Dan Bongino on Michael Cohen's Lies, Trump's Debate Plan, and MSNBC's Embarrassing Segment | Ep. 795
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Dan Bongino joins The Megyn Kelly Show to discuss the Democratic Debates, Michael Cohen's testimony, and the latest on the Trump/Cohen case. Plus, Megyn gives her thoughts on why Joe Biden should have won the debate and why Donald Trump should have said no.
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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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What a week. We made it to Friday and the explosive trial of Donald Trump is officially off today
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with the former president allowed to leave New York and attend the high school graduation of his son, Barron.
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There's a lot to get to, and I'm so happy to be joined today by the one and only Dan Bongino, host of The Dan Bongino Show.
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Oh, it's my favorite show. And listen, no crying today.
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You know, Tom Hanks, there's no crying in baseball, but there's no crying on The Megyn Kelly.
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You got me two times. We're not, this is not going to be a threefer, all right?
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I don't know, I've got some really inspirational Kamala Harris soundbites for you.
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Might draw a tear, onion style, but you're the only one who seems to get me to consistently break out of my shell.
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You're such a great interviewer. That's why I like doing the show. It's like psychotherapy for me.
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I can't wait to get your take on so many things in the news.
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Let's start with the debate, and then I'll get to what happened with Michael Cohen late yesterday.
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But the debate, they're on. We've got two of them.
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Some saying, oh, Trump should have negotiated more.
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Like, maybe he shouldn't have said yes to CNN. We all know why they hate him.
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You know, my own take on it is you're never going to find an impartial moderator.
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You know, it's going to be very hard if we have to go by the Joe Biden parameters, right?
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Because he said, we have to, I'll only do it if we go with somebody who hosted a Democratic debate in 20 and a Republican debate in 16, which basically rules out Fox, right?
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They didn't do a Dem, and limits it all to places like CNN and ABC.
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But what do you make of the agreement to do at least two?
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Well, I'm glad you brought that up because I was doing the radio show today, and some listener had made a comment on Facebook saying,
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hey, I think Donald Trump got played here agreeing to these debates under their conditions.
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But I do have the ability, like a thinking human being, to pull myself out of the bubble, unlike leftists.
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He actually broke the news about the debate on my radio show three months ago, where that quote, anytime, anywhere, was from my show when we were doing an interview.
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Obviously, this was a huge weakness for Donald Trump.
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The weakness being Biden wasn't going to debate, and he's got all the toys.
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Walk in the White House and drag him out at gunpoint and say, debate me?
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If he doesn't want to debate, he's not going to debate.
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That was a weakness for Trump, because obviously, at this point, Trump is a superior debater.
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Even if you thought 2020, the debates were a push or Biden won, Biden is now worse cognitively than he was four years ago.
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And secondly, Biden now has a record to run on, unlike in 2020, which, let's be candid, is objectively disastrous.
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So just turning back to where I started, so the weakness for Trump was they can't make the guy debate.
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He said anytime, anyplace, anywhere, knowing that the lack of conditions would give Biden no vehicle off that highway.
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Biden couldn't say, well, I would do it, but Trump said this.
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But it was the only way to lure him into the bullfighter ring.
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He's not going to get a fair moderator or a fair outlet.
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Expose this guy to the world for who he is and move on.
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It's amazing, because I think Trump wins even in front of biased moderator, because he'll just say, it's a fake news media.
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And I think that people know right now that the media doesn't like Donald Trump.
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You're going to have moderators who are all voting for Joe Biden, not a single one who's going to be voting for Trump.
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But Trump knows how to turn those things to his advantage.
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Trump, a natural performer, thrives on the energy of a crowd.
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The moderators tend to hate that, or at least Chris Wallace did.
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They're not very close like they normally would be to the November vote.
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I want to go back to how you opened up, because all of the factors you just mentioned, these these X factors in this debate, all work in Trump's favor.
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I mean, I mean, let me ask you, is there any issue you're confused about the difference between Biden and Trump?
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I want to see the reason I'm going to tune in and I think they're going to get great ratings.
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I know there's danger and like setting the expectations so low for him.
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But I really wonder whether he can make it through a total of four hours, mano a mano.
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You're making exactly the point I was trying to say.
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You know, I gave the analogy on the show the other day.
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Like everybody knows what happened in The Hobbit, in The Lord of the Rings.
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OK, it's not like you went to the movies like, holy Moses, what's going to happen here?
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You went because you wanted to see how it acted out on screen.
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So that's the point I'm making about the debate.
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Nobody's there to hear, oh, who's better on the board or Trump or Biden?
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Like you really need a debate to understand that?
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I'm just saying like it's the guys obviously in horrendous condition.
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They've got a Praetorian guard walking them to Marine One, which I've never seen in my history in the Secret Service in case he wears these in case he falls.
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He wears these hookah shoes with 72 inch soles so he can bounce around like he's on a less gravitational pull Mars or something.
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They're only watching the movie to see how it acts out on screen.
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You may have read the book, but a lot of movies are made from books and really suck.
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But I think your opening statement said it all in that it doesn't really matter.
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Trump just has to show up, look authoritative, look presidential, and it doesn't matter what he says.
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He's already better on the issues and we're not going to change it.
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And look alive, unlike Reverend Cain on the other side from Poltergeist.
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I mean, he looks like he's dying, you know, so that's all he's got to do.
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I do think, you know, Trump, he's going to have some tough questions from these moderators, but he always did.
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I can speak to that myself and he handles it just fine.
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I just want to see what the old man's going to do.
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I mean, I agree based on the State of the Union, he can get through two hours reading off of a script, but this is not scripted and anything could happen.
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And I'm sure if the moderators do the real job and be quiet and let the two argue, then it's on.
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Then we're really going to get a show because we're going to see Trump tweaking him.
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I've never moderated the debate, but my humble opinion, nobody respects the media.
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Anyway, nobody thinks the media is going to be fair to Trump.
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But if it was me on stage, I wouldn't even answer the question asked.
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I would give the question asked maybe to, oh, yeah, yeah, great.
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I would not even bother with the question because it's going to be stupid.
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And I would just go on a whole big rant about the police state and not even address the question at all, because, you know, the questions are going to be biased and, you know, Biden's going to be full of crap.
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Every single Trump hoax, every single one he put out there, the fine people hoax, the liquid bleach in the veins hoax, the Putin bounty on his the Russian.
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Well, every single hoax Joe Biden put out there.
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So why should Donald Trump, you know, pay attention to the moderator either?
