Media Lies About Hegseth, and the Cultural Shift That Led To Trump's Victory, with Victor Davis Hanson and Red Scare Hosts | Ep. 952
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Summary
Fox News host Pete Hegseth has been accused of rape by a woman who claims he raped her in a hotel room after a night out with friends. He has denied the allegations and says the woman is lying. Megynkelly breaks down the details of the police report and calls for the media to do their job and report the facts as they are.
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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 and happy Friday. What a week. Oh, what a week.
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We've got a great show for you today. Later I'm going to be joined by the ladies of the Red Scare podcast right here in studio.
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That's going to be fun. But first, I just want to start with where we left off in this morning's episode.
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Maybe you saw our special episode or listened to it that just hit on Pete Hegseth and the rape allegations against him that are making headlines all over the media.
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I need to talk to you about this one more time because the way this is being covered is disgusting.
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We, my team and I have been watching the media devour this news of a police report without actually telling you what's in the police report.
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Just grabbing the most salacious headline and proceeding as though it's true.
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According to the report, a woman referred to as Jane Doe met Hegseth during a conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
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Both were drinking with a group at the hotel bar when Doe said things got fuzzy.
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A nurse who treated her later said Doe believed something may have been slipped into her drink.
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She then recalled being in a hotel room when Hegseth took her phone from her hand.
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When she got up to leave, Hegseth blocked the door with his body.
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Her next memory was when she was on a bed or a couch and Hegseth was over her.
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Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullin said Hegseth addressed the allegation in their meeting.
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I don't think there's any way in the world you're going to say that this is a sexual assault.
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It was pretty clear that she definitely wasn't drug to her room.
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Well, it also said she couldn't get out of the room.
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Hegseth's attorney told CBS News police found the allegations to be false and claimed it was Hegseth who was intoxicated and the woman who was the aggressor.
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He also confirmed the Fox News host paid the woman an unknown sum of money after she threatened to sue, fearing it could cost him his job.
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Don't text it because I have something open on my text that I need.
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Do it and then report what's actually in the actual police report.
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Anybody who doesn't report the exonerating facts for Pete Hegseth in this report is a hack and should be treated accordingly.
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In fact, before I get to the other examples, let me just recap for you, because many of you are living your lives and aren't able to listen to every episode we put out.
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But we went through this thing in great detail.
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And I just wrote down the highlights of it for my team so that they could go check all the news reporting to see whether this stuff was in there.
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Jane Doe, that's what she's going by, claims that she and Pete hooked up.
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He claims it was a hookup at an event for some California Republican women's group in October of 2017.
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She claims that she may have been slipped a drug, that the details are fuzzy.
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And but that days later, she started to recall that she was in a sexual interlude with him and that it was non-consensual.
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And while the details were blurry, she remembered saying no a lot.
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She tried to get out, but he blocked the door, which you heard that reporter Nicole throw back at that lawmaker like it was the alpha and omega of the story.
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In fact, if you look at this police report, here are some of the details not reported by the hacks at CBS.
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But we don't get to know anything about Jane Doe.
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Is Jane Doe known as a credible and truthful person?
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Does Jane Doe have a history of dishonesty or potentially even criminality?
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We don't get to know any of that because we protect, quote, sexual assault victims, even if we don't know if they're a sexual assault victim, even if no one's ruled that they're a sexual assault victim.
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Even those of us at Fox News who came forward against Roger Ailes understood that our identities, like yours truly, would eventually be made known to him so that he could defend himself and ultimately were leaked to the news anyway.
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But Jane Doe gets to remain anonymous while making an allegation like this.
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Here are some of the things in the police report that Nicole claims she read.
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Jane Doe was seen by an eyewitness flirting with Pete Hegseth at Knuckles Bar, which is attached to the Hyatt Regency at which they were both staying and in which he gave the speech, including touching his leg or arm prior to the alleged sexual assault.
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The alleged sexual assault happened between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.
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She was seen in the in the bar flirting with him, including touching him.
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Two witnesses at the bar, women who we believe were at the conference with her.
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She was one of the workers for this conference.
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Two witnesses at the bar say Jane Doe did not appear out of control, intoxicated or drugged.
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She appeared completely in charge of her faculties.
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She tells the police she only had one glass of champagne that evening, one glass that she had been drinking more than normal earlier that day, she said.
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But that night she only had one glass of champagne, according to her.
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And everyone around her says she appeared in control of her faculties and not drugged, not intoxicated.
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One woman said she might have been buzzed, but she wasn't drunk.
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Cops say videotapes that they reviewed show her at 1.15 a.m. and a second one at 1.30 a.m. with Pete.
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1.15 a.m., she and Pete are walking out of the Knuckles Bar, presumably back to his hotel room.
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She claims as his handler she was just getting him from A to B.
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And at 1.30 they were stopped because they had an argument poolside about, quote, his treatment of women.
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Totally inappropriate boundary crossing by this woman already.
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You don't have any right to talk to him about how he treats women.
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By the way, according to the eyewitnesses, Pete was drunk.
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He'd been drinking beer, not hard alcohol, but was drunk by virtually everybody's assessment other than Pete's.
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They are seen at 1.15 leaving Knuckles and walking their arm and arm, their arm and arm, and she is smiling.
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She appears in control of her faculties and is not stumbling.
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At 1.30 a.m., they get stopped by a hotel front desk guy who was filling in for security
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because two hotel occupants called and complained about a loud argument poolside.
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I don't know if she was yelling, but they were having some sort of an argument,
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and she defended him by saying, oh, sorry, we're Republicans, and I'll get him to his room.
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She put her hand behind his back and shepherded him away from the pool.
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The front desk guy said she did not appear drunk.
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She was not stumbling and did not appear intoxicated.
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Okay, so now we've got one, two, three eyewitnesses who were there who say she wasn't drunk.
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Her whole story is that someone appears to have slipped her a Mickey,
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and she was too drugged to remember exactly what happened during this allegedly traumatic rape.
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We are now within 30 minutes of the alleged rape.
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She is seen by three eyewitnesses and on two videotapes reviewed by police looking absolutely fine.
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Within 30 minutes or so, she will be allegedly raped.
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Then she goes to Pete's hotel room between 1.30 and 2 in the morning.
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This was within moments after the videotape and the eyewitness hotel front desk clerk said she did not look drunk.
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She goes into her room, into his room, and she is texting with her husband, it appears, from the room.
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The husband is down the hall with his children, their children, in their own hotel room looking for his wife.
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He texts her around 2 a.m. saying, I don't remember the last time you were out at 2 a.m.
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And then after 2 a.m., he goes down to Knuckles Bar looking for his wife.
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Then at two additional times, I think it was 2.56 a.m. and 3.40 a.m., he calls his wife's phone.
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According to the police report, she comes back home to her hotel room with her husband and her two children sleeping.
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And according to the husband, she does not appear drunk.
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The husband says she's not stumbling, she's not slurring, and she's apologetic.
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Her husband was down the hall, and she told him that she would tell the husband that she fell asleep.
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She told me when she got home at 4 a.m., when she looked fine, she must have fallen asleep.
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Pete, simultaneously talking to the cops, not talking to the husband, says she felt guilty, and she told me she was going to tell the husband that she fell asleep.
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She was in that room for, at best, an hour and 50 minutes, an hour and 55 minutes, because she was home by 4 a.m.
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At 1.30 a.m., she was seen looking totally fine and not intoxicated.
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When did he slip her the alleged rohypnol that made her so drunk and drugged out that she couldn't remember anything about this alleged rape?
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The husband says she looks fine, and she's sorry.
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She doesn't wake up the next morning and run to the cops.
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In fact, it's not another 30 hours or so before she then has sex with her husband, and it all comes rushing back to her, that she was allegedly raped by Pete Hegseth.
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I'm sorry, but this is a crock of shit, CBS News, the vaunted.
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I did the podcast yesterday, which we released this morning, and the more I looked at it, the more I slept on it, the angrier I got.
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And then I saw news coverage like this, CNN's lead.
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A California woman told police that Trump cabinet pick Pete Hegseth physically blocked her from leaving a hotel room, took her phone, and then sexually assaulted her, even though she, quote, remembered saying no a lot.
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A woman told police that Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump's choice for defense secretary, took her phone and blocked her from leaving his hotel room before sexually assaulting her in 2017 after a convention in California, according to official records of a police investigation released Wednesday.
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Who reported that she was back at her hotel room by 4 a.m.
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And her husband said she was not slurring or stumbling and that she was apologetic?
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Did anybody sit down to do the fucking timeline?
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All you get in these reports is that the whole night was fuzzy.
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She was drunk for several hours or fuzzy, drugged for several hours.
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You don't think it's relevant that if you look at the timeline as laid out by the cops, at most we have a two-hour window in which they are alone.
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She's seen one half an hour before it looking totally fine, but thanks to two videos and three independent eyewitnesses.
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She was in there for two hours and on the back end her husband said she didn't look drunk.
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The police asked her to participate in a pretext call where she calls Pete Hegseth back and says,
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Why did you block the door and not let me out and do all the terrible things I told the cops you did?
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You could explain it by saying a rape victim doesn't want to confront her rapists.
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And then start offering a bunch of details that made that seem very clear and obvious and true.
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I didn't know about it until I read the police report.
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Did anybody point out that she went to Pete's hotel room between 1.30 and 2?
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Within moments after the videotape and all the eyewitnesses say she did not look drunk?
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Did the news offer you that timeline so you could draw your own conclusion?
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NBC mentioned that at 1.30 and that she went back to her hotel room at 4 but didn't contextualize
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how improbable the date rape drug accusation was given the timeline.
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I don't like the cheating on all the wives stuff.
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But this is not okay, what's being done to him.
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Joining me now, Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author
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I mean, I don't think a person who is sexually assaulting a victim has a discussion whether
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they can continue with the act of coitus if they don't have a condom.
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So it was a mutual discussion about condom protection, and then they both mutually decide
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I don't think any rapist discusses that with the victim.
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And the second thing that bothered me, this is kind of graphic, Megan, but he said that
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So I mean, those two items themselves don't really fit the typical pattern of a male viciously
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forcing a woman down, penetrating her, injuring her.
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Rapists that do that don't say, by the way, what should we do about a condom?
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So, and I understand that was from, so, but yeah, that was, but for me, I am trying to
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just, just look at the independent verifiable facts, the verifiable facts.
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I'm not taking her story and I'm not taking his story.
