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The Megyn Kelly Show
- March 09, 2026
Another 60 Minutes Editing Controversy, NYC Terror Attack, and Obama and Kamala Politicize Funeral, with Stu Burguiere | Ep. 1268
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1 hour and 43 minutes
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176.37665
Word Count
18,224
Sentence Count
1,148
Misogynist Sentences
19
Hate Speech Sentences
50
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
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We have got a whole lot of news to bring to you today.
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I'm in a remote location again because my kids are on spring break, but I am not.
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There's a lot happening in this world, and so we decided to keep the plugs into our system
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and keep the news being brought to you guys.
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Oil has surged over $100 a barrel amid the fallout from this Iranian war.
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We're going to tell you what that could mean for you.
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It's not good.
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President Trump doesn't seem concerned about it.
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I'm sure he is watching it, but he thinks, you know, short term we're going to be able to deal with this,
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which sounds somewhat reassuring, but, you know, it's tough because gas prices have already gone up
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and over $100 a barrel is no bueno.
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You know, an improvised explosive device thrown at a protest.
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Did you see this near the mayor's home in New York City?
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And how he is restyling this into something about white supremacy is very bizarre.
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This is, as his own police commissioner is investigating this, as an act of terrorism.
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The guy was yelling Allahu Akbar as he threw an IED at cops, but somehow this is an act of white supremacy
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because the protesters there were saying they didn't want Islam taking over New York,
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but they weren't the ones who threw the bomb.
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You see, the bomb was being thrown at them and at cops,
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something the mayor weirdly omitted from his tweet, which took over 24 hours, responding to the incident.
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This is what we're dealing with in New York now.
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But we have got to begin this hour with what happened on 60 Minutes last night,
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who just cannot seem to help themselves making deceptive edits.
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All right?
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Yesterday, 60 Minutes aired Major Garrett, my old pal from Fox News.
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This does not appear to have been his sin, though I don't know whether he signed off on this or not.
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This would have been an editorial call by the network, but they aired his interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
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about what's happening in Iran.
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Here is part, okay, about, this is what actually aired, right?
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About Israel possibly dragging the United States into war.
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This is what was presented to the CBS audience.
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Some normally enthusiastic supporters of the president have criticized him,
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suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the U.S. into a war that,
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to their minds, did not put American interests first.
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Do you want to address that criticism?
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All I know is I'm in the room every day and I see how President Trump operates and what he's putting first,
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and it's America, Americans, and American interests.
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Okay, so there you see Pete Hegseth defending Bibi Netanyahu charges about Israel's interference in the war.
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Well, thanks to President Trump's complaint about 60 Minutes edits of Kamala Harris's interview and how deceptive they were,
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CBS now posts the unedited interviews of newsmakers as well.
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And let me tell you, the question asked was very different.
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That was not the question that Major Garrett asked.
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He did not ask anything about Bibi Netanyahu or Israel, nor did then Pete go on to rehabilitate anything in response to Israel.
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All right, we took a look at the Hegseth interview in full.
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It's notable how the Q&A you saw never mentioned Israel at all.
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Only someone at CBS tried to go back and change the question to make it about Israel,
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such that the answer would then rehabilitate Israel, which isn't what actually happened.
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Look at this.
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This is the actual Q&A as it unfolded.
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You mentioned America First.
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Some who identify with that movement, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
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have said from their perspective this isn't an America First campaign.
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Do you want to address that criticism?
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All I know is I'm in the room every day, and I see how President Trump operates and what he's putting first,
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and it's America, Americans, and American interests at every level.
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How long should our bases be tolerating thousands of short-range ballistic missiles
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and one-way attack drones pointing at our bases and our people?
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After 47 years of Americans being targeted and killed,
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the men I served with in combat in Iraq coming home with no arms and no legs,
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targeted by Iranian EFPs, thousands of Americans killed.
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Beirut, you want to go back? We can go back to how long.
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I mean, the regime itself is premised on death to America.
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So 47 years, thousands of missiles, and an unrelenting pursuit of nuclear ambitions.
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I mean, President Trump's right.
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When he says we obliterated their nuclear program, he's right.
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We did.
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We dropped those bombs exactly where they needed to be and set them back.
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But that doesn't mean they've stopped their pursuit.
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It doesn't mean in the back of their mind they're thinking,
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well, maybe we'll wait it out and keep...
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They've miscalculated the resolve of President Trump.
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Ask Nicholas Maduro about that.
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Ask, you know, the Houthis about that.
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Look at the southern border.
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Look at the cartels and drug boats.
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When President Trump says he'll take care of something, he's going to take care of it.
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There was nothing, nothing about Netanyahu and nothing about Israel in the Q or the A.
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Only CBS decided to style it in that fashion.
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But you know what?
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Here's the thing.
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They do not give a shit about misleading you over at CBS.
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The old CBS or the new CBS, which has a brand new agenda.
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The left will tell you that it's pro-MAGA.
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It's not pro-MAGA.
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Trust me.
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Watch two minutes of the evening news or the morning news.
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It is not pro-MAGA at all, but it is pro-Israel.
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Barry Weiss has finally achieved her dream of running a news network that will be entirely
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pro-Israel.
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This is not just me saying this.
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Everybody all over the internet who's been watching CBS is noting how unfair their coverage
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is on this.
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It is not fair and balanced at all.
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So not only did CBS reframe the whole thing unfairly to be about Bibi Netanyahu, which was
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not in Major's question and was not in Pete's answer.
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He was not answering a question about Israel.
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But they also then jumped two and a half minutes in the interview after Hegseth's answer to
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then a question about Netanyahu providing intel to the U.S. in the war.
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But that moment, an example of inserting Israel into a Q&A that never mentioned it in the first
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place.
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Okay.
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So here again, they are trying to shove Israel into the debate and Israel's in the debate,
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but you can't make a question that wasn't about it, about it later with an anchor track.
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That's what they did.
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They took Major's question out and they relayed an anchor track to make it about Netanyahu
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and Israel so that Pete's answer would be rehabilitative of that.
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What kind of fucking bullshit is this?
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Honestly, like forget, obviously, we've got a lot of questions about this war.
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As I made clear last week, we're still supporters of President Trump entirely.
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Doesn't mean you have to agree with every decision the man makes.
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And we support our troops and we support success in this mission now that it has been started.
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But we have a lot of questions about this war.
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Some are about Israel's role, obviously.
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Some are about gas prices, as we mentioned a minute ago.
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Many are about whether this is good for the American people.
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Whether, as we mentioned on this show, and we voiced our objections last Monday,
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we're now subjecting the homeland to more potential terrorism attacks.
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Remember, that was one of the main things I said, that I was very worried,
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having been at Fox News for 20 years in the war on terror,
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that we were now going to start to see more domestic terror attacks,
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which we had tamped down, which we'd been doing rather well on.
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That was one of my main things.
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MTG was on the show.
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Here is what she said her concerns were, okay?
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Among other things, she mentioned Israel, so did I.
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But here is her list of what she was concerned about in SOT 2.
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Most Americans are completely against this war because, like you said,
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the president has made no case for it.
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We live our ordinary lives, and we don't feel threatened by Iran.
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We don't walk around thinking that in any moment an Iranian ballistic missile
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is going to land on our head.
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We don't.
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Here's what Americans, and I want to read off this list.
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This is what Americans are focused on.
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72% of Americans can't afford health insurance.
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58% of Americans can't afford car insurance.
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67% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
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31% of Americans can't afford their back taxes.
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50% of Americans are in credit card debt, massive credit card debt.
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That's where we are in America.
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Okay, so Major Garrett, who is a good reporter,
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took criticisms like mine, like hers, and others,
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and asked the question,
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you mentioned America First.
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Some who identify with that movement,
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Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Kenneth Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
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have said from their perspective,
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this isn't an American First campaign.
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America First campaign.
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Do you want to address that criticism?
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Fair question.
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Totally fair question.
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Major does his homework.
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Trust me.
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I know him very well.
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We officed together for two years
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and have been through a lot together.
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And they changed that question with a voiceover
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to there are varying versions of how and why the war started when it did.
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Some normally enthusiastic supporters of the president have criticized him,
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suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pulled the U.S. into a war
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that to their minds did not put American interests first.
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That is a different question.
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I also believe that,
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as do I think the other people on your list.
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But that is a very different question
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than why do we think this war is not America First?
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And CBS manipulated the Q&A
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in order to rehabilitate Netanyahu
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in a way that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
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was not doing in that answer.
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Do you understand?
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This is ridiculous.
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It's welcome to the news, CBS.
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Same as the old CBS.
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Deceptive editing,
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deceptive manipulations
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meant to push their own agenda.
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There's a lot to go over today.
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This New York City terror attack being reframed as white supremacy is yet another.
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What happened now?
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Jesse Jackson's son
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is lashing out
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at the top Democrats,
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President Obama,
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President Bill Clinton,
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President Biden,
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for using his dad's memorial
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to try to rip on Trump.
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Jesse Jackson's son is pissed.
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Who could blame him?
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If you guys remember on AM Update after the Reverend Jackson died,
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I made a personal comment on there
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about how he was always very good to yours truly.
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We saw him plenty of times over the Fox News room,
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you know, tenure.
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And he was always so cordial,
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so kind.
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He knew he was at Fox.
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He knew I was with Fox.
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Never anything but kind,
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supportive,
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inquiring about me,
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my family,
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my wellness,
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all that.
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And I believe the son when he says
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they did not want to make his funeral a partisan thing.
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In any event,
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we'll get to all of that.
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Let me bring in our guest.
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Stu, welcome back.
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Who's Dave?
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Ah, Dave Landau.
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He's a comedian.
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I realized America is a little bit too much
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for me to do by myself,
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so we're bringing Dave on to help.
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It's going to be a lot of fun.
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Awesome.
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Okay.
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Can you believe this 60 minutes bullshit?
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You get it, right?
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I had to work extra hard at it,
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but you get the sin, yes?
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Yes, I follow it along as I think.
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You know, it's interesting
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because I think the question asked,
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obviously one of your criticisms might be that,
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but it's also they grouped you with people
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who have, I would say,
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a very wide array of complaints,
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some of them smart,
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some of them not so smart.
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And it's funny, like they just,
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that's an interesting way to ask that question,
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especially when you could have asked it directly, right?
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Those are interesting conversations.
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People have opinions on them.
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I think a lot of people
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are very focused on that right now.
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And for you to be able to,
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for someone like Pete to be able to answer that,
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I mean, I think the tone of it is true, right?
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Like at the end of the day,
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we have a commander in chief
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and he makes the decisions.
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Donald Trump, not exactly shy on his opinions.
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I don't think he gets bullied around all that much.
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But to try to hide that in some separate question
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where it could have easily been just asked directly.
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I will say one of the things we're finding out about this
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and one of the, I think the efforts
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that Donald Trump was trying to achieve
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when he went after CBS the first time
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is for us to be able to know this.
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I mean, this is a new development, Megan.
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Like, you know, up until recently,
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you would have just been guessing, right?
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You would have saying, what was that question?
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What would we have known?
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And we not would have had that information at all.
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So at least we've stepped forward
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a little bit in that front.
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We can now look at the full interviews.
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I think that's a positive,
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but I don't understand the approach.
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I mean, just ask the question directly
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and let people judge for themselves.
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I mean, America first is many things.
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It's many things, but I mean,
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MTG is basically saying she's America only.
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That's how she would phrase her ideology.
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And the original question by Major got it
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and understood it and captured
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that it was a broader thing, I think,
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by sticking to this isn't America first principles,
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nothing about Netanyahu.
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That's also on the table.
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It's a separate question
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and it would be a separate answer.
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That's not how they presented it.
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They presented the Secretary of War's defense
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to the question, which by the way, was so shortened.
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I realize in 60 Minutes and every network news,
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they shorten an answer,
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but his longer answer was a very good answer.
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You know, you may find it persuasive
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as a justification for the war or you may not,
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but it at least was honest about the reasons were there.
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You know, he mentioned for 47 years,
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they've been bombing us.
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He mentioned guys who've lost limbs in the Iraq war
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thanks to Iranian IEDs.
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Like, okay, that's fine.
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That actually has persuaded millions of Americans
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and the majority of Republicans
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that what we're doing over there right now
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is just and supported and warranted.
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But that's not what the question was.
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That's the problem.
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You cannot take a question that wasn't asked
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about Bibi Netanyahu
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and insert an answer that was responsive
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to America First principles.
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It's fucking unethical.
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Major knows that.
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CBS knows that.
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Barry Weiss knows that.
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So what that leads me to conclude
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is she's pushing an agenda.
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And we do know she's heavily involved
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in these 60 Minutes review sessions.
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We learned that when she spiked the report on Seacott
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and there was a meltdown within 60.
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This is not cool.
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And they ought to correct the record
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because that is not what he responded to.
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It's infuriating because right now,
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I don't know about you, Stu,
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but like the media is impossible at the moment.
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You've got the pro-Trump outlets
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that are like Fox
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that are completely running cover
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on everything around this war,
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cheerleading it entirely.
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Then you've got like the New York Times
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and other outlets that hate Trump,
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that see everything in the least favorable light
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to the president.
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And even I, as a critic of the war,
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I'm not so critical
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that I would rely on the New York Times, right?
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Like I'll look at them,
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I'll look at everybody,
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but it's very hard to find information
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that you really can trust, right?
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Because our president definitely tries
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to manipulate the media
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like every other president we've had.
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And the media is trying to manipulate its audiences
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like a full bore right now on all fronts.
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So it's been a challenge getting information.
00:17:17.140
Yeah, the media is in a really difficult position right now.
00:17:20.080
I mean, they've been talking to us
00:17:21.440
for a very long time
00:17:22.900
about how we have to be more involved
00:17:24.840
in something like Ukraine, for example.
00:17:28.660
And now, because President Trump
00:17:31.340
wants to be involved with Iran,
00:17:33.540
they kind of have to take the opposite position
00:17:35.540
and say we shouldn't be involved in these conflicts.
00:17:38.520
I mean, it is a complicated world.
00:17:40.920
Have some sympathy for them, Megan.
00:17:42.440
This is really hard to figure out on a day-to-day basis.
00:17:45.640
You know, you have to oppose Trump,
00:17:47.400
but you have to, I mean,
00:17:48.380
this is just what they're in the middle of.
00:17:50.620
And I think, you know, President Trump,
00:17:52.000
like I think you hit on something there,
00:17:54.620
which is the debate.
00:17:55.840
And I think it's an interesting question here
00:18:00.000
because it's much broader than, you know,
00:18:01.620
how you feel about Israel.
00:18:03.140
You know, like you might think Israel
00:18:04.320
is the greatest country on earth
00:18:05.260
and they're totally justified.
00:18:06.280
I think, you know, if I was living in Israel
00:18:08.560
and I was an Israeli talk show host,
00:18:10.440
I would be pretty convinced
00:18:11.760
that Iran was a real threat to me.
00:18:13.560
And taking out someone like the Ayatollah
00:18:15.840
would, I think, be pretty justified.
00:18:18.060
We certainly, I think, have an argument
00:18:20.080
as Pete was making there as well.
00:18:22.720
But, you know, the line here,
00:18:23.980
and this is something that
00:18:24.660
I don't think I would have,
00:18:26.640
I don't think it's a place
00:18:27.280
I would have been 20 or 30 years ago
00:18:28.900
because, you know,
00:18:31.700
going through the Iraq situation
00:18:33.360
had me rethinking things
00:18:36.040
a little bit on this front
00:18:37.080
and sort of trying to set out
00:18:39.260
that dynamic of justification
00:18:41.700
versus necessity, right?
00:18:43.720
Like, I think we have a really good argument
00:18:46.160
that taking on Iran is justified.
00:18:51.220
You know, what Pete's saying was true.
00:18:52.880
Like, they really, outside of our direct conflict.
00:18:55.040
There's scores to be settled.
00:18:57.120
There are.
00:18:57.780
I mean, there's heavy reporting
00:18:59.980
on, you know, the potential
00:19:01.560
of them trying to take out
00:19:03.400
multiple officials here in the United States,
00:19:05.060
including Donald Trump and John Bolton,
00:19:06.660
two people who can't stand each other these days.
00:19:09.080
You go back and you look at, of course,
00:19:11.540
I mean, I did deep research.
00:19:12.760
I want you to know,
00:19:13.440
I went back and watched Argo
00:19:14.600
with Ben Affleck, Megan.
00:19:17.420
Yes, I did.
00:19:19.040
And in that movie,
00:19:19.880
that Hollywood wanted you
00:19:20.720
to make sure you understood
00:19:21.700
that Iran was bad,
00:19:23.920
so they were on that side.
00:19:24.860
I don't know.
00:19:25.260
I go back and forth on this.
00:19:26.400
By the way, freaking great movie.
00:19:28.200
It's a great movie.
00:19:28.980
It is a great movie.
00:19:29.620
No matter what.
00:19:30.220
It is a great movie.
00:19:31.440
Ben Affleck is incredibly irritating,
00:19:32.800
but that was a great movie.
00:19:34.100
It really is.
00:19:35.340
But you remember,
00:19:36.160
this is a,
00:19:36.760
there's a long history.
00:19:37.940
And what's interesting
00:19:39.000
about that history, 1979,
00:19:41.000
I mean, Donald Trump's,
00:19:42.060
I think, 33 years old
00:19:43.480
when this all goes down
00:19:44.560
somewhere in that area.
00:19:46.260
Like this is,
00:19:46.960
as he's becoming an adult
00:19:49.280
and building his business empire,
00:19:50.980
we're kind of just starting
00:19:52.240
to become aware of him
00:19:53.720
as a national figure.
00:19:56.220
This is the story, right?
00:19:58.440
This is the story at that time.
00:20:00.640
And Iran has a long history
00:20:02.580
of murdering Americans.
00:20:04.200
This is not just a thing.
00:20:05.440
This is not like,
00:20:06.160
oh gosh, this is some country.
00:20:07.940
This is a country that,
00:20:09.040
outside of our direct wars
00:20:10.780
that we've been in,
00:20:11.800
has killed more Americans
00:20:12.900
than any other nation,
00:20:14.300
any other nation state.
00:20:15.800
They did this during your war.
00:20:16.240
They're always on the other side.
00:20:17.780
Always.
00:20:18.200
Yes, exactly.
00:20:18.860
This is a,
00:20:19.360
so, you know,
00:20:19.880
we have real justification,
00:20:21.460
I think,
00:20:21.800
to have a massive problem
00:20:22.900
with this country.
00:20:23.640
The question though,
00:20:24.600
and I think this is where
00:20:25.520
I got with Iraq
00:20:26.240
when we were in Iraq initially.
00:20:28.680
I mean, they,
00:20:29.280
people forget,
00:20:29.920
they were firing at our jets
00:20:31.820
on like a daily basis
00:20:33.180
before that war started.
00:20:35.500
And that is a justification,
00:20:37.520
absolutely,
00:20:38.320
for us to be able
00:20:39.320
to go to war.
00:20:40.420
The question though,
00:20:41.180
is it a necessity
00:20:42.060
at that time?
00:20:43.260
Can you find,
00:20:45.660
I think it was an opportunity.
00:20:47.000
The question was,
00:20:47.820
is it a necessity with Iran?
00:20:49.620
And an opportunity,
00:20:50.660
I have no love
00:20:51.280
for the Iranian regime.
00:20:52.200
I am happy the Ayatollah
00:20:53.160
is not there anymore.
00:20:54.140
I really hope this turns out
00:20:55.380
really well.
00:20:56.480
But if we go to
00:20:58.340
an expanded situation
00:21:00.100
where this lasts
00:21:01.000
for a long time,
00:21:02.740
you know,
00:21:03.000
questions wind up being,
00:21:04.940
becoming problems quickly.
00:21:06.340
And it's hard
00:21:07.320
to back out of that stuff.
00:21:08.500
And that is the sort of thing,
00:21:10.240
I think a lot of Trump supporters
00:21:11.620
believe we wouldn't
00:21:13.100
get involved in.
00:21:14.540
And perhaps we're not,
00:21:15.500
you know,
00:21:15.720
we're only a week or so
00:21:16.960
into this.
00:21:17.560
Perhaps this is gonna,
00:21:18.760
you know,
00:21:19.040
he's got a more limited
00:21:20.000
effort in mind.
00:21:21.360
But it's hard to know.
00:21:23.160
And I think that's part
00:21:23.920
of your criticism,
00:21:25.320
some that I would have
00:21:26.120
of the president's approach
00:21:27.000
to this is,
00:21:27.440
I would love to know
00:21:28.040
a little bit more.
00:21:28.620
I'd love to have a little bit
00:21:29.420
more explanation wise.
00:21:30.520
I know he can't lay out
00:21:31.380
the entire battle plan,
00:21:32.920
but it is important
00:21:33.680
for the American people
00:21:34.360
to understand
00:21:35.280
if this is an important,
00:21:36.680
if it is a necessity
00:21:37.500
and not just a justified conflict.
00:21:40.980
I'd like to be,
00:21:41.800
you know,
00:21:42.080
a little more information
00:21:42.920
to push us over that line.
00:21:44.500
Well, I mean,
00:21:44.780
you look back at what happened
00:21:45.640
before the Iraq war
00:21:46.540
and we had months
00:21:47.240
of debate on it.
00:21:48.160
We had tons of debate
00:21:49.340
on that,
00:21:50.100
on whether we should go
00:21:50.920
in Afghanistan too.
00:21:52.740
And the people
00:21:54.380
at least got a fair vetting.
00:21:55.600
It wound up having
00:21:56.820
majority support
00:21:57.700
in the U.S. Congress,
00:21:59.300
the Iraq war.
00:21:59.960
The Iraq war did,
00:22:01.860
which is kind of crazy
00:22:02.740
to think back on,
00:22:03.940
which was very wrong
00:22:04.840
and we should not
00:22:05.460
have done the Iraq war.
00:22:06.340
I mean,
00:22:06.780
I think virtually everyone
00:22:08.300
understands that now.
00:22:09.800
WMD was a lie.
00:22:10.980
They did not exist.
00:22:12.260
Whatever.
00:22:12.620
It was an intel failure
00:22:13.520
at a minimum.
00:22:15.500
And so,
00:22:16.520
but we did debate it
00:22:17.760
and there were two sides
00:22:19.160
and they're actually the
00:22:20.340
this is bullshit side
00:22:21.520
was there.
