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Excitable crowd. I love it.

And I think I know why you're excited
this week, because it's one week before

the Super Bowl and six days since ICE
killed anybody.

It's getting really chippy out there in
Minnesota.

Boy, everything happens in Minnesota.
Anybody here from Minnesota?

Don't bring that shit here.

Elon Omar, the congresswoman, I have
nothing in common with her politically,

this is horrible.

We cannot allow this to happen. It
happens more and more.

Politicians getting attacked. Luckily,
it wasn't harmful.

When somebody went after her yesterday,
where she was making a speech with a

syringe. Could have been anything in
there.

Turned out it was, you know what it was?

Apple cider vinegar.

The guy was charged with one count of
aggravated assault.

And two counts of disturbing the pH.

No,

look, there are mass protests today all
across the country. Turns out that what

ICE is doing in Minnesota is something
even Trump's babes cannot quite abide

the way.

And Trump, interesting, he once famously
said that he could stay popular if he

shot somebody in the middle of Fifth
Avenue. Maybe.

But not Minnesota.

Minnesota is proving a different case.

And by the way, in this fight between
the two sides, the thugs and the

protesters, the other side blinked this
week.

That's the story. This guy, Gregory
Bovino, you saw this guy, he was the

border... Out.

They got rid of him.

Put in Tom Holman. who is using words
now like we're drawing down.

Okay, good. Let's draw down.

And Tom Holman also met with Governor
Tim Walz, and they said it was cordial,

and they realized that they had a lot in
common at the end of the meeting when

they exchanged brown paper bags full of
money.

I said the politicians.

Another thing that was kind of positive
this week, last week, ICE said, next

we're going into Maine, and they went,
and this week they said, no, we've ended

operations in Maine after nine days of
scouring the state and finding only

people.

But one place ICE is still going to go,
they have not changed on this, the Super

Bowl.

They're going to the Super Bowl. Even
worse, Kristi Noem is going to the Puppy

Bowl.

That's really good.

Not to defend ICE, of course, but if
you're an immigrant and you

can afford the $6 ,000 Super Bowl
ticket, you

actually might be a drug dealer. Yeah,
I'm not going to lie about that.

But look, I'm going to go ahead and call
this a positive week for America

because I feel like the level of lying
that they have done in Minnesota, they

got to a place where even they couldn't
take it. Even the case here of the

second shooting that happened in
Minneapolis, Kristi Noem is now saying

got her information wrong. Okay, the guy
wasn't a terrorist.

He wasn't brandishing a gun.

He wasn't trying to kill law
enforcement.

But she did get the city right.

And, again, this is positive. We're
definitely not going to be invading

Greenland anymore.

If America needs to stretch out, you can
always go to the Melania movie.

And here's some interesting news. Luigi
Mangione fans, we have any Luigi

Mangione fans here?

Right, because street executions...
Street executions are always a K when

cause you like. Yeah.

But, okay, so here's the... The judge
said he will not face the death penalty

now, Luigi Mangione, but he will
reassess in 15 years when he's less hot.

All right, we've got a great... show. We
have Monterey Taylor Greene is back

with us.

And Joe Scarborough. But first up, a
comedian, an actor, the host of the

Greatest Average American Game Show,
premiering February 22nd on ABC and Star

the upcoming film, The Breadwinner.
Please welcome Nate Garbargetti is here.

Thank you very much.

Honest comedian.

Great to meet you. How are you doing?

Yeah, I'm great.

Thank you very much.

First of all, I know you stayed in L .A.
a couple of extra days just to do this.

I so appreciate that. You are America's
hottest comedian.

You're a middle -of -the -country guy.

When you have to stay in L .A., is it
painful or do you like it here? I love

It's great. I mean, it's freezing in
Nashville now, so you guys have got

weather. I get it.

I get it.

Yeah.

All right. Well, one reason I wanted to
have you here is because, you know, I've

been a comedian a very long time. And
one of the great things about us comics

that we are just all over the map. Yeah.
We have one thing in common is that we

make people laugh. We love to do it.

