New Details About Biden Coup, CNN Loses Millions in Defamation Case, and Obama Drama, with Maureen Callahan ｜ Ep. 985
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Maureen Callahan, a columnist for The Daily Mail, joins me in the studio to talk all things Trump and the upcoming Inauguration. She also talks about her plans to attend the inaugural, and why she thinks gold is the best investment right now.
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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.
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Here with me in the studio for the full show, one of our favorites, Maureen Callahan.
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She's a columnist for The Daily Mail and I'm going to get with her in our conversation in one second.
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But first, I want to bring you guys all a special announcement.
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As you may know, we're going to be doing our show from Washington, D.C. on Monday,
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and that's because I am going to be going to the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump
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And then we'll be bringing you a show on all platforms right after.
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So I'll have fun in the afternoon watching the president get inaugurated, and then we will go
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do a show for you so that you can hear what we saw, who we talked to, and what it means for America.
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And we'll have some of our favorite guests there as well.
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It's going to air on Sirius XM PM at 6 p.m. Eastern time that day, and then we'll release it on podcast and YouTube.
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But before the inauguration, which, as you know, is on Monday, on Sunday, I'll be joining President-elect Trump,
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Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, and more, speaking at the president's final rally.
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But he loves interacting with his voters and his fans and the American people.
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And I'd love to hear from you on what you'd like to hear me talk about.
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And I'd love to hear what you would be interested in, right?
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Because it is an opportunity to take the message to some people who don't always hear us talk, right?
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Because the news media will have to take some of these speeches.
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And then we'll take you behind the scenes all weekend on our social accounts, you know,
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Twitter and Facebook and Insta and TikTok, all of them, if TikTok's around, which it's going to be.
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I'm not, I don't actually think it's going away, even though the Supreme Court ruled against TikTok,
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And you just shared with me that it's moved indoors.
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I mean, the ABC News is citing, based on a source, a report that it's moving indoors,
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which I don't know if it's true, but if it's true, and please God, let it be true.
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Praise Jesus, Maureen, because it's going to be 10 degrees on Monday.
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And that's not the feels like, you know, when you go on your phone and you're like,
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And it would be, I don't think that's ever happened before, right?
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And they're telling you to get there no later than 8 a.m. for a noon inauguration.
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I've got that Raynaud's, you know, where you don't get the circulation on the ends of your
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I can't last 10 minutes, nevermind six hours out there.
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I said, I only eat the non-cute animals like chickens.
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And they sent me a whole letter explaining why chickens are cute.
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I called somebody a pig and they sent me a whole letter saying it's not, that's impolite
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They're not going to like my jacket that I'm wearing.
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Well, you just, the trick is you say it's vintage, buy vintage, came to you through a
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You know, but it is funny because like when I was at Fox, you would never wear fur.
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You wouldn't, you wouldn't be allowed to wear fur in a, in a neck thing, in a, in a puff,
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No, because it is so controversial still, or it was.
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Now I feel like you've got the two sons of the president are big game hunters for God's
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I don't think it's as controversial in that circle.
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If you go to buy fake fur, quote unquote fake fur, often it's made from real fur.
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And the manufacturers just tried to sort of dupe you into thinking you're not wearing real
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fur, but nothing gets, nothing will get through real fur.
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I'm sorry, but like what, where, why is it okay to eat animals?
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You know, cows and lambs and ducks and chickens and pigs, but then you can't wear a fur.
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I like, I realized some of the, the fur making process is controversial, but so is the, the
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Well, listen, I don't think he needs to justify this to anybody.
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Be like Meghan Markle, stand in your power, stand in your truth and just go with it.
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Therefore I have ordered the inauguration address in addition to prayers and other speeches
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to be delivered in the United States Capitol rotunda as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985.
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You guys, so we can see what that's going to look like.
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I don't know how many people, how many people fit in the Capitol, uh, rotunda.
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And we're going to look it up so we can tell you, cause that's, that's going to shift events,
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We will open Capitol one arena on Monday for live viewing.
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Of this historic event and to host the presidential parade.
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So he's going to go over with all the people who are traveling in to see it.
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And the man loves being with the American people.
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And it's like, it's also what a great, because we were just talking before going on air that
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like, I'm going to cover it with like the regular rank and file press corps.
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And I was dreading being on that riser in that freezing cold weather.
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And it sort of sets the tone for this like incoming administration, which is people just
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Because it's truly like being outside for six hours in 10 degree weather, people with
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their young children, you know, you're just asking for negative things to happen, bad
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And by the way, there's zero chance the Secret Service would allow space heaters.
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Usually they don't allow bags bigger than, you know, a tiny little handbag.
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So the thought of bringing something that could heat you up, like, forget it.
