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00:00:00.520 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.

00:00:12.260 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.

00:00:15.580 A federal appeals court today, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals,

00:00:19.700 dealing a blow to former President Donald Trump,

00:00:22.440 saying he does not have immunity when it comes to criminal charges against him

00:00:27.520 stemming from the January 6th riot and the events around it.

00:00:31.820 This is just the latest step in that case as it continues on its likely path

00:00:36.200 to the U.S. Supreme Court later this year.

00:00:39.140 Or maybe not. The court may not take it.

00:00:41.720 We'll get into exactly what's likely to happen here.

00:00:43.980 All this comes as we learn which TV show Trump's likely general election opponent,

00:00:48.440 President Joe Biden, is obsessed with. Obsessed, I say.

00:00:52.280 This one will not surprise you.

00:00:53.800 Later, our pal Sage Steele returns to the show.

00:00:57.360 Looking forward to seeing her.

00:00:59.520 And now I am joined by Matt Welsh,

00:01:02.420 editor-at-large of Reason Magazine and co-host of The Fifth Column,

00:01:06.440 along with Liz Wolf, associate editor at Reason and co-host of Just Asking Questions.

00:01:13.640 Matt, Liz, welcome back to the show.

00:01:15.540 Hi, Megyn. Thanks for having us.

00:01:16.980 Great to see you both.

00:01:18.040 Okay, so the biggest news of the day is this D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling,

00:01:23.200 which is not good for Trump.

00:01:25.160 It was a unanimous decision by all three judges.

00:01:28.380 Two had been appointed by Biden.

00:01:31.540 One had been appointed by H.W. Bush.

00:01:34.560 And they found unanimously that a sitting president does not have immunity

00:01:39.780 to charges, criminal charges,

00:01:43.740 based on what he does while he's in office once he's left the office.

00:01:48.080 So somebody like Trump, who's post his term,

00:01:51.260 can indeed be charged if he broke the law while the sitting president.

00:01:56.940 And now he's probably going to ask the full circuit,

00:02:00.760 full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals,

00:02:02.240 to reconsider that three judge panel's ruling.

00:02:05.240 That's par for the course when you lose.

00:02:07.480 In nine cases out of ten, they will reject you.

00:02:10.380 And I have a feeling they're going to reject this here.

00:02:13.320 Like, the judges don't want any part of this.

00:02:16.520 The fewer that have to weigh in on it, the better, I'm sure.

00:02:20.420 And then he's going to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:02:22.820 And they may not take it either.

00:02:24.080 We've had ongoing debates on the show about

00:02:25.660 just how likely they will be to take it.

00:02:27.800 We don't know.

00:02:28.900 So overall, net-net, the odds are very bad

00:02:32.080 for Trump winning this case, Matt.

00:02:33.900 But delay, delay works in his favor

00:02:37.200 because this thing was supposed to get started at the trial court on March 6th.

00:02:39.920 That's officially off.

00:02:41.820 Yeah, I mean, in every one of these cases,

00:02:44.580 it always comes down to, or usually comes down to,

00:02:48.260 there's a bad moment of lawyering for Trump,

00:02:51.040 and then there's a pretty bad moment of clienting.

00:02:53.460 And both of those things happen under cross-examination

00:02:56.600 when they were sort of given hypothetical scenarios

00:02:58.620 about the horrible things a president might do.

00:03:01.940 They basically said, yeah, that's what we should do.

00:03:05.160 And then Trump goes out and through social

00:03:06.540 and starts talking about absolute immunity in all caps.

00:03:09.120 So this is not a surprise at all.

00:03:12.860 I'm very curious to see whether the Supreme Court takes it

00:03:15.540 because they're going to have some Trump on their hands

00:03:17.120 in the year 2024.

00:03:19.240 And I imagine that they want to have

00:03:21.100 the least amount of Trump possible

00:03:23.020 or at least keep their powder dry politically.

00:03:26.460 And we all know that John Roberts

00:03:27.560 is a very politically attuned chief justice.

00:03:31.560 It's going to be hard to imagine any judge

00:03:34.380 looking at this one particular case about immunity

00:03:36.740 and say, you know, I think the Trump and his legal team

00:03:40.000 has a point here.

00:03:41.560 But then, as you say, and rightly points out,

00:03:44.540 I don't know how many of these trials

00:03:45.740 are going to get going before the election.

00:03:48.600 And if it's just the one in New York,

00:03:50.520 that's not going to make Trump's candidacy any worse.

00:03:54.840 It'll probably make it better.

00:03:55.860 Mm-hmm.

00:03:57.160 But this could go pretty quickly at this point, Liz.

00:04:00.200 I mean, Trump's going to appeal the full D.C. circuit

00:04:03.880 en banc for an en banc hearing, as they call it,

00:04:06.420 with all the judges.

00:04:07.540 He's probably going to get a quick denial.

00:04:09.340 He'll file at the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:04:10.820 He's probably going to get a quick denial there.

00:04:12.420 I don't know that they're going to take it.

00:04:14.080 I don't think it's actually that it's a novel legal issue.

00:04:17.020 It hasn't been decided before,

00:04:17.900 but it's actually a pretty simple one.

00:04:19.280 His argument was very much kind of a stretch

00:04:21.060 if you look at how he argued it.

00:04:22.080 I think they're probably going to dispatch of this pretty quickly,

00:04:24.800 and this thing could get rescheduled

00:04:27.060 faster than I had anticipated, I think,

00:04:29.540 just based on the way this came down

00:04:31.120 in the D.C. trial court, the federal D.C. trial court.

00:04:35.340 What do you think?

00:04:36.640 Yeah, I think that's absolutely right.

00:04:38.140 The other thing that I think will be interesting is

00:04:40.080 if the Supreme Court does decide to take this case,

00:04:43.620 say they do, and say they decide to rule against Trump,

00:04:47.740 okay, we might be in a situation where somehow

00:04:50.280 the Supreme Court has basically made an enemy of Trump,

00:04:53.880 which is totally fine by me.

00:04:55.500 But the thing I'm always curious about is,

00:04:57.260 okay, well, all of the liberals who have been

00:04:59.040 beliaking this entire time about how,

00:05:00.920 oh, the Supreme Court is totally in bed with Trump,

00:05:04.080 completely doing his bidding.

00:05:05.160 They're so Republican.

00:05:06.860 Will any of them actually alter their political beliefs,

00:05:10.480 their belief that the Supreme Court's integrity

00:05:13.000 is so compromised?

00:05:14.120 Will any of them actually sort of look at this

00:05:16.620 and see it for what it is,

00:05:17.700 which is the Supreme Court's attempt to legitimately

00:05:20.380 be safeguards of our justice system?

00:05:23.120 I don't think they will.

00:05:24.200 And so I really see our politics getting even more toxic

00:05:26.380 as a result of this,

00:05:27.640 because that would be the honorable thing to do, right?

00:05:29.660 That would be the sort of fair and balanced thing to do.

00:05:31.680 And I don't really think that that's what they're going to do.

00:05:33.880 And keep in mind also that the Supreme Court

00:05:35.600 is likely to be taking up at some point

00:05:37.880 one of these, I think,

00:05:39.520 kind of legally obscure challenges

00:05:41.460 to Trump's ballot access on primary elections

00:05:44.700 based on a unique reading of the 14th Amendment.

00:05:48.780 And I would presume that if that gets to the Supreme Court level,

00:05:52.640 that they're going to rule in Trump's favor.

00:05:54.720 So it's going to be a lot of people being inconsistent,

00:05:57.360 let's say, about their treatment politically of the Supreme Court.

00:06:00.380 And it's worth pointing out,

00:06:01.420 I mean, the 14th Amendment argument is like a,

00:06:04.080 you know, in my opinion, a very legally weak one.

00:06:06.760 I think it is important for Trump to have ballot access here,

00:06:08.960 despite not being any sort of fan of his.

00:06:10.620 But it is really astonishing how,

00:06:12.620 even if the Supreme Court does decide to rule in that manner,

00:06:15.000 I don't know what type of difference

00:06:16.860 this will actually make in our politics overall.

00:06:20.440 No one's going to,

00:06:21.480 everyone will just use it to confirm their priors.

00:06:24.080 But yeah, he'll win the,

00:06:26.400 should he be banned from state ballots

00:06:28.800 because he caused an insurrection

00:06:30.880 and therefore is barred under the 14th Amendment.

00:06:33.600 He's going to win that with SCOTUS.

00:06:35.680 And I don't think they're going to take this case,

00:06:37.980 but if they do,

00:06:38.620 I think he's going to lose.

00:06:40.520 Delay does work in his favor.

00:06:42.000 He wants this case to be pushed to after the November election,

00:06:44.760 thinking that he will win.

00:06:46.380 And then being in the driver's seat,

00:06:48.100 he will pull the bridle back

00:06:49.420 and the horses will stop

00:06:50.960 because he'll then be in charge of the Department of Justice.

00:06:53.360 And he's going to promptly fire Jack Smith

00:06:55.420 and make sure this case goes away.

00:06:57.120 That's the game plan.

00:06:58.380 If the case gets started

00:06:59.920 and God forbid for Trump gets resolved before November,

00:07:03.740 he's in a whole ton of trouble

00:07:06.380 because no one involved will be rooting for him.

00:07:09.460 The judge, the jury,

00:07:11.660 you know, maybe I guess his own lawyers.

00:07:14.260 But in any event,

00:07:15.300 the immunity argument was a bit of a stretch,

00:07:18.020 you know, as was made clear at the argument

00:07:19.480 when they asked his lawyers,

00:07:21.220 are you saying the sitting president

00:07:23.360 could go use SEAL Team 6

00:07:25.420 to assassinate an opponent?

00:07:27.520 And it would,

00:07:28.320 actually we have that pulled.

00:07:29.520 I'll play it for you.

00:07:30.140 This was Trump's lawyer's argument

00:07:32.320 in front of the appellate court in SOT 1.

00:07:35.480 I asked you a yes or no question.

00:07:40.120 Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6

00:07:42.560 to assassinate a political rival

00:07:44.260 who was not impeached,

00:07:46.380 would he be subject to criminal prosecution?

00:07:49.360 If he were impeached and convicted first.

00:07:51.600 And so...

00:07:51.920 So your answer is no.

00:07:54.220 My answer is qualified, yes.

00:07:55.600 There is a political process

00:07:56.660 that would have to occur

00:07:57.440 under the structure of our constitution

00:07:58.980 which would require impeachment

00:08:00.400 and conviction by the Senate.

00:08:01.440 Okay.

00:08:05.040 That was never going anywhere, Matt.

00:08:08.020 It's not just that it's never going anywhere,

00:08:09.540 but I really, I can't beseech enough.

00:08:11.440 Libertarians are annoying people

00:08:12.700 and especially Liz,

00:08:13.740 but one thing that libertarians

00:08:15.760 can always see in any situation

00:08:18.080 is what happens

00:08:19.380 when the evil power

00:08:20.500 that you're looking for,

00:08:21.580 or at least the power to cover your ass

00:08:23.020 that you're looking for,

00:08:23.840 is used by the people that you hate

00:08:25.620 because that's what's,

00:08:26.680 they're going to be the next ones in power.

00:08:27.980 We always see this

00:08:29.100 because we kind of hate everybody in power

00:08:31.300 and they're never our team.

00:08:32.860 It's amazing that someone who,

00:08:35.320 and I know honest meaning conservatives

00:08:37.920 who really think that Joe Biden

00:08:39.440 is potentially dictatorial

00:08:41.580 or Kamala Harris

00:08:42.720 or whoever is running the country

00:08:44.920 at the current moment.

00:08:46.580 And if you really truly believe that,

00:08:48.720 and this is true of Democrats too,

00:08:49.920 if you really think that Trump

00:08:50.720 is a dictator in waiting,

00:08:52.200 why haven't you been spending

00:08:53.680 all of your time

00:08:54.720 defrocking the executive branch of power?

00:08:57.980 Because they're going to be,

00:08:59.640 and in this case,

00:09:00.740 it was,

00:09:01.020 is one of the worst examples of that.

00:09:03.380 The,

00:09:04.040 just a couple of procedural points.

00:09:07.460 The appeals court

00:09:08.140 that just ruled against him

00:09:09.540 has given Trump

00:09:10.660 until February 12th,

00:09:12.360 today's the 6th,

00:09:13.500 to file an emergency stay request

00:09:15.940 with the Supreme Court,

00:09:17.100 asking the Supreme Court

00:09:18.200 to just keep the entire proceeding

00:09:20.940 in abeyance

00:09:21.720 until he can get an appeal

00:09:23.640 filed with SCOTUS

00:09:24.840 and delay the case that way.

00:09:27.180 We'll see what he does.

00:09:28.100 I do think he'll go first

00:09:29.180 to the D.C. Circuit.

00:09:30.560 He'll probably get the boot

00:09:31.540 on the forehead

00:09:32.020 and then file with the Supreme Court.

00:09:34.280 The oral arguments

00:09:35.340 on that separate case

00:09:36.760 about whether Colorado

00:09:37.780 was right to keep him

00:09:38.980 off of the ballot

00:09:39.760 go up to the Supreme Court

00:09:41.720 this Thursday.

00:09:43.360 So SCOTUS is taking up

00:09:44.420 that ballot access thing.

00:09:46.080 He's going to win that.

00:09:47.440 And then there's another case

00:09:48.540 before SCOTUS right now

00:09:49.860 involving other January 6th defendants

00:09:53.100 and whether this claim

00:09:55.020 of obstruction

00:09:56.760 of a congressional proceeding

00:09:58.180 can be brought against them

00:10:00.840 for the riot that took place,

00:10:02.680 whether this claim

00:10:03.380 is an apt claim

00:10:05.040 for that kind of behavior.

00:10:06.560 And that case SCOTUS

00:10:07.360 is taking,

00:10:08.580 and while Trump's not a party

00:10:09.840 to that case,

00:10:10.700 it's also a claim

00:10:12.080 that's been brought against him

00:10:13.340 in this very trial.

00:10:15.260 And we'll see whether,

00:10:17.240 you know,

00:10:17.740 that would obviously

00:10:18.640 help him a lot

00:10:19.560 if the Supreme Court ruled,

00:10:20.660 you can't bring this claim

00:10:22.280 against this type of behavior.

00:10:23.980 So he could be

00:10:24.820 the big beneficiary of that.

00:10:26.040 I mean, in a normal case,

00:10:27.500 I think the lower court would say,

00:10:30.000 let's see what happens

00:10:30.940 at SCOTUS

00:10:31.400 with one of the this,

00:10:32.240 one of the main claims

00:10:32.840 against you before we proceed.

00:10:35.080 There has been no ruling

00:10:36.440 by Judge Chutkin to that effect.

00:10:37.800 So Trump's winning some

00:10:38.900 and losing some.

00:10:39.680 I want to read you

00:10:40.180 one other thing.

00:10:41.500 The court wrote as follows

00:10:42.420 in denying

00:10:43.880 that Trump has immunity.

00:10:45.620 For the purposes

00:10:46.080 of this criminal case,

00:10:47.060 former President Trump

00:10:47.840 has become citizen Trump

00:10:49.240 with all of the defenses

00:10:50.460 of any other criminal defendant.

00:10:52.200 But any executive immunity

00:10:53.540 that may have protected him

00:10:54.800 while he served as president

00:10:55.860 no longer protects him

00:10:57.360 against this prosecution.

00:10:59.040 The interest

00:10:59.880 in criminal accountability

00:11:01.200 held by both the public

00:11:02.960 and the executive branch

00:11:04.380 outweighs

00:11:05.660 the potential risks

00:11:07.040 of chilling

00:11:08.140 presidential action

00:11:09.300 and permitting

00:11:10.380 vexatious litigation.

00:11:12.640 I mean,

00:11:12.820 I will say

00:11:13.260 it's a little scary

00:11:13.940 to read that.

00:11:15.100 I don't disagree with it,

00:11:16.220 but I'm,

00:11:16.640 it's a little scary

00:11:17.640 because

00:11:18.140 it does feel like

00:11:20.060 could be the before

00:11:21.080 and after moment

00:11:21.860 into banana republic shit.

00:11:23.380 You know,

00:11:23.920 we're like,

00:11:24.540 we're going to get

00:11:25.940 vexatious litigation

00:11:27.100 and we're going to get

00:11:28.920 more,

00:11:30.380 you know,

00:11:31.120 we're going to get

00:11:31.640 chilling presidential action

00:11:33.040 because

00:11:33.440 it is very possible

00:11:34.920 in the wake of this ruling

00:11:35.620 now you're going to get

00:11:36.120 presidents who are afraid

00:11:36.960 to do what they must do

00:11:38.180 with the military,

00:11:39.540 with drones,

00:11:40.220 what,

00:11:40.440 take your pick,

00:11:41.100 Liz,

00:11:42.220 because they don't want

00:11:43.160 to get charged

00:11:43.760 as criminals

00:11:44.240 when they leave office.

00:11:45.960 I mean,

00:11:46.680 you know,

00:11:47.120 I'm a libertarian,

00:11:47.900 so I'm all in favor

00:11:48.960 of trying to rein

00:11:49.700 in executive power

00:11:50.560 and hold presidents

00:11:51.580 accountable for when they,

00:11:53.020 you know,

00:11:53.520 act like you start

00:11:54.500 authorized foreign wars

00:11:55.820 without going through

00:11:56.820 the,

00:11:57.400 you know,

00:11:57.620 system of making sure

00:11:58.380 that Congress

00:11:58.740 authorizes that too,

00:11:59.840 right?

00:12:00.040 So like,

00:12:00.620 on one hand,

00:12:01.180 I do sort of understand

00:12:02.480 the possible value out there,

00:12:04.780 but I think it's important

00:12:05.520 that we zoom out

00:12:06.480 and look big picture

00:12:07.320 and look at the fact

00:12:08.100 that like,

00:12:08.780 not only are we dealing

00:12:09.820 with all of this

00:12:10.580 total legal,

00:12:11.480 as you said,

00:12:12.000 banana republic type ship,

00:12:13.160 from Trump,

00:12:13.800 but we're also dealing

00:12:15.040 with astonishingly low

00:12:16.800 approval ratings

00:12:17.620 for Joe Biden,

00:12:18.860 the incumbent.

00:12:20.000 And somehow,

00:12:21.040 the Democratic Party

00:12:21.860 has not managed to,

00:12:23.160 I mean,

00:12:23.380 of course,

00:12:23.760 the incumbent

00:12:24.140 is the person

00:12:24.680 running on their ticket,

00:12:25.840 but somehow,

00:12:26.400 they haven't really managed

00:12:27.280 to come up

00:12:28.440 with any better contenders.

00:12:30.320 And so we have

00:12:30.880 these two 80-year-olds

00:12:32.660 who are running

00:12:33.080 against each other,

00:12:33.780 one of whom

00:12:34.300 might very well

00:12:35.200 take our country

00:12:35.800 in a terrible direction.

00:12:37.960 And to some degree,

00:12:39.220 it's a little bit of like,

00:12:40.180 well,

00:12:40.780 are we reaping

00:12:41.980 what we've sown,

00:12:42.780 right?

00:12:43.320 I mean,

00:12:43.640 many of us

00:12:44.140 have been warning

00:12:44.540 for a long time

00:12:45.340 about the importance

00:12:46.140 of legitimately

00:12:47.440 having these safeguards

00:12:49.220 in place

00:12:49.640 so that presidents

00:12:50.220 don't abuse

00:12:51.480 their power.

00:12:53.300 And,

00:12:53.540 you know,

00:12:53.900 one way that this

00:12:54.840 could have been

00:12:55.380 somewhat avoided

00:12:56.160 was if,

00:12:57.060 you know,

00:12:57.820 Trump had been

00:12:58.420 both impeached

00:12:59.020 and then removed

00:12:59.780 from office,

00:13:00.180 if there hadn't been

00:13:00.920 such,

00:13:01.420 you know,

00:13:02.040 a rallying

00:13:02.580 of the troops

00:13:03.060 in Congress

00:13:03.640 in the wake

00:13:04.200 of January 6th

00:13:05.160 and some of his

00:13:05.920 malfeasas.

00:13:06.640 And yet there was.

00:13:07.720 And so I think

00:13:08.220 Congress has

00:13:08.740 demonstrated time

00:13:09.400 and time again,

00:13:10.200 especially members

00:13:11.000 of his own party,

00:13:12.160 that they're not

00:13:12.700 really interested

00:13:13.320 in holding Trump

00:13:14.160 accountable.

00:13:15.180 Now we have

00:13:15.600 this very upsetting

00:13:17.340 and disappointing

00:13:18.160 situation playing

00:13:19.760 out in the courts.

00:13:20.860 I mean,

00:13:21.000 we even have

00:13:21.540 these states

00:13:21.980 like Colorado

00:13:22.540 taking him

00:13:23.100 off the ballot

00:13:23.620 and trying to do

00:13:25.000 this 14th Amendment

00:13:25.700 argument.

00:13:26.360 And I don't know,

00:13:27.100 call me old-fashioned,

00:13:28.260 but I kind of think

00:13:29.000 that, you know,

00:13:29.940 we can defeat

00:13:30.660 Trump at the ballot

00:13:31.500 box if we so choose.

00:13:32.860 But the seedy

00:13:33.880 way to play this game

00:13:34.820 is by doing

00:13:35.620 what they're doing,

00:13:36.380 what Colorado

00:13:36.840 is doing,

00:13:37.460 and other states

00:13:38.400 of removing him

00:13:39.300 from the ballot

00:13:39.860 to ensure that

00:13:40.720 nobody can vote

00:13:41.500 for him at all.

00:13:42.080 I mean,

00:13:42.220 that's vexatious

00:13:42.960 litigation.

00:13:43.660 It's lawfare.

00:13:45.680 And this has been

00:13:46.940 a temptation

00:13:47.620 that we've seen

00:13:48.440 since Trump,

00:13:50.500 since inauguration,

00:13:51.620 but even before that,

00:13:52.780 that the people

00:13:53.280 who are most exercised

00:13:54.520 as being anti-Trump

00:13:56.000 are going to reach

00:13:56.920 for any stick

00:13:57.660 that they can find.

00:13:59.000 And it's going to be

00:13:59.980 increasingly like

00:14:01.320 lawfare sticks,

00:14:02.320 you know,

00:14:02.440 and they're doing

00:14:02.860 it in the name

00:14:03.260 of democracy.