00:22:22.220
They were represented.
00:22:22.960
They were overruled.
00:22:23.720
They weren't considered persuasive.
00:22:25.240
But on this,
00:22:25.900
we just haven't had
00:22:26.600
the debate at all
00:22:27.360
and now we've launched
00:22:29.300
something that
00:22:29.840
I don't know
00:22:31.060
where it's going.
00:22:31.840
I mean,
00:22:32.140
many people think
00:22:33.340
this is the beginning
00:22:33.860
of World War III.
00:22:34.960
I'm not there yet.
00:22:35.780
But I see terror warnings
00:22:37.980
coming across the transom
00:22:39.060
just as we went to air.
00:22:40.720
This just hits, Stu.
00:22:42.400
This is via ABC News.
00:22:45.220
Stand by.
00:22:47.700
Okay.
00:22:48.260
The headline is,
00:22:49.080
The U.S. has intercepted
00:22:50.840
encrypted communications
00:22:52.100
believed to have originated
00:22:53.280
in Iran
00:22:54.000
that may serve
00:22:55.120
as an operational trigger,
00:22:56.960
that's in quotes,
00:22:58.260
for, quote,
00:22:58.840
sleeper assets
00:22:59.740
outside of Iran,
00:23:01.140
according to a federal
00:23:01.840
government alert
00:23:02.820
sent to law enforcement
00:23:04.280
agencies.
00:23:04.820
It goes on to say,
00:23:06.020
The intercepted transmission
00:23:07.540
was encoded
00:23:08.260
and appeared to be destined
00:23:09.720
for, quote,
00:23:10.300
clandestine recipients
00:23:11.660
who possess
00:23:12.700
the encryption key,
00:23:13.780
the kind of message
00:23:14.400
intended to impart
00:23:15.180
instructions to covert
00:23:16.220
operatives or sleeper assets
00:23:17.620
without the use
00:23:18.660
of the internet
00:23:19.120
or cellular networks.
00:23:21.180
It's possible
00:23:21.940
the transmissions
00:23:22.520
could be intended
00:23:23.160
to activate
00:23:23.760
or provide instructions
00:23:25.000
to pre-positioned
00:23:26.080
sleeper assets
00:23:26.660
operating outside
00:23:27.520
of the originating country,
00:23:28.700
said the alert.
00:23:30.980
We were not going
00:23:31.960
to get that.
00:23:32.620
That was not happening
00:23:33.720
nine days ago.
00:23:35.460
That is obviously
00:23:36.520
a response
00:23:37.320
to what we've done
00:23:39.040
with Israel
00:23:40.200
in Iran.
00:23:41.860
And I realize
00:23:42.440
many people think
00:23:43.000
worth it,
00:23:43.480
worth it,
00:23:43.780
worth it.
00:23:44.020
I don't happen
00:23:44.380
to be one of them.
00:23:45.120
I don't want
00:23:45.880
to have to deal
00:23:46.360
with the United States
00:23:47.820
becoming Israel
00:23:48.800
where we have to worry
00:23:50.180
about getting blown up
00:23:51.180
at your random cafe
00:23:52.660
or our kids have to worry
00:23:54.040
about walking
00:23:54.520
to school safely.
00:23:55.400
That wasn't us
00:23:56.480
10 days ago.
00:23:57.960
And this isn't
00:23:58.740
the only one.
00:23:59.360
You know,
00:23:59.520
we saw that shooting
00:24:00.180
down in Austin, Texas
00:24:01.140
by that guy
00:24:02.260
who seemed like a loon
00:24:03.260
but he was wearing
00:24:03.960
the Allah sweatshirt
00:24:07.740
and the Iranian flag
00:24:09.020
on his person.
00:24:09.700
Now this weekend
00:24:11.820
we see this protest
00:24:14.040
outside of Mamdani's mansion,
00:24:16.020
the mayor's mansion
00:24:16.680
in New York
00:24:17.240
with two people
00:24:18.740
whose parents
00:24:20.000
are naturalized
00:24:20.680
U.S. citizens
00:24:21.280
throwing an IED
00:24:22.320
at cops
00:24:24.260
because the protesters
00:24:25.880
there were protesting
00:24:27.000
against New York
00:24:28.080
becoming more radically Muslim
00:24:29.920
and these obviously
00:24:31.280
were people sympathetic
00:24:32.180
toward the other side
00:24:33.320
which was also represented
00:24:34.340
at the counter protest.
00:24:35.300
In any event,
00:24:36.360
you and I both see
00:24:37.720
what's happening here.
00:24:38.460
There is a powder keg
00:24:40.480
that has been placed,
00:24:42.480
it's been sort of drizzled
00:24:44.420
all over certain pockets
00:24:46.040
of the United States
00:24:46.740
in the wake
00:24:47.160
of our military action
00:24:49.300
in Iran
00:24:50.080
and I'm just totally against it.
00:24:52.440
I am not in favor
00:24:53.600
of using the military
00:24:54.560
in a way that's not defensive.
00:24:55.920
This didn't feel defensive
00:24:56.820
to me
00:24:57.180
but the point is simply
00:24:58.780
now we're going to have
00:24:59.840
to deal with it
00:25:00.460
and now we're going to see
00:25:01.880
more and more
00:25:02.520
of these homegrown
00:25:03.720
domestic terror attacks
00:25:05.120
and yet we're still
00:25:06.400
being told by some
00:25:07.200
that to even discuss it
00:25:08.080
is considered unpatriotic.
00:25:10.960
Yeah, I mean it is
00:25:11.940
it's something
00:25:12.480
you have to factor in
00:25:13.560
and you know,
00:25:14.720
look, if the president
00:25:15.640
wasn't doing that
00:25:16.500
he's not doing his job, right?
00:25:17.680
He has to be able to do that
00:25:18.900
and I'm sure he's taken
00:25:19.880
this into consideration.
00:25:21.300
He's, you know,
00:25:22.300
in his public speaking
00:25:23.640
he's talked about
00:25:24.440
the possibility
00:25:25.400
of casualties.
00:25:26.480
This is not
00:25:26.960
this is not some game
00:25:28.100
like, right?
00:25:28.740
It's not some jokey thing.
00:25:30.440
It's not just some easy thing.
00:25:31.980
This is a country
00:25:33.180
that has, you know,
00:25:34.500
built up military.
00:25:36.100
It has been decimated
00:25:37.820
to some degree.
00:25:39.740
I do think
00:25:40.160
they have been weakened.
00:25:41.320
They do have
00:25:41.920
these affiliates
00:25:42.600
around the world
00:25:43.280
that have been weakened
00:25:44.720
especially around
00:25:45.540
the Middle East
00:25:46.120
leading up to this
00:25:46.900
and I think that's why
00:25:47.920
Israel as well
00:25:49.500
as the United States
00:25:50.060
saw an opportunity here
00:25:51.760
maybe a point of weakness.
00:25:53.800
I would love to see
00:25:55.240
the Iranian people
00:25:56.260
rise up
00:25:56.880
and do what
00:25:57.640
President Trump
00:25:58.120
has asked of them
00:25:58.840
to take this over
00:26:00.620
and turn the country
00:26:01.840
into, you know,
00:26:03.800
not only something
00:26:04.680
that I think
00:26:05.400
is not a negative influence
00:26:06.540
on the rest of the world
00:26:07.440
but also not a negative
00:26:08.440
influence on their people.
00:26:09.580
I would love to see them
00:26:10.220
have the freedom
00:26:11.240
that they want.
00:26:11.800
I would love that too
00:26:12.400
but how can they do it?
00:26:13.380
Like people are criticizing
00:26:14.320
them right now
00:26:14.880
for not, you know,
00:26:16.060
going to the streets
00:26:16.760
and doing what they did
00:26:17.640
in mid-January.
00:26:18.580
It's like, well,
00:26:18.980
we're bombing their cities.
00:26:20.720
You know, I mean,
00:26:21.100
we're bombing the hell
00:26:22.020
out of them.
00:26:22.760
They can't go out
00:26:24.120
in the streets
00:26:24.580
and we've told them
00:26:25.640
not to
00:26:26.140
but how as a practical matter
00:26:29.060
can they
00:26:29.640
with the IRGC
00:26:30.780
running that country
00:26:31.700
with its guns?
00:26:32.520
I mean,
00:26:33.380
there are thousands,
00:26:35.080
tens of thousands
00:26:35.600
of IRGC,
00:26:36.620
Iranian guard
00:26:37.780
and the Iranians
00:26:39.760
don't have guns
00:26:40.360
unlike Americans.
00:26:41.620
They don't have guns.
00:26:42.200
So like,
00:26:43.080
as a practical matter,
00:26:44.020
how does it happen?
00:26:45.740
First of all,
00:26:46.360
I would like to note
00:26:47.180
your argument
00:26:47.820
for the Second Amendment
00:26:48.780
which is, of course,
00:26:49.700
why it exists.
00:26:50.920
I'm in favor
00:26:51.580
of the Second Amendment.
00:26:52.220
really, really important
00:26:54.340
part of this
00:26:55.000
because this is the type
00:26:56.500
of stuff that would be
00:26:57.680
difficult to,
00:26:58.960
you know,
00:26:59.320
that regime
00:26:59.920
is very difficult
00:27:00.760
to implement
00:27:01.260
in a place like
00:27:01.940
the United States.
00:27:02.660
It's not just some,
00:27:03.780
you know,
00:27:04.280
I think the human condition
00:27:05.900
is tilted
00:27:07.280
towards tyranny,
00:27:09.440
right?
00:27:09.660
It's been the entire
00:27:10.420
history of the world.
00:27:11.500
That's another piece
00:27:12.320
of the weaponry
00:27:13.280
against an oppressive government.
00:27:15.960
Massively crucial.
00:27:16.900
And the reason why
00:27:17.440
you don't give your people
00:27:18.420
a Second Amendment
00:27:19.080
like almost every country
00:27:20.060
on Earth has not
00:27:20.920
is so that
00:27:21.920
if you're in this situation,
00:27:23.320
they can't rise up.
00:27:24.180
So it is really,
00:27:25.180
really difficult
00:27:25.600
and probably is going to be
00:27:26.820
a massive loss of life
00:27:28.880
if they do it.
00:27:30.340
Of course,
00:27:31.040
that is up to them.
00:27:32.640
Many people in that country
00:27:33.920
are brave enough
00:27:34.880
and may very well do it.
00:27:36.500
I wouldn't be shocked
00:27:37.280
if they do.
00:27:39.080
And I think,
00:27:39.660
you know,
00:27:39.840
President Trump
00:27:40.460
has outlined this
00:27:41.200
as well as many officials
00:27:42.180
of like,
00:27:43.140
hey,
00:27:43.320
you're right,
00:27:44.160
this isn't the time.
00:27:45.000
You might want to wait
00:27:45.620
a little while
00:27:46.140
until the bombs
00:27:46.800
start dropping,
00:27:47.760
stop dropping.
00:27:48.420
And that's what's been
00:27:48.900
interesting about Trump's
00:27:50.560
continued,
00:27:52.400
you know,
00:27:52.840
again,
00:27:53.160
I'm critical of his
00:27:54.660
communication here
00:27:55.340
because I'm citing
00:27:56.040
some things he's saying
00:27:56.840
and he said some things
00:27:57.520
that are kind of disagreeing
00:27:58.700
with this.
00:27:59.500
But this idea of it being,
00:28:00.920
you know,
00:28:01.600
several weeks,
00:28:02.560
not several years,
00:28:04.180
it's impossible to project
00:28:05.920
that with any level
00:28:07.120
of specificity.
00:28:08.340
And that's,
00:28:09.020
I think,
00:28:09.280
one of the parts
00:28:10.040
that makes me very nervous
00:28:11.180
about this effort,
00:28:12.400
right?
00:28:12.660
Like,
00:28:12.880
I'm nervous
00:28:14.040
that we're going
00:28:14.460
to be able
00:28:14.780
to stick to that.
00:28:16.820
But-
00:28:17.120
We didn't go into Iraq
00:28:18.020
thinking it was going
00:28:18.680
to be several years.
00:28:19.720
We have it on tape.
00:28:20.760
Everybody promising
00:28:21.440
it was going to be days,
00:28:22.980
weeks,
00:28:23.760
possibly,
00:28:24.280
said Cheney.
00:28:25.240
It wound up being
00:28:26.180
almost nine years,
00:28:27.560
eight years
00:28:28.020
and eight months.
00:28:29.960
This is why you try
00:28:31.140
to stay out of war,
00:28:31.820
right?
00:28:32.020
Because it is very difficult
00:28:33.320
even though you could come up
00:28:34.600
with all the justifications.
00:28:35.980
Necessary.
00:28:36.640
That's the good word.
00:28:38.420
Yeah,
00:28:38.660
yeah.
00:28:38.860
And that's a huge,
00:28:40.140
I think,
00:28:40.660
determining factor here.
00:28:42.660
When you look at this
00:28:43.700
and you kind of,
00:28:44.400
you step back,
00:28:46.300
there's so many considerations,
00:28:47.900
right?
00:28:48.160
You heard Marjorie Taylor Greene
00:28:49.500
outlined a bunch of them,
00:28:50.500
right?
00:28:50.620
There's a lot of things
00:28:51.340
that the president
00:28:51.840
has to deal with.
00:28:53.000
And like,
00:28:53.800
you know,
00:28:53.980
we are months away
00:28:55.340
from an election.
00:28:56.740
I can tell you
00:28:57.380
$120 a barrel oil
00:28:59.720
is going to be significant
00:29:01.440
in that election.
00:29:03.220
If it sticks around there,
00:29:05.320
yeah,
00:29:05.580
and we can all say,
00:29:06.460
yeah,
00:29:06.640
well,
00:29:06.880
it'll come down soon
00:29:08.320
and maybe it will,
00:29:09.200
you know.
00:29:09.920
But you're taking
00:29:11.480
a lot of unknowns
00:29:12.600
and you're inserting them
00:29:13.660
into an already
00:29:14.480
difficult situation.
00:29:16.320
And the only time
00:29:17.540
you ever want to do that
00:29:18.440
is when you absolutely
00:29:19.500
have to.
00:29:20.560
And that is,
00:29:21.520
I think,
00:29:21.940
the legitimate criticism
00:29:23.160
here is,
00:29:24.560
you know,
00:29:24.840
while there was opportunity
00:29:25.940
and while I think
00:29:26.600
there was justification,
00:29:28.220
the necessity
00:29:28.940
is the question there.
00:29:30.020
And I think
00:29:30.320
if you can't tick off
00:29:31.400
all three of those boxes,
00:29:32.640
you try to stay
00:29:33.900
out of the conflict
00:29:34.840
because of all the unknowns
00:29:36.140
you're bringing up.
00:29:36.760
Yeah.
00:29:37.160
You don't want to quagmire
00:29:38.340
and you don't want to
00:29:39.320
jeopardize American
00:29:40.120
service personnel's lives.
00:29:41.420
We lost yet another
00:29:42.860
American service personnel,
00:29:45.240
a seventh now,
00:29:46.100
that's seven American dead
00:29:47.480
as a result of this war.
00:29:50.000
And you don't want to
00:29:51.300
jeopardize the safety
00:29:52.460
of Americans here at home.
00:29:54.900
Kids and others
00:29:56.520
who,
00:29:57.740
you know,
00:29:58.120
that's,
00:29:58.960
they come for the soft targets.
00:30:01.480
I lived this.
00:30:02.620
I,
00:30:02.800
I'm not a spring chicken.
00:30:04.540
I lived this from,
00:30:06.340
I started at Fox News
00:30:07.300
in 2004.
00:30:08.940
I started in news
00:30:10.080
in 2003,
00:30:10.900
but I was at Fox
00:30:12.420
the entire time
00:30:14.200
during the war on terror.
00:30:16.160
And I,
00:30:17.480
we did all the things
00:30:19.140
that people want you to do
00:30:20.400
as a Republican,
00:30:21.380
you know,
00:30:21.720
to support the war,
00:30:23.300
support the president,
00:30:24.560
put the casualties
00:30:25.600
in context,
00:30:27.240
you know,
00:30:27.780
give the president
00:30:28.840
the benefit of the doubt
00:30:30.040
when,
00:30:30.600
and his emissaries,
00:30:31.220
when they say things like
00:30:31.980
they're a WMD,
00:30:32.880
we,
00:30:33.100
I did it all.
00:30:33.780
I did it personally.
00:30:35.440
And I'm just not prepared
00:30:36.480
to do that again.
00:30:37.100
I have an enormous dose
00:30:38.220
of skepticism
00:30:38.880
around all war messaging
00:30:40.380
and around all war,
00:30:42.240
around all war
00:30:42.960
in a way that I did not before
00:30:44.140
because I lived it
00:30:45.000
and I watched Americans
00:30:46.140
have to deal with it
00:30:46.780
on the homeland
00:30:47.360
time and time again.
00:30:49.360
No one thinks
00:30:49.940
that our,
00:30:50.280
our armed forces
00:30:51.480
cannot defeat Iran's.
00:30:53.400
Of course,
00:30:54.160
obviously,
00:30:54.620
we have the greatest,
00:30:55.800
bravest,
00:30:56.020
bravest,
00:30:56.640
and best military
00:30:57.320
in the world,
00:30:58.660
bar none.
00:30:59.600
It's a question
00:31:00.340
of what they will do
00:31:01.720
in response,
00:31:03.620
like attack our adversaries
00:31:05.020
and effectively turn them,
00:31:06.980
yes,
00:31:07.260
against Iran.
00:31:07.820
Of course,
00:31:08.060
they're already against Iran
00:31:08.980
in the Middle East,
00:31:09.580
but also against us
00:31:10.560
for not defending them adequately,
00:31:12.100
for not getting enough interceptors
00:31:13.560
over there to protect them
00:31:14.980
against the missiles,
00:31:15.620
but we don't have enough.
00:31:16.840
That's why President Trump
00:31:17.780
was meeting with the
00:31:18.600
defense contractors
00:31:19.700
at the White House on Friday,
00:31:20.880
but they can't,
00:31:21.480
they don't turn around fast.
00:31:23.080
It's not easy
00:31:23.580
to make these things
00:31:24.240
and it's also
00:31:24.800
extremely expensive.
00:31:25.620
And their ability
00:31:28.580
is like that
00:31:29.740
of ISIS
00:31:30.980
and Al-Qaeda.
00:31:32.220
It's homegrown terror attacks.
00:31:34.000
It's things like that
00:31:34.640
ABC News report,
00:31:35.740
which,
00:31:36.580
you know,
00:31:36.840
we do need to worry about,
00:31:37.960
but we'll get to that
00:31:38.700
in a second
00:31:39.000
because there's more warnings
00:31:40.660
on the domestic terror front.
00:31:43.080
You said it's not a game
00:31:44.200
and I agree with you
00:31:44.820
and I don't think
00:31:45.400
President Trump
00:31:45.880
sees it as a game
00:31:46.660
at all.
00:31:47.540
I think he's taking it
00:31:48.240
very seriously.
00:31:49.340
However,
00:31:50.200
one of the main people
00:31:50.980
in his ear
00:31:51.700
seems to think
00:31:53.200
it's like a game
00:31:54.220
and that is Lindsey Graham,
00:31:56.140
who is a villain
00:31:57.540
in this whole thing,
00:31:58.600
a villain.
00:31:59.860
Listen to him
00:32:00.840
over the weekend.
00:32:02.820
He is frothing
00:32:03.720
at the mouth
00:32:04.680
on Fox Business Sunday.
00:32:07.520
I think it's
00:32:08.300
three or four,
00:32:09.340
Deb,
00:32:09.500
you play the right one.
00:32:11.200
Israel and the United States,
00:32:12.800
you just wait
00:32:13.540
to see what comes
00:32:14.620
in the next two weeks.
00:32:16.180
The next two weeks
00:32:17.360
meaning what?
00:32:19.660
We're going to blow
00:32:20.620
the hell out
00:32:21.280
of these people.
00:32:21.900
Okay.
00:32:24.940
He's jubilant.
00:32:26.900
I would be remiss
00:32:27.760
if I did not mention
00:32:28.600
the Jesse Kelly
00:32:29.340
response to this
00:32:30.680
on X,
00:32:31.480
which was,
00:32:32.360
calm down.
00:32:33.860
He might not,
00:32:35.000
he might,
00:32:35.400
he might not be talking
00:32:37.120
about weapons.
00:32:41.400
Okay,
00:32:41.860
that was funny.
00:32:42.460
You have to laugh
00:32:43.060
where you can.
00:32:43.920
But then he followed up
00:32:45.400
with this
00:32:45.900
in Sot 4.
00:32:48.740
If we get in a fight,
00:32:49.880
I want to win it.
00:32:50.600
I want to win it quick.
00:32:51.480
I'm in Miami.
00:32:52.660
You see this hat?
00:32:54.220
Free Cuba.
00:32:55.160
Stay tuned.
00:32:56.140
The liberation of Cuba
00:32:57.240
is upon us.
00:32:58.720
We're marching
00:32:59.300
through the world.
00:33:00.340
We're cleaning out
00:33:01.060
the bad guys.
00:33:02.340
Iran is going down
00:33:03.620
and Cuba is next.
00:33:05.560
We're marching
00:33:06.640
through the world
00:33:07.800
and cleaning out
00:33:09.160
the bad guys?
00:33:10.980
No,
00:33:11.320
what the,
00:33:11.840
who voted for that?
00:33:13.500
No one voted for that.
00:33:15.400
Trump ran
00:33:16.240
on keeping us
00:33:17.020
out of war,
00:33:18.080
especially out
00:33:18.840
of a Middle East war.
00:33:19.880
And now you've got
00:33:20.840
this lunatic
00:33:21.820
saying we're marching
00:33:22.840
through the world
00:33:23.900
and taking down
00:33:25.120
all the bad guys?
00:33:26.400
No,
00:33:26.640
no one elected you
00:33:27.620
to do that.
00:33:28.400
And no one elected
00:33:29.460
President Trump
00:33:30.060
to do that either.
00:33:30.880
And I actually don't think
00:33:31.740
that's on President Trump's agenda.
00:33:33.620
I think on Iran,
00:33:34.680
he was manipulated
00:33:35.400
by people like Lindsey Graham.