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That's a great idea, because the moderator after, like, the first time could say you didn't answer the question.
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But once you're on the third or the fourth time having to do that, you look dumb.
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I love it because CNN is like RFKJ is like, I want in and I think I meet the qualifications to make this debate.
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I'm going to be I'm going to have 15 percent national support.
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Suddenly, suddenly the two candidates said F you to the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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Biden said, let's do it with one of these four networks.
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Trump sent out a post the other day saying Biden's afraid of RFKJ.
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I don't know why we'd have him because he's a junior and he's really not a serious contender here.
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But what do you think is going to happen with him?
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And I'm again, I'll throw a piece of advice to the Trump team.
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I do this every day is all I think about is my I don't have a real job.
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My only job is thinking about politics all day.
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I think Trump should come out and argue for RFK to be included for a couple of reasons.
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Biden doesn't want to be humiliated from the left.
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And for all the bullshit everybody keeps saying about, oh, RFK could hurt.
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OK, the MAGA base is never going to vote for a guy named Kennedy.
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For every one vote he takes from Trump, he probably takes two or three votes from Biden.
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So he's not going to let Biden, their team, RFK in.
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So if the Trump team looks like they're taking a high road and says, listen, I disagree with
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He's obviously a leftist on the environment, abortion.
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But he has the right to speak out on stage two.
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He looks like the bigger soul in the whole debate.
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Biden looks like the buffoon who's afraid of his left flank.
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Because that's exactly what I would do if I was a Trump team.
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OK, let's switch to Michael Cohen, star witness of this Trump trial in New York.
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And that word star is doing a lot of work in that sense.
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Although it came out, we talked about this on the show yesterday.
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It came out that in that $50,000 he paid this group, Red Finch, to get some good polling
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What he really wanted was a hashtag women for Michael Cohen website and Twitter account.
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And they kept putting out how hot he was and how he looked just like some who was the famous
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Trump's defense attorney really zeroed in on what was kind of the kill.
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I mean, it wasn't on a point that well, it wasn't a point that mattered, but it wasn't
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really a jugular moment as as you saw the on ramp.
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But the off ramp, the defense lawyer did have Michael Cohen's jugular in his hand.
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And even Anderson Cooper saw it and talked about it.
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Michael Cohen had said that he called Donald Trump's bodyguard and he asked to speak to
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Trump and he did after he made the payment to Stormy Daniels and that he told Trump all
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Remember, Trump is denying that he knew about this.
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I called his bodyguard, Keith Schiller, and he put me on the phone with Trump and it happened
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So the lawyer for Trump gets up there and he sets the stage by saying, you had a series
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of harassing phone calls at or about this same time, right?
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And it turned out that you found out who was behind it.
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It was a 14 year old boy because he had forgotten to block the number on at least one of the
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And you threatened that you were going to go to the Secret Service about him and he begged
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And you said, you better loop your parents in ASAP.
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It was within moments of that, that Cohen called Trump's bodyguard and spoke with him
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He said, Cohen did, this is a way of getting a hold of Trump because he knew that Keith Schiller,
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And Blanche, Trump's lawyer, cited text message records showing Cohen messaged the bodyguard
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We're supposed to be telling Trump, Stormy, Pater, we're good.
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Cohen texted the bodyguard about his own problem.
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He says, Cohen texts Schiller, who can I speak to about harassing calls to my cell and office?
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Blanche then cited phone records showing Schiller calling Cohen and leaving a voicemail at 8.01 PM
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following text messages stating, call me at 8.02 PM.
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The conversation lasted one minute and 36 seconds.
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Todd Blanche said Cohen's claim that he was talking to Trump in that one minute and 36 seconds
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about the Daniels deal, quote, was a lie because you were actually talking to Mr. Schiller about
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getting harassing phone calls from a 14 year old.
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But I knew that Keith was with Mr. Trump at the time, and it was more than potentially
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Blanche, his voice growing louder, was incredulous.
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You had enough time in that one minute and 36 seconds to update Mr. Schiller about all the
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problems you were having with this harassing phone call and also update President Trump
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Cohen responded, that that was my belief based on the records he was able to review that it
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You and I have been immersed in the legal system.
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However, you know, 15 years of my life spent around criminals and lawyers and courtrooms,
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Let me just say first, by the way, Michael Cohen, trying to get people to promote him
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Like, I look like Cary Grant if he looks like Andy Garcia.
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Like, that's like the dumbest thing I've heard.
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That restaurant Chaz's in Manhattan is incredible.
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Is this guy the most unlikable witness you've ever seen?
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That whole exchange with the 14-year-old, I took interest in because why he thinks the
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Secret Service would help him when he's not a protectee was just bizarre.
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I mean, when I talk about a narcissist, but second, as you know from reading through most
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of the case, this was just one of about five or six different episodes that Todd Blanche
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I mean, Megan, in court, one of the worst things that can happen to you is for you to
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When you're contradicted by your own voice, video or audio, you'll just watch the jurors.
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So at one point, Cohen says something really simple.
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And then they play Michael Cohen's own podcast where he's like, I sat for hours with Alvin
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If you're sitting there as a jurist, I'm talking about an I don't I can't get in their heads.
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I'm just saying if you're a reasonable jurist, because all they need is a reasonable doubt.
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Of course, you know, he just spoke about in the podcast.
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He doesn't know a conversation he had with Trump about a 14 year old who he considered
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And one of the things that we learned early on as the feds on the fed side, because we
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were deeper in the court system there in the city.
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So but in the fed system, a lot of stuff goes to trial.
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And I've been to quite a few of them is 90 percent of the game is not the facts.
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You know, the old adage, you get the facts, pound the facts.
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If not pound the table, it's just not court is not about facts.
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I wish it were civil court is contractual court criminal court.
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If someone's going to trial, they're just trying to make this guy somewhat likable.
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And you go back and look at the research on this.
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You know, there was that case a while back with the two drug dealers, the identical case.
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They're both accused of the same thing in the same crime.
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And when he asked the jurors later, they're like, yeah, the one guy was just likable.
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And the thing about Cohen, the problem they have is not only is he a convicted perjurer,
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he's now been eviscerated his credibility in front of every branch of government in this
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That's why the 14 year old story, the story about the women for Michael Cohen, that's not
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People are probably like, well, what does that have to do with the law?
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The jury's trying to determine who do they dislike more because it's a blue state.
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And Blanche, I thought today, today, when it when that testimony happened, did an absolutely
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masterful job of eviscerating this guy's credibility and likability.