But we're all so different. And you and
I, we could not be more different. Yeah.

Right? Yeah. I mean.

You met your wife at Applebee's.

Yeah.

I don't even have a wife.

You don't have a wife, yeah.

When's the last time you've been to
Applebee's?

Applebee's? Never.

Never been to Applebee's? Why would I
go?

I don't think it existed when I was
poor, and now I'm fucking rich.

You know, there is things we do have in
common. Like, I've heard you grew up in

a Christian household.

You know what? So did I. I was raised
Catholic.

Yeah. Catholic. I think you took a much
harder turn than I did.

Why?

You think Catholic is more hardcore?

No, no. I'm saying, you know, just your
belief of nothing. Oh, I see. Like, you

win.

Well,

nothing to do with Catholicism. I think
Jesus is a wonderful moral philosopher,

and I believe in ethics and lots of
other stuff. We don't have to get into

I'm a big fan as well.

What I love about what's going on with
you now is that you found your lane,

which we all have to do in show
business.

Your show is your game show. I mean,
you've got a movie. You've got a game

You've got a theme park.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we're building it.

It's not there yet, but yeah.

I mean, I've never heard anybody have
that much going on at this point. Well,

I'm just going. No one's saying no.

Yeah, while they're offering it, because
show business is not dependable.

Well, you know, it's interesting,
because when we started, like, where I

in comedy, when you started, like, for
you guys, you had to go to get on TV,

really. It wasn't a path, where now, as
a stand -up comic, and I was able to go

through the whole system, and you start
selling your own tickets, and you start,

like, really doing bigger stuff, and so
there's a path for stand -ups that

wasn't, the past when you started and
when you talk to comics and, uh,

and stuff that, you know, they need to
show you is about getting on sitcoms and

it was about that kind of stuff. And so
for us now, it's like, you know, it's

really opened up to be, you can just be
a standup comedian.

Well, you have to be a good one.

Yes. Well, yes.

People have to like what you're doing
and you have to find that lane. I mean,

mean, you're the most honest too. That's
what's great about it. Cause you find

out in that second, if that was the
worst or not.

You tell a joke and it's immediate.

That's what's been different. I mean,
I'm excited about the movie and the game

show, but it's like to create something
that I have to really wait for the

reaction is kind of weird because I'm so
used to it. You can try a joke tonight.

You can do anything and see if something
works, you know?

Well, it better because we don't re
-tape.

Yeah, yeah.

That's the fun. This is it. Let's just
do it.

I mean, that's...

That's why I have loved so much doing
this show for 23 years, because it's as

it's happening. I don't have to think
about it after, because I can't, because

it's done, because we're home.

And as you say, where everything,
especially these days, is... Can you

sure if that's true? You know,
everything with AI and so forth. And I

both agree stand -up is like that last
pure art form where people want that

authenticity where so much else in their
life is not authentic.

If you can invest in an art form, stand
-up I think is.

I look at stand -up, stand -up is still
a pretty new art form in the way that we

see it today. You know, where like a lot
of the companies, like Carlin.

could be alive.

Like, it's not like he'd be 150.

He would be alive right now. So it's
like, where you see it as now, it's

developing so much, it's going so much
faster. And then with comics, I mean,

yes, it's me talking to this audience.
And it's the only thing you get a lot of

other...

entertainment or stuff like that, you
can be like, well, I don't know what's

going on. Music, you can be like, well,
what's really happening? And when stand

-up is just me to you in its most pure
form, I think it's only going to grow.

But not everybody who gets up there and
the audience is exposed to that person

catches on like you did. It's so funny
that your reputation in a lot of these

projects, the theme park, the movie, the
game show, it's about the average

American. You're just the average guy.

Oh, yeah. Well, plainly not.

I'm the average guy with a theme park, a
movie.

But I'm the greatest at it.

The thing of the show is the greatest
average American. So it's like you just

tried to say.

