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Good morning, Recy Colbert.

How are you?

Hey, Boo.

Hey, I'm good.

How are you?

Looking good, Don.

Looking refreshed. Thank you.

After a fabulous night out.

I did have a fabulous night, but look,

it's one of those, even though I feel like refreshed,

whatever you ever had those days where you're out of sorts.

I'm having that day right now.

So I get up, my phone, I was like,

my phone wouldn't open and then I tried,

I did some work on the phone

and then I have a speaker in the shower

and I had to fix that and I had to link it back up.

Then I get downstairs and my iPad didn't work

in my computer and I'm like,

I was ready to start on time and as soon as I'm ready,

I think you heard me on the phone going,

wait a minute, it's saying I need to update

or reinstall. Yeah.

So I'm having one of those days.

I need to get you some Samsung's, Boo.

You all in the Apple family.

Come over here to the Android.

Don't be boozy.

It's not hard to link up to other stuff

when you're in the Android.

No, it's not, it's not.

I've been a long time Samsung girl.

So maybe just mix it up a little bit.

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Yes, a wedding picture.

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Oh, people be knowing.

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(both laughing)

So what I do know is that I needed my Z-biotics last night,

but what I did not know is that,

so you know who Dan Abrams is, right?

Yeah, uh-huh.

Dan Abrams is the legal correspondent for ABC News.

He's also the owner and the founder of Mediaite,

which is a media website.

And Dan Abrams was my office mate at NBC years ago.

Yeah, back in the early 2000s.

Yeah.

And so Dan opened a new restaurant last night

and invited us and there were,

and I invited a bunch of media people.

And so I get there and he tells me,

I didn't tell you,

but one of your favorite people is here.

And I'm like, what?

And then I go, and this guy is sitting in a booth

in the corner and this is who it is.

Put it up there.

Oh, that's me, that's Brian Gumbo.

That is my mentor, Brian Gumbo,

who was the, I call him the original host of the Today Show.

It was Brian and Matt,

and right, you know where we are now.

But Brian, I grew up watching him.

I loved him.

I wanted to be him when I was a kid.

And there was Brian sitting in the corner

with his beautiful wife, Hilary,

and they were with, and so we,

I was like, okay, this is gonna be a great night.

Oh yeah.

And so I ran into my old colleagues over at the CNN,

from the CNN, after I saw Brian, it was Sarah Seidner,

Oh, love her.

Alison Cammarotta, John Berman,

and that's Dan Abrams on the right.

So you guys know Alison, John Berman, Sarah,

and then Dan Abrams is on the right.

And that was at the restaurant.

And then I think there's a picture of me and Sarah.

There she is, I love her.

And then Dan's dad, who is Floyd Abrams was there as well.

And Floyd Abrams is like the number one

First Amendment attorney in the world, I say.

And we joked around and he said,

"Yeah, Dan's getting a lot off of my name, isn't he?"

And I said, "Yes, he is."

So he was there.

I went with my former colleague and I called her my boss.

She said, "I wasn't your boss,

but Alison Gollust, who was there.

Jen Welch was my date.

Alison was Tim's date, my husband's date.

And then we saw, I'm gonna tell you all the people,

we saw Molly Junk Bass was there.

Ben Sherwood, who used to run ABC was there.

A bunch of people, who else was there?

Rob Marciano, who's a weather guy at Good Morning America

for a while and I think he's now at CBS was there.

Lindsey Davis from ABC News was there.

Oh yeah, uh-huh.

It was like a reunion.

Like a who-who.

Kind of a who-who.

I miss Abby Phillip, who was there before.

Oh, okay. And then we got to leave to do our show.

Okay.

And there were some other folks who came a little bit early,

but it was just nice.

So I just wanted to tell you that.

What did you think?

What'd you do last night?

Anything fun?

No, nothing fun, nothing like that.

I mean, I like to go out and have fabulous dinners

and kiss, kiss and hobnob, but no, honey.

I was just at home doing laundry though.

(both laughing)

You got any pictures?

No, like my birthday is next Tuesday

and I'll be in Houston this weekend.

So Clay and I have a show and Friday night

I'll be popping bottles.

Okay, I'll be standing on couches.

I don't smoke hookah, but I will be, you know,

popping bottles on Friday.

Yeah.

You know, I get down a little more, you know,

lit, more little bricks, bringing the sparklers out.

(both laughing)

Someone's saying you got to spill the tea

about all the thing that's going on.

I see you.

And I see what you guys are saying about Abby.

I love Abby.

I just don't like the fighting, you know?

I don't like, you know, I don't like that.

I love her.

I think she's in a tremendous journalist.

I just think that she's, they need a better place for her.

You know what I'm saying?

I hear you.

Yeah, about anyway, love you.

I did a Dan Abram show before

and actually my very first published piece

was in Mediaite.

I wrote it. Oh yeah.

Yeah, it said, every woman has a Chris Dodd.

It was during the 2020 election when he came for Kamala.

And I wrote that and it blew up everywhere.

So I have some ties.

I mean, he probably couldn't pick me out of a lineup,

but I ain't got no problems with Dan Abrams.

Well, we're going to fix that.

We're going to hook that up for you.

Happy early birthday.

Okay.

We'll be celebrating your birthday.

Let us know.

We'll have a Reecey birthday party.

So Reecey, you know why I'm doing this

is because, you know, folks have been telling me

since I went to Black Week on Tuesday to kick it off

and people were, you know, I gave a talk

and they were like, oh my God, you were so inspiring,

but yet also depressing because the world is in a bad place

and you reminded us of what's at stake.

And I asked people yesterday or the day before,

am I depressing you?

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

You know?

People are feeling a heaviness right now.

I mean, even in some of our shows, you know,

we're trying to keep it light and keep it fun

and people are a little more muted.

So I think people have to still recognize

that in this era, in this part of what project 2025

explicitly stated was it was about

traumatizing federal workers.

And I think they're trying to traumatize

our entire country.

So it's not cliche to say that joy is an act of resistance,

whether that is binge watching your favorite TV show

or going out to dinner, fabulous dinner,

or hey, we'll even catch up on some laundry.