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I'm taking the story of the police, the videotapes and the independent witnesses, and they do not
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and her husband, and they do not support this woman's story.
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I mean, if you take anything that Pete says is real, he's exonerated.
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If you take a lot of what she says, he's still exonerated.
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And I remember he was, he was on top of me and he blocked the door when I tried to leave one time.
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But all these independent facts, Victor, in order to Pete's benefit, not hers, and the media
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either doesn't report on them or confronts lawmakers who are about to vote yes on Pete
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in the hallway as though they're about to approve Ted Bundy.
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Yeah, but didn't she, I know that, but didn't she wait almost 72 hours before reporting it?
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She didn't go to the nurse for her sexual assault and rape exam until Thursday.
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The alleged rape happened overnight Saturday to Sunday.
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And I don't think she contacted law enforcement until Monday, did she?
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She went to the sexual assault nurse, who then was a mandatory reporter.
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She brought in the cops and then they spoke to her.
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So the earliest any official was told was the Thursday after the early mornings of Sunday,
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So if you look at the police report, the alleged victim then goes back to her hotel room early
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in the morning and engages in sexual intercourse.
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And I think the name is blocked out, but I think, I assume it was her husband.
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She had sex with her husband on Monday morning when they went back to their marital home together.
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And then, and then I, did she contact law enforcement at that point?
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And in fact, it wasn't until Wednesday that she told the husband she had supposedly been
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And then within a day, she went for a sexual assault and rape exam.
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And am I mistaken that she said that during the sexual act with her husband or whoever,
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Then that brought memories back for the first time that she thought she re-remembered it.
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And then she re-transformed the, in the impression, she had transformed the act into one of violence
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that she hadn't really appreciated for three or four days.
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But all the details were sketchy because her memory was so foggy.
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I just don't think the average person, I think they're, and then law enforcement didn't choose
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She also tells the police that right at the beginning of the night, when she is first at
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the bar, Knuckles, which they were at at midnight, that this is where things got fuzzy.
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She started to get fuzzy as of midnight at the bar.
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But two eyewitnesses at the bar say she was fine.
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The front desk clerk who confronted her an hour and a half later says she was fine.
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And the two videotapes show her smiling, holding Pete's arm, and absolutely fine.
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After, she says, she started getting fuzzy, putting the lie to the claim.
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I mean, when she says she thinks it's possible, sort of, kind of, maybe, that somebody put something
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on their drink, who is she suggesting that did that?
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I mean, if Pete is already drunk, I'm not sure he would be able to do that.
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And she has no evidence that she saw who was close to her.
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Pete, according to this other woman and Pete, Pete was, you know, he had an eye out for a
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It was a different woman who Pete was putting his hand on this woman's knee.
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While Jane Doe was putting her hand on Pete and trying to flirt with Pete.
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Pete later told cops he didn't even notice this woman, Jane Doe.
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He had his eye on another woman who wasn't into him.
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And since Jane Doe was his handler, this other woman called Jane Doe and asked her to be,
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So this woman, according to Pete, then goes back to his hotel room with him, stays, this
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is Pete's testimonial, stays in the room in oddly weird time, like, okay, it's kind of
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And the next thing you know, one thing leads to another.
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But it sounds like a woman who didn't get any attention from him, who had been pointing
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out via text to her husband earlier in the night that all the women were going crazy for
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Pete, and who lingered, who wasn't noticed by the hot guy from Fox, and suddenly found
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And before you know it, now she's allegedly fuzzy.
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And the next morning, oh, or two days later, okay, it's coming back to me that I was raped
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And then she took, as I understand it, correct me if I'm wrong, then she discussed with Pete
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or took a payment from Pete to not disclose the incident because he thought it might harm.
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And then she, they talk about, I can't remember.
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I feel like it's possible he heard she was getting ready to go public.
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But in any event, his lawyer and she or her lawyer started to negotiate something to make
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her be quiet about this because he realized, he says, his lawyer says, he would be fired in
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an instant at Fox News if he were accused of rape.
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Did she, somebody directed people to the police report?
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She had a friend write a report and go to Mar-a-Lago or send the report to Mar-a-Lago to
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the Trump transition team and simultaneously apparently release it to the media.
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Well, I mean, as I understand at the time, I read the police report, but it seemed to
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me that he was in a process of separating from one, from his wife.
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So he was nominally single and she's in the same area with her husband and her two kids.
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And any sane woman knows that if you're married and your husband's in the hotel room, you don't
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walk with a celebrity who's intoxicated to his room.
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And then if something happens, you don't, you immediately, if it's a violent assault, you
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immediately tell somebody, your husband, obviously you would go back to your husband and say, my
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God, I've been raped or I, or my friend, you'd call it, but you don't keep mom for almost
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And then when this process works out, then you don't take money from somebody with the
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threats that you're going to disclose something that he said, she said that would be embarrassing
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And then you sit on that for years until he becomes, and you get the impression that she
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would have never come forward because it would have had very little currency unless he's
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in the limelight now as a nominee for the defense post.
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It's very similar to the Kavanaugh debacle, very similar.
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Now, I think the people are more rational and I think the, I just don't think the facts
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will warrant, once they start to discuss it, it won't warrant a charge that he forcibly
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This is an outrageous dereliction of journalistic duty by these news outlets to report it the
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The difference between Christine Blasey Ford and this woman, in my opinion, is I think
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Christine Blasey Ford just made it up to get Kavanaugh because she was a political operative.
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Maybe she had a negative experience with him all those years ago that didn't involve
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I don't know why she had it in for Kavanaugh, but I know she didn't like his politics.
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But this woman appears to have just cheated on her husband and then really regretted it
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Under Pete's version of the story, she came back willingly.
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And then she said, oh my God, what am I going to tell my husband?
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And she said, I'm going to tell him I fell asleep.
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And at that point, she must have been looking at her phone.
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We've seen the phone receipts that he had called her.
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Geez, I don't remember the last time we were out till two in the morning.
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Then he called her at, again, I'm trying to remember the exact times, but I think it
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And then, and he also said, I'm going down to Knuckles Bar to look for it.
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Like he also went down to Knuckles Bar to look for her.
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So she must have been in an oh shit moment when she saw all of that on her phone.
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The husband is awake because he had just tried to call her at 340.
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It doesn't turn into a rape in her head, she says, until Monday morning when she has
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And she doesn't give the husband that story until Wednesday.
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And then I guarantee you, I guarantee you, these two are having some very heated arguments
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over the course of those three and a half days.
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What, you know, there's just no way a husband doesn't know.
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I just feel like this husband, he knew something was up and there's no way that by Wednesday,
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he must've had her and she resorted to, I was raped.
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But at a minimum, the independent facts should be reported by the news and they should stop
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smearing him as though this is an actual rape to which he's admitted, which is what
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I would just, I would just say in the practical matter, you're in a very left-wing state and
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I know Monterey, it's a very left-wing community and you have likely left-wing district attorneys
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and you have a Fox celebrity who, and Fox people are not that popular in California compared
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And then this liberal environment and it's law enforcement apparatus look at this and
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they examine it very carefully and they file no charges at all.
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So it's going to be very hard for her, I think, to be used by the left to sabotage his
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And of course, we're not talking about what is really, and that's, I guess, the point of
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But the, the real point is that Pete Hexeth is talking about some things that are beyond
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comprehension that we've never discussed before.
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He wants to go into the D, the DOD and stop the entire DEI apparatus.
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He wants to go in there and stop the revolving door generals who go into a defense contractor
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after retirement, come back to, come back to the DOD with high paying jobs that influences
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their strategy and bad strategy of procurement.
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He wants to go in there and no one else has even thought of that, going in and looking,
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having an autopsy of the worst military catastrophe in a hundred years in Afghanistan.
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So there's all these very important issues and I don't think the left wants any of them
00:30:25.660
And so I think there's, this is sort of a sideshow that's designed to get somebody else
00:30:31.120
in there, a nominee of the usual type that would not do any of the things that Pete, if
00:30:37.300
you read his book, War, the War on Warriors would probably do.
00:30:40.080
The other thing is, if Pete Hegseth is running around giving women the date rape drug, you
00:30:49.160
don't think we'd have another woman coming forward to say, this is, that's not a one-time
00:30:56.360
But the bottom line is the date rape drug does not kick in in 30 seconds and wear off in 30
00:31:05.880
This woman was fine by all accounts when she went into that room at two and was fine
00:31:11.520
by her husband's account when she came out at four.
00:31:17.660
And she's not even alleging that she was given a drink inside of his hotel room.
00:31:22.680
It was the drink she had back at Knuckles Bar at midnight.
00:31:40.420
And especially when she said, I won't participate in the setup phone call of the guy.
00:31:46.100
My team has sent me the following just to answer this, that question.
00:31:50.000
Sometime after the incident, the woman and her husband hired a lawyer to quote, ensure Hegseth
00:31:57.900
According to the memo sent to the Trump transition team, Hegseth's lawyer proposed they sign a
00:32:02.780
non-disclosure agreement, the details of which have not been made public.
00:32:06.360
The memo said the agreement was signed about two and a half years after the alleged assault.
00:32:12.060
I mean, any public figure, Pete's I'm sure got some dough in the bank now from all the
00:32:16.340
Any man would say, would you please just pay her and make her go away?
00:32:19.300
Like, I don't, I definitely don't want her coming out and making those allegations.
00:32:22.260
By the way, it's best not to go to bed with a complete stranger whose character you have
00:32:31.080
And then you don't have to worry about people doing this to you.
00:32:35.720
The latest reporting is that, this was in the Wall Street Journal, that Team Trump is
00:32:41.360
not pleased that Pete did not disclose this when they were doing the vetting and is doubly
00:32:47.000
displeased that he didn't reveal there was a police report detailed, which Pete knew
00:32:56.860
So none of like, even though Pete should not be condemned in this way by the media, and
00:33:02.040
I don't believe he committed this act, it doesn't mean he's going to sail through and
00:33:05.820
it doesn't mean Team Trump is going to stand by him to the bitter end.
00:33:11.360
I just want people to be honest about what the facts show here.
00:33:14.440
Yeah, and they're going to go after a certain typology of nominee, and we know who those
00:33:21.980
It's RFK, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and all the non-conventional people that we don't
00:33:30.000
really, their resumes don't match what the usual occupants of those positions have.
00:33:37.800
And that's what Donald Trump is trying to tell people.