00:14:03.960 This is what I can't

00:14:05.300 understand.

00:14:06.140 We have to protect

00:14:06.960 our democratic institutions

00:14:08.180 by coming up

00:14:09.260 with the most legal

00:14:10.080 weirdo theories possible

00:14:11.980 in order to try

00:14:13.740 to deprive voters

00:14:15.840 of a choice.

00:14:16.360 That seems crazy.

00:14:18.140 It's been amazing

00:14:19.020 to watch the left,

00:14:20.980 the legal left,

00:14:22.180 freak out over the delay

00:14:24.020 in this ruling coming down.

00:14:25.440 I don't know

00:14:25.660 if you guys caught

00:14:26.180 any of this,

00:14:26.800 but they were over

00:14:28.780 on MSNBC.

00:14:29.640 They had all their

00:14:30.080 legal experts daily,

00:14:31.080 like, where's the decision?

00:14:32.220 Where's the decision?

00:14:33.540 Because the clock

00:14:34.200 was ticking, you know,

00:14:35.160 and delay works for Trump

00:14:37.000 for the reasons

00:14:37.900 I just pointed out.

00:14:38.840 And like the next day

00:14:40.900 or two,

00:14:41.460 we get the decision

00:14:42.640 and now they can

00:14:43.820 heave a huge sigh

00:14:45.440 of relief

00:14:46.080 because they're not

00:14:47.600 embarrassed

00:14:48.060 about the fact that

00:14:49.480 for them,

00:14:50.320 this is totally political.

00:14:51.400 They need it to get

00:14:52.460 decided before November.

00:14:53.640 Why?

00:14:54.720 Legally,

00:14:55.240 there's no reason why.

00:14:56.300 It's just because

00:14:57.400 they want him

00:14:58.460 to have a conviction,

00:14:59.460 which this case

00:15:00.340 almost certainly

00:15:00.960 will lead to

00:15:01.620 given the jury pool

00:15:02.520 before the election.

00:15:03.880 It's pretty on the nose

00:15:05.860 that it's election interference.

00:15:07.540 They don't really

00:15:08.300 give a damn

00:15:09.220 if we know

00:15:10.020 they just want to

00:15:11.340 get the big C

00:15:12.660 because the voters

00:15:13.860 are still saying

00:15:14.620 the independents,

00:15:15.460 they care about that.

00:15:16.700 They don't really want

00:15:17.440 to elect a convicted felon

00:15:19.060 as president

00:15:19.720 as it turns out.

00:15:21.180 Well, they care about it

00:15:21.960 when a result,

00:15:22.900 when it's having to do

00:15:23.800 with January 6th.

00:15:24.700 They care about it

00:15:25.380 much less

00:15:25.860 in the case

00:15:26.820 in Manhattan in New York.

00:15:28.000 I think people

00:15:28.780 would have a tendency

00:15:29.400 to shrug that off.

00:15:30.260 I would also,

00:15:31.320 you know,

00:15:31.960 let's give a shout out

00:15:33.080 to the people,

00:15:34.160 the four people

00:15:34.640 who work for MSNBC.

00:15:35.640 They have 500,000

00:15:37.640 former prosecutors

00:15:38.600 on the payroll now.

00:15:39.940 They got to have

00:15:40.360 something to talk about.

00:15:41.440 So yeah,

00:15:41.780 they want the new ruling

00:15:43.600 to be made

00:15:45.360 so that they can,

00:15:46.140 you know,

00:15:47.340 fulfill their salary.

00:15:48.820 It must also be really hard

00:15:49.880 because they no longer

00:15:50.540 have all the Russia collusion

00:15:51.560 stuff to talk about.

00:15:52.600 So I don't know.

00:15:53.120 They might be a little

00:15:53.820 bored over there.

00:15:54.600 I can understand.

00:15:55.140 Yeah, I mean,

00:15:55.720 who knows what

00:15:56.300 they'll resurrect.

00:15:57.660 I mean,

00:15:57.820 certainly if Trump

00:15:58.340 becomes president,

00:15:59.480 you can see a replay

00:16:00.860 of all of this, right?

00:16:01.600 They're going to find

00:16:02.040 some new Russiagate

00:16:02.880 to ruin his second term.

00:16:04.700 And he's probably

00:16:05.920 going to turn around

00:16:06.380 and find a way

00:16:06.820 to charge Joe Biden.

00:16:08.100 Let's be honest.

00:16:09.140 He's going to try

00:16:10.080 to turn around

00:16:10.720 and find a way.

00:16:11.680 And maybe not Joe Biden.

00:16:13.180 Maybe Barack Obama.

00:16:14.900 Maybe he'll find some way

00:16:16.040 if the statute hasn't run

00:16:17.180 to charge him for,

00:16:19.260 I don't know,

00:16:19.480 something like a murder

00:16:20.420 on the drone strikes.

00:16:23.120 He's already mentioned that.

00:16:25.140 Andrew Sullivan

00:16:26.020 had a pretty good piece

00:16:26.900 about 10 days ago.

00:16:28.260 Andrew Sullivan was,

00:16:29.400 you know,

00:16:29.980 borderline hysterically

00:16:31.080 anti-Trump in 2016,

00:16:33.000 I think by his own admission.

00:16:34.480 And he went back

00:16:35.020 and he looked at his column

00:16:37.380 warning about Trump

00:16:38.340 back then

00:16:39.080 and put it through a lens

00:16:40.260 of what would Trump

00:16:40.880 presidency look like this?

00:16:42.380 How did my predictions

00:16:43.360 turn out?

00:16:44.220 And one of the things

00:16:44.740 that he concluded,

00:16:45.360 and I think it's correct,

00:16:46.180 is that,

00:16:46.980 remember Trump was saying

00:16:48.040 lock her up.

00:16:48.720 That was the big chant

00:16:49.440 besides, you know,

00:16:50.160 build the wall

00:16:51.220 on the campaign in 2016.

00:16:53.360 He didn't lock her up

00:16:54.480 at all.

00:16:55.240 A lot of the things

00:16:56.160 that he said

00:16:56.560 and threatened to do,

00:16:57.200 he did not.

00:16:57.820 Some things he did do.

00:16:58.820 He did the Muslim ban

00:16:59.780 almost immediately

00:17:01.040 after becoming president.

00:17:02.400 Then it got challenged

00:17:03.040 in the courts.

00:17:04.000 So some of the stuff he did,

00:17:04.920 but directing

00:17:05.720 the justice system.

00:17:07.980 The Muslim ban

00:17:08.700 was upheld ultimately.

00:17:09.980 Right.

00:17:10.240 It was rewritten,

00:17:12.080 but it was upheld

00:17:12.660 and it strengthened

00:17:13.240 the president's hand

00:17:13.960 in immigration matters,

00:17:15.640 which he then used

00:17:16.420 later on.

00:17:17.200 But he didn't go after

00:17:19.680 individuals who irked him.

00:17:22.140 He talked about it a lot.

00:17:23.160 He was always going to suspend

00:17:24.320 the broadcast license of NBC

00:17:26.740 because he was mad

00:17:27.380 at Saturday Night Live.

00:17:28.200 He would say these things

00:17:28.860 and he's saying those things now.

00:17:30.160 I hate those things.

00:17:30.980 I think those things are wrong

00:17:32.080 for a president.

00:17:33.060 He had even the rhetorical instinct.

00:17:35.200 So far, he has not done them.

00:17:36.580 One of the interesting things

00:17:37.680 to figure out

00:17:38.400 in considering a second Trump term

00:17:40.480 is what of those things

00:17:42.660 would he do?

00:17:43.200 I'm not convinced

00:17:43.760 that he would chart Joe Biden.

00:17:45.440 I'm not convinced

00:17:46.160 that he would direct

00:17:47.260 the Department of Justice,

00:17:48.400 but we don't know

00:17:48.960 because he says a lot of stuff.

00:17:51.920 I don't know.

00:17:52.640 I feel like that

00:17:53.960 if I had to put money on it,

00:17:56.200 you know, if I had like

00:17:57.000 10 grand to bet on

00:17:58.740 if Trump gets reelected,

00:18:00.440 will he charge Biden

00:18:01.400 or Obama if he can?

00:18:03.340 I'd put it on.

00:18:04.060 Yes, he will.

00:18:04.960 Can you imagine

00:18:05.800 how pissed off

00:18:08.360 he's going to be?

00:18:09.480 Yes, he will have won

00:18:10.400 reelection in this scenario,

00:18:11.600 but he is going

00:18:13.680 to be so angry

00:18:15.600 at what these people

00:18:16.780 put him through.

00:18:18.560 I look,

00:18:19.460 I know you're right.

00:18:20.420 Like he wasn't particularly

00:18:21.300 vindictive in his first presidency.

00:18:23.500 I just think this is a neck.

00:18:24.980 This is next level.

00:18:25.780 What they've done,

00:18:26.820 they they they're the ones

00:18:28.180 who crossed the Rubicon.

00:18:29.620 And I do think

00:18:30.620 they will rue the day.

00:18:31.920 I think the country

00:18:32.700 will rue the day,

00:18:34.020 but we're a long way

00:18:35.460 off from that.

00:18:36.460 And on that front,

00:18:39.800 Joe Biden's in a lot of trouble.

00:18:42.540 There was just my team

00:18:44.580 is just sending me

00:18:45.060 the real clear politics

00:18:46.040 approval numbers

00:18:46.900 for Joe Biden.

00:18:48.060 He's at 40.2 percent approval,

00:18:51.460 55.8 percent disapprove

00:18:54.060 of the job he's doing.

00:18:55.420 Just talked about

00:18:56.160 the NBC News poll yesterday

00:18:57.460 showing Trump ahead of him

00:18:58.560 on the economy,

00:18:59.320 on immigration,

00:18:59.900 on crime by double digits,

00:19:02.240 above 20,

00:19:03.040 35 percent on immigration.

00:19:04.240 I think 22 percent

00:19:05.120 on the economy,

00:19:05.840 22 percent on crime,

00:19:07.340 something like that.

00:19:08.800 And then we get,

00:19:10.380 I mean, almost daily,

00:19:12.380 we get another Biden,

00:19:15.000 huh, moment, right?

00:19:17.520 Like, what?

00:19:19.080 Huh?

00:19:19.600 What?

00:19:20.320 And this was Biden yesterday

00:19:22.640 where I just want to

00:19:24.440 set up for the audience

00:19:25.120 because I was actually

00:19:25.720 confused when I heard it.

00:19:26.660 He was speaking on Sunday,

00:19:27.840 but it hit yesterday

00:19:28.660 in Las Vegas.

00:19:30.820 And he, well, let's play it

00:19:33.440 and see if you can hear

00:19:34.960 the mistake that he makes.

00:19:37.180 Now, he corrects it,

00:19:38.500 but he's got,

00:19:39.820 there's a couple things wrong

00:19:40.800 with the soundbite

00:19:41.320 you're about to hear.

00:19:41.900 Take a listen.

00:19:43.400 Right, right,

00:19:44.060 right after I was elected,

00:19:45.360 I went to what they call

00:19:46.580 a G7 meeting,

00:19:47.620 all the NATO leaders.

00:19:49.780 I was in,

00:19:50.520 I was in the south of England.

00:19:52.920 And I sat down and I said,

00:19:54.700 America's back.

00:19:56.400 And Naderon from Germany,

00:19:58.640 I mean, from France,

00:19:59.640 looked at me and said,

00:20:02.600 said, you know,

00:20:07.100 why, how long are you back for?

00:20:11.500 Okay.

00:20:13.100 So for those of you

00:20:14.140 playing at home,

00:20:14.660 he says that happened recently,

00:20:17.740 that he met with Mitterand

00:20:20.160 from Germany.

00:20:22.920 Mitterand is not what he meant to say.

00:20:26.180 He meant to say Macron.

00:20:28.860 Mitterand was not of Germany.

00:20:30.340 First of all,

00:20:30.740 he was the president of France

00:20:31.660 and he was the president of France

00:20:32.940 a long time ago,

00:20:34.600 back when I was in college

00:20:36.060 and Liz was in her stroller.

00:20:40.680 And so he,

00:20:42.140 yeah, so he's not of Germany.

00:20:43.920 He's of France.

00:20:44.660 And he definitely did not meet

00:20:45.980 with him recently at the G7

00:20:48.080 because he's been dead since 1996.

00:20:51.420 So there's a double error in there.

00:20:54.400 It's embarrassing.

00:20:56.120 The White House transcript

00:20:57.420 attempted to fix it, right?

00:20:59.640 The poor White House transcript guy.

00:21:02.360 They changed it from,

00:21:04.420 you know,

00:21:04.700 they've got to write

00:21:05.240 exactly what he said.

00:21:06.300 So they changed it

00:21:07.180 from America's back

00:21:08.400 and Mitterand from Germany.

00:21:10.300 They changed it to Mitterand

00:21:11.860 with the strikethrough

00:21:12.700 to Macron in brackets

00:21:15.100 from Germany.

00:21:17.040 Then they left his correction,

00:21:18.320 France,

00:21:18.660 on and on it goes.

00:21:20.540 Guys,

00:21:21.280 this I would submit to you

00:21:22.860 is the reason why

00:21:23.920 he has refused to sit

00:21:25.940 with CBS News

00:21:26.960 for the Super Bowl

00:21:28.220 halftime interview.

00:21:29.740 That is tradition

00:21:30.820 among the presidents,

00:21:32.120 though it's been broken before.

00:21:33.800 Last year he didn't do it

00:21:34.780 because it was Fox

00:21:35.340 and Trump has said no as well.

00:21:37.400 So what do you make of it all?

00:21:39.240 It's absolutely why

00:21:40.540 they're trying to keep him

00:21:41.380 in the basement again.

00:21:42.340 But we don't have COVID

00:21:43.500 and we have seen him

00:21:46.280 deteriorate in front of our eyes.

00:21:48.640 And, you know,

00:21:49.240 anyone who has a parent

00:21:50.680 of those age

00:21:51.620 or grandparent of those age

00:21:53.400 recognizes that stuff.

00:21:55.660 And I feel for anyone

00:21:57.180 who's in that frame of mind,

00:21:59.480 he just happens to be the president.

00:22:00.700 So, like,

00:22:01.660 my sympathy is going to have

00:22:03.180 some limits

00:22:03.800 because he probably

00:22:05.700 shouldn't be president.

00:22:06.560 Our sympathies are with us.

00:22:07.780 They're with us, Matt.

00:22:09.340 I feel sorry for us.

00:22:11.440 It is totally

00:22:13.220 the president of the United States

00:22:15.260 talking about Mitterrand.

00:22:16.360 I mean, who's even thought

00:22:17.340 of Francois Mitterrand

00:22:18.540 besides one of his mistresses

00:22:19.700 in the last 18 years?

00:22:21.420 It's really hard to say

00:22:22.440 who showed up the funeral,

00:22:23.400 by the way.

00:22:23.720 That was one of my greatest

00:22:24.620 moments of statesmanship

00:22:27.620 in the modern era.

00:22:29.320 France is weird.

00:22:29.940 He is absolutely ducking

00:22:32.440 Donald Trump.

00:22:33.720 And Trump is taunting him now

00:22:37.040 and saying,

00:22:37.540 I'll do the Super Bowl interview.

00:22:38.980 I'll get great ratings.

00:22:39.800 saying that he's ready

00:22:41.940 to debate him,

00:22:43.120 which, you know,

00:22:44.480 we've talked about

00:22:45.420 on this program before

00:22:46.380 that maybe Trump

00:22:47.060 wouldn't debate him now.

00:22:47.960 It's like, yeah,

00:22:48.840 bring it on.

00:22:50.260 And Biden is going to have

00:22:51.500 to duck him.

00:22:52.560 And here's what's going to happen.

00:22:53.740 I guarantee it.

00:22:54.880 When Biden refuses

00:22:55.840 to debate Trump,

00:22:57.160 there's going to be a chorus

00:22:58.280 within journalism,

00:22:59.760 professional journalism,

00:23:00.740 sad to say,

00:23:01.540 that says,

00:23:02.040 that's right,

00:23:02.660 because we don't want

00:23:03.240 to platform him.

00:23:04.600 Because God knows

00:23:05.600 that we shouldn't actually

00:23:06.760 talk to someone

00:23:08.320 who 46% of the country

00:23:10.140 twice has voted

00:23:11.580 for president

00:23:12.180 and probably around

00:23:13.380 that number would vote

00:23:14.220 for him again,

00:23:15.100 depending on what happens

00:23:15.760 to RFK Jr.

00:23:17.140 It's amazing.

00:23:17.920 They think they can

00:23:18.420 duck their way out of it

00:23:19.340 and they can just sort of

00:23:20.480 democracy lecture

00:23:22.220 their way into Biden

00:23:24.580 again getting the same

00:23:25.560 kind of vote

00:23:26.160 when he's basically been

00:23:27.520 a pretty unpopular

00:23:28.420 politician his entire career.

00:23:30.460 People voted for him

00:23:31.160 last time

00:23:31.720 because they wanted

00:23:32.800 to defeat Trump.

00:23:33.640 But now they've seen

00:23:34.820 what Biden is like

00:23:35.560 and one of the things

00:23:36.160 that he's like

00:23:36.620 is a guy who talks

00:23:38.060 to Francois Mitterrand's

00:23:39.460 German ghost,

00:23:40.380 which is bizarre.

00:23:41.720 Well, also,

00:23:42.340 the other thing

00:23:42.740 to consider here

00:23:43.360 is like,

00:23:43.820 say Biden gets reelected

00:23:45.160 this time around.

00:23:46.380 Okay,

00:23:47.500 how is this going to look

00:23:48.920 four years from now?

00:23:50.020 What will Biden's,

00:23:50.960 you know,

00:23:51.200 mental capacity be

00:23:53.240 four years from now?

00:23:54.240 It's terrifying to take up.

00:23:54.940 We're not just electing Biden,

00:23:56.720 you know,

00:23:56.980 I'm not electing Biden at all,

00:23:58.180 but we're not just electing

00:23:59.120 Biden to serve,

00:24:00.460 you know,

00:24:00.700 for the next six months

00:24:02.120 or nine months

00:24:02.760 or 12 months.

00:24:03.340 We're electing him

00:24:04.120 to serve for the next

00:24:04.920 four years.

00:24:05.900 How is that going to go?

00:24:07.480 I mean,

00:24:07.840 no wonder the White House

00:24:09.020 interns feel so,

00:24:10.320 you know,

00:24:11.520 capable of becoming

00:24:12.680 foreign policy experts

00:24:13.880 and setting foreign policy

00:24:15.000 direction for the entire

00:24:16.180 United States.

00:24:17.260 If, you know,

00:24:18.200 the person who's

00:24:18.880 actually in charge,

00:24:19.540 I mean,

00:24:19.780 I am left

00:24:20.860 wondering consistently,

00:24:22.400 is this a weekend

00:24:23.260 at Bernie's situation?

00:24:24.640 Who is actually

00:24:25.340 running the show?

00:24:26.640 Is Joe Biden

00:24:27.300 locked in a basement

00:24:28.100 somewhere?

00:24:28.680 Does he need to be

00:24:29.340 locked in a basement

00:24:29.940 somewhere?

00:24:30.300 I wonder

00:24:31.320 how much

00:24:32.540 of actual

00:24:33.140 policy making

00:24:34.080 is being left

00:24:35.600 to all of these

00:24:36.960 aides who are actually,

00:24:38.140 you know,

00:24:38.400 30 and 40 years old

00:24:39.680 and mentally competent,

00:24:41.080 you know,

00:24:41.740 in the absence

00:24:42.280 of an executive

00:24:42.980 who's mentally competent.

00:24:44.520 I mean,

00:24:45.020 this is kind of

00:24:45.560 outer at this point.

00:24:47.340 Think about this.

00:24:48.260 Think if they actually

00:24:49.140 do debate.

00:24:50.140 I mean,

00:24:50.420 it was just

00:24:51.140 a couple weeks ago

00:24:52.520 that Trump referred

00:24:53.940 to Nancy Pelosi

00:24:55.980 as Nikki Haley

00:24:57.500 repeatedly.

00:24:58.800 Like,

00:24:59.240 he was

00:24:59.620 obviously confused.

00:25:01.460 He's called Joe Biden

00:25:02.580 Barack Obama

00:25:03.580 repeatedly.

00:25:04.740 Now you look over

00:25:05.680 at Joe Biden

00:25:06.840 who's talking

00:25:07.820 to dead people

00:25:08.620 like Mitterand

00:25:09.800 who's,

00:25:10.440 you know,

00:25:10.800 been dead since

00:25:11.720 he was still young,

00:25:13.140 Joe Biden.

00:25:13.880 And not understanding

00:25:15.400 that he wasn't

00:25:16.240 at the G7

00:25:16.940 and that he didn't

00:25:17.640 run Germany.

00:25:18.860 Not to mention

00:25:19.720 when he thought

00:25:20.320 the woman,

00:25:20.960 the congresswoman

00:25:21.580 was still alive

00:25:22.400 but she was dead.

00:25:23.300 Jackie,

00:25:23.700 where's Jackie?

00:25:24.820 She's dead.

00:25:25.740 You're there.

00:25:26.240 You just played

00:25:26.680 a memorial,

00:25:27.520 an in-memoriam for her.

00:25:28.820 Why are you saying

00:25:29.480 where's Jackie?

00:25:30.300 You just played it.

00:25:31.260 You were standing.

00:25:32.120 This is what,

00:25:32.860 people would be

00:25:33.600 so confused

00:25:34.320 at this debate.

00:25:35.340 We're going to be

00:25:35.940 holding on by our fingertips

00:25:37.080 like,

00:25:37.660 oh my God,

00:25:38.240 what are they saying?

00:25:39.480 Who are these references to?

00:25:41.900 It's like watching gymnastics.

00:25:43.260 But there's no denying

00:25:44.060 Trump's old too.

00:25:45.940 Trump's old too,

00:25:47.020 although he's old

00:25:47.840 and funny still

00:25:48.740 and has a comic sense

00:25:50.460 of timing.

00:25:51.080 Could be cruel,

00:25:51.660 maybe you don't like it,

00:25:52.420 but he's a gifted comic

00:25:55.100 and he's just sharper.