Either way, doing things that make you feel productive,

that make you feel joy is much, much needed.

And it's not a betrayal of recognizing the gravity

of the moment that we're in.

To have moments of joy and moments of happiness,

we have to keep having, being centered

and really focused on what matters.

And that's our home and our community and our sales.

Well, that's what, thank you, Rishi.

We needed to hear that.

You always have a, Rishi always has a way

of just putting things into perspective.

And I learned that even more after we had a couple

of cocktails together when we were in DC,

after we did the show together.

That was so fun.

It should just put everything in perspective for me.

And you also, not that you were just,

you helped to boost my morale and maybe my ego a little bit.

When you told me the thing about how I help people,

I just didn't, you said something about extracting talent

or something, I forget, was what you said.

And I was just like, "Oh, Rishi, thank you for saying that.

I needed to hear that."

Yeah, you know what, Don?

You are so humble and so down to earth.

And I think what differentiates you from a lot of people

is somebody of your stature, somebody who's recognizable

because when we walked down the street,

I mean, everybody knew who you were,

but you really do appreciate and amplify talent.

It's not a competition for you.

And it's not something where, you know,

I don't have near the followers that you have.

I have a different style way I came to any kind of,

I don't wanna say notoriety, but attention.

But you've still embraced me so much

and you've really recognized

that I have the economic background,

that I have all of these different things

that I bring to the table.

And so not a lot of people in your position

really pass the mic and really genuinely celebrate people.

And I think that people should know that about you,

that you are such a genuine person.

And anybody who ever tries to say

that you're sticking a mic in front of somebody

to embarrass them or to do,

no, you are really giving voice to the people.

And sometimes that's the man on the street.

And sometimes that's a girl like me, you know,

who cusses and who's a black girl,

who has opinions and all the things.

So Don, I know you're feeling a little out of sorts today,

but I think we can all agree that you deserve

to be celebrated and uplifted because you do so much for us.

Aw, Recy. And we love you, Don.

Thank you.

And I love you too, Recy's always, Recy's like,

I need you today, can you come on?

Can't do it, I got carpool, I got to pick up,

I'm like, to handle your business.

But whenever she can, and then she'll do a makeup,

she'll go, if you need a sidekick for Hot Topics,

I'm here, so thank you, Recy, for always being there.

And thank you for inspiring us.

And that's why I did what I did last night.

I went out because I was exhausted.

I'm like, ah, and then I'm thinking of going to Chicago,

right, so I've got a lot on my mind.

Oh my gosh, yes. Yeah, to cover that.

Yeah. Yeah.

So that's why I did that, because I believe,

I'm with you, I think we need to be in community

with each other.

That's why I did Black Week earlier in the week,

because that sometimes, that's resistance.

Yes, it is. Right, that's survival.

Yeah. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

And we're gonna talk about that this morning,

because, I don't know, I don't know if the person

is in charge, I don't believe the person is in charge

is okay, and I think that's problematic for us,

and we're gonna talk about,

because it was a lot about Jill Biden's cognitive abilities,

but then I watch, I'm an observer,

and I'm a truth teller. Yeah.

And something is not right in Denmark.

So, Risi, I'm gonna discuss,

and then I'll bring you back, we're gonna talk.

So, stand by everyone for Risi.

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So, I started this morning talking with my team,

and we're like, what are we gonna do?

There's a deal possibly between Israel and Gaza,

but does that resonate?

We need to talk about it, what do we do?

There's also the government shutdown,

there's also Donald Trump just acting just erratically.

And as I started thinking about the deal,

and if this deal goes through,

look, whoever brokered, helped in this deal,

deserve a credit, any lives that are saved, I'm all for it.

But sometimes, as they say, as I was thinking about it,

we hear the headlines, we hear Trump out there,

we see all of this, but,

can you guys hear that as an ambulance,

or cop or whatever, but the devil is in the details.

And sometimes, the devil is in the details,

and not just in the details when it's finished,

but in the details before it gets started.

And so, as I was thinking about that in the shower,

one of the reasons I'm late, I started writing something,

and I just wanna tell you,

because I think something is off at the top here.

You can feel that something is off,

the pauses are long, the words don't quite match the moment,

I'm gonna show you some of it,

I show you the evidence after I do this,

the anger comes before the thought, right?

You're like, wait a minute, why is he so angry?

What's going on?

And look, I'm not diagnosing anyone,

but I've been around for a long time,

as I say, old people be knowing,

but when a country starts whispering

about the person steering the ship,

that is a sign that something is happening.

As they say, get out of that water, boy,

my mom used to say, those waves are getting high.

The waves are getting high, and they are.

The government, our government is still shut down right now.

Families are waiting on paychecks right now.

Let's not forget what's happening here.

The hospitals are rationing care,

people are rationing their medication,

and on and on and on.

Families are waiting for paychecks, right?

In the middle of that chaos, soldiers in Chicago,

soldiers in Portland talk of Atlanta next.

And so to me, that's not leadership.

That's a government that's trying to control

what it can't explain.

That's a government that's trying to distract

or distract away from something

that they don't want people to find out about.

They don't want us to uncover.

We need to excavate.

Now, I told you I was considering going to Chicago,

and I spoke to my friend, G.B.,

I'll just tell him that's his initials, George,

and he reminded me of all the connections

I have in Chicago and all the people.

He goes, you know such and such,

she heads the blah, blah, blah now,

and you know this person, he heads this,

and I'm like, yeah, I do know, I knew that.

I was in Chicago for three years.

That was my Obama years.

Do you know, the Lord works in mysterious ways.

The Lord took me to Chicago

to see Barack Obama's rise front and center

from a state senator with holes in his shoes

to become a US senator,

and then run for president when I got to CNN.

And I think I did the first,

one of the first international or national news interviews

with him just sitting in Chicago.

So I spoke to a woman in Chicago,

said, Don, it's strange to look out on my window

and see troops where I used to see neighbors,

and that is the story of America right now.

Power standing where community used to stand,

and while our streets are filled with soldiers,

the president is calling himself a peacemaker right now.

He wants that Nobel Prize.

He's a peacemaker.

A deal, they say, between Israel and Hamas.

An end, at least for now, to the war in Gaza.

