many people
01:24:34.120 thought he would do but but yeah this this whole month i mean we've got beyond
01:24:38.300 pennsylvania you've got north carolina you've got um you know arizona
01:24:41.760 missouri sorry arizona is in august uh missouri but a lot of you know trump
01:24:46.720 endorsements are going to be on the line this month so i think we'll see when the
01:24:49.980 dust settles uh how well he does but but he certainly got off to a good start in
01:24:54.060 ohio last week and do we think ohio is an outlier just given its demographics
01:24:58.500 and you know it's turning more and more red and has been for some time
01:25:01.720 it wouldn't surprise anybody to see trump's influence still big there
01:25:05.540 but what do you what are the early signs in terms of his
01:25:09.500 influence in these other states even outside of pennsylvania which is
01:25:13.180 more purple yeah i mean the candidate he endorsed north carolina ted budd is
01:25:18.260 sort of running away with there and that's a state that's been trending
01:25:21.080 republican um you know over the last couple cycles um i mentioned um you know
01:25:27.280 i mentioned georgia that's obviously now a famously purple state um herschel
01:25:32.300 walker seems to be holding up pretty well thus far uh obviously in the in the
01:25:36.560 primary uh he's he's you know crushing it but um there are questions about
01:25:40.880 whether he'll be you know he'll be one of those general election candidates
01:25:43.540 that is able to get it done or not i mean we've seen this in in repeated cycles
01:25:47.680 that republicans will invariably shoot themselves in the foot in one or two
01:25:52.560 senate races you think of sharon angle in nevada you think of christine o'donnell
01:25:56.200 in delaware or todd aiken richard murdoch i mean you can go down the list they
01:26:00.840 invariably uh nominate a candidate for whatever reason uh because because of
01:26:06.720 their profile their past or things they say on the trail uh just cannot get the job
01:26:11.740 done even in a good republican year and that's certainly what this is going to be so
01:26:15.660 um i think when all is said and done trump's gonna end up uh his endorsement he may not
01:26:22.140 he's not gonna be perfect i don't think but but he'll be close to it i think his
01:26:25.960 his strength within the republican party is still very real and and i think the folks who are you
01:26:32.700 know establishment back candidates are fighting an uphill battle uphill battle at this point
01:26:37.300 but meanwhile both sides do it because you just had this guy ryan the democrat in ohio suggesting
01:26:44.000 to run against jd vance now suggesting to brett bear that he's for abortion all the way through the
01:26:49.120 ninth month which is just be up to the mother which is definitely not in line with ohio voters
01:26:53.720 so you know both sides say these outrageous things where you're like wait what what did he
01:26:57.900 just say and like right they don't take him back they don't try to you know they don't do a
01:27:02.340 very good job of cleaning them up so you gotta you gotta believe that they stand by them um all
01:27:07.120 right so what's your feeling right now on you you still feel like the republicans are definitely
01:27:11.100 taking over the house yes oh yeah i mean there there's a political article this morning that said
01:27:17.760 you know democrats uh you know these are the races they need to have the chance at holding the house
01:27:22.860 and i i tweeted that famous jim carrey uh jif of him in in dumber dumber was saying you know
01:27:29.020 you mean there's still a chance you still got a chance what you're saying is there's a chance
01:27:33.860 yeah uh i look i don't think there's any any pundit or prognosticator or political watcher who
01:27:41.080 thinks that the democrats have a realistic chance i mean you just look at the you look at the toss-up
01:27:45.380 races um go to cook political maybe and check out their ratings they've got you know 18 democratic
01:27:50.740 toss-up races eight republican toss-up races so if republicans just managed to split the toss-ups
01:27:56.300 they lose four theirs and they win nine of the 18 democratic seats there's your five seats i mean
01:28:03.080 there it there's your republican majority and on top of that you've got you've got eight more seats
01:28:08.720 that are democratically held that are rated liens or likely republican um and and and only one going
01:28:16.560 in the other direction so uh it's just incredibly hard for democrats to have any chance of maintaining
01:28:22.520 a majority i mean to lose only four seats in this environment uh with redistricting and and as i
01:28:27.900 mentioned you know inflation economy all that driving the day um i i just think they have if the election
01:28:34.760 were held today now things could still change six months is a lot of time i always like to throw that
01:28:38.700 caveat in there uh but right now i mean it's yeah they have very little chance of approaching zero
01:28:45.920 i'll get to the senate one second but when you mentioned redistricting redistricting you know
01:28:50.400 the democrats did a very good job of it the republicans tried to do some as well the the democrats
01:28:55.480 have seen some of theirs knocked down by courts which has been kind of interesting to watch because
01:29:01.020 they've been too clever by half in their attempts and the courts have been like yeah no these lines
01:29:07.100 make absolutely no sense so i'm sure you've been keeping a closer eye on it than i have but how