00:33:37.260
And I know that
00:33:38.080
thanks to the Wall Street Journal
00:33:39.160
that did a deep dive
00:33:40.100
on it being Lindsey Graham,
00:33:42.720
General Jack Keene,
00:33:43.920
and my old pal,
00:33:44.860
Mark Thiessen,
00:33:45.800
from Fox News,
00:33:46.680
who were primarily
00:33:48.140
in his ear pushing,
00:33:50.080
in addition to Bibi Netanyahu,
00:33:51.860
pushing for this war.
00:33:52.960
But your thoughts
00:33:53.500
on Lindsey Graham
00:33:54.480
and his messaging there, Stu?
00:33:57.240
Well,
00:33:57.740
we'll make it.
00:33:58.260
It's been known
00:33:59.340
for a while
00:33:59.800
that Lindsey Graham sucks
00:34:00.960
in every way imaginable.
00:34:02.900
I can't,
00:34:03.980
I'm not a fan of him.
00:34:05.500
And I,
00:34:05.840
you know,
00:34:05.960
one of the worst parts
00:34:07.320
about Lindsey Graham
00:34:08.380
is he's not the senator
00:34:10.200
from Vermont
00:34:11.780
or Maine
00:34:12.740
or Massachusetts.
00:34:13.720
Like,
00:34:14.480
we could actually
00:34:15.320
have a good
00:34:15.980
Republican senator
00:34:17.160
from South Carolina.
00:34:18.320
We could get one elected.
00:34:19.860
You know,
00:34:20.060
we've done it before.
00:34:21.180
Could do it again.
00:34:22.120
I don't understand
00:34:22.960
the whole Lindsey Graham thing.
00:34:24.440
He seems to be
00:34:25.120
a one-issue guy,
00:34:26.300
which is continually
00:34:27.400
pushing for
00:34:28.340
this sort of
00:34:29.400
international involvement
00:34:31.240
in every way possible.
00:34:33.740
Yeah,
00:34:33.980
it's constant
00:34:35.180
with him.
00:34:36.720
And,
00:34:36.960
you know,
00:34:37.220
look,
00:34:38.560
he is who he is.
00:34:40.620
He's been pretty
00:34:41.180
consistent on this.
00:34:42.060
I mean,
00:34:42.180
he ran for president
00:34:43.000
as a one-issue candidate,
00:34:44.900
right,
00:34:45.200
to push the United States
00:34:46.640
towards these types
00:34:47.820
of arguments.
00:34:48.820
So,
00:34:49.180
you know,
00:34:49.580
I guess I'll give him
00:34:50.320
points for consistency.
00:34:51.780
But that's not where
00:34:52.420
Donald Trump has been.
00:34:53.760
Trump has been,
00:34:54.660
you know,
00:34:55.260
fighting against this
00:34:56.260
for the entire time.
00:34:57.640
I mean,
00:34:57.920
this has been,
00:34:58.600
you know,
00:34:58.800
he has not,
00:34:59.680
he's been,
00:35:00.460
you know,
00:35:00.620
he hasn't been anti-war.
00:35:01.960
I don't think that's fair to say.
00:35:03.420
I think he doesn't like war.
00:35:04.820
He doesn't like
00:35:05.100
that sort of involvement.
00:35:06.560
But he is interested
00:35:08.900
in having the United States
00:35:11.760
have an influence
00:35:12.520
on the world.
00:35:13.500
You know,
00:35:13.920
I've been workshopping this
00:35:15.360
and why not roll it out
00:35:16.940
on one of the biggest shows
00:35:17.840
in the world?
00:35:18.820
But tell me if you think,
00:35:21.580
if I have anything here,
00:35:23.580
one of the arguments
00:35:24.220
against U.S. involvement
00:35:25.740
around the world,
00:35:26.440
kind of from a more
00:35:27.400
libertarian perspective
00:35:28.380
over the years,
00:35:28.960
has been this idea
00:35:29.740
that we don't want to be
00:35:30.800
the world's policemen.
00:35:32.460
And that is like something
00:35:33.940
I think is an inaccurate
00:35:36.060
way of phrasing
00:35:38.260
what they were criticizing,
00:35:39.380
which was really like
00:35:41.620
more like the Iraq war
00:35:42.920
and more like getting involved
00:35:44.100
in everything,
00:35:45.100
everywhere and,
00:35:45.880
you know,
00:35:47.400
putting up shop
00:35:48.180
for 10,
00:35:48.860
20 years in a country
00:35:49.920
and trying to nation build.
00:35:51.340
And, you know,
00:35:51.980
the world's policeman
00:35:53.080
got summarized to that.
00:35:54.620
In a way,
00:35:55.540
it feels like Trump
00:35:56.460
in a way
00:35:56.980
has actually embraced
00:35:57.900
a more specific example
00:35:59.960
of being the world's policeman.
00:36:03.020
He does seem to want
00:36:04.500
to get involved
00:36:05.260
in a lot of these things,
00:36:06.360
but quickly,
00:36:07.460
like a police officer
00:36:08.280
doesn't come in
00:36:09.060
and set up shop
00:36:10.100
in the hallway
00:36:10.640
of an apartment building
00:36:11.480
for 10 years, right?
00:36:12.780
Moves in with you.
00:36:13.940
Yeah, they come in,
00:36:15.360
they deal with the issue
00:36:16.560
going on
00:36:17.140
and they get out
00:36:18.060
and give you a chance
00:36:19.600
to live your life.
00:36:20.800
I mean,
00:36:21.280
you know,
00:36:21.440
what happened in Venezuela
00:36:22.260
is really an interesting
00:36:23.340
example of that, right?
00:36:24.920
Maduro was, again,
00:36:26.360
very justified
00:36:27.100
that we would have
00:36:29.180
a problem with him
00:36:30.000
and be involved
00:36:30.560
in that situation.
00:36:31.700
He saw an opportunity
00:36:32.700
and went in there,
00:36:33.860
took him out.
00:36:34.460
And, you know,
00:36:35.320
like I would much more
00:36:36.560
prefer a different leader
00:36:38.600
there than Delsi,
00:36:39.600
who I think is terrible
00:36:40.880
and likely the second
00:36:42.040
Trump's out of office
00:36:42.920
is going to be back
00:36:43.580
to exactly who Maduro was.
00:36:45.780
But, you know,
00:36:46.480
he seems to be okay
00:36:48.000
with taking care of an issue
00:36:49.980
and then stepping back.
00:36:50.920
And that gives you
00:36:51.560
maybe some hope
00:36:52.640
for what we are going
00:36:53.900
to see here in Iran.
00:36:55.800
The problem with this,
00:36:56.720
of course-
00:36:57.240
You know as well as I do
00:36:58.140
that they just elected
00:36:59.040
the Supreme Leader's son
00:37:00.800
to be the next Supreme Leader
00:37:02.720
who is more of a hardliner
00:37:04.220
than the dead Ayatollah,
00:37:06.280
who's more radical
00:37:07.400
and more hardline,
00:37:09.000
more anti-American,
00:37:10.040
more anti-Israel,
00:37:11.240
and more pro-nuclear.
00:37:13.180
I like,
00:37:14.100
that's the problem
00:37:15.780
with getting rid
00:37:16.500
of these evil leaders
00:37:18.120
in foreign countries.
00:37:19.840
You never know
00:37:20.500
what you're going to get.
00:37:21.280
Now Trump's answer
00:37:21.940
is to say,
00:37:23.000
he didn't specify
00:37:23.720
about this guy,
00:37:24.360
but he basically said,
00:37:25.100
we're going to kill anybody
00:37:25.960
who we don't agree to
00:37:27.560
as Iran's next leader.
00:37:29.740
I mean,
00:37:30.160
that's quite a promise.
00:37:31.620
Maybe the president
00:37:33.840
will live up to it,
00:37:34.620
but I also worry
00:37:35.500
about the Trump administration.
00:37:37.100
I worry about the Trump family.
00:37:38.300
I worry about the next president
00:37:39.280
because assassinating
00:37:41.120
a foreign country's leader
00:37:42.180
has consequences
00:37:43.500
that will last generations.
00:37:45.260
I mean,
00:37:45.420
we really have no idea
00:37:46.580
how long
00:37:48.340
that will be in the head
00:37:49.660
of our enemies
00:37:51.040
and how badly
00:37:52.880
they will seek retribution
00:37:53.960
for it.
00:37:54.780
But I mean,
00:37:55.020
if we just continue
00:37:55.900
assassinating leader
00:37:57.900
after leader in Iran
00:37:59.080
to pretend that's not
00:37:59.860
going to have any consequences
00:38:00.740
is folly.
00:38:02.740
Yeah,
00:38:02.980
I mean,
00:38:03.720
Iran's learning that
00:38:04.540
in a way,
00:38:04.960
right?
00:38:05.160
Like they wanted to take out
00:38:06.680
President Trump
00:38:07.340
and they're finding out
00:38:08.820
that that's not,
00:38:09.520
maybe that wasn't a good idea.
00:38:11.220
And I think it is,
00:38:12.900
it makes you very nervous,
00:38:14.140
right?
00:38:14.360
And that's the problem here.
00:38:15.340
I mean,
00:38:15.520
when I say like,
00:38:16.500
I hope President Trump's
00:38:18.300
approach
00:38:18.700
and his kind of
00:38:19.900
outward position
00:38:21.460
of this being limited
00:38:22.520
is the direction we go.
00:38:24.420
We have to acknowledge
00:38:25.260
that he's not the only one
00:38:26.440
with a voice in that,
00:38:27.620
right?
00:38:27.800
The new leader of Iran
00:38:29.360
has a voice in that as well.
00:38:31.000
And he might not want it to end.
00:38:32.680
He might not want it to be
00:38:33.560
a four or five week operation.
00:38:35.180
He might consider
00:38:36.180
putting terror cells
00:38:37.420
in the United States
00:38:38.140
for years and years
00:38:38.800
and years to come.
00:38:39.640
Now,
00:38:39.980
luckily,
00:38:40.260
we have a little bit
00:38:41.260
better control
00:38:41.980
of our border
00:38:43.020
than we did
00:38:43.700
in previous times.
00:38:45.060
But it's impossible
00:38:46.540
to stop all of this.
00:38:48.240
We know-
00:38:48.620
They're already here, Stu.
00:38:49.840
They're already here.
00:38:50.720
They were already here
00:38:51.620
for years.
00:38:52.260
As we were complaining
00:38:53.180
about years and years
00:38:53.940
and years ago, Megan,
00:38:54.740
you go back to the post-9-11 days,
00:38:57.540
one of the big concerns we had
00:38:58.800
was how many people
00:38:59.840
from areas like Iran
00:39:01.220
were crossing the border
00:39:02.620
and coming into this country.
00:39:05.000
There's plenty of people
00:39:06.080
here from Iran
00:39:06.780
that are not involved in that,
00:39:08.320
but there have been people
00:39:09.360
who are illegally here
00:39:10.620
who are likely
00:39:12.700
to be sleeper cells.
00:39:13.560
We've had many reports
00:39:14.660
over the years
00:39:15.240
that intelligence shows
00:39:17.160
there are people here.
00:39:19.220
So we don't know
00:39:20.400
how this blows up, right?
00:39:21.720
And, you know,
00:39:23.000
like most people,
00:39:24.200
if this regime
00:39:25.240
is able to stay in power,
00:39:26.620
meaning the sun sticks around
00:39:28.120
or there's some
00:39:28.780
Islamic extremist regime
00:39:30.160
that sticks around,
00:39:30.980
they're not likely
00:39:31.680
to forget this
00:39:32.580
and just say,
00:39:33.200
ah, well, you know,
00:39:35.160
pragmatically,
00:39:36.080
we're in trouble here.
00:39:37.080
I guess we should do
00:39:37.760
whatever Donald Trump says.
00:39:39.080
Like, this is
00:39:39.680
a much more ideological regime.
00:39:41.460
And look at how the Secret Service
00:39:41.880
has had enough trouble
00:39:43.080
protecting President Trump.
00:39:45.620
You know,
00:39:45.900
there was a very near miss
00:39:48.540
at Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:39:50.460
Multiple.
00:39:50.720
What happened at his golf course
00:39:52.820
was not reassuring.
00:39:54.560
Yes, they found the guy
00:39:55.380
with the rifle,
00:39:55.980
but many of us still wonder
00:39:56.880
how the guy with the rifle
00:39:58.360
got so close to the president
00:40:00.160
and was sitting lying in wait
00:40:01.540
for hours and hours
00:40:02.280
on his property
00:40:03.020
with a gun sticking
00:40:03.720
between the fence.
00:40:04.780
And then Secret Service
00:40:06.800
shot at him
00:40:07.320
and missed repeatedly.
00:40:08.460
He got away.
00:40:09.560
They tracked him down after.
00:40:10.580
But I mean,
00:40:10.880
I'm just saying,
00:40:12.340
like,
00:40:13.120
I don't think we should,
00:40:14.260
it would be much better
00:40:15.140
in any security guard
00:40:16.060
protecting you
00:40:16.740
as a public official
00:40:17.720
or even figure
00:40:19.200
will tell you
00:40:19.800
that the main goal
00:40:21.620
is to protect you
00:40:22.660
long before the bad guy
00:40:24.520
ever gets within your radius.
00:40:26.100
Right?
00:40:26.280
It's monitoring
00:40:27.160
the online threats,
00:40:28.680
making sure
00:40:29.180
the security perimeter
00:40:30.180
around you
00:40:30.980
is fortified
00:40:31.760
and all that.
00:40:32.700
And while,
00:40:33.720
you know,
00:40:33.940
we haven't been great,
00:40:34.580
we have not been great
00:40:35.340
about doing that for Trump.
00:40:37.380
Hopefully,
00:40:37.840
we're getting better.
00:40:38.400
But Trump has got
00:40:39.340
a very big family.
00:40:40.420
Trump has got grandkids.
00:40:41.340
He's got kids.
00:40:41.940
He's got,
00:40:42.300
you know,
00:40:42.980
it's just,
00:40:43.840
we're playing with fire here.
00:40:45.600
And so,
00:40:46.140
to your point,
00:40:47.360
I want to be better convinced
00:40:48.900
that this was a need.
00:40:50.640
It was a must do.
00:40:52.460
And I am not convinced
00:40:53.700
of that at all.
00:40:54.760
I don't see myself
00:40:55.460
getting convinced of that,
00:40:56.460
though I continue
00:40:56.960
to talk to supporters
00:40:58.520
of the war
00:40:58.980
because I want to know
00:40:59.760
both arguments
00:41:00.360
and I want my audience
00:41:01.920
to hear both arguments
00:41:03.520
fleshed out
00:41:04.000
and not just my opinion.
00:41:05.920
But Lindsey Graham,
00:41:06.820
he's got to go.
00:41:08.000
By the way,
00:41:08.340
an interesting question.
00:41:09.400
So Lindsey Graham
00:41:09.920
at least is disclosing
00:41:10.980
to his credit
00:41:11.620
the amount of times
00:41:12.900
like he lobbied
00:41:13.680
the president
00:41:14.120
and went to Netanyahu
00:41:15.440
and I'll get to that.
00:41:16.620
I do wonder
00:41:17.440
whether it's been disclosed
00:41:18.340
that these other
00:41:18.840
Fox News contributors
00:41:19.660
were in the president's ear
00:41:21.700
and actually making the case
00:41:23.000
to him over and over
00:41:23.980
because we spent
00:41:25.200
a lot of time
00:41:25.620
on this show
00:41:26.100
ripping on people
00:41:28.260
over on MSNBC
00:41:29.380
like the historian,
00:41:31.180
what's his name,
00:41:31.860
John Meacham,
00:41:33.280
for writing
00:41:34.380
President Biden's speech
00:41:35.660
for him
00:41:36.200
and then going on MSNBC
00:41:37.720
and praising the speech.
00:41:39.080
So if you were
00:41:39.840
a key advisor
00:41:40.420
to President Trump
00:41:42.180
pushing him
00:41:42.740
to get into this war,
00:41:43.800
you cannot go out
00:41:44.820
on the airwaves of Fox
00:41:45.780
and just act
00:41:46.780
like a random pundit
00:41:47.720
supporting it.
00:41:49.200
You have to disclose
00:41:50.100
and maybe they did
00:41:51.120
but you do have to disclose
00:41:52.700
that you were,
00:41:54.080
you have a horse in the race.
00:41:55.800
You know,
00:41:55.980
you helped make it happen.
00:41:57.260
That's an important thing
00:41:58.260
to disclose.
00:41:59.420
But here's Lindsey Graham,
00:42:01.280
the Wall Street Journal.
00:42:02.120
He gave an interview
00:42:02.640
to the Journal
00:42:03.160
so this is not
00:42:03.740
their secret reporting.
00:42:05.020
This is him.
00:42:06.280
To help make the case
00:42:07.200
on Iran,
00:42:08.140
Graham traveled
00:42:09.380
several times
00:42:10.120
to Israel
00:42:10.660
in recent weeks
00:42:11.560
meeting with
00:42:12.160
members of the country's
00:42:13.520
intelligence agency.
00:42:14.660
Quote,
00:42:15.240
they'll tell me things
00:42:16.460
our own government
00:42:17.500
won't tell me.
00:42:18.720
He spoke with Israeli
00:42:19.700
Prime Minister
00:42:20.220
Benjamin Netanyahu
00:42:21.180
coaching him
00:42:22.620
on how to lobby
00:42:24.080
President Trump
00:42:24.980
for action.
00:42:26.500
Netanyahu showed
00:42:27.280
the president
00:42:27.700
intelligence
00:42:28.400
that persuaded Trump
00:42:29.980
to go ahead,
00:42:31.620
said Graham.
00:42:32.180
We continue to be called
00:42:35.620
anti-Semitic
00:42:36.400
if you say
00:42:36.880
that we're doing this
00:42:37.900
because of Israel.
00:42:39.220
We are 100%
00:42:40.440
doing this
00:42:40.800
because of Israel.
00:42:41.500
If you used
00:42:42.100
a but-for cause,
00:42:42.980
would we be doing this
00:42:43.900
if Israel
00:42:45.000
were not involved?
00:42:46.080
The answer is no,
00:42:47.220
we wouldn't.
00:42:47.740
We've heard that
00:42:48.120
from Marco Rubio.
00:42:49.120
Now we hear that
00:42:49.660
from Lindsey Graham
00:42:50.240
directly.
00:42:52.040
It's been reported
00:42:52.920
by left and right-wing
00:42:54.140
outlets alike.
00:42:55.520
Iran was,
00:42:56.480
sorry,
00:42:56.840
Israel was the one
00:42:57.680
pushing for this war
00:42:58.880
and Lindsey Graham
00:43:01.020
helped
00:43:01.320
and so did
00:43:01.780
some Fox News
00:43:02.340
contributors
00:43:02.720
and so did
00:43:03.260
many others
00:43:03.840
who were Israel
00:43:04.340
firsters like
00:43:05.120
Mark Levin.
00:43:06.580
He goes on to say
00:43:07.520
Graham talked
00:43:08.300
to the Saudi
00:43:08.840
Crown Prince
00:43:09.660
Mohammed bin Salman
00:43:10.460
as well
00:43:10.780
to make sure
00:43:11.280
he was aware.
00:43:12.240
I went to MBS
00:43:13.040
to say,
00:43:13.540
okay,
00:43:13.940
I think this is
00:43:14.600
going down.
00:43:15.900
Talk about
00:43:16.440
the Fox News
00:43:17.200
contributors
00:43:17.680
who took turns
00:43:19.360
calling the president
00:43:20.240
and compared notes,
00:43:22.480
Graham said.
00:43:23.060
There were not
00:43:24.380
a lot of other voices
00:43:25.600
advancing the argument
00:43:27.240
for action.
00:43:27.820
Just,
00:43:28.100
I will pause here
00:43:28.740
to say I don't
00:43:30.580
begrudge them
00:43:31.200
that they thought
00:43:31.780
this was a good idea.
00:43:32.640
I happen to love
00:43:33.440
Mark Thiessen
00:43:33.960
and I have nothing
00:43:34.680
but respect
00:43:35.100
for General Keene.
00:43:35.840
I deeply admire
00:43:36.860
both of them.
00:43:38.360
I'm talking about
00:43:39.840
what Fox is
00:43:40.620
or is not
00:43:41.080
requiring of them
00:43:41.900
in terms of
00:43:42.340
disclosures.
00:43:42.940
But I,
00:43:43.280
and look,
00:43:44.320
the president,
00:43:45.060
I love the president
00:43:45.760
and clearly he's
00:43:46.580
in support of the war.
00:43:47.400
I,
00:43:47.980
unlike so many
00:43:48.760
of my critics,
00:43:49.740
can hold in my head
00:43:50.580
two things at one time.
00:43:51.940
We disagree vehemently
00:43:53.180
on policy,
00:43:53.860
but you're not
00:43:54.240
a bad person.
00:43:55.360
Okay,
00:43:55.580
like that's,
00:43:56.680
to me that's a leftist
00:43:57.760
fucking thing
00:43:58.280
to do that
00:43:58.840
and these people
00:43:59.560
who want to cut
00:44:00.120
people out of
00:44:00.600
conservative movement
00:44:01.280
because they're
00:44:01.680
anti-Israel,
00:44:02.320
they're anti-war
00:44:02.940
is sick.
00:44:04.000
It's sick and deranged.
00:44:05.020
I'm not one of them.
00:44:06.520
Here's another.
00:44:08.000
Trump called Graham
00:44:08.960
this week
00:44:09.400
to praise his
00:44:10.340
television appearances.
00:44:11.740
Oh my God.
00:44:13.440
Graham saw an opportunity.
00:44:15.380
The senator said
00:44:16.240
he pitched Trump
00:44:17.360
on bombing
00:44:18.600
Iranian
00:44:19.680
and Hezbollah
00:44:20.560
elements
00:44:21.020
inside Lebanon.
00:44:23.160
Trump said
00:44:23.540
he'd think about it.
00:44:24.940
Graham recalled,
00:44:25.740
quote,
00:44:25.920
I just think
00:44:26.540
he has seen
00:44:27.080
the capability
00:44:27.700
of our military.
00:44:29.160
Graham goes on,
00:44:29.760
what I don't understand
00:44:30.520
is why more people
00:44:31.320
don't do it.
00:44:32.400
Try to shape
00:44:33.000
these events.