00:33:42.800
They don't have the usual letters after their name or the titles before their name, or they
00:33:47.420
don't revolve to universities or corporations in the Washington, New York nexus between jobs
00:33:54.280
But they have to be very careful how they vet those people, because they're going to get
00:34:01.260
And I think we're going to hear the same type of stories that are going to start to circulate.
00:34:06.280
I don't mean sexual necessarily, but I think when RFK or Tulsi Gabbard go up, they're going
00:34:11.620
to have the same hit machines that will go after them.
00:34:15.700
John Bolton has already gone after her, said she was a veritable Russian asset.
00:34:22.500
I mean, I never had heard until he was a candidate, the story of hitting a bear or some type of
00:34:29.460
parasit in his brain or one of his former wives hanged herself.
00:34:36.600
And it's going to come out, especially for those candidates, because that's the ones that
00:34:40.380
left, I think, feels that they have the most traction against and they're most afraid of.
00:34:45.420
If he nominates Cash Patel for the FBI, and I know him very well, and he's a very bright
00:34:52.780
He was really, when he worked for Devin Nunes, he was the point man that broke the whole
00:34:57.160
story that Christopher Steele was not just a former spy who had been giving money by Hillary
00:35:06.380
He was actually getting money from the FBI while they were denying it.
00:35:12.920
And he's very tough and he's outspoken and he's probably said things in the past that
00:35:18.720
But those are the types of things that we're going to be, we should be in store for because
00:35:24.600
We're going to have to steal ourselves for the onslaught because they'll bring up any
00:35:30.080
untoward personal behavior to try to kill these nominees.
00:35:33.940
And we're going to have to just increase our tolerance for some of those stories because
00:35:37.780
it's like that the Trump, he's not going to pick the person with the perfect resume and
00:35:43.860
the perfect behavior and the, and who is beloved by the establishment.
00:35:47.920
That would, that's just not who Trump's going to pick.
00:35:50.760
He wants to get some street fighters and necessarily they're going to have some dirt under their
00:35:57.160
That is not to suggest if Pete actually raped somebody, we should put him as the DOD chief.
00:36:01.900
It's just to say that some of these nominees are going to have, you know, less than perfect
00:36:09.160
And we're going to have to keep this factor that in, but I want to, I want to tell you
00:36:16.280
Well, it's not that they're the nominees that we have.
00:36:19.540
These people are antithetical to them, but it's not that the nominees that are in office
00:36:28.580
And so when they look at Pete Hexeth is there'll be a Republican person that said, have you
00:36:35.420
ever been in a situation where you just walked off the job for a week and nobody knew where
00:36:40.280
you were like Lloyd Austin, when you were in charge of the entire military, have you
00:36:46.100
ever had a, uh, have you ever been in charge of an operation where you just left town and
00:36:51.020
left all of your equipment to, in the hands of terrorists, $50 billion.
00:36:56.840
Have you ever set up programs where the merit of placing the shells on the target was not
00:37:02.520
important as the proper gender and race, uh, in your unit?
00:37:07.440
And I think the same thing with Pam Bondi with the DOJ, they're going to say, um, have you
00:37:13.440
ever got a, uh, a federal subpoena from Congress the way that, uh, Eric Holder did on fast and
00:37:20.340
furious and just, you know, tear it up without consequences.
00:37:24.400
Have you ever cooked up an idea like fast and furious to sell guns to people in the cartels
00:37:33.460
Have you ever on one single day, have you ever coordinated as Merrick Garland has done?
00:37:38.680
You hired Jack Smith on one day, the third person in your DOJ went to work for Alvin Bragg
00:37:46.040
And the same day, the white house council was meeting with Nathan Wade in the white house,
00:37:53.500
Have you ever sent the SWAT teams out to people's homes?
00:37:56.740
Like, oh, I don't know, Roger Stone or the president of the United States.
00:38:02.780
You ever had an law enforcement group go into somebody at two in the morning, like James O'Keefe
00:38:07.960
in his underwear, looking for the, acting as a retrieval service for the Biden, the Bidens
00:38:14.280
lose guns, they lose laptops, they lose diaries, and the FBI then goes out and rubs people up
00:38:20.580
So there's all sorts of stuff that they do, but it's a different type of activity.
00:38:30.000
I think they're going to say, have you ever lied under oath as an FBI person?
00:38:34.080
Well, Andrew McCabe lied under oath four times to a federal investigator.
00:38:37.920
James Comey pled 245 times, he could not remember all the details of the Steele dossier.
00:38:45.880
Robert Mueller said, I don't remember what the Steele dossier is.
00:38:52.240
Those were the two catalysts that prompted his appointment as special prosecutor.
00:38:58.960
If you're from a certain milieu or zip code or university or prior resume, then you can
00:39:06.860
almost, you're getting exempt from doing things, lying under oath like James Clapper did or
00:39:16.540
And then they come around and say, we're not going to have this person in office because
00:39:23.160
But that's what Trump is trying to tell the nation.
00:39:25.540
These people are too incestuous and they have a certain type of resume and a certain type of
00:39:30.800
outlook that gives them an arrogance and a ubiquitous and they abuse their authority.
00:39:35.920
And that's, I think that's why we're going to see some fireworks.
00:39:43.180
Steve Krakauer, we need to clip that response and put it everywhere because that's exactly
00:39:50.940
Why are we, I asked the audience yesterday because look, Pete's behavior with respect to
00:39:55.660
his many wives is not ideal, Victor, but I don't really care.
00:40:02.540
I already have a delightful husband who I really adore.
00:40:06.520
It's with between him and the women who marry him.
00:40:09.900
What is my problem is a woke military that doesn't get enough recruits, you know, that
00:40:14.380
is in which the men feel totally dejected because they're being lectured on white rage and white
00:40:19.920
And by these commanders that they're somehow wrong, notwithstanding the fact that all these
00:40:25.780
guys are the ones who are getting killed at an exponential rate, as you've been pointing
00:40:31.980
So if Pete Hexeth is going to go in there and shake that up and stop the wokeness and actually
00:40:38.320
listen to, you know, the, the working class branch of the military, as opposed to the brass
00:40:49.420
It just thought the past 24 hours have been so eyeopening as you just started.
00:40:54.300
I mean, I, I don't like this any more than you do, but in World War II, George Patton,
00:41:01.460
while he was leading the third army to victory and broke apart, the German resistance in Europe
00:41:06.820
was having an affair with his own step-niece in theater.
00:41:14.020
At the same time, Dwight Eisenhower was infatuated with this British chauffeur, young woman, Kay
00:41:21.940
And people were very shocked and they kept warning, I, this does not look good.
00:41:28.640
I don't know what's true, but if you had taken Eisenhower out of the theater and Patton
00:41:34.360
out of the theater, we would have lost the European war at that point.
00:41:39.980
They did that, but in the, in the great scale of things, George Patton was an authentic military
00:41:46.720
genius, the likes of which we've never seen before.
00:41:49.260
And Eisenhower had a genius for organization and grand strategy and people like that were
00:41:56.260
And somebody like George Marshall, who was a straight arrow, puritanical, brilliant, honest
00:42:04.360
And that's why he kept, he remonstrated with both, but he kept them both in command and
00:42:15.600
We talked about this yesterday in passing, but, um, JFK was having an affair, as you know,
00:42:22.220
with everybody, but with a 16 year old white house intern named Mimi Alford.
00:42:27.700
I mean, actual sex with this woman who was a virgin, remember she was a, she was a virgin
00:42:35.620
She was working for him in the white house, not to mention what the presidential bed in
00:42:41.900
They revere these two JFK and Bill Clinton, but we're supposed to get upset about what
00:42:47.260
Pete may or may not have done with respect to his wives and his marriages.
00:42:52.260
I had a close friend who was really, uh, arguing me about Trump and Stormy Daniels, but it happened
00:43:00.220
So just as a joke, I said, what bothers me about Trump is his daughter was arranging
00:43:10.020
And then I said, then he, uh, he pulled out down his pants and showed the cabinet, his
00:43:19.780
And then I said, he had an affair with a young intern with right off the white house
00:43:27.220
And then the guy said, well, that case, I'm glad you, I said, I just described JFK, Bill
00:43:36.820
And no one in those days, no one in those days disclosed any of that.
00:43:41.420
They felt they all, the reporters all knew that FDR was having an affair with Lucy Mercer.
00:43:46.780
They all knew that LBJ was doing things that were, we would call perverted.
00:43:51.560
We all knew that JFK was completely uninhibited and out of control.
00:43:56.700
When it came to young women, everybody knew the same was true of Bill Clinton.
00:44:00.660
And these were occurring while they were in the office, not Stormy Daniels years ago.
00:44:05.420
Nobody has made an allegation that Donald Trump did anything untoward with women while he
00:44:12.560
And yet they, nobody, nobody says anything about that.
00:44:22.820
Which one dropped trow in front of the cabinet?
00:44:33.300
He grabbed his organ and he said, does Ho Chi Minh have anything like this?
00:44:41.060
But it's also proven that he would open the door while he was on the toilet and force aides
00:44:47.660
that he didn't like to take memos and they had to watch him defecate.
00:45:00.220
And so I guess what I'm trying to say is not to excuse that type of behavior, but there
00:45:07.320
was a time in America, in a much more puritanical time than ours, when people said, it's too
00:45:15.420
They don't have character in these particular areas, but we haven't made the argument that
00:45:19.880
because your personal life isn't a suspect, then you're not, you're not, uh, it'd be night.
00:45:28.040
The other thing is where, where was CBS's Nicole?
00:45:36.100
I don't remember her running through the halls of the white house to try to get comment from
00:45:40.960
Kamala Harris on her being married to an alleged woman abuser.
00:45:45.060
I like, there was no interest whatsoever in actually tracking down this woman.
00:45:53.940
She actually mentioned her sexual assault by Joe Biden to her mother who brought it up on
00:45:58.840
a Larry King show contemporaneously than there ever was.
00:46:07.000
I, I had no, I had no tether whatsoever to any news organization.
00:46:12.840
I flew out to California to sit down with Tara Reed because no one was talking to her.
00:46:20.500
I'll just put it on my fledgling YouTube channel.
00:46:25.140
And it wasn't because it was a democratic user.
00:46:31.620
You can let them have their say and then let the analysts poke holes or not in the stories.
00:46:37.500
But ignoring the stories is what the left does when the accused is one of their beloved
00:46:46.420
And we all know that Joe, Joe Biden serially violated the private space of women.
00:46:54.460
He remarked in a way that was kind of creepy to younger, preteen girls in the audience.