00:25:56.300 I mean,

00:25:56.440 occasionally Biden

00:25:57.180 will have a sharp day

00:25:58.620 or sharp-ish day,

00:26:00.400 but they become

00:26:01.880 more and more occasional

00:26:03.060 and he's given

00:26:03.860 like the fewest

00:26:04.660 press conferences,

00:26:05.880 he's done very few

00:26:06.700 sit-down interviews,

00:26:07.960 they're just hiding him

00:26:08.860 and they don't have

00:26:09.420 a backup plan.

00:26:10.160 I mean,

00:26:10.440 Nikki Haley is a good one.

00:26:11.300 Well, Matt,

00:26:11.320 Matt,

00:26:11.740 let me ask you,

00:26:12.280 because this is,

00:26:12.960 like last year,

00:26:13.680 he could get away with it

00:26:14.440 because it was Fox,

00:26:15.380 right?

00:26:15.880 Evil Fox,

00:26:16.580 who would sit with them?

00:26:17.360 That would be terrible.

00:26:18.660 But this year,

00:26:19.700 it's a different story

00:26:20.340 because it's CBS.

00:26:21.560 What does he have against CBS?

00:26:22.580 Why won't he go on CBS?

00:26:23.820 There's not even a reason.

00:26:25.120 He's just not going to do it

00:26:26.900 because he won't sit

00:26:28.100 with the press

00:26:28.680 because he can't answer

00:26:30.140 hard questions.

00:26:31.200 And I don't mean

00:26:32.240 he doesn't know the answers.

00:26:33.880 I mean,

00:26:34.140 he physically cannot

00:26:35.140 get the words out.

00:26:37.060 I mean,

00:26:37.280 if they,

00:26:37.680 imagine if they played,

00:26:38.780 anyone played a,

00:26:39.960 let's say,

00:26:40.300 20 consecutive minutes

00:26:41.740 of unedited Q&A

00:26:43.580 with Joe Biden.

00:26:44.220 How do you think

00:26:44.600 that's going to go?

00:26:45.440 Seriously,

00:26:45.780 how do you think

00:26:46.120 it's going to go?

00:26:46.960 I think it's going

00:26:47.700 to go really bad.

00:26:48.700 I think what would happen

00:26:49.500 is there'd be sort of

00:26:50.720 the 60 minutes treatment

00:26:51.620 or what Tucker Carlson

00:26:54.060 did with Kanye West.

00:26:55.240 It's like,

00:26:55.620 okay,

00:26:55.880 I'm going to edit this.

00:26:57.540 So we're going to try

00:26:58.200 to get most of the crazy stuff

00:26:59.840 that doesn't make

00:27:00.320 a whole lot of sense

00:27:01.740 out of it.

00:27:02.460 And that's not great

00:27:05.000 a place to be

00:27:06.200 for a country.

00:27:07.940 Super Bowl is the biggest,

00:27:09.700 the only big television

00:27:11.180 moment anymore

00:27:11.900 in American television.

00:27:14.320 And to,

00:27:15.120 while you're down

00:27:15.860 nationwide

00:27:17.340 and you're down

00:27:18.460 in all these swing states

00:27:19.940 and there's people

00:27:20.920 questioning your fitness

00:27:22.100 to say,

00:27:23.540 no,

00:27:23.820 I just,

00:27:24.400 I want to give Americans

00:27:25.420 a break from politics.

00:27:26.460 That's why we're doing it.

00:27:28.480 That's a terrible tell

00:27:30.520 of where Biden is.

00:27:33.200 I think Nikki Haley

00:27:33.860 had a good line.

00:27:34.880 I don't know if it's true,

00:27:35.460 but it's a good line

00:27:36.060 at least of like,

00:27:37.260 you know,

00:27:37.480 there's going to be

00:27:38.000 a next female president.

00:27:39.160 It's either me

00:27:39.540 or Kamala Harris.

00:27:40.900 I don't know

00:27:41.860 whether that's true.

00:27:42.380 Nikki Haley is only,

00:27:43.620 I can't imagine

00:27:44.380 the circumstances

00:27:45.300 in her wish right now

00:27:46.100 she's going to be

00:27:46.720 the president.

00:27:47.640 But if you do elect

00:27:48.880 Joe Biden,

00:27:49.760 you're going to get

00:27:50.380 Kamala Harris as president

00:27:51.660 almost certainly.

00:27:52.620 I mean,

00:27:52.780 that's the truth.

00:27:54.140 But here's how the media

00:27:55.640 on the left

00:27:56.500 runs cover for him.

00:27:57.620 Because there's actually been,

00:27:59.320 I mean,

00:27:59.520 the Democrats know

00:28:00.300 that Biden doesn't,

00:28:01.980 that he's lost it.

00:28:02.800 There was a poll,

00:28:03.900 NBC,

00:28:04.820 at 81 years,

00:28:05.600 just came out.

00:28:06.480 Joe Biden,

00:28:07.360 not having the necessary

00:28:08.260 mental,

00:28:08.740 physical health

00:28:09.200 to be president

00:28:09.740 for a second term.

00:28:10.980 Do you have major

00:28:11.720 or moderate concerns?

00:28:13.220 76% say,

00:28:14.520 yes,

00:28:14.660 I do.

00:28:15.600 76% of the electorate

00:28:17.140 has major

00:28:17.960 or at least moderate

00:28:19.100 concerns

00:28:19.720 about Biden

00:28:20.980 having the necessary

00:28:21.760 mental and physical health.

00:28:23.920 Far fewer

00:28:24.400 have that concern

00:28:25.460 concern about Trump.

00:28:27.080 48%

00:28:27.860 have that about Trump,

00:28:29.140 which is down

00:28:30.240 from a month

00:28:31.600 before the election

00:28:32.660 in 2020.

00:28:33.780 Like,

00:28:33.920 back then,

00:28:34.480 51%

00:28:35.100 had that concern

00:28:35.920 about Trump.

00:28:36.520 So if anything,

00:28:37.000 Trump is doing better

00:28:37.640 today on that concern

00:28:38.580 than he was.

00:28:39.480 But they're very worried

00:28:40.220 about Joe Biden.

00:28:41.380 Nonetheless,

00:28:41.960 the left will run cover

00:28:42.820 for him

00:28:43.280 as soon as it's

00:28:44.620 guaranteed he's going

00:28:45.400 to be the nominee.

00:28:46.240 You know,

00:28:46.480 if Michelle Obama

00:28:47.820 pops her head up,

00:28:49.200 if Gavin Newsom,

00:28:50.620 like,

00:28:51.160 maybe they'll turn,

00:28:51.860 they'll turn on him

00:28:52.460 quickly because they'll want,

00:28:53.280 but so far

00:28:54.020 he's their nominee

00:28:54.700 so the Dems

00:28:55.360 are going to run

00:28:55.740 cover for him.

00:28:56.680 And I give you

00:28:57.380 as an example

00:28:57.980 Joe Scarborough

00:28:59.060 who's in the news

00:29:00.560 actually right now

00:29:01.460 because that's the show

00:29:03.080 that Joe Biden's

00:29:04.040 obsessed with.

00:29:04.720 You're shocked to learn,

00:29:05.680 I know,

00:29:06.120 Morning Joe.

00:29:06.860 Apparently watches it

00:29:07.760 all the time

00:29:08.340 and if you want to get

00:29:09.160 the ear of Joe Biden,

00:29:10.420 you go on Morning Joe

00:29:11.440 and you say what you want

00:29:12.680 him to hear.

00:29:13.720 Same as it was

00:29:15.040 with Trump

00:29:16.080 when he was president

00:29:17.900 with respect to

00:29:18.940 Hannity in particular

00:29:19.860 and Fox and Friends.

00:29:20.960 So listen though

00:29:23.000 to Joe Scarborough.

00:29:24.600 He's praising Biden

00:29:27.180 because it was

00:29:27.800 in the news this week

00:29:28.620 that Biden called

00:29:29.380 Trump a sick F.

00:29:32.520 I'm being ladylike

00:29:33.440 for once.

00:29:34.460 And he manages

00:29:36.180 to squeeze

00:29:36.760 into this reaction

00:29:37.960 a defense,

00:29:39.740 he thinks,

00:29:41.060 of Joe Biden's

00:29:41.880 many verbal gaffes.

00:29:43.260 Take a listen.

00:29:44.820 There's been concerns

00:29:45.980 that he's not getting out,

00:29:47.920 he's not doing enough stuff,

00:29:49.200 he's not answering

00:29:49.940 enough questions,

00:29:51.220 all right,

00:29:51.500 so if he makes a mistake,

00:29:52.440 he makes a mistake.

00:29:53.460 Andy Card told Barnacle

00:29:55.080 one time

00:29:55.780 that the thing

00:29:58.960 that people didn't get

00:29:59.660 about Bush was

00:30:00.640 when he bumbled around

00:30:02.800 and wasn't perfect,

00:30:04.780 wasn't Ronald Reagan.

00:30:06.320 I'm talking about 43.

00:30:09.140 Andy Card said

00:30:09.680 it made him more relatable.

00:30:11.160 They saw the polls

00:30:11.800 that made him more,

00:30:12.520 he wasn't speaking

00:30:13.340 in flowery language.

00:30:14.940 Like, people felt like,

00:30:16.260 okay, yeah,

00:30:16.640 he's one of us.

00:30:17.240 Well, that's Biden.

00:30:18.460 So let Fox News

00:30:19.520 make fun of him

00:30:20.200 because he has

00:30:21.360 the same stutter

00:30:22.100 he had since

00:30:22.560 he was 14 years old.

00:30:24.720 But go out

00:30:25.740 and show flashes of anger.

00:30:28.640 All right,

00:30:29.220 now, I haven't studied this,

00:30:30.580 but I don't think

00:30:31.980 having a stuttering problem

00:30:34.000 makes you think

00:30:35.020 dead people are alive

00:30:36.100 and live people are dead.

00:30:37.520 I don't know,

00:30:39.360 maybe you guys,

00:30:40.040 could you Google it

00:30:40.800 like quickly

00:30:41.280 and get back to me?

00:30:42.020 It's absurd.

00:30:45.220 I mean, everybody,

00:30:46.720 the thing that's so wild

00:30:47.720 is this isn't the only way

00:30:49.340 that the media is,

00:30:50.660 you know,

00:30:51.620 covering Biden

00:30:53.120 and sort of

00:30:54.000 running interference here.

00:30:55.660 It's as if they think

00:30:56.500 American voters are stupid

00:30:57.740 and will actually buy

00:30:58.740 the thing they're selling.

00:30:59.560 I don't think they will.

00:31:00.540 I was watching

00:31:01.560 an MSNBC segment

00:31:02.620 this morning,

00:31:03.180 which was otherwise good

00:31:04.440 and sort of just,

00:31:05.140 you know,

00:31:05.360 hard news about pulling data.

00:31:06.960 But at one point,

00:31:07.700 one of the commentators said,

00:31:08.960 you know,

00:31:10.180 employment is up

00:31:11.340 and inflation is down.

00:31:13.660 Inflation is recovering.

00:31:15.060 And I just want to linger

00:31:16.020 on that for a second

00:31:16.660 because it's like,

00:31:17.220 okay, well,

00:31:17.640 inflation is down

00:31:18.260 compared to what?

00:31:19.660 Like, sure,

00:31:20.640 technically that may be true,

00:31:22.280 but compared to,

00:31:23.280 you know,

00:31:23.520 a few years ago,

00:31:24.240 is it actually down?

00:31:25.300 Do you think the economy

00:31:26.060 is fully recovered?

00:31:27.380 We still have a big issue

00:31:28.600 with interest rates

00:31:29.260 being super high.

00:31:30.120 I think lots of people

00:31:30.840 feel a little bit

00:31:31.840 like they're in a holding pattern

00:31:33.340 where, you know,

00:31:34.980 depending on what type

00:31:36.700 of job seeker you are,

00:31:37.840 depending on the industry,

00:31:39.140 your industry might be doing

00:31:40.080 very well

00:31:40.560 or maybe not so much.

00:31:42.360 You know,

00:31:42.540 a lot of people

00:31:42.960 are in a holding pattern

00:31:43.800 related to buying

00:31:44.820 and selling houses,

00:31:45.920 transacting real estate.

00:31:46.880 I think for many people,

00:31:48.060 maybe on paper

00:31:48.940 and according to MSNBC analysts,

00:31:50.900 the economy is doing just fine,

00:31:52.660 but I don't think

00:31:53.200 many people agree with that.

00:31:54.780 And there's this question

00:31:55.600 of like,

00:31:55.940 well,

00:31:56.040 what does their purchasing power

00:31:57.120 look like right now?

00:31:58.240 The thing that that just kept

00:32:00.520 like highlighting in my mind

00:32:02.740 was,

00:32:03.260 okay,

00:32:03.360 you can be an MSNBC analyst

00:32:04.920 telling me

00:32:05.660 that the economy is doing fine

00:32:07.440 all day long,

00:32:08.240 but ultimately

00:32:09.120 if I don't feel that way

00:32:10.280 and if a whole bunch

00:32:10.900 of other voters

00:32:11.400 don't feel that way,

00:32:12.840 what good is that really?

00:32:14.120 I mean,

00:32:14.340 it just feels a little bit

00:32:15.560 like their mind.

00:32:16.380 Cindy Crawford

00:32:16.920 who gained 200 pounds

00:32:19.240 and went up to size 30

00:32:21.460 is down to size 18.

00:32:23.740 She's down to a size 18.

00:32:25.120 Yay, Cindy.

00:32:26.020 We all know Cindy Crawford

00:32:27.280 used to be perfect

00:32:28.480 and hot and slim,

00:32:29.900 which by the way,

00:32:30.340 she still is.

00:32:30.900 But my point is

00:32:31.500 that was the economy

00:32:32.520 under Trump

00:32:33.160 versus what's happened

00:32:34.240 under Biden.

00:32:35.360 And they want us

00:32:36.440 to celebrate that.

00:32:37.400 Okay,

00:32:37.560 she's down to 200.

00:32:38.780 Well,

00:32:39.600 I don't like a,

00:32:40.960 I liked her before

00:32:42.340 when she had the cutoff shorts

00:32:44.180 and the Pepsi can.

00:32:45.180 I have,

00:32:45.480 I'm not going to lie.

00:32:46.700 I'm glad she's down a little,

00:32:48.400 but like this new version.

00:32:50.000 Anyway,

00:32:50.600 it's,

00:32:51.540 it's absurd

00:32:52.680 to be celebrating that.

00:32:53.700 Now,

00:32:53.820 here's the other thing

00:32:54.360 about Morning Joe.

00:32:56.500 This is how up the ass,

00:32:58.320 I'm sorry,

00:32:58.900 but they are

00:32:59.460 of the Biden administration.

00:33:01.180 They went,

00:33:02.600 yeah,

00:33:02.840 I know I lost it.

00:33:03.980 Shit,

00:33:04.960 I have it

00:33:06.580 and I lose it

00:33:07.460 so quickly,

00:33:08.240 man.

00:33:09.160 So,

00:33:09.540 apparently Kamala

00:33:11.540 and second gentleman

00:33:13.140 Doug Emhoff

00:33:14.120 also love Morning Joe

00:33:16.040 and they hosted

00:33:17.140 a dinner last month

00:33:18.380 at the vice presidential

00:33:19.880 residence

00:33:20.640 for Scarborough

00:33:22.200 and Mika Brzezinski.

00:33:24.760 I just threw up

00:33:25.640 a little in my mouth.

00:33:27.180 It's so gross

00:33:28.740 how incestuous

00:33:30.140 this is.

00:33:31.120 And yes,

00:33:31.500 I say the same thing

00:33:32.360 about the other side.

00:33:33.100 Trust me,

00:33:34.480 I would never go

00:33:35.760 have a private dinner

00:33:36.960 with the sitting

00:33:38.060 vice president

00:33:39.260 and her husband

00:33:40.240 because you need

00:33:41.640 to stay like this

00:33:42.480 with them.

00:33:43.420 I mean,

00:33:43.600 only if you can prove

00:33:44.860 that you can

00:33:45.420 not be a bootlicker

00:33:47.160 on the back end

00:33:47.920 of that meeting

00:33:48.500 are you allowed

00:33:49.380 to do stuff like that.

00:33:50.420 And these two

00:33:51.300 cannot do that.

00:33:53.000 I mean,

00:33:53.120 I'll just give you,

00:33:53.660 we pulled just a sample

00:33:55.000 of Scarborough's

00:33:57.420 coverage of Joe Biden.

00:33:58.940 You tell me

00:33:59.560 whether you think

00:34:00.200 he's managing

00:34:01.140 to maintain

00:34:02.000 the arm's length

00:34:03.140 distance

00:34:03.860 that any professional

00:34:05.360 media personality

00:34:06.660 ought to be able

00:34:07.380 to do.

00:34:07.720 Watch it.

00:34:09.120 I think Biden's doing,

00:34:10.400 I mean,

00:34:10.820 you know,

00:34:11.540 I think he's doing

00:34:12.520 really well.

00:34:13.780 I mean,

00:34:14.200 he's engaged.

00:34:16.060 He's fired up

00:34:17.200 and he's ready to go.

00:34:18.980 I had the opportunity

00:34:20.100 to speak to the president

00:34:21.280 once or twice

00:34:22.340 lately.

00:34:23.900 And let me tell you

00:34:25.340 something.

00:34:27.200 That guy is in it

00:34:28.940 to win it.

00:34:30.000 He's fired up.

00:34:31.520 And if anybody

00:34:32.280 even suggests

00:34:33.560 that he not run,

00:34:36.040 it just,

00:34:36.840 there's no other word

00:34:37.520 for it.

00:34:37.900 It pisses him off

00:34:39.520 and he gets more focused.

00:34:41.620 Joe Biden is saying,

00:34:42.920 pass the law.

00:34:44.940 I'll shut down

00:34:45.980 the border.

00:34:47.420 Donald Trump

00:34:48.020 is saying,

00:34:48.840 keep the border

00:34:49.900 open,

00:34:51.120 wreck the economy,

00:34:52.120 destroy America

00:34:54.100 so I can get

00:34:55.220 reelected again.

00:34:56.400 But they've actually

00:34:57.780 turned

00:34:59.360 Joe Biden's

00:35:00.840 biggest political weakness

00:35:02.000 into his biggest

00:35:02.800 political strength.

00:35:04.600 That was literally

00:35:05.500 like a day.

00:35:06.380 I mean,

00:35:06.620 if we went,

00:35:07.780 we threw cast

00:35:08.360 a wider net,

00:35:09.120 you guys,

00:35:09.620 you know,

00:35:09.880 we'd get way more fish

00:35:11.240 back into that.

00:35:12.280 It's just,

00:35:12.640 and by the way,

00:35:13.400 he's calling Scarborough

00:35:14.680 all the time,

00:35:15.600 according to these reports.

00:35:16.740 This is from Axios.

00:35:18.800 The two are BFFs.

00:35:20.720 I mean,

00:35:21.360 there's some BFFage

00:35:22.500 happening from

00:35:23.440 Avenue of the Americas

00:35:24.420 in the previous

00:35:25.860 presidency as well.

00:35:27.660 I think people

00:35:28.660 love access to power.

00:35:30.520 It's fun.

00:35:31.060 It's flattering.

00:35:31.680 It makes you feel important.

00:35:34.020 I'm with you, Megan.

00:35:35.120 I find it to be

00:35:35.900 just sort of tawdry

00:35:36.600 and strange.

00:35:37.160 I wouldn't understand

00:35:38.000 what that even felt

00:35:39.380 or smelt like.

00:35:40.260 But one thing about Scarborough,

00:35:41.820 and you can always tell

00:35:43.000 it's really convincing

00:35:43.880 what you've heard

00:35:44.980 in your private ear

00:35:45.900 when you speak

00:35:46.580 in utter cliches

00:35:47.740 about it.

00:35:48.420 It's like,

00:35:48.860 I've talked to him

00:35:49.780 and I can tell you,

00:35:50.780 he's fired up

00:35:51.800 and ready to go.

00:35:53.180 I can tell you,

00:35:54.140 here's a stupid

00:35:55.220 slogan chant

00:35:56.300 that looks totally

00:35:57.620 insincere

00:35:58.340 and I'm going to

00:35:59.180 mouth it.

00:36:00.620 It's not convincing

00:36:01.840 at all.

00:36:02.360 What's convincing is

00:36:03.180 the only thing

00:36:03.920 you've communicated there

00:36:04.760 is that you get

00:36:06.060 to talk to the president

00:36:06.720 and it's kind of neat

00:36:07.700 for a guy on cable.

00:36:09.420 Congratulations.

00:36:10.440 Pinky high five.

00:36:10.920 That's exactly right.

00:36:11.820 I just am too

00:36:12.900 distracted by the fact

00:36:13.980 that Matt

00:36:14.940 looks a little bit

00:36:16.260 like Joe Scarborough

00:36:17.120 today.

00:36:18.000 That's not

00:36:18.560 because he has a tie

00:36:22.200 on.

00:36:23.400 I think I look

00:36:25.440 like Joe Scarborough

00:36:26.140 today.

00:36:26.520 And I was like,

00:36:26.960 oh, we're going

00:36:27.740 to pick that later

00:36:28.320 on.

00:36:28.480 We'll do a makeover

00:36:29.040 and we'll do it

00:36:29.480 before and after.

00:36:30.120 Never, never.

00:36:31.540 I like his look.

00:36:33.060 I called out

00:36:34.000 and I called us

00:36:34.660 out at the time

00:36:35.160 like Hannity going

00:36:36.060 on stage with Trump

00:36:36.960 and, you know,

00:36:37.760 he's described Trump

00:36:38.420 as his best friend

00:36:39.120 that they were way

00:36:40.360 too incestuous

00:36:41.040 for my liking.

00:36:42.400 And I said so

00:36:43.180 at the time and Hannity

00:36:45.020 and I had had battles

00:36:46.140 when Trump was running

00:36:47.000 for president

00:36:47.700 that spilled over

00:36:48.620 onto camera

00:36:49.400 and into the public

00:36:50.260 sphere because I felt

00:36:51.780 this way about him

00:36:52.400 too.

00:36:52.660 I'm not partisan

00:36:53.280 about this.

00:36:54.300 I really think if

00:36:54.880 you're going to be

00:36:55.200 in the media business,

00:36:56.040 you have to have

00:36:57.200 a professionally

00:36:57.820 arm's length

00:36:59.000 relationship with

00:37:00.560 someone who's in

00:37:01.260 a position of power.