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It's, and I don't even know if they would allow like a heated battery powered vest because
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they're so paranoid, understandably, about, you know, what could that be something else?
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I'll go to the Capitol to read it if I have to.
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Let's talk about the explosive New York times piece on Joe Biden and the effort to
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Let me start out with this a little, little walk down memory lane.
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When this past summer at the RNC in Milwaukee, the gang from ruthless came on the program,
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And, um, they said, we're just going to break this news because everyone's talking about
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it in our, like, you know, political circles, but no one will report it.
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Well, I mean, so look, I, I think knowing Schumer, we have speculate what he does, but
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I'm sure that he had poll numbers and all kinds of things indicating it was a huge problem
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Biden said, I'll resign if somebody shows me that I can't win.
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So I think he took advantage of it and had this conversation, ultimately didn't get the answer
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When he came out of the meeting, he said, good meeting, which to me immediately was a
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If you're meeting with a nominee of your party a hundred days before an election and you don't
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Something short of that indicates there's something else that happened.
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And then what we found out when we got to Milwaukee, it's the worst kept secret.
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Every single journalist, whether it's, you know, you name the publication, we've talked to
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him over the last few days, every single person knows exactly what happened, but they asked
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Chuck Schumer and it's a one-on-one meeting and he denies it.
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The Times admitting Schumer did go to see Biden in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, when he was still
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And the headline in the New York Times is, I'm urging you not to run, how Schumer pushed
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It says, this is based on an interview with half a dozen people who participated in that
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Senator Chuck Schumer of New York sat in the foyer of President Biden's Rehoboth Beach
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He had not slept the night before and on the four hour drive from Brooklyn to Delaware,
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he had rehearsed out loud what he planned to say and reviewing note cards as he prepared
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for what he thought might be the most high stakes speech he would ever give to an audience
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The roughly 45 minute conversation, which took place in a screened in porch overlooking
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a pond, was more pointed and emotional than previously known.
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He said to him, if you run and lose to Trump and we lose the Senate and we don't get back
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the house, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window.
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But worse, you go down in American history as one of the darkest figures.
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He says, Mr. President, you're not getting the information as to what the chances are.
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When he asked whether Mr. Biden has talked to his pollsters about his chances of winning,
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Only twice did Mr. Biden interrupt to ask a question.
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And both times it was, do you really think Kamala can win?
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Mr. Schumer said he didn't know, but that she had a far better chance.
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The two embraces Mr. Schumer headed back to the car where he broke down in tears as he recounted
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He didn't know what Mr. Biden would end up doing, he told him, but he felt he had gotten
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By the way, they also report that Obama went to Schumer and said, you have to do it.
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He doesn't because of our fragile relationship, admitting they don't like each other.
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The most surprising thing in that account to me is the detail that Schumer was driven and
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did not fly private like so many of our politicians do.
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I would suspect that that conversation was even more pointed.
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That to me feels like a very polite version because it's easy to forget.
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It wasn't all that long ago how stubbornly Biden was hanging on.
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And I really believe that whether it was Schumer, Pelosi, the both of them basically said, we're
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Like it's going to get very ugly if you don't voluntarily pull the plug you have until date
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Like I, I'm dying to read the really bloody, savage Roman empire version of this.
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Well, they also report that, um, Chuck Schumer demanded the meeting.
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Because Obama asked him to do it and said, I can't be the one.
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Um, because his members in the Senate, he, he said, quote, I cannot hold them back anymore.
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Well, this is saying that behind the scenes, the, it wasn't over.
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And it, the, the top senators were in a tailspin understanding that he couldn't do it.
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And they were about to write a letter saying that he needed to step down and that Schumer
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was saying to Biden, like, you don't want that there.
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They're going to come out on Moss against you, Democrat senators.
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And they also reported that Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island in the news this week for
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being the top damn cross-examining Pete Hegseth on the Senate, uh, armed services committee.
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Remember, he was the one who was like, I voted for all the nominees and of every president
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since I've been on, uh, this, this committee, you know, 20 years ago.
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He was, he was the worst white mic technique ever.
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Like right when he got into all the juicy parts, he pulled way back.
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So anyway, um, Jack Reed, who, um, is a West Point grad, former paratrooper, apparently said
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he could no longer support his commander in chief unless Mr. Biden could produce two neurologists
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to issue a public report saying he was fit to serve and then hold a news conference where
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I want the full unabridged Kitty Kelly National Enquirer version of all the machinations going on.
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I want to know why we are now being subject by this very same media that claims to have learned
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its lesson to the longest goodbye in modern American history to one of the worst presidents.
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Like this feels like the breakup that will not end.
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Like America broke up with him after that debate.
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And then we made it really final after the election, which really was like Biden 2.0 with
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Like I forgot it was Harris actually, because I keep thinking like we left you.