That's what they say.

We will see what happens.

I hope it does happen.

And look, if that is real,

if it saves even one life,

even if one mother gets to hold her child again

because of guns that finally go quiet,

I'm all for it.

Whoever helped to make that happen,

as I said, deserves credit.

That's humanity.

That's not politics.

But this morning, as my team and I sat watching

the live pictures coming in,

the stark contrast, we can put them up now.

There's a stark contrast,

and it's startling.

On one feed, okay, put the Israel feed up first.

On one feed, Israel, there were people celebrating.

There were people dancing in the streets.

They were holding signs.

They were waving flags.

Some even wearing masks and effigies, right?

The sign there, we love Trump.

But then on that other feed,

let's take a look at that other feed.

Look at that.

Nothing but rubble as far as the eye can see.

Do you guys see that?

Where beautiful buildings once stood.

Now there is just dust and silence,

maybe the hum of vehicles,

and who knows if there's incoming whatever.

People, shoeless.

Look at those pictures.

Roaming the ruins.

We watched a child lose his wheelchair

as it rolled down the hill right there.

A friend ran after it, caught it, lifted him back in.

Utter devastation.

So I'm not a Middle East expert,

but pictures speak 8,000 words,

and this morning, they said more

than any briefing ever could.

All you have to do is look at the pictures

because behind the headlines and the handshakes,

Gaza is still buried.

55 million metric tons of rubble.

1.9 million displaced Palestinians.

99%, there it is right there.

99% of households are food insecure.

At least 67,000 confirmed deaths.

That's people who are dead.

And a total of 186,000 lives lost

directly or indirectly to war, hunger, or disease.

That's crazy.

Put those back up.

I wanna make sure you get it.

55 million metric tons of rubble.

55 million.

1.9 million displaced Palestinians.

99% of households are food insecure.

At least 67,000 confirmed deaths.

And a total of 186,000 lives lost

directly or indirectly to war, hunger, or disease.

So those aren't stats, they're not statistics.

They are the echoes of humanity.

People who once cooked dinner, taught school,

people who played soccer, they prayed for safety,

all of that is erased.

Look at the pictures.

I don't have to say anything.

I can just sit here and look at that.

So yes, a peace deal sounds good,

but the devil is in the details.

And yeah, I am saying it like you are hearing it

and what you think I'm saying.

Because peace isn't just about stopping bombs,

it's about feeding the living,

it's about rebuilding what's been destroyed.

And it's about making sure no one, not Gaza,

not in Tel Aviv, not in Chicago,

is punished for the sins of the worst actors

who put them there.

Who are the worst actors who put the people of Gaza

in that place where they are?

There are lots of them, including Hamas,

including Israel.

Real peace isn't signed, it is lived.

And this deal leaves millions still buried under rubble

or starving in silence.

If it does, then what we're calling peace

is just a pause between tragedies.

It's just a pause and then there's another tragedy.

There's Jerusalem.

And while we're focused overseas, we might ask ourselves,

where's the peace right here at home

in the United States of America,

the divided States of America?

The government is shut down right now.

The truth being throttled right now, right?

I talked to a lot of people,

they had no idea what's going on in Chicago.

They're like, I'm not seeing it.

Why aren't you seeing it?

I don't know, I watched the news, I don't see it.

It's not coming over on my feet.

The truth is being throttled

and the man behind the curtain looks more lost

with every single headline.

So maybe, maybe it's not just that the devil

is in the details,

maybe it's that we have stopped paying attention to them.

Because the smallest truths, the ones buried in the rubble,

the ones hidden between those two live feeds

that I showed you, they're still whispering to us.

Boy, this is stark contrast, isn't it?

They're asking whether we see them.

We see the people in Israel.

We see the people in Gaza.

They're wondering if we are,

if whether we see them, if we still care,

whether we still remember what being human feels like.

Remember what being human feels like,

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Risi Colbert is back

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So I want to discuss with you what's happening.

And this is what's happening.

This is what we know right now.

Okay.

And we have Risi, there's Risi.

Let me read this and then we can talk about it.

Because this is a breaking news.

President Trump announced last night that the quote

first phase of the plan to end the war in Gaza

has been signed.

It includes a pause in fighting and the release of Israelis.

So hostages, excuse me, and Palestinian prisoners.

The White House says that it expects hostages

to be released on Monday.

48 hostages remain to be returned of whom Israel says

it believes 20 are still alive.

The agreement comes almost two years to the day

after the Hamas, remember it was October 7th.

We're in October 9th now.

After the Hamas led terrorist attacks on Israel

that killed 1200 people, since then more than 67,000 people

had been killed in Gaza.

That's according to the Palestinian health ministry.

And I gave you all of those stats.

And while all of us can be glad that this appears,

appears to be a long war that's potentially over,

we have to reflect on all that has happened

in the last 24 months.

And as I said, 92% of homes in Gaza destroyed,

99% of households are now food insecure,

55 million metric tons of rubble,

1.9 million displaced Palestinians,

67,000 confirmed deaths,

186,000 direct and indirect deaths.

That's a lot, Risi.

Yeah.

What do you say?

Well, I echo what you so eloquently laid out before.

You know, a couple of things also stand out.

According to news reports,

10 Palestinians have been killed and 49 have been injured

in the past 24 hours,

since this ceasefire has been announced.

And so I don't know if this is another thing

like with the Iran-Israel ceasefire,

where like Israel got another bomb off at the last second.

It was like, okay, now we're having a ceasefire,

but the killing needs to stop, the carnage needs to stop.

Another thing that just stood out to me

is the proportionality.

Obviously nobody should have been taken and kidnapped

and held hostage for years.

That goes without saying.

But when you look at it, we're talking about 48 hostages

being returned compared to 1,700 Palestinians

being returned as a part of this deal.

You look at 1,000 people being killed

versus 67,000 people being killed.

Nobody should be killed.

Nobody should be killed at all.

But the comfort that people had

with the massively disproportionate response

to the atrocity that happened on October 7th,

it's very telling.

And I think it's gonna be a stain on our society.

And so we can completely,

nobody gets a Nobel Peace Prize

for anything that's happened here.

