Smoking Gun Biden Cover-Up Admission, Brutal KJP Interview, and Zohran's "Aunt" Lie, with Ruthless Podcast | Ep. 1181
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A devastating new video was released today by the House Oversight Committee of former top Biden advisor Mike Donilon. It was reported over the summer that Donilon told the committee he was paid $4 million to work on Joe Biden s 2024 campaign, and he was set to receive an additional, on top of that, an additional $4M if Biden was re-elected. Now we re starting to learn why.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
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Hey, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, a devastating new video just released
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of one of Joe Biden's top advisors admitting to a massive payday if his boss stayed in the 2024 race
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and was able to win despite his obvious cognitive decline.
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This is really remarkable. We're now getting a look front and center of what appears to be the motive.
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The motive. It wasn't sheer power. It was also greed from the look of this thing.
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We're going to show you the unbelievable two-minute clip. We didn't cut one second from it because we want you
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to see the entire thing. Wait until you see this guy. You've heard his name a lot, Mike Donilon.
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He was all over that Tapper book. He's as close as you can be to Joe Biden. He was one of the two
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who was around him talking to him about his allegedly OK polls. I remember when Nancy Pelosi was like,
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I don't think your team is giving you the right information. And now we're starting, it appears,
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to learn why. Again, it wasn't just we want the presidency. It appears to have been
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the good old-fashioned sin of greed. I'll show you the clip and you'll make your own decision.
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This clip we're about to show you, it's not just about the campaign. It's about Joe Biden's entire
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presidency and whether it was nothing more than a money-making operation for, yes, his family.
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We knew that one. But also his friends, his top advisors. This thing raises real questions about
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whether this entire cover-up was about cold, hard cash. The video was released today by the
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House Oversight Committee. It is of former top Biden senior advisor, Mike Donilon. It was reported
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over the summer that Donilon told the committee he was paid $4 million to work on Joe Biden's 2024
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campaign. And he was set to receive an additional, on top of that $4 million, an additional $4 million
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if Biden was re-elected. I mean, just think about that. It's one thing to know that, like on paper,
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it's quite another to see him admit it. You're not going to believe this tape. However, the release of
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the video, all right, telling the committee that information, four and then another four,
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it's just so damning because of the way he does it. Wait until you see this. He pauses. He stutters.
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It's a very simple question. You can see him trying to game it out in his head,
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seeing if there's any way around this enormous admission he's going to have to make.
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Would he have received money if Joe Biden were re-elected? That's the question. Very simple.
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Yes or no. You all know whether you stand to make $4 million upon the re-election of a president
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if you're working for him. Think you'd know that right away? I think I'd know that.
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It's a yes or no question. But it's very clear he knows the answer and is trying like a mouse in a
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maze to find a way around it. But he's not clever enough. He tries to avoid answering, but eventually
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he's forced to admit the truth. Watch this entire two minute painful thing. Just to be clear,
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would the amount of pay you received for your role on the campaign, would that have changed
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depending on how far into the race President Biden made it?
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the way the campaign went? Was that a possibility?
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How the campaign went. Were there any circumstances in which you would have received a bonus?
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Yes, there was. What were those circumstances? That Joe Biden would have been re-elected President
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Re-elected President of the United States. What was, what was the bonus have been?
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Um, I believe it would have been, uh, $4 million. In addition to the $4 million that you were already
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paid? Yes. It's hard to hear that last number, but it was another four. Got four and would have gotten
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another four if Joe Biden had been re-elected. Can you believe what we just saw? Just, just to go over
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it. The first question was from Peter Spector, House Oversight Committee staff member. He asks,
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just to be clear, would the amount of pay you receive for your role in the campaign, would that
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have changed depending on how far into the race President Biden made it? Is that confusing to you?
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Is that confusing to you, members of the audience? It's pretty straightforward. Just to be clear,
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would the amount of pay you receive for your role on the campaign, would that have changed depending
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on how far into the race President Biden made it? Yes or no? That's what we spent over a minute
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hemming and hawing on. My sense is, I'm not going to repeat the pausing, but you heard it. In my view,
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finally comes out with the money. It was a guarantee. The campaign, we had a negotiation,
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and that's my memory of the agreement. It's a non-answer. He won't answer. He's clearly dodging.
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He's self-conscious. He knows they've got him. He knows the motive for his terrible behavior is about
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to be outed in what I presume was an under oath deposition. We are all under oath when we give a
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deposition. And he wouldn't even answer yes or no. All he says was, it was a guarantee. That doesn't
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answer our question on whether it would have gone up or down. Sure, there could have been a guarantee for
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some portion of it, but they're asking you, would that have changed depending on how far into the
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race President Biden made it? And now we know as we get to the end, because they followed up like
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good lawyers saying, no, we're asking whether it would have gone up. You had a bonus if he got
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reelected. And finally, he says yes. So you know he was fucking lying there when he was answering,
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oh, it was a guarantee. That's my memory. He was lying. That's obvious. Good for them for following
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up. A lesser lawyer wouldn't have done it. These guys did. And then you heard Margaret Harker,
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senior advisor to the House Oversight Committee, assuming this is a lawyer, don't know. You never
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received a bonus depending on the way the campaign went. Was that a possibility? How the campaign went?
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This is a top political operative. Who does he think he's kidding? You know exactly what she's asking.
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You're afraid. You utter coward. You greedy coward.
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Wow. This guy. How the campaign went? She follows up. Were there any circumstances in which
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you would have received a bonus? Now he can't wiggle. Finally, yes, it was. Of course, he's
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playing word games like trying to feign confusion again. There were, is what he should have said.
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What were those circumstances? And then he gives it up that Joe Biden would have been reelected
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president. What would the bonus have been? I believe it would have been 4 million. In addition
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to the 4 million you already paid, yes, they got him. They got him in the end after considerable
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wiggling. This guy, in my opinion, is a dishonest hack. That's what we're witnessing there. Dishonest
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hackery meant to cover up abject greed and a loathing for the United States of America.
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This is the opposite of patriotism, of duty, of love of country. What you loved was the almighty
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dollar, sir. That's obvious. In this same interview, Donilon defended Biden's fitness for office
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because, sure, of course, they all had to. We've talked about Mike Donilon on the show before. You
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may remember when Tapper came on, he was part of President Biden's inner circle known as the
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Politburo, a group of advisors that Mr. Biden always turned to. There was like a top three,
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maybe four, who were like the inner circle who made the decisions with him. Bruce Reed,
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Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, and Ron Klain, who was his chief of staff for a while.
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A person familiar with this internal dynamic told Jake Tapper for his book, quote,
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five people were running the country and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.
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And it was revealed in Tapper's book that in 2019, then candidate Joe Biden once struggled to even
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remember Donilon's name during a campaign event in Iowa. He just kept saying, you know, you know,
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you know. These two have known each other since 1981. 81.
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It's finally here. All right, let's get this party started. Megan Kelly live on tour across America.
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Why Refi and SiriusXM. Guys, welcome back. Hey, Megan. Great to be back. Good to see you.
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It's great to see you too. And the news gods rained down upon us for your return to the show.
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Listen, it's that kind of verbal dexterity and political acumen that you pay top dollar for in
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the political consulting world. In defense of Tom Donlan, though, I will say that he has captured
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Joe Biden's voice absolutely perfectly in that. It seemed like it was a one-to-one almost. But we
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have a joke. We've been in political consulting and that kind of thing forever. We have a joke
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internally here that there is no fiercer capitalist than a progressive Democrat in Washington, D.C.
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They're going to get paid. One way or another, they're going to figure out how to get paid.
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And this guy is a perfect encapsulation of that. It's all there, black and white. He was going to
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make millions, millions of dollars if he could just get Bernie over the finish line. He did not
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give two shits about what was going to happen to the rest of the country, because obviously they had
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some woke progressives making policy decisions there, and they were all just perfectly fine with
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that, presumably as long as he could keep his summer home. Yeah. And also how disingenuous, like
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any political consultant could recite what their win bonuses in their sleep. They know how much money
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they're getting paid. So for him to be like, oh, you know, try to like run out the clock to be
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before he's like, yeah, it's $4 million. It's like $4 million, $4 million more on top of the $4
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million you're already getting. He's like, yeah, you know, just another casual $4 million. This
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Biden Inc., we toss $4 million around like it's nothing. Well, and we're talking about a conflict
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of interest here, but we're not talking about any candidate for any office. We're talking about the
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current president of the United States at that moment, right? And that's what makes it so galling,
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Megan, is like, yeah, this guy, he was, he's standing to gain another $4 million if a candidate
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won an election, but he was also part of this farce pretending that this guy could still do the job
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in the Oval Office. And that is the real import, I think, of this entire investigation is figuring
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out like, are these people committing treason? It feels like treason to me. Yeah. Yes. It feels like
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it. It feels like an utter betrayal of their patriotic duty and their oath of office in order to
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lie in their own pockets. That's, let me tell you something though, because I'm sure it's not
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unusual to have this sort of bonus structure built in for a campaign manager, like for, you know,
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if you get me over the line, I'm going to, I'm going to give you some sort of a bonus. It was the way
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he handled it that told us everything we needed to know. He was so dishonest in fessing up and tried
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to dodge. Thank God the questioners followed up and understood they were asking a really simple
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thing. Let me tell you though, as a lawyer, and again, I don't know if these are lawyers, I assume
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they are, but at least they're skilled cross examiners. When somebody does this, every hair
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on the back of your neck stands up and you're like, you know, with the claws out, like you're
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fucking dead. Now you're dead. Now we're going to go. I mean, I've been in this position countless
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times in depositions and cross examinations and sometimes even in interviews. It's the worst
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possible thing to do. The worst possible way to handle it. The best way is to be like, yes. And I
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was to receive another 4 million. If he made it across the line, that's it. But then you
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got, they got their admission, which they were going to get no matter what, but you don't
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look like a dishonest cretin. I can't believe how dumb this guy was.