That's the idea of the game show? No,
the idea, I have a special called the

greatest average American. I would
always joke.

uh, that I'm that. And so then when I
called that special, that was a great

title, which led into me thinking of the
game show and creating that game show.

I just want to create this stuff. I was,
as I came up through this system, it's

like with, I've done all the gigs.

I've done the shows in front of one
person in front of a big arena. Like

kind of hit all the spots.

I look at like doing a game show. Uh,
when I hosted the Emmys to do a movie, I

want to kind of do everything. So I know
how to do everything.

And then I also want to try to help, you
know, I don't think younger artists are

not getting developed properly, and so
they get kind of pushed out too quick.

And a lot of them really need some
developing. Developing helped me a lot

because I was able to kind of sit and
learn how to get better. And you're

sending a lot of younger people. It's
like all about social media. It's all

about getting the watches and the views,
and you're not developing anybody,

which is going to make your system
crumble because you have no one

that can keep and carry it.

Hopefully you can build safe places so
they can go do whatever they want. Then

there'll be clean. I'm not saying be
like me or whatever, but just be an

that can have an act that can work and
work for a very long time.

Okay. Now there's one

more thing we have to get to. Okay.

It may not be that easy for you.

Reading.

Because the first time I saw you, you
were on China Night Live, you did this

routine. I mean, it was riveting because
you talked.

It was all about how, come on, a book?
You really expect me to get through a

whole book? So many words.

A lot of words.

Yeah.

I don't blame you. I blame the country
and society and the educational system.

But, you know, books are actually good.

I mean, look,

I look at them.

I think about it every day.

And I look at books and I go, buddy, I
want to get in there.

And something holds me back. I brought
you a, I'm going to challenge you to

read. I think I could, a lot of reasons
why people don't read, the book doesn't

interest me. I wrote a novel.

Yes. All right.

It's about really funny.

Yeah. Funny on every page. It's about my
early years in stand -up, so it's a

subject that I bet would interest you
very much. Very much interests me. I'm

going to challenge you. I think you can
read this book.

Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you. Will you take the challenge?

Yes. And then I'll come back on and tell
you what. Absolutely.

Or tell me privately or tell me
publicly, but I think you can do it.

Is it like, yeah. It's not that long.
These words look okay.

I don't feel like anything looks too
big.

Picasso.

You're talking about Picasso at some
point.

That's going to go over my head, but
I'll look stuff up. Right.

Yeah.

Just start it. I bet you if you're not,
I get it. You're going to get me

rolling, dude. I'll be a book guy.

Let's not get too. Do you have any blank
pages in here?

That's what I think books are supposed
to have. I think like the beginning of a

chapter. yeah i think it's all maybe
half yeah it's blank yeah so we start

babies okay okay all right all right all
right thank you very much good luck

with all your projects so great to meet
you i'm a fan yeah you're very funny all

right let's see let's see our panel

He is co -host of MSNOW's Morning Show
and author of its daily newsletter, The

Tea, filled by Morning Joe, Joe
Scarborough.

How are you? Good to see you.

And she's a former Republican
congresswoman from Georgia and author of

MTG, Marjorie Taylor Greene is back with
us.

So quickly.

I know.

We made you a star on this show. Now
they love you.

all to you. You do.

And America's changing because of that.
I take all the credit.

All right. So I think the big story this
week is, as I said in the monologue, I

think the Republican base, and you're a
former Republican, you're still a

Republican, but obviously have issues
with the administration, finally found

something that they don't like. I mean,
they certainly threw under the bus a lot

of Republican principles in the last.

Five, ten years. Am I wrong about that?
I mean, small government and debt and

not attacking police. I mean, a $39
trillion debt.

Yeah. Largest deficit ever. Attacking
the Capitol used to be something

Republicans were against.

Feeding up cops. Conceding elections.
All that was okay.

They finally found something with the
second shooting and the guy had a gun.

Right. And Kash Patel said, you cannot
bring a firearm loaded with multiple

magazines to any sort of protest that
you want.

And they said, the fuck we can't.