00:44:33.880
This is a moment
00:44:34.540
of world history here.
00:44:35.940
Just jump in the deep
00:44:37.100
end of the pool.
00:44:39.020
This guy
00:44:39.800
is a homicidal maniac
00:44:42.000
with a bloodlust
00:44:43.700
that is insatiable.
00:44:45.520
He wants us,
00:44:46.280
he got us into
00:44:47.020
the Iranian war,
00:44:47.860
Lindsey Graham.
00:44:48.440
Now he wants us
00:44:49.140
to get involved
00:44:49.680
in a Lebanese war,
00:44:51.200
which Israel's already
00:44:52.360
starting or involved in.
00:44:54.740
And he wants us
00:44:55.620
to go into Cuba
00:44:56.480
from the sound of it.
00:44:57.840
Possibly,
00:44:58.480
is that a boots
00:44:59.220
on the ground situation?
00:45:00.260
I don't know.
00:45:01.200
But this guy
00:45:01.780
should be nowhere near
00:45:03.460
President Trump.
00:45:04.760
He should not be allowed
00:45:05.980
within 20 feet
00:45:06.780
of the president's orbit.
00:45:08.180
And the president
00:45:08.740
should make the decision
00:45:09.620
to keep this guy
00:45:10.980
the hell away from him
00:45:12.480
or at least
00:45:13.440
in his own mind
00:45:14.280
shut down
00:45:15.020
his influence.
00:45:16.360
This is not a force
00:45:17.380
for good
00:45:17.740
in the United States
00:45:18.580
of America,
00:45:19.120
Lindsey Graham.
00:45:20.520
It's funny
00:45:21.180
because I think
00:45:21.880
making the argument
00:45:23.680
passionately
00:45:24.380
for a conflict
00:45:25.420
with Iran
00:45:26.060
is an argument
00:45:27.400
you can make.
00:45:28.020
A lot of people
00:45:28.520
are highly convinced
00:45:30.820
of this.
00:45:31.340
And I don't think
00:45:31.920
that's the problem.
00:45:32.820
I think the problem
00:45:34.380
here is,
00:45:35.940
and the thing
00:45:36.540
that I guess
00:45:36.960
shocks me
00:45:37.520
that Trump
00:45:38.000
keeps him
00:45:38.520
in his orbit
00:45:39.020
at all,
00:45:40.020
is because he keeps
00:45:40.760
admitting this stuff.
00:45:42.140
That he's attempting
00:45:43.820
to manipulate
00:45:46.220
the president
00:45:47.020
of the United States.
00:45:48.220
I would think
00:45:48.940
Trump would hate that
00:45:50.160
and hate anyone
00:45:51.220
who would ever
00:45:51.800
admit that.
00:45:53.380
Because,
00:45:54.080
for example,
00:45:55.060
Megan,
00:45:55.520
you're passionate
00:45:56.040
about a lot of things.
00:45:56.720
I'm passionate
00:45:57.060
about a lot of things.
00:45:58.360
If you went to
00:45:59.480
President Trump
00:46:00.040
and you talked
00:46:00.480
to him about
00:46:01.060
an issue about
00:46:02.780
men playing
00:46:04.000
in women's sports
00:46:04.800
and you were able
00:46:05.560
to convince him
00:46:06.380
to influence him
00:46:08.140
in some way
00:46:08.580
to pass a bill
00:46:09.400
that brought
00:46:10.560
some sanity
00:46:11.200
into that world,
00:46:12.700
there'd be no problem
00:46:13.960
with you doing that.
00:46:14.980
There's no problem
00:46:15.780
with you doing that.
00:46:16.460
There's no problem
00:46:17.020
with Lindsey Graham
00:46:17.700
in theory
00:46:18.100
making an argument
00:46:18.940
about what he thinks
00:46:19.780
is right.
00:46:21.460
I don't have
00:46:22.720
that issue.
00:46:23.620
I think that's okay.
00:46:25.660
And at the end
00:46:26.120
of the day,
00:46:26.640
it comes down to
00:46:27.420
it is the president's
00:46:28.540
responsibility
00:46:29.080
to listen to all
00:46:30.440
these voices,
00:46:31.160
the team of rivals,
00:46:32.180
listen to all of them.
00:46:32.640
And he listened
00:46:33.080
to Tucker Carlson too.
00:46:34.240
To his credit,
00:46:34.920
Tucker made the hard case
00:46:35.880
against the war
00:46:36.440
and the president
00:46:36.960
listened to him
00:46:37.680
and ultimately
00:46:38.620
overruled him
00:46:39.460
as is his right.
00:46:41.220
He's the president,
00:46:42.180
not Tucker,
00:46:42.740
not Lindsey.
00:46:44.040
Exactly.
00:46:44.620
And a lot of those people
00:46:45.560
who,
00:46:46.300
the same people
00:46:47.060
who are making
00:46:47.600
the argument for Iran
00:46:49.120
and maybe won
00:46:50.000
the day
00:46:51.000
on that particular issue
00:46:51.960
were making
00:46:52.700
the same argument
00:46:53.420
about Ukraine
00:46:54.060
and maybe didn't
00:46:54.920
win that one.
00:46:55.640
And I think
00:46:55.940
President Trump
00:46:56.480
is taking these
00:46:57.220
things individually
00:46:57.920
and trying
00:46:58.480
to judge them
00:47:01.200
on the merits
00:47:02.200
of the situation.
00:47:03.960
I'm very risk-averse
00:47:05.720
on this stuff though,
00:47:06.680
right?
00:47:07.040
And someone
00:47:08.380
like Lindsey Graham
00:47:09.060
isn't.
00:47:10.060
He is,
00:47:11.120
get out there,
00:47:11.960
mix it up,
00:47:12.660
and let all the chips
00:47:13.580
fall all over the place.
00:47:14.660
Sometimes they fall
00:47:16.040
on American citizens
00:47:16.940
and that makes me
00:47:18.500
very, very nervous.
00:47:20.260
And to come back
00:47:21.060
a little bit
00:47:21.480
to the political side
00:47:22.460
of this,
00:47:23.300
this should be
00:47:23.960
the central focus
00:47:25.260
of the American
00:47:26.740
conservative movement
00:47:27.960
when you're talking
00:47:28.860
about just political
00:47:29.620
strategy.
00:47:30.820
We have a bunch
00:47:32.300
of these senators
00:47:33.240
and House members
00:47:34.560
who are in very
00:47:35.720
conservative districts
00:47:36.680
that we can do
00:47:37.740
better than.
00:47:38.860
We can improve
00:47:39.900
those situations
00:47:40.600
without losing the seats.
00:47:41.740
Settle for more.
00:47:42.840
Oh, yes,
00:47:43.420
thank you.
00:47:43.920
A lot of times
00:47:44.780
we seem to do
00:47:45.380
this thing
00:47:45.740
where we're like,
00:47:46.300
well,
00:47:46.800
we have a moderate
00:47:47.700
in a place
00:47:49.340
like Delaware
00:47:50.160
and we're like,
00:47:51.100
oh,
00:47:51.260
we got to make sure
00:47:51.900
we take out
00:47:52.340
that moderate
00:47:52.840
in Delaware.
00:47:53.460
Look,
00:47:53.700
I would like everyone
00:47:54.520
to be as conservative
00:47:55.260
as possible.
00:47:56.360
But you want
00:47:56.640
the most conservative
00:47:57.440
person in an area
00:47:58.340
that is able to win.
00:48:01.020
And look,
00:48:02.280
that is not because
00:48:03.400
I care about winning
00:48:04.380
per se.
00:48:04.960
It's about because
00:48:05.440
I care about the policies
00:48:06.460
behind that winning.
00:48:08.320
And we keep sitting here.
00:48:09.800
John Cornyn's
00:48:10.500
another one here in Texas.
00:48:11.420
We have really good
00:48:12.860
senators in red states.
00:48:14.300
We should be able
00:48:15.280
to put them in,
00:48:16.700
go after these primaries
00:48:17.880
in sensible ways,
00:48:19.380
win them with conservative
00:48:20.580
candidates,
00:48:21.220
and then bring those
00:48:21.900
candidates into the forefront
00:48:23.340
in the states
00:48:24.400
where they can easily win.
00:48:25.840
A lot of times
00:48:26.300
we just wind up getting off,
00:48:27.780
we're like,
00:48:28.320
oh, well,
00:48:28.720
this guy's been there forever,
00:48:29.860
so let's just keep him there.
00:48:31.660
We should try to be
00:48:32.420
improving the situation.
00:48:33.280
What are people in South Carolina
00:48:34.060
doing with Lindsey Graham?
00:48:35.200
Honestly,
00:48:35.580
this man,
00:48:36.820
he has undermined
00:48:38.300
the safety of the United States
00:48:40.220
long enough.
00:48:40.740
He's undermined
00:48:41.320
the president's
00:48:42.360
valuable inputs
00:48:43.800
long enough.
00:48:44.820
And he's making
00:48:45.840
this whole thing
00:48:46.680
into a national
00:48:47.420
laughing stock.
00:48:48.920
Oh,
00:48:49.240
we are the police
00:48:50.860
in the world.
00:48:51.340
That's what he said.
00:48:51.920
There are bad guys
00:48:52.360
all over the world.
00:48:53.040
We're on the march
00:48:53.620
against them.
00:48:54.440
Whoa,
00:48:54.740
whoa,
00:48:55.020
whoa.
00:48:55.400
You have no fucking kids
00:48:57.180
and no fucking clue.
00:48:59.400
Those of us
00:49:00.000
who have children,
00:49:01.040
especially the moms I know
00:49:02.580
who have kids
00:49:03.080
who are in the armed forces,
00:49:04.640
don't have the same bloodlust
00:49:06.740
that you have,
00:49:07.760
childless,
00:49:08.600
weird man.
00:49:09.680
It's really upsetting to me
00:49:11.480
that because Lindsey Graham
00:49:13.100
decided in his
00:49:14.480
dark corner basement
00:49:15.900
that he wanted
00:49:17.120
to get off again
00:49:18.160
watching bombs blow up,
00:49:20.680
seven service personnel
00:49:21.800
are now dead.
00:49:22.820
I'm just,
00:49:23.200
I'm sorry,
00:49:24.020
but I just feel like
00:49:24.660
he has no fucking compassion
00:49:27.060
for human life.
00:49:29.040
All he wants to do
00:49:29.760
is see bombs go off.
00:49:31.420
And President Trump
00:49:32.500
needs to understand
00:49:33.280
that he is undermining
00:49:34.620
everything President Trump
00:49:36.040
is doing.
00:49:36.880
Pete Hegseth
00:49:37.320
is taking a lot of heat
00:49:38.340
for sounding
00:49:40.020
very bellicose
00:49:41.940
and kind of threatening
00:49:43.600
and unapologetic
00:49:45.000
about the power
00:49:45.660
of the American military.
00:49:47.020
I understand that criticism
00:49:48.680
because normally
00:49:49.540
when we talk about ourselves
00:49:50.800
as the American military,
00:49:51.860
we use humility
00:49:53.360
because we know
00:49:54.260
we're the strongest.
00:49:55.340
So it doesn't,
00:49:56.160
it doesn't make us look good
00:49:58.300
to talk about
00:49:58.780
how strong we are
00:49:59.560
and how we can crush anybody.
00:50:00.700
But I forgive Pete Hegseth
00:50:02.260
because he's in the middle
00:50:03.620
of commanding a war.
00:50:05.340
President Trump too
00:50:06.160
is in the middle of,
00:50:07.040
he's the ultimate commander.
00:50:08.320
But President Trump is,
00:50:09.140
I mean,
00:50:09.460
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
00:50:11.260
is running this military operation
00:50:13.080
at the top
00:50:13.600
with the chairman
00:50:14.480
of the Joint Chiefs.
00:50:15.260
And of course,
00:50:16.660
he's in a certain mindset
00:50:17.820
right now
00:50:18.440
and he needs also
00:50:19.500
to worry about comms,
00:50:20.780
communications.
00:50:21.540
And so that's where
00:50:22.760
he's coming at it from.
00:50:23.760
Lindsey Graham
00:50:24.360
is inexcusable
00:50:25.400
and should not be allowed
00:50:26.500
back on television.
00:50:27.620
Period.
00:50:28.140
Never mind in office.
00:50:30.020
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So just one final note
00:52:10.740
on Lindsey Graham.
00:52:11.600
I do find it interesting
00:52:12.380
because after all the guff
00:52:13.780
he's been getting from,
00:52:15.800
I mean,
00:52:16.040
it's all over the right wing.
00:52:17.520
It's not just the people
00:52:18.900
who have questions
00:52:19.360
about this war.
00:52:20.280
It's like he's been
00:52:21.280
being universally panned
00:52:22.420
as a deep problem
00:52:23.640
when it comes to
00:52:24.780
becoming a face
00:52:26.160
of the administration.
00:52:27.100
My God,
00:52:28.120
Trump is too smart for that.
00:52:30.320
But there is now a report
00:52:32.240
that in the wake of him
00:52:33.860
getting criticized
00:52:34.440
for his bloodlust,
00:52:35.800
he pushed back slightly
00:52:37.440
on what Israel
00:52:39.340
is doing in Iran.
00:52:41.320
Namely,
00:52:43.500
he's,
00:52:44.480
they're targeting
00:52:45.260
the oil depots.
00:52:47.380
And doing that,
00:52:48.800
the fuel depots,
00:52:49.600
has led to
00:52:50.560
black oil rain
00:52:52.940
coming down on Tehran
00:52:55.120
on the faces of babies
00:52:56.580
and children
00:52:57.400
and civilians
00:52:58.500
who are complaining
00:52:59.520
about their lips
00:53:01.440
sore,
00:53:02.100
raw,
00:53:02.720
they feel like burns,
00:53:04.200
feels like diluted
00:53:04.840
tear gas in the air,
00:53:06.340
eyes irritated,
00:53:07.460
headaches.
00:53:08.420
I mean,
00:53:08.620
God only knows
00:53:09.180
what the toxic fallout
00:53:10.160
of this is going to be
00:53:11.320
for the Iranian people
00:53:12.960
whom we are trying to help.
00:53:14.280
Let's not forget,
00:53:15.180
we're trying to help
00:53:15.900
the Iranian people.
00:53:16.660
It's the regime
00:53:17.140
with whom we have a problem.
00:53:18.740
And finally,
00:53:19.300
Lindsey Graham comes out
00:53:20.060
and says,
00:53:20.480
this was all Israel,
00:53:22.600
saying,
00:53:23.260
our allies in Israel
00:53:24.040
have shown amazing capability
00:53:25.560
when it comes to collapsing
00:53:26.600
the murderous regime
00:53:27.960
in Iran.
00:53:28.620
America is most appreciative.
00:53:30.540
This is Graham on X.
00:53:31.920
However,
00:53:32.240
there will be a day soon
00:53:33.200
that the Iranian people
00:53:34.020
will be in charge
00:53:34.660
of their own fate,
00:53:35.360
not the murderous
00:53:35.980
Ayatollah's regime.
00:53:36.840
In that regard,
00:53:37.780
please be cautious
00:53:38.380
about what targets you select.
00:53:40.360
Our goal is to liberate
00:53:41.380
the Iranian people
00:53:42.140
in a fashion
00:53:42.600
that does not cripple
00:53:43.380
their chance
00:53:43.820
to start a new
00:53:44.380
and better life
00:53:44.960
when this regime collapses.
00:53:46.500
The oil economy of Iran
00:53:47.940
will be essential
00:53:48.700
to that endeavor.
00:53:50.820
Yashara Ali,
00:53:51.500
who's an Iranian-American,
00:53:52.760
writes,
00:53:53.100
you know how badly
00:53:53.880
you have to mess up
00:53:54.640
to get Lindsey Graham,
00:53:56.080
who gets his preferred
00:53:57.120
pornographic material
00:53:58.140
from drone strike footage
00:53:59.280
instead of OnlyFans
00:54:00.300
to say you should be
00:54:01.560
more careful,
00:54:02.960
making the point
00:54:03.620
that the Israelis
00:54:04.400
have gone too far.
00:54:06.280
They've gone too far.
00:54:07.100
There was a report
00:54:07.660
that a desalinization plant
00:54:10.260
had been hit,
00:54:11.380
which is deeply problematic,
00:54:13.240
if true,
00:54:13.660
because now you're talking
00:54:14.340
about the water supply
00:54:15.260
to the people,
00:54:16.040
and that's an absolute must
00:54:17.620
for life,
00:54:19.400
never mind for wellness.
00:54:20.620
There's no question
00:54:23.480
that the United States
00:54:24.220
is trying to be careful,
00:54:25.180
and I assume Israel
00:54:26.040
is trying to be careful too,
00:54:27.260
but that's a massive mess up
00:54:29.460
to cause that situation
00:54:31.220
in Tehran
00:54:32.020
to the point where
00:54:32.800
babies are getting showered
00:54:34.900
in oil
00:54:35.800
and toxic gas fumes.
00:54:37.280
That's not okay.
00:54:38.840
And then there's the matter
00:54:39.780
of the girls' school,
00:54:40.780
Stu,
00:54:41.020
which has been bombed,
00:54:42.340
170 dead,
00:54:44.560
and,
00:54:45.040
I mean,
00:54:45.880
that is just heartbreaking,
00:54:47.560
the pictures of the children
00:54:48.780
killed in this school.
00:54:50.820
It was on the first day
00:54:51.700
of the bombings.
00:54:52.720
Now the Wall Street Journal
00:54:53.640
is reporting that
00:54:54.820
they believe
00:54:56.180
that the intel suggests
00:54:57.340
it was the United States.
00:55:00.160
Pete Hegseth has said,
00:55:01.380
we are investigating,
00:55:02.740
and President Trump
00:55:03.520
in an interview said
00:55:04.600
he doesn't believe it was us.
00:55:07.660
Laura Ingram of Fox News,
00:55:09.540
among others,
00:55:10.040
saying if this was us,
00:55:11.300
we need to own it,
00:55:12.340
and we need to apologize.
00:55:13.760
There is zero chance
00:55:15.080
the United States
00:55:15.740
would ever intentionally hit
00:55:18.320
a school of children.
00:55:20.080
Zero.
00:55:21.020
We do not do
00:55:22.220
that kind of thing.
00:55:23.260
But there is a possibility
00:55:24.660
that we did it inadvertently
00:55:26.180
as the Wall Street Journal
00:55:27.060
appears to be reporting.
00:55:28.960
The point is
00:55:29.780
there's fallout to war
00:55:31.780
and it's ugly
00:55:33.140
and it's heartbreaking
00:55:34.160
and leads me back
00:55:35.520
to the same place,
00:55:36.260
which is
00:55:36.620
let's declare this a win
00:55:38.740
and get out.
00:55:40.400
The Ayatollah's dead.
00:55:41.920
Many in the top
00:55:42.580
of the regime are dead.
00:55:44.340
We've given Iran
00:55:45.100
a fighting chance
00:55:45.940
to fight for its future.
00:55:47.260
We're, you know,
00:55:48.620
I don't know.
00:55:50.800
Somebody's going to have
00:55:51.400
to help them with guns
00:55:52.200
because the IRGC
00:55:53.180
is not just going to roll over
00:55:54.140
at this point
00:55:54.600
from the look of it.
00:55:55.660
Maybe it's not us.
00:55:56.360
Maybe it's somebody else,
00:55:57.140
ideally,
00:55:57.560
but some bad things
00:55:59.380
are happening.
00:55:59.900
Okay, let's get to
00:56:00.460
what's happening in New York.
00:56:02.200
So now in the wake
00:56:03.060
of all this,
00:56:05.400
you have,
00:56:06.640
I want to spell out
00:56:07.560
what happened.
00:56:08.580
This group goes
00:56:09.680
to Gracie Mansion
00:56:10.920
in New York City,
00:56:12.060
outside of Gracie Mansion,
00:56:13.300
which is where Mom Donnie
00:56:14.280
is living
00:56:15.560
and where all
00:56:16.320
New York mayors live
00:56:17.240
and they started
00:56:20.820
a protest.
00:56:21.660
Hold on,
00:56:21.900
I'm trying to look
00:56:22.380
for the name of it.
00:56:22.960
Here it is.
00:56:23.880
The Stop the Islamic
00:56:25.120
Takeover of New York City
00:56:26.980
protest
00:56:28.300
and Stop New York City
00:56:29.780
Public Muslim Prayer.
00:56:32.480
20 people showed up.
00:56:34.160
Okay,
00:56:34.380
so it's a small thing.
00:56:35.800
There's a group of people
00:56:36.520
who they don't like
00:56:37.420
the Muslim takeover
00:56:38.160
in New York
00:56:38.640
as they see it
00:56:39.720
and they're out
00:56:40.420
there protesting.
00:56:41.960
Jake Lang
00:56:43.040
was one of the participants.
00:56:44.280
He was front and center
00:56:45.320
during the Minneapolis
00:56:46.040
protest too.
00:56:46.900
He was arrested
00:56:47.980
for J6 prior to that.
00:56:51.260
The New York Post,
00:56:52.540
which is not biased
00:56:53.700
against conservatives,
00:56:54.580
writes that he is
00:56:55.440
a conservative
00:56:56.140
right-wing influencer.
00:56:57.860
That's how they describe him.
00:57:00.820
And he was definitely there
00:57:02.360
and part of that group.
00:57:03.200
Then the counter-protesters
00:57:04.300
showed up.
00:57:05.220
They called their group
00:57:06.220
Run the Nazis
00:57:07.980
out of New York City
00:57:09.420
stand against hate.
00:57:11.880
I think the Nazis
00:57:13.060
are the first group
00:57:14.620
in their view
00:57:15.740
who are opposed to,
00:57:18.060
you know,
00:57:18.620
the Muslim call to prayer
00:57:19.640
being broadcast
00:57:20.380
five times a day
00:57:21.140
in New York.
00:57:22.140
And they had about
00:57:23.280
125 protesters.
00:57:24.840
So they had way more,
00:57:26.220
five times as many
00:57:27.060
or so
00:57:28.720
than the other side.
00:57:31.280
What happened?
00:57:32.520
Two protesters
00:57:33.260
from the counter-protest
00:57:34.820
from the Stop the Nazis
00:57:36.700
rally
00:57:37.360
shouted
00:57:39.880
Allahu Akbar
00:57:40.980
and tossed
00:57:42.020
two,
00:57:42.500
count them,
00:57:42.880
two homemade devices
00:57:43.980
into a crowd.