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Yeah. I mean, I think it kind of feels like he knows he should be ashamed, meaning he knows
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he did something wrong. Meaning this business that he was engaged in, he knew it wasn't all
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above board. If you're doing above board things like, yeah, my family went and we worked at
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a soup kitchen last Thanksgiving. We fed the poor. I'm happy to tell people that because
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you're proud of that. But the fact that this guy's trying to run the clock and he was like,
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yeah, it was another 4 million. Like it's an admission of guilt that you did something you
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know was wrong. When you're trying to hide it like that and you feel ashamed of it like
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that, that's a good sign that you were doing some dishonest stuff.
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The outcome of the campaign? You're a professional political consultant.
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What is this thing of which you speak, the campaign and its outcome?
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I hope there wasn't a bonus for the debate performance.
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There's so much lying in today's news cycle. Honestly, like that's, we kicked it off with
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the big lie. That's as the Democrats like the turn of phrase, the big lie. But the whole
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show is about lying liars who lie and they're all Democrats. Not that Republicans
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never lie. They lie too. But there's a bunch of Democrats lying in the news today. Um, okay,
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let's keep going because that's not the only way with it. Yeah. They get away. They do it
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in secret. They get away with it. That's true. That's right. Ashbrook, because the press almost
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never presses them. Right. It's like, even here, we, we needed Republicans on the house
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oversight committee to get this admission, you know, like Mike Donilon, who got this admission
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from him? Like what presser, what member of the press ever got it? Okay.
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That's also, can I, can I just interject on one thing before you transition? 8M is a big
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number. Like, I don't want your audience to think that that is what campaign managers
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are paid to run political campaigns. That is insane. When we used to run political campaigns,
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you had a very finite amount of cash that you were able to raise through hard dollar limits
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and whatnot. And you cared so deeply about winning and losing, which is why you got involved
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in the first place that you tried to keep your own overhead as low as possible in order
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to maximize resources for TV ads, for field work, for all the things that you need to do
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during the course of the campaign. For you, for someone to just say like, I'm going to
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take 8M off the top of that. And what is going to be a nip and tuck race is wild.
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It's an insane number. I remember like, isn't, isn't that donor money?
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Yes. And that's like, you know, when they ask donors to be like, Hey, can you chip in five
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bucks, 20 bucks, those small dollar donors, all those $20 and $5 donations are getting rolled up
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into 8 million to go into Donalyn's pocket. Like that's how greedy this guy is. That is
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absolutely not a normal amount to be paid. Nothing to blow.
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Yeah. In Major League Baseball, there's a lot of talk about a salary cap. And so I wonder if in
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Democrat politics, maybe some of the donors might be considering coming together and instituting
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Think about, honestly, I feel sorry for the Democrats. I actually feel sorry for these Democrat
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donors. Not only were they being set up to fail with Biden and this guy, but then what did they
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get to replace him? Somebody who spent more than a billion dollars in 107 days and, and blew out so
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much of the dough that the DNC is now still paying back her debt. We just got news last week. They
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had to cover an additional $1.6 million of her debt. She went over budget over her billion dollar
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spend. She actually managed to spend beyond her means. And they're still trying to clean it up.
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And if I were a Democrat, I'd never get another penny.
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Real quick is this thing, this, this money scheme is the entire explanation for the entire left.
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Beyonce came and got paid off that. Oprah came and got paid off that. You think Hollywood is
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supporting these socialists for their health? There's money for everybody in this game.
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The Oprah thing was such a grift. I've, I said it at the time we talked about it. When you are a
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journalist, you don't get paid by the campaign for anything. You don't take one cent from the
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campaign or you've sold your soul. You don't say I'll do a town hall with you, but you have to pay
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for the big round theater with the fancy monitors everywhere. So I can beam in Republicans for Kamala.
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You say, I will be in charge of the set and the production, and I will make it as fancy or not
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as I want. And all of that will come out of my, the journalist's budget. Oprah tried to, you know,
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scoff this off as like, Oh, what do you mean? It was like a million dollars for my, for the
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production. No, that's not normal. You know it. You're corrupt too. Yeah, totally. But here's the
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thing. You talked about feeling bad for democratic donors. They'll never know, Megan. They'll never
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know. They are sitting there listening to MSNBC prime time or all of the cheerleaders in the left
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that have made them sort of agnostic to anything outside of this far left preaching. They'll never
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know about this clip. They'll never know that, that the whole American democracy, the democratic
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party, the nomination, all of it was for the low, low price of $8 million. They'll never know.
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You're right. This is not the lead on MSNBC, uh, today or on any left wing podcast. I look forward
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to the in-depth, the daily podcast on this. I'll wait. Um, okay. There's so many things we've got
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to get to. So I'm, I'm forging forward the Kareem Jean-Pierre interview. Okay. Um, there is,
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she sat down with the New Yorker and the reporter, Isaac Chodroner. I don't know him. Chodroner.
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Maybe I should know him. Um, I think I want to know him after I read this interview. It's amazing.
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And he did the very simple thing. That is all you need to do when sitting across from a dumb liar,
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like Kareem Jean-Pierre, which is just ask the most basic, simple questions. Just, I mean,
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it was literally like, what does that mean? I still don't understand. Could you please explain?
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Could you elaborate? That's literally all he did for page after page and just hoisted her on her
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own petard. It was a thing of beauty. We've got to go through it. There'll be some dramatic
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reenactments here, but this is a beauty. I mean, it's to the point where even the left
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is acknowledging this is the end of her career. Like the press tour has not been going well at all.
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No, no. And then this is the final nail in the coffin. So he starts, you know, he sets it up and
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talks about she left the party because the party didn't stand by Joe Biden. I guess that's why she
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wants to become an independent now, but unclear. Okay. So here's a question. You feel like you had
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to leave the democratic party because of the way it treated Joe Biden. How did it treat Joe Biden?
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This is like, truly, this is like you're deposing a four-year-old. How did it do that?
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That's right. It's like, make it as simple as possible. Come on, Corrine, even you can do it.
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Now, remember this opening line she gives, I call it a betrayal. I, I call it, that's my special thing
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that it's a betrayal. She says, okay. I'm going to stitch together these answers because they're
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very long, but I've, I've highlighted the relevant parts. Um, and by the way, I'm doing her a favor
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because I'm going to make her sound more lucid and cogent and following a thread than she is
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because she managers all over the hell and gone. You're like, get back here to first base. She's
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out in left field. Come back. The ball is here. So I'm going to condense it. She says, I was the
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person who was standing on that podium behind that lectern, having to take in all the hard questions
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on this, rightfully so. And I was watching what democratic leadership was doing. It was an all
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out full on campaign to embarrass him, to push him out. And I thought to myself, this man is one of
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the most decent people that I know. And objectively, objectively, it was a good presidency. It was a
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good presidency. Some have even said some, some have even said he did more in one term than most
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presidents do in two. So I just didn't understand. Yeah. Many, many people just didn't understand
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why this was happening. So he says, you said that the party was trying to undermine Biden.
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What do you think they were doing and why? Well, I just laid it out. I just said there was an obvious
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campaign. You just had to watch. Sure. But why were they doing that? Because they believed he needed
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to step aside. This is very layered, very layered, right? There's a period of time layered that I
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questioned what was happening and how do we treat our own? How do we treat people who are decent people?
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And then you also have to think about, here we go, folks, how I'm thinking about this as a
00:24:50.120
insert. Here we go. What is Karine Jean-Pierre, everyone?
00:25:01.060
To the gentleman in the hat. You have to think about how I'm thinking about this as a black woman who is
00:25:05.980
part of the LGBTQ community as well. And living in this time where I also don't think Democrats right
00:25:11.800
now, Democrat leadership is protecting vulnerable people in the way that it shows. She didn't get
00:25:19.300
enough protection. And Biden, I guess, here is the vulnerable person, which is true. But that's the
00:25:28.180
whole point. That's why he needed to go. He had moved from being firm to infirm and needed to be wheeled
00:25:34.820
right out of the Oval Office. So now Isaac says, sorry, I'm not trying to be dense.
00:25:44.320
I'm a little unclear about what this has to do with Democratic leaders and many Democrats in the
00:25:49.760
country thinking Joe Biden was going to lose to Trump, which was what the polls all showed and
00:25:54.020
therefore thinking that he should be replaced. OK, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
00:25:58.040
Hold on. Hold on a second. She's she does this like when she's lost, like, hold on.
00:26:09.660
She does the Alex Trebek. What is a black queer woman?
00:26:18.040
Nobody knows anything, she says. Again, she's talking to herself.
00:26:21.680
Nobody knows what would have happened. She goes on. Millions of people who showed up in 2020 didn't
00:26:25.720
show up in 2024. We can't forget that there was an incumbency issue as well. This is real.
00:26:30.300
There are like several G10 countries with incumbents who did not get reelected. There
00:26:35.320
was an incumbency issue as well. And then Isaac speaks for us all. I'm not sure what you're saying.
00:26:42.100
Yeah. OK, so, Megan, Megan, this is my favorite exchange here at the end of that answer that KJP gives.
00:26:49.680
Again, this is a professional communications expert, somebody who is at the lectern every day
00:26:56.680
of the Biden administration. And she has this whole run up about how Biden was still qualified,
00:27:02.720
should have been the candidate. And then she proceeds to undermine her entire argument by
00:27:07.320
saying, you know, other G12, you know, leaders lost because of their incumbency. And it's like,
00:27:12.720
but what is the point you're trying to make? It makes no sense.
00:27:16.400
So he was going to lose. That's the point. He was going to lose,
00:27:20.800
which is why the Democrats wanted him out. Could have been for incumbency,
00:27:24.400
could have been for frailty, but they all thought he was going to lose.
00:27:26.920
OK, I'm not sure what you're saying. And then here we go. No, no, no, no, no. Wait a minute.
00:27:34.000
Wait a minute. Amazing. She's not used to it spinning out of control, right? She's like,
00:27:40.540
I am usually in control at the lectern and I can control my inanity. And there's only so much
00:27:45.480
cross-examination I'm subjected to. OK, you're saying that this was their thinking,
00:27:49.700
that they were kind of predicting, but nobody knew what was going to happen. No one knew that
00:27:52.820
Joe Biden was going to win in 2020 and no one knew it was going to happen in 2024.