I think that is the ultimate third rail
for them. I mean, I

remember when they wanted, and maybe
they still do, they take them into

Starbucks. You know, you'd see people,
oh yeah, there's a picture of it. You

know, that's America.

And protests, they did that a lot.

So, I don't know. I mean, the purpose,
when I was a Republican, it was small

government. It was balanced budget.

I co -sponsored that every Congress.

Budget amendment.

Term limit. They didn't listen to you.

Second amendment.

But it was also just the size of
government. We were, you know, we would

these meetings, these caucus meetings,
and we would show up and the most

conservative people would show up. Small
government conservatives would show up.

And then sort of civil libertarian
Democrats would show up and would show

the speaker.

look at each other going, wait, what are
you doing here?

It's one of these things where we sort
of met in the middle, where neither one

of us wanted a police state. We didn't
want big government. We didn't want, you

know, the FBI to be able to have, you
know, warrantless wiretaps. We didn't

to see the sort of things that we've
seen in Minneapolis over the past week.

just shocked that it's taken as long for
the Republican Party, the rank and

file, to be concerned.

about what they've been saying. I mean,
yeah, whether you're talking about guns,

whether you're talking about kicking in
doors of American citizens without a

judicial warrant, that stuff that
Republicans in my day would have

never put up with.

And Marjorie, you look like the person
who had more integrity than the rest of

them. It's amazing the transformation
you went.

Kind of the... Wow.

It's got to be, you know, Liz Cheney 2
.0, you know. I wouldn't say that. No?

No? No?

Neither would Liz, right? Neither would
Liz. No, not a good comparison. But the

Second Amendment, I do want to go on
that because I defended Kyle

defended him, helped raise money for his
legal defense.

And I spoke out publicly on the
situation in Minnesota that people have

right to bear arms, and it shall not be
infringed. And we need to see people on

both sides really agree that that's the
right thing to do.

Well, there is somebody who's running
for Republican governor or Republican in

Minnesota, dropped out of the race.

His name is Chris Medell. I don't know.
He's local. But he said the national

Republicans have made it nearly
impossible for a Republican to win a

election in Minnesota.

I feel like this is the kind of thing
that gets through the politicians. Cuts

through. We're going to lose.

I mean, I find a silver lining in this a
little this week that it does seem like

Trump does sometimes listen to the
politics.

Oh, yeah.

He does.

He has the feel for it. He understands
when he's gone too far. He also

understands when it's time to distract,
when it's time to sort of wag the dog.

But here, he understood they had gone
too far.

And it was one of these issues, and
there are very few issues that actually

through to popular culture.

Because we're obsessed with this stuff
because we talk about it every day. We

live it every day. But, you know, when
you see Charles Barkley talking, you

know, at halftime at a basketball game,
going off about what happened in

Minnesota, when you see other people
doing that that don't usually like

about politics, that want to stay away
from politics, you understand it's

cutting through to popular culture. And
that scares.

any president when they're on the wrong
side of the issue. And in this case,

taking Donald Trump's strongest issue,
immigration, and turn it into one of his

weakest issues because he couldn't just
celebrate securing the southern border,

which I think most Americans support.

As we were talking about before, most
Americans support deporting the really

people there. They do not support street
by street, house by house.

I think it's really interesting.

By the way, that's the first time
anybody has ever cheered for me here.

That's how unpopular this is.

The secure border is fantastic.

I'm friends with Lake and Riley's
mother. And we didn't see a lot of

happening on the left saying that, you
know, Americans shouldn't be killed by

illegal aliens.

And I didn't see Democrats protesting
the Obama administration. And under

President Obama, there were more
deportations than President Trump and

Biden and President Bush.

And so we didn't see protests. They
didn't do it this way.

They didn't do it.

They weren't gentle.

But we didn't see it on television,
though. And I watched Cops was on TV

recently. Have you watched Cops, the
show from the 90s? Oh, my goodness.

That looked like police brutality.

And nobody said anything about that back
then.

You know, the thing is with... You
should watch it.