00:57:45.280
An IED
00:57:45.940
filled with nails
00:57:47.380
that failed to go off.
00:57:49.740
And now we're getting
00:57:50.780
the police commissioner,
00:57:52.200
Jessica Tisch.
00:57:53.080
Is this cut, Deb?
00:57:54.820
Commenting on it
00:57:55.880
in particular.
00:57:56.540
Yeah, I think we have this.
00:57:57.800
And let's listen
00:57:58.820
to the police commissioner
00:57:59.600
describe
00:58:00.400
what they've discovered
00:58:01.840
so far.
00:58:02.320
I can confirm
00:58:04.120
this morning
00:58:04.660
that this is being
00:58:05.840
investigated
00:58:06.520
as an act
00:58:07.460
of ISIS-inspired
00:58:09.460
terrorism.
00:58:10.700
I can also provide
00:58:11.940
some additional
00:58:12.560
information
00:58:13.180
building on my remarks
00:58:14.360
from Saturday evening.
00:58:15.980
At that time,
00:58:16.840
we were beginning
00:58:17.720
to conduct
00:58:18.260
preliminary analysis
00:58:19.460
of two devices
00:58:20.360
that were ignited
00:58:21.620
and deployed
00:58:22.540
earlier that day.
00:58:23.720
Preliminary test results
00:58:25.340
determined that these
00:58:26.400
were not hoax devices
00:58:28.320
nor smoke bombs.
00:58:29.580
They were improvised
00:58:31.120
explosive devices
00:58:32.000
that could have caused
00:58:33.000
serious injury
00:58:34.340
or death.
00:58:35.120
Part of our initial
00:58:35.960
investigation
00:58:36.920
was to determine
00:58:38.560
what energetic
00:58:39.680
substance,
00:58:40.620
if any,
00:58:41.620
was used
00:58:42.240
in the two devices.
00:58:43.380
And our analysis
00:58:44.260
showed that
00:58:45.380
one of the devices
00:58:46.340
deployed by the subjects
00:58:47.900
contained the substance
00:58:49.720
triacetone,
00:58:50.880
triperoxide,
00:58:52.260
known as TATP.
00:58:54.620
Now, TATP
00:58:55.580
is a dangerous
00:58:56.240
and highly volatile
00:58:57.780
homemade explosive
00:58:58.880
that has been used
00:59:00.280
in IED attacks
00:59:01.540
around the world.
00:59:04.420
So both devices
00:59:05.740
were IEDs
00:59:07.220
in an act of ISIS-inspired
00:59:09.660
terrorism
00:59:10.580
right here
00:59:11.480
on the homeland
00:59:12.240
in New York City.
00:59:14.020
And this,
00:59:14.680
for the listening audience,
00:59:15.980
Zoram Mamdani
00:59:16.580
was standing right next to her
00:59:17.540
as she made those comments.
00:59:19.080
So he's heard it all.
00:59:20.320
But what we've heard
00:59:21.000
from the mayor so far
00:59:22.020
amounts to the following
00:59:23.260
post on X,
00:59:25.520
which was
00:59:26.140
a day after the attacks.
00:59:27.800
The attacks happened
00:59:28.700
on Saturday.
00:59:29.760
Thank God, by the way,
00:59:30.420
they did not detonate
00:59:31.280
and nobody was hurt.
00:59:32.240
Thank God.
00:59:33.860
But they could have,
00:59:34.740
easily could have.
00:59:35.360
I mean,
00:59:35.660
it's basically a nail bomb.
00:59:37.560
And a day passes
00:59:39.400
and he posts
00:59:40.000
the following on Sunday.
00:59:41.440
I'm going to read it in full
00:59:42.240
because it's so outrageous.
00:59:44.760
Yesterday,
00:59:46.160
white supremacist
00:59:47.400
Jake Lang
00:59:48.160
organized a protest
00:59:50.440
outside Gracie Mansion
00:59:52.020
rooted in bigotry
00:59:53.620
and racism.
00:59:54.520
Such hate
00:59:55.740
has no place
00:59:56.460
in New York City.
00:59:57.600
It is an affront
00:59:58.440
to our city's values
00:59:59.400
and the unity
00:59:59.920
that defines who we are.
01:00:01.840
Okay,
01:00:02.120
so first of all,
01:00:02.760
he's begun with
01:00:03.700
white supremacy,
01:00:05.080
alleged white supremacy.
01:00:06.700
He's literally
01:00:08.300
just seen police
01:00:09.400
who are
01:00:09.880
on the receiving end
01:00:11.140
of that bomb throw
01:00:12.020
attacked
01:00:13.620
with an IED.
01:00:15.300
And his lead is,
01:00:16.920
there's someone
01:00:17.240
I consider to be
01:00:17.900
a white supremacist
01:00:18.740
outside of Gracie Mansion
01:00:19.720
and that's bigotry
01:00:21.200
and racism
01:00:21.660
and has no place
01:00:22.380
in New York City.
01:00:22.840
Then he gets to
01:00:24.340
the second piece,
01:00:25.300
which is obviously
01:00:25.900
the most important
01:00:26.780
and completely whiffs
01:00:29.520
on who did what
01:00:31.720
to whom
01:00:32.320
and who said what
01:00:33.840
as they did it.
01:00:35.220
Like Allahu Akbar.
01:00:37.100
All right,
01:00:37.340
he writes,
01:00:38.840
violence at a protest.
01:00:39.760
This is,
01:00:40.120
he goes right from,
01:00:41.660
okay,
01:00:41.980
it's an affront
01:00:43.120
to our city's values
01:00:43.780
and the unity
01:00:44.180
that defines who we are.
01:00:45.160
What followed
01:00:45.920
was even more disturbing,
01:00:48.340
but he doesn't say it,
01:00:49.480
like who did it
01:00:50.060
and what they yelled.
01:00:51.220
Violence at a protest.
01:00:52.840
Is never acceptable.
01:00:54.720
The attempt to use
01:00:55.680
an explosive device
01:00:56.680
and hurt others
01:00:57.420
is not only criminal,
01:00:58.860
it's reprehensible
01:00:59.500
and the antithesis
01:01:00.820
of who we are.
01:01:02.120
I want to thank
01:01:02.680
the brave men and women
01:01:03.500
of the NYPD
01:01:04.460
who acted quickly
01:01:05.340
to help keep New Yorkers safe.
01:01:06.880
Where is the part
01:01:08.200
about ISIS-inspired terrorists
01:01:11.280
shouting Allahu Akbar,
01:01:14.000
throwing an IED
01:01:15.800
at cops?
01:01:17.620
We have video
01:01:18.520
of one of the devices
01:01:19.780
and of the moment.
01:01:21.560
Let's watch it.
01:01:23.000
Sat 6.
01:01:23.780
It's right there
01:01:35.900
on camera.
01:01:37.340
You can see the guy
01:01:38.000
run,
01:01:38.780
throw the bomb
01:01:39.740
and shout
01:01:40.420
Allahu Akbar.
01:01:41.460
There's another video
01:01:42.340
that's similar
01:01:43.580
and
01:01:44.920
yeah,
01:01:48.000
wait a minute,
01:01:48.660
is that,
01:01:49.100
here he is?
01:01:49.580
Oh my God,
01:01:50.000
I'm sorry, Stu.
01:01:51.940
Mamdani did speak
01:01:53.360
this morning
01:01:54.040
next to Tish
01:01:55.900
and let's check in
01:01:58.020
to see if he got
01:01:59.840
to Allahu Akbar,
01:02:02.000
ISIS-inspired,
01:02:03.500
IED,
01:02:04.960
thrown at cops.
01:02:06.780
On Saturday,
01:02:08.140
a protest was held
01:02:09.380
outside Gracie Mansion
01:02:10.560
where I live
01:02:11.600
with my wife, Rama.
01:02:13.280
Neither of us
01:02:14.120
were home at the time.
01:02:16.400
This was a vile protest
01:02:18.240
rooted in white supremacy
01:02:19.340
entitled
01:02:19.860
Stop the Islamic Takeover
01:02:21.400
of New York City.
01:02:23.340
I'm the first Muslim mayor
01:02:24.760
of our city.
01:02:26.600
Anti-Muslim bigotry
01:02:27.540
is nothing new to me
01:02:29.080
nor is it anything new
01:02:30.080
for the one million
01:02:30.860
or so Muslim New Yorkers
01:02:32.760
who know this city
01:02:33.400
as our home.
01:02:34.760
While I found
01:02:35.640
this protest appalling,
01:02:37.420
I will not waver
01:02:38.220
in my belief
01:02:38.820
that it should be
01:02:39.380
allowed to happen.
01:02:41.140
Oh my God.
01:02:42.500
And then,
01:02:42.960
then he went on
01:02:43.860
to say the following.
01:02:45.180
Many of the
01:02:45.900
counter-protesters
01:02:46.960
met this display
01:02:48.920
of bigotry
01:02:49.760
peacefully
01:02:50.480
with a vision
01:02:51.580
of a city
01:02:52.040
that is welcoming
01:02:52.680
to all.
01:02:53.660
But a few did not.
01:02:55.460
Two men,
01:02:56.120
Amir Balot
01:02:56.820
and Ibrahim Kalumni,
01:03:00.300
Kailumi,
01:03:01.920
traveled from Pennsylvania
01:03:03.340
and attempted
01:03:03.860
to bring violence
01:03:04.720
to New York City.
01:03:05.900
They are suspected
01:03:06.680
of coming here
01:03:07.260
to commit an act
01:03:08.220
of terrorism.
01:03:09.460
There is video
01:03:10.040
of these two individuals
01:03:11.120
throwing two devices
01:03:12.560
toward the protest.
01:03:14.240
No,
01:03:14.820
nothing about an IED.
01:03:15.900
nothing about
01:03:17.420
Allahu Akbar
01:03:18.960
and nothing about
01:03:20.260
the cops being
01:03:20.940
on the receiving end
01:03:21.840
of those devices.
01:03:23.320
He can't bring himself
01:03:24.820
to say it still
01:03:26.780
and to deny
01:03:28.780
what that was
01:03:29.560
actually about
01:03:30.360
is to endanger
01:03:31.640
everyone in New York City.
01:03:35.500
Yeah,
01:03:36.120
I mean,
01:03:36.420
I don't know about you,
01:03:37.500
Megan,
01:03:37.620
I'm very concerned
01:03:38.360
if there's someone
01:03:38.880
throwing devices
01:03:39.620
into crowds.
01:03:40.540
Are people getting
01:03:41.120
a hit in the head
01:03:41.620
with iPads?
01:03:42.440
Like,
01:03:42.580
I don't know
01:03:43.240
thank you so much
01:03:45.720
for your specificity there.
01:03:48.020
It's funny too,
01:03:48.960
I mean,
01:03:49.600
I don't know anything
01:03:50.280
about the group
01:03:50.840
that was protesting
01:03:52.040
there initially.
01:03:53.180
I mean,
01:03:53.400
you see how the media
01:03:55.100
is treating them
01:03:56.020
and I have no idea
01:03:57.420
who they are
01:03:58.040
or what they believe.
01:03:59.580
But the speech part
01:04:00.820
of it is the part
01:04:01.460
that we defend,
01:04:02.460
not the other side
01:04:03.900
of it,
01:04:04.280
not the side
01:04:04.880
of people
01:04:06.160
who are throwing
01:04:07.020
bombs
01:04:07.840
into a crowd.
01:04:09.000
And I'm,
01:04:10.140
I mean,
01:04:10.760
I will say
01:04:11.460
it's understandable
01:04:12.380
to be confused
01:04:13.300
in a moment like this.
01:04:14.540
You have,
01:04:15.220
apparently,
01:04:16.020
the side
01:04:17.300
that hates Jews
01:04:18.480
and is being violent
01:04:19.740
is the Stop the Nazi
01:04:21.740
Movement.
01:04:23.920
That's,
01:04:24.680
we're supposed to believe
01:04:26.200
the people throwing
01:04:26.980
bombs into the crowds
01:04:28.060
of the Stop the Nazi
01:04:29.580
Movement.
01:04:30.760
It makes you really,
01:04:32.120
like,
01:04:32.320
what side am I on?
01:04:33.860
Like,
01:04:34.360
it's very confusing.
01:04:37.240
Like,
01:04:37.520
he,
01:04:37.780
you know,
01:04:38.020
it's funny because
01:04:38.640
he just can't,
01:04:40.400
this is a core tenet
01:04:41.780
of who Mamdani is,
01:04:43.000
right?
01:04:43.260
Mamdani has a lot
01:04:44.580
more in common
01:04:45.280
as we've seen
01:04:46.580
many,
01:04:47.240
many,
01:04:47.480
many times
01:04:48.060
with the people
01:04:48.800
who were protesting
01:04:51.020
the protesters,
01:04:52.140
shall we say.
01:04:53.140
He's not mentioning
01:04:54.100
Allahu Akbar
01:04:54.740
because those are
01:04:55.320
his favorite words.
01:04:56.900
Yeah,
01:04:57.060
right.
01:04:57.580
Yeah,
01:04:58.060
he didn't mention
01:04:58.900
the names initially
01:04:59.880
as well
01:05:00.960
because,
01:05:01.900
you know,
01:05:02.200
the idea is,
01:05:03.300
oh gosh,
01:05:03.820
well,
01:05:04.580
there's a bunch
01:05:05.540
of Nazis
01:05:06.040
in the street
01:05:07.260
and,
01:05:08.200
you know,
01:05:08.380
for a long time
01:05:09.280
and this is a sentiment
01:05:10.480
that Mamdani himself
01:05:11.880
on social media
01:05:12.960
has sort of shown
01:05:14.440
against both,
01:05:16.000
you know,
01:05:17.060
people he sees
01:05:18.300
as Nazis
01:05:19.060
but also even
01:05:19.860
police officers
01:05:20.820
back in the day
01:05:21.460
that it's kind of like,
01:05:22.520
okay,
01:05:22.720
when bad things happen
01:05:23.660
to them.
01:05:24.160
If we see an officer
01:05:25.060
crying in his car
01:05:26.100
after God,
01:05:26.700
maybe his partner
01:05:27.620
was killed,
01:05:28.740
oh,
01:05:29.060
well,
01:05:29.400
you know,
01:05:29.560
there's good things
01:05:30.220
going on in the world.
01:05:31.820
This is kind of the guy
01:05:32.840
he is.
01:05:33.360
Now he is,
01:05:34.520
and I think,
01:05:35.040
you know,
01:05:35.280
you've probably seen
01:05:35.960
this as well,
01:05:36.560
Megan,
01:05:36.960
you know,
01:05:37.180
being in New York,
01:05:39.740
if you're there at all,
01:05:41.200
I was there last week.
01:05:42.500
The dude is everywhere.
01:05:43.940
He's on every billboard.
01:05:45.260
He's in every cab
01:05:46.140
constantly talking to you
01:05:47.400
with that stupid smile
01:05:48.580
of his.
01:05:49.180
He makes Christy Noe
01:05:50.360
look shy.
01:05:55.300
Wow.
01:05:56.040
Because that,
01:05:56.760
that takes some doing.
01:05:58.380
And you're right.
01:05:59.100
He's everywhere.
01:06:00.120
And this is a strategy
01:06:01.220
for him,
01:06:01.920
is to take a guy
01:06:02.840
with beliefs
01:06:04.280
that are way out
01:06:05.640
of the mainstream.
01:06:06.580
Even for insane New Yorkers,
01:06:08.200
I can say this,
01:06:08.900
I was bored in New York.
01:06:10.100
Even for insane New Yorkers,
01:06:11.400
he's way out of the mainstream
01:06:12.420
of that group.
01:06:13.640
And he thinks he can
01:06:14.800
kind of paper over that
01:06:16.060
with a nice big smile.
01:06:17.720
As long as he smiles enough
01:06:18.920
and is like,
01:06:19.460
you know,
01:06:19.780
hanging out with kids
01:06:20.700
and laughing at what they say
01:06:21.920
at the kindergartners,
01:06:23.020
people will go along
01:06:23.840
with what he believes.
01:06:25.420
The core of him is dark.
01:06:26.960
I mean,
01:06:27.160
this is a guy
01:06:28.560
who believes
01:06:29.020
these really terrible things.
01:06:31.040
People around him
01:06:32.360
might even be worse.
01:06:34.160
He's choosing them
01:06:35.280
with an incredible amount
01:06:36.460
of frequency.
01:06:36.900
There's no question
01:06:37.680
he is surrounded
01:06:38.340
by anti-Semites.
01:06:39.680
There's just,
01:06:40.380
there's no question,
01:06:41.420
long proven anti-Semites.
01:06:43.960
It's like,
01:06:45.240
and that,
01:06:46.180
of course,
01:06:46.720
is one of the reasons
01:06:47.620
why he won't point out
01:06:49.100
what this was,
01:06:50.160
that this is radical
01:06:51.200
Muslim terrorism.
01:06:53.680
That's what this was.
01:06:54.460
This is a radical
01:06:55.880
Islamic terrorist attack
01:06:58.760
on the people
01:07:00.320
of New York City.
01:07:01.140
That's what this was,
01:07:02.260
including cops.
01:07:03.480
And he will be aided
01:07:05.080
and is being aided
01:07:06.060
currently in that
01:07:06.820
by the media,
01:07:07.500
as you point out.
01:07:08.100
There's New York Times.
01:07:08.820
Here's the headline.
01:07:10.100
U.S. authorities
01:07:10.740
are investigating
01:07:11.720
device thrown
01:07:13.080
near Gracie Mansion.
01:07:15.340
Well,
01:07:15.660
now that omits
01:07:16.440
some key details,
01:07:17.520
doesn't it,
01:07:17.860
New York Times?
01:07:18.600
Here's NBC,
01:07:20.080
local.
01:07:21.040
Mayor Mamdani
01:07:21.740
was not at home
01:07:22.780
when protesters
01:07:23.940
lit device
01:07:25.180
outside Gracie Mansion.
01:07:26.680
I mean,
01:07:27.580
to your point,
01:07:28.220
they could have
01:07:28.540
set an iPad on fire.
01:07:29.700
I wouldn't know
01:07:30.580
any different
01:07:31.100
from that headline.
01:07:32.080
And then there's
01:07:32.620
GB News.
01:07:33.620
That's our friends
01:07:34.680
across the pond
01:07:35.320
who are more
01:07:35.700
fair and balanced.
01:07:37.180
They're a relatively
01:07:38.520
new cable outlet
01:07:39.240
over there.
01:07:40.300
They managed
01:07:40.940
to get it right.
01:07:41.840
How'd they get it right?
01:07:42.840
They're not even American.
01:07:44.160
How did they get
01:07:44.940
a better headline
01:07:45.500
than the New York Times
01:07:46.640
has happened
01:07:47.120
in New York City?
01:07:47.940
Here's the GB News
01:07:48.920
headline.
01:07:50.320
Terror probe
01:07:51.020
launched
01:07:51.480
after ISIS fanatics
01:07:52.960
hurled bomb
01:07:53.900
near New York City
01:07:54.860
mayor's home.
01:07:55.760
Boom.
01:07:56.240
There it is.
01:07:56.860
It's not that hard,
01:07:57.840
NBC and New York Times.
01:08:00.280
Yeah.
01:08:01.260
One thing you can do
01:08:02.380
is tell the story.
01:08:03.640
This is supposed to be
01:08:04.400
a very basic part
01:08:05.420
of journalism.
01:08:06.200
You just tell the story
01:08:07.220
and you let people know
01:08:09.220
what the facts are.
01:08:10.780
And you don't,
01:08:11.640
you know,
01:08:12.080
it's not your responsibility
01:08:13.260
as a journalist
01:08:14.360
to win for your side,
01:08:16.520
right?
01:08:16.780
Like,
01:08:17.000
this has been
01:08:17.360
the temptation
01:08:17.880
of journalists
01:08:18.660
for a very long time
01:08:19.820
in that,
01:08:20.240
like,
01:08:20.540
you know,
01:08:20.700
they don't tell you
01:08:21.200
the Hunter Biden story
01:08:22.060
because it might
01:08:23.240
allow people
01:08:24.340
to vote
01:08:25.520
for this guy
01:08:26.460
that we don't,
01:08:27.240
we all don't want,
01:08:28.440
right?
01:08:28.600
We all understand
01:08:29.680
that would be bad
01:08:30.560
for the country.
01:08:31.080
We have to be protected
01:08:31.140
from our bad instincts.
01:08:33.040
Exactly.
01:08:33.640
We have to protect
01:08:34.360
the American people.
01:08:35.640
This is a very
01:08:36.060
progressive instinct,
01:08:37.520
right?
01:08:37.740
When you're a progressive,
01:08:38.600
you go back
01:08:38.940
to the early 20th century
01:08:40.700
progressives,
01:08:41.500
this is kind of
01:08:42.000
their staple,
01:08:43.060
right?
01:08:43.280
It was that the American
01:08:44.180
people are too dumb.
01:08:45.680
They need to be led.
01:08:46.800
We need to be
01:08:47.640
the herders of sheep.
01:08:49.340
They're not going
01:08:49.680
to be able
01:08:50.040
to understand
01:08:50.680
and do the right thing,
01:08:51.860
even if they might
01:08:52.480
have the best intentions.
01:08:54.000
They're overtaken
01:08:57.040
by their hatred,
01:08:58.200
by their bigotry.
01:08:59.860
You know,
01:08:59.980
this is a sentiment
01:09:00.760
that Barack Obama
01:09:01.920
in 2008,
01:09:04.240
you know,
01:09:04.720
clearly tried
01:09:06.020
to get across.
01:09:06.760
You know,
01:09:06.840
people were,
01:09:07.600
they've got the,
01:09:08.280
you know,
01:09:08.520
their scary belief
01:09:09.340
in guns and immigrants
01:09:10.560
that are bad
01:09:11.400
and all these terrible things
01:09:12.500
and we can't trust them.
01:09:13.800
We have to help them
01:09:14.540
get over that thing
01:09:16.560
that they have
01:09:17.460
as if it's some sort
01:09:18.320
of ailment.
01:09:19.520
You know,
01:09:20.020
people believe
01:09:20.880
what they believe.