00:27:57.720
People believed in their hearts that Kamala was going to win. They believed it. They saw the polling
00:28:02.940
and they thought she was going to win looking at the polling. Nobody knew anything. I'm only
00:28:08.120
bringing up the polls because you brought up the polls to me.
00:28:11.140
What? OK, no, no one knows. Literally, nobody knows. Then Isaac says,
00:28:17.080
you said you were speaking as a black woman who's part of the LGBTQ community. And I think people
00:28:24.100
were very I'm talking about in this moment, too. I do not feel seen. I have not been seen in the party
00:28:32.040
because they are throwing the LGBTQs under the bus. Really?
00:28:37.140
Because of Joe Biden? Yeah. They're not fighting enough for migrants and immigrants. You have to
00:28:43.400
be a big tent party. You have to fight for everyone. Back to Isaac. I'm just still trying
00:28:49.100
to understand. I just this I've never heard this part of the interview. She's saying I'm not being
00:28:56.460
seen. She's literally on camera talking about a book that she wrote titled Independent. She's
00:29:02.520
different from the Democrat. You don't understand, dude. So she explains to him that she's a black
00:29:07.620
queer woman. Yeah, she pushed the button. Among their superpowers is invisibility. So she can't be
00:29:12.180
seen at times. Yes. And as soon as you say that, he's supposed to get down on his knees. That's it.
00:29:18.200
All tough questionings stops. And you're supposed to genuflect because she said the magic words.
00:29:24.200
This has been life for her in her, and I quote, chocolate skin.
00:29:28.160
And this is a Korean jumpy. Hand to God. Hand to God. My audience is my witness. That's another
00:29:34.740
KJP quote from her tour. Okay. This is so much better than the clips that people put out on
00:29:39.920
Twitter, Megan. This is golden content and only brought to you on the Megan Kelly show.
00:29:45.100
Smog often talks about his mocha. Yes. I feel unseen in my mocha skin.
00:29:50.420
I'm Vanilla. I'm Madagascar Vanilla, as the folks at Cowboy Colostrum say. Okay. So he's like,
00:30:00.720
it's a thing. It's an actual product. Okay. Okay. Oh, man.
00:30:07.260
They made the vanilla sound more exotic by putting the word Madagascar in front of it.
00:30:12.740
Okay. Here we go. He's like, I'm still trying to understand. He goes through a windup and he says,
00:30:26.040
you're talking about Biden like loyalty was owed to him. Isn't loyalty owed to the country? No,
00:30:33.660
that's not what I'm saying. I'm not talking about that. I'm saying this is not how you treat somebody.
00:30:39.260
So now she says, I'm not talking about loyalty. I refer you back to the part I told you to remember
00:30:45.760
the very first answer she gave. I call it a betrayal. It's a betrayal. And then he says,
00:30:51.980
you're talking about Biden like loyalty was owed to him. No, that's not what I'm saying.
00:30:57.340
I'm not talking about that. I'm not talking about loyalty. I'm saying this is not how you treat
00:31:01.640
somebody. Poor Isaac is holding on by his fingernails. And then he says,
00:31:06.640
is this a matter of how you treat someone or a matter of putting the country first?
00:31:12.300
He's keeping it at the third grade level so she can follow. Poor guy's thinking he's actually going
00:31:17.620
to get a clear answer at some point. Then here she goes, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a
00:31:23.180
minute. Wait, wait, wait. This is her trick, right? This is like, this is her thing. Wait,
00:31:28.460
treating somebody with dignity is not the same as loyalty. What? You're the one who said it was a
00:31:34.380
betrayal. I mean, the way he was treated, I had never, if you had seen something like that in
00:31:40.460
the democratic party, please, please, please point it out. So what was an example of the way he was
00:31:45.560
treated? It was nasty articles that were coming out daily. Go back and see for yourself. You're
00:31:49.800
writing the articles, right? You should go back and see for yourself. It was a campaign. It was even
00:31:54.180
reported that it was a campaign. So you think asking him to step aside was okay, but there shouldn't
00:32:00.980
have been nasty articles. He's trying. Well, here's the thing. This is, let's pause on this
00:32:07.820
for a second because Ashbrook's got a great bit on this and it's why she knows it came from within.
00:32:13.740
There was nasty articles or whatnot because nasty articles about a Democrat, particularly a Democrat
00:32:19.280
who's president of the United States do not exist unless they come from other Democrats, right?
00:32:23.540
Exactly right. It's, it's axiomatic in the legacy media. They only attack a Democrat when a second
00:32:29.320
Democrat stands to benefit. Yep. Yep. So true. Katie Porter. So she's done the math on that part.
00:32:35.920
That's Katie Porter. That's why she got that as those tough questions by that CBS gal,
00:32:39.900
because it's an open primary, lots of other Democrats. Let's get rid of her now if she's
00:32:43.520
weak. That's the only time they ever face the questions. Okay. So she's, he's like, okay,
00:32:50.480
so you're saying asking him to step aside was okay, but there shouldn't have been nasty articles.
00:32:56.140
Look, what I'm saying is it shouldn't have happened that way. Then he says, but it should
00:33:02.780
have happened or it shouldn't have happened. He's truly, he's like, it's good. And my dog
00:33:08.620
Strudwick could follow this. She says, wait, can you predict what she says now? She's really,
00:33:13.400
she's resorting to two things, black and queer. And what's her other favorite thing to do at the
00:33:17.220
beginning of these answers? No, no, no. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
00:33:23.360
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I don't think it should have
00:33:28.960
happened. Uh, then she blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I believe we should have fought to make sure
00:33:33.280
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won. That's what I believed. Then he says, okay, polling was pretty
00:33:38.860
accurate, blah, blah, blah. He says, so you have no concern even to this day that Joe Biden could
00:33:43.480
serve as president through January, 2029. I did not see anything that would have given me
00:33:49.300
concern, but you watched TV like the rest of us, right? And then she says this, I always couch it
00:34:00.420
with this. Of course he was older and I love the filler. Like you'll have to excuse my lie. I'm about
00:34:07.520
to tell you because I always deliver this lie. It's my chosen lie. I have to, I have to buy time
00:34:13.480
to think of what the lie actually is. So let me preface it with entire prefix where I'm still
00:34:18.640
thinking. Totally Holmes. I've got 10 filler words that will cue me to deliver my favorite lie. And
00:34:25.160
here now here I will. Of course he was aging. He mentioned it. He talked about not speaking as well
00:34:30.240
as he used to not walking as well as he used to. I saw him every single day at his white house as his
00:34:34.760
white house press secretary. And he was someone that was engaged on top of policy,
00:34:39.620
challenging his staff. I mean, challenging Kareem Jabeer, that I believe. Then he says
00:34:45.080
one could conceivably think that he could do the job through January, 2025, meaning the end of his
00:34:52.940
first term, but that it was not wise to think he could do the job through January, 2029, right?
00:34:59.760
It's not my place to say. Oh my God. It was her place to say she was literally the spokesperson for
00:35:08.620
that thing. Incredible. Right. She just wrote a whole book. Yeah. Talking about how he got the
00:35:14.700
short shift because he wasn't the, he wasn't the candidate. Now it's not my place to say whether he
00:35:19.520
could do the job. Okay. One thing that conversation, the thing that is most wild about all of this,
00:35:24.500
just to take it back to the highest level is the book is called independent and she is, she is Joe
00:35:32.320
Biden's most loyal soldier. It makes no sense. Nothing independent about any of it. I don't want
00:35:39.120
it to stop. It's not my place to say. I just don't want it to stop. She's, oh, and it's, then it reads
00:35:42.900
inside a broken white house. And now she said twice in her book tour that she's talking about the
00:35:48.220
Trump white house. Oh boy. She's talking about inside the Trump white house, which like everything
00:35:59.020
around this woman makes no sense at all. This is amazing. She's not talking about that.
00:36:06.760
Did this, did the book publishers hate her to let this get out there? Were they like,
00:36:10.760
we want everyone to make fun of you forever. I have a feeling that they, they had some kind
00:36:14.600
of a signing bonus and they're like, Hey dude, let's see what happens. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:18.180
They're another Mike Donald. They're like, there's a reason people rubberneck, there's a reason people
00:36:24.780
rubberneck at car crashes, you know? I mean, it's that whole, it's that whole saying of, um, you know,
00:36:31.320
better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and, you know, move all doubt. You know,
00:36:36.460
I mean, that's, that's her entire problem. Yeah. Well, who, who are we getting? All five of us are
00:36:41.300
going out to buy this book today. I mean, that's obvious. Um, okay. So we're, we're stuck on it's,
00:36:46.720
it's not my place to say whether he could have actually done the job for a second term. And then
00:36:52.120
here goes, Isaac, what do you mean? It's not your place. And then gentlemen, what does she say next?
00:37:06.620
This is so unreal. Wait, wait, wait. I'm answering the question. I did not see anything
00:37:17.080
that would cause me concern. That is my answer. Except the debate and the other things that
00:37:22.980
everyone saw says Isaac, right? Like he's on it. Like you saw the damn debate. You saw him falling
00:37:29.440
down. You saw him tripping. You saw him losing his train of thought. You saw him saying dead people
00:37:34.140
were alive. That's me. He didn't ask her that way. He kept it simple for Strudwick,
00:37:37.780
except the debate and the other things that everyone saw. What I'm saying to you is the
00:37:44.020
debate for me was one time. I had never seen him like that before. Okay. We go on. Then he says,
00:37:51.120
I'm just a little surprised that you don't see what so many people, including so many Democrats
00:37:57.960
saw. I'm not the only person who feels this. I'm just the one speaking very loudly. I'm the person
00:38:03.760
who's saying the quiet thing out loud. What? What's the quiet thing out? That's just a cliche
00:38:09.860
that doesn't fit in this context. That's amazing. Like doesn't fit. This is such a damning indictment
00:38:18.340
on DEI. Like there is no greater example of what happens. Like it is truly the like soft bigotry of
00:38:24.940
low expectations. This woman has no business writing a book, let alone being the spokesperson for the
00:38:32.000
president of the United States of America. This is what happens. And then she always falls back on
00:38:37.740
as an unseen queer black woman, LGBTQ. We have come to the end of an era where people have opened up
00:38:46.320
their eyes and realized this is what you get. She can't answer a question. She can't write a book.