01:29:12.380 how has that shaken out the the attempts to sort of jerry rig the election by changing the voting lines
01:29:19.640 democrats versus republicans yeah i mean democrats were really aggressive i mean in my home state
01:29:26.640 here of illinois they drew some crazy districts new york too yeah new york too maryland is another one
01:29:33.620 uh you know and republicans republicans did the same uh in in some of their you know north carolina
01:29:39.600 and obviously what ron de santis did in florida and i think that's going to be challenging court so
01:29:43.940 we'll see um you know part of my my gripe about this which is always my gripe is the media you know
01:29:51.360 and the the idea that you know when republicans gerrymandered when democrats do it it's just you
01:29:56.580 know it's them exercising power when republicans do it it's it's the you know it's it's racism it's
01:30:02.080 voter suppression it's the end of democracy um look this is what parties do and and it is
01:30:08.780 unfortunate feature of our democracy that you that this is the way that we do it and it's leading
01:30:13.700 to less and less competitive districts i mean personally i would like to see you know you know
01:30:19.260 i was always held up as the gold standard they've got a non-partisan you know commission that that
01:30:24.700 redistricts or you know sets their districts and we'd love to see more of that uh so they're not
01:30:30.120 drawing these ridiculously crazy districts um and keep them more compact and in uniform but that's just
01:30:37.640 not where we are um but i think the net of this is that republicans ended up you know with a slight
01:30:43.660 advantage on redistricting initially it looked like democrats were going to come out with a little bit
01:30:47.080 of advantage and then that kind of got wiped away with with what happened late in florida so um and
01:30:52.360 again you know only having to win i mean you go look at the historical average of first-term incumbents
01:30:59.060 uh you know they're facing their midterms it's like 28 seats that the party typically loses in about
01:31:04.760 two and a half senate seats so historically speaking it'd be very very tough uh for democrats to
01:31:10.260 to get to a point where they um you know held their losses even even to you know 10 or 15 seats
01:31:17.280 that would even be a miracle but that would also mean a republican majority in the house of
01:31:21.720 representatives that's right that's right and there's all sorts of investigations already being
01:31:25.040 promised um into fauci and others the senate is the big question and a lot tighter how's that
01:31:32.800 looking right now uh you know it's it's it's better for democrats but still not great you've
01:31:39.120 got uh seven toss-up seats i think four four democrats three republicans and you know the
01:31:44.960 democrats are the ones that we've been talking about it's mark kelly in arizona it's uh catherine
01:31:49.220 cortez masto in nevada it's rafael warnock in georgia and it's maggie hassan in new hampshire
01:31:53.840 and then on the republican side um you've got an open seat in north carolina which we talked
01:31:58.840 about the primary there open seat in pennsylvania um and then you've got ron johnson who's running
01:32:04.380 in wisconsin that's considered a you know wisconsin's been a a 50 50 state um i would you
01:32:10.040 know ron johnson is a an incumbent which makes it you know a little bit better for republicans than
01:32:14.640 an open seat um but you know again these democrats are all in very very tough races uh because you know
01:32:23.160 i think democrats would like to look back to recent history 2018 where you know republicans
01:32:29.040 really got thrashed in the in the house uh 40 plus seats in the house but picked up two senate seats
01:32:34.500 and you go back and look at that and and you know this is trump said it was a red wave it was a it was
01:32:38.680 a blue wave in the house it was sort of like a red ripple in in the senate and the reason that was
01:32:43.460 is is the states that were in play uh like missouri for example they could really sort of flex their
01:32:49.580 partisan muscles right um you know in rural areas it wasn't just in the suburbs where you know
01:32:56.220 republicans lost a lot of these house seats in 2018 um they were in more red states the problem
01:33:01.560 for democrats is these states are not blue states they're very much purple states i mean arizona and
01:33:07.200 georgia and nevada uh and new hampshire are states that are basically you know two three-point
01:33:12.740 states maybe even less than that um and so there isn't a lot of and they have they have republican
01:33:18.720 dna in them so i think they're going to be uh there it's going to be a struggle for democrats
01:33:23.480 um to to win those seats and you know if the landscape is as bad in november as as it is right
01:33:30.100 now people aren't even talking about uh you know bennett in colorado uh which is another seat that
01:33:36.200 that could potentially uh you know come on the board late and and be a real struggle you've got it you
01:33:42.620 know uh washington state's another one that you know is is considered probably safe for
01:33:48.580 democrats but in this kind of environment we don't know um we know it's bad but we don't know
01:33:54.260 how bad it is how bad it'll be for for democrats right now the you know in the house you're looking