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He on that subject of likability, he zeroed in on something we've been discussing here,
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which is what kind of an attorney tapes his client surreptitiously.
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The reason we've heard Trump talking to Cohen about the payoff, not to Stormy, which is at
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issue in this case, but to Karen McDougal, another woman who was trying to shake him down
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for money or actually that let me correct that.
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She was going to strike a deal with AMI, American media, National Enquirer, to write my write
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stories for them about fitness in exchange for not giving the story to anybody else about
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So she says, the reason that's on tape is because Michael Cohen taped his own client
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in going back and talking to him about how he buried it.
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I mean, it's really like it is beyond the pale for a lawyer to do that to a client.
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And Blanche zeroed in on it on Thursday and said this is from audio from a September 2016
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Blanche, you understand that it's not ethical for a lawyer to record a conversation with
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Cohen agrees and then adds that recording a client conversation is permitted.
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Under the cried crime fraud exception to the attorney client privilege rules, meaning
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it's not privileged if you and I are talking about committing a crime together.
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So then Blanche says, just so I understand, you surreptitiously recorded your client so
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you could play a privileged recorded communication between you and your client with a third party.
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Again, let's separate legality from likability.
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If you get there in front of your parole board after lunch, you've got a greater chance of
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getting parole because everybody's in a good mood.
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Michael Cohen is putting everyone in a bad mood.
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No one, no one, not a jurist, not a Democrat, not a Republican, wants to be surreptitiously
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taped by someone they place their trust in, no less an attorney.
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Having said that, this is viewed on so unfavorably that in the state of Florida and Maryland, two
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states I lived in, it is patently illegal to tape someone without both parties consenting.
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New York, I believe, is a one-party consent state, meaning if you consent and you're on the
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But that is viewed so, that's considered so shady that some states have said, you can't
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But a lawyer to a client, if you're my client, I have a fiduciary obligation to you.
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There's no, there is no legal or likability explanation.
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This came out, I believe it was the prosecution, too, introduced this.
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And I'm sitting there on my show, and like you, I'm like, having sat through trial and
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trial, I'm like, who the hell thought this was a good idea?
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Like, hey, my client, and by the way, the stuff that was recorded wasn't even the type
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of dispositive stuff you'd want to introduce, like, damn, we got him now.
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It was the kind of thing where, again, you made this guy look so shady that whatever value
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you think you got out of it came off completely the wrong way.
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And again, attorney-client privilege, I mean, this just, them stretching this crime-fraud
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exception for everything, Megan, here has been just embarrassing.
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His own legal advisor was under oath Costello this week up on Capitol Hill.
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And the legal advisor, again, just eviscerated this guy's credibility.
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And it turned out that attorney-client privilege was waived by Cohen because the FBI was going
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I mean, nothing this guy touches works out, Cohen, nothing.
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It is amazing that what they're really trying to tell us, the implication is the hush money,
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what do you ever want to call it, to these women was illegal, that there was something
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And the ones jumping on that the most are the people over, yes, at CNN and at MSNBC.
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MSNBC and NBC, do you know the number of hush money payments they have had to make to women
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coming forward to accuse their multiple male anchors?
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Every executive at MSNBC, NBC, CNN, ABC, they should all be in prison.
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Yeah, it's obviously, I mean, it's another example of what I call hierarchy versus hypocrisy.
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I mean, Megan, you and I can argue all day, oh, they're hypocrites.
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And they give you the double-barrel middle finger.
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Communists and socialists who operate by those type of authoritarian principles don't give
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a damn if they look bad doing their commie stuff.
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He was an old SDNY, AUSA, deep experience in the criminal case realm.
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And he's like, listen, man, I got to tell you, I don't even think they should argue this.
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They should come out and say, Donald Trump didn't know about these payments.
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Implies somehow that there's a basis criminally, because that's what they're there for, for this case.
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Even Cohen's lawyer, Costello, saying the guy didn't know.
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But even if he did, and none of you believe that at all, it still doesn't matter, because that's still not a crime.
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There's not even a reason, probable cause for us to be here.
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No, you could get an instruction from the judge to the jury that if, you know, at the beginning, it's too late now,
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where he could have said, for the record, Mr. Trump denies that he ever had an affair with Stormy Daniels.
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And he denies that he knew anything about this payment that Michael Cohen made to her.
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However, he will stipulate that whatever, I don't know, whatever he's willing to give.
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But the point is, the next instruction to the jury would be what's at issue here is whether he was aware of how the payment to Stormy Daniels
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was recorded in the Trump books and whether he knew there was a discrepancy between that record keeping and the truth.
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So you maintain for the record, Donald Trump does dispute this.
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But for the purposes of this trial, we don't have to get into that.
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He's going to let you believe whatever you want to believe.
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Like, we've had lots of testimony on Stormy and the positions and the birth control protections and, you know, whatever, STD protection, whatever.
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And it's all been a walk down her weird, disgusting, X-rated lane that none of us wanted to take, Dan.
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Yeah, I'm not really, you know, interested in, you know, hearing what happened that, you know, he was blocking.
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I mean, when Bill Maher, who is no fan of, yeah, yeah, I mean, when he comes out and says, hey, listen, this Me Too stuff, that's, that's, she said, she said literally the exact opposite.
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Dan, in her book, she said that night she made Trump her bitch.
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And it just goes to show how fraudulent and bullshit the left is, too.
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I mean, they've got this thing going on this week with the FDIC that just, there's a guy at the head of the FDIC running an agency with rampant sexual harassment.
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And the media, of course, ignoring it because the guy's a Democrat.
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It reminds me of that, that scene from, well, what is she doing back there?
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You know, like, no one knows what the hell they're doing at the FDIC.
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But it's because these people are total frauds.
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Like, this whole Me Too movement has entirely collapsed because now they've got this woman who they should be calling out.
00:28:25.260
They should say, hey, listen, sexual harassment, this is a serious topic, okay?
00:28:30.440
You've got women out there who seriously are being in the workplace.
00:28:33.380
And, I mean, listen, I don't need to lecture you on this.
00:28:36.020
I mean, this is stuff that happens, and this is really serious.
00:28:53.560
And if I were a real victim of this, which, thankfully, I don't know anyone who was, and I hope never, too, I would be like, you know, that's pretty offensive.
00:29:01.340
And you'd think people on the left would come out, but because in their hierarchy of needs, they don't care about hypocrisy.
00:29:07.640
It's power to them, and that's their ultimate goal.
00:29:10.060
And she represents an obstacle to their power, Donald Trump, in taking him down.