00:38:51.640
She can't be the spokesperson for the president of the United States.
00:38:54.020
But it's also the training. It's the training ground of Democrat communicators in that I am certain
00:38:59.860
this is an out-of-body experience for her because for the first time in her life she said I think
00:39:05.480
is that an MSNBC interview? No, it's New York Mag. No, it's with the New Yorker.
00:39:10.480
The New Yorker. Yeah, New Yorker. Okay. Well, same difference. Same difference. But like the point
00:39:14.720
is is that somebody who is a New Yorker columnist is asking her real questions. She's like,
00:39:19.540
you don't understand. That's not your job. I told you I was a black queer woman. Why are we still
00:39:24.720
into this? You don't appear to be down on your knees. Yeah. I mean, this is this is what they are
00:39:31.080
used to. This is just the way a corporate media has worked for generations of Democrats. Right. And it
00:39:39.900
makes Democrats soft. They learn all the wrong lessons. They feel like the media is actually
00:39:45.020
their press office. And if you talk to reporters and these guys make fun of me because I have
00:39:50.160
journal buddies. But what the journal buddies all tell me is that if you if when you take a call
00:39:55.580
from one of these Democrat press secretaries, the expectation is that you will write the story the
00:40:01.320
exact way they want it. And if they don't like the the portion of the speech that you pull out and put
00:40:07.520
into the article that their boss said, if their boss gets mad at them, they get mad at the reporter
00:40:12.780
because the expectation is this story must look like a press release or you're against our mission.
00:40:18.140
You know, that's that's the way they think. It's legitimately the way I think it makes them.
00:40:23.380
We can see what happened here. She got the job totally because of DEI, obviously, then touted
00:40:30.280
the DEI qualities the entire time from the lectern, then read 90 percent of the answers she ever gave
00:40:35.900
the press corps at the press briefings and and really did not sit for interviews as an independent
00:40:43.560
person. She really gave only a couple like Vogue gave her the Vogue treatment. They don't ask tough
00:40:49.240
questions, especially not of a Democrat like Kareem Jean-Pierre. So like she never actually had
00:40:53.940
ironically, you know, given the position she had, she actually really never had to answer questions
00:40:59.240
about what she thought. She really just had to struggle to get on the next like safe space about
00:41:04.920
what Biden's policies were, et cetera. And those were written out for her in her little briefing
00:41:10.980
memo. So now some moronic publisher was like, she'll be great. The press door, everyone's going
00:41:17.600
to book her. She's used to talking to the media and that you have to imagine them all dying on the
00:41:24.060
inside as each one of these goes down. All right, let's keep going because there's still
00:41:27.560
wondrous stuff. OK, I'm I'm not the only one who feels this. I'm just I'm the person saying the
00:41:34.720
quiet thing out loud. Amazing. So brave. They're so brave. There's a silent minority of people out
00:41:42.020
there who feel that Biden was taken advantage of. And most people don't want to say it.
00:41:47.060
$8 million, by the way, the silent, the silent. Yeah, there's an $8 million paycheck attached to
00:41:54.340
that opinion, who feel that Biden was taken advantage of. And most people don't want to say
00:41:59.180
it. Is that what you mean? Let let me just say this is my experience, my experience that I'm
00:42:06.500
speaking to and what I saw. I just want to be very, very clear on average. I just want to be clear
00:42:12.320
on average, not from one interview, not from one debate. On average, on average, I have heard from
00:42:19.200
many, many, many people, many people. You just made fun of this. She did it. Many,
00:42:24.660
many people who are disappointed by the reaction of the Democratic Party. I have I have. And these
00:42:30.840
are citizens. These are people who vote. Some of our best friends are disappointed in the same way
00:42:40.100
Karine Jean-Pierre was. OK, keep going. Was it a concern of yours that Biden was not getting accurate
00:42:46.000
information about the state of the race? I was not involved in the campaign, blah, blah, blah.
00:42:49.800
He says one thing in your book I was not expecting was that after Harris took over, you say you thought
00:42:54.100
it was, quote, an insult to her that people wanted an open convention. Can you talk about that? Yeah.
00:43:00.880
I mean, look, look, you have to understand. I'm speaking also as a queer woman. Yeah. Ding,
00:43:10.100
ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Black woman. What is a black queer woman? And what I experienced myself
00:43:15.960
as being a first. This is not just me. There are many black women who feel this way. We are the
00:43:22.440
backbone of the party. We are on the front lines. And when it comes time to elevate us or hear us
00:43:27.880
acknowledge our voice, we are largely ignored. It's almost like they didn't want her. And so you
00:43:35.000
have to understand the lens that I see that with. Right. Funny. Funny that that doesn't translate
00:43:41.260
to Winsome Sears. I feel that very viscerally, as do many in the black community and among black
00:43:48.820
women. Basically, what she's saying is of which you are not a part, Isaac. So stop trying to shame
00:43:55.580
me, whitey, because you don't understand the black woman experience. Everything I've said is understood
00:44:00.780
by black people, just not you. And that is just again, this goes back to the DEI thing. This is
00:44:07.100
the weirdest thing that's been happened. And also for for for liberal white people, this like strange
00:44:13.460
thing of believing that just because someone's a minority, they have some kind of like magical
00:44:18.100
ability in some way that only they can discuss among each other. Guess what? All humans have brains.
00:44:23.920
And and to be like, you don't understand because I have a lived experience as a black queer woman.
00:44:29.020
You're also a person. You're also an American. Yeah. So so so for them to have run this game for so
00:44:37.480
long where you can become the spokesperson for the president of the United States, not on
00:44:42.100
qualifications, but on immutable characteristics that first off, that just spits on everything
00:44:47.080
Martin Luther King Jr. fought for. It's not the content of her character that got her there.
00:44:51.600
It's she checked the right boxes and the party believes. She knows it. Yeah, she's she's well aware.
00:44:56.900
All right. Wait, let's let me keep going. There's just some more goodness coming our way.
00:44:59.720
Then he says, well, one reason some people thought Harris should not be the nominee is that they did
00:45:04.580
not think she could win, which is why I was surprised to read in your book a little later
00:45:10.100
on that, quote, the truth was I never really believed Harris could win because she's just gone
00:45:17.780
on about how like it's a black thing. They didn't want Harris. They wanted an open convention because
00:45:22.860
they hate black people. And he's like, you write in your book, you didn't think she could win.
00:45:27.880
This is amazing. That's why I'm a little confused when you say it was an insult to try to get her
00:45:34.140
off the ticket. You speak for us all, Isaac. And then she goes, OK, now this I don't know what
00:45:39.380
happens here. OK, but two things should be true. Right. She doesn't even have the saying. Right.
00:45:46.100
Two things should be it. It's good to see two things should be true. Right. The thing that I say
00:45:53.340
the second time actually proves the thing that I said the first time. Right. What the hell?
00:46:00.600
Because it's a feeling that we have. It's a feeling that we have. OK, the reason I felt it is because of
00:46:09.040
how we are treated as. There it is. Black women. Black women. We are not elevated. We're not
00:46:17.320
protected. We're not taken seriously. She was the vice president for heaven's sake. But the reality of
00:46:23.680
it is being a black woman, being black and being a woman, being a woman and being black. She didn't
00:46:29.820
add that last one. It's just tough. It's hard. It makes it harder. And she ran a fantastic campaign,
00:46:36.040
but it wasn't good enough for some people. That is heartbreaking. Shouldn't you extend the same
00:46:41.160
generosity to other people who didn't think she could win or that she was the best candidate?
00:46:56.240
Me. OK. My experience. It's also attacking people with other opinions, says Isaac. Yeah,
00:47:04.980
but I have every right to talk about my experience and my perspective, and that's not taking away
00:47:09.020
from others. OK, now I'm going to finish that. Wait, hold on. Which is why you all should have
00:47:14.140
voted for a 175-year-old white man with a history of segregating school buses and crime bills in the
00:47:20.500
early 1990s. That's right. That would have been the non-racist thing to do. That's true. That was the
00:47:26.620
anti-racist move. So what I was confused by was you saying that you did not think Harris could win,
00:47:33.500
but then you attack other people who didn't seem to think Harris could win by saying they were
00:47:38.300
insulting her. Yes. Yes. She acknowledges that. Yes. Well, again, I wish you could walk in my body
00:47:47.860
and live my life. And then I think you could understand what I'm saying. I really do,
00:47:53.560
because I think any other black woman would understand what I am saying. What it truly is,
00:47:58.660
is that it wasn't just an open primary or a brokered convention. There was disrespect to her
00:48:03.020
as well. It was discounting her and her position and who she was. That's what I, that's what it felt
00:48:08.400
like. This is a very unique thing that I don't think anyone would understand unless you walked
00:48:12.860
in our bodies and lived our lives. My feeling was not about her not being qualified. It was about
00:48:19.300
people not being able to see past her being black and a woman. It's not that confusing for us because
00:48:27.500
we live this life day in and day out. She still hasn't answered the question. And he says,
00:48:34.240
sometimes I worry about losing sight of the fact that we're dealing with a presidential election here
00:48:39.720
and the feelings of Joe Biden are less important than the fate of the country.
00:48:44.480
You're telling me about the feelings of Joe Biden, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But Joe Biden is out
00:48:52.760
of the picture. He's out of the picture. What? And then he says, yeah, he sure is.
00:49:01.640
She says he's out of the picture now and we lost. And he says, this is what you wrote your book about.
00:49:09.560
I am not bringing this up randomly. No, I know. But you just said that to me, right? Right. So I'm
00:49:15.720
just responding to it. He's out of the picture. He stepped down. He's out of the picture. We lost.