This should be a point of shame,

for generations to come.

Nobody should celebrate anything that has happened here.

It is absolutely something worth being relieved by

that hopefully there will not be more carnage,

but this is not cause for a person,

especially somebody like Donald Trump to be celebrated over.

One of the things,

and I've read through the 20 point peace plan.

One of the things that stood out to me,

and I'm gonna read one of the bullet points.

Upon acceptance of this agreement,

full aid will be immediately sent into the Gaza Strip.

At a minimum, aid quantities will be consistent

with what was included in the January 19th, 2025 agreement

regarding humanitarian aid,

including rehabilitation of infrastructure,

water, electricity, sewage,

rehabilitation of hospitals and bakeries,

and entry of necessary equipment

to remove rubble and roads.

Joe Biden was president.

Yes, Joe Biden was president on January 19th.

So what this bullet point tells me is that

for the past almost nine months,

the person who believes that he deserves a peace prize

allowed Israel to violate this agreement from January 19th.

He allowed people to starve for famine to take over,

for more carnage to happen.

So the idea that Donald Trump deserves peace for this deal,

which still it's a high level bullet point,

PDF if you ask me in terms of the details behind it.

Like you said, the devil's in the details

is absolutely absurd.

And it's even more absurd when you think about the terror

that this administration is inflicting on American soil.

When you have ICE agents belting preachers,

pastors in the head with-

Rubber bullets.

With rubber bullets.

When you have agents propelling down the side

of apartment buildings,

like this is some Nino Brown, New Jack city shit.

I mean, this is, we are not living in peace in America.

So I hope that this ceasefire is long lasting.

I hope that Gazans, Palestinians rather get to live

in peace and in the West Bank as well,

that they get to live in peace.

I don't have faith in this administration.

I don't have faith in the world leadership community

because the entire world failed Gaza.

But for the sake of the children that have just dealt

with terror for the past two years,

I really hope that this is true.

Or that this is lasting.

Someone in the comments said,

but I was just gonna talk about on this day in 2009,

Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize.

And that is man, Donald Trump wants that Peace Prize so bad

because he's, the black man got one.

Of course I should get one.

I should have had one.

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded

to the United States president Barack Obama

for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen

international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples

in our region.

Nobel committee announced the award on October 9th, 2009,

setting Obama's promotion of nuclear nonproliferation

and a new climate in international relations

fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out

to the Muslim world.

And so, you know, now the orange man is out saying,

we haven't had peace in the middle East

in hundreds of years.

We haven't, but we don't know if that's,

if this one is gonna last.

I hope it is, but I guess if it's between,

what's happening there,

is it the entire middle East unknown?

Well, also, I mean, listen, if this is,

if it takes Donald Trump getting the Nobel Peace Prize,

Let him have it.

I'm okay with that.

I'm actually okay with that.

If that's genuinely what it takes, I don't give a damn.

You can give him 10 Nobel Peace Prizes.

You can tell he's the greatest Nobel Peace Prize winner ever.

If that's what it takes for the people of Gaza

to no longer be subjected to this carnage.

I don't have a problem with that, but I do think,

and Don, I'm so glad that we have you in this space

as independent media, where the mainstream media is failing,

is parroting Donald Trump's idea that he's thrown out there

that he deserves some sort of Nobel Peace Prize.

Like I said, our state and our cities

are being militarily occupied by this regime

when this administration has given federal agents,

ICE agents, the ability to have lethal force,

they have given people the ability

to kill American citizens.

I think that that's something that the mainstream media

should be pointing out, like, yes, this is great.

If this holds, however, let's also talk about

what's happening in the United States

and what this administration is inflicting,

and for no good reason, no good reason.

You cannot tell me these images are an improvement

over this so-called border invasion.

You can't tell me that's an improvement,

which there was no border invasion.

So I think that the fact that this mainstream media

still refuses to put things in context

and still refuses to recognize the norms

that are being shredded and the autocracy

that we are living under, I call it Trump Crow.

I think it's just a failure of this media

and of recognizing the moment that we're in

and the danger we're facing in this country.

I agree with you.

Look, and you know who else agrees with you?

At least on the first part that you said,

I don't know about what's in the streets

around the country, but John Fetterman does,

for whatever that means, here it is.

Do you think the president deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?

Well, I mean, if this sticks,

I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize

is for ending wars and promoting peace.

And I'm gonna make a direct appeal to the president.

I hope he chooses to provide the Tomahawks

to the Ukrainians too and give them the tools

that they need to push back against Russia.

And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end,

I'll be the Democrat leading the committee

for his Nobel Prize Peace,

for ending both of these terrible wars.

Yeah, we'll see what happens.

Senator--

Okay, so here's the thing for me.

Like you said, do I care if Donald Trump

gets a Peace Prize?

No, if that saves a life, okay, then go for it.

The thing for me is that, why is it even a question?

Why is he out here--

Right.

Campaigning for a Peace Prize?

Why are his people caping and campaigning for a Peace Prize?

It's so beneath the dignity in the office that he holds.

I mean, he has degraded the office and he's, I mean,

he is not a dignified person, he has no shame.

But I just like, why are you out here doing that?

Just maybe if you did the work--

Yeah.

And let it speak for itself.

There you go.

People may say, let's give him a thing,

but he's just not gracious and a buffoon.

Well, I can tell you this,

if a better man tried to throw Ukraine in there,

that ain't happening.

Okay, because many are who is not Putin, okay?

So at the end of the day,

we have not seen Donald Trump be willing

to stand up to Putin.

And so I don't think that he has any interest

in really ending the Ukrainian war.

So if that's the Federman's criteria,

then don't hold your breath, okay?

(laughing)

I mean, seriously.

But mind you, remember Donald Trump said

he was gonna end these wars on day one?

Yes, he did.

Oh, I've been elected.

It might end before I even get sworn in

because people know that I'm coming in.

None of that time.

Go ahead, sorry.

No, I was just saying, that hasn't happened.

He did not end these wars on day one.

The thing for me is he's always drafting off of people.

Like he's trying to, like, you know,

he's drafting off of what Joe Biden did, right?

You said that this was broken.