01:09:21.660
It's not your job
01:09:22.360
as a journalist
01:09:22.960
to try to direct them
01:09:25.840
toward a particular way
01:09:27.100
of viewing facts.
01:09:28.340
It's your job
01:09:28.820
to bring them the facts.
01:09:30.660
It's amazing to me
01:09:31.460
because the New York Times
01:09:33.200
now,
01:09:33.600
like most Democrats,
01:09:34.680
is very anti-Israel.
01:09:36.880
So they will print,
01:09:38.280
you know,
01:09:39.180
all the bad things
01:09:40.020
about Israel
01:09:40.580
in connection
01:09:41.180
with this war,
01:09:42.260
for example.
01:09:43.280
But two minutes
01:09:44.960
spent looking at
01:09:46.060
clearly ISIS-inspired terror
01:09:48.540
in its own hometown
01:09:50.120
and it's a mystery.
01:09:52.100
It's a,
01:09:52.340
I mean,
01:09:52.480
what they posted
01:09:52.980
over the weekend,
01:09:53.540
their headline
01:09:53.820
over the weekend
01:09:54.340
after it happened,
01:09:55.620
after,
01:09:56.400
after it was determined
01:09:57.260
that these were bombs
01:09:58.020
by the,
01:09:58.640
by the New York Times,
01:09:59.920
or by the NYPD.
01:10:02.300
And by the way,
01:10:03.000
like Tish,
01:10:04.620
the police commissioner,
01:10:06.900
she didn't make
01:10:07.300
any bones about it.
01:10:08.200
Like she talked about how,
01:10:09.520
trying to find the,
01:10:10.140
the concoction,
01:10:11.760
she said,
01:10:12.060
yeah,
01:10:12.320
this mother of Satan
01:10:14.180
is what the New York Post
01:10:16.040
reported,
01:10:16.960
she described it.
01:10:17.760
She said,
01:10:18.060
sports drink bottles
01:10:18.960
filled with
01:10:19.880
triacetone triperoxide
01:10:23.080
or TATP,
01:10:24.120
you heard her reference it there
01:10:24.980
in today's conference,
01:10:26.080
a substance favored by terrorists
01:10:27.400
and known as mother of Satan,
01:10:28.980
which is so volatile
01:10:30.120
that it typically
01:10:30.760
does not require a fuse
01:10:31.820
to go off.
01:10:32.500
That was already known,
01:10:33.820
was already being reported
01:10:34.840
that these were bombs
01:10:36.140
and this is what
01:10:37.060
the New York Times
01:10:37.520
originally went with.
01:10:39.080
Smoking jars of metal
01:10:40.160
and fuses
01:10:40.720
thrown at protests
01:10:42.140
near Mayer's house.
01:10:43.100
What would be another word
01:10:45.080
for smoking jars
01:10:46.660
of metal and fuses
01:10:48.760
with a bunch of
01:10:49.860
self-igniting
01:10:51.040
mother of Satan
01:10:52.300
chemicals inside,
01:10:53.540
Stu?
01:10:53.760
I'm just trying to think.
01:10:56.180
Can you think of anything?
01:10:57.480
The likes they will
01:10:58.960
go to.
01:11:00.220
I mean,
01:11:00.520
it's just absolutely
01:11:02.580
incredible.
01:11:03.660
It's like,
01:11:03.940
we have a circular
01:11:04.660
piece of dough
01:11:05.560
with tomato sauce
01:11:06.560
and cheese
01:11:07.100
on top of it.
01:11:08.100
What's another term
01:11:09.260
for it?
01:11:10.820
They got a bunch
01:11:11.800
of pizzas.
01:11:13.360
I don't know
01:11:15.260
that this fools people.
01:11:16.840
I think there might
01:11:17.940
be a part of this
01:11:19.300
that allows
01:11:20.280
their audience
01:11:21.880
to get over
01:11:23.600
the hump
01:11:24.180
that their side
01:11:25.200
is doing things
01:11:26.240
that are terrible,
01:11:26.900
right?
01:11:29.040
It's easy to call
01:11:30.000
anyone related
01:11:30.580
to Donald Trump
01:11:31.160
a white supremacist
01:11:32.100
without any thought
01:11:33.120
because they
01:11:34.000
are against affirmative
01:11:35.440
action or something.
01:11:36.460
They're a white supremacist.
01:11:38.020
And their audience
01:11:38.820
never really questioned that.
01:11:40.360
Obviously,
01:11:40.740
if you don't agree
01:11:41.280
with us on these issues,
01:11:42.240
you're bad.
01:11:42.960
You're a Nazi.
01:11:43.600
You're a white supremacist.
01:11:45.320
With their side,
01:11:46.160
when there's things
01:11:46.920
like the word bomb
01:11:48.300
is really hard
01:11:49.260
to be on the right
01:11:50.100
side of it,
01:11:50.880
right?
01:11:51.060
And especially
01:11:52.820
in a domestic context,
01:11:55.620
right?
01:11:55.840
If you're talking
01:11:56.500
about throwing a bomb
01:11:57.660
into a crowd,
01:11:59.540
there's almost no way
01:12:01.020
to present that
01:12:02.380
as the right activity.
01:12:03.640
So they just try
01:12:04.240
to dismantle it.
01:12:05.120
I mean,
01:12:05.520
really dismantle
01:12:06.720
what occurred.
01:12:08.040
Make it seem like
01:12:09.280
it's either an iPad
01:12:10.600
or a jar with fuses
01:12:12.040
and maybe it doesn't
01:12:13.940
sound as offensive.
01:12:16.240
I don't know.
01:12:16.960
They know their audience
01:12:17.620
better than I do,
01:12:18.400
I guess,
01:12:18.700
because to me,
01:12:19.960
that wouldn't help
01:12:20.880
at all.
01:12:21.380
I would see right
01:12:22.180
through that immediately
01:12:22.920
and I would see
01:12:23.420
through it on our side.
01:12:24.640
They're on the,
01:12:25.420
the New York Times
01:12:26.220
is on the side
01:12:27.420
of the ISIS
01:12:29.580
throwing device,
01:12:31.420
the ISIS device
01:12:32.460
throwing people.
01:12:33.400
I just think
01:12:34.040
they're at some level,
01:12:35.660
they've always been
01:12:36.120
more sympathetic to them
01:12:37.040
in recent history anyway,
01:12:38.260
once, you know,
01:12:38.960
they're not in favor
01:12:39.960
of Israel.
01:12:40.760
So they're like,
01:12:41.600
okay,
01:12:41.820
and they're certainly
01:12:42.180
not in favor
01:12:42.740
of white supremacists.
01:12:43.680
So they're like,
01:12:44.340
okay, yeah,
01:12:45.360
these are bad people.
01:12:46.880
And we're on
01:12:48.680
the side
01:12:48.940
of the counter-protests
01:12:50.020
and because it was
01:12:50.960
two of the so-called
01:12:51.680
counter-protesters,
01:12:53.120
aka terrorists here,
01:12:55.180
they're confused
01:12:56.720
on what to do.
01:12:57.840
It's like,
01:12:58.240
wait a minute,
01:13:00.860
we're kind of
01:13:02.040
more sympathetic
01:13:02.480
to their side,
01:13:03.360
but they threw bombs,
01:13:05.020
so that's bad.
01:13:05.840
Maybe we can downplay
01:13:06.640
the bomb right
01:13:07.520
into being not a bomb
01:13:08.620
and this not being
01:13:09.780
about Allahu Akbar
01:13:10.700
or ISIS.
01:13:11.640
I mean,
01:13:11.820
that's why,
01:13:13.520
like,
01:13:13.720
back to my point,
01:13:14.440
you're going to have
01:13:14.920
to buckle up
01:13:16.120
until this whole
01:13:17.720
Iran thing is over
01:13:18.460
because the media,
01:13:20.080
they don't know
01:13:20.660
what to do,
01:13:21.640
right?
01:13:21.920
Like,
01:13:22.580
they're all over
01:13:24.440
the place.
01:13:25.360
They're against Israel,
01:13:26.880
so now they're
01:13:27.580
pro-domestic terror
01:13:29.240
attacks?
01:13:30.100
Like,
01:13:30.840
not it,
01:13:32.580
New York Times.
01:13:33.620
Try again.
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You can have questions
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01:13:37.620
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Work on it.
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Try a little harder.
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01:16:55.620
President Trump.
01:16:56.200
Please don't put
01:16:56.920
American boots
01:16:57.520
on the ground in Iran,
01:16:58.400
but in any event,
01:16:59.060
okay,
01:16:59.280
he's not in favor
01:16:59.900
of that,
01:17:00.640
but he is in favor
01:17:01.860
of the conflict
01:17:02.520
of the war
01:17:03.060
and he set up
01:17:06.060
a trap,
01:17:07.720
Maher did,
01:17:08.460
for Senator Schiff,
01:17:09.720
which was very interesting.
01:17:11.220
Watch this.
01:17:12.380
This statement
01:17:12.900
from the administration,
01:17:13.840
the president
01:17:14.340
had the constitutional
01:17:15.500
authority to direct
01:17:16.640
the use of military force
01:17:17.980
because he could
01:17:18.640
reasonably determine
01:17:19.720
that such use of force
01:17:21.340
was in the national interest.
01:17:22.860
That's too vague for you?
01:17:24.520
Totally vague.
01:17:25.940
Okay,
01:17:26.160
because that's from Obama.
01:17:30.220
How good is that?
01:17:32.220
I mean,
01:17:32.800
when the shoe was
01:17:33.640
on the other foot,
01:17:34.280
right,
01:17:34.500
it's all these Democrats
01:17:35.240
were defending
01:17:35.900
President Obama
01:17:37.380
and his use of the military,
01:17:38.760
his use of drones.
01:17:39.700
They had no problem.
01:17:40.320
Only now.
01:17:41.380
I'm like,
01:17:41.640
I have no patience
01:17:42.620
for the whole
01:17:43.220
this is illegal
01:17:44.660
and Trump can't do it
01:17:45.520
argument.
01:17:45.960
That's bullshit.
01:17:46.540
Where were you
01:17:46.940
when Obama was droning
01:17:48.280
American citizens?
01:17:49.820
Just take a seat,
01:17:50.720
right?
01:17:51.040
But like,
01:17:52.460
what the Democrats
01:17:53.440
are doing to the president
01:17:54.300
here is nakedly political
01:17:55.620
and I don't believe
01:17:56.900
out of deep concern
01:17:58.480
for what's best
01:17:59.380
for the country.
01:18:01.640
It's so transparent.
01:18:03.580
I mean,
01:18:03.860
it's difficult.
01:18:05.640
It really is a confusing
01:18:06.600
world out there.
01:18:07.480
You know,
01:18:07.580
I grew up my entire life
01:18:09.040
thinking of Democrats
01:18:11.500
as the ones
01:18:12.260
who had their prominent
01:18:13.080
politicians go
01:18:14.180
on their honeymoons
01:18:15.640
to the Soviet Union
01:18:16.880
and then all of a sudden
01:18:17.780
now I'm supposed
01:18:18.420
to understand
01:18:18.960
that they really
01:18:19.620
don't like Russia
01:18:20.540
and anyone
01:18:21.400
who agrees
01:18:22.440
with Russia
01:18:22.920
are the bad guys.
01:18:24.620
This stuff flips
01:18:25.520
on a seemingly
01:18:26.960
daily basis
01:18:27.980
these days
01:18:28.700
and they can't
01:18:30.240
keep track of it
01:18:31.240
because there's
01:18:32.280
no principle
01:18:32.780
behind it,
01:18:33.380
right?
01:18:33.620
Like it's so much.
01:18:35.080
It's great to watch
01:18:35.800
somebody like Bill Maher
01:18:36.520
catch one of them.
01:18:38.260
Oh,
01:18:38.540
that's so satisfying
01:18:40.880
because
01:18:41.340
they didn't have
01:18:43.160
any of these feelings.
01:18:43.980
They just had none
01:18:44.520
of this stuff
01:18:45.100
back then.
01:18:45.860
It's like,
01:18:46.860
this is why
01:18:47.320
I don't,
01:18:48.280
you know,
01:18:48.440
part of the reason
01:18:49.220
why I started
01:18:49.640
the Predictable Show,
01:18:51.080
you mentioned it earlier
01:18:51.780
to predictableshow.com
01:18:52.900
is it does
01:18:54.380
deals with these
01:18:54.960
prediction markets
01:18:55.560
that are kind of
01:18:56.100
a new thing
01:18:56.580
and one of the things
01:18:57.240
I really love about them
01:18:58.300
is they have a way
01:18:59.620
of cutting through
01:19:00.560
all this nonsense,
01:19:02.080
right?
01:19:02.660
Because people
01:19:03.380
are putting their money,
01:19:04.420
they're putting their money
01:19:05.600
where their mouth is
01:19:06.360
and most people
01:19:07.300
won't put their money
01:19:08.200
for something
01:19:09.040
that they don't
01:19:09.580
actually believe.
01:19:10.900
Yet we put people
01:19:11.640
on television constantly
01:19:13.000
that are just
01:19:14.100
tossing things out there
01:19:15.620
that are totally at odds
01:19:17.240
with what they said
01:19:17.820
on TV,
01:19:18.440
three weeks before that.
01:19:20.000
I just,
01:19:21.080
it drives me
01:19:21.840
absolutely nuts
01:19:22.920
and I think
01:19:23.980
that's a real problem
01:19:25.580
that we have.
01:19:26.360
Like,
01:19:26.540
they have made a decision,
01:19:27.740
they do have a principle
01:19:28.840
in the media,
01:19:29.380
which is they don't
01:19:29.860
like Donald Trump.
01:19:30.860
That principle,
01:19:32.020
we sometimes describe it
01:19:33.120
as TDS,
01:19:34.480
allows them to
01:19:35.480
constantly be at odds
01:19:36.880
with him,
01:19:37.320
even when I'm critical
01:19:38.460
of Donald Trump
01:19:39.000
for changing his argument.
01:19:41.180
He might make two arguments
01:19:42.380
and I say,
01:19:42.820
wait a minute,
01:19:43.220
you said this last week
01:19:44.120
and you said this this week,
01:19:44.960
they somehow are disagreeing
01:19:46.340
with him both times.
01:19:47.380
See,
01:19:48.020
this is why I like Rand Paul
01:19:50.040
so much.
01:19:50.700
I really like him.
01:19:51.880
He's one of the few lawmakers
01:19:54.100
who I really actually respect.
01:19:56.120
It's not that I agree
01:19:56.860
with all of his politics
01:19:57.820
at all.
01:19:58.420
I don't.
01:19:59.540
Some of them,
01:20:00.140
yes,
01:20:00.360
and some of them,
01:20:00.860
no,
01:20:01.020
but he knows who he is
01:20:02.580
and he votes accordingly.
01:20:03.720
He votes according
01:20:04.540
to his conscience
01:20:05.840
and the policies
01:20:07.460
that he thinks,
01:20:08.260
like his dad,
01:20:09.180
that he thinks
01:20:09.920
are actually important
01:20:10.720
for America.
01:20:11.300
And he,
01:20:12.500
you know,
01:20:12.680
President Trump can't stand
01:20:13.680
that he can't be pummeled
01:20:14.700
into submission
01:20:15.260
and I get it
01:20:15.980
and he's frustrated
01:20:16.660
a lot of Republicans
01:20:17.400
being the holdout,
01:20:18.580
but I respect it.
01:20:20.500
As an independent myself,
01:20:21.520
I respect that he's like,
01:20:23.060
this is what I stand for,
01:20:24.740
you know,
01:20:25.060
like,
01:20:25.700
and I got elected
01:20:26.560
because I have these principles
01:20:28.500
so I'm going to stand by them.
01:20:29.580
It's very rare,
01:20:30.620
much more common
01:20:31.400
is the Adam Shifty Schiff,
01:20:33.900
you know,
01:20:34.340
I mean,
01:20:34.740
playing right up to his name
01:20:36.000
in that position still,
01:20:38.300
like playing right to his name.
01:20:40.640
Very Shifty,
01:20:41.380
depending on who's doing
01:20:42.820
the absolutely terrible thing
01:20:44.300
that he can't stand.
01:20:46.020
For the listening audience,
01:20:47.100
sitting on the set
01:20:47.700
with Shifty Schiff
01:20:48.820
was Shifty Don Lamont,
01:20:51.400
who was there
01:20:52.220
to be lionized by Bill Maher.
01:20:54.060
This is the love-hate
01:20:54.800
we have with Bill,
01:20:56.160
where he completely gives Lemon
01:20:59.380
a pass on his behavior
01:21:01.060
inside that church
01:21:02.060
and I think we have
01:21:03.500
a little bit of that.
01:21:04.400
Let's watch.
01:21:05.560
There's things going on
01:21:06.700
in this country.
01:21:07.540
I'm just,
01:21:07.840
I try to keep up
01:21:09.100
with the news
01:21:09.540
and I just,
01:21:10.580
and they said
01:21:12.960
you stood in close proximity
01:21:14.860
to the pastor
01:21:15.760
in an attempt to oppress
01:21:17.060
and intimidate him.
01:21:19.180
That's some powerful bullshit
01:21:20.560
there, isn't it, Don?
01:21:21.740
I mean,
01:21:23.360
I'm glad you see it.
01:21:24.300
You can see it from the world.
01:21:24.980
No, I, I, I mean.
01:21:27.360
No, it's not,
01:21:28.400
it's not some powerful bullshit.
01:21:29.540
It's 100% true.
01:21:30.520
We had the pastor
01:21:31.060
on the show last week
01:21:32.400
talking about
01:21:33.600
the way he felt
01:21:34.420
when Don Lemon
01:21:34.980
was obviously in his space
01:21:36.580
and was clearly trying
01:21:37.600
to set up the pastor
01:21:38.860
for something dark
01:21:42.120
by saying like,
01:21:43.620
don't, don't touch me.
01:21:44.640
Lemon was like,
01:21:45.420
take your hands off me.
01:21:46.220
Don't push me.
01:21:46.920
Meanwhile, Lemon was the one
01:21:47.720
who appeared to have hands
01:21:48.480
on the pastor.
01:21:49.580
And Bill Maher,
01:21:50.580
as is so often the case
01:21:51.700
when it risks
01:21:52.320
embarrassing a Democrat,
01:21:53.500
did not do his homework
01:21:54.420
here still.
01:21:56.460
Yeah, it's funny.
01:21:57.260
I mean, Bill Maher
01:21:57.980
is an interesting guy.
01:21:59.860
He's somewhat similar
01:22:01.320
to Rand Paul in some ways
01:22:02.860
in that like he has
01:22:03.940
a well-developed ideology
01:22:05.840
that he's believed
01:22:06.560
for a long time.
01:22:07.920
And I think is arguably
01:22:09.620
pretty consistent with it
01:22:11.160
in this particular case.
01:22:12.840
And I think honestly,
01:22:13.900
the same thing
01:22:14.960
with the Middle East
01:22:15.720
is just Bill Maher
01:22:17.660
can't stand religion.
01:22:19.100
Like just generally
01:22:20.040
does not like religion.
01:22:21.420
He's written books about it.
01:22:22.960
And whenever anyone does,
01:22:24.540
right, yeah.
01:22:25.380
Yeah, that's right.
01:22:26.720
Religulous or something like that.
01:22:27.920
Religulous.
01:22:28.040
Yes, yeah, yeah.
01:22:29.980
Whenever someone
01:22:31.080
is doing something
01:22:32.080
based on religion,
01:22:33.280
he generally speaking
01:22:34.480
is always against
01:22:35.480
what they're doing.
01:22:36.640
Yes.
01:22:36.920
Which is, you know,
01:22:37.860
again, a take.
01:22:39.500
I generally speaking
01:22:41.220
agree in that
01:22:42.020
like I, a lot of people,
01:22:44.240
and there's I think
01:22:44.860
a kind of a movement
01:22:45.920
a little bit on the right.
01:22:46.900
I have friends
01:22:47.460
who are critical
01:22:48.420
of the word ideology
01:22:50.480
as a negative term.
01:22:52.420
And ideology can be
01:22:53.760
a negative term,
01:22:54.500
especially if you're applying it
01:22:55.680
without any pragmatism
01:22:57.600
or real world thinking.
01:22:59.760
You can't just be ideological.
01:23:01.920
But like,
01:23:02.620
can we save a little love
01:23:04.020
for ideology
01:23:04.840
just from the perspective
01:23:06.320
of it's a collection
01:23:07.420
of beliefs
01:23:08.320
that make sense
01:23:09.120
with each other?
01:23:10.100
Right?
01:23:10.260
Like we've abandoned this idea.
01:23:12.080
Now it's just like,
01:23:12.760
oh, just take any section
01:23:14.080
of beliefs,
01:23:14.580
anything you want
01:23:15.260
from around the world,
01:23:16.100
anything that gets you
01:23:17.460
through the day.
01:23:18.540
Say what you have to do
01:23:19.760
on TV,
01:23:20.880
on the Senate floor
01:23:21.980
that gets you
01:23:22.960
through that moment.
01:23:23.880
And the second you need
01:23:24.840
to reverse it,
01:23:25.540
you get to reverse it.
01:23:26.480
I can't stand that world.
01:23:28.700
Like, that doesn't
01:23:29.900
help me at all.
01:23:30.940
It doesn't help me
01:23:31.620
as a viewer.
01:23:32.240
It doesn't help me
01:23:32.580
as a listener to a podcast.
01:23:33.760
It doesn't help me
01:23:34.380
certainly as an American citizen
01:23:35.640
that has to watch
01:23:36.240
these politicians
01:23:36.880
do it constantly.
01:23:38.440
So I'm with you on that.
01:23:40.160
I like the people,
01:23:41.480
you know,
01:23:42.340
more like Rand Paul
01:23:44.280
or Bill Maher,
01:23:45.140
who, you know,
01:23:45.660
even though I totally disagree
01:23:47.120
with Bill Maher
01:23:48.100
on the issue of religion,
01:23:50.320
I can still watch his show
01:23:51.620
and get something out of it.
01:23:52.700
I know where he's coming from.
01:23:54.420
I don't watch his show,
01:23:55.280
but I watch the clips.
01:23:56.580
I watch the clips.
01:23:57.240
Yes, me too.
01:23:57.900
His monologues are very funny.
01:23:59.640
I'm not much for the guests
01:24:01.100
that he has on the show,
01:24:01.980
to be honest,
01:24:02.440
but depends, you know,
01:24:05.160
hit or miss.