00:49:20.880
The book for me is really about the moment that we're in. When I talk about the broken White House
00:49:25.580
in the subtitle, I'm talking about the Trump White House, the Trump White House. What are the
00:49:32.200
Democratic leadership actually doing to beat back and fight back? I'm not here to answer for the
00:49:37.400
Democrat leadership. You've been answering for the Democratic leadership. You were giving me their
00:49:42.760
answers. I didn't talk to anyone in Democratic leadership. I was just trying to remember how
00:49:48.460
I and others felt watching Biden in those weeks, that it felt like he was too old to be president
00:49:52.460
for another four years and too old to win. And here's the thing. Here's the thing. That's your
00:49:57.400
experience. That's the experience you had. End of interview. Wow. Just a masterpiece.
00:50:06.120
Yeah. Can I say my favorite part, though? She was like, yes, you don't understand. We don't
00:50:12.060
support black women enough. And he's like, so you supported Kamala Harris being chosen over Biden.
00:50:16.460
No. You don't understand my lived experience as a black queer woman, which is why I supported
00:50:22.140
Kamala, who decided that she couldn't put Pete Buttigieg on the question on the ticket because
00:50:27.580
he was gay. He's gay. That's right. You can't have a gay. Wow. A black and a woman and a gay.
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It's a no, according to Kamala Harris. Ten of ten content. Ten of ten. Last question. You really.
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OK, so that's how naughty my Stradwick is. But I think he could have understood the interview
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And let's get on with the show before we leave Korean Jean Pierre. I just did want to get this
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in. She had another negative experience because of Ashbrook's rule about how, you know, now that
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you're no longer useful to us, we're, we're not interested in protecting you. And she went over
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to MSNBC where they have hired at least Jordan, who is, she's got a background and on more on the
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right. It's kind of an interesting hire. And she did ask KJP about how she savaged special counsel,
00:58:55.040
Robert Herr, who did the special counsel report on Joe Biden's, uh, having classified documents at
00:59:00.400
home. He was the one with, who said, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. So I can't indict
00:59:05.120
and, you know, you'd think the Democrats would have taken that as the Christmas gift. It was,
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but no, she savaged him from the white house podium, went after him. And at least Jordan wanted
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to know if she had any thoughts on how wrong that was given what's happened. Here's how that went.
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And listen to the whole thing. Stop 20. You said that his commentary was gratuitous,
00:59:25.140
that it was unacceptable and it didn't live in reality. Robert Herr was unemployable. Have you
00:59:30.300
apologized to Robert Herr? I mean, look, what I can say to you is I've seen the, I saw the president
00:59:38.560
every single day. Have you gone back to someone who, he was, he was pretty sharp comments about,
00:59:45.120
and we all saw a different reality in your personal capacity. What I'm saying is, is my reality was
00:59:50.540
this. My reality was somebody that I saw every single day who was sharp. Do you have any regrets
00:59:55.960
at all for anything that you said while you were speaking on behalf of this administration? I woke up
00:59:59.940
every day, very proud to be the white house press secretary. I woke up every day as a, as a black
01:00:08.020
woman who is queer, who had never, no one had ever seen someone like me at that podium standing behind
01:00:14.340
that lectern. It was an honor and a privilege to have that job. Can you guys tell me, you guys tell
01:00:21.980
me as political, political operatives, isn't there some point at which somebody says to her,
01:00:26.640
stop saying that, stop saying that. Only if you care about them. And I don't think she's surrounded
01:00:34.520
by people who do. I think that's fair. I think if someone cared about her, they would have told her
01:00:39.360
years ago, you're not up for this. Why would you put yourself as the spokesperson? You're at the
01:00:45.260
pinnacle of your profession. You're representing the president of the United States. That's the most
01:00:49.420
powerful office you can have on the planet. If someone cared about her, they would have said,
01:00:54.220
you're not built for this. Isn't that sort of a microcosm of the entire problem with the Biden
01:00:59.480
presidency? Like you'd look at KJP. Dude, that's right. In, in no normal world where a person like
01:01:06.880
this end up with this book deal and do this media tour and beclown herself. It is a microcosm of the
01:01:14.100
Biden president. And I ain't over their heads from the, from the jump. I think a lot of it is just the
01:01:19.780
wound they have from Obama passing over. Yes, dude. Um, you're right. Biden. And so it created
01:01:26.900
this cloistered environment, this small, um, network of people who profited. Of course,
01:01:32.360
we've now learned to the tune of eight mil bone if they somehow got across the finish line,
01:01:37.640
but it created this insular and bunker bunker mentality within Biden world where they didn't
01:01:42.760
have inputs from the rest of the normal world. Yeah. And it led them to do a lot of really foolish
01:01:47.420
things and profoundly unqualified. Yeah. It was a wound and it was a chip on their shoulder
01:01:51.380
because this, the entire Biden team is like the Obama fifth and sixth stringers. These were the
01:01:56.120
like benchers of the benchers of the benchers. And so when Obama comes out and humiliates Joe
01:02:02.160
right in front of the white house where he says, it's going to be Hillary. It's not going to be this
01:02:05.720
dude. He's a bit old. We all know this. That's where it started. Yeah. Where like the people who
01:02:10.160
were around Biden, all the like super untalented Obama folks were like, okay, we got to get together.
01:02:15.400
And, and they basically treated that white house as like a get the money and run situation.
01:02:20.360
Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. I think the underlying motivation for an awful lot of these
01:02:23.720
people was not like, what can we do for this country? What can we do for the whole bit that
01:02:28.400
are voting for us that are hoping that they can have a better life as a result of our policies.
01:02:33.100
The underlying motivation is this is my one shot. I'm never going to get a shot like this because
01:02:37.540
we've had democratic administrations for eight long years that looked at me and thought I
01:02:41.760
wouldn't be able to do it. How do I settle a score? Yeah. So now I have a jump seat essentially
01:02:48.380
on this ride that is Joe Biden. And I'll be damned if I'm going to speak truth about what's going on
01:02:54.940
here because that's my ride. Bingo. Yeah. Well, I mean, honestly, like I'm thinking about it because
01:03:00.060
the overemphasis on identity has been going back a long way in the democratic party.
01:03:05.800
Yeah. What what what real qualifications did Barack Obama have to get the nomination and
01:03:12.260
ascend to the presidency? What he'd been a U.S. senator for like two years. Yeah. Prior to that,
01:03:16.580
a short stint in Illinois politics. He gave a good DNC speech. It was the keynote. It was the
01:03:22.640
keynote of the DNC. Yeah. That was it. And Obama was good at oratory. That was the one thing that
01:03:27.740
was real about him. He was good at oratory. He could deliver a speech. Now he's gotten kind of
01:03:31.860
grading. And drum striking weddings. You can't take that from the man. He has the high score.
01:03:36.060
Yeah. It's true. That's true. And then Michelle Obama, who was like elevated to being like the
01:03:41.160
be all end. Oh, my God, Michelle, like what she says is gospel. Why again? Because she had a short
01:03:45.360
stint as a lawyer at like a fine, but like not that great law firm in Chicago. Like, that's it. So
01:03:51.100
now she's like the mother of us all. Now we have to listen to Michelle Obama's every word.
01:03:55.080
Is her podcast still on the air? I think that got like five listeners. Is she still doing it or
01:04:00.380
she threw in the towel? Smug. It's on the air. It gets her clips. It get less than 2000.
01:04:05.260
Yeah. You know what I love about doing Megan's show is like Megan has the receipts. And when she's
01:04:12.020
like, not a great law firm in Chicago. It's fine. It was fine. But there were better. I'm just going
01:04:18.720
to say. And I worked in Chicago for five years as a lawyer. So here's Michelle Obama. This is why
01:04:25.000
she's on my mind. She's now, you know, remember just like literally 10 days ago, she was out there
01:04:30.080
complaining about how famous she is. And she's very annoyed at her fame. I mean, she, she hates
01:04:34.220
going into restaurants and people are always looking at her. So what do you do? You start a
01:04:37.660
podcast, a video, a YouTube show, and also debut a new book all about your quote. Look, it's about
01:04:44.360
her look and her amazing fashion sense. Yeah. Because she hates fame and apparently money too.
01:04:51.320
And tell me if you, yeah, it's called look Michelle Obama. By the way, if you take one look at Michelle
01:04:58.240
Obama on her actual podcast, she has the fashion sense of this pen. I mean, honestly, there's nothing
01:05:04.560
there. Whoever dressed her for that cover did a good job. When she was first lady, she had a couple
01:05:09.560
of moments, but she has a terrible sense of fashion when she's in a real, sorry, it's just true.
01:05:14.860
Most of the time she looks like she's wearing burlap. Um, so she gets out there, she's promoting
01:05:20.220
her new book, the look, and see if you can sense something familiar in this promo. Stop 15.
01:05:27.120
It's the look, my new book. It is here. I am so excited about this project. I can't wait to share
01:05:34.820
it with you all. This book is about so much more than the beautiful pictures. This book talks about
01:05:40.620
the importance of diversity and inclusion, um, and sharing a space. It's about person. I'm out. It's
01:05:47.340
about, um, how what we wear is an armor that suits us up and gets us ready to face the challenges of the
01:05:55.200
day. It feels like this is the thing that offends me so much about what we just watched, uh, from
01:06:04.180
Michelle Obama. And then also KJP's commentary about how she felt unseen as a black woman.
01:06:10.900
It feels like we're being gaslit. Yep. You know, as an elder millennial, you know, I remember a time
01:06:17.080
where Oprah was the most popular woman in all of America. And Beyonce is like the number one selling.
01:06:24.040
Yeah. Like, like I, I, I don't think black women are unseen in America.
01:06:28.640
Well, we grew up in an era where our heroes were all black men and women. They just were,
01:06:36.560
right? Michael Jordan. I mean, like all the athletes, all the singer, all the performer,
01:06:41.520
all the, all the heroes of my growing up were all black. And all of a sudden now we've entered a
01:06:49.260
stage where they have to like code speak about what it is that they are seeking to communicate.