00:37:02.140 You you are there

00:37:03.740 to represent the

00:37:05.020 people, not to push

00:37:06.900 the agenda of the

00:37:07.960 people who are in

00:37:08.740 power.

00:37:09.080 You're supposed to

00:37:09.800 be holding them

00:37:10.580 to account.

00:37:11.760 And we've just

00:37:12.120 gotten to a very

00:37:12.800 weird place in

00:37:13.820 the media space

00:37:14.560 where that's

00:37:15.500 that's forgotten.

00:37:16.720 OK, let me squeeze

00:37:17.540 a quick break in here,

00:37:18.400 you guys.

00:37:18.700 I'll come right back

00:37:19.400 and there's so much

00:37:20.360 more to discuss.

00:37:20.880 How did we get to

00:37:21.400 the 37 mark already?

00:37:22.460 It's too it's going

00:37:23.060 by too quickly.

00:37:23.760 Don't leave.

00:37:24.560 All right, stand by.

00:37:29.820 RFKJ in the news

00:37:30.840 getting a little buzz

00:37:31.860 and some news

00:37:32.460 coverage these days.

00:37:33.820 We don't talk

00:37:34.600 about him enough

00:37:35.280 because he's he's

00:37:36.540 going to play a major

00:37:37.220 role in this election

00:37:38.120 one way or another.

00:37:38.900 And that seems

00:37:39.820 very clear, not to

00:37:41.480 mention these other

00:37:43.140 third party candidates

00:37:44.040 who are really

00:37:44.740 changing the way

00:37:45.440 the ballot's going

00:37:45.980 to look and the way

00:37:46.960 the vote's going

00:37:47.480 to go.

00:37:48.560 The news of a few

00:37:49.980 days ago was

00:37:51.020 according to RFKJ,

00:37:53.520 it wasn't like a

00:37:54.380 surrogate.

00:37:55.120 According to him,

00:37:56.500 the Trump team

00:37:57.540 asked him whether

00:37:58.200 he'd be interested

00:37:58.780 in being VP.

00:38:00.180 And he said, no,

00:38:01.660 you never get that.

00:38:03.540 You know, you always

00:38:04.080 it's like some

00:38:04.600 third party.

00:38:05.220 You can always

00:38:05.520 maintain deniability.

00:38:06.480 He's like, yeah,

00:38:07.980 he told News Nation

00:38:08.760 they reached out to

00:38:09.820 me about possibly

00:38:10.700 serving as his

00:38:11.300 vice president.

00:38:12.120 But he said he

00:38:13.740 would not do it.

00:38:15.360 Here's an interview

00:38:16.120 he gave to Variety

00:38:17.680 where he explains a

00:38:18.800 little bit of why

00:38:19.680 Saudi.

00:38:21.440 Latest speculation

00:38:22.320 is that maybe

00:38:23.440 maybe you would be

00:38:24.740 the VP for Trump.

00:38:26.420 Would you ever do

00:38:27.260 that?

00:38:28.340 I don't think

00:38:29.620 that my marriage

00:38:30.600 would survive.

00:38:31.440 I think he's right.

00:38:34.280 Just president.

00:38:35.320 That's all you want.

00:38:36.480 Yeah, that's his

00:38:39.200 wife, actress

00:38:39.880 Cheryl Hines,

00:38:40.560 saying he's right.

00:38:41.460 The marriage

00:38:41.760 won't survive.

00:38:42.780 So he's he's

00:38:44.460 not going to be

00:38:44.820 the VP, guys,

00:38:45.720 but he actually

00:38:47.620 is going to play

00:38:48.820 a significant role

00:38:50.040 potentially.

00:38:50.520 And it looks like

00:38:51.160 to me in getting

00:38:52.640 Trump elected.

00:38:54.040 I think he hurts.

00:38:55.080 I've said this before.

00:38:55.660 I think he hurts

00:38:56.220 Biden more than

00:38:57.020 he hurts Trump.

00:38:57.860 And there's a new

00:38:58.880 Reuters Ipsos poll

00:39:00.720 relatively new

00:39:01.460 showing.

00:39:02.640 Yeah, that's right.

00:39:03.460 That Trump's up to

00:39:04.160 versus Biden

00:39:04.800 without RFKJ.

00:39:05.840 If RFKJ is in

00:39:06.840 the race,

00:39:08.040 Trump's up four.

00:39:09.780 And yet I'll

00:39:10.520 finish this all out

00:39:11.380 by saying Team

00:39:12.100 Trump denies that

00:39:12.820 they offered him

00:39:13.280 the VP slot at all.

00:39:14.900 They're attacking

00:39:15.660 him right now.

00:39:16.840 And Don Jr.

00:39:18.040 was on Newsmax

00:39:18.820 the other day

00:39:19.340 ripping him a new

00:39:20.540 one.

00:39:21.360 So, Matt,

00:39:23.020 what do you make

00:39:23.440 of it?

00:39:24.120 He's not purely

00:39:25.400 going to get

00:39:26.280 votes from the left,

00:39:27.260 even though he

00:39:27.660 comes, he emanates

00:39:28.620 from the left

00:39:29.080 originally.

00:39:29.520 I think he's been

00:39:30.180 tacking more

00:39:31.060 in unpredictable

00:39:32.500 ways since

00:39:34.200 he's been

00:39:34.920 an announced

00:39:35.400 candidate.

00:39:37.020 But if you

00:39:38.000 look at the

00:39:38.520 polls, and I

00:39:39.060 spent all of

00:39:39.660 yesterday down

00:39:40.500 the rabbit holes

00:39:41.440 of three-way

00:39:42.720 polls, but also

00:39:43.640 five-way polls,

00:39:44.700 including Jill

00:39:45.240 Stein from the

00:39:45.840 Green Party

00:39:46.320 and Cornel West,

00:39:47.620 who's going to

00:39:48.600 be on at least

00:39:49.040 a couple of

00:39:49.500 ballots.

00:39:49.840 I don't think

00:39:50.100 he's going to

00:39:50.300 get that many,

00:39:51.060 but he's been

00:39:51.400 polled a lot,

00:39:52.260 and it's been

00:39:52.860 very interesting.

00:39:53.720 It is absolutely

00:39:54.740 consistent that

00:39:56.200 where those guys

00:39:57.400 are on polls,

00:39:58.160 too, they're

00:39:58.520 getting 2%

00:39:59.120 each, and

00:40:00.460 that might not

00:40:00.940 seem like a lot,

00:40:01.680 it's just 2%,

00:40:02.460 but 4% to

00:40:03.680 basically definitely

00:40:05.140 left-of-center

00:40:05.920 candidates, and

00:40:07.360 those two are

00:40:07.940 also the only

00:40:08.540 ones who are

00:40:09.520 really going to

00:40:10.180 go to Biden's

00:40:12.440 left when it

00:40:13.020 comes to

00:40:13.600 intervention,

00:40:14.820 particularly in

00:40:15.720 Israel.

00:40:16.080 RFK is an

00:40:16.680 Israel hawk,

00:40:18.500 but it's a

00:40:18.940 Ukraine dove.

00:40:20.120 The other two

00:40:20.760 are doves in a

00:40:22.580 very serious

00:40:23.120 way, and there

00:40:23.720 is a bubbling

00:40:25.440 kind of anti-Biden

00:40:27.140 administration policy

00:40:28.260 towards Israel

00:40:29.080 happening on the

00:40:30.140 left now,

00:40:30.660 particularly young

00:40:31.400 people, and very

00:40:32.620 much in swing

00:40:33.240 states like

00:40:33.700 Michigan that

00:40:34.240 has a larger

00:40:34.660 American population.

00:40:36.480 They're definitely

00:40:37.360 going to affect

00:40:38.460 it.

00:40:38.700 When you take

00:40:39.420 polls that ask

00:40:40.560 both questions,

00:40:41.380 it asks the

00:40:41.740 Biden and Trump

00:40:42.260 question, but

00:40:43.140 then it asks

00:40:43.700 what happens

00:40:44.240 when you put

00:40:44.600 the third-party

00:40:45.100 candidates there.

00:40:46.280 Trump does

00:40:47.400 better with more

00:40:48.340 candidates, usually

00:40:49.380 by 2 or 3 or

00:40:50.640 4 percentage

00:40:51.380 points.

00:40:51.900 That's right now.

00:40:53.340 Those polls might

00:40:54.220 be skewed a

00:40:54.780 little bit because

00:40:55.320 I think, and

00:40:56.400 there's polling to

00:40:56.980 support this, too,

00:40:57.740 that a whole lot

00:40:58.940 of, especially

00:40:59.740 Democrats and

00:41:00.460 independents, are

00:41:01.160 still in denial

00:41:01.960 that Trump's going

00:41:02.540 to be the

00:41:02.800 Republican nominee.

00:41:04.000 They're like,

00:41:04.400 something's going

00:41:05.580 to happen.

00:41:06.800 So I think once

00:41:07.640 everyone understands

00:41:08.800 that it's going to

00:41:09.660 be Trump versus

00:41:10.200 Biden, unless one

00:41:10.940 of those guys

00:41:11.360 dies, which I

00:41:12.200 think is where

00:41:12.560 we're at right

00:41:13.040 now, then some

00:41:14.460 of that might

00:41:14.980 shift.

00:41:16.120 But RFK Jr.

00:41:17.320 right now is

00:41:17.960 polling higher than

00:41:18.740 anybody has

00:41:19.380 pulled since

00:41:19.800 Ross Perot in

00:41:20.540 1992.

00:41:21.880 He has a decent

00:41:22.560 shot at getting

00:41:23.340 50-state ballot

00:41:24.920 access, which is

00:41:25.620 very, very

00:41:26.020 difficult to do,

00:41:26.900 but you can

00:41:27.660 throw money at

00:41:28.300 that problem.

00:41:28.940 And he's sitting

00:41:29.440 on, or he and

00:41:30.320 the Super PAC

00:41:31.180 affiliated with him,

00:41:32.020 sitting on $20

00:41:32.580 million right now.

00:41:33.720 $20 million buys

00:41:34.660 a lot of petition

00:41:35.660 gatherers.

00:41:36.880 And you're right,

00:41:37.380 it's undercover.

00:41:38.280 He is absolutely

00:41:39.200 going to affect

00:41:39.960 this election unless

00:41:41.420 something happens to

00:41:42.320 him or he steps

00:41:42.860 back, but I don't

00:41:43.500 get the impression

00:41:44.020 that he's going

00:41:44.360 to do that.

00:41:45.440 Now, speaking of

00:41:46.440 Ross Perot, I

00:41:47.540 remember that

00:41:47.980 election.

00:41:48.560 I was 21 at

00:41:50.040 the time, and

00:41:50.980 he was like this

00:41:51.840 little, really

00:41:52.600 interesting guy who

00:41:53.780 had all these

00:41:54.380 innovative ideas, and

00:41:55.700 he was just

00:41:56.020 totally unlike the

00:41:56.820 others.

00:41:57.280 He made the

00:41:57.980 presidential debate

00:41:58.680 stage, and so did

00:41:59.660 his vice presidential

00:42:00.500 running mate, the

00:42:01.280 admiral, who was

00:42:02.340 great.

00:42:03.060 He was such a gem.

00:42:04.580 And we just pulled a

00:42:05.280 little bit of Ross

00:42:05.840 Perot.

00:42:06.120 Just take you back.

00:42:06.700 This could be RFKJ,

00:42:08.660 this time around, if

00:42:09.440 there ever are

00:42:09.900 debates.

00:42:10.480 Watch.

00:42:10.720 We've got to collect the

00:42:13.280 taxes to do it.

00:42:14.320 If there's a fairer

00:42:15.100 way, I'm all ears.

00:42:20.560 Now, whose fault is

00:42:22.880 that?

00:42:23.480 Not the Democrats, not

00:42:24.760 the Republicans.

00:42:25.460 Somewhere out there,

00:42:26.380 there's an extraterrestrial

00:42:27.380 that's doing this to us,

00:42:28.320 I guess.

00:42:28.820 I don't have any

00:42:29.560 spin doctors.

00:42:30.340 I don't have any

00:42:30.900 speech writers.

00:42:32.140 Probably shows.

00:42:34.960 I make those charts you

00:42:36.460 see on television.

00:42:37.340 foreign markets to

00:42:39.420 fair competition from

00:42:40.640 American business and

00:42:42.000 to stop unfair

00:42:42.940 competition here at

00:42:44.240 home from foreign

00:42:45.160 countries so that we

00:42:47.100 can bring jobs back to

00:42:48.340 the United States.

00:42:49.340 I decided I was dumb

00:42:50.720 and didn't understand

00:42:51.420 it, so I called the

00:42:52.120 who's who of the folks

00:42:52.840 who've been around it,

00:42:54.160 and I said, why won't

00:42:55.100 everybody go south?

00:42:55.980 They said, we'll be

00:42:56.460 disruptive.

00:42:56.980 I said, for how long?

00:42:57.860 I finally got them up

00:42:58.640 for 12 to 15 years, and

00:43:00.260 I said, well, how does

00:43:00.820 it stop being disruptive?

00:43:02.200 And that is, when their

00:43:02.960 jobs come up from a

00:43:03.900 dollar an hour to six

00:43:04.760 dollars an hour, and

00:43:05.500 hours go down to six

00:43:06.360 dollars an hour,

00:43:07.340 then it's leveled

00:43:07.960 again, but in the

00:43:08.540 meantime, you've wrecked

00:43:09.760 the country with these

00:43:10.520 kinds of deals.

00:43:13.640 This makes me want it,

00:43:15.680 right?

00:43:16.200 I know the odds of a

00:43:17.740 general election debate

00:43:18.580 are not great, but it

00:43:20.500 would be wonderful if we

00:43:21.620 could get somebody like

00:43:22.500 that, and RFKJ is

00:43:23.620 innovative in the way he

00:43:24.700 thinks and the way he

00:43:25.320 approaches issues.

00:43:26.020 He will be like a Ross

00:43:27.200 Perot coming at all of it

00:43:28.660 from a totally different

00:43:29.600 angle, Liz.

00:43:30.700 I don't know.

00:43:31.280 I'd like to see it.

00:43:32.820 The area that I most

00:43:34.640 want to see RFK Jr.

00:43:36.360 actually take other

00:43:38.580 people to task,

00:43:39.820 specifically Biden and

00:43:40.940 Trump, is COVID policy.

00:43:42.740 I mean, RFK Jr., when it

00:43:44.400 comes to the vaccine

00:43:45.240 question, I'm totally

00:43:46.560 with him in opposing

00:43:47.980 vaccine mandates always

00:43:50.200 and everywhere, especially

00:43:51.140 my God, applied to

00:43:52.120 children.

00:43:53.240 On the issue of

00:43:54.000 vaccines, though, I

00:43:54.660 think RFK Jr.

00:43:55.460 does spout some medical

00:43:56.840 clackery that I'm not a

00:43:57.780 huge fan of.

00:43:58.260 Of course, I think it

00:43:58.860 should be absolutely

00:43:59.360 legal for him to continue

00:44:00.880 to run his mouth.

00:44:01.780 I mean, sure, give people

00:44:02.540 the information, let people

00:44:03.400 make their own decisions.

00:44:04.140 That's what the federal

00:44:04.840 government doesn't seem to

00:44:06.300 grasp, people ought to be

00:44:07.360 able to do.

00:44:08.260 But I do think when it

00:44:09.380 comes to COVID policy and

00:44:10.940 lockdowns, I mean,

00:44:12.540 thankfully, I think many of

00:44:13.560 us have either moved on

00:44:14.540 from that or entirely

00:44:15.620 blocked it out of our

00:44:16.540 minds, trying to force

00:44:17.940 some amnesia, like I'm

00:44:19.040 still drinking to forget.

00:44:21.040 But, you know, to some

00:44:22.420 degree, we actually do need

00:44:23.820 a little bit more of a

00:44:24.780 reckoning.

00:44:25.340 And I think RFK Jr.

00:44:26.960 and his supporters provide

00:44:28.860 that perspective.

00:44:29.960 Whether you're Trump or

00:44:31.080 Biden, whether you're

00:44:31.920 Newsom or, you know,

00:44:33.360 DeSantis did a pretty good

00:44:34.360 job, but it was odd how he

00:44:35.580 didn't promote his

00:44:37.320 successes, his victories

00:44:38.700 in Florida to the degree

00:44:40.020 that I expected on the

00:44:41.220 campaign trail.

00:44:42.240 Regardless, though, what

00:44:43.800 just happened?

00:44:44.780 The, you know, months and

00:44:46.020 months and months of

00:44:46.740 lockdowns, of children

00:44:47.820 being kept out of school,

00:44:49.080 of massive learning loss.

00:44:51.960 They've got away with it.

00:44:53.000 The two men who did it to

00:44:54.160 us, who were in the office

00:44:55.640 when it was done, they're

00:44:57.320 back.

00:44:57.840 They've gotten away with it.

00:44:58.880 So who's going to be up

00:45:00.060 there?

00:45:00.660 You know, we'll see

00:45:01.260 whether, I don't think any

00:45:02.340 leftist journalist who it

00:45:03.760 would have to be doing the

00:45:04.660 general election debate is

00:45:06.000 going to raise that because

00:45:07.200 it's not an issue for the

00:45:08.240 left.

00:45:08.340 The left was pro lockdown.

00:45:09.900 I got to ask you this.

00:45:11.340 If I agree, I don't think

00:45:12.980 that RFKJ hurts Trump as

00:45:14.620 much as he hurts Biden.

00:45:16.000 But if that's true, and

00:45:17.720 these polls seem to suggest

00:45:18.640 that's true, why is Don

00:45:20.660 Jr.

00:45:21.080 out there saying things like

00:45:22.200 this?

00:45:22.580 Listen to him on Newsmax with

00:45:23.600 our pal Eric Bolling.

00:45:25.540 The reality is RFK is a

00:45:27.740 radical liberal who happens

00:45:29.280 to be anti-vax.

00:45:30.280 That may be the one policy

00:45:31.500 where he leans a little bit

00:45:33.180 right.

00:45:33.700 But he was for open borders

00:45:35.260 for his entire life.

00:45:36.640 He's against farmers.

00:45:38.200 He was a radical

00:45:39.020 environmentalist.

00:45:40.560 He was super anti-gun.

00:45:43.160 You know, he says he's

00:45:43.960 changed his mind.

00:45:45.400 He's changed his mind on

00:45:46.420 everything that he did for

00:45:47.680 decades, everything magically

00:45:49.840 six months ago.

00:45:50.760 I don't believe that.

00:45:52.480 So, you know, he's a

00:45:53.480 phenomenal alternative to

00:45:54.940 Joe Biden as a Democrat,

00:45:57.000 but he is a radical

00:45:59.020 Democrat.

00:46:01.780 Yeah, that's a message not

00:46:03.100 for RFK, but that's a

00:46:05.160 message for the Trump

00:46:06.380 voters who are voting for

00:46:07.620 RFK.

00:46:08.920 For the DeSantis voters who

00:46:10.540 now have a place, the ones

00:46:12.140 who backed DeSantis

00:46:12.920 particularly because of his

00:46:14.540 COVID policies, they are

00:46:17.820 RFK curious.

00:46:19.040 And also there's people who

00:46:19.860 like RFK because they want

00:46:21.020 to throw stuff against the

00:46:21.860 wall and see if it breaks a

00:46:22.820 little bit, right?

00:46:23.620 There's that sort of nihilistic

00:46:26.880 party energy that Trump

00:46:29.520 attracted a lot, especially

00:46:31.060 the first time around, of

00:46:32.980 like, hey, I'm sick of the

00:46:33.900 way that the whole system

00:46:34.800 works.

00:46:35.360 I need an outside disruptor.

00:46:37.980 And so Don Jr.

00:46:39.240 correctly, in my view,

00:46:40.680 identifies that if RFK is

00:46:42.660 polling at 19 percent, he's

00:46:44.000 polling some of that, let's

00:46:46.480 say eight points from Donald

00:46:47.640 Trump.

00:46:48.000 That's competition.

00:46:49.020 He's got to tell those

00:46:49.960 voters like, no, no, no, no,

00:46:51.180 no, no, no, he's got these

00:46:53.160 ragbag of policies that you

00:46:55.760 hate, even though he's

00:46:56.820 talking now tough about the

00:46:58.140 border and doing things that

00:46:59.440 he wasn't doing six to nine

00:47:01.080 months ago.

00:47:01.840 So it makes sense to me.

00:47:03.020 And you'll see you'll see

00:47:04.480 more of that the further we

00:47:06.320 go.

00:47:07.780 I'm I'm sad he's not

00:47:09.220 considering running as VP

00:47:10.220 because I would buy a ticket

00:47:11.820 to that.

00:47:13.360 We don't know who the vice

00:47:14.740 presidential pick will be of

00:47:15.940 the likely Republican nominee,

00:47:17.260 Donald Trump.

00:47:17.920 The names that he mentioned,

00:47:19.440 Trump mentioned this week in

00:47:21.220 passing, just as like a tease

00:47:23.060 were Kristi Noem and Tim

00:47:24.820 Scott, Kellyanne Conway with a

00:47:27.080 piece out this week saying she

00:47:28.240 thinks he should choose

00:47:29.160 somebody, a person of color

00:47:31.000 because the Republican Party

00:47:33.040 is becoming much more

00:47:34.520 diverse, not not for identity

00:47:36.400 politics purposes, she says,

00:47:39.260 but for because to reflect

00:47:41.200 what's happening in the

00:47:41.900 Republican Party.

00:47:42.560 And she named Tim Scott,

00:47:43.720 maybe Byron Donald or

00:47:45.600 Vivek.

00:47:46.280 We'll see.

00:47:47.020 Stand by Matt and Liz.

00:47:48.220 Stay with us.

00:47:48.940 We'll be right back.

00:47:52.680 All right, guys.

00:47:53.620 So college and its craziness

00:47:56.900 back in the news as I have

00:47:59.900 heard about this.

00:48:00.900 Our kids are very young and

00:48:02.720 nowhere near college age.

00:48:03.900 Thank God.

00:48:04.960 But I have heard about this in

00:48:07.260 these sort of privileged zip

00:48:09.720 codes that I've bounced between

00:48:11.020 for the past 20 years.