What he does is he either drafts off of people

or he creates a problem.

And then he pretends that he fixed it.

Yeah, yeah.

Because Netanyahu, as you said, what did he do?

He broke the agreement, right?

He reneged on the agreement.

And then since Donald Trump has been in office,

Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying,

oh, you know, basically saying I can walk him like a dog.

I have him on a string.

I can do whatever.

But now that public sentiment

because of what Netanyahu has done in Gaza,

the overdoing the response, you know,

everyone says Israel has a right to defend itself.

Of course it does, but this was overdone.

This was overkill, pardon the, you know, overkill,

but that's exactly what it was.

And so for him to now come in, as you said,

and say, oh, I want a peace prize for a problem

that you didn't address in the first place,

but now that Netanyahu, the public sentiment has changed,

and Netanyahu wants to be reelected again,

and his polling numbers are down,

and he realizes that he can't do it without you.

Of course, look, he set Donald Trump up for this,

and he is the one who, you know,

he can only blame himself.

He gave him the ammo.

Yeah, I mean, well, this is completely arbitrary.

What is different today or yesterday

than the days and the weeks and the months before?

Nothing.

It's the political sentiment.

I mean, we also have to point out

that there have been more Democrats who've said,

we're not gonna take money from APAC.

We're not going to, you know, turning against,

you know, just this blank check,

and this unlimited power to just inflict war

and carnage on the people of Gaza.

And so the tide is turning,

and so perhaps this is, you know, Netanyahu's trying

to kind of read the room a little bit on this,

but he has not held on these types of things before.

There have been multiple cease fires, you know,

there have been multiple temporary pauses and fights

and all those kinds of things.

And so I think this has been a bipartisan failure.

Don't get me wrong.

But, and that's why I just think that nobody deserves

to do a victory lap here.

Ariese, you know what?

It just reminded me, remember we had these celebrations.

I'm hoping this is another repeat of that.

Remember we had these celebrations,

and I remember I had Rula Jibril on.

They were celebrating and they were like,

this is great, and Donald Trump is the mastermind

behind this, it wasn't Biden.

And they were saying, and then all of a sudden,

B.B. went, I'm not doing that.

And he, and people were celebrating in the streets.

Do you remember that?

I do remember, yes.

And it did not hold.

No, no.

But I hope that it does.

I pray that it does.

Yes, I do, but I'm just saying, we need to be cautious.

Yes. Cautious optimism

is what I'm saying.

And I will give Trump credit if three years from now,

we're not looking at a Trump Tower,

a Trump Hotel, a Trump Resort, or a Jared Kushner.

You're asking for too much. Resort and Hotel.

You're asking for too much.

I know, but I'm just saying,

one of the bullet points was a Trump economic plan

of revival.

Well, they've already had the AI videos of Trump,

you know, resorts and him and B.B.

sitting up there sunbathing,

like anybody wanted to see that.

So, I mean, I think the how matters,

but I don't wanna speak for Palestinians,

but I'm sure that more than anything,

they want to stop living under bombs

flying over their heads every single day.

And so maybe for them, they're like, I don't care.

Just give us a break, you know?

But I don't think that this is a matter of altruism.

I don't think this is a matter of recognizing

the humanity of the Palestinians.

I don't think that this is a matter of enough is enough.

I think that perhaps they have something has happened

where they see an economic opportunity here,

or they see that this is no longer politically

a winning issue for them.

But if that's what it takes to stop the killing,

you know, I think that's too low of a bar,

but what we've seen over the past several years,

I think you have to at least recognize that part

being something worth saying, thank God, you know,

that hopefully this killing will stop.

You know, there's lots of talk during the election

about Joe Biden's alleged cognitive decline.

I see Joe Biden not living his best life.

He's at ball games, he's interacting with people,

he's talking, he looks good to me.

Yeah, he does.

But you know, people don't really discuss

Donald Trump's issues in the way

that they discussed Joe Biden, but Biden's,

but they're starting to,

because there's this governor in the state of Illinois

who is not too happy with Donald Trump right now,

and here is what he is saying.

It appears that Donald Trump,

not only has dementia set in,

but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin,

sending troops into cities,

thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war,

or that indeed there's some sort of internal war

going on in the United States,

is just frankly inane,

and I'm concerned for his health.

The idea that you're gonna go,

suggest that you're gonna arrest people,

or that people don't deserve to be US citizens

when they are,

just because they oppose the president

of the United States,

there is something genuinely wrong with this ban,

and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked.

Woo, strong words from J.B. Pritzker.

J.B. Pritzker, did you hear the first thing he said

was Donald Trump dementia is setting in.

Yeah, it's gonna be a big thing.

And Donald Trump's folks on the right are fighting back,

they're not too happy about it,

we're gonna hear from them,

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Okay, so you heard what JB Pritzker said.

And I mean, some folks are not real happy

that people are saying that.

Here is Jesse Walters.

You can't be a dictator with dementia.

You can't suspend an election

and then forget you suspended an election.

Trump didn't need notecards to know who Hillary Clinton was.

And the guy has the longest memory of anybody.

He remembers every slight, every name, every statistic.

The man is a lot of things.

He does not have dementia.

Okay, Dr. Walters.

(laughing)

How dare you say my president has dementia?

Even though Joe Biden, you know, he did.

He needed a notecard to know who Hillary Clinton was.

I mean, come on, Tim Apple.

Well, first of all, you can actually have dementia

and be a dictator when you have enablers.

Like we asked Mike Johnson

and John Thorne is the Senate Majority Leader.

Whoever even hears from him.

Like, I forget that he's the Senate Majority Leader.

You see Mike Johnson crash in Democratic pressers

with John Thorne.

Like, where is he at?

And so yeah, when you have a flaccid Congress

when you have a subservient subjugated Supreme Court

as opposed to these co-equal branches of government,

then yes, a dementia diaper don

can actually be a dictator of this country.

And we're seeing it play out right now.

We're seeing the dumbest person

to occupy the White House dictating economic policy

that's destructive to tariffs.

They won't release the jobs report because it's so bad.

We're gonna talk about that.

Thank you, cause I wanna talk about that.