01:06:56.140
And especially black women. I just don't, you don't hear black men doing this. I mean,
01:07:01.440
maybe there are occasionally, but it's mostly black women who are just dying to hit you with
01:07:08.300
their identity. Like I got multiple, what do they call it? Intersectional, right? You know,
01:07:11.980
if you can add in the queer for good measure, so much the better, but like obsessing around it.
01:07:15.680
Go ahead, Smug. I think that actually bothered a lot of black men who did notice that because you
01:07:20.180
saw in 2024, a lot of them then went and voted for Trump. I think Americans by and large are sick
01:07:26.780
of this. And especially when it comes to Michelle Obama, I don't think she gets enough
01:07:29.940
flack for when she had that line. She was like, every day I wake up in a house built by slaves.
01:07:35.360
It's like every day you wake up in the white house. That's the pinnacle of the planet. Yeah.
01:07:41.840
Congratulations. Now you get to have Netflix deals and book deals. And you get to talk about how
01:07:46.820
my book is about space and it's the look. It's like how much of this, like, uh, uh, you know,
01:07:55.240
progressive language is like, you know, those cardboard books for baby where it's like, baby
01:08:00.520
wakes up. You are in your space. You are a little baby. These like very simple sentences.
01:08:08.400
Seriously. It's like the books they're reading to Joe Biden.
01:08:12.100
Of course she's got to tout the identity. It's just like the through line. All right. I'm going back
01:08:16.360
on the subject of lying liars who lie, uh, mostly Democrats. And that brings me to Zoran Mamdani
01:08:22.540
and the disgusting lie he appears to have told about his aunt. There's so many disgusting things
01:08:30.200
about this clip. That's kind of the least disgusting thing, but it is a lie. Here he is. Also part of
01:08:36.080
the lie was his fake crying. Where's the tear? Show me the tear. Any man who's actually crying
01:08:42.980
and like choking up, like can't get through the sentence would have an actual tear because like
01:08:48.780
it would have to be that level for him to actually be choked up and like stopping a speech. There's
01:08:53.520
not a tear. He's actually faking. He's acting and it's despicable. Here it is. Sot four.
01:09:00.160
I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York city.
01:09:02.820
See, he looks down. Can't see it. Don't look at his eyes.
01:09:18.560
Who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
01:09:23.520
She did not feel safe in her hijab. All right. It's, it's insane. Everybody wearing blue jeans
01:09:33.240
on the subway didn't feel safe after September 11th. There's nothing special about this Ugandan
01:09:38.500
who's running for mayor of New York. He's lying. Well, also like, there's no aunt. Okay. First of
01:09:44.980
all, there is no aunt. There's one actual aunt who is dead and she lives in a totally different
01:09:50.520
country. Then there was a cousin. There was a cousin who I guess now he's saying, oh,
01:09:55.220
he misidentified her as an aunt. And it's unclear whether she ever wore a hijab or rode the subway
01:09:59.980
at all. Um, but isn't the real issue here that if you are going to talk about nine 11,
01:10:06.760
you must start no matter who you are, but especially if you want to be the mayor of New York
01:10:13.700
with the nearly 3000 people, Americans who were killed by radical Islamic terrorists that day,
01:10:21.920
that's the issue. Zoran, not your fake invented auntie.
01:10:27.700
That's the thing is this is like the Norm MacDonald. He had that joke. Like, I hope ISIS never blows up
01:10:33.500
nuclear bomb within the United States. Imagine what would happen to the innocent radical Muslims.
01:10:37.020
Like that, this is for someone who's running to be mayor of New York city. And next year is going
01:10:43.540
to be the 25th anniversary of that attack. And all signs point towards it's going to be overseen by
01:10:49.480
Zoran Mamdani, someone who wanted to globalize the Intifada. I think New York is getting what it
01:10:54.640
deserves because this is what these voters have wanted. They wish the city to get worse. They're
01:10:58.700
going to get what they deserve. Last week showed up with the unindicted code conspirator,
01:11:02.340
the 1993 World Trade Center bomb. He's not actually unindicted code conspirator, but the guy did,
01:11:07.400
but the imam did testify for the blind shake at his terrorism trial. The guy bombed the First
01:11:14.680
World Trade Center. Andy McCarthy was the prosecutor. He wrote an article saying we didn't, we actually
01:11:18.840
weren't considering him an unindicted code conspirator, but he was totally supportive of
01:11:22.760
the people who bombed the World Trade Center. And Zoran Mamdani is all arms with him, buddy,
01:11:27.700
buddy, arms around each other, laughing just a couple of weeks ago, calling him a pillar of the
01:11:31.840
community. Another thing. So I saw a statistic where following the events of September 11th
01:11:37.980
across the United States and in New York City, they did polling. The approval rating for Muslim
01:11:43.040
Americans has gone up significantly among conservatives, among liberals across America
01:11:48.680
and in New York City. And all a result of that is you have these left-wing candidates running on how
01:11:54.300
everyone's mean to Muslims, everyone's mean to Muslims, everyone's mean to Muslims.
01:11:58.040
We welcome these people into our country with the promise that this is the land of opportunity,
01:12:04.180
join this nation, be a member of this society, and you can succeed. And what is his, ever since
01:12:11.320
he's come here, what has his stake been? This is a horrible nation and it treats me so badly.
01:12:15.680
Okay. So this is the most fascinating thing I think about, you know, radical leftism and radical Islam
01:12:21.240
and these democratic socialists in America is that you have a lot of these people who come to this
01:12:26.180
country and they blame America as being a country that's oppressive, broken, right? Settler
01:12:32.380
colonialism. Of course they choose to settle in America, right? And then in the United States,
01:12:38.180
they want to sit here and tell us how wrong we are and how much we have to change. That is sort of
01:12:42.520
the fascinating inversion of our values as Americans that some of these people do. And I mean,
01:12:48.140
it's, it's, it's Momdani's dad himself who is an anti-colonialist professor or whatever,
01:12:54.720
who gets paid lots of money to, to be a professor in American universities. It's not,
01:13:00.480
he's not back in Uganda trying to do anti-colonialism. He's here in the United States
01:13:05.280
trying to change America. Think about how whacked that is. Okay. But here's, here's the New York
01:13:10.640
Post points out there was no wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes following 9-11, not in New York or
01:13:16.920
anywhere else. Americans behave themselves with class and dignity and restraint, even though
01:13:23.080
they'd been brutally attacked by these jihadi terrorists. Okay. Like, like his friend who like
01:13:29.220
the, the, the, the friends of his favorite imam who tried to bomb the world trade center the first
01:13:33.960
time and kill thousands of Americans, this pillar of the community. Um, the, the, the post pointing
01:13:38.980
out that the, the anti, the fake anti may have had such fears, but only because activist outfits
01:13:45.220
like the radical council on the American Islamic Islamic relations care. We all know them instantly
01:13:50.380
began warning of rising Islamophobia in the wake of the attacks. So maybe she was spun up by a group
01:13:57.280
Zoran Mamdani loves care, but it wasn't by actual New Yorkers who were the victims, you cretin,
01:14:03.260
not perpetrators. If there was any anti-something bias, it was anti-American hatred by Muslims.
01:14:11.120
Zoran, it wasn't Americans hating Muslims, even though they had great cause to following September
01:14:18.280
11th. Um, and here's just a couple more. Okay. And that you mentioned that the father, okay. The
01:14:22.860
father who was a professor at Columbia, Zoran Mamdani's father, he wrote in his 2004 book,
01:14:29.380
good Muslim, bad Muslim, America, the cold war and the roots of terror quote, we need to recognize
01:14:35.320
the suicide bomber first and foremost as a category of soldier quote, suicide bombing needs to be
01:14:43.060
understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of
01:14:50.860
barbarism. My God, that's the person who raised Zoran Mamdani. This alone is a deal.
01:14:59.360
This man cannot be the mayor of New York city. He cannot be the mayor of New York city vote for
01:15:07.440
Cuomo. I'm sorry. I don't like Andrew Cuomo at all. I've said it every time. I can't stand the man
01:15:13.080
that the nursing homes, the sex pest stuff, the arrogance. I don't care. Zoran Mamdani cannot be
01:15:21.980
our next mayor. Yeah. I think the biggest problem you have is that Mamdani like Gavin Newsom is a
01:15:28.840
perfect embodiment of today's democratic party where they have these extreme radical beliefs that
01:15:34.420
are, uh, you know, even in a left leaning place, probably pretty radically outside the mainstream
01:15:39.960
that would get you elected, but they're shape shifters. And like that clip that you played of
01:15:44.800
Mamdani doing the tear, the fake tear thing. I mean, you put them on a red carpet and give them
01:15:49.480
an Oscar for something like that. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
01:15:54.080
The woman that he's talking about doesn't exist in real life. And he moved to tears over it.
01:16:00.660
That's the thing is none of it exists. This bigotry, this America is a racist, horrific nation.
01:16:05.880
None of that exists. Everything that the left is pushing is an entire lie, but I'm going to disagree
01:16:10.800
with you completely and take the opposite side. Don't support Cuomo. Go for Sliwa. Sure. He's
01:16:16.520
going to lose and Mamdani is going to win, but New York's going to get what they want. They're
01:16:19.820
going to get what they deserve. I hear you. If they get out of control, President Trump can send
01:16:24.560
in the feds. New York has to get a lot worse. The people that have to suffer. They deserve it.
01:16:29.200
We can't have radical Muslims taking over New York City. We cannot have it.
01:16:32.400
That's what all the liberal voters, the Upper West Side is going to line up around the block to vote
01:16:36.620
for Zoran Mandani. They deserve it. And I would just say, you know, this guy who testified,
01:16:41.900
this imam who testified at the Blind Shakes trial, I would remind everyone, especially like the younger
01:16:48.460
listeners of this, that when Ramzi Youssef was put in shackles and he was in a helicopter after he was
01:16:54.640
arrested, he was over the World Trade Center. And what he said was, if I had more explosives, we would
01:17:01.020
have taken down those buildings. And to think now all of these years later that we're going to elect
01:17:07.700
somebody who is a compatriot to these people is such a disgusting thing in New York. I don't think
01:17:15.660
Islamophobia as it's hurled at us is really- It's not a thing.