01:24:06.200
But it's not something
01:24:06.900
I would like subscribe to
01:24:07.840
or make sure
01:24:08.480
it was appointment viewing.
01:24:09.320
But I like him overall,
01:24:10.780
even though we disagree
01:24:11.420
on so many things.
01:24:12.380
I like him.
01:24:13.200
I think he's very clever
01:24:14.380
and I think he plays
01:24:14.960
a very important role
01:24:15.920
in our national dialogue.
01:24:17.940
And he,
01:24:18.860
but he doesn't bat a thousand.
01:24:19.900
That's clear
01:24:20.440
because Don Lemon
01:24:22.160
did cross a line.
01:24:23.900
And I feel that Bill
01:24:24.560
would see it very differently
01:24:25.580
if that had been
01:24:27.280
Megyn Kelly
01:24:27.800
barging into an abortion clinic
01:24:29.700
and saying to the terrified women
01:24:31.680
as they fled,
01:24:32.720
trauma's all part of it.
01:24:34.120
Trauma's a part of my protest,
01:24:36.280
right?
01:24:36.580
That's as American as apple pie.
01:24:38.820
He would see very clearly
01:24:40.080
how that was very wrong
01:24:41.560
and that is not me
01:24:42.440
acting as a,
01:24:43.860
as an independent journalist
01:24:44.780
or a journalist at all.
01:24:45.660
Okay, let's keep going.
01:24:46.980
I mentioned at the top,
01:24:47.920
the Jesse Jackson funeral happened.
01:24:50.500
Honestly, I had,
01:24:51.300
as I said,
01:24:51.820
very positive experiences
01:24:52.840
with Jesse Jackson
01:24:53.600
during my years at Fox.
01:24:54.600
He was not one of those crazy,
01:24:56.300
crazy leftist,
01:24:57.640
you know,
01:24:58.760
race essentialism guys.
01:25:00.440
You know,
01:25:00.560
he had the Rainbow Push Coalition
01:25:02.020
and he made a lot of difference
01:25:03.080
in the lives of many people,
01:25:04.440
a lot of African Americans.
01:25:05.740
But he wasn't some crazy.
01:25:08.020
He wasn't like,
01:25:09.020
he wasn't Al Sharpton territory.
01:25:10.980
He certainly wasn't
01:25:11.840
an Ibram X. Kendi type.
01:25:14.120
And he was very open-minded
01:25:15.520
to talking to Republicans
01:25:16.660
about the issues
01:25:17.440
that were important to him.
01:25:19.020
That was my own take on it.
01:25:20.480
And I think that was
01:25:20.940
Roger Ailes' take on him too.
01:25:22.660
So all these dignitaries
01:25:24.940
show up at his funeral
01:25:27.400
and reportedly,
01:25:28.800
they were asked
01:25:30.120
not to get political
01:25:32.320
given the way that
01:25:33.820
Jesse Jackson was in life.
01:25:35.820
Please don't get political.
01:25:37.380
Well, they couldn't
01:25:38.140
contain themselves.
01:25:39.480
And while I said at the top,
01:25:40.920
it was President Clinton,
01:25:42.140
President Obama,
01:25:42.780
and President Biden
01:25:43.900
who came under
01:25:45.220
Jesse Jackson Jr.'s attack,
01:25:46.960
I inserted Clinton
01:25:48.640
in there wrongly
01:25:49.340
because what he said
01:25:49.980
was three presidents
01:25:51.040
came to this event
01:25:52.480
and like basically wrongfully
01:25:54.640
didn't do what I asked them to do.
01:25:56.760
And I think he was confused
01:25:57.800
because actually Bill Clinton
01:25:58.800
did not make it political.
01:26:00.040
But you know who did?
01:26:00.840
Kamala Harris.
01:26:01.880
Like from word one.
01:26:03.660
So I think his reference
01:26:04.360
to three presidents,
01:26:05.380
you know,
01:26:05.660
kind of included her
01:26:06.380
as a vice president.
01:26:07.620
But Jesse Jackson Jr.
01:26:08.860
was not happy.
01:26:10.540
and who could blame him?
01:26:13.340
I'm going to give you
01:26:14.100
a little sampling
01:26:16.460
of how it sounded.
01:26:18.840
Here's Harris
01:26:19.340
who starts with like,
01:26:21.360
hey, nice to be here.
01:26:22.780
We're here for a funeral.
01:26:23.560
And then boom,
01:26:24.180
immediately gets political
01:26:25.080
in this outwatch.
01:26:26.760
And to the entire Jackson family,
01:26:30.820
on behalf of Doug
01:26:32.340
and my family,
01:26:33.500
we pray with you
01:26:36.060
as we did
01:26:37.040
a couple weeks ago
01:26:38.500
in your home.
01:26:40.180
And we thank you.
01:26:41.860
I thank you.
01:26:42.500
You know,
01:26:45.580
so let me just say,
01:26:47.520
I predicted a lot
01:26:49.300
about what's happening
01:26:50.120
right now.
01:26:57.620
I'm not into saying
01:26:58.980
I told you so,
01:27:00.200
but we did see it coming.
01:27:04.640
And she kept going.
01:27:06.560
It wasn't just her.
01:27:07.520
I mean,
01:27:07.660
she's so insufferable,
01:27:09.060
Stu,
01:27:09.240
is she not?
01:27:10.080
I mean,
01:27:10.240
it's like,
01:27:10.560
if we could just take
01:27:13.100
a moment, Megan,
01:27:13.860
to just appreciate
01:27:14.740
the fact that
01:27:15.520
when Jesse Jackson Jr.
01:27:16.720
says three presidents,
01:27:18.200
he was incorrect
01:27:19.020
that she was one of them.
01:27:20.400
Thank God.
01:27:21.400
Thank God.
01:27:22.720
Thank God.
01:27:23.700
We don't have to deal
01:27:24.500
with that nonsense
01:27:25.440
and hopefully never will.
01:27:28.060
It's just absolutely,
01:27:29.520
she's terrible.
01:27:31.440
I mean,
01:27:31.580
the reason she lost
01:27:32.480
is she's just terrible
01:27:34.320
at this.
01:27:34.720
She really is.
01:27:35.500
And for some reason,
01:27:36.300
Democrats see this
01:27:37.060
as constantly
01:27:38.620
like their big chance
01:27:40.140
to make a political speech
01:27:41.720
when there's someone,
01:27:43.220
you know,
01:27:43.580
who had just passed away.
01:27:45.480
Yeah,
01:27:45.740
someone who died.
01:27:47.040
What?
01:27:47.360
How is that your great chance?
01:27:48.740
By the way,
01:27:49.280
he wasn't a politician.
01:27:50.440
You know,
01:27:50.600
he was a thought leader,
01:27:51.580
but he wasn't a politician.
01:27:53.160
I want to give you
01:27:53.840
a little bit more
01:27:54.500
of Kamala Harris,
01:27:55.320
who,
01:27:55.520
again,
01:27:56.360
she just gave a soundbite
01:27:57.700
like a week ago,
01:27:59.060
not even,
01:27:59.700
maybe,
01:28:00.380
or just over,
01:28:01.140
about 10 days ago,
01:28:02.920
opening the door,
01:28:03.820
once again,
01:28:04.340
probably wider than she has
01:28:05.520
to a presidential run.
01:28:06.900
She's going to do it.
01:28:07.740
This woman's running
01:28:08.640
and this is what
01:28:10.020
we're going to be subjected to.
01:28:11.100
She hasn't even brushed up
01:28:13.680
on new phrases for her act.
01:28:16.320
She's recycling all the old shit.
01:28:18.720
Listen to Sot 13.
01:28:20.700
To understand,
01:28:21.780
as has been said,
01:28:22.920
the beauty that comes
01:28:24.420
after the storm,
01:28:25.840
when we see what is possible
01:28:28.220
and what can be unburdened
01:28:30.360
by what has been.
01:28:31.980
That was a Jesse Jackson pin
01:28:33.980
from those days.
01:28:35.920
And just a beautiful example
01:28:39.460
of his determination,
01:28:42.540
his sense of humor,
01:28:43.720
but his ability to see
01:28:45.020
what can be unburdened
01:28:47.260
by what has been.
01:28:48.740
Okay.
01:28:52.620
Twice in the same speech.
01:28:55.200
You know,
01:28:55.520
it's the duality of it.
01:28:56.960
It is.
01:28:57.980
If you were to take out
01:28:58.700
the Venn diagram, Stu.
01:29:00.340
Right.
01:29:00.880
She has no new lines.
01:29:02.120
That's unbelievable.
01:29:06.440
Especially because that
01:29:07.620
in particular was something
01:29:08.960
that everyone criticized.
01:29:10.180
Everyone made fun of her.
01:29:11.380
That criticism had to have
01:29:12.780
gotten to her at some point,
01:29:13.760
I would assume.
01:29:15.460
And here she is still
01:29:16.060
trotting this stuff out.
01:29:17.000
And this is because
01:29:17.700
she doesn't have thoughts.
01:29:22.320
She doesn't have
01:29:23.380
original thoughts.
01:29:24.620
She's like a person
01:29:27.300
who's just kind of existing
01:29:29.340
and sees herself
01:29:31.500
as this sort of machine
01:29:33.380
that just pumps out things
01:29:35.480
that people are supposed
01:29:36.400
to like her, right?
01:29:37.120
And I guess that's how
01:29:37.800
her life went up until that day.
01:29:38.540
She is unburdened by thoughts
01:29:40.560
and used to getting ahead
01:29:43.560
on the fact that she is Black
01:29:45.660
and she is a woman.
01:29:46.740
And in the Democrat Party,
01:29:48.220
that is typically enough.
01:29:49.640
It was enough to make her
01:29:50.600
the nominee.
01:29:51.280
And we'll see whether they
01:29:52.180
proceed with that kind of folly
01:29:53.500
the next time as well.
01:29:55.660
Let's keep going
01:29:56.540
because here's Biden.
01:29:57.940
He also got political.
01:29:59.400
I mean, again,
01:30:00.280
he'd been asked
01:30:01.000
not to do this
01:30:02.580
by the family
01:30:03.580
of the deceased.
01:30:04.880
And yet,
01:30:05.700
take a listen.
01:30:07.140
We're in a tough spot, folks.
01:30:09.980
We got an administration
01:30:11.220
that doesn't share
01:30:13.440
any of the values
01:30:14.120
that we have.
01:30:15.680
I don't think I'm exaggerating
01:30:17.000
a little bit.
01:30:19.320
No one can understand
01:30:20.340
a word you're saying, sir.
01:30:21.600
Go back to your basement
01:30:22.680
and your pudding.
01:30:24.160
Stand by.
01:30:24.840
Here's Barack Obama.
01:30:26.520
Same thing.
01:30:28.140
Disrespecting the wishes
01:30:28.920
of the family.
01:30:30.280
We are living
01:30:31.280
in a time
01:30:34.100
when it can be hard to hope.
01:30:41.740
Each day we wake up
01:30:43.660
to some new assault
01:30:45.940
on our democratic institutions.
01:30:48.920
another setback
01:30:53.760
to the idea
01:30:54.580
of the rule of law.
01:30:57.120
Everywhere we see greed
01:30:58.600
and bigotry
01:30:59.420
being celebrated
01:31:01.000
and bullying
01:31:02.140
and mockery
01:31:04.520
masquerading as strength.
01:31:07.000
It may be tempting
01:31:07.980
for some to compromise
01:31:10.760
with power
01:31:11.660
and grab what you can
01:31:15.140
and grab what you can
01:31:15.160
or
01:31:16.860
even for good people
01:31:18.740
to maybe just
01:31:20.060
put your head down
01:31:21.200
and wait for the storm
01:31:22.000
to pass.
01:31:23.140
But this man
01:31:24.140
Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson
01:31:28.100
inspires us
01:31:30.280
to take a harder path.
01:31:33.220
So what is that?
01:31:34.480
Is that just hubris
01:31:35.400
of these three
01:31:36.340
to overrule
01:31:37.240
the grieving family
01:31:38.080
on what they wanted?
01:31:38.960
I mean
01:31:41.880
of the three
01:31:43.240
I mean
01:31:43.420
I give Biden
01:31:44.040
a little bit
01:31:44.680
of a break there
01:31:45.440
in that he
01:31:46.140
looks like
01:31:47.120
he just climbed
01:31:47.760
out of a casket
01:31:48.580
to make the speech.
01:31:49.780
I have no idea
01:31:50.480
if he has any idea
01:31:51.320
what's going on
01:31:52.220
at this point.
01:31:53.020
He's clearly just reading
01:31:53.780
whatever his team
01:31:54.600
wrote for him.
01:31:55.880
Yeah
01:31:56.280
I mean it's just
01:31:56.980
you know
01:31:57.320
that's not a positive
01:31:58.580
situation
01:31:59.060
for a million
01:31:59.640
different reasons.
01:32:00.980
Wait wait
01:32:01.380
before we move on
01:32:02.520
from Biden though
01:32:03.100
because
01:32:03.400
I do need to add
01:32:04.940
this addendum
01:32:05.520
of his remarks here
01:32:06.500
to your point
01:32:07.760
12.
01:32:10.680
If I told you all
01:32:11.740
earlier
01:32:12.280
when I was a kid
01:32:13.120
I had a cleft palate
01:32:14.220
or club foot
01:32:16.020
none of you would have laughed
01:32:16.940
but it's okay
01:32:18.840
to laugh at stuttering.
01:32:21.020
I'm not being critical
01:32:21.760
of you
01:32:22.020
but think about it.
01:32:23.620
It's the one place
01:32:24.460
where people
01:32:24.840
think you're stupid.
01:32:27.180
Oh really?
01:32:28.780
I'm a hell of a lot
01:32:29.400
smarter than most of you.
01:32:32.400
Well kidding aside.
01:32:34.360
He tried to ad-lib
01:32:35.440
he wound up calling
01:32:37.300
the black crowd dumb
01:32:38.580
and also said
01:32:40.180
that they were making
01:32:40.720
fun of his stutter
01:32:41.380
which is not right
01:32:43.520
and embarrassed himself
01:32:45.660
once again
01:32:46.080
like
01:32:46.560
when he ad-libbed Stu
01:32:48.720
he was back
01:32:49.620
to his normal self
01:32:50.380
and that's not a good thing.
01:32:52.360
No
01:32:52.820
no
01:32:53.180
not at all
01:32:54.340
and I have
01:32:54.960
you know
01:32:55.880
this strange thing
01:32:57.300
about politics
01:32:58.060
I mean
01:32:58.280
I'm going to go back
01:32:58.880
to the Paul Wellstone
01:32:59.820
this is a million years ago
01:33:00.860
but you know
01:33:01.420
the Democrats
01:33:02.420
lost a major election
01:33:04.160
a big Senate election
01:33:05.180
kind of by doing
01:33:06.340
the same thing
01:33:07.300
back in the day
01:33:08.360
where they came out
01:33:09.020
and kind of used it
01:33:09.580
as a party
01:33:10.080
in a political rally
01:33:11.160
at a funeral
01:33:13.000
separate from even
01:33:14.800
the use of politics here
01:33:15.960
can we at least agree
01:33:17.500
that when you're
01:33:18.340
at a funeral
01:33:19.000
it's not about you
01:33:20.260
like
01:33:21.000
it's about the person
01:33:22.620
who died
01:33:23.440
and
01:33:23.900
like
01:33:24.540
that should be clear
01:33:26.880
right
01:33:27.960
this is supposed
01:33:29.460
to be a celebration
01:33:30.180
of their lives
01:33:32.100
not supposed
01:33:32.960
a remembrance
01:33:33.580
of their lives
01:33:34.380
not supposed
01:33:35.020
to be something
01:33:35.540
where you come out
01:33:36.140
and talk about
01:33:36.740
your stutter
01:33:37.460
like that's just
01:33:38.120
making their life
01:33:39.660
about you
01:33:40.460
just have a little bit
01:33:42.560
of
01:33:42.800
just be humble
01:33:44.100
a little bit
01:33:44.760
and maybe
01:33:45.200
talk about the things
01:33:46.340
you admired
01:33:47.520
about them
01:33:48.720
solely
01:33:49.920
and you might say
01:33:50.760
well wait a minute
01:33:51.500
where's the time
01:33:52.540
where I get to talk
01:33:53.380
about my cleft palate
01:33:54.600
potential back in the day
01:33:56.460
this isn't it
01:33:57.440
like there's just
01:33:58.160
not an opening for it
01:33:59.400
that's an age old
01:34:00.900
question
01:34:01.240
but when going
01:34:01.880
to a funeral
01:34:02.520
and making remarks
01:34:03.680
where
01:34:05.240
do I get to talk
01:34:06.980
about my cleft palate
01:34:08.320
in Kavla Harris' case
01:34:12.520
clearly this is like
01:34:13.440
the 2028 kickoff
01:34:14.980
she's like yeah
01:34:15.580
if you could drop
01:34:16.420
some confetti
01:34:17.040
after I finish
01:34:18.620
that'd be terrific
01:34:19.540
some balloon drop
01:34:21.040
perhaps
01:34:21.760
that would really
01:34:22.360
help me out
01:34:23.220
here was
01:34:23.780
Jesse Jackson Jr.