The thing with Barack Obama was... I'm
still catching up on cheaters. Barack

Obama actually was attacked by
Democratic groups for being the deporter

-chief. They thought he deported too
many people. But what he was able to do

he was able to get states to get people
who were here illegally that were in

jail and get them deported. I mean, so
many of those deportations came.

from people in jail. I think right now,
that's what every state needs to agree

to do. If there's somebody who's here
illegally, if they're in jail, then

cooperate and also send them back home.

Attitude comes from the top down.

People understand what the attitude of
the top guy in office always is. You

don't think he has a good attitude,
Bill? Who?

The top guy.

no and I mean if you saw the

The quotes from this Bongino, whatever
guy is, the one that they just fired.

The guy in the cab. Yeah, these are our
streets.

This is why you have this. This is why
you have this bullying.

That didn't come from Obama, that kind
of attitude.

That's why I showed this picture last
week. We can show it again.

Executions in the streets. This reminded
me of the one from Vietnam in 1968 that

changed hearts and minds. This week,
there's another one. We had a second

shooting. It looks just like this.

That's what people are seeing.

Picture's worth a thousand words. That
didn't happen under Obama.

That's why you've lost including
Malcolm's file.

And that's not the only really thrilling
thing.

A viral video in Maine, Ice Guy's taking
this woman's picture of her

license plate. And she says, why are you
taking my information down?

This is caught on tape, I guess, because
they have the quote. Because we have a

nice little database, and now you're
considered a domestic terrorist.

That is exactly what they do in fascist
governments.

Whenever you're a protester, you're
actually an enemy of the state, and we

arrest you. That's what's going on in
Iran right now.

They arrested Don Lemon.

Somebody went, yes, like, good, I don't
know.

It's not good to arrest him.

Well, I'm going to say he violated the
Faith Act. He went into a church,

disrupted their worship, and then later
in an interview compared them to white

supremacists. That's not journalism.

That's activism.

I had an experience with Don Lemon.

Disrupting a worship service, stopping
people's right to worship God, that is a

violation of the Faith Act.

And under the Biden administration...

Pro -lifers were sent to prison up to 11
years for praying in front of an

abortion clinic. And they were convicted
under the Faith Act.

So I don't think that's journalism.
That's not First Amendment going in and

harassing people in the middle of
church.

And, you know, Don Lemon came to my
office with the Tesla takedown guy that

organized it. And we had to call Capitol
Police. Can we just charge him with not

cool, man?

I'm completely supportive of it. If I
can disagree here, I think the people

went into the church that were the
protesters that went into the church, if

under the Faith Act.

Faith Act. If under the Faith Act.

Faith. Faith, right. Faith.

Oh, faith.

Faith. It's a federal law. Oh, I thought
it was you've got to have faith because

it was about church. Well, the
parishioners, the Christians have faith,

were trying to have church, and Don
Lemon and a bunch of activists came in

harassed them to the point children were
crying. Right, right, right. But what

I'm saying is whatever that act is, if
it is the faith act or the faith act or

the fake act, whatever act it is, I
think the people that went in and

that church, if they want to prosecute
them, then that's certainly their right

to consider that.

If you're Don Lemon and you're going up
to the pastor and you're saying, I'm not

here with them, I'm curious, what are
your thoughts?

Was he aggressive?

He was aggressive.

Was Mike Wallace aggressive?

Were other journalists aggressive in
their days?

Yes, they were. I think there has to be
sort of a differentiation.

between if somebody's going in there and
saying, I'm not with them, can I ask

you some questions? Because you're going
to have in -beds in war. You're going

to have in -beds in protest.

So, yeah, there's no doubt this was
meant to scare other reporters, to scare

other journalists.

And when you have the magistrate...

When you have the magistrate in
Minnesota see the charges and say, well,

bullshit. When you have the chief
justice, the chief federal judge in

look at it and go, well, this is
bullshit.

And then you can't bring these charges.

And so Pam Bondi goes, OK, I'll bring
them myself.

Obviously, that shows it's at the
direction of the administration to

journalists.