00:29:18.880
They're literally treating her like Joan of Arc.
00:29:25.580
Michael Cohen, as disgusting as he is, he's a hero to them because they all have a shared goal, which is destroy Trump.
00:29:39.000
Well, if you drag a dollar to a trailer park and the bimbo, we're calling women bimbos and the bimbo eruption.
00:29:45.320
I mean, I'm just asking the liberals who watch the show.
00:29:48.860
I get their death threats and stuff every day as you listen to the radio show.
00:29:55.880
Like, this is the kind of thing I have no problem calling out.
00:29:58.200
I don't care if you're a Republican, a Democrat, conservative or a communist.
00:30:05.080
Let them go to work and let them do their thing.
00:30:08.000
George Stephanopoulos had Nancy Mace on his show and took issue with how on earth she could support a man who had been accused of sexual assault or rape.
00:30:26.040
I mean, we want to talk about the biggest tactical screw-up of all time.
00:30:30.600
But he's the one we have to thank for Bill Clinton.
00:30:33.600
His whole book talks about how he tried to bury all those women, hurt them, whole war rooms devoted.
00:30:38.740
He didn't give a shit whether they were telling the truth.
00:30:47.280
I mean, again, it's just an example of what I said.
00:30:49.780
You can't beat the left on pointing out hypocrisy because they don't care.
00:30:54.560
Now, you can beat them with independence and pointing it out, but they don't care.
00:30:59.340
The central tenet of the authoritarian tendency is we're in charge and crave power.
00:31:06.340
What they do is they beat us up using our principles against us.
00:31:14.240
I mean, not to get off topic, but all these college campus rallies.
00:31:21.180
I'm in no way objecting to the First Amendment right.
00:31:23.800
I'm just saying don't threaten that guy's life and say, I want to kill you because you're Jewish.
00:31:35.360
They appeal to our principles because they have none.
00:31:41.140
And I try to tell people all the time, do not get roped into this BS.
00:31:48.780
And in the end, you'll be on the right moral arc of history, not these losers.
00:31:52.740
The examples of their failures are everywhere on this.
00:31:55.600
It is amazing to watch her bastardize the Me Too movement and not hear one woman's rights
00:32:01.480
advocate, in quotes, on the left, speak up to say, this is bullshit.
00:32:09.340
On their chosen issues, their sacred cows, they are the moral arbiters.
00:32:13.900
And the rest of us are bad people, even if we've been through it ourselves.
00:32:18.340
But it's not true in any department more than it's true when it comes to racial stuff.
00:32:24.220
So they, of course, notwithstanding Joe Biden's long history of saying racial things, racist
00:32:29.700
things, they think Trump is the racist in this contest.
00:32:33.160
And recently, Trump made a comment, which didn't strike any of us who have been watching the
00:32:40.500
I mean, we all saw all the TikTok videos among Black Americans after he had the mugshot and
00:32:46.820
put it out on an actual mug and how so many Black Americans were celebrating the moment
00:32:51.900
and celebrating Trump's toughness and his big middle finger to the system and saying,
00:32:58.200
OK, Trump makes a comment on it and they lost their mind.
00:33:02.200
I'm going to walk you through the sequence because it's absolutely beautiful.
00:33:06.740
So here's the Trump comment that it was just like a week or two ago that they reacted to.
00:33:12.540
I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing.
00:33:18.000
They were doing it because it's election interference.
00:33:20.900
And then I got indicted a second time and a third time and a fourth time.
00:33:25.500
And a lot of people said that that's why the Black people like because they have been
00:33:32.680
And they actually viewed me as I'm being discriminated against.
00:33:38.080
The Black people are so much on my side now because they see what's happening to me happens
00:33:49.400
And you know who embraced it more than anybody else?
00:33:54.740
You see Black people walking around with my mugshot.
00:33:57.520
You know, they do shirts and they sell them for $19 a piece.
00:34:07.980
Here's a little sampling as to how the media reacted.
00:34:13.860
I couldn't be more, and I'm going to take the privilege of speaking for all the Black
00:34:23.420
Him saying Black the way that he did, it just felt mocking in some sense.
00:34:29.300
Donald Trump is using the stereotype of Blacks being criminals.
00:34:33.520
He's in a mugshot for trying to interfere with an election.
00:34:41.180
America, please, please share it with your Trump-loving friends.
00:34:47.120
Have them understand why what we just heard is so unbelievably racist, but also problematic
00:34:56.940
That man should never be president of the United States.
00:34:59.560
The only reason we have a mugshot is because of the Black DA in Fulton County and the Black
00:35:04.060
sheriff that made sure he got one to ensure that he knew that he was not above the law.
00:35:26.500
Kim Godwin, the recently ousted president of ABC News, who is Black, she felt the need
00:35:33.340
to weigh in, which is extraordinary to have the president of a network, Dan, weigh in on
00:35:37.560
something like this and said, those comments, quote, are as racist as they come and went
00:35:43.600
on to say, no matter what your politics, the fact that a person running for president made
00:35:47.440
these remarks, period, but also to a public crowd.
00:35:49.680
And with so many Black people present, present, and that they stand with him is mind blowing,
00:35:57.940
He said, Black people like me because they've been hurt so badly and discriminated against.
00:36:03.840
And they actually viewed me as I'm being discriminated against.
00:36:07.740
There are so much on my side now because they see what's happening to me happens to them.
00:36:17.560
MSNBC, which was responsible for many of those thoughts we just played in horror, did
00:36:27.880
Some Trump voters in Georgia, two of whom in this clip for the listening audience are
00:36:41.000
Has this trial changed your opinion, even caused you to waver or question that at all?
00:36:47.460
No, it's actually caused me to support him more.
00:36:52.460
I just don't believe that's a coincidence that we have a trial happening in Atlanta.
00:37:00.940
So the question people are beginning to ask themselves, like I did, it's like, why now?
00:37:05.220
I've talked to many people who formally identified as a Democrat.
00:37:08.600
They have changed their political persuasion to independent, and they are looking forward
00:37:14.120
Because now they find something in common with a political candidate at that level.
00:37:19.480
When you say they find commonality, what is that commonality?
00:37:22.620
They have felt persecuted by the system of American injustice.
00:37:27.500
And it's not a stretch for them to think that Trump may be a victim as well.
00:37:32.940
So, yeah, Dan, yeah, yeah, I obviously have a lot to say on this.
00:37:41.960
Well, listen, I'll just say to these leftists, like, honestly, man, nobody, nobody gives a
00:37:47.520
You've thrown this, you've thrown this term around.