00:46:59.060
He did such that when he ran, as you remember, in 2019, 20, he had to apologize for his behavior.
00:47:08.060
Finally, a lot of women came forward and said, you you squeeze me.
00:47:14.140
And he said, I came from a different generation.
00:47:27.680
Now, here's here's what I was trying to get to.
00:47:30.840
All of this, at least the media piece of it, is having an effect because I put it all under
00:47:36.020
the head of the heading of how dishonest they are.
00:47:48.620
They are hemorrhaging viewers at an alarming rate.
00:47:52.900
And now we actually can put some meat on those bones.
00:47:56.440
We still have some sources in the TV industry and people who know the ratings that the rest
00:48:04.500
And sources are telling us that Morning Joe over on MS, Chris Hayes and Joy Reid are all
00:48:14.080
The demos, 25 to 54 year olds, which determines advertising rates.
00:48:17.200
Record demo lows this week for the history of their respective shows.
00:48:25.060
Morning Joe on Monday got 770 in the overall and 86,000 in the key demo.
00:48:33.700
They had been averaging over 800,000, let's say, back in June, like 866,000 in June with
00:48:49.020
Tuesday's broadcast of Morning Joe was the show's third lowest broadcast of 2024 with total viewership
00:48:58.680
down 38% from their average and the key demo down 37% from the show's average.
00:49:04.820
So they fell almost 40% overall from Monday to Tuesday.
00:49:12.420
And on Monday, instead of building during the show as they normally do, they lost.
00:49:18.040
They went from 839 total thousand and 113,000 in the demo to 694,000 in the second hour and
00:49:29.200
We're told that Monday's show, I believe, was it Monday's show?
00:49:34.100
No, Wednesday's show was the lowest in Morning Joe's history.
00:49:41.340
The Wednesday demo, that's the 25 to 54, they got 51,000.
00:49:46.780
1,001 fewer, and it would have been a slashy, which is the ultimate embarrassment.
00:49:54.220
They don't even write 49,000, they write slashy, which is you've fallen off the board.
00:49:59.980
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Just to correct, not the lowest in Morning Joe's history.
00:51:36.700
But this is one of the lowest, almost getting slashies in the key demo on Wednesday.
00:51:41.600
There is a reason its audience is abandoning MSNBC, Victor.
00:51:47.300
They're in kind of a doom loop, Megan, because their diehard audience that got smaller and
00:51:52.700
smaller and smaller, so they got down to 700,000 viewers, is very intolerant of any deviation
00:52:00.120
But to expand their audience, they've got to cool off the personal attacks on left-wing
00:52:05.880
I mean, right-wing people, all of the hysteria.
00:52:08.460
Same thing with Joey Reed, stop the overtly racist stuff.
00:52:12.400
But when they do that, they start to lose their small audience.
00:52:18.600
So I guess the only way out of it is to take a risk and go mainstream and try to appeal to
00:52:26.220
And in that process, they're going to lose their base, hard left audience, and they may
00:52:33.140
not expand into the right-wing who feel they're insincere.
00:52:36.600
So I don't know how they get out of it, is what I'm trying to say.
00:52:39.440
No, I don't think they can, which is actually really fun to watch.
00:52:43.600
It's not just those morning and primetime shows that are suffering.
00:52:49.600
I mean, just up and down the line, they've lost their minds.
00:52:51.620
You need look no further than the headline this morning on msnbc.com, where they responded
00:52:58.580
to Laken Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was murdered by a Venezuelan
00:53:04.960
They responded to his being convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole with this
00:53:10.120
headline, Laken Riley's killer never stood a chance.
00:53:22.140
Finally, just as we come to air, they changed it to the guilt of Laken Riley's killer was
00:53:28.200
Apparently, their headline was too much, even for their left-wing audience.
00:53:33.840
You know, the common denominator with all these stories is that this bi-coastal leader, whoever
00:53:39.460
they think they are, they're completely immune from the consequences of their own ideology
00:53:45.680
So they never see the Lincoln Riley's of the world, their parents, they don't know what
00:53:50.280
They all count on the idea that they're going to experiment on us like we're lab rats with
00:53:55.800
all this transgender stuff, all this open border stuff, all this critical legal theory,
00:54:02.740
And then they're going to retreat into these zip codes and enclaves and areas where they're
00:54:10.080
The Obamas are going to venture out from Martha's Vineyard or the Hollywood Mansion or the Colorama
00:54:17.440
And then they're going to retreat right back there with all the things they've done.
00:54:21.140
is never going, the fallout from, it's never going to hit them until they really have to
00:54:26.700
experience things that they promoted and they're never going to change.
00:54:32.660
And I think that was what another thing about the election was, that one iconic moment when
00:54:36.840
Barack Obama was lecturing African-American young men who have to deal with high prices
00:54:46.020
He was telling them they were illiberal and they had to shape up and they didn't know what
00:54:50.860
It was almost like a Marxist saying, you're all suffering from false consciousness.
00:54:55.020
And I, the professor, I'm going to tell you what you really should be thinking and who
00:54:59.560
you really, really, really should be voting for.
00:55:02.120
And that was, that was just thematic, emblematic of that whole campaign.
00:55:08.980
I think that the people who lecture and the people get lecture too, and they're tired of it.
00:55:16.820
I have to say the, um, we knew this guy was going to get convicted.
00:55:26.260
Uh, his name is Jose Ibarra, 26 year old, illegal from Venezuela, uh, found guilty, uh,
00:55:33.560
And her poor mother, I mean, this is one of the, this is the woman I, one of the women
00:55:39.040
I mentioned by name when I spoke for Trump the night before the election, that I'd be
00:55:42.820
thinking of Lake and Riley on Tuesday, November 5th.
00:55:45.840
And I was, and I have been for a while, as I know so many millions have, because this girl's
00:55:50.980
story was just emblematic of so many who have been killed by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's
00:55:59.560
Right now they're trying to make it easier for immigrants to cross the border, right this
00:56:03.700
second in his last two months in office, because he hasn't done enough damage.
00:56:08.320
And you think about folks like her mom who testified yesterday on Tuesday that her, she
00:56:19.640
Lakin had texted her, good morning, about to go for a run.
00:56:21.780
Are you free to talk, uh, at 8 55 AM on Feb 22 before then trying her mom by phone less
00:56:28.120
than 10 minutes later at nine Oh three within seven minutes, she would be attacked, attacked
00:56:36.260
And her dad, her stepfather, John Phillips read one of Lakin's final diary entries to her
00:56:49.320
It's hard to listen to, but this is the real life toll of these leftist border policies.
00:56:57.480
To my future husband, I want you to know that I'm thinking about you and I'm working every
00:57:11.060
They're working through my current relationships to best prepare me for hours and our kids one
00:57:16.440
day and can't wait to love you in the best way I know how for the rest of our lives.
00:57:24.840
No matter what challenges we face, I pray that our trust in God and love for one another
00:57:42.820
He did not get the death penalty because he had one of these woke prosecutors who, despite
00:57:49.760
the fact that Georgia allows the death penalty, did not personally believe in it.
00:57:54.060
And so this guy will live on the taxpayer's dime until he dies a natural death in prison.
00:57:59.660
I think everybody who watches that asks a Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, what did
00:58:08.580
you think was going to happen or Alejandro Mayorkas?
00:58:11.880
What did you think was going to happen when you let 12 million people in with no criminal
00:58:16.400
background checks, no health background from places like Colombia or Venezuela where gangs
00:58:27.060
They were wolves coming into sheer sheep was the idea that you wanted that.
00:58:34.960
And why did you think that you would you would unleash that flood upon innocent people like
00:58:41.880
And and it was all was it predicated in the idea that you were so protected your neighborhood
00:58:46.300
or the people you associate or your money or influence that you would not only not experience
00:58:51.480
these things, but you didn't care about the people who did.
00:58:55.740
And, you know, just living out here, Megan, I have right now about a thousand pound freezer,
00:59:05.360
washer, dryer in my on my in my orchard that was just dumped by people.
00:59:11.340
And I can tell you all of the garbage is all in Spanish.
00:59:18.120
Uh, I've had semi trucks dumped and we've had a person die, found a corpse in our orchard.
00:59:29.900
I mean, that that person probably committed suicide, but they don't know.
00:59:33.900
But it was it was it's it's some I don't think people realize it.
00:59:39.900
I know where I work at Stanford, where it's got that same mentality of the Biden administration.
00:59:46.780
They condemn as illiberal or reactionary or mean spirited or xenophobic or racist anybody
00:59:53.540
who wants to have legal measured orderly immigration because they're never they never
01:00:01.480
And when you say things to them, well, if you want 12 million people to come in, you're
01:00:07.840
Stanford University has about 10,000 billets in the summer of empty dorms.
01:00:13.820
They have one of the best medical schools in the world.
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They have all these student interns that could help.
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Why don't you volunteer to take seven or eight thousand illegal aliens and let them stay
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Same action you get reaction you get from the Martha Vineyard people.
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When is the bus coming to get them out of here?
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They enriched our lives in the 72 hours they were here.
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Notice this Washington Post, AP, New York Times all refused to describe Lincoln
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Washington Post, Venezuelan national Jose Ibarra found guilty of murdering.
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A man was convicted of murder in the killing of Lincoln Riley.
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Nothing about the fact that he's here illegally and is part of this Venezuelan gang.
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And final point on it, Allie Beth Stuckey posted this on X.
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They're angrier when a violent criminal is confronted by the police than they are when an innocent woman is murdered while jogging.
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They're more outraged when an illegal Haitian immigrant gets his shirt pulled by a border patrol agent at the border.
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Remember that the next time they launch another manipulation campaign.
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And they're not going to stop until they're forced to stop.
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And that 90, that 100 day metamorphosis of Kamala Harris, whether we all know that if she had won, she was going to go right back to her open borders policy.
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And when she's lost, she will go as a lame duck vice president right back to the policy, which we see already being enacted by Joe Biden.
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And they've already tried to create more apps to let people in on the final influx.
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That was all just 100 days of cynical falsity that they explained that they were wanting to secure the border.
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That was one of the most insincere fraudulent campaigns we've ever seen on that 100 day facade that they were going to worry about the victims of illegal immigration, or they were going to stop the illegal immigration, or restore the border, or they were going to worry about crime, or fracking, or a strong military.
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That was even worse, because they knew that's what the people wanted, and they did not want to give what the people wanted, because they thought the people were stupid, and their friends and their associates were smart, and therefore they were going to fool the people one last time before they reverted back after they got it.