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We don't want to litigate this relationship anymore.
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But he's still out there trying to make his closing argument about how great he was and
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I mean, what I do think is interesting, too, about this is it does confirm Biden's got some
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political instincts asking twice, do you really think Kamala can win?
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He knew he couldn't admit to himself that he was going to lose given his infirmity.
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But at some level, he still knew she's not the answer.
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And, you know, reportedly Obama knew that, too.
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It's like, where's the in-depth piece on like who ultimately said it must be her?
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Like she's it's got to be Kamala because of the black women in our party, whatever.
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Like, how did they allow themselves to get in that position?
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If you don't think she can do the job, why are you picking her for your VP?
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And it's also it goes to why DEI is falling apart all over the place right now.
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And secondly, what I remember Pelosi saying, because remember when she was doing the rounds
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and she was going, well, if Joe thinks she's the best, then she's the best.
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Nancy Pelosi with like her her her whole sort of like it's really time to go.
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Every time I see her interview, she's got like a dirty tissue clunk in her hands.
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It's where we can see with the eye and the wheelchair.
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But to the Kamala thing, what I remember Pelosi saying was like, oh, she's smarter than you
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think because she spent that Sunday in which she told the American people her first question
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She hung up the phone and she started whipping calls.
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Whipping calls and getting the party right behind her.
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And then within five minutes came the, oh, and I endorsed Kamala, which I think most
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Democrats would tell you is what did it, that they couldn't have an open primary after Joe
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How did she get Joe Biden, who clearly did not believe in her, to issue that?
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Maybe she hung over his head like, I know how mentally compromised you've been all this
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You know, again, she knows where a lot of those bodies are buried as well.
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And she, I think, also knew that in this sort of strategic warfare that is this game, it
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would be Biden's ultimate F you to Obama, who never thought Biden had what it took in the
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We need to know, how is it that Jill Biden somehow didn't see what all these senators
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Who else demanded that two neurologists evaluate her and release their report?
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They've Trump won, but there's been no accountability in there and there won't be.
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And the same media, you know, who failed to notice that a neurologist came to the White House
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eight to 10 times over the previous year, didn't break this story.
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They didn't even break the fact that Chuck Schumer met with Biden.
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Now, here we are as he's about to leave office.
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It's too late to to 25th Amendment him out of office.
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Now, finally, we get the we all knew that he can't put two sentences together.
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We were demanding neurology reports behind the scenes.
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It's the biggest political story of the last 20 years, I think.
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And I don't understand how, as a reporter, you could just shy away from it.
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I mean, again, if this were a Republican, I mean, all the gloves would be off.
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You know, he would have been 25th Amendmented or forced to resign.
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And the whole thing, too, about letting him play out his term as though, well, we owe it to him.
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You got all the money from selling out, you know, national security.
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This is how this is how much, though, I think people have Biden fatigue, like those photos
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that came out of Biden and Hunter with those Chinese businessmen where he had said multiple
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Take your dirty money and your dirty family and go.
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Well, that's what I don't know if you saw this, but Scott Jennings was on CNN yesterday
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asking, I wasn't Scott Jennings saying, how did he get rich?
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It was somebody on CNN saying it was Kevin O'Leary.
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From from Shark Tank saying, how how does where did all of his money come from?
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It's about not letting rich people control the political process and not having our politicians
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Such as they can't institute regulations and common sense laws to make sure that the people
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at the top don't abuse the people at the bottom.
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But half the country's still wondering how Joe Biden got rich.
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Does anybody understand how the house house in time is rich?
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Kevin, your question about Joe Biden's legacy and how he will be seen is actually extremely
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And yeah, and it's not going to turn out the way Abby Phillip wants it to.
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Does anybody know how he has the Porsche and the Rehoboth Beach Beach House and Hunter Biden
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has all these millions from never really having any sort of successful career?
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The vintage Corvette that Biden loves to brag about the when the fires were raging.
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But when they were raging and Biden finally showed his face and said, I've got one piece
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You know, my son lives here and looks like his house is still standing like, oh, you mean
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that like Malibu beachfront house that like his sugar daddy paid for?
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I mean, I would love to also know how Nancy Pelosi got so rich.
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So Biden, one of the comments he made in his farewell address was about stopping, uh, trading
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And many have speculated that was a shot at her, you know, cause obviously she was the
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one who really took him down with her public pronouncements of let's just let wait, give
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him time to decide after he'd said 10 ways from Sunday, I'm staying right.
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I don't understand how these people can have inside information about what's going to happen
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on the law and to the certain companies and they're allowed to trade on it.
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If you were, I'd do it here was Biden last night.
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This was like the dessert, um, with Lawrence O'Donnell.