00:48:12.900 These education consultants that

00:48:15.360 are making buku bucks from the

00:48:18.260 top one percenters who want

00:48:20.340 junior to wind up at Harvard or

00:48:22.480 Yale or Stanford or UPenn come

00:48:25.040 hell or high water.

00:48:26.500 I did not realize just how

00:48:28.860 expensive it is.

00:48:31.960 There's an in-depth piece in New

00:48:33.720 York Mag.

00:48:34.200 It's a cover story and it's

00:48:36.520 amazing.

00:48:37.520 And they're talking about these

00:48:39.660 services, one in particular, which

00:48:40.960 charges one hundred and twenty

00:48:43.640 thousand dollars a year to help

00:48:47.880 them get their kid into one of the

00:48:50.380 Ivies.

00:48:51.160 And they start paying this company

00:48:53.400 when junior, they say, on average is

00:48:55.500 in ninth grade.

00:48:56.160 So you're talking a half million

00:49:00.120 dollars to pave the way to get your

00:49:03.720 kid into one of these schools just

00:49:05.880 so he can wind up probably hating

00:49:07.780 you, hating the country.

00:49:09.720 And if he happens to be a white boy

00:49:11.320 hating himself for the low, low price

00:49:13.260 of half a million dollars, you can do

00:49:14.240 this.

00:49:14.760 Here's just a few more details for

00:49:17.140 you.

00:49:17.480 It's called an independent education

00:49:18.880 consultant.

00:49:19.680 The one that they profiled was

00:49:20.920 command education offers a

00:49:22.400 personalized white glove service,

00:49:24.260 does everything from curating students

00:49:26.080 extracurriculars to helping them land

00:49:28.160 summer internships, craft essays and

00:49:30.220 manage their course loads.

00:49:31.860 This guy who charges one hundred

00:49:33.200 and twenty thousand dollars a year

00:49:34.180 has one hundred and ninety clients.

00:49:36.720 He's rolling in dough, mostly

00:49:39.940 private school kids, mainly in New

00:49:41.900 York, 41 full time staffers working

00:49:44.380 for him.

00:49:45.140 They say the real problem that as

00:49:48.500 these one percenters see it is that

00:49:50.560 legacy admissions, which have always

00:49:52.800 favored the rich quoting here, are

00:49:54.740 under increased scrutiny.

00:49:57.020 Some universities have done away with

00:49:58.500 them altogether.

00:49:59.800 The horror.

00:50:01.020 The threshold for a donation now

00:50:03.100 that might move the needle to get

00:50:05.800 junior in if you don't use this guy and

00:50:07.720 his hundred and twenty thousand dollars

00:50:08.660 a year has reportedly reached

00:50:10.780 ten million dollars.

00:50:15.100 So if you want to buy your kids way in

00:50:17.740 the way Jared Kushner's dad

00:50:19.820 reportedly did, it's going to cost you

00:50:21.960 ten million and that may or may not

00:50:26.220 get junior in.

00:50:28.320 This is the absurd.

00:50:31.540 We've lost our ever loving minds.

00:50:34.700 I you tell me, Matt, how regular kids

00:50:37.700 I understand if you're a kid of color

00:50:39.480 who's doing relatively decent at any

00:50:41.340 school, you might still get in not

00:50:42.920 withstanding this.

00:50:44.120 But if you happen to be like a white

00:50:45.240 kid in Appalachia who happens to just

00:50:47.520 have straight A's and does pretty decent

00:50:48.980 on the SAT effort, you're not getting

00:50:51.580 you're not getting past these kids.

00:50:53.820 And and you're happy

00:50:55.400 to imagine.

00:50:57.780 I mean, all this is like a sorting

00:50:59.320 exercise.

00:50:59.860 Like, where are all the douchebags going

00:51:01.680 to be? Oh, they're there.

00:51:03.460 They all went to Horace Man.

00:51:05.300 One third, I think something like of

00:51:07.400 the people that were discussed went to

00:51:08.760 Horace Man.

00:51:09.400 And that's a name that might not mean a

00:51:11.380 lot to people, but it's not, I guess,

00:51:12.880 far from where I live.

00:51:14.080 It's a private prep school in New York

00:51:16.260 where all the fancy people pay

00:51:17.580 sixty thousand dollars a year

00:51:19.460 before you go to college

00:51:20.820 to prep you

00:51:22.280 already. The idea of going to Horace

00:51:24.220 Man is to spend all this money

00:51:25.320 so that for sure you're going to get

00:51:26.860 into the ivy. So imagine

00:51:28.000 that your kid is such a layabout that

00:51:30.120 that's still not enough.

00:51:31.640 We've got to get the white glove.

00:51:33.900 Do I just want to call it the rubber

00:51:34.740 glove treatment here?

00:51:36.580 The rubber room treatment.

00:51:38.660 Imagine how like completely

00:51:40.540 without

00:51:41.180 initiative

00:51:42.640 a kid would have to be to sort of

00:51:44.480 sort of sit there and take it.

00:51:45.580 Yes, mom and dad, spend a million

00:51:47.600 dollars on me before

00:51:48.860 you get to college

00:51:50.460 so that people can

00:51:52.140 make sure that I'm doing my homework.

00:51:55.040 Well, these kids don't know.

00:51:56.140 I have an eighth grader.

00:51:57.720 If I sat him down and said,

00:52:00.100 Yates, you're going to have to meet

00:52:01.540 with the education consultant

00:52:03.080 and he's this is important to mom

00:52:05.180 and dad and he's going to help us

00:52:07.060 get you into a proper college.

00:52:08.940 I don't know that Yates would

00:52:10.200 know to say, mom, that's crazy.

00:52:12.360 You know, like they're young.

00:52:13.680 I'm 14 is young.

00:52:14.960 That's like the parents still

00:52:16.680 have such control over them

00:52:17.880 and they kind of want to do

00:52:19.500 what you tell them to do.

00:52:20.920 It's the parents fault.

00:52:22.100 This is crazy stuff here

00:52:23.860 where you're somebody on the

00:52:25.480 outside is curating your son

00:52:27.640 or daughter's extracurriculars.

00:52:29.840 Like you have to play squash.

00:52:33.340 Squash is the only sport

00:52:34.280 that's going to go.

00:52:34.700 You have to play lacrosse.

00:52:35.880 I don't care if you love basketball.

00:52:37.320 You're not doing it.

00:52:38.380 That's happening, Liz.

00:52:40.660 It's stunning to me.

00:52:41.940 I mean, most of these kids,

00:52:43.220 truth be told,

00:52:44.260 are either going to be

00:52:45.180 getting into these nice schools

00:52:46.460 and they're going to be doing

00:52:47.220 cocaine and a boathouse

00:52:48.460 and doing all kinds of nasty things

00:52:50.720 or they're going to become

00:52:53.060 social justice warriors.

00:52:54.500 Frankly, both faiths

00:52:55.320 sound terrible to me.

00:52:56.440 If my, you know,

00:52:57.040 my son is one right now,

00:52:58.220 but if he did either of those things,

00:52:59.280 I would be terribly

00:52:59.960 disappointed in him.

00:53:01.260 Beyond that,

00:53:01.960 I'm pretty much cool with him

00:53:02.980 doing whatever he wants to do

00:53:04.500 and going down whatever path,

00:53:05.620 you know, he sees appropriate.

00:53:07.020 But I do think,

00:53:07.800 I do think the problem

00:53:08.620 is really with the parents.

00:53:09.820 I mean, can you imagine being so,

00:53:11.980 it's a creativity problem

00:53:13.140 more than anything.

00:53:14.180 Imagine being so narrow-minded

00:53:16.100 and pathetic and losery

00:53:18.500 and just having no real personality

00:53:20.300 of your own

00:53:21.020 to the point where you think

00:53:22.460 the only way to live the good life

00:53:24.820 is to go to your fancy prep school

00:53:27.420 and then go to Harvard

00:53:28.460 and then go and proceed

00:53:30.480 with your investment banking route

00:53:32.060 or what have you.

00:53:33.420 I mean, can you imagine

00:53:34.920 believing that that is the only path

00:53:36.820 to the good life?

00:53:38.100 I mean, I definitely,

00:53:39.900 I'm young, far younger

00:53:41.800 than Sweet Matt over here

00:53:43.220 and I have a young child,

00:53:44.260 so I don't really know

00:53:45.580 as much about parenting

00:53:46.380 as you guys do.

00:53:47.840 But already I can tell

00:53:49.500 that to some degree,

00:53:50.880 your job as a parent

00:53:51.980 is not just to have

00:53:53.260 this very strict, narrow sense

00:53:55.400 of what your child

00:53:56.420 could possibly become

00:53:58.040 and, in fact,

00:53:59.360 it is to have a sense

00:54:00.220 that your child is, you know,

00:54:01.540 innately, inherently valuable,

00:54:02.980 not just for their

00:54:03.840 productive capacity

00:54:04.740 or the degree to which

00:54:05.880 they boost your own ego

00:54:06.880 later on.

00:54:07.780 That's not what it's about.

00:54:08.760 It's such a pathetic way to live.

00:54:10.680 There's a...

00:54:11.520 There's still this belief

00:54:12.740 that you've got to get

00:54:14.300 a junior or Harvard degree

00:54:15.420 or Yale degree or whatever

00:54:16.360 in order for a junior

00:54:17.280 to succeed in life.

00:54:18.520 It's just a lie,

00:54:19.920 but we're still buying into it.

00:54:21.980 Look what they're doing

00:54:22.760 to the students at Harvard

00:54:23.860 right now

00:54:24.400 and the students at UPenn.

00:54:26.300 Like, look what's actually

00:54:27.480 happening to them on campus.

00:54:29.220 Now, you know,

00:54:29.860 God willing,

00:54:30.520 they'll solve this problem

00:54:31.640 and these schools

00:54:33.240 will go back to what

00:54:33.940 they used to do,

00:54:34.600 which is just educate students.

00:54:36.460 I don't have a lot

00:54:37.240 of high hopes, Matt,

00:54:38.060 but I understand.

00:54:39.680 I have to say,

00:54:40.220 I'm going to be honest,

00:54:40.920 I understand the pressure

00:54:42.100 that parents feel

00:54:43.340 because when, you know,

00:54:44.200 you're in the midst of it

00:54:45.300 and you're thinking,

00:54:45.880 oh, God,

00:54:46.580 is everybody doing this thing?

00:54:48.280 It could be whatever,

00:54:49.220 education consultant or anything,

00:54:50.340 and we're not doing it

00:54:52.100 and are we disadvantaging

00:54:53.040 our kid, you know,

00:54:55.260 by like just kind of

00:54:56.140 letting him choose

00:54:56.780 his own sports

00:54:58.000 and his own extra career?

00:54:59.040 You have to like

00:54:59.660 pull yourself

00:55:01.220 out of that madness

00:55:02.320 regularly

00:55:03.400 or it will sweep you away

00:55:05.120 like Dorothy in the wind.

00:55:07.340 George Packer

00:55:08.200 is a talented writer,

00:55:09.500 lives or lived

00:55:10.700 in my neighborhood

00:55:11.940 in Brooklyn

00:55:12.400 and he wrote a piece

00:55:14.280 for The Atlantic

00:55:14.840 about six,

00:55:15.880 seven years ago,

00:55:16.480 basically articulating

00:55:17.320 exactly what you just said,

00:55:18.320 that sense of pressure,

00:55:19.220 but also the peer pressure

00:55:20.720 of the people around you

00:55:21.680 who are also

00:55:22.960 from the professional class

00:55:24.120 and they all imagine

00:55:25.800 that they really want

00:55:26.420 to do what's best

00:55:27.380 for the kid,

00:55:27.760 except the article

00:55:29.400 wasn't about the kids

00:55:30.740 being, you know,

00:55:31.660 15 like my daughter is

00:55:33.080 or even nine

00:55:33.740 like the youngest one is.

00:55:35.680 They were three,

00:55:37.320 Reader.

00:55:37.760 They were three years old.

00:55:39.340 These parents

00:55:40.100 were agonizing

00:55:41.380 over the pressure

00:55:42.520 about what to make sure

00:55:43.900 that goes to the right pre-K

00:55:45.180 because if you don't get

00:55:46.420 into the right pre-K,

00:55:47.220 you might not get

00:55:48.200 into the proper this,

00:55:49.080 which then you don't

00:55:49.880 get to go to Horace Mann

00:55:50.960 and then you don't

00:55:51.740 get to go to Harvard

00:55:52.560 and I read this stuff

00:55:53.660 and it's like science fiction.

00:55:54.720 I know I live

00:55:55.200 among these people

00:55:56.000 and I'm very grateful

00:55:58.800 that this feeling

00:55:59.760 never crosses my brain.

00:56:01.740 My only thing

00:56:02.440 that I've ever said

00:56:02.940 to my 15-year-old

00:56:03.660 is like,

00:56:04.040 you are not going to Harvard.

00:56:05.660 Thank God

00:56:06.020 she's not getting the grades.

00:56:07.480 It's not even a possibility.

00:56:09.080 And don't you want

00:56:09.620 to have fun in college?

00:56:10.680 Didn't you have a good time?

00:56:11.340 I had a great time in college.

00:56:12.800 Syracuse was so fun.

00:56:13.940 I learned a ton.

00:56:14.780 I had a great four years.

00:56:16.460 I thoroughly enjoyed

00:56:17.460 my time on campus.

00:56:18.540 We went to basketball games,

00:56:19.620 lacrosse games.

00:56:20.740 I did not,

00:56:22.160 I was not surrounded

00:56:23.160 by social justice warriors

00:56:24.880 trying to turn me

00:56:25.780 into a socialist.

00:56:26.900 I just,

00:56:27.580 I would love to have

00:56:28.900 my kids enjoy

00:56:29.740 their four years.

00:56:31.540 I went to a school

00:56:32.880 whose abbreviation

00:56:35.220 can be retold

00:56:37.640 as you can study buzzed.

00:56:39.660 And it was a proud thing

00:56:41.440 that we were

00:56:42.120 in the top five

00:56:44.080 or top two

00:56:44.960 or just the top one

00:56:46.120 ranked party school

00:56:47.280 for about 10 years running.

00:56:48.660 I think it was Playboy

00:56:49.540 that had those things.

00:56:51.120 So I lasted a year,

00:56:52.660 but I started working

00:56:54.200 for the college newspaper

00:56:55.000 and it turned out well, right?

00:56:56.880 Look at you now.

00:56:57.820 That's the thing.

00:56:58.520 Kids need to be reminded.

00:56:59.600 I always tell the kids,

00:57:00.340 like, don't worry.

00:57:01.280 I didn't go to Harvard.

00:57:02.060 Harvard never would have

00:57:02.720 taken a look at me.

00:57:03.360 I didn't even get accepted

00:57:04.380 at the journalism school

00:57:05.240 at Syracuse.

00:57:06.140 I went poli sci,

00:57:07.100 which is a well-respected program,

00:57:08.580 but I'm just saying,

00:57:10.040 it's fine.

00:57:11.140 If you work hard,

00:57:13.080 you can make something

00:57:13.980 of yourself.

00:57:14.800 You will outshine

00:57:16.000 your competitors with ease

00:57:18.020 because a lot of these kids, Liz,

00:57:19.820 as you probably know,

00:57:20.800 if you do this to them,

00:57:22.100 if you make them get

00:57:23.020 a perfect 4.3,

00:57:25.020 it's not even enough

00:57:25.620 to have a 4.0 now,

00:57:26.960 and a perfect score

00:57:28.040 on the SAT

00:57:28.520 and do 10 extracurriculars

00:57:31.740 and be captain

00:57:32.300 of all the sports,

00:57:33.360 they're going to burn out

00:57:35.060 in year one at Yale.

00:57:37.740 And then what?

00:57:38.600 You've got to keep

00:57:39.880 some gas in the tank

00:57:40.880 for when they have

00:57:41.680 a real job

00:57:42.400 and get out there

00:57:43.100 and need to out-hustle

00:57:44.080 their competitors

00:57:44.720 in order to advance

00:57:45.900 where it matters,

00:57:46.860 the workforce.

00:57:48.320 Well, and worse still,

00:57:49.540 you're robbing them

00:57:50.280 of their childhoods.

00:57:51.480 You're robbing them

00:57:52.360 of the ability

00:57:53.020 to figure out

00:57:53.700 what their values

00:57:54.500 and interests

00:57:55.060 actually are.

00:57:56.360 You're really shunting them

00:57:57.820 toward this very narrow path,

00:58:00.200 and you're kind of disregarding

00:58:02.760 who they actually are

00:58:04.120 as people,

00:58:04.800 which does not seem

00:58:06.120 like a recipe

00:58:06.840 for long-term success to me.

00:58:08.680 I mean, I wrote this piece

00:58:10.020 for, you know,

00:58:10.760 to what you're talking about, Matt,

00:58:12.400 I wrote this piece

00:58:13.040 for the Free Press

00:58:13.640 for Barry Weiss's

00:58:14.400 wonderful publication

00:58:15.200 about, like,

00:58:17.300 the benefits

00:58:17.820 of being a young mom.

00:58:19.080 I had, you know,

00:58:19.680 I got pregnant with my son

00:58:20.460 when I was 25,

00:58:21.640 which isn't really young, right?

00:58:22.720 Like, that's pretty normal

00:58:23.660 in America,

00:58:24.100 but I was living

00:58:25.120 at the time in Brooklyn

00:58:26.300 surrounded by a lot

00:58:28.040 of these ultra-wealthy

00:58:29.380 40-year-old moms

00:58:30.240 who are,

00:58:30.880 which there's nothing wrong

00:58:31.560 with being 40

00:58:32.000 when you have your first kid.

00:58:32.900 Who cares?

00:58:33.700 But the issue was

00:58:34.880 I was trying to diagnose

00:58:35.700 this very specific type

00:58:36.940 of neuroses,

00:58:38.360 and it, you know,

00:58:39.820 I think really stems

00:58:40.800 from almost like

00:58:41.840 being too affluent

00:58:43.200 and too anxious

00:58:44.540 and too into overthinking

00:58:46.260 for your own good,

00:58:47.480 and I can sort of understand

00:58:48.480 why people feel that way.

00:58:49.900 You know,

00:58:50.200 if you're having kids

00:58:50.860 a little later,

00:58:51.340 maybe you struggle

00:58:51.900 to conceive,

00:58:53.020 maybe you're one and done

00:58:54.200 and you're not going

00:58:55.060 to have a big family.

00:58:56.360 I could totally understand

00:58:57.800 why then you would

00:58:59.060 have so much pressure

00:59:01.240 that you feel

00:59:02.320 to ensure that your child

00:59:03.460 has an absolutely

00:59:04.140 perfect childhood

00:59:05.040 and that you set them up

00:59:06.320 for, you know,

00:59:06.920 the utmost success.

00:59:08.360 The only problem is

00:59:09.120 people end up sabotaging

00:59:10.240 their kids' happiness

00:59:11.360 and their own happiness

00:59:12.640 in the process

00:59:13.420 of doing this.

00:59:14.220 I feel blessed

00:59:15.200 beyond measure

00:59:16.360 to not really have

00:59:17.800 the ability,

00:59:18.780 the wiggle room,

00:59:19.680 the budget,

00:59:20.500 to be able to do

00:59:21.200 all of those things

00:59:21.940 for my son,

00:59:22.540 and I think instead

00:59:23.180 we have a lot more fun.

00:59:24.460 We're able to be scrappy.

00:59:25.500 I'm able to,

00:59:26.420 you know,

00:59:26.580 instead of thinking

00:59:27.180 there was this thing

00:59:28.140 with this mom's group

00:59:28.840 I was in

00:59:29.200 where they were getting

00:59:30.560 their kids

00:59:31.140 into the fanciest

00:59:32.020 possible swim lessons.

00:59:33.320 So I,

00:59:34.160 I don't know,

00:59:35.040 I signed my kid up

00:59:35.860 for the YMCA swim lessons

00:59:37.160 and guys,

00:59:37.600 guess what?

00:59:37.960 I think he's not going to drop.

00:59:38.920 Like,

00:59:39.040 I think he's going to be okay.

00:59:40.200 We're going to survive this one.

00:59:41.400 He's not going to get Ebola

00:59:42.460 from the freaking YMCA.

00:59:43.720 There's no high class swimming.

00:59:45.180 Is that like high class

00:59:46.480 versus like,

00:59:47.260 oh,

00:59:47.420 that's the low class,

00:59:48.440 the working class swim.

00:59:49.600 Look at the way

00:59:50.220 the breath stroke goes.

00:59:51.620 It's weird.

00:59:52.620 No,

00:59:53.420 it,

00:59:53.800 I,

00:59:54.140 look,

00:59:54.320 I understand investing

00:59:55.240 in your kid's education

00:59:56.140 and wanting what's best

00:59:57.020 for your child

00:59:57.560 and making sure

00:59:58.380 that they're being challenged,

00:59:59.580 you know,

01:00:00.140 to,

01:00:00.340 to let their beautiful minds

01:00:01.600 develop to where they ought to be.

01:00:02.900 You know,

01:00:03.100 like that's all great.

01:00:04.060 And I,

01:00:04.300 I get that.

01:00:06.240 And also athletics.

01:00:07.380 Like if you,

01:00:07.920 if you push them a little,

01:00:08.860 I wish my mom had pushed me

01:00:09.820 a little bit more,

01:00:10.400 to be honest.

01:00:10.860 Like my,

01:00:11.540 my mom saw absolutely

01:00:12.520 zero potential

01:00:13.200 and pushed me not at all.

01:00:14.840 She's made that clear.

01:00:15.840 But so I would have liked

01:00:18.220 to have been pushed

01:00:18.720 a little bit harder,

01:00:19.580 but this is crazy talk.

01:00:21.140 $120,000 a year

01:00:22.540 so that junior

01:00:23.380 can get into some,

01:00:24.240 some college

01:00:25.160 that is not going to teach him.

01:00:26.640 Odds are truly any better,

01:00:28.040 or maybe even as good

01:00:29.100 as some of these

01:00:30.120 third tier schools

01:00:31.000 that just care about

01:00:31.960 teaching you how to think

01:00:33.040 and making sure

01:00:34.140 that you remember

01:00:35.340 you're only 19 one time

01:00:37.240 and you can make friends

01:00:38.780 and go to sports

01:00:39.540 and have a grand old time

01:00:40.940 on campus

01:00:41.380 as you're really,

01:00:42.000 truly coming of age.