He is running this country

by his six sadistic revenge fantasies,

ensuring that Comey was indicted and arraigned.

Even though there was no evidence he has to fire people

to get his sickle fans in there to indict

and to charge people with crimes

that they did not commit.

Meanwhile, his presidency is the only reason

why he's not sitting in jail his damn self.

So yes, do not sit up there and try to say

that Donald Trump's ability to wreak havoc on this country

is some sort of evidence that he does not have dementia

when actually it's evidence of how weak

and how worthless the Republican party is.

Well, you said flaccid Congress, I say impotent.

I mean- There we go.

You know.

So do you know what clock it is?

Everyone does this, but I'm told it's this finger.

So I heard this is clock it and then this is the applause.

Okay, is that what it is?

Clock it and then the pause.

So I need to clock it there and then a pause here.

Clock it and then the pause.

That's what I was talking about.

You know, the key-

Thank you for saying the straight.

(laughing)

And to you, thank you very much.

Well, in the meantime, this is from our friends

over at the Midas Touch.

I love evidence.

Mm-hmm.

And my stupid people, when I wanted to refute it,

they said, "Sir, don't dignify it with a refetto."

Have you been noticing peculiar behavior recently

in someone you know?

Carried ice by rape.

Someone who mixes fiction and reality?

The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man.

Perhaps someone of advanced age you have known for years.

Did you just see Maduro, Venice where,

it's unbelievable Venice where he comes from.

Of course, we all have our goofs.

But consistently odd behavior can be a sign

of frontotemporal dementia,

a degenerative disease of the frontal

and temporal lobes of the brain

that dramatically impairs cognitive function.

And there are some key signs to look out for,

like slurring words.

The failing New York Times by an enormous,

really an enormous.

Struggling to find the correct words is another sign.

The Mueller report I wish covered the oranges,

the oranges, the oranges of the investigation.

You may also notice someone veering

into incoherent ideas detached from reality.

You know what I do if there was a shark,

or you get electrocuted?

I'll take electrocution every single time.

I'm not getting near the shark.

Or an inability to complete simple sentences.

Saudi Arabia and Russia will repeat.

Other notable symptoms include impaired motor function,

such as a wavering limb and decreased balance,

often accompanied by a signature lean

or arched stance.

If someone you know is demonstrating several

or all of these symptoms, they are seriously unwell.

As a matter of safety, they must be relieved

of critical responsibilities and disqualified

from any position of authority.

Remember, frontal temporal dementia

is a degenerative disease.

Cognitive function will never return

and will only deteriorate further.

Don't ignore the signs.

(upbeat music)

I mean, it's kind of serious.

Maybe I shouldn't be laughing, because I don't know.

Yeah, I mean--

Have you forgot about acetaminophen?

How do you say that?

Acetaminophen?

Acetaminophen?

On the one hand, I want to say nurse, the patient is out,

but on the other hand,

I don't want to make light of the fact that,

dementia is a serious, serious condition.

And typically a person of that kind of mental faculty

would be under serious care.

I mean, if he was a pop singer,

he would be under conservatorship right now.

He wouldn't be able to be roaming the country

and sending National Guard into different cities.

He's not well.

And maybe he doesn't have dementia.

Maybe he's just a dumb ass.

Maybe he's just a really rotten person

who just is taking all of this power to the head.

Maybe he just thinks that this is one big reality TV show,

like the Truman Show, and he's like the producer.

And he's like, "What can we get the people going with today?"

I don't know.

I'm not gonna diagnose him, but what I do know

is that he is unfit, he is incompetent,

and he's just downright evil.

I know that's probably harsh to say, but he is.

He's evil and he should not be in this position.

Well, you're right about the Truman Show.

And that's what he does.

I mean, I think that's what he's a master at,

when folks, someone calls it lizard brain.

But I think that's really what he is the master at.

You have to give him that credit.

You do have to give him that credit.

So let's talk about the financials of it all.

But before that, just one more thing,

because this is him talking about Jerome Powell,

and that's how we're gonna get into the numbers.

Here it is at his moment of whatever's going on with him.

He's a terrible, he's a terrible fed-cheer.

I was surprised he was appointed.

I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in

and extended him.

It is my pleasure and my honor

to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell,

to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Biden put him in and renewed him,

but he appointed Jerome Powell.

Anyways, we usually get job numbers today,

and economic numbers.

Where they at?

Where them numbers at?

Where them numbers at?

Here we are, folks.

Here we are, folks.

Look.

(laughing)

Look, people fill in the numbers.

This is one of those things where people actually fill it.

We all know somebody who's been laid off.

We all probably know multiple people who've been laid off.

We've all been called into a conference room at this point

where we've been told that there's a rift happening,

or somebody has lost their job, or something like that.

You know, this hits very close to home

for many Americans, and that's why this data

is not being released.

But Don, I did, my husband,

he has the "Wall Street Journal" subscription,

so he sent me an article.

(laughing)

Me too, I'm sorry, nerd, go ahead.

Okay, look, look, because like the reporting,

you know, you got a tip that had a little bit

on the report, it's on the opinion side,

it's a little cray cray.

But there are other sources

where we can kind of get a picture of the jobs,

of what's happening in the job market.

You know, you have the ADP private labor report,

which has shown real softness,

and actually real problems for months.

It's been showing that private sector jobs

have been shedding for months.

I was on Abby Phillips show,

where I pointed this out a couple months back.

But there are other things,

I'm just gonna read through a couple of things, if I may.

So Bank of America has said,

this is reporting from the "Wall Street Journal,"

that it's seeing signs of rising unemployment

and slowing job growth in its customers' data.

Private equity company, Carlisle Group,

extrapolating from its companies,

is saying that they think that overall job growth slid

in September from an already weak reading in August.

Goldman Sachs says that its labor market tightness

fell last month back to levels seen in 2015.

Mm.

This is one of the toughest landscapes for job seekers.

Now, remember, when Biden Harris was in office,

it was a job seekers market.

Now towards the end, it became a little bit more tough.

It was harder to get a job and things of that nature.

But there was a period of time where it was really,

you know, as employees, we kind of had the leverage here.

Well, now it's the other way around.

And so I think that there is great cause for concern.