01:33:59.040 at anything that's like a you know any biden any district that biden won by 10 points or less is
01:34:04.600 potentially uh you know in play given what we saw in in virginia and new jersey about a 10 to 12 point
01:34:11.620 shift um so i think it's i think the senate is the republicans are the favorite to take the senate
01:34:17.200 there's no question they're just not a strong favorite as they are in the house and meanwhile
01:34:21.660 the the issue that you keep you know mentioning inflation they're doing very little about right
01:34:27.000 the fed raises interest rates a little bit they're not nowhere near enough to actually change what's
01:34:32.240 happening on the inflationary front and immigration we're about to go in the wrong direction you know
01:34:37.240 we're lifting title 42 we're gonna at the end of may is when that's happening so things are not
01:34:41.380 going to get better mayorkas keeps telling us so we've got it under control no one believes that
01:34:45.480 if you have it under control why is it so bad why is it at record levels of bad before we lift that
01:34:50.700 those are issues people really do care about and that drive voters to the polls you know not as much
01:34:57.420 abortion um but on top of that you've got a very woke administration that's very luxury and judgy and
01:35:04.240 interfering with parents in the school you know boards and so on and you got disinformation
01:35:09.420 departments stuff that hits people in their personal lives in a way that you know maybe the abortion
01:35:15.460 motivates some democrats this stuff motivates a lot of republicans that's why we saw glenn young
01:35:20.200 can you know surge to victory in virginia that's right and and we're going to get another inflation
01:35:26.740 number on wednesday uh it's expected to be a little bit less than march which was 8.5 it's supposed to be
01:35:32.520 8.1 but you know 8.1 is is still disaster territory for democrats i mean that number has to come down a
01:35:40.720 lot between now and november uh for for this and biden's going to give a speech uh about it this he's
01:35:47.600 he's talking about it more often which i think is probably you know smart and good but to your point
01:35:53.440 there's not a lot that he can do some of the things that he's you know that have caused inflation
01:35:59.060 you know first the administration i mean they've literally just bungled this from the beginning when
01:36:03.700 inflation started percolating as an issue last spring they said no it doesn't exist and then
01:36:08.500 they said it's you know oh it's temporary at the end of the year biden said it had peaked at 6.8 percent
01:36:14.100 and then as i mentioned it went up to 8.5 percent they've taken sort of a dismissive attitude that
01:36:20.240 you know oh well that's a you know upper class problem you remember jen saki with the supply chain
01:36:25.060 issues um they just haven't and then they were blaming it on putin uh which clearly you know the
01:36:32.280 public didn't buy and and now you know trump's going to sort of shift it and and and try and you know
01:36:38.000 blame republicans for it and and say they can't be put in power so i just think the administration
01:36:43.160 has not meanwhile it's it it rose quickly to the top concern among americans uh as as they dealt with
01:36:50.820 higher gas prices and you know it's one of those things when you when you fill up your tank and it
01:36:55.160 costs you know 70 or 100 the first time it's like whoa you know wow that's a lot um it's it's more
01:37:02.480 shock when you've done it 10 20 50 times it's there's a cumulative effect and it turns to anger and why am
01:37:12.140 i still paying this much and and so we've gotten into the anger territory now where people are uh and
01:37:18.540 the washington post poll that came out last week showed this i mean i think it was like 44 percent
01:37:22.340 of people are not just concerned about inflation they're upset by it i mean it really is starting
01:37:26.460 to piss people off and the administration again hasn't done what i think is is match the level of
01:37:33.560 urgency i mean joe biden should have set up a commission he should have an inflation czar he
01:37:37.200 should be talking about it every day here are the things we're trying to do it should be all over it
01:37:41.100 should be all over it and and just to because even if you don't believe there's a lot the
01:37:45.960 administration can actually do to bring inflation down they can at least match the urgency of the
01:37:51.420 american people on the issue communicate to them every single day we're not sleeping until this
01:37:56.840 thing you know till we fix this problem this time i see it like you're you're in this svelte 120 pound
01:38:03.080 body and you let somebody else you let somebody else control your body for a period of time and
01:38:09.380 before you know it like in a year your body comes back to you at 860 pounds 860 you're like what did
01:38:16.920 you do to my body and then the next month he says well now it's 810 pounds right what i i'm not
01:38:24.400 satisfied and yes i'm angry i'm more than concerned i'm angry uh they're gonna have to deal with that
01:38:29.960 no amount of saber rattling about you know the social issues is gonna be enough to turn the tide
01:38:35.760 tom such a pleasure thank you so much for what you do love real killer politics and your whole team
01:38:41.040 there thanks megan great to be with you thanks for joining us today tomorrow my old pal judge
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