00:37:52.340
Listen, Republicans call real racism out when they see it.
00:37:58.620
Matter of fact, when you do it, we ignore it because you call everyone a racist.
00:38:17.980
30 years ago in radio or TV, you being tarred by a major cable outlet as a racist was a death
00:38:29.040
So much so I know this story because I covered it.
00:38:31.580
And I covered that panel on MSNBC, but it had absolutely zero traction because everyone
00:38:38.000
just assumed, oh, it's MSNBC saying someone's a racist again.
00:38:54.420
And I'll say, secondly, another point of irony that that the weapon they want to use the
00:38:59.040
most, they've so diluted its potency that it has no effect.
00:39:03.660
The second point I'd like to introduce on this one is that, you know, the left with the
00:39:08.860
with the racist cudgel has told black and Hispanic and minority voters for years that
00:39:15.420
there's this thing out there that exists called it's called systemic discrimination or systemic
00:39:21.760
So, you know, whenever I was doing Fox or my own show, I'd say, well, OK, the system is racist.
00:39:30.820
Who's running the system where the racism is happening?
00:39:45.540
So it's strange that you told black and Hispanic voters for years the system we have governed
00:39:51.420
under our system, this liberal system, is racist.
00:39:55.280
Donald Trump then goes and gives a speech and speaks in a way plainly that Donald Trump
00:40:05.840
However, this is one of the things people love about Trump, how plainly he speaks.
00:40:09.220
He just doesn't talk in focus group tested nonsense and scientific research abstracts.
00:40:18.920
Hey, you've been told the system screwed you over?
00:40:25.940
Conveniently, in some of the same cities, you're getting screwed over.
00:40:31.840
And a lot of voters are out there going, eh, kind of sounds right to me.
00:40:35.740
And it's chapping their butts that this guy's beating them at their own game.
00:40:43.620
Zero people listen to the left with their faux charges of racism.
00:40:50.440
What's interesting to me, though, is that it's just, as you point out, it's not working.
00:40:54.260
And it's not even working with their, the people they think are their core base.
00:40:58.280
I mean, black women are overwhelmingly Democrat.
00:41:00.820
They're losing black men as registered Republicans.
00:41:04.840
But we saw that New York Times-Siena poll come out earlier this week that showed the same results from November.
00:41:09.660
Trump's winning in five out of the six key swing states.
00:41:15.240
Trump's up, in some cases, by 10 points, by six points.
00:41:21.260
And so strong, robust State of the Union response.
00:41:25.060
At least that was the narrative in the media about Joe Biden.
00:41:27.260
I mean, tens of millions of dollars of ads in all of these swing states.
00:41:31.580
Nonstop coverage on MSNBC about what a criminal he is and what a racist he is.
00:41:36.360
And, of course, what a sexist he is because the stormy thing all, it all ties together, right?
00:41:44.980
I realize it's not voting day, but right now he's winning.
00:41:48.400
And to me, it does seem like that had to be Biden's calculation for saying,
00:41:53.000
okay, I'll do it because I'm the one on the debates.
00:41:56.540
I'm the one who needs a game changer in this race.
00:42:02.940
You know, one of the things I want to say about this is I called this a long time ago,
00:42:07.580
and it was by no means due to my political analytical skills or anything.
00:42:11.180
It was just listening to people about, I don't know, three years ago, a business partner of mine.
00:42:15.940
And he's at a sporting event that we do business with, and he's talking to,
00:42:20.860
he does a lot of business with a lot of black business leaders, entertainers, sports figures, a lot, not just a little bit.
00:42:29.160
He's like, hey, man, you're never going to believe this.
00:42:31.180
But this really prominent guy who comments on the rap industry told me,
00:42:35.200
you're never going to believe how many of these guys love Trump.
00:42:38.820
He said they call him like Uncle Trump or something like that, and they love this guy.
00:42:43.620
I said, really? He says, Dan, I'm telling you, man, they love this guy because this isn't the first time I've heard this.
00:42:49.960
Sports everywhere. And I thought there's something going on there.
00:42:52.640
So I put that out on my show, and it was interesting because all of the negative feedback I got were from conservative influencers
00:43:00.320
who were like, oh, man, that's not true. You're overestimating this.
00:43:03.760
And now you're seeing it in the numbers. Now, is Trump going to win 25% of the black vote?
00:43:07.920
No, not even close. He doesn't have to. If he wins 18 or 20%, there's no man.
00:43:17.000
And people have to understand here that this isn't, I know they get it.
00:43:20.580
I shouldn't have said it. That would be sounding like a jerk.
00:43:21.980
But this is not a national election. It is a series of state elections in the Electoral College.
00:43:26.900
And when you look at these states, Pennsylvania has Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
00:43:32.620
You flip four or five percentage points of the black vote with a substantially large black population
00:43:37.840
in Philly, in Pittsburgh, in Atlanta, in Detroit.
00:43:42.580
The Democrats listening to your show, you need to understand there's no man whatsoever for you to win a presidential election now or any time in the future.
00:43:54.280
It's why, to the Democrats out there and the liberals who have been gaslit, it's why everything's racist all the time.
00:43:59.960
And I'll make another case. Listen, I get it. I've been a Trump supporter for a while, and it's not for the reasons people think.
00:44:05.940
I'm a pretty diehard doctrinaire conservative. I get it.
00:44:10.240
Has he been the most conservative guy in the past on some issues? No.
00:44:13.720
I mean, Donald Trump, the one thing I respect about him is, contrary to what people tell you,
00:44:18.140
you do not have to be in line with Donald Trump or he's going to kick you out of his camp.
00:44:22.700
That's bullshit. Whoever's telling you that is lying or doesn't know.
00:44:25.560
Donald Trump and I disagreed publicly on my radio show. You can listen. It's a clip on my channel about abortion.
00:44:32.300
We disagree on it. He has never once been like, Dan, agree with me, or I'm kicking you out of the next event.
00:44:39.220
That's total crap. We've disagreed. So you may say, well, if you disagree on this issue, there's a couple more.
00:44:45.080
I wasn't crazy about criminal justice reform either, but I'm with him on taxes.
00:44:49.200
I'm with him on regulatory reform, judicial appointments, school choice.
00:44:52.760
Obviously, the border, national security. I think he's got the NATO situation right.
00:44:58.340
I think he's got incredible political instincts. I'll say this about the guy.
00:45:02.200
His lasting gift to the Republican Party is going to be none of that stuff.