01:00:43.000 Anyway,

01:00:43.440 guys,

01:00:43.740 thank you very much

01:00:44.700 for your expertise.

01:00:46.080 You turned out beautifully

01:00:46.980 and I love having you

01:00:48.300 on the show.

01:00:48.940 Thanks for being here.

01:00:49.560 Thank you, Megan.

01:00:50.180 Thanks, Megan.

01:00:51.120 Okay, when we come back,

01:00:52.240 Sage Steele is here.

01:00:53.740 So much to go over with her.

01:00:54.840 Don't miss that.

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01:01:59.680 Joining me now

01:02:00.700 is Sage Steele.

01:02:02.220 Sage was on with us

01:02:03.040 for the full show

01:02:03.900 back in episode 610

01:02:05.920 this past August,

01:02:07.420 August of 2023.

01:02:08.260 It was an amazing conversation.

01:02:10.160 It is still

01:02:10.940 one of our most

01:02:11.800 downloaded episodes.

01:02:13.780 You should definitely

01:02:14.480 go back in your free time

01:02:15.760 just if you have a car ride

01:02:16.940 or something,

01:02:17.820 pop it in there

01:02:18.420 and listen to it.

01:02:19.420 You will love every minute.

01:02:21.860 We went through

01:02:22.220 her life story,

01:02:23.060 her battle with ESPN

01:02:24.480 over free speech,

01:02:25.700 and we are thrilled

01:02:26.800 she's back with us today.

01:02:28.900 Sage, my friend,

01:02:29.660 great to see you.

01:02:31.100 Hello.

01:02:31.880 Thank you for having me back,

01:02:33.120 Megan.

01:02:33.380 Great to see you.

01:02:35.040 Oh, love the

01:02:35.760 thousand watt smile, Sage.

01:02:37.480 It's unbelievable.

01:02:38.520 This is the light of the room.

01:02:39.940 So thank you for being here.

01:02:41.220 There's a lot to go over.

01:02:43.220 I'm going to pick it up

01:02:43.960 where I left off

01:02:44.580 in the last segment,

01:02:45.700 which is education.

01:02:47.420 We were talking about

01:02:48.140 the craziness of like

01:02:49.140 the college admissions

01:02:49.980 and paying $120,000 a year

01:02:51.740 to a consultant

01:02:52.380 to get your kid

01:02:53.120 into just the right school.

01:02:54.660 Okay, whatever.

01:02:55.780 So going back 12 years

01:02:57.540 from where the kid

01:02:58.220 has to get into college

01:02:59.280 to kindergarten,

01:03:00.800 in the news right now

01:03:02.700 is this woke

01:03:04.100 kindergarten program.

01:03:05.660 I don't know

01:03:06.620 if you've heard

01:03:07.200 about this,

01:03:08.440 but it's this program

01:03:09.580 trying to find it

01:03:10.140 in my papers here.

01:03:11.200 It's this program

01:03:12.180 that has a consultant

01:03:14.300 come into your school

01:03:15.640 and radicalize

01:03:18.280 your children,

01:03:19.320 the kindergarten children,

01:03:21.060 teaching about

01:03:21.880 how bad America is,

01:03:23.920 how skin color

01:03:24.840 is everything,

01:03:25.960 pronouns and so on.

01:03:27.620 And the it's,

01:03:29.340 I think it's a federally

01:03:30.280 supplemented program

01:03:31.660 where we're trying

01:03:33.380 to wokeify our young people

01:03:35.300 and they've got

01:03:36.220 some radical leftist

01:03:38.060 who's running it

01:03:38.860 in a school district

01:03:40.120 that is struggling

01:03:41.340 when it comes to math,

01:03:42.520 struggling when it comes

01:03:43.240 to English.

01:03:44.040 I could go on.

01:03:44.940 I'm going to find my paper

01:03:45.580 so I give you

01:03:46.080 the actual specifics.

01:03:47.860 But what do you make

01:03:49.000 of the radicalization

01:03:49.880 happening with the littles

01:03:51.600 before they're even

01:03:53.180 The littles.

01:03:54.060 They're even in first grade.

01:03:55.760 The babies.

01:03:57.240 That's what hurts me.

01:03:58.900 Like, I feel like I can talk

01:04:01.040 to my youngest

01:04:01.580 as a senior in high school.

01:04:02.800 So we're almost through.

01:04:04.220 They spend some of the,

01:04:06.520 what are the,

01:04:07.100 the cat,

01:04:08.220 like the furries

01:04:09.160 that that has happened

01:04:11.000 in my daughter's school.

01:04:12.720 And I'm like,

01:04:13.100 hold me back.

01:04:14.620 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:04:15.200 Oh, and I'm like,

01:04:15.980 just, just, just get her out.

01:04:17.180 We're almost there.

01:04:17.660 Point is,

01:04:18.320 at that age,

01:04:19.860 you can have conversations

01:04:21.260 with your kids

01:04:22.200 and, you know,

01:04:23.080 go back and forth

01:04:23.960 with kindergartners.

01:04:24.880 You're lucky

01:04:25.180 if you find out about it.

01:04:26.420 Sounds like from what I read

01:04:27.320 that most of the parents

01:04:28.360 knew and were informed,

01:04:30.160 which is, you know,

01:04:31.120 breaking news.

01:04:31.640 It seems like people

01:04:32.380 are doing so much

01:04:33.080 behind the scenes now.

01:04:34.640 Is it,

01:04:35.380 it's actually called

01:04:36.380 Woke Kindergarten?

01:04:37.760 Like, they,

01:04:38.080 they intentionally named it that?

01:04:40.660 Yeah, that's,

01:04:41.480 that's the name

01:04:42.420 of the program.

01:04:43.920 And I mean,

01:04:44.860 it sounds,

01:04:45.360 it sounds like something

01:04:45.980 we would say.

01:04:46.560 They don't care about the bad test scores.

01:04:47.780 They don't care.

01:04:48.380 Right.

01:04:48.620 It sounds like something

01:04:49.480 we would say.

01:04:50.520 I feel like,

01:04:51.080 I think I saw something also

01:04:52.400 where, where even some

01:04:53.760 of the teachers

01:04:54.500 are, weren't buying into this.

01:04:56.620 I mean, they're told what to do

01:04:58.100 and, and saying to,

01:04:59.300 you know,

01:05:00.160 avoid whiteness

01:05:01.800 and to stay away

01:05:02.600 from whiteness,

01:05:03.200 like distract from that

01:05:04.120 and not talk about that

01:05:05.260 and really poisoning.

01:05:07.860 Yes.

01:05:08.220 These children.

01:05:09.260 A hundred percent.

01:05:10.900 I'm, I'm blown away.

01:05:12.120 Let me give you the,

01:05:12.800 I'll give you the TikTok on it.

01:05:14.200 So it's,

01:05:15.020 um,

01:05:15.920 okay.

01:05:17.460 It is,

01:05:18.360 this is per the San Francisco Chronicle.

01:05:19.880 It's a Bay Area school.

01:05:21.060 Shocking.

01:05:21.640 They spent 250,000

01:05:23.500 on this woke kindergarten program.

01:05:25.800 Um,

01:05:26.240 it's called the Glassbrook

01:05:27.100 Elementary School.

01:05:27.880 They've got almost 500 students,

01:05:29.480 predominantly low income.

01:05:30.660 Cause yeah,

01:05:31.420 this is what low income kids

01:05:32.820 are worried about,

01:05:33.780 you know,

01:05:33.980 whether they're using

01:05:34.520 the right,

01:05:35.220 proper terminology.

01:05:36.320 Two thirds of the students

01:05:37.640 are English learners,

01:05:39.060 more than 80% Hispanic.

01:05:41.220 The struggling to boost

01:05:43.420 low test scores school,

01:05:46.160 not to mention dismal

01:05:47.480 students attendance,

01:05:48.400 spending $250,000

01:05:50.120 in federal money,

01:05:50.900 for this organization

01:05:52.220 called Woke Kindergarten.

01:05:53.320 They're training teachers,

01:05:54.280 ready Sage,

01:05:55.100 to confront white supremacy,

01:05:57.320 disrupt racism

01:05:58.480 and oppression,

01:05:59.500 and to remove those barriers

01:06:01.960 to learning.

01:06:03.540 They share with schools,

01:06:05.800 this program does,

01:06:07.520 wonderings,

01:06:08.520 which pose questions

01:06:09.260 for students,

01:06:09.800 including if the U.S.

01:06:11.620 U.S. defunded

01:06:12.600 the Israeli military,

01:06:14.180 how could this money

01:06:15.000 be used to rebuild Palestine?

01:06:17.720 Oh my goodness.

01:06:19.540 Sure.

01:06:19.880 Kindergarteners.

01:06:21.160 They have thoughts.

01:06:22.340 Right.

01:06:22.940 I can't,

01:06:23.840 I'm disgusted.

01:06:25.720 Again,

01:06:26.160 I can't get over the fact

01:06:26.940 that they like openly

01:06:28.060 call it Woke Kindergarten

01:06:29.980 and federally funded

01:06:31.160 for profit.

01:06:32.740 So they're taking

01:06:33.600 the federal funds

01:06:34.200 and then still making the money.

01:06:35.840 I think I saw that

01:06:36.340 the leader of it,

01:06:37.340 she's quite a character

01:06:38.920 and none of this surprises me

01:06:40.180 when you read about her.

01:06:41.580 It's they.

01:06:41.700 Don't be such a bigot.

01:06:43.600 She goes by they.

01:06:45.500 Yeah,

01:06:45.980 I'm going to call her she.

01:06:47.360 Yeah,

01:06:47.600 no.

01:06:48.900 And I love,

01:06:49.640 because you inspired me

01:06:50.900 back in the day too.

01:06:51.720 I think you're like,

01:06:52.580 no,

01:06:53.000 I'm not going to fall for that.

01:06:54.540 I'm not going to fall for the,

01:06:55.520 I'll call you by your first name,

01:06:57.020 but I'm not doing the,

01:06:58.300 announcing the Z,

01:06:59.380 Z,

01:06:59.700 Z,

01:07:00.040 like,

01:07:00.540 I can't.

01:07:01.420 It's ridiculous.

01:07:02.680 Don't even go there.

01:07:04.380 As a parent,

01:07:06.300 I'm out.

01:07:07.320 I'm taking my kids

01:07:08.340 out of that school.

01:07:09.320 Now,

01:07:09.760 on the realistic side

01:07:11.000 for many,

01:07:11.500 especially if it's

01:07:12.000 a low-income neighborhood,

01:07:13.420 I mean,

01:07:14.360 they don't have

01:07:14.880 a lot of options,

01:07:15.920 right?

01:07:16.300 And so what do you do?

01:07:17.300 It's easy for us to say,

01:07:18.480 I would remove my child

01:07:19.500 and put them in a private school

01:07:20.580 or do something else.

01:07:21.480 And so you try to put yourself

01:07:22.560 in their shoes.

01:07:23.320 And what do you do?

01:07:24.360 Do you go to those

01:07:25.460 school board meetings

01:07:26.180 and have,

01:07:26.780 you know,

01:07:27.440 voice your opinion,

01:07:28.840 your concerns?

01:07:30.360 That hasn't seemed to help

01:07:31.860 for many other instances

01:07:32.900 around the country,

01:07:33.660 whether it's about woke-ism

01:07:35.420 or even the transgender

01:07:37.500 sports issue,

01:07:38.320 right?

01:07:38.620 So I don't know the answer.

01:07:40.900 I think what I keep asking myself,

01:07:43.540 Megan,

01:07:43.680 with all these issues

01:07:44.360 is why.

01:07:45.460 Like,

01:07:45.740 why is this happening?

01:07:47.360 And to me,

01:07:48.460 number one

01:07:49.140 is the financial aspect of it

01:07:51.680 because people are making money

01:07:53.240 from this.

01:07:53.640 People are getting rich from this.

01:07:54.680 And look at the media

01:07:55.360 and how the media

01:07:56.280 has taken all of this as well

01:07:58.220 and made everything

01:07:59.180 a race issue.

01:08:00.500 I mean,

01:08:00.800 it's intentional

01:08:02.180 because there's too much money

01:08:03.760 that would be left

01:08:04.760 on the table

01:08:05.260 if they don't keep

01:08:06.440 all of this going.

01:08:07.360 And so why not

01:08:08.040 indoctrinate our children

01:08:09.080 at this young age?

01:08:10.800 It's even bigger

01:08:11.540 than that,

01:08:11.980 though.

01:08:13.420 There is evil.

01:08:14.860 There's evil people

01:08:15.980 and there's

01:08:17.060 something so dark.

01:08:19.180 I wish I could fully

01:08:20.440 put my finger on it,

01:08:21.220 but so dark

01:08:21.820 going through

01:08:22.560 our country

01:08:23.680 in specific right now,

01:08:25.160 specifically right now.

01:08:26.220 And like I said,

01:08:28.920 I'm grateful

01:08:29.280 that my kids are older.

01:08:30.560 I have two in college

01:08:31.500 who have very strong opinions

01:08:32.660 and they're at a university,

01:08:33.620 by the way,

01:08:34.660 that does not put up

01:08:36.100 with this stuff.

01:08:37.100 They're at High Point University.

01:08:38.440 The motto is

01:08:39.080 God, family, country,

01:08:40.140 but they're not shoving it

01:08:41.060 down your throats,

01:08:41.640 but they're giving kids options.

01:08:42.960 There's never a vaccine mandate.

01:08:44.800 So whatever we can do

01:08:46.140 to salvage our kids

01:08:47.140 when they're young like this,

01:08:48.680 again,

01:08:49.240 kindergartners,

01:08:49.940 God bless them,

01:08:51.120 and then have the conversations

01:08:52.360 with our kids

01:08:52.940 and then choose not

01:08:54.060 to let them go

01:08:55.520 to these institutions

01:08:56.300 of, quote,

01:08:57.120 higher learning,

01:08:58.140 like what you were talking

01:08:58.980 about with your last guest

01:08:59.960 and paying six figures a year

01:09:01.800 for them to be poisoned

01:09:04.620 because that's what this is.

01:09:06.260 For this to,

01:09:06.900 that's just woke college.

01:09:08.280 It's the bookend

01:09:09.120 of this kind of program.

01:09:10.620 I mean, I,

01:09:11.760 it wasn't so long ago

01:09:12.860 I had a kindergartner.

01:09:14.140 My youngest right now

01:09:14.960 is in fourth grade

01:09:15.740 and I'm,

01:09:16.660 it wasn't,

01:09:17.360 you know,

01:09:17.720 too long for me to remember

01:09:18.640 his main concern

01:09:19.560 was making fart noises

01:09:21.000 that sounded realistic.

01:09:22.940 He certainly did not care

01:09:25.380 about the Israel-Palestine situation

01:09:28.320 or what would happen

01:09:29.700 if we defunded the military.

01:09:32.140 Right.

01:09:32.780 That's,

01:09:33.260 to me,

01:09:34.020 that's,

01:09:34.580 that's the most heartbreaking

01:09:35.380 thing as well

01:09:36.100 is that kids aren't innocent

01:09:38.000 for long,

01:09:39.120 especially in today's world

01:09:40.700 and with social media

01:09:42.000 and the technology

01:09:42.780 that frankly is a part

01:09:43.960 of their lives,

01:09:45.180 not just because,

01:09:46.220 you know,

01:09:46.880 okay,

01:09:47.080 there's TVs and devices

01:09:48.220 around our home,

01:09:49.040 but also I found during,

01:09:50.860 during,

01:09:51.140 well,

01:09:51.300 even before COVID

01:09:52.220 and with my kids

01:09:52.900 being in junior high

01:09:53.680 and high school

01:09:54.120 at that time,

01:09:55.240 there were no more textbooks,

01:09:57.140 right?

01:09:57.700 It's all,

01:09:58.400 you're forced to have

01:09:59.440 a laptop or an iPad

01:10:00.440 for your kids

01:10:01.380 and that's where

01:10:02.220 they do all the reading

01:10:03.160 and get their homework assignments.

01:10:04.400 So with those devices,

01:10:06.080 you can control

01:10:07.480 all that you want

01:10:08.440 and I think when they're little,

01:10:09.240 it's easy.

01:10:09.640 They get a little bit older.

01:10:10.460 It's harder to control

01:10:11.160 what's on those.

01:10:11.960 So it's heartbreaking to me

01:10:13.780 because this is the,

01:10:15.740 there's only a few years

01:10:16.800 where they're innocent,

01:10:17.860 where they're allowed

01:10:18.340 to be babies

01:10:19.180 and,

01:10:19.840 and worry about,

01:10:21.340 you know,

01:10:21.660 okay,

01:10:21.860 what we should be teaching.

01:10:23.600 Yes.

01:10:24.180 Reading,

01:10:24.760 by the way,

01:10:25.080 the,

01:10:25.220 the,

01:10:25.380 the reading scores

01:10:26.080 at that school

01:10:26.780 have fallen drastically.

01:10:28.440 If I'm,

01:10:29.320 if I recall

01:10:29.980 from one of those articles,

01:10:30.900 and so we're not even focusing.

01:10:32.680 It's a three-year contract

01:10:34.120 with Woke Kindergarten,

01:10:35.600 a for-profit company,

01:10:36.600 as you point out,

01:10:37.380 student achievement has fallen.

01:10:38.620 English and math scores

01:10:39.440 hit new lows last spring.

01:10:41.440 Less than 4% of students

01:10:42.700 are proficient in math.

01:10:43.960 Just under 12%

01:10:45.040 are at grade level in English.

01:10:47.400 Under 12% in the school

01:10:49.080 are at grade level in English.

01:10:52.080 That's a decline

01:10:53.080 of about four percentage points

01:10:54.880 in each category.

01:10:56.100 When the San Francisco Chronicle

01:10:57.440 called to ask questions

01:10:59.600 about this

01:11:00.240 of district officials,

01:11:01.280 they said,

01:11:03.320 well,

01:11:03.580 Woke Kindergarten did

01:11:04.400 what it was hired to do.

01:11:06.200 We had improvements

01:11:07.000 in attendance

01:11:07.780 and suspension rates

01:11:09.400 and the school's no longer

01:11:10.700 on the state watch list,

01:11:11.960 only to be told

01:11:13.120 by the Chronicle

01:11:14.000 that the school

01:11:14.940 was not only still

01:11:16.000 on the watch list,

01:11:17.100 but had dropped

01:11:18.100 to a lower level.

01:11:20.040 They have no idea

01:11:21.680 what they're doing.

01:11:23.600 But they're still

01:11:24.600 taking those funds.

01:11:25.820 I think the only

01:11:26.500 silver lining here

01:11:27.480 is that it sounds like

01:11:29.320 there are many teachers there

01:11:31.060 who are upset about this.

01:11:32.760 Teachers who actually

01:11:33.700 want to do their job

01:11:34.680 and teach and teach reading

01:11:37.420 and math and all of those basics

01:11:40.060 to set them up

01:11:41.140 for elementary school,

01:11:42.760 primary school,

01:11:43.380 junior high school.

01:11:44.840 And so, okay,

01:11:45.400 all of us are out there

01:11:46.600 and thanks to people like you

01:11:48.260 getting these stories out there

01:11:49.560 and probably some parents,

01:11:51.320 it sounds like as well.

01:11:52.700 We haven't heard as much

01:11:54.380 from teachers

01:11:54.940 with any of these controversies.

01:11:56.500 And I think it is time

01:11:58.520 for teachers

01:11:59.180 to take a stand as well.

01:12:00.960 I know it's easier said

01:12:02.180 than done,

01:12:02.760 but what we've seen

01:12:03.700 with so many different

01:12:04.880 kinds of controversies,

01:12:06.360 silence really is compliance.

01:12:08.340 And it is scary.

01:12:10.060 We know that.

01:12:11.320 But if we're gonna truly try

01:12:13.380 to save these kids,

01:12:15.440 we have no choice.

01:12:16.740 And so teachers help

01:12:18.420 because teachers get

01:12:19.560 a bad rap for this.

01:12:21.000 You know,

01:12:21.340 these are things

01:12:22.020 they're being told to do,

01:12:23.060 especially if you got money

01:12:24.140 coming in from the feds.

01:12:25.500 Like sometimes

01:12:26.160 they don't have a say.

01:12:27.120 So what do they do?

01:12:28.680 I empathize with many of them

01:12:30.200 because I think most teachers

01:12:31.360 probably feel like us

01:12:32.780 and just,

01:12:33.400 they didn't get into this

01:12:34.300 to teach wokeism.

01:12:36.020 That wasn't even a word

01:12:36.820 a few years ago.

01:12:37.520 What is that?

01:12:38.580 They did it out of the heart.

01:12:39.640 They're not doing it

01:12:40.040 to get rich, you know?

01:12:41.640 You know how it is too.

01:12:42.840 And the parents

01:12:43.840 who normally would be

01:12:44.680 the ones who object to this,

01:12:46.200 they're working.

01:12:46.960 They have lives.

01:12:48.140 I remember when we were

01:12:49.220 at our New York City school,

01:12:50.400 they brought in this race program

01:12:52.060 called Pollyanna.

01:12:53.520 And I was like,

01:12:54.000 oh, that's got a nice name.

01:12:55.460 I don't know what that is.

01:12:56.280 Even I wasn't looking into it.

01:12:58.020 And then you spend

01:12:58.640 two minutes Googling this

01:12:59.900 and the people behind it

01:13:00.940 and you're like,

01:13:01.580 whoa.

01:13:02.180 But most parents

01:13:03.420 aren't doing that.

01:13:04.280 You know,

01:13:04.400 you're kind of trusting

01:13:05.180 your educators

01:13:05.840 not to veer off course

01:13:07.680 of just teaching them

01:13:08.500 the things they need to know.

01:13:09.940 These days,

01:13:10.420 people are paying

01:13:10.900 a little bit more attention.

01:13:12.140 But I'll put it to you this way.

01:13:13.300 Yeah.

01:13:13.600 Imagine you mentioned

01:13:14.360 the woman who created the program.

01:13:16.440 Her name is Akiya Gross.

01:13:20.020 And she calls herself

01:13:21.380 an abolitionist early educator.

01:13:23.360 So imagine taking your five-year-old,

01:13:27.380 which is how old you are

01:13:28.380 in kindergarten,

01:13:29.300 and saying,

01:13:30.240 I want you to spend

01:13:31.340 all five days this week

01:13:33.360 and every week

01:13:34.700 of your kindergarten year

01:13:36.440 listening to this person.