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Now you've got the governor of Massachusetts saying she's not going to cooperate with Tom Homan and his efforts to pull the illegals out of the country, including the criminal ones, the ones who have committed additional serious violent felonies.
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This, as our Border Patrol, ICE, that is, has just gone into Massachusetts, her state, and arrested three, count them, three, child rapists who are here illegally, raping, in two cases, American children.
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One was a child rapist from Brazil who came up here when he got caught for doing that there.
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Two others are raping American children here, and she's sitting there saying, we won't cooperate.
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When these people get arrested for crimes in Massachusetts, we won't tell ICE so they can be deported.
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We'll just see whether the people of Massachusetts are okay with Governor Maura Healy's plan to let all the pedophile rapists stay in Massachusetts.
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I'd much rather be in a state that says, we're not doing that, and the illegals get word of it, and then they don't come here.
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It's why it's an issue that you've been speaking out on for as long as we've known you, VDH.
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The culture war between the left and the right is heating up after Trump's landslide win.
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Nancy Mace continues to stand strong in her fight to keep women's spaces safe.
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You'll not believe Katie Couric's attack on her.
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Joining me in studio to discuss it, all the hosts of the Red Scare podcast, very popular
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show, Anna Kachian, wait, it's better when I say it, Kachian, yeah, and Dasha Nekrasova.
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They were first with us back on episode 336 in 2022.
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We have somebody for the first time in the studio who likes to drink like I do.
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It's before Thanksgiving, but Thanksgiving's late this year.
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If we wait until after Thanksgiving, we're not going to get enough of the trees.
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And here in Connecticut, it was, there was snow on the ground this morning.
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You guys went from Bernie bros to Trump supporters.
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Well, Anna hates this because Anna wasn't ever really a proper Bernie bro.
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I will go on record and say that I've never been a leftist or a Bernie bro.
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I've always been a Trump supporter, but I was playing it cool and not going too hard on it
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because, you know, like, I'll be frank about it out of social cowardice because I didn't
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But if you listen to those early episodes, you can hear.
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I mean, people say that we did like a right wing pivot, maybe cynically, but I don't really
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I think like the center just shifted so drastically left.
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And when I was a Bernie crat in 2016 and registered as a Democrat to vote for him in the primaries,
01:09:10.320
I totally relate to this because people have said that about me, too, that it was like a
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money ploy to try to get an audience to, you know, switch on Trump, to like change my views
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You know, I was not his fan back in 16 for all sorts of other reasons.
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Um, and it's like, well, then if it was a cynical ploy for you and it was a money ploy
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Because he didn't, you know, like what happened to millions of Americans?
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The whole country shifted right by, you know, some five, six, in some cases, 10 or more points.
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Like, well, again, yeah, they shifted right of center, which was more left.
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Yeah, so exactly when the center moves left, you've necessarily found yourself, you know,
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the right of, yeah, they haven't moved your feet.
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And like what the liberals and Democrats want to do now is shift the burden of proof from
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themselves onto everyone else to explain why there's a massive popular mandate for
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I felt I told myself I wasn't going to gloat, but I felt truly vindicated because my home state
01:10:30.560
We go to New Jersey in the summers and I was thrilled.
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I feel like Phil Murphy needs to feel the pain of the state becoming more and more red because
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that nutcase right there is trying to bring in those windmills to ruin the views and the
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safety along the Jersey shore and kill the whales, which really is a thing.
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And he hopefully now will listen that neither his residents nor the rest of the country wants
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He should have he should have realized it when he almost lost by a few points his reelection.
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But across the board, you see these like sweeping demographic changes of people shifting over
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to Trump, even in like traditionally deep blue strongholds like Manhattan.
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Did you ever think you'd see the day they didn't go for Trump, but they shifted toward
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Trump in double digits all over New York, the five boroughs.
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Well, we've been talking about and I know you guys have to one of the main issues and
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the number one issue for swing state voters is the trans issue.
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They said that in Democratic polling, it was a long postmortem.
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And they said in the swing states in particular, that was the number one issue.
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Too much focus on the trans stuff in particular by Democrats and not enough on the things
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that actually drive their lives and their concerns.
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And it's been very interesting to see this come to Capitol Hill this week.
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And Nancy Mace, who I think was probably inherently on our side on this issue, but like wasn't
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really focused on it, has now been woken up and is out there fighting this battle successfully
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I don't know where was she when she got attacked.
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My team will tell me, but she did get attacked by some trans activist.
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We have had dozens of trans people die this year because of the hate for lives that you
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And if you want to turn it up, are we going to be free speech for everyone or just the
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Are you going to stand up for the lives of trans people, glad and brown people?
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That his penis isn't going to be in my bathroom.
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If you're, if you're pro man watching me undress in a dressing room, you're part of the problem.
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I think it was like the silent majority really felt an instinct against it.
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Um, and now maybe feel a new freedom to, to speak on it.
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Um, and it's, to me, it's clear that the issue isn't even necessarily that like gender politics,
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It's that like, there's been an ideological capture of the institutions.
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Like you go to the hospital to give birth and they call you a birthing person that erodes
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And what woke ideology has done broadly is just eroded trust in like a lot of like legacy
01:13:35.220
I get automated text messages from my insurance company.
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That's that say something like, um, did you know that, um, people who have had their
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uteruses removed are still at risk for cervical cancer?
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People, people, um, I, can I spurg on this issue for a minute?
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Um, I saw you posting about autogynephilia and I was like JD Vance meme face, like ding,
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Um, because the most interesting thing to me about the trans issue is that the people
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pushing for it, the trans agenda are not who you would expect.
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They're not the people that you would typically associate with being trans or identify as trans.
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It's not, um, the young gay guys who want to pass as women because they want access to
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straight men and do frankly, a pretty good job of passing.
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It's not the young tomboy girls who, as you mentioned, maybe have a history of sexual abuse
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Number one, it's autogynephiles who are straight men who, um, have a paraphilia where they're
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sexually aroused by the thought of themselves dressed as women.
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They're, um, high achieving, high IQ, high aggression.
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They're very good at like making themselves heard.
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Um, I've said this before and I'll say it gets them off because they think being a woman
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And they get off on like people reacting badly to them.
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They're like, I'm telling you everything I am, but if you react badly, you're the problem.
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And, um, I never thought the patriarchy was real until I started getting bullied by these
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And then the second group I think are people who are not even trans.
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It's like liberal women and male feminists who maybe identify as queer or suffer from
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And all of those people are very locked into like the medical industrial complex.
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And for me, like having looked into this, studied this for a long time, I think the
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name of the game is they want to collapse all these categories together for maximum victim
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The people leading the charge are like the Jennifer Pritzkers of the world.
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And I'm sick of being lectured to by this Illinois governor who doesn't acknowledge what
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Now they're talking about him running for president.
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You know what, I will campaign in the streets against that guy to make clear what they've
01:16:09.540
But okay, you said so many good things in there.
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Do we have the AOC SOT where she's going off about what's happening?
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Nancy Mace wants to pull down your pants and inspect your genitalia.
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I don't know if I have- I have the wrong SOT list, you guys.
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I have the VDH SOT list and not my Red Scare one.
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What Nancy Mace and what Speaker Johnson are doing are endangering all women and girls.
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Because if you ask them, what is your plan on how to enforce this?
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And what it inevitably results in are women and girls who are primed for assault because
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they want- because people are going to want to check their private parts and what.
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And so the idea that Nancy Mace wants little girls and women to drop drow in front of who?
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And frankly, all it does is allow these Republicans to go around and bully any woman who isn't
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And if a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect
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I mean, that's just women and girls of all kinds.
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So that, to your point, Dasha, you hit the nail right on the head.
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These guys, these autogynophiles get off undressing like us, pretending that they're us, and then
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And so that, what she's referencing there, is one of those perverted little fantasies you
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will find in the dark trans chat rooms about how they want to be told they're bad little
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girls and they have to lift up their dresses to show their private parts.
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I'd love to know what portions of the internet she's on, because she just revealed something
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about herself that I don't think she knows she revealed.
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Literally, no one's talking about that other than the pervs in these chat rooms.
01:18:07.100
But, I mean, there, you said on a recent episode that there already are gender-neutral bathrooms
01:18:13.600
The fact that they want explicitly to go into a woman's bathroom, like, why are you so
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I told them I was going to pay for them to build one if they didn't have one.
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And this person who attacked Nancy Mace with her deep voice.
01:18:32.240
Um, and they're citing these statistics of trans people who've been murdered.
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Like, the trans people who are vulnerable are not AGPs.
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But Blanchard is the one who took a deep dive into trans people, and in particular, so-called
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So what he found is that people who say they're trans break down generally into two categories.
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One is gay men, more effeminate, gay little boys.
01:19:18.260
And they're going to be often, like, younger, black and brown versus white, lower income.
01:19:28.020
They're the ones who are really at risk because they often engage in prostitution.
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Those are the guys, women, getting raped and murdered in the streets, usually by members
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And then, according to Blanchard, it's 93%, 91% or 93% are actually autogynophiles.
01:19:50.860
So the overwhelming odds that if you meet a man pretending to be a woman are that he is
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one of these, I get off on dressing like a woman, and I get off on being shamed, and God
01:20:02.620
only knows what's happening in the bathroom stall next to you.
01:20:04.980
And you, for so long, have been shamed out of acknowledging that or even speaking of
01:20:14.940
And now, if you try to, forget even getting into that, but if you just say, I don't want
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It's one thing to actively oppress someone, and another thing to participate in their
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delusion and mental illness, which is what they ostensibly want to force us to do.
01:20:39.520
You know, Debra So, she wrote, God, what was her book, you guys?
01:20:47.040
And she's a PhD, end of gender, the end of gender.
01:20:51.160
And she wrote this great book called The End of Gender, and she's a PhD, and she's a
01:20:57.960
And she was saying they're all, there's bizarre ones out there.
01:21:01.100
And one of, I said, what's like the most obvious one?
01:21:03.940
Some people really get off on imagining that they're being eaten by an animal.
01:21:15.500
And she said, like, they take in porn that shows like an imaginary, I don't know, it could
01:21:27.920
Like, do you guys ever think about the fact that furries still exist and we have to tolerate
01:21:35.520
I do not want to be next to the guy when he is sketching out the dragon eating him and
01:21:44.400
I don't care if that's what he does in his home when he's alone.