And I think it must be said

that this did not have to happen.

A lot of the tightness that we're seeing in the job market

is because of the instability of the federal government

and Donald Trump's erratic policies.

You know, companies are not going to invest in capital

and capital expenditures are not gonna invest

in expanding their workforce

when they don't know what's gonna happen

from one day to the next.

You have the federal government

who does a lot in terms of contracting.

They unilaterally cancel contracts, they cancel grants,

they cancel all kinds of funding.

That funding creates jobs.

It creates jobs in the private sector

and creates jobs with federal contractors.

Well, when this government,

this federal government is snatching back all of this money

from all these agencies to feed ICE,

to feed the Department of Homeland Security

and they have a singular focus on this mass deportation.

If you're focused on mass deportations,

then you're not focused on growing the economy.

We don't have unlimited money.

And so they're taking money,

trying to cut NASA's budget by 50%,

which is something that feeds,

that builds our engineering workforce,

that builds our business workforce

and all of the things that go around that.

To give ICE agents $50,000 bonuses,

then that's why we see this erosion of our economic standing.

People, we can talk about the sexism,

we can talk about the racism

that made people attracted to Trump,

but beyond everything,

people had jobs in the Biden-Harris administration.

What people were unsatisfied with

was inflation and affordability.

Two things that have gotten worse under Donald Trump

because of Donald Trump's policies.

Not because, oh, you know,

these macroeconomic global factors,

he is the singular biggest wrecking ball

to the global economy,

and that's what we're seeing play out in these numbers.

And this government shutdown is not helping either.

Oh boy.

We tried to make the folks happy,

or at least not depressed this morning.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I know.

Well, if you got a job, you should be happy.

Look, if you got a job, hold on to that job like this.

(laughing)

Clock in all the time, honey.

Okay, don't take them one hour lunch breaks.

If your lunch break's supposed to be 32 minutes, okay?

You better be on your piece of cues

because it is rough out here.

But be grateful if you have a job.

Well, we're joking, but I mean, it's true.

The numbers you're saying, obviously that's true,

but if you listen to some of the folks,

if you listen to Donald Trump and the administration,

like the economy is the biggest, the best, whatever,

and that's not necessarily so.

And even if what, let's just say his numbers are accurate,

people would be at least given an aside

or questioning them because the man just lies so much.

Yeah. He just lies.

Well, if you look at who their lens is towards,

it's towards billionaires.

Their lens is not towards the everyday working person

whose healthcare premiums are about to skyrocket,

who they are ripping off every time we turn around.

Their lens is towards their billionaires.

So yeah, when you have tech billionaires

coming and kissing his ass at the White House

and saying, thank you, President Trump, for having us here.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

And you have different businesses

that are capitulating to him,

giving them equity stakes and equity.

Then yeah, in his view, all things are good.

The stock market is irrational at this point,

as strong as it is, given the fact that the economy

is in such shambles, but that's another example

where people, there's always been a disconnect

between the stock market

and what people are actually experiencing.

And so it doesn't surprise me that his cabinet

full of unqualified people or billionaires

thinks that everything is great

because they have no problem

with what they've called short-term pain.

If that means that their pals get richer,

that's why they build out a billionaire pal

when it comes to giving Argentina $20 billion.

But they wanna say that they don't have money

or that the ACA Obamacare subsidies are too expensive

when that's 30 something billion.

So it's who they care about.

When they say that things are well,

it reveals who they care about.

And it ain't everybody who's out there

scratching and surviving, clocking in,

and trying to make ends meet.

Well, we have an update on what's happening

with the Epstein investigation and the government shutdown,

but I'm gonna save those for later, okay?

Because I wanna just keep focused

on what we're talking about right now.

And so let me give you some pictures.

Let's take you back if we can to Gaza

so that you guys can see what's happening.

Look, we hope that there is a ceasefire or peace deal,

but this is beautiful seaside.

You can see the ocean right up there in the top left

where it says, you know, live Gaza, just beautiful ocean.

I just noticed the ocean right there, wow.

Yeah. Oh my gosh, yeah.

And so this is a beautiful seaside,

what was once a beautiful seaside town,

and now it's like homeless.

It looks like a homeless encampment

with just tents everywhere.

It's unbelievable.

So the devil's in the details.

We'll see what happens.

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Hi, gorgeous, she's got her sunglasses on,

and she's wearing, that elimination shirt is great.

It's so cute, I like it. Thank you.

Thank you, beautiful, I hope that's her backyard.

I don't know if it's her backyard or a park

or whatever, somewhere where she lives,

that's a gorgeous, gorgeous back drawer.

Thank you, Sally.

All right, there you go, Recy, and look, Recy.

Okay, okay, yeah, you had a little bit, yeah.

Okay, there we go, here we are inside,

here we are inside, here we are inside.

That's how you do it, Don't be shy with the fan.

I'm on fan timeout because I was getting,

I was rippling too many fans, so I said, oh shit.

Really? Yeah.

On the dance floor? Yeah, I was at a concert

and I almost got into a situation.

Actually, my husband almost got into a situation.

Really, what happened?

Well, because you know, look, I was feeling it,

I was whacking my fan,

and somebody didn't really appreciate it, and so--

You could, someone said.

Look, Don is hip, okay, you know,

this all about the fans right now,

so I said, you know, I'm on timeout.

How is a fan gay?

How's a fan gay?

(laughing) Look, you cool as a fan, ain't that,

remember that you cool as a fan?

I know, I do.

Am I aging myself with that little,

then I said, "Tip?"

Yes, you are.

All right, Reecey, don't be getting in confrontations, okay?

No, no, look, I'm chilling,

I put my fan on timeout at certain venues,

but I still got my fans now, don't trip.

I still got them, okay.

Was it a Karen thing?

No, it was a black man, he just, you know,

but his problem was he was shorter than me, see, I'm tall.

People don't realize how tall I am,

I always get that, like, oh my God, you're so tall.

So between my fans--

You don't have to be white to be a Karen,

I'm just saying.

That's true, that is true, that is true,

but he didn't appreciate my fan action.