01:13:38.960 Here's a little sound

01:13:40.060 from Akiya.

01:13:41.660 Yes, everyone,

01:13:44.220 the rumors are true.

01:13:45.620 I am anti-Israel.

01:13:47.960 I am pro-Palestine.

01:13:50.680 And I am 100%,

01:13:54.040 10 toes down anti-Israel.

01:13:56.620 I believe Israel

01:13:57.400 has no right to exist.

01:13:59.360 I believe the United States

01:14:00.580 has no right to exist.

01:14:01.480 I believe every settler colony

01:14:03.640 who has committed genocide

01:14:05.240 against Native peoples,

01:14:07.340 against Indigenous people,

01:14:08.540 has no right to exist.

01:14:11.940 I believe in a free Palestine

01:14:13.460 from the river to the sea.

01:14:16.300 I have an unwavering respect

01:14:18.540 for children,

01:14:20.120 an unwavering love

01:14:21.240 and care

01:14:21.860 and compassion

01:14:22.640 for children,

01:14:23.500 a commitment

01:14:24.160 to children

01:14:25.200 and to their freedom,

01:14:26.620 to their learning,

01:14:28.100 to their lives,

01:14:29.300 to sustaining their lives.

01:14:31.000 Y'all are the demons.

01:14:32.400 Y'all are the villains.

01:14:34.080 We've been trying to end y'all,

01:14:35.860 get free of y'all.

01:14:36.720 I think those parents

01:14:40.860 would say,

01:14:41.220 here, have at him.

01:14:43.600 I had not heard that

01:14:45.720 and I am disgusted.

01:14:48.800 Shame on her.

01:14:49.460 Sometimes I think

01:14:50.240 when those people do that

01:14:51.240 and they hold their camera

01:14:51.960 and they do the selfie videos,

01:14:53.520 like I really hope

01:14:54.740 that she's just doing it

01:14:57.560 for attention,

01:14:58.100 that deep down

01:14:58.700 she doesn't mean it.

01:15:00.060 Even if she doesn't,

01:15:01.300 she's doing it.

01:15:02.040 Why?

01:15:02.400 Because she's making money

01:15:03.440 doing so.

01:15:04.680 And the fact that

01:15:06.040 that school district

01:15:07.500 chose her,

01:15:09.740 her,

01:15:10.400 not they

01:15:11.220 or whatever the hell

01:15:11.960 she wants to be called,

01:15:13.100 chose her to come in there

01:15:14.920 and to teach that crap

01:15:16.480 to those kids,

01:15:17.260 to kindergartners.

01:15:18.640 By the way,

01:15:19.300 I had an argument

01:15:20.380 with one of my daughter's teachers

01:15:21.740 when she was in kindergarten,

01:15:23.260 actually.

01:15:24.080 It was one of the first times

01:15:25.000 I had to really go in

01:15:26.560 and stand up

01:15:27.160 for one of my kids.

01:15:27.960 It was a crazy moment.

01:15:29.740 And I remember coming out

01:15:31.120 saying,

01:15:31.880 this is why we're here

01:15:33.380 as parents.

01:15:33.880 We must advocate

01:15:34.560 for our children

01:15:35.080 because we can't always

01:15:36.080 control who is allowed

01:15:37.720 in the classrooms.

01:15:38.380 We really can't.

01:15:39.400 At the end of the day,

01:15:40.540 what I said to that teacher,

01:15:42.300 a story for another day

01:15:43.180 with you and me over mine.

01:15:44.320 It's a long one.

01:15:44.960 It's a good one.

01:15:45.680 Juicy one.

01:15:46.360 I said to her,

01:15:47.220 your job

01:15:48.400 is not to say,

01:15:50.920 okay,

01:15:51.320 if Sally says

01:15:52.840 the sky is blue

01:15:54.120 and Johnny says,

01:15:55.380 no,

01:15:55.680 this sky looks more

01:15:56.640 pink to me today,

01:15:57.940 you don't tell Johnny

01:15:59.140 or Sally they're wrong.

01:15:59.920 You say,

01:16:00.140 well,

01:16:00.240 why do you think that?

01:16:01.540 Well,

01:16:01.680 let's talk about it.

01:16:02.580 I don't want to know

01:16:03.340 the teacher's opinion.

01:16:04.580 Your job is to encourage

01:16:06.160 conversation from that young age.

01:16:08.860 So then what happens?

01:16:09.860 They don't end up like

01:16:10.780 all the idiots on social media

01:16:12.200 who can't actually

01:16:13.160 have a conversation,

01:16:13.980 which means nothing

01:16:14.740 in this world

01:16:15.320 in this country

01:16:15.860 is going to change.

01:16:16.860 So there's extra shame

01:16:18.380 on that school district

01:16:19.960 that the Bay Area,

01:16:21.560 I mean,

01:16:21.800 hell,

01:16:22.000 the state of California,

01:16:23.180 right?

01:16:23.820 Shame on them.

01:16:24.720 Although when you said,

01:16:25.680 told me where it was

01:16:26.620 and the San Francisco

01:16:27.260 Chronicles involved,

01:16:28.460 sounds like they tried

01:16:29.100 to do some journalism

01:16:29.880 for once there

01:16:31.380 as far as saying,

01:16:32.620 oh,

01:16:32.700 no,

01:16:32.820 no,

01:16:32.980 look at your,

01:16:33.440 look at your state scores,

01:16:34.460 look at the scores

01:16:35.040 and all the numbers,

01:16:35.920 but it is there

01:16:37.860 and shame on that state

01:16:39.580 for continuing to do this

01:16:40.940 to our children.

01:16:41.800 I can handle it.

01:16:42.780 Throw it at the adults,

01:16:44.000 right?

01:16:45.080 But it's sick

01:16:45.980 to indoctrinate these children.

01:16:48.700 You won't be surprised.

01:16:49.860 The perfect epilogue

01:16:50.700 to this story.

01:16:52.320 This woman,

01:16:53.140 Gross,

01:16:53.960 has a master's

01:16:54.980 in child development,

01:16:55.960 psychology,

01:16:56.500 and special education

01:16:57.340 from Columbia University.

01:16:59.680 This,

01:16:59.960 this is what you're paying

01:17:01.540 $120,000 a year

01:17:02.860 to an educational consultant

01:17:03.980 to get your child

01:17:05.360 into a school

01:17:06.040 so you can wind up

01:17:06.880 with a degree

01:17:07.380 that this same woman has

01:17:09.040 that,

01:17:09.720 as I said at the top,

01:17:10.600 will teach you

01:17:11.080 to hate America,

01:17:12.180 probably hate the family

01:17:13.000 that you come from,

01:17:14.300 especially if you happen

01:17:15.020 to be white or a male,

01:17:17.020 you know,

01:17:17.760 tick the boxes.

01:17:18.960 This is what you're paying

01:17:20.040 all this money for,

01:17:20.660 not to mention

01:17:21.120 the Columbia tuition.

01:17:22.440 I mean,

01:17:23.040 it's,

01:17:23.480 we've,

01:17:24.040 we've just lost our minds,

01:17:25.600 we've lost control,

01:17:26.320 and we need to find them.

01:17:27.600 We need to speak up.

01:17:28.780 All right,

01:17:29.040 let me move on.

01:17:29.800 A nice moment happened

01:17:31.440 at the Grammys.

01:17:32.820 I didn't watch the Grammys,

01:17:34.340 but I saw clips.

01:17:35.420 I have to say,

01:17:35.860 it sounds like they did

01:17:36.440 a great job

01:17:37.120 at the Grammys

01:17:37.960 the other night.

01:17:39.220 The entertainers entertained.

01:17:40.460 There was very little politics,

01:17:41.820 a little bit from Amy Lennox

01:17:42.980 on the Israel thing,

01:17:44.360 but whatever.

01:17:45.040 Sure.

01:17:45.160 For the most part,

01:17:46.920 it sounds like it was

01:17:47.600 a great performance-driven show.

01:17:51.120 And the best moment,

01:17:52.560 I'm sure you feel as I do,

01:17:54.020 maybe you don't,

01:17:55.180 I love Tracy Chapman.

01:17:56.400 I've been singing her songs

01:17:57.400 my whole life.

01:17:57.980 I was hoping you'd say that.

01:17:59.740 Yes,

01:18:00.080 the Fast Car,

01:18:00.600 I mean,

01:18:00.820 like when I was a freshman

01:18:01.560 in college,

01:18:02.540 I think that came out,

01:18:04.140 and it was,

01:18:04.800 we sing it all the time.

01:18:05.960 It's so catchy,

01:18:06.620 such a beautiful tune,

01:18:07.540 such a great message.

01:18:09.000 And when her song got covered

01:18:13.620 by Luke Combs

01:18:15.080 and rose up to the top

01:18:16.940 of the country charts,

01:18:18.500 the lunatics on the left

01:18:19.760 wrote about it

01:18:20.520 like it was some

01:18:21.220 white privilege situation.

01:18:23.040 He co-opted her music

01:18:24.800 as if that's even legal.

01:18:26.140 You know,

01:18:26.300 he'd have to get her permission.

01:18:27.480 He'd have to pay the copyright.

01:18:28.220 Of course.

01:18:28.540 Anyway.

01:18:29.820 And she came out at the time

01:18:31.440 and said she loved it,

01:18:32.620 and she was really honored.

01:18:34.140 Because with her,

01:18:34.760 I guess it only ever hit top six

01:18:36.740 back in the day.

01:18:37.900 You know,

01:18:38.320 88,

01:18:38.720 whatever it hit.

01:18:39.920 And with him,

01:18:40.840 it wound up hitting number one.

01:18:42.780 And this was somehow used

01:18:44.220 by these crazy lunatics

01:18:45.300 on the left

01:18:45.780 to say it's like

01:18:46.580 a white privilege thing.

01:18:47.860 It could never be done

01:18:48.960 by a black woman.

01:18:50.280 I was like,

01:18:50.640 what are you saying?

01:18:51.300 It was one of the most

01:18:51.880 popular songs in the country

01:18:53.500 when she was the one singing it.

01:18:56.300 And I really loved this moment

01:18:58.100 for many reasons,

01:18:59.180 including that this one

01:19:00.160 was kind of a middle finger

01:19:01.080 to those people,

01:19:01.660 but really just to see

01:19:02.660 Tracy Chapman,

01:19:03.460 who does not come out

01:19:04.860 in public a lot

01:19:05.640 and sing a lot publicly

01:19:06.660 at these award shows.

01:19:07.900 She took to the stage,

01:19:10.060 sang it with him.

01:19:11.180 Here's a clip.

01:19:12.180 Best of the night.

01:19:13.080 Sot 13.

01:19:13.520 I got a feeling

01:19:17.240 I could be someone,

01:19:19.160 be someone,

01:19:20.300 be someone.

01:19:31.540 You got a fast call.

01:19:34.000 It's fast enough

01:19:35.040 so you can fly away.

01:19:36.780 We got to make a decision.

01:19:39.200 Leave tonight,

01:19:40.100 I'll live and die this way.

01:19:41.440 So good.

01:19:43.320 I'm singing.

01:19:44.200 You're singing it.

01:19:45.760 Such a good moment.

01:19:47.900 It gives me chills.

01:19:49.680 I've probably watched it eight times.

01:19:51.140 I like you.

01:19:51.600 I did not watch it live

01:19:52.420 and I just go back

01:19:53.040 and watch all the important clips.

01:19:55.240 And first of all,

01:19:55.800 when I heard Luke's,

01:19:57.220 when he did the song

01:19:58.280 last year,

01:19:59.020 last summer,

01:19:59.720 I was so happy

01:20:01.680 because he is

01:20:02.860 an incredible voice.

01:20:03.900 And to me,

01:20:04.460 it was all about respect

01:20:05.440 respect and honoring

01:20:07.760 a beautiful piece of art

01:20:09.960 that Tracy Chapman wrote

01:20:11.440 and sang all those years ago.

01:20:13.680 And it celebrates Tracy,

01:20:16.140 doesn't it?

01:20:16.860 And then you see them on stage

01:20:18.640 and I thought they did

01:20:20.220 a brilliant job

01:20:21.080 on the camera angles

01:20:22.100 and that's why

01:20:22.560 I kept watching it over again

01:20:23.800 because you could see Tracy

01:20:25.280 and I think the one

01:20:26.080 that you just showed,

01:20:26.740 you saw Tracy close to you

01:20:28.200 and then you could also see Luke

01:20:29.740 and he kept looking back

01:20:31.340 over at her

01:20:32.160 and smiling

01:20:33.060 and deferring to her

01:20:34.040 as he showed,

01:20:34.600 it's her song.

01:20:35.940 You could tell it was

01:20:36.560 an honor for him

01:20:37.240 and if people know

01:20:38.120 the whole story behind Luke

01:20:39.800 and why that song

01:20:40.380 meant something to him,

01:20:41.800 he talked about it somewhere

01:20:43.320 and it was about,

01:20:44.120 you know,

01:20:44.360 when he was a kid,

01:20:45.400 little kid and his dad,

01:20:47.020 you know,

01:20:47.320 put that cassette tape

01:20:49.060 in the car

01:20:49.860 and played it for him

01:20:51.020 when he was a little boy.

01:20:52.980 And so the love,

01:20:53.720 it's all about love

01:20:54.620 of the song, right?

01:20:55.820 And music,

01:20:56.700 which I think usually

01:20:57.500 brings us together.

01:20:59.240 Finally,

01:20:59.840 to me,

01:21:00.120 it was such a,

01:21:00.560 and I tweeted about this,

01:21:01.400 I thought it was also

01:21:02.020 a beautiful moment

01:21:02.800 for many reasons,

01:21:04.080 for all those reasons,

01:21:04.880 the story behind it,

01:21:06.300 but just what you see

01:21:07.880 when you see

01:21:08.440 those two people on stage,

01:21:10.900 so different,

01:21:12.140 right?

01:21:12.440 From very different eras.

01:21:14.760 That is diversity.

01:21:16.940 That is America.

01:21:18.820 That is the definition of it.

01:21:20.420 And to me,

01:21:21.540 I mean,

01:21:22.040 you can,

01:21:22.440 we can be a prisoner

01:21:23.120 of the moment at times,

01:21:24.160 but I thought back

01:21:24.940 to some other

01:21:25.620 amazing Grammy performances,

01:21:27.620 probably more from the 80s

01:21:28.940 and like Michael Jackson era,

01:21:30.320 but I haven't seen

01:21:31.880 anything like that

01:21:33.360 really since then.

01:21:35.340 And then you saw

01:21:35.860 the audience shots,

01:21:36.880 right, Megan?

01:21:37.360 I don't know if you saw

01:21:37.920 that in the clips back,

01:21:38.920 but you had

01:21:39.500 all the different artists

01:21:40.900 like country,

01:21:42.040 pop,

01:21:42.620 rappers,

01:21:43.120 everybody standing up,

01:21:44.060 singing and cheering them on.

01:21:45.480 It was beautiful.

01:21:46.620 And I think that the left

01:21:48.240 has been a little bit silenced

01:21:49.880 with this one

01:21:50.600 because of such

01:21:51.300 the positive reaction afterwards.

01:21:53.080 These people are just bored.

01:21:54.200 They just have no life

01:21:55.060 and like to stir the pot,

01:21:56.020 but Tracy and Luke

01:21:57.540 shut them up.

01:21:59.820 Yeah,

01:22:00.280 she came out.

01:22:01.900 Well,

01:22:02.060 hopefully we'll lay

01:22:02.800 the clip in later

01:22:03.740 so the viewing audience

01:22:04.880 can see,

01:22:05.100 but she came out

01:22:05.860 and when the audience

01:22:07.480 realized she was there

01:22:09.180 and she was playing the song,

01:22:11.500 they went nuts.

01:22:12.800 And you see the big smile

01:22:15.460 come over her face.

01:22:17.360 She was obviously

01:22:18.320 extremely flattered.

01:22:19.720 It was all about her music.

01:22:21.360 She just played

01:22:22.020 and they ate up

01:22:23.000 every second of it.

01:22:23.880 It really was such

01:22:25.140 a feel-good moment.

01:22:26.760 It's amazing

01:22:27.420 how music can do that, right?

01:22:29.340 Like I was saying

01:22:30.280 to my friends

01:22:30.740 at SiriusXM,

01:22:31.860 I've never been

01:22:33.200 a big concert person,

01:22:34.580 but I've been going to more

01:22:35.880 thanks to my pals

01:22:36.800 at Sirius.

01:22:37.820 Like they have access

01:22:38.740 to a lot of musicians,

01:22:39.720 a lot of concerts

01:22:40.280 and I've been saying yes more.

01:22:42.440 And it's transformative, Sage.

01:22:44.620 They offered to me

01:22:46.580 and to Doug

01:22:47.200 to go to the Green Day concert

01:22:49.280 like a month ago

01:22:50.800 at this very small venue

01:22:52.280 in New York

01:22:52.740 and Green Day was just

01:22:53.940 in the news

01:22:54.300 for ripping on MAGA.

01:22:55.620 And shock,

01:22:56.660 this punk band

01:22:57.240 from the Bay Area

01:22:58.060 is not pro-Republican

01:22:59.700 or MAGA.

01:23:00.660 Who cares?

01:23:01.740 I couldn't care less

01:23:03.360 what their politics are.

01:23:05.180 They didn't bring

01:23:05.980 any of that up

01:23:06.580 at the show.

01:23:08.120 They were so talented.

01:23:09.540 It was so fun

01:23:10.500 to watch them.

01:23:11.540 It really does,

01:23:12.200 just standing up

01:23:12.940 and singing

01:23:13.460 and swaying with the music

01:23:14.460 with your fellow man,

01:23:15.800 it puts you

01:23:16.400 in a great mood.

01:23:18.080 It's almost church-like.

01:23:19.780 Dare I say,

01:23:20.320 it's almost church-like.

01:23:21.240 I agree with you.

01:23:24.520 Every time I've heard

01:23:25.540 that Fast Car song

01:23:26.420 from day one

01:23:27.280 in whatever year that was,

01:23:28.940 was that 88?

01:23:30.640 Yeah, 88.

01:23:32.200 I smile

01:23:33.760 because of the words

01:23:35.120 and the meaning

01:23:35.960 and this true,

01:23:38.120 beautiful storytelling

01:23:39.160 with that.

01:23:40.580 You know,

01:23:41.020 by the way,

01:23:42.180 I went back

01:23:42.760 and I forgot

01:23:43.420 when I played it

01:23:44.260 the other day,

01:23:44.780 I forgot that I had downloaded

01:23:46.220 all the Tracy Chapman essentials,

01:23:48.620 I think on iTunes

01:23:50.680 or whatever,

01:23:51.320 years ago

01:23:51.940 and I went,

01:23:52.380 I've been listening to it

01:23:53.180 for the past couple of days

01:23:54.420 because of Tracy.

01:23:55.680 I kind of liken music

01:23:56.960 to sports,

01:23:58.520 to be honest with you

01:23:59.360 because how many people

01:24:01.160 were at that Green Day concert?

01:24:02.500 You know,

01:24:02.920 tens of thousands of people

01:24:04.120 just like at a football game

01:24:05.380 on a Sunday.

01:24:05.940 Thanks to Sirius,

01:24:07.420 but their average concert

01:24:08.280 fills an entire huge stadium.

01:24:09.780 This one was a small venue.

01:24:10.560 Yeah, yeah.

01:24:10.940 Well, see,

01:24:11.420 that's even better

01:24:12.200 when it's the small venues,

01:24:13.180 but in that venue,

01:24:14.620 whether it's,

01:24:15.280 you know,

01:24:15.560 50 people

01:24:16.300 or 50,000 people,

01:24:18.320 for those couple of hours,

01:24:20.180 what happens?

01:24:21.220 Nine times out of 10,

01:24:22.860 everything is cast aside

01:24:24.100 and your race,

01:24:26.120 your religion,

01:24:27.200 your gender,

01:24:27.940 your socioeconomic status,

01:24:29.020 your politics,

01:24:29.920 none of it matters.

01:24:31.200 You're just,

01:24:31.880 you know,

01:24:32.480 enjoying Green Day.

01:24:33.520 You're just rooting

01:24:34.180 for the New York Giants

01:24:35.220 or rooting hard

01:24:36.160 because the New York Giants

01:24:36.940 never win, right?

01:24:37.840 But like,

01:24:38.320 it brings everybody together

01:24:40.420 and I love it.

01:24:42.220 Music and sports really does

01:24:43.640 and for a couple hours,

01:24:44.280 we can all kind of forget

01:24:45.160 about the crap, you know?

01:24:46.780 Yeah.

01:24:47.340 Don't you think that's why,

01:24:48.280 and I want to do another

01:24:48.960 music story in a second,

01:24:49.960 but don't you think that's why

01:24:50.800 one of the reasons why

01:24:51.680 the NFL is doing so well this year

01:24:53.820 is they've checked a lot of that.

01:24:55.860 We don't have to see

01:24:56.520 all the kneeling.

01:24:57.540 They've gotten less political.

01:25:01.240 Yeah, finally.

01:25:02.440 I mean, they've checked it,

01:25:03.260 but I think it's also

01:25:04.360 the athletes

01:25:06.580 and the coaches

01:25:07.320 and some of the messages

01:25:08.080 that we don't even hear about.

01:25:09.840 You know, it's like,

01:25:10.320 let's just focus on the game.

01:25:11.660 Why divide?

01:25:12.680 The NFL has done

01:25:13.460 a really good job of it,

01:25:14.440 I think, early on

01:25:15.360 and Kaepernick

01:25:16.100 and all those things

01:25:16.720 from a few years back,

01:25:17.560 it was tougher.

01:25:19.140 The conversations about people,

01:25:21.280 hey, if you have an issue,

01:25:22.720 just don't kneel on the field,

01:25:24.020 just stay in the tunnel.

01:25:24.760 You don't have to come out

01:25:25.680 just so it isn't as much

01:25:27.120 in your face,

01:25:27.800 unlike what has happened,

01:25:29.340 you know, in the NBA

01:25:30.000 and it's all over the courts,

01:25:31.120 you still stay in the back

01:25:33.260 of some of the players' helmets

01:25:34.520 and races,

01:25:35.480 and that's fine.