01:21:47.660
But they're asking us to let that not only into our lives, but into our lives in the most
01:21:55.300
And it's not, it is not just bathrooms and locker rooms and sports and prisons.
01:22:00.500
It's actually, we've talked about this a few times.
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They're coming into the breast cancer hospitals where we have to go for the mammograms.
01:22:21.380
And I don't need to wait an extra 10 minutes for that man.
01:22:24.620
He needs to go back to his surgeon to see if he's healing correctly.
01:22:27.220
You know, when you're like at the OBGYN or getting a mammogram, you already, can I curse
01:22:32.940
You already feel like shit and you're nervous and you want to be alone in your own feminine
01:22:39.520
You don't want to be around a pervert who's like secretly jerking off to your pain and misery.
01:22:47.580
So in the midst of all this, again, to your point about who's reacting to Nancy Mace and
01:22:53.440
others like her, enters Katie Couric, who just, I mean, truly embodies Upper East Side
01:23:03.000
Both of her daughters went to the top, top schools for college.
01:23:06.940
They went to the top, top schools, New York City privates.
01:23:10.260
There was a time in which I knew her a bit personally.
01:23:13.140
And she used to be somewhat reasonable when I knew her.
01:23:16.300
She was always a liberal, but she's leaned into that upper echelon of liberals now where
01:23:24.460
And she reacts to Nancy Mace saying, I don't want men in the women's bathrooms as follows.
01:23:31.940
I'm just so disappointed that this Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, is being so
01:23:40.600
And I don't know, just bigoted against Sarah McBride.
01:23:49.660
And it just seems nasty and mean and cruel because she is the only member who is now forbidden
01:24:05.280
But she's not the only he is not the only member not permitted to use the ladies room.
01:24:23.980
The only demographic that didn't shift towards Trump was people over 65.
01:24:35.100
And they don't like Trump because they think he's mean and rude and uncivil and they find
01:24:43.800
But they don't really stop to ask themselves, like, maybe they're the only demographic because
01:24:49.340
they're sheltered and sequestered away from what's really going on in the world.
01:25:02.040
But it's not mean because somebody once explained to me.
01:25:06.060
It was a therapist of mine who was like, I don't know, it was with respect to my first
01:25:14.120
But I remember the therapist saying, like, you should tell him those things you just said.
01:25:20.440
And the therapist said, it's not mean to tell the truth.
01:25:23.500
Like, cruelty is saying something with the intention of hurting the other person.
01:25:32.320
But being honest about how you actually feel is not cruel.
01:25:38.760
It's not mean to say to a man posing as a woman, Tim to Sarah, you may not come into our
01:25:45.760
The spaces in which we're lifting up our dresses and pulling down our pants.
01:25:52.100
And what's so depressing is that these people have effectively combined all the worst qualities
01:25:58.760
Like they've they've literally mashed up men's obsessiveness and aggression with women's
01:26:13.080
There's so much stronger and smarter than us anyway, because they're a high IQ male.
01:26:19.120
They can't drive, nor can they ask for directions.
01:26:32.480
OK, so do we think it's going to change at all now that there's been, you know, they had
01:26:36.880
the one guy, Scott Pressler of Massachusetts, who was like, I'm secretly on the side of
01:26:41.600
reason, even though he pushed all the legislation mandating boys and girls.
01:26:52.220
He's the guy who helped Trump win Pennsylvania.
01:26:53.560
I mean, so he says, OK, I have to be honest now, I'm not in favor of this, but almost everybody
01:27:00.600
else is doubling and tripling down and shaming guys like Seth Moulton for even saying it.
01:27:23.560
I've seen a lot of people because after Trump won, everybody, including liberals, breathed
01:27:28.760
The the vibe on the street was peaceful and it wasn't exactly enthusiastic, but people
01:27:38.120
I saw that you guys had that Jaguar commercial on the docket and we have to talk about it.
01:27:44.800
It reminded me of of the recent the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live with Charlie
01:27:50.320
And it's very clear what happened with those both of those things, which were very clearly
01:27:58.400
And with the SNL episode, they were hoping to have some epic brat memes on how Kamala owned
01:28:05.340
and they had to throw them in the dustbin and just run Charlie as a pop star.
01:28:09.380
I don't think Charlie's the one behind that whole brat.
01:28:14.020
I don't think wokeness is over because you have to remember that it's really, really entrenched
01:28:18.540
in the cultural institutions and federal bureaucracies.
01:28:25.580
I don't think that guys like Vivek and Elon will try to take care of it.
01:28:42.800
There's a, it appears to be a man with breasts.
01:29:10.960
When I was very young and fresh out of law school, I went to this firm, Bickle
01:29:16.540
It was a great firm, like cutthroat litigators.
01:29:25.600
And when you made partner at Bickle and Brewer, you got a Jaguar.
01:29:31.660
And the guys who ran Bickle and Brewer, especially Bill Brewer, who I know still to this day,
01:29:37.880
the chiseled jaw, like the great suit with the pocket square and good looking guy.
01:29:45.420
He looks a little like Robert Redford and John Bickle, the same.
01:29:49.300
And there was an image with the Jaguar that is what made them want to give the partners
01:30:03.160
This, I mean, I don't know whether Bickle and Brewer are still doing that, but guarantee
01:30:06.900
you if everybody's sold their Jaguar, there is zero chance my former friends and my friends
01:30:11.480
and former colleagues at Bickle and Brewer are doing, this is so, this is a Bud Light
01:30:15.560
Well, I think they're unveiling, yeah, go broke, go broke, Bud Light.
01:30:18.820
I think they're unveiling like an electric car or something.
01:30:26.800
Full hands copy nothing because they're trying to differentiate themselves from Tesla.
01:30:30.280
So I think Anna's right that this was something that was in development at marketing prior
01:30:37.400
And yeah, it just seems extremely out of touch and irrelevant.
01:30:42.280
Well, to their credit, everybody in the ad is thin.
01:30:46.920
Here is the guy, Santino Pietro Santi, speaking about Jaguar.
01:30:52.960
He's like their, I don't know, marketing guy or spokesperson.
01:31:01.480
We are seeing progress threatened, freedoms questioned, and our rights rolled back.
01:31:06.600
And we're committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and unified culture.
01:31:10.920
A culture where our employees can bring their authentic selves to work.
01:31:15.800
And we're on a transformative journey of our own.
01:31:19.340
Driven by a belief in diversity, inclusion, creativity.
01:31:23.340
We've established over 15 DEI groups, such as Pride, Women in Engineering, and Neurodiversity
01:31:31.260
We've launched major policy revisions, such as transitioning at work to drive equity.
01:31:37.980
We are talking about all new ways of thinking and embracing the full spectrum of human potential
01:31:49.380
Elon responded to that ad with, do you sell cars?
01:31:58.200
Well, it's amazing news because woke people can't drive, so they're not really.
01:32:06.280
That's like who would drive, who will be attracted to the Jaguar now?
01:32:14.000
Isn't it about like, I would be caught dead driving a Jaguar right now.
01:32:17.940
And I have to say, I'm one of, I actually just had to buy a new car because my lease
01:32:21.880
And, um, I, I looked into Jaguar just to see, cause I had a good affiliation given my years
01:32:27.880
at Bicklin Brewer, these cool guys who I loved.
01:32:39.040
I like it because it's sporty, but it's, you know, it drives great.
01:32:43.780
And I mean, it really like accelerates very easily.
01:33:03.900
It's the opposite of that ad we just saw where it has a man and a woman, both attractive.
01:33:09.780
I don't have to tell you, you're in succession.
01:33:19.220
By the way, Katie Couric should take that lesson.
01:33:20.720
Why did she go without makeup on her close-up commentary?
01:33:24.720
Well, that's the new thing among aging women like Paulina Porzikova and Linda Evangelista
01:33:38.860
So like if I were Linda Evangelista, maybe I would do it.
01:33:43.720
News women like us, Katie, we need to put on the face paint.
01:33:47.740
Anywho, Volvo put out this beautiful ad of like a young hot guy with his wife and she
01:33:52.420
clearly is coming over with that look and she's telling him she's pregnant.
01:33:56.080
And then he talks to his mom and he's like, I'm worried.
01:34:00.500
And then they give birth to a daughter and he's trying to take care of his daughter and
01:34:43.120
Leaning into just family and love, the nuclear family, how this looks, how we sell, how the
01:34:53.760
I mean, I think in terms of wokeness being over, yeah, like it is pretty entrenched in
01:34:59.880
But as far as media goes, like the people have a bottom line.
01:35:03.540
You know, if the ratings aren't there, if things aren't making money, if the Jaguars
01:35:07.260
aren't selling, eventually it might not happen overnight, but things will pivot towards a
01:35:11.800
more like, honestly, not even right, like center.
01:35:18.960
And I think now for the first time ever, we have a counterweight, which is the independent
01:35:22.260
media, podcasts, live streams, all of these things that people kind of poo-poo and belittle,
01:35:28.180
but that actually played an important role in getting Trump across the finish line.
01:35:33.700
And now that there's this counterbalance, I think corporations will probably feel a little
01:35:43.080
And the big question I always had about wokeness, because the longtime justification for wokeness
01:35:49.700
among sophisticated and rational people was that, oh, well, it's just like economically
01:35:54.260
sound, it's good for profit, but I don't think it is.
01:35:58.380
You used to get a score from the human rights campaign, which everybody wanted to be like
01:36:06.780
It used to be just pro-gay rights and equality, and now it's just rabidly pro-trans.
01:36:11.540
But now, bit by bit, more and more corporations have said, we don't care what our score is
01:36:21.320
I can't even think of 15 people who possibly need something like that.
01:36:29.240
I was talking with VDH about the implosion of MSNBC in the wake of Trump's victory.
01:36:35.800
I think it's both because people are depressed on the left, and I do think people are realizing
01:36:40.980
They were not given the straight scoop by anybody.
01:36:46.800
Like, when I was on Fox, it was like 4 million easily.
01:36:53.480
In the demo, we'd have 700,000, like the 25 to 54.
01:37:03.520
You guys saw this, but I was discussing with my pal, Paul Murray of Sky News Australia.
01:37:16.020
I don't do any other, like, extraneous news hit, but I do this one because I just love
01:37:21.020
And I was mocking those two, and I was mocking Mika Brzezinski, champion of women, and what
01:37:30.000
And this clip wound up, you know, unforeseeably everywhere, and it even caught in the notice
01:37:37.600
They were on the cover of, was it New York Magazine 10 years ago?
01:37:41.800
And you have a picture of the two of them where Joe Scarborough is like this.