Now, look, but you know what, I'm okay

because I'm not a butthole,

I wasn't trying to be a butthole,

so I said, "You know what, you on timeout."

Because for my husband's sake and for my sake,

I'm a chill on the fan, but I still have my fans, okay?

And I still bring them out from time to time.

Thank you, Reecey.

What can I say?

Yeah, we need to find out about everything

you need to tell us.

Before you kick me off, I will say,

listen, on Instagram, I am at 97,000 followers.

And that's, yeah, I mean, one video I did

went did massive numbers,

and so I've gotten a lot of followers,

but for my birthday--

We need to get you to 100.

We need to get you to 100.

Yeah, for my birthday, I would really, really,

really love to hit 100K.

And I'm ashamed to ask for followers, okay?

And so if you are not following me on social media,

it's Reecey Cobert on all socials.

If y'all look, share a video, you know,

with people who enjoy "Custin" and let the people know,

I'm a post a clip from this show, Dawn.

And so just follow me,

and I'll caution you not to hit the follow button, okay?

Just follow me on Instagram,

so I can get to 100K for my birthday, okay?

Thank you.

Get Reecey to 100K, y'all.

Yes.

Yes, okay, Reecey, where else can we find you?

And do you have a show somewhere coming up?

Well, yes, so I will be in Houston.

Clay Kane, he's also a friend of the Dawn Lemon Show.

We will both be live in Houston this Saturday, October 11th.

Clay and Reecey, live.eventbrite.com.

It's a good time.

It's interactive.

It's not like, for people who are like,

"Oh, I'm so depressed," then come to our show.

We will definitely lift your spirits.

So that's clayandreeceylive.eventbrite.com.

My show, the Reecey Carboard Show,

is Saturdays on SiriusXM Urban View.

I have people who call in and say,

"Oh, I found you from Lemon Nation, from Dawn Lemon Show."

So shout out to the Lemonheads, Lemon Legends.

I know you got different.

You got a whole posse of people.

So we love Lemon Nation on SiriusXM Urban View.

That Saturday, it's live.

It's a call-in show from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern.

And then I'm Reecey Carboard on all socials,

including YouTube.

My YouTube is now Reecey Carboard, so check me out.

Okay, Reecey Carboard.

Make sure you check Reecey Carboard out.

And thank you for joining us.

Oh, wait, one more thing.

What else you got, Reecey?

This is my game.

Am I tripping?

It is a fun party game.

It's like the black M-I-V-F.

But you ain't gotta be black to play it.

It has two sides.

One side is trivia.

So it's like famous scenarios from like black TV shows,

black movies, black music.

And then, so you guess what it is for points.

You can play for points.

And then you just debate who's tripping in the scenario.

And then the other side is like everyday scenarios.

Like I don't tip more than $5, you know,

when I do takeout or, you know, stuff like that.

So it gets the people going.

My first edition sold out.

This is my second edition.

And you can get it on amitrippin.com.

This house will be a game.com.

Okay. I'm an entrepreneur.

I do all things.

We're talking about, am I tripping?

I want to play something for you.

Yeah.

Andy, how long does it take you to get up an Instagram?

Can you do that for me?

Sure.

Because this is amitrippin right here.

Cause she was definitely tripping.

Hold on one second.

Yeah, let's do it.

She was definitely tripping.

You reminded me of it.

Cause it was, and especially since you said

it's the black, am I the A-hole game?

And so let me know.

I don't know if you saw this, but when I saw this,

I was like, no way.

This did not happen.

This did not happen.

And she was poor thing, but yeah.

Anyways, what's on your, what's on your card game?

And where do you get it?

On Amazon?

It's on amitrippingame.com.

Amazon take too much money, honey.

So I'm like, y'all got to go to my website again.

Am I tripping? Okay, are you ready?

Oh, I saw this, yes.

G.

There's a G.

I like to try to solve the puzzle.

Okay.

Barry Washington.

No, that's not right.

Kerry Washington.

Yeah, Kerry Washington.

Damn. Right there. Terry Washington.

Yeah.

W at the end of the tour.

I want to do this one. And let me be the one for another, my son was picking up on me. (laughs) The feeling of trying to do this is so... Ah, sorry, sorry. The thing is, I feel like Wow, that is 100% tripping.

I'm sorry sister girl.

She tried to come out and talk about it was

Barry Washington, some famous.

(laughing)

I'm like if it had said Gordy, maybe Barry Gordy,

but I mean Barry.

(laughing)

She had to reach way back in the archives

to come up with Barry Washington.

You don't know Olivia Pope.

You don't know what was the other one.

The dance, what was the little dance movie

that she had with Julia Stiles?

I was like, oh, you got, no, not you got there.

Anyway, but she's got a lot of,

Kerry Washington is what I would think a household name.

If the white man know Kerry Washington,

then sister you need to know Kerry Washington.

But Barry, I mean, I might've thought Jerry.

(laughing)

Jerry, who's Jerry Washington?

I'm just saying Jerry is more,

like it's more of a name than Barry.

Yeah, because Barry is usually B-A-R-R-Y, not B-E.

Yeah, but I think Barry Gordy is B-E.

That's true, Barry Gordy, Barry Gordy will work.

Barry Gordy will work, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, Barry Gordy is B-E-R-R-Y, yeah.

You got to know Kerry says, you got to.

She now, Jamil Hill posted her explanation

and she said, oh, Barry Washington is some kind of black,

you know, inventor or something.

Girl, even with that being said,

this is will to fortune.

The answer is going to be Kerry Washington.

You got to use context clues.

It's like people on Family Feud, that's that crazy stuff.

You got to know your audience.

It's obviously gonna be Kerry Washington.

She knew she was wrong though.

She went, Barry, as soon as the word left her mouth,

she knew she was wrong.

Well, there is a Barry Washington who said,

lynched for protecting two black girls.

So there is a Barry Washington,

but I mean, come on.

But, but what a fortune is not gonna highlight that.

That's all I'm gonna have.

He's not gonna have that.

That's not gonna be a fortune.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Love you, mean it.

Love you.

Reese Mculbert, everyone will see you.

Check Reese out on SiriusXM.

All right, and the Reese-Culbert show.

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That was funny, Barry Washington.

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