01:34:25.680
reacting
01:34:26.160
to the naked
01:34:28.120
self-promotion
01:34:29.340
of these three
01:34:30.280
yesterday
01:34:31.620
I listened
01:34:33.080
for several
01:34:34.440
hours
01:34:35.160
of three
01:34:35.920
United States
01:34:38.560
presidents
01:34:39.200
who do not
01:34:41.820
know Jesse Jackson
01:34:42.840
he maintained
01:34:44.560
a tense
01:34:45.160
relationship
01:34:46.100
with the
01:34:48.540
political order
01:34:49.400
not because
01:34:50.420
the presidents
01:34:52.200
were white
01:34:52.980
or black
01:34:53.800
but the demands
01:34:56.120
of our message
01:34:56.960
the demands
01:34:59.060
of speaking
01:34:59.580
for the least
01:35:00.180
of these
01:35:00.760
those who were
01:35:01.500
disinherited
01:35:02.320
the damned
01:35:03.060
the dispossessed
01:35:05.380
the disrespected
01:35:06.680
demanded
01:35:09.280
not democratic
01:35:10.320
or republican
01:35:11.440
solutions
01:35:12.220
but demanded
01:35:13.260
a consistent
01:35:15.440
prophetic
01:35:17.920
voice
01:35:19.620
that at no point
01:35:21.960
in time
01:35:22.740
ever sold us
01:35:24.040
out
01:35:24.440
as a people
01:35:25.400
and it
01:35:28.380
speaks volumes
01:35:29.260
about who
01:35:30.240
the reverend
01:35:30.920
Jesse Jackson
01:35:31.700
was
01:35:33.860
wow
01:35:35.640
I mean
01:35:36.820
that's
01:35:37.100
pretty bold
01:35:38.240
they all
01:35:38.780
showed up
01:35:39.240
and they all
01:35:39.640
spoke at
01:35:40.520
the funeral
01:35:41.640
and yet
01:35:42.180
the son
01:35:42.600
was not
01:35:43.240
having it
01:35:43.920
still
01:35:44.200
yeah
01:35:45.800
I mean
01:35:46.080
I love
01:35:46.420
the comments
01:35:47.020
and of course
01:35:47.680
I don't know
01:35:48.780
I've been to
01:35:49.580
funerals
01:35:50.140
there
01:35:50.460
I've never
01:35:51.320
been to one
01:35:51.920
that's anything
01:35:52.500
like what
01:35:53.060
democratic
01:35:53.500
politicians
01:35:54.060
always do
01:35:55.100
so I don't
01:35:55.660
understand
01:35:56.220
how any
01:35:57.140
of this
01:35:57.380
works
01:35:57.700
I mean
01:35:58.120
I don't
01:35:58.320
even
01:35:58.460
understand
01:35:58.760
like why
01:35:59.340
why are
01:36:00.160
they even
01:36:00.480
speaking
01:36:00.840
why
01:36:01.360
I mean
01:36:02.020
I assume
01:36:02.520
Barack Obama
01:36:03.020
did just
01:36:03.280
walk up on
01:36:03.940
stage and
01:36:04.320
take the
01:36:04.800
mic
01:36:05.020
like what's
01:36:05.500
the process
01:36:06.020
that he's
01:36:06.440
even getting
01:36:07.040
the gig
01:36:07.960
because I
01:36:09.240
you know
01:36:09.800
I guess
01:36:10.100
there is
01:36:10.380
some like
01:36:10.900
weird thing
01:36:11.760
that we do
01:36:12.180
as human
01:36:12.540
beings
01:36:13.040
to try
01:36:14.100
to make
01:36:14.580
ourselves
01:36:15.100
in our
01:36:16.000
you know
01:36:16.280
as we
01:36:16.700
remember
01:36:17.160
someone's
01:36:17.660
life
01:36:17.840
we try
01:36:18.100
to make
01:36:18.500
ourselves
01:36:19.080
important
01:36:20.060
by highlighting
01:36:21.200
the people
01:36:21.700
that we
01:36:22.040
knew
01:36:22.240
around
01:36:22.640
them
01:36:22.820
I don't
01:36:23.160
know
01:36:23.360
maybe
01:36:23.620
that's
01:36:23.900
what
01:36:24.040
they're
01:36:24.200
doing
01:36:24.580
hey
01:36:25.200
he knew
01:36:25.760
all these
01:36:26.100
presidents
01:36:26.520
and they'll
01:36:26.980
speak
01:36:27.240
nicely
01:36:27.640
of him
01:36:28.120
so
01:36:28.360
that will
01:36:29.340
I guess
01:36:30.200
improve
01:36:30.520
his standing
01:36:30.980
I mean
01:36:31.200
I would
01:36:31.400
assume
01:36:31.660
as a
01:36:32.000
reverend
01:36:32.980
that's
01:36:33.200
probably
01:36:33.520
not how
01:36:33.860
he looked
01:36:34.240
at the
01:36:34.480
world
01:36:34.660
or at
01:36:34.940
least
01:36:35.060
not how
01:36:35.360
he tried
01:36:35.740
to look
01:36:36.020
at the
01:36:36.240
world
01:36:36.480
you know
01:36:37.520
I didn't
01:36:37.760
know
01:36:42.540
guy
01:36:42.820
and a
01:36:43.220
guy
01:36:43.460
who
01:36:44.580
was
01:36:44.880
positive
01:36:45.780
to deal
01:36:46.220
with
01:36:46.480
and you
01:36:47.500
know
01:36:47.580
I wouldn't
01:36:48.100
have
01:36:48.280
enjoyed
01:36:48.720
him
01:36:48.860
I don't
01:36:49.060
think
01:36:49.220
as president
01:36:49.680
of the
01:36:49.920
United
01:36:50.120
States
01:36:50.560
but you
01:36:51.240
know
01:36:51.340
that's
01:36:51.640
neither
01:36:52.660
here nor
01:36:53.080
there
01:36:53.320
I would
01:36:53.580
assume
01:36:53.840
he would
01:36:54.920
aim
01:36:55.480
to be
01:36:55.840
known
01:36:56.080
for
01:36:56.280
things
01:36:56.540
bigger
01:36:57.020
than
01:36:57.360
that
01:36:57.740
and yet
01:36:58.420
every
01:36:58.880
democratic
01:36:59.560
politician
01:37:00.120
who died
01:37:00.760
has this
01:37:01.260
same
01:37:01.580
moment
01:37:01.940
and every
01:37:02.520
time
01:37:02.780
people
01:37:03.240
are
01:37:03.400
critical
01:37:03.700
of it
01:37:04.020
even
01:37:04.220
people
01:37:04.580
who are
01:37:05.100
members
01:37:05.340
of the
01:37:05.600
family
01:37:05.980
and over
01:37:06.640
and over
01:37:06.900
again
01:37:07.200
they make
01:37:07.920
it about
01:37:08.440
them
01:37:09.080
and the
01:37:09.580
things
01:37:12.540
it's so
01:37:14.580
selfish
01:37:15.240
and just
01:37:15.780
ugly
01:37:16.120
it's so
01:37:17.200
disrespectful
01:37:18.120
there was
01:37:20.120
also
01:37:20.540
some
01:37:22.080
there were
01:37:22.700
some famous
01:37:23.140
people there
01:37:23.680
including
01:37:23.980
former NBA
01:37:24.780
player
01:37:25.180
Isaiah
01:37:25.680
Thomas
01:37:26.120
this is
01:37:27.060
what he
01:37:27.300
had to
01:37:27.540
say
01:37:27.720
I also
01:37:29.500
like to
01:37:30.180
honor the
01:37:33.360
five
01:37:33.680
presidents
01:37:34.340
who are
01:37:38.000
sitting here
01:37:38.560
today
01:37:38.960
President
01:37:46.100
Harris
01:37:46.720
President
01:37:49.680
Clinton
01:37:50.220
President
01:37:52.820
Bill
01:37:53.280
Clinton
01:37:53.700
First
01:37:55.320
Lady
01:37:55.620
Jill
01:37:55.980
Biden
01:37:56.400
President
01:37:58.760
Biden
01:37:59.320
and
01:38:01.160
Chicago's
01:38:01.740
own
01:38:01.980
South
01:38:02.320
Side
01:38:02.760
President
01:38:03.700
Barack
01:38:04.140
Obama
01:38:04.540
OK
01:38:08.000
so he
01:38:08.860
included
01:38:09.360
Hillary
01:38:10.280
and Kamala
01:38:11.440
in there
01:38:12.420
Hillary Clinton
01:38:13.060
laughed it
01:38:13.720
off
01:38:13.980
she knew
01:38:14.360
it was
01:38:14.500
a joke
01:38:14.820
Kamala
01:38:15.260
Harris
01:38:15.540
is reacting
01:38:16.420
like she
01:38:16.780
actually
01:38:17.020
was
01:38:17.260
president
01:38:17.680
finally
01:38:19.120
I've
01:38:20.080
been
01:38:20.220
acknowledged
01:38:20.760
amazing
01:38:22.640
to me
01:38:23.020
right
01:38:23.220
like
01:38:23.480
first of
01:38:24.340
all that
01:38:24.560
really is
01:38:24.960
an
01:38:25.080
inappropriate
01:38:25.440
thing
01:38:25.720
to do
01:38:26.020
for him
01:38:26.500
like
01:38:26.740
you know
01:38:27.580
full well
01:38:28.140
that two
01:38:28.640
of those
01:38:28.880
were not
01:38:29.340
president
01:38:29.700
of the
01:38:30.000
United
01:38:30.180
States
01:38:30.480
it's
01:38:30.680
not a
01:38:30.920
label
01:38:31.120
you can
01:38:31.340
just
01:38:31.480
throw
01:38:31.680
around
01:38:32.120
loosey
01:38:32.840
goosey
01:38:33.260
and for
01:38:34.100
Kamala
01:38:34.360
Harris
01:38:34.620
to do
01:38:34.860
anything
01:38:35.160
other
01:38:35.380
than
01:38:35.580
laugh
01:38:35.860
hysterically
01:38:36.480
is again
01:38:37.380
just shows
01:38:37.820
how fragile
01:38:38.340
her ego
01:38:38.820
is still
01:38:39.340
yeah
01:38:41.220
no
01:38:41.600
it's
01:38:41.840
it's
01:38:42.140
it's
01:38:42.420
true
01:38:42.680
but this
01:38:43.320
is the
01:38:43.740
sort of
01:38:44.180
fantasy
01:38:44.840
world
01:38:45.300
they dream
01:38:45.840
of
01:38:46.120
right
01:38:46.320
this is
01:38:46.760
the
01:38:47.000
this is
01:38:47.440
what
01:38:47.600
they
01:38:47.880
believed
01:38:48.420
was
01:38:50.120
was
01:38:50.360
accurate
01:38:50.740
I mean
01:38:51.060
I think
01:38:51.500
when you
01:38:52.220
look back
01:38:52.760
at a
01:38:53.520
lot of
01:38:53.880
their
01:38:54.000
commentary
01:38:54.360
at the
01:38:54.840
time
01:38:55.200
speaking
01:38:56.100
of people
01:38:56.560
on the
01:38:57.140
left
01:38:57.360
they
01:38:57.640
were
01:38:57.940
saying
01:38:58.360
elections
01:38:59.320
had been
01:38:59.940
stolen
01:39:00.520
and taken
01:39:01.160
away
01:39:01.640
from
01:39:02.780
those who
01:39:03.300
rightfully
01:39:03.760
held
01:39:05.000
those
01:39:05.360
offices
01:39:05.840
and won
01:39:06.560
those
01:39:06.820
elections
01:39:07.240
that is
01:39:08.300
the kind
01:39:08.640
of fantasy
01:39:08.940
world
01:39:09.140
they live
01:39:09.420
in
01:39:09.500
they think
01:39:09.900
that this
01:39:10.260
is real
01:39:10.860
and they
01:39:11.340
think
01:39:11.620
anything
01:39:11.900
to do
01:39:12.760
with
01:39:12.880
Donald
01:39:13.140
Trump
01:39:13.340
is
01:39:13.480
illegitimate
01:39:14.100
Hillary Clinton
01:39:15.220
herself
01:39:15.660
has used
01:39:16.040
the word
01:39:16.280
illegitimate
01:39:16.820
how many
01:39:17.320
times
01:39:17.780
Bill
01:39:19.220
tried to
01:39:19.720
tell me
01:39:19.940
wasn't
01:39:20.220
true
01:39:20.460
and
01:39:20.800
it
01:39:21.120
was
01:39:21.380
true
01:39:21.680
and
01:39:21.940
he
01:39:22.020
learned
01:39:22.200
about
01:39:22.440
it
01:39:22.560
on the
01:39:22.740
Megyn Kelly
01:39:23.120
show
01:39:23.400
because
01:39:23.760
you know
01:39:24.680
yeah
01:39:24.980
to your
01:39:25.280
point
01:39:25.460
some
01:39:25.700
live in
01:39:26.500
this
01:39:26.660
bubble
01:39:26.940
I only
01:39:27.760
have
01:39:28.000
a short
01:39:28.540
time
01:39:28.720
left
01:39:28.880
but I
01:39:29.080
wanted
01:39:29.220
to get
01:39:29.440
this
01:39:29.620
in
01:39:29.740
before
01:39:29.920
we
01:39:30.080
go
01:39:30.280
speaking
01:39:31.060
of
01:39:31.260
petty
01:39:31.540
and
01:39:31.780
inappropriate
01:39:32.220
President
01:39:33.140
Obama
01:39:33.540
has
01:39:33.880
announced
01:39:34.140
the
01:39:34.340
date
01:39:34.580
for
01:39:34.840
the
01:39:35.040
opening
01:39:35.360
of
01:39:35.580
his
01:39:35.800
absolutely
01:39:36.940
ugly
01:39:37.840
awful
01:39:38.520
presidential
01:39:39.180
center
01:39:39.600
his
01:39:39.800
library
01:39:40.240
this is
01:39:41.560
MSNOW
01:39:42.000
on
01:39:42.160
Saturday
01:39:42.540
listen
01:39:43.240
to
01:39:43.880
this
01:39:44.240
it's
01:39:44.540
Valerie
01:39:44.840
Jarrett
01:39:45.260
who
01:39:45.460
is
01:39:45.600
his
01:39:45.740
top
01:39:45.940
emissary
01:39:46.380
and
01:39:46.520
remains
01:39:46.820
so
01:39:47.120
and
01:39:48.720
so
01:39:48.920
I'm
01:39:49.180
just
01:39:49.400
wondering
01:39:50.720
Valerie
01:39:51.840
is
01:39:54.120
President
01:39:54.560
Trump
01:39:54.900
invited
01:39:55.400
well as
01:39:56.740
I said
01:39:57.100
this is
01:39:57.460
really
01:39:57.680
a chance
01:39:58.140
for us
01:39:58.460
to
01:39:58.660
celebrate
01:39:59.040
with
01:39:59.840
the
01:39:59.960
people
01:40:00.160
who
01:40:00.340
joined
01:40:00.700
President
01:40:01.040
Obama
01:40:01.380
on
01:40:01.740
this
01:40:01.940
journey
01:40:02.240
the
01:40:02.840
ordinary
01:40:03.160
people
01:40:03.560
who
01:40:03.760
did
01:40:03.920
the
01:40:04.060
extraordinary
01:40:04.500
things
01:40:05.100
so
01:40:05.700
no
01:40:06.000
but I
01:40:06.320
will
01:40:06.480
say
01:40:06.760
that
01:40:07.580
after
01:40:07.900
we
01:40:08.060
open
01:40:08.240
to
01:40:08.400
the
01:40:08.540
public
01:40:08.940
should
01:40:09.520
President
01:40:09.860
Trump
01:40:10.140
want
01:40:10.380
to
01:40:10.480
come
01:40:10.720
and
01:40:10.880
tour
01:40:11.040
the
01:40:11.240
center
01:40:11.500
President
01:40:12.080
Obama
01:40:12.400
would
01:40:12.600
be
01:40:12.740
delighted
01:40:13.180
for
01:40:13.420
him
01:40:13.560
to
01:40:13.680
do
01:40:13.840
so
01:40:14.120
that
01:40:15.260
was
01:40:15.360
a
01:40:15.440
very
01:40:15.580
heavy
01:40:15.820
no
01:40:16.120
Valerie
01:40:16.680
okay
01:40:18.880
so
01:40:19.220
petty
01:40:19.820
to the
01:40:20.600
end
01:40:20.920
even
01:40:21.620
well
01:40:21.980
out
01:40:22.160
of
01:40:22.280
office
01:40:22.720
opening
01:40:23.420
his
01:40:23.600
presidential
01:40:24.000
library
01:40:24.440
the goal
01:40:24.760
is always
01:40:25.080
to have
01:40:25.380
former
01:40:25.660
presidents
01:40:26.040
or current
01:40:26.420
presidents
01:40:26.840
presidents
01:40:27.400
who
01:40:27.540
followed
01:40:27.840
you
01:40:28.080
come
01:40:28.880
to
01:40:29.060
the
01:40:29.200
opening
01:40:29.420
of
01:40:29.540
your
01:40:29.640
library
01:40:30.060
it's
01:40:30.340
like
01:40:30.460
when
01:40:30.540
you
01:40:30.620
throw
01:40:30.740
a
01:40:30.860
book
01:40:31.000
party
01:40:31.300
trying
01:40:31.860
to
01:40:31.940
get
01:40:32.080
names
01:40:32.440
there
01:40:32.700
so
01:40:32.900
you
01:40:32.940
can
01:40:33.040
call
01:40:33.180
attention
01:40:33.600
to
01:40:34.240
your
01:40:34.360
new
01:40:34.500
thing
01:40:34.720
his
01:40:41.500
recycling
01:40:42.780
receptacle
01:40:44.400
with the
01:40:45.020
weird
01:40:45.160
words
01:40:45.420
on the
01:40:45.680
side
01:40:45.880
of
01:40:46.000
it
01:40:46.180
and
01:40:46.960
literally
01:40:48.160
nobody
01:40:48.660
will
01:40:48.920
look at
01:40:49.140
this
01:40:49.280
thing
01:40:49.420
which
01:40:49.560
is
01:40:49.680
supposed
01:40:49.840
to
01:40:49.960
be
01:40:50.060
like
01:40:50.220
300
01:40:50.580
million
01:40:50.920
and
01:40:51.120
wound
01:40:51.300
up
01:40:51.460
being
01:40:51.640
almost
01:40:52.040
a
01:40:52.180
billion
01:40:52.380
dollars
01:40:52.740
it
01:40:52.900
was
01:40:53.000
like
01:40:53.120
in
01:40:53.220
the
01:40:53.320
800
01:40:53.680
million
01:40:54.060
range
01:40:54.540
nobody
01:40:55.900
would
01:40:56.120
look
01:40:56.280
at
01:40:56.380
this
01:40:56.560
and
01:40:56.700
say
01:40:56.880
this
01:40:57.100
is
01:40:57.220
attractive
01:40:57.640
or
01:40:58.020
should
01:40:58.380
stand
01:40:59.720
as
01:40:59.940
a
01:41:00.560
fed
01:41:01.060
contribution
01:41:02.640
to
01:41:03.000
American
01:41:03.320
architecture
01:41:03.820
unless
01:41:05.300
you're
01:41:05.500
trying
01:41:05.700
to
01:41:05.880
incinerate
01:41:06.340
trash
01:41:06.680
in
01:41:06.900
North
01:41:07.120
Korea
01:41:07.500
I
01:41:07.920
think
01:41:08.100
most
01:41:08.300
people
01:41:08.500
agree
01:41:08.720
with
01:41:08.880
you
01:41:09.040
I
01:41:10.600
mean
01:41:10.720
President
01:41:10.960
Trump
01:41:11.160
is
01:41:11.240
going
01:41:11.320
to
01:41:11.340
be
01:41:11.440
thrilled
01:41:11.680
he's
01:41:11.840
not
01:41:11.980
invited
01:41:12.300
he
01:41:12.700
wouldn't
01:41:13.180
have
01:41:13.280
gone
01:41:13.480
anyway
01:41:13.800
but
01:41:13.980
just
01:41:14.120
like
01:41:14.360
the
01:41:14.880
absence
01:41:15.420
of
01:41:15.640
ceremony
01:41:15.960
right
01:41:16.280
like
01:41:16.580
fuck
01:41:16.960
you
01:41:17.180
you're
01:41:17.520
not
01:41:17.700
coming
01:41:18.080
get
01:41:19.040
out
01:41:19.340
I
01:41:19.500
mean
01:41:19.600
that's
01:41:19.820
the
01:41:20.120
same
01:41:20.300
reason
01:41:20.580
Barack
01:41:21.000
Obama
01:41:21.320
attacked
01:41:21.820
him
01:41:22.020
he
01:41:22.180
is
01:41:22.360
partisan
01:41:23.240
to
01:41:23.940
his
01:41:24.120
core
01:41:24.800
and
01:41:25.420
why
01:41:25.600
it's
01:41:25.760
so
01:41:25.900
galling
01:41:26.280
for
01:41:26.420
some
01:41:26.640
of
01:41:26.760
us
01:41:26.880
to
01:41:27.000
hear
01:41:27.140
him
01:41:27.300
described
01:41:27.800
as
01:41:28.180
not
01:41:28.680
by
01:41:29.280
his
01:41:29.700
supporters
01:41:38.100
and
01:41:38.400
I
01:41:38.500
don't
01:41:38.600
know
01:41:38.840
not
01:41:39.880
all
01:41:40.040
that
01:41:40.160
impressed
01:41:40.500
by
01:41:40.780
it
01:41:40.960
he
01:41:41.900
just
01:41:42.780
tried
01:41:43.380
to
01:41:43.560
hide
01:41:43.780
it
01:41:43.960
we
01:41:44.260
talked
01:41:44.460
about
01:41:44.660
mom
01:41:44.860
Donnie
01:41:45.160
earlier
01:41:45.520
a
01:41:45.820
very
01:41:46.400
similar
01:41:46.800
thing
01:41:47.100
is
01:41:47.240
happening
01:41:47.640
there
01:41:48.460
where
01:41:48.880
if
01:41:49.500
you
01:41:49.580
try
01:41:50.000
to
01:41:50.140
hide
01:41:50.360
it
01:41:50.500
and
01:41:50.640
you
01:41:50.760
act
01:41:51.260
like
01:41:51.540
you're
01:41:51.680
above
01:41:51.880
it
01:41:52.020
and
01:41:52.200
say
01:41:52.480
we
01:41:52.740
don't
01:41:52.960
go
01:41:53.140
low
01:41:53.380
we
01:41:53.560
go
01:41:53.740
high
01:41:54.080
over
01:41:54.340
and
01:41:54.480
over
01:41:54.640
and
01:41:54.780
over
01:41:54.920
again
01:41:55.140
eventually
01:41:55.500
people
01:41:55.800
start
01:41:56.060
to
01:41:56.220
believe
01:41:56.500
it
01:41:56.700
that
01:41:57.660
was
01:41:57.960
more
01:41:58.300
of
01:41:58.460
a
01:41:58.800
core
01:41:59.360
tenant
01:41:59.740
of
01:42:00.060
the
01:42:00.240
entire
01:42:01.180
operation
01:42:01.800
during
01:42:02.180
the
01:42:02.300
Obama
01:42:02.560
years
01:42:02.860
and
01:42:03.020
I
01:42:03.140
think
01:42:03.260
it's
01:42:03.420
continuing
01:42:03.760
with
01:42:03.980
a lot
01:42:04.220
of
01:42:04.300
Democrats
01:42:04.640
on
01:42:04.800
the
01:42:04.880
left
01:42:05.040
just
01:42:05.240
some
01:42:05.500
of
01:42:05.600
them
01:42:05.740
blurted
01:42:06.160
out
01:42:06.320
a little
01:42:06.540
bit
01:42:06.680
more
01:42:06.860
often
01:42:07.180
than
01:42:07.760
Barack
01:42:08.060
Obama
01:42:08.340
does
01:42:08.620
well
01:42:09.080
President
01:42:09.620
Trump
01:42:09.860
won't
01:42:10.040
be
01:42:10.220
able
01:42:10.540
to
01:42:10.700
attend
01:42:11.060
because
01:42:11.560
he's
01:42:12.160
having
01:42:12.360
the
01:42:12.540
opening
01:42:12.800
on
01:42:13.100
Juneteenth
01:42:13.700
which
01:42:14.340
is
01:42:14.680
a
01:42:15.060
alleged
01:42:15.700
holiday
01:42:16.380
that
01:42:16.780
most
01:42:16.980
of
01:42:17.080
us
01:42:17.200
don't
01:42:17.420
celebrate
01:42:17.780
because
01:42:18.080
it's
01:42:18.300
made
01:42:18.480
up
01:42:18.700
and
01:42:18.900
it's
01:42:19.080
ridiculous
01:42:19.440
so
01:42:20.480
I
01:42:20.760
don't
01:42:20.960
think
01:42:21.780
President
01:42:22.240
Trump
01:42:22.400
is
01:42:22.520
the
01:42:22.620
time
01:42:22.800
for
01:42:22.920
this
01:42:23.100
in
01:42:23.240
any
01:42:23.380
event
01:42:23.660
Stu
01:42:24.460
Bergeer
01:42:24.840
you
01:42:25.200
don't
01:42:25.400
have
01:42:25.520
the
01:42:25.600
time
01:42:25.780
either
01:42:26.100
now
01:42:26.460
with
01:42:26.680
not
01:42:26.840
one
01:42:27.080
but
01:42:27.260
two
01:42:27.500
podcasts
01:42:28.200
predictable
01:42:29.120
and
01:42:29.680
Stu
01:42:30.060
and
01:42:30.240
Dave
01:42:30.660
do
01:42:31.080
America
01:42:31.440
and
01:42:31.640
we
01:42:31.740
look
01:42:31.880
forward
01:42:32.180
to
01:42:32.420
listening
01:42:32.680
to
01:42:32.880
you
01:42:33.080
at
01:42:33.620
both
01:42:33.960
thanks
01:42:34.320
for
01:42:34.440
coming
01:42:34.700
on
01:42:35.000
Megan
01:42:35.560
thanks
01:42:35.760
so
01:42:35.900
much
01:42:36.060
appreciate
01:42:36.300
it
01:42:36.620
okay
01:42:37.840
we
01:42:38.340
will
01:42:38.480
be
01:42:38.620
back
01:42:38.800
tomorrow
01:42:39.140
we'll
01:42:39.300
see
01:42:39.400
you
01:42:39.500
all
01:42:39.600
then
01:42:39.780
thanks
01:42:41.100
for
01:42:41.240
listening
01:42:41.500
to
01:42:41.700
the
01:42:41.800
Megan
01:42:42.000
Kelly
01:42:42.240
show
01:42:42.620
no
01:42:43.060
BS
01:42:43.480
no
01:42:43.860
agenda
01:42:44.260
and
01:42:44.920
no
01:42:45.120
fear
01:43:11.100
towel
01:43:11.420
you
01:43:12.860
were
01:43:13.020
made
01:43:13.220
to
01:43:13.420
take
01:43:13.600
the
01:43:13.760
easy
01:43:14.180
route
01:43:14.500
we
01:43:15.180
were
01:43:15.340
made
01:43:15.560
to
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easily
01:43:16.340
package
01:43:16.740
your
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trip
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