00:45:06.380
What do you mean? I'm telling you, it's going to be none of that stuff.
00:45:09.300
His greatest gift to the party, his greatest gift, those are all good things,
00:45:13.500
the judicial appointments and everything else, is going to be,
00:45:16.620
he opened the eyes of a number of groups of demographic people out there who had never in their life considered a Republican
00:45:25.720
who somehow looked at him and said, I don't know, it's my guy.
00:45:30.560
What is it? I don't know. The French have a name for it called the je ne sais quoi.
00:45:33.680
If we knew what it was, we'd bottle it. We don't.
00:45:36.520
Donald Trump has his gift. Charisma, political instincts. I don't know.
00:45:40.380
I ran for office. I lost. I obviously don't have it. I do a different thing.
00:45:45.400
However, that is, well, thank you. I appreciate it. But that is his gift.
00:45:48.840
His gift is going to be changing the coalition of what the Republican Party looks like in the future.
00:45:55.500
And I guarantee you on the show, cash this check and spend the money.
00:46:02.240
I love that. And the other thing about Trump is he showed Republicans had a fight.
00:46:07.940
You don't have to do it the way that Mitt Romney says you have to do it or just, you know,
00:46:13.220
the Commission on Presidential Debates says you have to do it.
00:46:15.500
Joe Biden, he never would have said F you to the Commission on Presidential Debates had it not been for Trump.
00:46:20.360
Just thumbing his middle finger at the debate process in the primaries and just doing it the way he wants.
00:46:25.100
He's he's sort of shown people you don't have to play within these rules that everybody else set for you.
00:46:31.500
Yeah. And I think, you know, one more thing. You're correct.
00:46:33.660
A hundred percent. I mean, even George W. Bush, they were, you know, that old line, you know, don't fight people who buy ink by the barrel.
00:46:39.820
The old idea was if the media is against you, just kind of acquiesce and, you know, be as obedient as you can, like a little lapdog and move on.
00:46:47.280
And Trump not only said, well, F that Trump actually said, you guys are fake news.
00:46:52.820
I mean, he made the war against the media, which a lot of Americans kind of attached to and were like, yeah, I get it.
00:46:59.100
Like, I've been screwed over by these people, too.
00:47:01.680
But, you know, one more thing on this, too, is what I was going to mention is it.
00:47:11.020
And I hate that word, too, which is ironic because I just can't stand unique or literal, which are two words you should probably not hate.
00:47:16.860
But Joe Biden running against Donald Trump, Megan, was the perfect foil.
00:47:23.300
I have no doubt Trump could have done these things against another candidate.
00:47:26.660
But I think the eye opening for the black and Hispanic community, a lot of minority voters, younger voters where Trump is doing well, Republicans always get their asses kicked by younger.
00:47:36.960
I mean, that was just a fact that was baked into the cake.
00:47:44.620
You know, I mean, we've all seen the optical illusion, two parallel lines.
00:47:49.400
They look like they're going towards each other.
00:48:07.120
And the fact that he cannot accept the fact that he cognitively isn't there.
00:48:19.060
The thing is, he's the same age as Bernie Sanders.
00:48:21.640
Bernie Sanders, for as much as I can't stand them, is still all there and walks around
00:48:29.540
The fact that Trump has this foil, I think, has made even more voters say, well, I liked
00:48:35.580
him in the first place, but now I really like him compared to this goofball.
00:48:39.420
So Biden's actually been a gift in that respect.
00:48:41.800
How do you think the Hunter Biden trials are going to play?
00:48:49.880
Because we've got not one, but two now scheduled to start in June.
00:48:54.180
And if Hunter Biden were this sweet, sad little character who's being wrongly bullied by the
00:49:01.660
feds, I think it could actually have the effect of creating sympathy for Joe Biden.
00:49:06.800
And that seems to be where the White House is going for it.
00:49:09.280
We saw them already getting the talking points out like this is going to be really hard for
00:49:13.840
He may be just despondent over his poor son and what what he's having to go through because
00:49:21.020
But I I have my doubts whether that narrative is going to sell.
00:49:28.360
Whether that is going to sell because Hunter Biden is so unlikable.
00:49:33.840
I mean, that goes back to what we were talking about in the beginning.
00:49:36.040
I mean, politics is no different, you know, than a court case.
00:49:44.940
There's a kind of a little bit of a triple quadruple reverse psychology take place where
00:49:54.900
He actually did, you know, is charged with this stuff.
00:49:59.800
It obviously backfired against Trump and martyred the guy.
00:50:05.460
They started going up right after the search warrant, his polls.
00:50:15.580
I mean, he hasn't kind of like obliquely lied about it.
00:50:19.580
He has transparently lied and said, I knew nothing about my son's business.
00:50:24.240
Now, that story has evolved, evolved, and morphed into five or six different iterations.
00:50:39.700
You notice with the papers, he doesn't say, I don't have papers.
00:50:47.180
With the Hunter case, it's totally different, right?
00:50:49.620
Joe Biden's come out and said, hey, I'm a good dad.
00:50:52.600
I don't know anything about this nefarious, illicit, potentially illegal deal this guy
00:50:59.260
There's a check for $40,000 written to one Joseph R. Biden.
00:51:09.740
I mean, no one's explained yet what this guy actually does.
00:51:13.280
It's why the business stuff never stuck with Donald Trump either.
00:51:16.600
Everybody was like, oh, Donald Trump was going to build a hotel tower in Russia.
00:51:23.780
Reminds me of that line from The Usual Suspects.
00:51:25.640
I can place you in Queens on the night of the robbery.
00:51:29.420
You figure that out yourself or you got a team of monkeys working around the clock.
00:51:36.860
I talked to Chaz Palminter about that movie, too.
00:51:40.320
I got to say, Kevin Spacey was also magnificent.
00:51:44.400
But that's my point is that I don't think that's going to...
00:51:50.200
But I will say, too, that I think the Joe Biden is corrupt narrative is, at this point,
00:52:00.960
I think it's legally the right thing to do to prosecute Hunter Biden, show the nobody
00:52:10.420
I think Joe Biden right now, at this point, is on the terminal decline electorally.
00:52:14.420
And whether Hunter Biden's guilty or not, it's not going to help him.
00:52:27.920
We've been living with these long enough to know.
00:52:29.400
I mean, you almost can't make it to the presidency without lying.
00:52:46.420
Nobody in politics is even close to telling you the truth even half the time.
00:53:01.080
The problem Biden has is everybody bakes into the cake politicians lie.