01:17:21.660
It's not a thing. It's not real. Islamophobia is a made-up term meant to silence critics of Islam.
01:17:28.040
Yeah. Critics of Islam are on to something. Islam is incompatible with Western values.
01:17:34.760
And that's what I'm going to say again and again, New York's getting what it deserves. Those people
01:17:40.880
are going to vote for things to get so bad. They voted for de Blasio again. They had the chance
01:17:44.840
to correct that. And I don't believe it's the job of conservatives or Republicans to save those
01:17:49.060
people from themselves. To be like, well, I guess we got to side with Cuomo. Nope. We've tried so many
01:17:54.260
times in New York. I've ran so many elections there. If the people want to suffer, you have
01:17:58.400
to let them suffer. It's not like there's going to be a point where they realize, wow, things have
01:18:02.280
gotten bad after Zora and I guess we got to vote for Republicans. They will never, ever, the left
01:18:06.680
has never once course corrected and been like, you know what? It was a mistake doing gender surgery on
01:18:12.480
kids. 10 years from now, 20 years from now, when we see that right in front of our eyes, they still
01:18:16.340
will not retreat. They never go back. I hear you.
01:18:18.420
New York City is the gem of the United States. It is our, it's by far the greatest city in the
01:18:26.020
world. It just is. It's one thing to lose Dearborn, Michigan. It's one thing to lose Minneapolis. I'm
01:18:31.520
not happy about those either, but it's quite another to lose New York City to radical Islam. We cannot
01:18:39.140
let it happen. I mean, I don't, I'm there all the time. I'm in the city. My kids are in the city. My
01:18:44.020
family's in the city. I've grown up as a New Yorker. 50 of my years were spent in the state of New
01:18:48.400
York and 17 of them in Manhattan. This cannot fucking happen. This guy can't win. It's one
01:18:54.520
thing to go socialist. I was with you on that. But the more I have seen how radical Zoran Mamdani
01:18:59.940
is on the Muslim thing, the more I, we cannot have it. This guy genuinely scares me. He has to be
01:19:05.860
stopped. And that is why I uttered the words last week. And just again, now that I never ever would
01:19:11.060
think I would or utter, which is I would vote for Cuomo if I were still in the city and I hope people
01:19:15.560
vote for Cuomo. I'd like Sliwa. I like Sliwa. He can't win. He's had a shot. He's down now,
01:19:21.520
according to the latest poll under 10%. And Cuomo actually has had a surge since Eric Adams
01:19:26.500
bailed out there within 10 points of each other with Sliwa in. There's a chance he could stop him
01:19:32.240
and he has to be stopped politically at the ballot box. Megan, can I ask you one question though? And
01:19:38.200
this is the thing that frustrates me about the state of this race. It's like, why wasn't there
01:19:44.120
some patriot, some independent businessman who stepped up and said, I want to do something about
01:19:50.780
this? And nobody did. And that's what's so disheartening is like what our choices, the guy
01:19:56.780
who put grandmas into facilities that got them killed during COVID or Sliwa. And it's just very
01:20:05.420
depressing to me that nobody had the courage to step up and see this for what it was.
01:20:11.420
That age of New York is gone. We remember how tremendous the Bloomberg years were. The city
01:20:16.720
was safe. The trains ran on time. And then what did they do? They're like, this guy, he did stop
01:20:20.900
and frisk. He's a Nazi. And now then they got de Blasio. And now look at where they are. They get what
01:20:27.600
they deserve. It had its chance. They saw responsible leadership and they said, no, they turned on it.
01:20:33.140
This is a radicalized left-wing party. They are going to get what they deserve and they will never
01:20:39.200
You're not wrong. You're not wrong. I just, I still, you know, I'm holding out hope. Those are the
01:20:43.760
things I'm going to be telling myself the day after the election smug if Mamdani wins. But before
01:20:48.740
he's actually done it, I'm on a different page. I do want to say this, okay? I'm so angry about the
01:20:56.780
Because it's the best city on the planet. It's incredible.
01:20:59.320
No. And, but the nerve of him trying to take 9-11 and make it about Islamophobia is so galling.
01:21:05.380
Okay. My team put this together because, you know, I was at Fox News. I started at Fox News. I started
01:21:09.560
in News in 2003 in Washington, DC, which was also hit on 9-11. And I started at Fox in 2004. So three
01:21:16.320
years after 9-11. And a lot of my colleagues like Greg Kelly were over there on tanks reporting as we
01:21:22.600
were, you know, invading and covered so many, so many deaths of American service personnel who went
01:21:30.100
over there and sacrificed everything in these wars. That's what 9-11 is about. What happened
01:21:34.620
that day with the 2,977 people killed and the fire, the firefighters and the cops, especially,
01:21:42.380
but everyone. And then all of the U.S. service personnel who were killed, thousands of them in the
01:21:46.780
years thereafter. He gets up there and wants to make about Islamophobia for a fake aunt. So we pulled
01:21:52.260
this because every year we cover 9-11 and we give it its due because it's personal for a lot of us.
01:21:59.020
And here's just a couple. Okay. What you didn't hear from Zoram Mamdani was anything about Kevin
01:22:05.860
Cosgrove. I'm going to play you a soundbite from Kevin Cosgrove. He was 46 years old. He was from
01:22:12.860
Long Island, West Islip. He was a husband. He was a father of three. His oldest son was 12 and he had
01:22:18.600
two others as well. He was a vice president at Aon Corporation. He was on the 105th floor of the
01:22:23.900
South Tower. He called 9-1-1 to try to get help for himself and his trapped colleagues.
01:22:28.860
And we've got the soundbite. Let's take a listen to it.
01:22:33.340
We're on the top. Smoke rises too. We're on the floor. We're in the window.
01:23:02.860
I can barely breathe now. We're not ready to die.
01:23:14.600
That is what happened when Kevin Cosgrove was killed on 9-11, 2001. That day
01:23:31.600
is about him. It's about the others who perished in the most unimaginable, painful, horrific way
01:23:37.400
possible due to radical jihadis, radical Islam. It is not about some fake invented aunt. It is not
01:23:45.280
about Islamophobia. And no one can be mayor of New York City who doesn't understand that and prioritize
01:23:57.860
100%. I mean, look, it's a deeply, for those of us who live through it, I mean, I was an intern in
01:24:03.460
Washington, D.C. and my brother's subway stop was World Trade Center. And, you know, for those of you
01:24:11.100
who live through it, you couldn't, you had no cell service. And so our parents knew our two locations
01:24:17.140
and didn't know what the situation was because they couldn't call us and talk to us. But I remember
01:24:23.140
the profound sense of gratitude for the country within hours where I went down to the mall and
01:24:32.900
down by the Capitol. And there were Republicans and Democrats alike that held a vigil where they
01:24:37.860
were singing. And the sense of American solidarity was so real in that we're all in this together.
01:24:46.320
And we're going to confront whatever this is. And we didn't know at the time together as a nation.
01:24:53.520
And we had that opportunity to do it as a fundamental. And I just, it's hard for me
01:25:00.440
having that memory be the, I mean, it's basically the reason I got into politics
01:25:05.280
in the first place. But it's hard for me to fast forward 25 years and see somebody like Zoran
01:25:11.460
Mondani, who's hanging out with people and, and promoting people who wanted and wished that day
01:25:21.580
upon America. And then to see Americans actually go down that path. You know, it was a little
01:25:28.660
concerning to see here about the Michigan problem that Democrats talked about when they, which was the
01:25:34.500
reason why Kamala Harris couldn't define October 7 as a terrorist attack against the state of Israel
01:25:43.000
because they had this huge constituency. It's quite another one, the largest city in America. And like you
01:25:48.600
said, the crown jewel could forget that, that day.
01:25:53.500
He was 10 on 9-11. And I guess he, he's decided he has no obligation to actually study up on what that
01:26:05.640
day was actually like. He talks about in a campaign speech he, he offered back in 2020, what it was like
01:26:12.840
for him as a young boy. And even then in this speech in 2020, he was the victim. Listen to this.
01:26:21.100
Sorry. On 9-11, when my teacher pulled me out of school, pulled me out of class rather, a classmate
01:26:28.320
of mine, myself, and told us that we may get bullied because of what just happened. We didn't
01:26:33.520
understand what had happened. And in fact, we were very lucky to have a teacher as kind and caring as
01:26:38.020
that because most Muslim students did not have that. Yes. It's about the possible, but never actual
01:26:45.600
bullying of Zoran Mamdani and other Muslim children. That didn't happen. We were worried
01:26:52.140
about our loved ones. We were licking our wounds. We were looking for people for months on end. Our
01:26:57.180
firefighters were digging us out in the midst of toxic dust that has killed far more firefighters
01:27:03.620
post 9-11 that were then were killed on 9-11 because they've died of cancers and other horrible
01:27:09.460
illnesses, many of whom are still struggling. Zoran, it's not about you and your fucking imaginary
01:27:15.500
bullying. I have one more I've got to do with you guys or just two more, two more.
01:27:21.340
Melissa Doy, 32 years old from the Bronx. She was an only child. She lived with her mom.
01:27:26.860
She loved dancing. She was in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. The right wing of the
01:27:32.000
aircraft had ripped through the 83rd floor where her office was located. She worked for a financial
01:27:36.940
systems group. She called 9-1-1 and here is part of that exchange.
01:27:43.160
Are they going to be able to get somebody up here?
01:27:47.840
Well, there's no one here yet and the floor is completely engulfed. We're on the floor and
01:27:52.000
we can't breathe. And it's very, very, very hot.
01:28:00.760
It's very hot. We're all the way on the other side of Liberty. And it's very, very hot.
01:28:20.000
We're going to be positive because you've got to help each other get off the floor.
01:28:37.220
She asked the dispatcher to set up a three-way call.
01:28:39.700
That wasn't possible, but the dispatcher did tell her to say whatever she wanted to say.