01:37:45.860
I think he might have his feet up on the table.
01:37:53.700
I'm not dressed for this, but I'm just, I'm going to show you.
01:38:10.760
And he's sitting there in the position like, yeah, do it, baby.
01:38:17.900
So I am so over her f***ing issues about women's rights and empowerment and race, this.
01:38:36.000
Megan Dasha has to teach you how to crowd walk.
01:38:40.200
I'm sorry, but is this not one of the most sexist things you've ever laid eyes upon?
01:38:52.420
She's looking at him, but he's looking into the camera.
01:38:54.920
He's got the power pose with like the man spread cross-legged thing.
01:39:06.580
But my issue with this image is that it's fake.
01:39:10.000
It's a fantasy because you know in reality, she's the one bossing him around.
01:39:27.180
We're going to say goodbye to our lovely SiriusXM audience in about a minute, but we can keep
01:39:33.300
He came on my show on Fox News to promote something.
01:39:37.620
And I made a joke about how he has four viewers.
01:39:41.100
Well, he was like, give me the look of death and the death stare and couldn't really get
01:39:52.760
It was like, all right, we were crushing them at Fox.
01:39:57.720
Like he had to expect a little guff from a competitor who was giving him, throwing him
01:40:01.500
a bone by letting him, you know, promote his stuff.
01:40:11.380
I mean, so many emails as I did from his staff over at MSNBC saying, thank God.
01:40:28.100
Often powerful men like to, you know, like stomped on.
01:40:32.440
Full disclosure, just learn who Joe and Mika were like this morning.
01:40:40.900
But I, but you know, Glenn Greenwald had the best take on this.
01:40:45.080
Where he was like, okay, all these people in the mainstream media, I'm guessing their
01:40:53.820
We're telling us for 10 years that he was Hitler.
01:40:56.140
While we're on the topic of lunatic leftist media, there's a couple of fun things I have
01:41:10.320
And not only was she respected, she was considered their conservative commentator.
01:41:16.840
She might be, I mean, I guess not number one, but she's in the top 10% of people suffering
01:41:26.900
It's like, what happens when you get bitten by the sick raccoon?
01:41:34.440
It's set in full Little House on the Prairie style.
01:41:41.420
You have to boil it down to nuts and bolts and you have to be pithy.
01:41:53.140
If you're going to oppose vaccinations, if you're going to stop breakthrough medical research,
01:41:59.360
if you're going to allow minors and all sorts of people to get semi-automatic weapons, which
01:42:06.520
they use to shoot up schools, well, then you are responsible for kids' health and death,
01:42:14.060
It has to be that simple and that direct, and it has to be over and over and over again.
01:42:22.240
So what they need to do, in other words, is ramp up the rhetoric about Republicans.
01:42:38.100
I mean, do you believe they're still deluding themselves into believing this crap will work?
01:42:44.220
I mean, what about giving them puberty blockers?
01:42:52.680
It's like Dr. Mengele style medical experimentation, which nobody talks about.
01:42:59.300
I feel like history, if there are any historians left, will not look kindly to this era.
01:43:04.720
I mean, it just feels like such an inverse of, like, Republicans don't want to kill kids.
01:43:13.380
They believe that it's a problem of mental health.
01:43:15.800
I think, like, the worst thing you can say about mainline Republicans is that sometimes they will agree to use their kids as political pawns.
01:43:23.540
But I don't think that they have that kind of anti-natalist, anti-life bent that left libs have.
01:43:36.560
You didn't get going on the topic of abortion, but it's fine.
01:43:39.020
I mean, good people have different points of view on that.
01:43:42.380
But just to reduce the Republican Party down to what they want to kill children, no one's going to believe that.
01:43:52.940
Well, yeah, but that's what's so perplexing for me, that Glenn was saying that they have played the Hitler card for years.
01:44:00.760
He's literally worse than anybody ever in the history of the Earth, except for Hitler.
01:44:08.900
Hitler, he's an absolute threat to our democracies, hell-bent on destroying democracy.
01:44:14.560
And then you're going to do a photo op of you and him shaking hands, and you're going to fly to his beachfront property, and you're going to fall in line and kiss the ring.
01:44:25.560
I mean, okay, Bill Maher, who's a friend of yours, I'm guessing.
01:44:42.480
And talk about how Trump is not only a Bulgarian, but a threat to democracy.
01:44:55.420
He definitely loathes Trump with the passion of 10,000 sons.
01:45:03.620
You know, he's such an interesting guy because he's a non-woke liberal.
01:45:05.800
Well, it's an issue, yeah, like I was saying with boomers of, like, decorum.
01:45:10.240
You know, they just don't—they find him distasteful, especially, like, the elites.
01:45:16.900
And in that way, the Jaguar ad, too, it's like in—you're selling a luxury product.
01:45:22.180
So you think you're pandering towards, like, people who can afford Jaguars, who you think
01:45:26.880
are going to fall in line with, like, DEI, woke ideology.
01:45:30.940
But I think that is shifting, and people are just becoming more realistic.
01:45:35.480
Well, and the real people who are buying Jaguars are, like, plumbers in Central Jersey who made
01:45:43.280
But, you know, if I were to psychoanalyze Bill Maher and all the rest of these boomers,
01:45:49.020
some of whom I really like and respect, it's really the narcissism of small differences.
01:45:53.360
He's mad because Trump beats him at his own game, which is being—
01:46:02.060
But, I mean, Trump and I have a personal history.
01:46:17.280
Trump said some not very nice things about you, and yet you made the reasonable calculation
01:46:22.920
that he's better for this country than Kamala, stood by his side, or very loyal to him.
01:46:37.660
Well, it took a while, you know, and it was organic.
01:46:42.040
Like, that first year after that debate, which I confronted him, and then he really did spend
01:46:55.880
He really felt like I drew first blood, as opposed to thinking, oh, I'm at a presidential
01:47:00.840
These moderators are going to ask me tough questions, right?
01:47:07.520
And if you go back and you look at that year on the Kelly file, I did hit him sometimes,
01:47:12.260
I actually was defending him more than I was hitting him.
01:47:18.420
And he called that judge overseeing his Trump University case.
01:47:22.460
He said he should step down because he's Hispanic.
01:47:24.840
I was like, all right, that doesn't make sense.
01:47:26.740
But truly, I remember, because I was very careful about, like, when am I going to hit him?
01:47:30.080
Because I know people are expecting me to just go full TDS.
01:47:40.960
And I just couldn't see myself, like, ever voting for him, even though I had voted Republican
01:47:56.580
I don't know what this next four years entails, but this doesn't bring me any joy and I'm not
01:48:03.420
This year, I can't wait to go to the inauguration.
01:48:09.420
I'm actually, trust me, I could call there and try to get an invitation.
01:48:12.940
I'm like, no, I don't want that kind of a chummy relationship with him.
01:48:18.880
We'll show up there with my press pass and work the crowd.
01:48:22.540
But over his four years governing, I was like, well, I like that.
01:48:31.060
And then the Brett Kavanaugh thing was a before and after moment where I was, as I am with
01:48:44.080
And then they were trying to sink this guy from the Supreme Court based on a 30-year-old
01:48:49.440
unsubstantiated allegation from a woman who went first to Democrat operatives to bring
01:48:54.740
And then within two seconds calling him a gang rapist.
01:49:00.760
And then the next four years with a law fair, as a lawyer, I was like, oh my God, this is
01:49:09.120
It's like, that's how you know these guys are actually clean.
01:49:12.300
It's because when they have to pull out the dirt that's like ancient and nebulous on them,
01:49:17.420
it's like, you're like, wow, they must have actually not done anything wrong.
01:49:20.640
Do you think he had any encounter with E. Jean Carroll?
01:49:26.220
It sounds like a romance novel where he like pushed her into a Bergdorf's dressing room.
01:49:30.860
He gave the best, most credible answer where she's not my type.
01:49:35.900
And if that's really the worst and all the other law fair, like if that's really the
01:49:39.340
worst they have on him, then they really must have not.
01:49:45.340
Did you guys see the deposition testimony where her lawyer was deposing Trump and asking
01:50:03.580
I mean, that's that's one of Trump's best qualities that he doesn't really lie.
01:50:11.420
Sometimes he lies in the sense of, yeah, like hyperbolizing, dramatizing things in service
01:50:19.640
But he's actually like totally honest almost 100 percent of the time.
01:50:23.460
And like libs have this perception that he's like a dyed in the wool liar.
01:50:30.280
And they're really good at it because they are like not only misrepresenting the facts,
01:50:40.000
And they're doing this in a very like colluded way where all of them are on board.
01:50:45.140
So no one person actually has to take accountability or be responsible.
01:50:50.000
They're they're sort of waiting for Rachel Maddow to get their talking points for the week,
01:51:04.420
I've gone from 30 million dollars a year to 25 million dollars a year.
01:51:29.000
When you said in that video that Ms. Leeds would not be your first choice,
01:51:35.200
you were referring to her physical looks, correct?
01:51:44.560
You wouldn't be a choice of mine either, to be honest with you.
01:51:47.000
I would not, under any circumstances, have any interest in you.
01:51:59.000
Yeah, I mean, she is like such a horny psychopath.
01:52:11.200
I know she has all these like raunchy tweets and stuff.
01:52:15.440
Yeah, she's like a sexual assault ambulance chaser.
01:52:21.520
Wait, while my team is paying attention, do we have the one where he says fortunately or
01:52:25.440
unfortunately about the grab him by the P word?
01:52:44.120
You know, I think it's OK if you didn't like Trump before.
01:52:51.720
And like now we can all just enjoy it when he when Biden won four years ago, I remember
01:52:59.060
distinctly feeling like I can tell the liberals miss Trump.
01:53:03.820
And I think we can all set aside our differences.
01:53:05.920
He really is like a unity, a unifying candidate.
01:53:12.720
And it's like to circle back to what you were saying when you were talking about how we were
01:53:25.180
And the fact of the matter is that Libs, I've said this on the show, I'm going to repeat
01:53:31.280
Liberals say they hate Trump because he sows hateful and divisive discourse, among other
01:53:41.240
They're threatened by the fact that he's a unifying force with mass appeal.
01:54:10.820
It's true with stars that they can grab women by the pussy?