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I can't wait to see what the ratings were for this.
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And okay, here's, here's why Biden thinks he's leaving with a record low approval rating,
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That wasn't how it was teed up, but he does FYI have a record low approval rating.
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And the, here's how he's looking back at his, as his term in office and the regrets that
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Did it cross your mind to put your name on the checks?
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According to that, I kept being here from other people.
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Well, it was a bill we did, but anyway, it did cross my mind.
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But what a, what a mistake we made was, I think I made, was not getting our allies to acknowledge
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Ironically, I almost spent too much time on the policy and not enough time on the politics.
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Well, he did only have four hours a day that he was working.
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Can you imagine if you'd been doing that interview and responded with that?
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I just wish, for one, someone would just give it right back.
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Like, this is related, and then we'll go right back to this.
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But the other day at the Hegseth hearing, and you covered this, when the, I forget which
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congressman or senator said, hey, how many of you have shown up on the floor drunk to
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Like, while they're going on with, like, have you cheated on your wife?
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Like, how many of them are cheating on, like, it's a bastion of moral authority.
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So, anyway, the Lawrence O'Donnell interview was also, he's such a blowhard.
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Like, he begins the interview by saying, you know, when you were giving your farewell address
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the other night from the Oval, I was right there.
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I was sitting right there with your family, and I was looking at you.
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Like, he has to let us know he was in the room before we can begin with this bullshit
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But it really goes, like, Biden is part Irish or largely Irish, and it's, like, completely
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Which is, like, my favorite thing to do, which is, like, you just sneak out.
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You don't have to go through the whole rigmarole of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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We have a friend who does it all wrong where he's like, I'm doing the Irish goodbye.
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You remember one of his other big things the other night when he gave his farewell address
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was we have this tech oligarchy in this country now.
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It's a very dangerous thing for all sorts of reasons, mostly because they're supporting
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But Lawrence O'Donnell asks him about oligarchy, and he does not appear to have any idea what
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How does this oligarchy affect people out there who've never used the word oligarchy?
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The people who you're saying might not get a fair shot because of the way this is going.
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Look, if the decisions made that the multi-billionaires, the super, super wealthy, the wealthiest people
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in the world, begin to control all the apparatuses from the media to the economy, then who do
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I mean, look, I think everybody deserves just a shot.
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How the hell can you make it in society today if you don't have access to an education?
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You don't have access to the opportunity to have a job that you can handle, where you can make ends meet.
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If you have a job you can't handle, like Biden can't literally handle being president,
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So it was Biden's administration that went to Facebook and said,
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that laptop, Hunter laptop, that's a Russian plant.
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Twitter disabled the New York Post account because the Post was the only one reporting on it.
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It's a media that's been in lockstep with him and has been censoring stuff that they don't quite like.
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Is this because Mark Zuckerberg grew his hair out and said he's getting rid of DEI and censorship?
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That's what he's, and now he's part of the oligarchy?
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That keeps the little man down and from getting a job?
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It's almost like a junkie, like, nodding off and then, like, springing back up and, like,
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the eyes casting about for the word and then the, like, phrase that connects to the thought,
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By the way, Kamala Harris just did the same thing.
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I'll play it in a minute, but let's stick with Biden for now.
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Speaking of him just being out there, like, gone, the question was about what Bo, his son
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who is deceased, would say to him, and would you listen to this?
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Well, Bo and Hunter have always had faith in my instincts, but I think you've heard Barack
00:29:57.100
He said, I know, I know, all politics is personal.
00:29:59.980
Well, it's about understanding what motivates the other guy, other woman, and what their
00:30:15.360
I thought maybe you got it, because I got lost early on.
00:30:21.760
Did he say, like, Barack used to say to me when I was a kid?
00:30:25.680
Did I think he meant, I used to kid, I used to kid, or he used to kid me?
00:30:32.540
And he also spoke about Bo in the present tense, right there.
00:30:46.480
Yeah, but at least he's got the excuse of being infirm.
00:30:56.660
But I also would not rule out Biden's malignant narcissism and egotism.
00:31:02.040
And I think, you know, this will sound crass, but I truly think it's true.
00:31:07.080
The only thing keeping him alive at this point is presidential power.
00:31:11.180
And access to the money and the celebrities and all of it.
00:31:16.120
And the glory he gets from reading the news coverage of his administration, which mirrors
00:31:21.540
back to him, it's exactly why, like, he wasn't believing Chuck Schumer, because apparently
00:31:26.180
his team was only supposed to give him good news.
00:31:31.440
It's like, even in the wake of that debate, that was a dereliction.
00:31:34.120
But the Democrats paid a very high price for that dereliction.