01:25:36.180 It just doesn't

01:25:36.720 shove down your throat.

01:25:37.600 Everybody has that right

01:25:38.460 to feel that way,

01:25:39.640 but overall,

01:25:40.340 they have done a great job.

01:25:42.340 And again,

01:25:43.200 people come for music,

01:25:45.280 for sports,

01:25:46.000 to be entertained,

01:25:47.460 and for an escape.

01:25:48.840 There's enough opportunities

01:25:50.340 elsewhere to be bombarded

01:25:51.820 with the other stuff.

01:25:53.580 Mm-hmm.

01:25:54.020 The, um,

01:25:55.760 I'd be remiss,

01:25:56.620 as we discuss music and sports,

01:25:58.480 if I didn't bring up

01:25:59.060 the Taylor Swift,

01:25:59.980 Travis Kelsey thing.

01:26:00.880 It's just like so.

01:26:01.340 Of course.

01:26:02.300 It's ubiquitous.

01:26:03.580 She was at the Grammys,

01:26:04.840 I should say.

01:26:05.680 I mean,

01:26:05.980 it's like Taylor overload.

01:26:08.420 And, um,

01:26:09.840 she's getting some feedback

01:26:11.880 because apparently,

01:26:12.700 uh,

01:26:13.640 it was Celine Dion

01:26:14.720 who introduced her,

01:26:16.080 and Celine Dion

01:26:16.880 is suffering some major

01:26:18.620 health issues

01:26:19.440 with this stiff person syndrome.

01:26:22.080 Yeah.

01:26:22.160 Where she's, you know,

01:26:22.920 losing her mobility,

01:26:24.100 and she gave Taylor Swift

01:26:26.020 a very nice intro.

01:26:27.280 And maybe it's nitpicking,

01:26:28.540 maybe it's real,

01:26:29.140 but Taylor came out there

01:26:30.640 and wasn't,

01:26:31.140 wasn't exactly generous

01:26:32.140 about Celine

01:26:32.820 and made the speech

01:26:34.380 all about herself,

01:26:35.600 which is not what

01:26:36.580 everybody else did.

01:26:37.620 Like,

01:26:37.880 others got up there,

01:26:38.820 and, like,

01:26:39.700 Miley Cyrus didn't make it

01:26:40.680 all about herself,

01:26:41.400 and Taylor used,

01:26:42.040 like,

01:26:42.360 me, me, me, me, me.

01:26:43.300 Some people saying

01:26:44.080 she's falling for the,

01:26:45.640 you know,

01:26:46.300 everyone loves me,

01:26:47.440 me most of all,

01:26:49.180 thing that can happen

01:26:50.580 to these superstars.

01:26:51.660 I don't know

01:26:52.180 whether it's true.

01:26:52.760 We have the moment.

01:26:53.780 Here,

01:26:53.940 I'll show you.

01:26:54.820 She didn't even look at her,

01:27:18.840 for the listening audience.

01:27:19.780 She was announcing

01:27:20.260 that Taylor won

01:27:20.900 album of the year.

01:27:21.880 She didn't even look at her.

01:27:22.640 I mean,

01:27:22.760 she's like,

01:27:23.880 she's a goddess

01:27:24.500 in the music world,

01:27:25.780 Celine Dion.

01:27:27.760 I know.

01:27:28.480 I,

01:27:29.040 I,

01:27:29.740 it was noticeable,

01:27:31.380 for sure.

01:27:32.940 Here's my gut,

01:27:34.580 because everything

01:27:35.300 we've seen

01:27:36.000 from Taylor

01:27:36.680 has been,

01:27:38.240 you know,

01:27:38.920 with kindness

01:27:39.480 and the way she is

01:27:40.340 with her fans

01:27:40.920 and how genuine she is,

01:27:42.200 and she was really caught up

01:27:45.520 in that moment

01:27:46.080 and she was focusing

01:27:47.280 on her team though,

01:27:48.740 right?

01:27:48.980 And even in her speech,

01:27:49.820 she did mention them

01:27:51.000 and called them by name

01:27:51.880 and kind of,

01:27:52.860 I feel like she was just,

01:27:54.460 you know,

01:27:55.500 all over the place

01:27:56.600 and which we kind of

01:27:57.540 love her for,

01:27:58.180 right?

01:27:58.440 She,

01:27:58.660 she makes fun of herself

01:27:59.740 for being like,

01:28:00.320 ah,

01:28:00.540 and just herself.

01:28:01.240 She took it

01:28:02.000 and went to the mic.

01:28:03.120 I did see a picture

01:28:04.180 backstage of her

01:28:06.180 with Celine

01:28:06.880 and they had the trophy

01:28:07.840 and they were posing.

01:28:08.880 So maybe she realized

01:28:10.680 that after maybe

01:28:11.220 someone quickly told her

01:28:12.520 because I'm sure

01:28:13.180 X lit up immediately,

01:28:15.360 you know,

01:28:16.200 let's go fix this.

01:28:17.960 I can't imagine,

01:28:19.500 I can't imagine

01:28:20.400 it was intentional,

01:28:21.640 you know,

01:28:21.980 but it stinks

01:28:23.040 because it was noticeable

01:28:25.420 and just bad timing

01:28:27.640 with Celine

01:28:28.120 if this were five

01:28:29.040 or six years ago

01:28:29.820 because Taylor's been winning

01:28:30.780 for years and years

01:28:31.800 when Celine wasn't suffering

01:28:33.840 from this health,

01:28:34.540 health issues

01:28:35.100 because I do think

01:28:35.840 it takes courage

01:28:36.840 for Celine to get up there

01:28:38.600 and she's been through

01:28:40.200 so much,

01:28:40.900 including the loss

01:28:41.600 of her husband years ago.

01:28:42.520 So it just stinks

01:28:43.320 that the timing of that

01:28:44.680 when she should have

01:28:45.540 been celebrated

01:28:46.020 and she is an icon

01:28:46.880 and I think if Taylor

01:28:47.600 could do it again,

01:28:48.760 she'd probably start

01:28:50.020 first and foremost

01:28:51.000 by talking about Celine,

01:28:53.100 the legend

01:28:53.480 who helped pave the way

01:28:54.940 for her.

01:28:56.600 Yes,

01:28:56.960 exactly right.

01:28:57.660 So I'm sure she'd love

01:28:58.960 to have a do-over on that.

01:29:00.140 Yeah.

01:29:01.260 In the music lane

01:29:02.560 that Toby Keith died.

01:29:05.760 Oh,

01:29:06.080 so sad.

01:29:07.820 I know.

01:29:08.480 It wasn't cancer,

01:29:09.540 stomach cancer?

01:29:10.200 Yes,

01:29:10.600 it was stomach cancer.

01:29:12.120 He was diagnosed

01:29:12.920 in 2021

01:29:14.760 and I mean,

01:29:16.800 a legend in country music

01:29:17.880 and music period

01:29:19.140 and I,

01:29:20.680 my,

01:29:21.100 my producer Kelly McGuire

01:29:22.460 is awesome.

01:29:23.060 She's from South Carolina

01:29:23.900 and she's a fan

01:29:24.560 and she had been familiar

01:29:26.160 with many of his interviews,

01:29:27.400 including this one,

01:29:28.320 which was given

01:29:29.620 after he was sick

01:29:30.760 and he talked a bit

01:29:32.640 about,

01:29:33.340 among other things,

01:29:34.000 his friendship,

01:29:35.200 which ran deep

01:29:36.260 and led to a song

01:29:37.280 based on Clint Eastwood.

01:29:40.460 They were tight

01:29:41.420 and he talked

01:29:42.840 in the interview

01:29:43.440 about how he'd been

01:29:44.740 with Clint,

01:29:45.280 who was 88.

01:29:47.140 I,

01:29:47.280 well,

01:29:47.440 just listen,

01:29:48.060 take a listen to South 14.

01:29:48.880 and I go,

01:29:50.740 what keeps you going?

01:29:51.580 He goes,

01:29:51.840 I get up every day,

01:29:54.000 don't lay around,

01:29:55.320 I get outside,

01:29:56.960 I go outside

01:29:57.720 and I don't let

01:29:58.840 that old man in.

01:29:59.920 I was like,

01:30:01.600 wow,

01:30:02.280 okay.

01:30:04.000 So I thought,

01:30:04.760 you know what?

01:30:05.440 I love that old man.

01:30:07.080 I'm gonna go home,

01:30:07.960 write him a song,

01:30:08.640 send it to him.

01:30:09.860 Look out your window

01:30:11.260 and smile

01:30:12.660 Don't let the old man in

01:30:17.480 Eastwood loved

01:30:19.700 Toby's song so much

01:30:21.040 he used it

01:30:22.460 at the end of his movie

01:30:23.600 The Mule.

01:30:25.300 Don't let the old man in

01:30:28.140 Gone too soon.

01:30:32.900 At 62 years old,

01:30:34.820 he'd been married

01:30:35.600 to his wife,

01:30:36.100 Tricia,

01:30:36.360 for 39 years,

01:30:37.400 three children,

01:30:38.780 four grandchildren,

01:30:40.440 had done 11 USO tours

01:30:43.080 performing for our troops

01:30:44.660 overseas.

01:30:45.740 And you know,

01:30:47.140 Sage,

01:30:47.320 it does remind me

01:30:48.080 on the back

01:30:48.600 of watching that

01:30:49.420 woke kindergarten woman,

01:30:51.460 like,

01:30:51.800 I believe the United States

01:30:52.900 does not have the right

01:30:53.680 to exist.

01:30:54.760 Then you have

01:30:55.540 real American heroes

01:30:56.440 who have all the money

01:30:58.660 in the world,

01:30:59.220 don't have to play

01:30:59.840 another gig ever,

01:31:01.080 but they take their time

01:31:02.460 to go entertain the troops.

01:31:03.920 They stay married

01:31:04.820 to their wife

01:31:05.420 of 39 years.

01:31:06.600 They raise their family,

01:31:07.560 they nurture their grandkids,

01:31:08.940 they write patriotic songs,

01:31:10.340 they honor

01:31:10.920 the 88-year-old

01:31:12.880 American icon,

01:31:13.900 Clint Eastwood,

01:31:14.800 with a song like that.

01:31:15.520 He talked in the interview

01:31:16.240 about how would you act

01:31:18.140 if you didn't know

01:31:18.700 what year you were born,

01:31:19.960 right?

01:31:20.120 Like,

01:31:20.340 what would your spirit

01:31:21.620 do to you

01:31:22.620 in your life?

01:31:24.780 It's just a reminder

01:31:25.740 of human goodness

01:31:26.580 and what the country

01:31:28.020 really stands for.

01:31:29.980 Yeah.

01:31:30.620 Yeah.

01:31:32.120 That's why I've learned

01:31:33.600 over the last

01:31:34.380 probably eight or ten years

01:31:35.540 to pay attention to

01:31:37.740 and fall in love

01:31:38.800 with country music

01:31:39.800 because it's almost

01:31:41.800 always rooted

01:31:43.100 in that

01:31:44.360 and patriotism

01:31:45.640 and really kindness

01:31:48.400 for the most part,

01:31:49.600 you know?

01:31:50.040 I think of

01:31:50.880 the respect

01:31:51.960 that's within

01:31:52.560 the country music community

01:31:53.960 and, you know,

01:31:55.580 Luke Combs

01:31:56.240 and some of the,

01:31:57.660 I know Chase Rice

01:31:58.600 a little bit

01:31:59.060 and some of the,

01:31:59.660 the way that they look up

01:32:00.980 at those trailblazers

01:32:02.420 is really incredible.

01:32:03.980 So seeing the outpouring

01:32:05.460 of love for Toby today,

01:32:06.720 I feel terrible.

01:32:08.440 I don't think I realized

01:32:09.720 that he had cancer.

01:32:12.260 And again,

01:32:13.440 yes,

01:32:13.780 it's cliche,

01:32:15.000 you know,

01:32:15.380 you never know

01:32:16.020 what tomorrow brings

01:32:16.960 and to live your life

01:32:17.840 to the fullest

01:32:18.280 and to lead with kindness

01:32:19.220 and,

01:32:20.020 but it's so true

01:32:21.140 and that's what,

01:32:21.700 that's what Toby did.

01:32:22.840 When you mention,

01:32:24.280 you know,

01:32:26.060 how it used to be,

01:32:26.820 it's funny,

01:32:27.240 I was,

01:32:27.560 I was on the treadmill today

01:32:28.620 and I was just watching

01:32:29.600 documentaries

01:32:30.540 and I,

01:32:31.360 I watched the,

01:32:32.500 for some reason

01:32:32.840 I chose the challenge

01:32:33.940 one.

01:32:35.440 And,

01:32:35.960 you know,

01:32:36.420 with the teacher,

01:32:37.020 Krista McAuliffe,

01:32:37.820 who was on that shuttle

01:32:39.360 and,

01:32:40.520 you know,

01:32:40.820 the documentary on Netflix

01:32:41.960 is really well done

01:32:43.000 and the music,

01:32:44.300 Megan,

01:32:44.560 it,

01:32:44.760 it brought me back.

01:32:46.220 I got like choked up

01:32:47.260 watching the beginning

01:32:48.040 of this doc.

01:32:48.800 Obviously I was in eighth grade

01:32:49.820 when the challenger blew up

01:32:50.800 and the emotions with that.

01:32:53.080 And then you think

01:32:53.940 to 9-11 as well

01:32:55.260 and you think back

01:32:56.020 to all these times

01:32:56.960 and the tragedies

01:32:57.960 and how everybody

01:32:59.300 comes together

01:33:00.160 right after that.

01:33:01.800 You know,

01:33:02.100 I remember that as a kid.

01:33:03.240 I remember,

01:33:03.520 of course,

01:33:04.040 9-11 as an adult

01:33:05.120 and a young mother.

01:33:06.660 And,

01:33:07.220 and those music stars

01:33:08.500 kind of help us

01:33:09.500 through it,

01:33:10.260 you know?

01:33:11.020 Yeah.

01:33:11.760 So I feel,

01:33:12.700 I just feel like

01:33:13.760 what has happened

01:33:15.620 with country music

01:33:16.480 is hopefully

01:33:17.640 what we can

01:33:18.300 get back to.

01:33:19.560 is that cheesy?

01:33:21.220 You know,

01:33:21.580 but what those men

01:33:22.680 and women stand for.

01:33:24.480 Yeah.

01:33:24.700 I don't know

01:33:25.420 a country music star

01:33:26.320 who makes it

01:33:26.920 with songs

01:33:27.420 about how much

01:33:27.880 they hate America.

01:33:28.580 Like that's,

01:33:29.220 that's not a thing

01:33:30.360 in country music.

01:33:31.840 Thank God.

01:33:32.620 It's one area

01:33:34.740 of the music industry

01:33:35.580 that hasn't been

01:33:36.140 corrupted by any

01:33:36.940 of that.

01:33:38.360 Yeah.

01:33:38.760 And every,

01:33:39.500 when you look back

01:33:40.400 through the years

01:33:41.080 and through tough times

01:33:42.080 and fun times,

01:33:43.280 the music,

01:33:44.220 and it quite often

01:33:44.940 goes back

01:33:45.480 to those country stars.

01:33:46.720 And thank you

01:33:48.600 to Toby Keith

01:33:49.200 and I'm so sorry

01:33:50.040 for their loss.

01:33:51.640 But again,

01:33:52.500 bringing people together.

01:33:54.100 That's what he did.

01:33:54.780 By the way,

01:33:55.240 Clint Eastwood,

01:33:56.240 when we were stationed

01:33:57.140 out in California

01:33:57.960 in the 70s,

01:33:59.480 we were,

01:33:59.780 my dad was stationed

01:34:00.500 there in the army

01:34:01.060 and I was at an ice skating rink

01:34:02.780 out in the Monterey area

01:34:04.000 and I fell

01:34:05.140 and I was crying

01:34:06.020 and we turn around

01:34:07.180 and this kind gentleman

01:34:09.200 came and picked me up

01:34:10.400 and brought me to my mother.

01:34:11.840 It was Clint Eastwood.

01:34:13.720 Oh,

01:34:14.500 and an ice skating rink?

01:34:15.260 How cool is that?

01:34:16.120 Yeah,

01:34:16.520 and a random ice skating rink.

01:34:17.420 Whereupon every woman

01:34:19.180 intentionally fell

01:34:20.060 at the ice skating rink

01:34:20.920 every Friday

01:34:21.560 thereafter.

01:34:22.360 Oh,

01:34:22.800 I'm down.

01:34:23.540 My mother,

01:34:24.420 my,

01:34:24.680 my,

01:34:24.960 my,

01:34:25.100 I was this big,

01:34:25.680 my mother's like,

01:34:26.540 oh,

01:34:26.740 you want my daughter?

01:34:27.480 You can keep her.

01:34:28.240 You come with me,

01:34:29.160 you know?

01:34:31.140 Random police story.

01:34:32.920 So can I tell you

01:34:33.760 the fact that you

01:34:34.600 were pulling up

01:34:35.280 like old documentaries

01:34:36.360 about the Challenger

01:34:37.000 reminded me of this.

01:34:38.180 Recently,

01:34:38.660 I pulled up,

01:34:39.240 for some reason,

01:34:39.740 you know how YouTube

01:34:40.140 will suggest things to you

01:34:41.180 based on what

01:34:41.660 you've been watching

01:34:42.260 and I don't know

01:34:42.640 what I watched

01:34:43.160 that led to this

01:34:43.980 but it was an old

01:34:45.400 Phil Donahue show

01:34:46.500 in which he interviewed

01:34:47.700 the cast of Steel Magnolias

01:34:49.540 and it was all the women.

01:34:51.560 It was Olympia Dukakis,

01:34:52.980 it was Shirley MacLaine,

01:34:54.020 it was Sally Field,

01:34:55.640 it was Julia Roberts

01:34:58.680 and,

01:35:00.140 oh God,

01:35:01.000 why am I forgetting her name?

01:35:01.940 The one who played Weezer,

01:35:03.120 like the,

01:35:04.160 gosh,

01:35:04.580 she's the best.

01:35:05.140 you know,

01:35:06.520 I'm looking at her

01:35:07.140 because she was,

01:35:07.760 yeah,

01:35:07.900 she's the best.

01:35:08.100 Yeah,

01:35:09.440 thank you.

01:35:09.880 Anyway,

01:35:10.640 they were all so interesting

01:35:12.640 and the one,

01:35:13.760 they were all super friendly

01:35:14.900 and warm and great

01:35:15.720 with the audience.

01:35:16.280 You know who wasn't,

01:35:17.400 interestingly?

01:35:18.900 Julia Roberts.

01:35:20.240 Go back and watch it.

01:35:20.880 Really?

01:35:21.540 She was pretty cold.

01:35:23.400 She was pretty ungenerous

01:35:24.840 and I thought,

01:35:26.040 you know,

01:35:26.300 you never know,

01:35:26.860 maybe,

01:35:27.320 well,

01:35:27.500 you never,

01:35:27.720 people get shy.

01:35:28.560 There's some of these people

01:35:29.160 who become very famous

01:35:30.120 are shy,

01:35:31.180 they don't do well on camera

01:35:32.240 in these interviews

01:35:32.880 and I don't want to see

01:35:34.680 as much of her publicly.

01:35:37.120 I don't know,

01:35:37.720 but I highly recommend

01:35:39.200 going back and watching

01:35:39.900 the hour

01:35:40.240 because it,

01:35:40.760 and Dolly Parton

01:35:41.540 who stole the whole thing.

01:35:43.080 She was so warm,

01:35:44.260 self-deprecating,

01:35:45.660 funny.

01:35:46.380 There's a reason

01:35:47.100 America loves this woman.

01:35:48.380 Just thinking about

01:35:49.060 our female icons

01:35:49.940 and also good art

01:35:52.180 from Tracy Chapman's song

01:35:53.880 to the country music

01:35:56.180 to this.

01:35:56.960 The armadillo cake,

01:35:57.840 Megan,

01:35:58.420 and chopping off the tail

01:35:59.640 and that,

01:36:00.340 that's such a great movie.

01:36:02.000 I'm going to go watch it.

01:36:03.160 And also,

01:36:04.020 I love the Dolly Parton

01:36:04.980 when she's all bouffant,

01:36:05.980 like,

01:36:06.500 it takes some effort

01:36:07.300 to look like this.

01:36:08.560 I can see that.

01:36:09.700 Love it.

01:36:10.440 Love that movie.

01:36:12.080 Love you, Sage.

01:36:12.860 Please come back soon.

01:36:14.840 Thank you for having me.

01:36:15.800 So good to see you, Megan.

01:36:16.680 Thank you, thank you.

01:36:18.180 Likewise.

01:36:19.100 All right,

01:36:19.280 quickly as we go to break,

01:36:21.160 just want to tell you

01:36:21.960 verdict in the Crumbly trial.

01:36:24.500 Jennifer Crumbly

01:36:25.180 found guilty

01:36:26.020 in all four counts

01:36:26.880 of involuntary manslaughter.

01:36:29.600 This is,

01:36:30.760 wow,

01:36:31.400 this is actually really,

01:36:32.180 really interesting.

01:36:35.340 Her son,

01:36:36.120 of course,

01:36:36.440 pleaded guilty

01:36:36.940 to murder and terrorism,

01:36:38.240 serving a life sentence

01:36:39.020 for this mass shooting.

01:36:40.460 So the mother

01:36:41.060 of the mass shooter

01:36:41.960 found guilty

01:36:42.940 on involuntary manslaughter.

01:36:44.380 More on that this week.

01:36:45.880 Thanks for listening.

01:36:46.480 Thanks for listening

01:36:50.260 to The Megan Kelly Show.

01:36:51.540 No BS,

01:36:52.480 no agenda,

01:36:53.280 and no fear.

01:36:54.140 The Megan Kelly Show.

01:36:55.800 We'll see you next time.

01:36:56.820 The Megan Kelly Show.

01:36:57.120 Take watch me next time.

01:36:58.080 Some Emma Kelly Show.

01:36:58.400 Cheers!

01:36:59.080 Even her hair questions.

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The Megyn Kelly Show - February 06, 2024

RFK's 2024 Impact, ＂Woke Kindergarten,＂ and Inspiring ＂Fast Car＂ Grammys Collab, with Matt Welch, Liz Wolfe, and Sage Steele ｜ Ep. 718

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