01:54:13.300
Well, that's what it's if you look over the last million years, I guess that's been
01:54:45.860
We've always called him our first Jewish president because he has the cadence of like a
01:54:54.640
And he's he's just like super upfront and actually pretty even handed at the end of
01:55:01.320
But the thing that liberals object to, it's just like elitism, plain and simple, like
01:55:07.320
they have that very unfortunate combination of snobbery and cowardice.
01:55:20.660
So when they say he's a threat to democracy, well, the democratic process has elected him
01:55:27.460
and also they never stopped to think that they might be the real threat to democracy with
01:55:34.420
their like endless lawfare and media manipulation and like bending of norms and values.
01:55:41.220
But that is what I think when I think of Scarborough.
01:55:44.820
Like the day after the election, he went out on his show and he was like, I know you don't
01:55:52.380
I've never even heard of him, but I love that about you.
01:55:55.020
But he went out on his show and he was like he was a huge first Biden and then Kamala booster.
01:56:02.200
And he was like, I've been telling him about this trans issue.
01:56:15.820
I only heard you ripping on Trump and calling him Hitler and saying Kamala Harris was the
01:56:30.980
And by the way, my team says that they have pulled the bite when he was on the Kelly file
01:56:37.940
Debbie Murphy has sent me the background and said clip.
01:56:40.340
And I will tell you whatever background she found.
01:56:42.920
There's still a blonde woman on that set interrupting you at every turn.
01:56:46.060
I swear to God, it's whether it's like six in the morning or it's nine at night.
01:56:52.940
Only if you snapped your fingers at me, you'd have eight fingers instead of ten.
01:56:56.640
Boy, you really you did your research, did you?
01:57:06.040
If you want to see more of Joe, you can join his four viewers and see you tomorrow morning.
01:57:15.020
They didn't get the end where he did not laugh.
01:57:18.760
He was upset about my four of your, which was true.
01:57:22.400
And the snap of your finger, he has snapped his fingers in front of Mika's face like that.
01:57:27.200
Even just the two of us sitting here, woman to woman, it's obnoxious.
01:57:31.700
But a man doing it to a woman is really like, go F off.
01:57:42.460
Forgive me because I don't have my, who does that?
01:57:45.760
Forgive me because I don't have all my facts about these two at the ready.
01:57:52.040
They were both married to other people and they were cheating on those people.
01:58:03.920
Then she's out there like sex pot with her leg up.
01:58:06.540
And again, like, I did kind of sex potty photos.
01:58:16.700
So it's not that I'm saying she shouldn't show off her sex appeal.
01:58:20.020
It's that particular photo from a woman who wants us to believe she's a feminist.
01:58:29.200
And he's sitting in the power position looking directly at the camera.
01:58:55.820
And I, GQ, I was like four months pregnant when I did the shoe.
01:59:00.740
But I went, they were like, GQ would like to do a profile on you.
01:59:06.620
Fox kind of said you should do it or you shouldn't do it.
01:59:12.780
And they were like, how do you feel about wearing like a sexy outfit?
01:59:17.740
So like things that already popped down there, you know, like it doesn't.
01:59:23.080
And to be honest, it didn't hold together well in child number one.
01:59:26.260
But in any event, I'm like, sure, I'll go over it.
01:59:36.800
I looked so like sexy in a way that I'd never seen myself.
01:59:58.200
So now people are upset over my mocking Mika Brzezinski in that.
02:00:09.240
No, my issue with those photos isn't that she's doing like a sexy slutty pose that goes
02:00:18.900
It's that it's just corny and theater kid like.
02:00:25.400
It is right for her because it shows her subservient.
02:00:27.820
And you were saying you got cut off, but that some douchebag men like being like crap done.
02:00:36.380
Well, it's like a cliche, like men who work in finance will patronize dominatrixes because
02:00:41.060
their lives are so they have so much power and they're under so much pressure that they
02:00:50.440
Yeah, it's a kind of a classic sexual pathology.
02:01:24.300
Oh, it was about Joe Scarborough possibly running for president.
02:01:34.040
How have they had their show for so long with so few viewers?
02:01:39.660
I mean, MSNBC just doesn't have a lot of viewers.
02:01:44.180
I was making fun of this earlier, but if you get less than 50,000, which has never been a
02:01:49.740
No, we've never, ever, you were never flirting with a slash.
02:02:00.620
We're in niche podcasts who don't have like a video thing.
02:02:10.580
Well, I might have to make this happen for you.
02:02:14.540
Well, that, that, speaking of being on camera, is this, how do you, how are you talking like
02:02:20.760
Well, I mean, yeah, it hasn't been great for my career, but I have other things going.
02:02:40.680
I mean, you had Rachel Ziegler on the docket too.
02:02:46.640
You know, what is she the one that's on the cover of Cosmo with the cover story authored
02:02:53.160
I just know of her stupid statements in the news.
02:03:00.000
And I'm like, I don't, I understand why I've been hindered in my career as an actress
02:03:22.540
Well, right now they're looking for Trump supporters for movies, for television shows, for The View.
02:03:36.540
I mean, it's, yeah, it's, I think just any kind of like commentary will make you a liability.
02:03:42.380
Here, so the reason we had Rachel Zegler on the docket is she's an asshole.
02:04:02.680
But I just mean she's, you know, actresses aren't known for their like.
02:04:14.180
She did a 180 after I attacked her and she deserved it.
02:04:25.200
So she came out and took a large dump on half of the country.
02:04:29.060
Everyone who voted for Trump, I remember her words.
02:04:36.820
The man's already been almost assassinated twice.
02:04:41.420
So I attacked her and then she came out and she said, I apologize.
02:04:46.840
Like I, I went too far, but it wasn't sincere because she's had a long history of saying
02:04:54.200
Our new Snow White and my team, my helpful team pulled this thought from just soundbite,
02:04:59.300
sound on tape, S-O-T, from December 2023, in which, I mean, I would say,
02:05:06.140
she leans into her role as both victim and heroine.
02:05:11.440
And to everyone who hates when I win, the winged victory came to the Louvre in pieces
02:05:28.420
That despite my flaws and despite my cracks and my bricks, and there are many of them.
02:05:36.620
That at every premiere and everything I do, people will wait in line to see.
02:05:49.580
Can you please analyze that from an actor, director perspective?
02:06:13.820
My friend, Melissa Francis, is a childhood actor.
02:06:20.060
She and Jason Bateman were like the new Ingalls kids when the originals aged out.
02:06:30.940
And she's amazing because she still gives her children a hard time when they fake cry.
02:06:38.860
And then they break out into a chuckle because they know.
02:06:45.320
You're going to have to up your game if you're going to be in this family.
02:06:49.660
As a friend of mine put it, kids are stupid but intuitive.
02:06:52.000
And they can see through you every single time.
02:06:55.960
And I think that's what, like, actors are, too, a lot of the time.
02:07:04.100
Well, what did you think of the Oprah town hall with Meryl Streep?
02:07:23.440
No, I shouldn't have asked it of either one of you.
02:07:35.960
So then you came over to the United States with your parents.
02:07:43.380
I moved to the East Coast through no fault of our own.
02:07:48.180
I mean, I think, like, we were mutuals on social media.
02:07:52.660
I moved to New York in 2018, which is when we started the show.
02:08:03.360
Like, the way you speak, you have, like, a sort of quiet affect.
02:08:10.240
I love your cutting commentary with, like, the flat affect.
02:08:20.760
I love watching her parenting videos where she's like, Baron is going to go to school
02:08:31.940
And you can tell that she really loves him and she's really enthusiastic about him.
02:08:52.640
I mean, well, people love to slander her as, like, an Eastern European prostitute.
02:09:00.180
I feel like she experiences a lot of anti-Slavic rhetoric.
02:09:04.780
But she's obviously, like, a very smart and elegant woman.
02:09:11.100
And she's discreet, which can't be said of a lot of people.
02:09:13.940
They love to pull up her, like, nude and risque photos and be like...
02:09:25.020
She looks great and all models did nude photos.
02:09:42.520
I mean, we're effectively American, so we're probably not...
02:09:49.620
Um, that they have a reputation for being cold, but actually most, like, Russian and Slavic women I've known are very...
02:09:56.080
Why would she put up with, like, I mean, I don't know whatever about Stormy Daniels, but there's no question, I think, that Trump has not been totally faithful.
02:10:18.580
Infidelity doesn't have to be, like, a deal breaker.
02:10:20.820
I would say that, like, at the end of the day, Eastern European women have a warm heart and mean well, but they have a contempt for weakness.
02:10:37.480
But I think that that's all, like, non-retarded women who end up, like, they happen to always lean slightly right.
02:10:46.020
Not because they're necessarily even, like, politically invested or involved, but that's just, like, how it goes.
02:11:08.340
And yet she gets totally ignored by Vogue and all the other magazines.
02:11:12.520
They have no interest in her because she's married to Trump.
02:11:15.560
Or, yeah, or they talk about how she's, like, basically a prostitute that she married who's, like, ready to betray him at any moment, which she hasn't done.
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The New York Times called her a mannequin when he was running, a mannequin.
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This magazine that wants us to believe they're totally woke and involved and so on.
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So what's your prediction for the next four years?
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Are these liberals who told us he was Hitler going to try to be more open-minded in their coverage because they know that their base actually may have voted for him, the working class, minorities, even women in much larger numbers than expected?
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Are they going to try to say, like, I'm going to be fair or are they going to be their normal selves and try to ruin him?
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I think, well, I think if he does follow through on the mass deportations, we're going to have kids in cages.
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We're going to have lots of, like, trauma porn, basically.
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But for the most part, I've said this on the show, like, they don't have it in them the way they used to.
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Like, I just don't think they have the energy or the popular, like, the writing's on the wall.
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So I think, for the most part, it won't be as bad as the TDS was during his first term.
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I think they're going to recede into their own enclosed, like, siloed sphere of media, like the Ezra Klein's, the Matty Iglesias's.
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And Sam Harris was just on his podcast talking about the failures, the Commonwealth's failures and Trump's victory and, you know, basically, like, lying through his teeth, though he's not even aware that he's lying.
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I don't think it's going to be as bad or as strident as it was before.
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And the one I'm a natural, like, cynic and pessimist.
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But the one thing that makes me feel really, really hopeful about this administration is that everybody in it is so young.
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So it's, like, very clear that Trump is not only, like, interested in remaking the Republican Party in his own image.
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He's also interested in injecting it with new blood and giving it a future.
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My door guys advanced to be president for eight years.
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I would suggest that we hang out socially, but I'm, like, old enough to be your mother, so it would be not appropriate.
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Thank you all for listening, and we'll see you Monday.