00:53:08.220
The problem Biden has in relationship to Trump is Biden's full of shit all the time.
00:53:24.220
He met Angelo on Amtrak, despite the fact Angelo was dead.
00:53:33.500
He was a lifeguard who saved 20 people's lives.
00:53:45.320
Nobody spent more time in houses of worship than this guy.
00:54:10.800
Every single lie he tells about himself is self-aggrandizing, right?
00:54:13.460
Like he makes himself look so much better than he actually is.
00:54:16.320
But the real problem for him, I think people could actually forgive that.
00:54:20.120
He wants us to think he's some hotshot, whatever football player and black man secret and all
00:54:25.840
But the real problem is he's lying to us about our situation, right?
00:54:28.660
He's looking at us like through Mallorca saying the border is secure.
00:54:33.780
He's looking at us saying things like inflation was at 9% when I took over.
00:54:42.420
I actually want to play this for you because I haven't seen current Jean-Pierre in a while.
00:54:51.940
So, yeah, he said this just recently that it was 9% when I came into office.
00:54:59.880
Just watch the meandering answer she gave when she got asked by a reporter about Joe Biden's
00:55:06.260
I'm going to ask you about how the president talks about inflation.
00:55:09.040
So two times over the past two weeks, the president said inflation was 9% when he came into
00:55:14.660
Is the president misleading Americans on that, or does it just not realize that inflation
00:55:20.940
So, you know, and thank you for the question, because I know that this, we got a lot of incoming
00:55:25.720
And look, what the president was, the point that he was making is that the factors that
00:55:32.100
caused inflation was in place when he walked in into the administration, when he took office.
00:55:37.800
As you know, the pandemic caused inflation around the world to be, by disrupting our economy
00:55:47.080
As you know, we had to act quickly on dealing with the supply chain.
00:55:53.180
I mean, it was like meandering, like a creek in the middle of Montana.
00:55:59.080
And there was there a word about the fact that it was 1.4% and not nine.
00:56:05.420
OK, now we're in my wheelhouse because economics, I absolutely love.
00:56:14.800
Karine Jean-Pierre is a representative of this entire administration, someone who has
00:56:19.820
so little credibility with any persuadable voter out there that when she opens her mouth,
00:56:27.760
They typically have to bring John Kirby in to rescue her.
00:56:30.420
I mean, when New York Post stories and other liberal outlet stories are being written about
00:56:35.380
how insiders desperately want her gone, it's just so kind of epidemic of this entire administration
00:56:42.840
and their attachment to just serial dishonesty.
00:56:47.460
Like, people are baked into the cake, his faux autobiography.
00:56:51.420
At this point, I think even Democrats just laugh at him.
00:57:02.080
This is the stuff that kicks people, like, right.
00:57:08.400
Because they go to the grocery store every day and they see it.
00:57:14.440
It's like the finger sticks diabetics have to do before they got that patch, right?
00:57:18.640
It's not annoying enough that you won't do it, but it's annoying enough that you hate
00:57:23.340
That's why they invented the glucose patch, because no one wants to do that every day.
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It's not one thing that's going to drive you totally crazy.
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Like, say, street crime become an issue if, God forbid, your house is broken into.
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And when someone tells you, like, oh, no, that's not annoying.
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And the thing about their lies is they are so easy to debunk and discredit.
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All you have to do is go to Scroogle or any left-wing search engine, chat GPT, and say,
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If you know anything about economics, you'll understand that the Fed, even if you trust
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the Fed, which I don't, but even if you did, their target rate for inflation, what they
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So what you're telling me is Donald Trump beat the target rate?
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I played that one on my show because it was the greatest cell phone in the history of
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She goes, okay, yeah, maybe it wasn't 9% inflation when Biden took office, but the factors were
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So now what you're saying is every single factor for inflation was there.
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Donald Trump not only kept the lid on it, but kept it below even the Fed's guidelines.
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And the minute your doofus of a boss took over, it exploded to 9%.
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I was, I was sitting there like, that's the greatest answer I ever heard.
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And this idiot gets it off of a sudden, it explodes right away.
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I don't know how we got here, but I know it wasn't Joe Biden's fault.
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It is true that they tried to get rid of Kareem Jean-Pierre.
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There was a movement within the White House reportedly to bounce her.
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And the report was that she stopped it with the, I'm black and I'm a lesbian and a woman
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And it's great because live by the sword, die by the sword.
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The same is true of Kamala Harris, who they want to eject from, you know, the Democratic
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A lot of Democrats have wrote, have written think pieces about this over the past seven,
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It doesn't look like it's going to happen now as we get closer and closer to the convention.
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I promised you some Kamala Harris thoughts and I aim to deliver.
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Just her amazing eloquence and ability to nail a point succinctly with as few words, an economy
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A lot of joy, I have to tell you, in our young people and our young leaders.
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I started a college tour last fall and meeting with Gen Z and all these young people who are
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You know, things like gun violence, climate crisis.
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And I think that part of what we all embrace and need to acknowledge is that we measure the
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strength of ourselves, not based on who we beat down, but who we lift up, who we lift up.
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And let's continue to focus on that as a way to strengthen ourselves, our country, but
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No, you know, my, my, what is lacrimal glands or everything that they're now?
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I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm sweating because I'm so uncomfortable listening to this woman talk.
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And I, the, both of them have this same problem.
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Nobody says less by saying more than those two.
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Have you ever heard them talking that you hear that?
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And you're like, Buttigieg does this all the time.
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You're like, we're going to beat people down and we're going to lift them up.
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Like when Buttigieg talks at the end, you're like, man, that sounded good.
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And this, by the way, this goes back to my cannibalism theory of the left.
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While we're on the topic of, you know, Buttigieg, Harris, Kareem Jean-Pierre,
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that my, I have this counter, and it's not an uncle brosy thing.
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Like my cannibalism theory in the left comes true every single time.
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The left is obsessed with this silly idea that you were somehow defined
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by absolutely irrelevant characteristics, gay or straight, black or white,
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I'm not saying they're irrelevant to your life, irrelevant to your job.
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Whether you can be president or press secretary or department of transportation head
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They're going to hire people because they're competent.
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The left is so now trapped in this that they're going to wind up eating themselves alive
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because we don't care about that kind of criticism.
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Conservatives are going to be like, why'd you hire that guy?
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It's become a dogmatic Jim Jones-like religion.
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You're going to see themselves slowly, progressively, pun intended,
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eat themselves alive right now as Corrine Jean-Pierre, who's clearly incompetent.
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It's nothing to do with her skin color or she's gay.