00:31:37.120
Can we play that Kamala Harris soundbite, you guys, where she goes back to her standard
00:31:43.940
She's speaking out now, promising she's not going to go quietly.
00:31:48.020
And of course, she too only has, like, she's uncomfortable until she finds the chip in her
00:31:53.920
brain with the pre-rehearsed lines that her handlers have approved.
00:31:58.400
I am fully aware that I am the public face of a lot of our work.
00:32:03.600
And so I have the benefit of running into people all over our country who thank me.
00:32:08.960
And I will tell you, I am fully aware that when they are thanking me, they are thanking
00:32:14.900
our team for the extraordinary commitment that you each have and as a team have to lifting
00:32:23.440
up the American people, lifting up their condition, lifting up their hopes and dreams and understanding
00:32:42.220
She looks like she's signing ASL, like some press conference for a governor, you know, like get out.
00:32:47.460
And by the way, it's not like you would ever know that a major American city is being burned to the ground.
00:32:54.480
Like, it looks like it's been hit by a nuclear bomb.
00:32:58.680
These people are, like, congratulating themselves on the way out the door.
00:33:01.520
No, look at me and my legacy, but I just should have focused more on politics, not my great
00:33:06.540
And everyone's thanking me everywhere because of hopes and dreams.
00:33:13.760
And I don't know if you played the soundbite from her the other day telling Californians what
00:33:25.560
Yeah, it was basically like be safe and listen to announcements.
00:33:30.560
You are so right with your Meghan Markle comparison, like the verbosity, like all the
00:33:36.620
words deployed to say nothing, nothing, nothing left.
00:33:41.060
So you saw she went out, Meghan Markle, to the wildfires.
00:33:48.620
I thought, wow, I definitely now think my theory that Netflix was the one to pull the
00:33:53.420
plug on her show and it wasn't her idea or her unilateral decision, because had it been,
00:34:00.480
she would have been like, now's the time I go to ground.
00:34:06.500
Do you think she went out there knowing that it had been pulled and just sort of reminding
00:34:12.860
I've got my most concerned face on while reportedly that woman she was hugging was a member of
00:34:23.520
She doubled back and it was time for a hug with a concerned face.
00:34:26.360
You know, the baseball cap lid just high enough so we can see everything.
00:34:31.680
I saw footage of her also at like donating like bags of clothes, like cut a check.
00:34:39.380
There's no reason for her to go there personally.
00:34:46.180
The story will be about her, which is exactly what she wanted.
00:34:49.960
And now she and Harry are angry at Justine Bateman, according to page six, that she called
00:34:57.100
Their feelings are hurt because they really do just want to help Maureen.
00:35:00.620
Again, like failing to ever learn a lesson, read a room like, OK, you got called disaster
00:35:15.000
The most like if there's there's certain people when they do something, I think to myself,
00:35:20.320
I will never put another penny in their pocket.
00:35:27.260
I said, never again, not a penny in her pocket.
00:35:32.520
And so they they feel that we need to know that they are offended.
00:35:36.940
By this again, while L.A. is burning and people are going to be left with nothing and these
00:35:44.180
people are going to be screwed like they have no insurance, the federal government.
00:35:48.520
Like if you try to get help from them, good luck.
00:35:52.720
Oh, well, you were pointing out a column the other day.
00:35:57.160
A bunch of celebrities are out there like, oh, you know, help my family.
00:36:02.840
These multimillionaire stars like could you participate in my GoFundMe for my relic?
00:36:14.720
Meanwhile, her her partner, who I love, Jack, Milo, Milo Ventimiglia.
00:36:24.140
Somebody found him surveying his home in ashes.
00:36:31.660
And he certainly didn't ask people to give him money for himself or his family.
00:36:35.440
But Mandy Moore actually started GoFundMe for her in-laws.
00:36:38.140
Well, she said in her post, they're all so slippery.
00:36:41.740
She's like, by the way, I didn't start this GoFundMe, so don't blame me.
00:36:45.500
I'm just like being a good person and putting it out there for my brother-in-law who lost
00:37:06.380
No one's forcing you to do anything, which is not the point.
00:37:11.180
And I cannot tell you how gratifying it was to go through all these sort of comments from
00:37:15.120
people who were like, Mandy Moore, like, I thought you were like a decent person.
00:37:20.760
Like, she made $23 million reportedly just from This Is Us alone.
00:37:25.380
She doesn't have to work another day in her life.
00:37:27.880
She could replace that $60,000 worth of musical equipment.
00:37:40.100
No, and you also don't see Gwyneth Paltrow flying in and inserting herself into the story
00:37:45.120
under the auspices of, they really need me to ladle out the soup.