I don't think Christians should be
harassed in church, especially by

and reporters. Let's talk about who we
all agree shouldn't be harassed, which

politicians, because Ilhan Omar was
attacked.

I don't think anybody should be. I'm
totally against violence. But it's a

example because you're exactly the
opposite politically as Ilhan Omar.

Right. And I'm not a fan.

I'm not a fan of hers either. Exactly.

Right. It shouldn't matter. And it
happens way more than it ever did. I

could go through the whole list from
Nancy Pelosi's husband to Trump's

assassination. Absolutely.

All it just. What do we do? I mean, are
we like this guy with the syringe?

I'm wondering what is the penalty there?

Yeah. Oh, by the way, she went after
him. It's the only time I've ever liked

her.

I really think that as a country...

Americans need to recognize that the
people from my district that had elected

are going to disagree with the people
from Ilhan Omar's district that elected

her. But as Americans, we should respect
each other. And of course, you're going

to have politicians that you don't agree
with. And as Americans, it's OK for us

to disagree with each other. But it's
not OK to celebrate violence or death

threats or anything like that towards
one another.

I think that's why it's so important
that from the top, I think politicians

to set the example.

A lot of people made fun of Donald Trump
when he had New York's mayor in and

they got along.

I think that's a great thing to show
Americans.

I think it's a great thing when the
president called him Waltz and called

Minneapolis mayor.

They're going to fight tomorrow.

That's not the issue. The issue is that
today.

We can talk about a 37 -year -old
American gunned down in the street, and

say it's time to de -escalate. You know,
when I was in Congress, I was one of

the most conservative members there.
Maxine Waters was one of the most

members there. She would enrage me every
time we were in the Judiciary Committee

together. So what would I do on the
House floor? I'd go over and hug her in

front of the C -SPAN cameras. She'd go,
get away, get away. You're going to

destroy my reputation and my district.

But we did that, and we just sort of set
the example. We disagree on just about

everything. But we get along, and we
understand just what you said.

People in her district are not asking
her to do the same thing that people in

district in Northwest Florida were
asking me to do. And even though we

that's the greatness of America. We
disagree, we come together, we

and we figure out how to steer this.

Ship a state forward.

All right. Well, speaking of...

Speaking of come together,

how many of you are on Tinder?

Uh -huh.

I walked right in. I led you right into
that.

I led you right into it.

I'm only asking because we like to keep
people up on the latest trends. This is

a big trend.

Apparently, you're all on Grindr. But on
Tinder... I'm joking. I'm joking.

On Tinder now, I read about this hot
take dating.

I love this. I think this is a great
idea.

And the idea is, as opposed to what we
usually do on a first date, which is be

on our best behavior, be on your worst.

In other words, get it all out on the
table right away because it's going to

come out anyway. Get to the hot topics.
Get to the stuff that's going to be the

deal breakers right away and save
yourselves time.

There you go.

No, I think it's a great idea.

The problem is when it gets to work
behavior, the guys are always worse than

women. I mean, we've got to hold it.
Would you like to hear some of these

exchanges?

For example, the woman says, these are
all real. I used to be an exotic dancer.

Okay, so you come clean right away.
That's a good thing to know.

And then he said, my nickname on Epstein
Island was the freak.

It's just hard for the guy not to be
worth.

She comes clean. I used to be fat, but I
just lost 28 pounds on Ozempic. Great

admission.

And he says, I just lost 28 pounds on
methamphetamine.

In order to start my car, she says, I
have to blow into a

breathalyzer.

And he says, in order to pay for my car,
I have to blow a guy named Hector.

I'm telling you.

These are real. Yeah, these are real.

The women are trying. Like she said, I
have a tough time with authority. Great

admission. He said, I took a shit on
Nancy Pelosi's dad.

She said, I'm a flifty. I save my money
to go to all her concerts.

He said, I'm a big fan of Kanye, but
only for his political views, not his

music.

She said, I have a prison record. Great
admission.

He said, I have a Kevin Federline
record.