01:28:44.960
And Melissa said, tell my mom she was the best mother a person could have, that I love
01:28:50.000
her with all my heart and soul, that I will see her in the next world.
01:28:58.640
And then there's this woman, Marcy Borders, known as the woman covered in dust.
01:29:09.380
You can't tell how old she is because she's literally covered in World Trade Center toxic
01:29:17.920
She worked for Bank of America in the North Tower.
01:29:26.380
She got out of the tower just as the South Tower fell.
01:29:30.720
A man pulled her out of the dust cloud, dragged her into the lobby of a nearby building.
01:29:34.440
And that's where Stan Honda, a photographer, captured an image of her completely covered
01:29:43.040
The image became so well-known and so widely distributed that Borders became known as, quote,
01:29:48.240
She said she never recovered from the trauma of the attack.
01:29:50.740
She was frightened of tall buildings and planes.
01:29:56.320
A week later, the news broke about the death of Osama bin Laden.
01:29:58.820
She said that event helped her in returning to sobriety, and she felt able to move on from
01:30:08.500
In 2014, so three years after she got sober, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
01:30:15.820
She believed it was triggered by the toxic dust.
01:30:24.200
Eight children died on 9-11 all aboard the planes.
01:30:27.680
The youngest victim was two and a half years old on flight 175.
01:30:36.200
Their names are etched into the 9-11 memorial along with the phrase, and her unborn child.
01:30:48.180
It's not about his fake aunt, and it's certainly not about Islamophobia.
01:30:52.520
And this man, who doesn't understand that, who hangs out with imams and calls them pillars
01:30:58.580
of the community, who supported the man who tried to bring down the towers the first time,
01:31:11.100
And I'm sorry, but that is why we have to vote Andrew Cuomo.
01:31:14.740
Due respect to Curtis Lewa, he's run a good race, but he didn't get us there in the end.
01:31:19.540
There is no choice but to vote for Andrew Cuomo.
01:31:27.400
Well, I think it's important in this moment to think about that.
01:31:33.140
When you think about 9-11, you think about, like, our firefighters,
01:31:36.740
and the thing that always sticks with me and the Cosgrove thing you played, Megan,
01:31:40.420
you know, I've listened to that audio numerous times.
01:31:45.220
The thing that always sticks with me is the chirping.
01:31:50.480
And everybody here knows what I'm talking about.
01:31:52.980
And that is when those buildings fell, the chirping of all of those people,
01:31:59.320
those firefighters who, instead of running away, ran in and died
01:32:05.060
because they were trying to save other people's lives.
01:32:08.140
And in that rubble, you know, as they're trying to dig people out,
01:32:12.380
you heard the chirping of dozens of these dead firefighters.
01:32:18.140
And to think of all of the police officers who saw that first plane crash into the World Trade Center
01:32:25.840
and ran down to the financial district to figure out how they could help
01:32:31.460
and to think that Mumdani wants to defund the police in New York.
01:32:41.080
Well, the fact that there's any constituency for it all is crazy.
01:32:47.480
I mean, this is why I'm unconflicted about Hamas or Hezbollah
01:32:54.140
I understand a lot of people have a lot of different concerns.
01:32:59.000
People feel different ways about Netanyahu and the war that has ensued
01:33:03.100
that thankfully President Trump has had a leadership position in.
01:33:10.400
It's not a domestic political discussion about whether Dearborn, Michigan,
01:33:16.280
can hold a death to America rally of tens of thousands of people within our borders.
01:33:22.320
And you consider it a political constituency that you have to placate rather than a cancer
01:33:37.640
There were 11 long years that led up to that moment.
01:33:40.520
They had declared war on America for over a decade before they ever had 9-11.
01:33:47.220
9-11 was just the moment that America declared war back.
01:33:51.180
Now, you can make all your arguments about the war on terror and how that was prosecuted
01:33:55.900
and whether or not we got as a country what we were looking for in terms of the retribution
01:34:01.580
and the justice for the people who were killed.
01:34:04.400
But make no mistake, these people want the death to Western civilization, Hamas, Hezbollah,
01:34:18.120
And I just, it shocks me to my core that we are having a very real discussion in today's
01:34:25.600
thing and age, just 25 years removed, where we're in a situation where we've got a guy
01:34:30.620
who's on the terror side, on the terror side of the equation.
01:34:36.700
It's not just, people say, oh, it's just that he's Muslim.
01:34:41.540
But Islam is not consistent with Western values.
01:34:43.640
So, I mean, there is something to look into there.
01:34:50.520
Are we going to be doing five times a day prayer and he's going to bring the tenets of
01:34:53.960
Islam into office, which does not believe in free speech, which does not believe in women's
01:34:58.380
rights, which does not believe in the separation of church and state?
01:35:01.480
Yeah, we actually might have a problem based on that alone.
01:35:04.780
But certainly this guy's embrace of radicalism, that's a total, total deal breaker.
01:35:09.700
But Megan, we're not even a month removed from a huge, like tens of thousands of people
01:35:13.880
marching in New York City celebrating October 7th.
01:35:16.880
And that's the constituency that he's trying to get out and vote for him to become mayor
01:35:24.880
of America's largest city by showing up with people like the imam we just spoke to.
01:35:34.480
And the dad, his own father, who doesn't think that suicide bombers should be stigmatized.
01:35:40.360
Well, and that's the thing is they might dress it up as the banner of resistance, this vague
01:35:47.600
But what it really is, and Megan, back to your whole point, political Islam is the problem.
01:35:53.340
It is Western values and political Islam cannot coexist.
01:36:02.460
But the reality is it's from the river to the sea.
01:36:07.880
It is a philosophy of violence and violence in political Islam is their whole thing.
01:36:24.500
It's literally just reading what you say and what you believe in.
01:36:27.600
But it's also like if you're asking me whether I want Islam taking over American cities and
01:36:34.200
If that makes me phobic of Islam, I don't give a shit.
01:36:46.020
Do not let them shame you out of criticizing the takeover of Islam in American cities by
01:36:56.780
It's reasoned rejection of those principles as totally inconsistent with the foundational
01:37:12.620
I don't want to convert those societies into American ideals either.
01:37:18.420
That was George W. Bush who was trying to change values in the Middle East.
01:37:23.160
We don't want our country changed to look like the Middle East either at all.
01:37:30.200
I mean, it's just like, again, I have a hard time wrapping my head around it, Megan.
01:37:35.120
It's just like having lived through all of that.
01:37:38.340
And I understand there's a lot of water under the bridge in the 25 years about America's
01:37:44.420
And you mentioned, you know, missions that have definitely gone awry from an American interest
01:37:54.420
But this is why this conversation is so important, dude, is like you said, Megan, Mamdani was
01:38:03.420
And so the history of all of this matters, right?
01:38:17.360
Like, it's not, I mean, there is a track record of this with Islamic radical extremism that
01:38:24.540
there are so many people in our country who do not understand.
01:38:27.160
They think they woke up yesterday and suddenly everyone's Islamophobic.
01:38:31.080
And it's like, no, we just looked at the record as it exists.
01:38:35.420
And we're making a determination that this is not compatible with Western values.
01:38:43.560
And it needs to be expressed with a pencil in the voting booth next week.
01:38:50.260
Or we got to end it on a later note because this is a fun one.
01:38:54.300
And it's still about lying liars who lie over on Team Blue.
01:39:02.300
So Gavin Newsom goes on this podcast of two, I think they're former NBA stars.
01:39:07.400
Um, both of whom had rough upbringings, you know, really did have some tough things happen
01:39:14.060
And Gavin Newsom, who is the son of a very well-heeled lawyer who worked for the Getty's,
01:39:20.460
one of the richest families in American history.
01:39:22.380
They're like the Rockefellers, the Astors, um, but directly for the Getty's and was very
01:39:28.780
Ultimately, both of them were, Gavin and his dad by the Getty's is like trying to relate
01:39:33.700
to them, trying to act like he had the same upbringing with, as these guys did.
01:39:43.440
My mom was 19, pregnant and, uh, divorced a few years later with two kids, came from
01:39:48.880
no money and just hustled, you know, worked hard, grinding every single day, two, two
01:40:00.240
And, and so I was out there kind of raising myself, uh, turning on the TV, started, you
01:40:06.720
know, just getting obsessed, you know, sitting there with the, you know, the wonder bread
01:40:11.120
and five stacks of, you know, like the white stack.
01:40:28.300
I had a stack of wonder bread and some macaroni and cheese.
01:40:37.940
This, this picture ran, it's of him with the Getty's with, with two Getty sons or two
01:40:48.760
It's a 1991 photo of Newsom with the Getty children.
01:40:51.280
It was about his first business venture called plump Jack, a winery.
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Look at this hustling, starting a winery with the Getty's.
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Look at the Getty guy on the right with the greased back, long hair and the leather jacket
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The article title was a new generation makes its mark.
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Society kids take up endeavors outside the expected realm.
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The sons of Gordon Getty and justice Bill Newsom.
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And then they go on talking about the subtitle of the picture was children of the rich, children
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Now he's with these two guys who had legitimate difficulties growing up.
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He had to raise himself, you know, when you got just you and the Getty's opening a wine
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shop out on those mean streets of San Francisco.
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He's just like, he's just grinding on these grapes.
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We were talking about this a lot on the Ruthless Rowdy program today.
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We had that picture up and it was like, he's talking to a bunch of former NBA guys is my
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understanding and like the observation is that this guy would lead them to believe that he's
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crossing over Stephon Marbury at the Rucker Park when in actuality he's hanging out with
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Or actually asking someone else to stomp on the wine grapes.
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This one was from, I think his high school years where he's got the, he's got like the
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I'm sure this is how all of you looked in high school too, with your jackets and your
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I'm betting we're going to see that photo again when he runs for president.
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It's going to be run by Zoran Mamdani on his way to getting the nomination for president
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He'll have a birthday to get from Uganda that says he's old enough.
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I'm sure he'll rankle that up and Trump will be the first to call him out for it being
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In any event, it's another faker, another lying liar who lies, unlike the Rufus Variety
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