00:37:52.180
Like, any celebrity or somebody who's as well-known as Meghan and Harry are, who does that, is doing
00:38:01.060
It's totally different from, like, a Gary Sinise who will hold a concert and have people
00:38:06.120
come and pay an admission charge with a deal that I'm going to take all these proceeds
00:38:11.720
That's where, like, you're using your celebrity for good.
00:38:13.700
It's on the table that it's your celebrity that you're, you know, it's, you're going to do this thing.
00:38:18.660
They're just, they're trying to look like random good Samaritans.
00:38:25.520
And, um, I was saying to me, it's like when you go on to donate to somebody's GoFundMe,
00:38:30.820
um, I know I always click the anonymous thing because I know I'm me and I know like, I don't
00:38:35.840
want people writing stories about like, oh, she, she gave this or what it that's the, that
00:38:44.380
It undermines the point of doing it like true charity is something you do just for the
00:38:52.540
You're yes, you should be fading down into nothing.
00:38:57.340
If you do it because you also feel good, that's great.
00:39:00.660
But you don't do it to promote yourself, which is totally what they were doing.
00:39:06.720
I mean, one of the, I mean, I loved Prince, but one of my favorite things about him, which
00:39:10.920
I learned after he died was the extent of his charitable donations and how involved he was
00:39:23.020
And it's, it goes to one of my favorite sayings, which is if you do something good for someone
00:39:28.040
else and more than those two people know about it, you did it for the wrong reason.
00:39:33.020
This is one of the reasons why, even though Vivek gets under my skin sometimes with his weird
00:39:37.140
little posts about how we need more Urkels, um, that wasn't on my skin.
00:39:40.660
I just teased him because, but I will tell you, I do know a story personally, a person
00:39:44.840
I had on this show who got canceled over complete BS.
00:39:48.920
This is before Vivek was on the scene as a politician or anything.
00:39:52.320
He was just private businessman and he heard the story and contacted me and said, I want
00:39:59.800
And he's, I've never heard him tell this story.
00:40:01.960
Like he's, he wasn't looking for credit for it.
00:40:04.760
I mean, that just speaks to a true, like a good character of a person.
00:40:18.040
Meanwhile, while we're on LA, they're in a full meltdown there in terms of their politics.
00:40:27.500
Then she had some long heated closed door meeting with the mayor where they had it out.
00:40:31.460
By the next day, Saturday, they came out as a sort of united front.
00:40:34.620
Like we're going to resolve our differences in private, but she continues to rip on the
00:40:40.800
fact that the fire department didn't get the resources it needed, the fire chief.
00:40:44.240
And now what you're seeing is reports that there's been a rebellion against her and that
00:40:49.320
there's a push growing for her, the LA fire chief to step down because she hasn't been
00:40:55.680
taking care of the firefighters in her ranks or listening to their many complaints.
00:41:00.420
So she raised at least one publicly saying, don't defund us the $17 million.
00:41:04.520
Like we need more resources, but you're hearing more and more firefighters from within and
00:41:08.760
including the head of the firefighters union come out and say, we've been sounding the alarm.
00:41:13.720
And actually some are saying this fire chief needs to go among other things.
00:41:18.240
She's been too focused on DEI and getting more women.
00:41:23.380
The New York times has a report on this out right now.
00:41:25.280
She's super focused on getting more women in the fire force, uh, because some women in
00:41:30.960
previous years complained that they'd been harassed, et cetera, by some of the guys.
00:41:34.680
So the answer I guess is to just make women the dominant population in LAFD.
00:41:39.400
First of all, I've been listening to your coverage about this and the line you had the other day
00:41:46.560
about, well, I might die, but at least I'm in the presence of what?
00:41:52.460
Hey, um, I was actually at the bank yesterday and next to me at the teller was a firefighter
00:42:02.460
And he said, this is the thing about why we are wary of female firefighters.
00:42:08.160
He said, we're afraid that they might lose their courage in an emergency, like to run
00:42:13.540
into a burning building with all of that stuff on you, like trying to get people out.
00:42:25.020
So my, but also, you know, this sort of ties into the Biden because I'm looking at what's
00:42:31.180
going on in California and seeing Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, who is wearing this insufferable
00:42:37.220
smile on her face at all times and this fire chief.
00:42:41.980
And it's like, there is no such thing as accountability, as shame anymore.
00:42:47.640
It seems the worst of a job you do, the better you give yourself on a performance ranking.
00:42:53.860
You're like, you think you're doing a five when the public thinks you're doing a zero.
00:42:57.940
When all evidence to the contrary exists, such as your entire town burning to the ground.
00:43:08.500
I mean, as it goes on and burns, like the problems with staffing and getting the adequate
00:43:15.760
Schellenberger, who's been doing a great, great job on this, tweeted this out today or
00:43:20.580
He's tweeting out an article that reads, DEI and corruption behind LA fire catastrophe says
00:43:30.540
DEI did not hurt the LA fire department's response to the catastrophic fire, say the
00:43:34.720
media, but anything that Trump's meritocratic standards would.