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Hakeem Jeffries, a guy I don't share a single ideologically aligned issue with.
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It has nothing to do with the guy's skin color.
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Megan, the smartest move, clean jump you ever made.
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You stay there right until the end, until you're ready to leave.
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I bet she even said that one extemporaneously, Dan.
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You guys want to live your life by irrelevant characteristics that have nothing to do with
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We're going to keep judging people by their character and merit and actual stuff that matters.
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She was at yet another place at the, what was it?
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Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership Summit.
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So now she, like Kamala Harris, honestly, what had she done prior to being selected as
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She had an affair with a very prominent politician out in California that put her on the political
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And then before you knew it, she was bounced into his running mate position.
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And by the way, we knew Biden said, I want to pick somebody who's a black female.
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And then he did it in the vice presidential slot.
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And here she is rewriting the history about this is her being an empowered woman, Dan.
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Just in case you didn't know, this is how it's done.
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This is what you have to do if you want to succeed in your life.
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Don't ever carry as a personal burden your capacity to do whatever you dream and aspire
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to do based on other people's limited ability to see who can do what.
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This is part of what's involved, is that we have to know that sometimes people will open
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And then you need to kick that fucking door down.
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By that, she means we all need to sleep with Willie Brown.
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If you got to sleep with Willie Brown to get ahead, Dan, you do it.
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It is so scripted and so silly and so ridiculous.
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They've set themselves up in this preposterous trap right now, where, again, they go to America
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and then they keep pitching this nonsense about DEI, which I call D-I-E.
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And then, again, you bring out Kamala Harris, who is so clearly completely incompetent for
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And, I mean, they've absolutely lost the narrative.
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And that moment there, I've seen that clip a couple times, that just speaks to who Kamala
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And it's just artificial, like, I've got a curse to be relatable.
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Like, listen, I don't have the best mouth in the world, but, you know, I grew up in Queens
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So it slips out once in a while and more than once in a while.
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And you can tell, you can tell someone told her, hey, you're so not relatable to people
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that matter for our constituency or young voters, black voters, minority voters.
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So come out and drop an F-bomb and everybody's going to love you.
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And what's weird about it is she does it and she acts like the very same people she's trying
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I don't know if she swears or not, but that one was obviously inserted for effect.
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And it's just absurd to me that, like, a country that did recognize her, she became
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attorney general, she became a U.S. senator, she became vice president, and now she's got
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to sort of talk about how it's impossible to break through these doors.
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You know, she just had to break, fucking break them down.
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You know, it's like, look how much you've achieved in this wonderful country of ours.
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Whenever you get the opportunity, you've got to rip on the country and your countrymen.
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If you remember back to the Democrat primary in 2020, it was Kamala Harris who basically
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I was a Secret Service agent that day when Obama and Biden talked about, I forget, what
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Neither me nor you are familiar with KKK titles, but I read it somewhere and I was like, the
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guy was the, what the hell's an exalted Cyclops?
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There was this Democrat senator who was just basically an open racist.
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And he, I mean, like this was, this was not hidden at all.
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Biden is on the record talking about this guy like, hey, we were pals.
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Now, listen, if you're going to run as like this DEI diversity guy and look at me, I'm
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If you're an oppressed minority in the country, fine, you run on what you want.
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And the irony of it is Kamala Harris was the one who pointed out, I think his name is Engelman
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I forget the name, but you can look the clip up.
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It's Harris saying, hey, you know, she was endorsed.
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And all of a sudden she's talking about kicking fucking doors down and stuff.
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I mean, really, it's so inauthentic and it's real bullshit.
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And again, I'm going to just say this over and over because it matters to any minority
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Your kids get a good education, get some access to some decent quality health care, get
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It's one of the greatest things I've seen is everybody waking up that that party's full
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I'm not telling you the Republicans are the answer to all your problems.
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I'm just telling you the cause of your problems are without a doubt the freaking Democrats.
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OK, now, speaking of Michelle Obama, any thoughts on whether there could be a switcheroo convention,
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whether it's at the top of the ticket and the second position that they're going with
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I was on the president's detail and I was in the transportation section where we did the
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However, they're together and we're together a lot.
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Barack and Michelle, she was around and obviously we're at the White House.
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And the FLD guys, first lady's detail guys, I'm very good.
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I'm still very close with a lot of them who are on that detail.
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Every time I say this, someone goes back like there's some grand plan.
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It's already happened, so it's not like any kind of security thing.
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But one of the guys I know in the detail was a good friend.
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And I remember saying, you know, where were you last night?
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And he's like, man, we had to take the first lady out.
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They apparently dressed her up with a baseball hat and glasses and a scarf.
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And she wanted to go to Walmart or Target or something.
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They took her out in one of our undercover cars.
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You know, the guys dressed down and everything like that.
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And even if they forced her into it, it would be one of those.
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I got to hear your take on something that's been bugging me.
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It's not a ban yet, but it could turn into a ban
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if they don't find new ownership not connected to the Chinese.
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This has really divided the country and even the Republican Party.
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Ask a different, you know, right-leaning person,
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so they've got nine months to basically find a new owner.
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which my experience dealing with my investments in the tech space,
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So it doesn't really matter if you're an app or not.
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And I think people have been a little bit disingenuous about that
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And we should be honest with people and not bullshit them.
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Yes, TikTok is connected in some way, shape, or form
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there's almost no one in America that doesn't know that.
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but I watch videos about this guy all the time.
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because I understand that there's a lot of malicious content.
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I'm giving you the triple barrel middle finger.
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Rumble just started doing these view aggregators.
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That's the greatest F you to YouTube of all time.
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But, you know, TikTok, they had an opportunity to fix it,
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but they really should have been smarter business-wise
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depending on if they sell the algorithm or not.
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Rumble has a more than credible offer to be part of it.
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So I don't want people to think I'm leaving that out.
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we say predictions are, you know, like holes, right?
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but I'm not the Stygian witches from, you know,
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Here's the thing about a black swan this time around.
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a terror attack or say a massive crash in the economy,
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The thing about the black swan is it only exacerbates
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his bad situation because as we've seen, Megan,
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the guy has no capability to deal with anything he touches.
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Holman Jenkins had a piece in the Wall Street Journal
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the other day about how this guy's just snakebitten.
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Afghanistan, Taiwan, the Middle East, inflation,
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and we can pull out a state like Wisconsin or Pennsylvania.
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They said, Megan Kelly, why don't you come back?
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but Riley Gaines joins the show Monday in person.