00:43:38.860
And now whistleblowers within the LA FD say the department lowered standards on ladders,
00:43:45.980
hoses, and pushups to meet DEI quotas for women.
00:43:51.220
This is exactly what Hegseth was trying to say at his confirmation hearings earlier this
00:43:55.520
No, they're not Senator Gillibrand dumb enough to put it down on a piece of paper saying
00:44:00.920
the women have to meet this lower standard and the men have to meet this higher one.
00:44:04.980
It is a matter of practice in too many areas of the military and obviously the LA FD to do
00:44:12.940
And it's unacceptable when you have lives on the line.
00:44:17.200
So, I mean, this is tangential, but, um, I was looking at an episode the other night
00:44:25.440
of only murders in the building and cast as an NYPD detective is an obese black woman.
00:44:32.920
And I'm thinking to myself, would she really pass the physical fitness requirement to be
00:44:39.300
I mean, have you seen the NYPD, the videos of the dancers?
00:44:42.560
But like, that's, that's the, that's the messaging we're getting in the mirroring we're getting.
00:44:45.920
Like, this is supposed to be like a thing where you don't even realize for a second,
00:44:56.180
You can choose whichever color you want to make her, but why does she have to be obese?
00:45:00.280
Like we're, we're trying with the, there's technically a standard.
00:45:03.200
They're all supposed to be meeting on physical fitness.
00:45:04.900
Um, why are we leaning into somehow that's a problem?
00:45:08.440
And this is one of the things that we were supposed to have learned from Afghanistan and
00:45:13.520
Iraq when, you know, an all volunteer army, very few American men and women really looking
00:45:22.980
And the army and the military had no choice but to lower standards.
00:45:26.640
So they were letting in people who either physically couldn't do it intellectually, didn't
00:45:33.080
I mean, this is a very long tail we're dealing with.
00:45:36.060
But meanwhile, Pete was making such a good point the other day at the confirmation hearing
00:45:40.800
And, and Anna Kasparian was on the show the other day trying to make the opposite point.
00:45:44.440
I disagreed with her, but we didn't get a chance to get into it.
00:45:46.560
And she was great by the way, but she was saying, look, we have, you know, a recruiting
00:45:50.100
shortage and, you know, if we have talented women who want to sign up for the military and
00:45:54.760
for combat, like the more the merrier because we need more bodies now.
00:45:58.380
And by the way, Pete's never said women shouldn't be in the military.
00:46:02.840
So I know I take her point, but what Pete was saying at the hearing was that we're seeing
00:46:08.880
already a surge in signups by young men who are ready to rejoin because we've had this
00:46:15.340
And I believe, as I think Pete does, as I think Trump does, that one of the main reasons
00:46:19.840
we're seeing the lag, two of the main reasons are DEI.
00:46:23.380
They do not want to volunteer to put their lives on the line only to be lectured to that
00:46:33.540
One of those two things, because black men get lectured too because of their manliness.
00:46:39.020
And then two is we've been totally reckless with our blood and treasure.
00:46:47.620
We try to impose democracies on countries and regions that will not have it.
00:46:53.180
And then when they die, like in the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, we say we handled it
00:47:02.240
Why would you go sign up to fight for a man like that?
00:47:06.100
And Pete's point is that if we do things right, if we treat the military right, if we
00:47:11.080
have the right messaging, if we choose the right battles and we give them the tools to
00:47:14.360
win, like instead of tying their hands behind the back on bullshit rules of engagement, we're
00:47:21.400
If we teach pro-America lessons in school, as opposed to you should hate your country,
00:47:28.800
The answer is that to lower the standard so we can take the obese ones and the ones who don't
00:47:32.500
pass the IQ test and women who are out of shape or not strong.
00:47:35.740
The answer is to find a way to get to those able-bodied, young, male fighting age guys
00:47:41.360
who otherwise would have been running to the recruitment offices.
00:47:45.320
And you also have to think, you know, if you are a young man thinking of joining up, like
00:47:50.980
they're thinking, who's going to be in my foxhole?
00:47:55.800
He's going to try to drag me out behind like an assault or not.
00:48:00.060
You know, I mean, it's, it's such a practical, again, common sense thing.
00:48:05.580
And finally, now we're having these grownup discussions about it because over the past
00:48:10.100
four, eight, 12 years to do so is to be a racist, is to be a bigot, is to be one of
00:48:21.340
I'm an ableist when it comes to our armed forces.
00:48:23.920
Likewise, you know, so I just, uh, I'm, I'm gratified by everything that's sort of happening.
00:48:30.860
And I think what's going to happen in LA is a complete flushing out of this toxicity.
00:48:40.060
I mean, holy, like when she was being interrogated, like after deplaning, but before they like
00:48:49.360
let her off sky news reporter and she's looking, she's looking at the ground and her eyebrows
00:48:57.560
And I was literally thinking to myself, like, is she like functionally a moron?
00:49:06.620
But she wasn't the one who put this fire chief in.
00:49:13.220
It was the previous mayor who came right before her.
00:49:16.420
And, um, he, he put her in and she kept her though.
00:49:20.880
Because none of these Democrats is going to be the one to say the DEI hire is not on point.
00:49:32.100
A lot of the women, a lot of the voters are already on record saying I could not vote for
00:49:35.540
the white guy, Rick Caruso when he's running against a black woman in no world.
00:49:40.980
Well, this is one of the reasons why I think it's an app.
00:49:43.680
We have a minute, but discussion, like, do we, how many federal dollars do we send to
00:49:47.840
California if they're not going to change their leadership, if they're going to double
00:49:50.800
down on dumb, like how, how many times do you go in and rescue people who are suffering
00:49:58.100
I, I just, I don't know how we as Americans could turn our backs on the hardworking people
00:50:06.340
I don't know how the federal government just leaves them to it.
00:50:08.700
To me, it's as bad as FEMA people being told to ignore homes with Trump stakes in them.
00:50:14.400
Unfortunately, you're right, but it is somewhat galling because it's like,
00:50:21.320
And I do think they're going to learn their lesson.
00:50:24.660
My woke friend who told me the other day, she was hearing all sorts of, you know,
00:50:33.160
They're already being like, well, you can't stop fire.
00:50:39.680
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CNN, bad news, just found liable in a defamation case for $5 million,
00:52:35.040
and now the jury recommending that they move on to the punitive damages phase,
00:52:45.420
A U.S. Navy veteran by the name of Zachary Young
00:52:52.220
was put on CNN's screen in a report done by a reporter named Alex Marquette.
00:53:08.460
was an illegal profiteer working in Afghanistan with those who needed to be evacuated,
00:53:18.000
charging them thousands of dollars to flee the country following the U.S. military withdrawal.
00:53:22.920
And this guy, Young, was in touch with the CNN reporter,
00:53:35.660
Because they reached out to him for comment, as you must.
00:53:37.680
And he said, send me a list of questions, you know, and I'll answer them.
00:53:42.160
And they introduced texts in the lawsuit that he brought for defamation against CNN,
00:53:47.380
including one in which Alex Marquette is texting another internal CNN-er how annoyed he is
00:53:55.040
that this guy, Young, has been in touch, saying,
00:54:03.380
and he starts it with FFS, meaning for fuck's sake,
00:54:11.440
you know, the subject of his story wants to talk about it.
00:54:20.400
And then there was a text shown of Marquette's text
00:54:25.400
where he told CNN's assistant managing editor, Matthew Phillips,
00:54:35.980
not a great text when defending a defamation case.
00:54:42.040
finding CNN liable and saying they need to pay Mr. Young
00:54:47.720
adding that he should also be awarded punitives.
00:55:01.700
because you never want to be in that position, right?
00:55:04.240
I mean, I'd be lying if I said you didn't think,
00:55:12.280
This reporter was not necessarily 100% interested
00:55:28.020
And instead of CNN really going down the rabbit hole
00:55:35.860
despite every top general telling him not to do it,
00:55:53.320
The desperation, we'd left American conspirators behind.
00:56:01.480
And when push came to shove, we were like, we're out.
00:56:15.360
to organize people, to organize former Navy SEALs
00:56:24.580
oh, one of these guys is trying to line his pockets.
00:56:27.420
Like, that kind of tells you where their weather vane is.
00:56:31.040
When you have texts like that, you just settle.
00:56:40.460
in which this reporter in the field makes bad decisions.
00:56:43.500
And as a media organization, you settle those cases.
00:56:50.780
paid him $15 million in his defamation lawsuit,
00:56:56.240
he raped somebody, that he was found liable for rape
00:56:59.820
It's like, sometimes you have to know as the corporation,
00:57:07.200
and we're going to minimize the damage to our brand.
00:57:32.980
And Wolf Blitzer getting kicked out of primetime,
00:57:36.660
So, like, what 67-year-old is, like, 76, I think.
00:57:44.420
And Jim Acosta on his, like, most recent show has been,
00:57:57.400
He warned the free press is crumbling in this country.
00:58:03.860
to lift up voices that may not be heard otherwise.
00:58:40.500
Like, more insane than this woman giving him this little placard,
00:58:48.960
Like, imagine how many times he's moved offices