He said, I'm between jobs and can't seem
to find a job that I like. He said, I

was fired as a mall Santa for getting
boners.

He said, my dream is to get on

America's Got Talent. He said, my dream
is to get on Catch a Predator.

Since this is the issue that sort of
like split you with the Republican

I'm talking about the Epstein files, and
they released today three million. I

don't get this Epstein file thing. I
don't get it either. It's like the

Every few months, I thought we were done
with it a year ago, and then every

couple of months.

I personally thought it was one of the
main tenets of MAGA to release the

Epstein files. Yes, and you were right.
The MAGA people were with you on that.

I mean, and, okay, so.

It just came out today. It was a Friday
news dump.

So we don't have all the information.
There's millions of them and apparently

millions more to go. I mean, Jesus
Christ, why didn't they arrest this guy

ago if they had all this information?

Can I just say this?

That's part of the problem. I remember
in 2015, 2016, we kept asking on the

show, why is this guy not in jail?

Be like, what are you talking about? I
mean, he got a sweetheart deal in

Florida. I mean, he was able to, he
still had the elites around him. The

question is, why do people in authority
keep protecting

all the rich and powerful men that were
around him? And they keep doing it. I'm

just going to give you what I think we
know. Now, there's a lot of scuttlebutt

in here, but some of it says, source
not.

really reputable. This is apparently
just from actual emails. This is just

people caught in lies, which is very
indicative.

Howard Lutnick, he's the Commerce
Secretary, he had said that he cut ties

Epstein around 2005, planned a visit to
Epstein's Island in 2012.

So that suggests to me he was caught in
a lie.

Elon Musk

Had said in 2019, Epstein tried
repeatedly to get me to visit his

declined.

According to the emails from 2012, he's
asked, are you coming by heli,

helicopter that is, to the island?

Probably just to Lula and me. That's his
wife at the time. What day slash night

will be the wildest party on your
island?

Oh, my gosh.

I mean, that's, you know, I've asked
when the wildest party is. It doesn't

we're going to do it.

But I'm just saying. I don't want to
know about that party. But again, we're

saying anything more here than just
caught in a lie. Right. Now, are these

files that were released and then
deleted?

Today. But weren't there some files
released today and then deleted off the

website? There were some based on
reporting that.

involved the president.

And they put those up and then they
deleted them.

I think I voted on a bill not too long
ago that said to release it all.

And then it got filed.

That should matter.

Alright, so I just got to read Richard
Brentz.

This is an email on September 11, 2013.

Obviously the anniversary wasn't on his
mind.

It was really nice seeing you yesterday.

Anytime you're in the area, we'd love to
see you, as long as you bring your

harem.

Oh, my gosh.

He also says, I think if Bill Gates was
willing to say you've been a brilliant

advisor to him, that you flipped up many
years ago by sleeping with a 17 -and -a

-half -year -old woman and were punished
for it, that you've more than learned

your lesson and have done nothing that's
against the law since.

And yes, as a single man, you seem to
have a penchant for women, but there's

nothing wrong with that.

There's a lot wrong with that. I mean,
at best, it's worst.

You know, these women I met, well,
there's over 1 ,200.

There's over 1 ,200 survivors.

And I met with just a small portion of
them, and they told their stories, and

shaking, physically shaking, crying.

And there's so much there. I can't
comprehend why it took such a big fight.

to get this to come out just as the same
way. I don't understand why didn't they

release it all under the Biden
administration?

Why wasn't it released under Trump 1 .0?
Why wasn't it released under President

Obama? And you still don't think you
have an answer?

You still just... It is literally, to
me, one of the most repulsive things.

I think for most Americans, they cannot
understand why this has to be constantly

covered up.

And it's just what you said. It protects
the rich, powerful elites.

And that seems to be what it's all
about.

Well, and it feeds into the belief in my
old district and your district, I think

in most districts across America, that
there's one rule for middle class

Americans and there's another rule for
the rich and the powerful.

And that's whether you're caught with
Epstein, involved with Epstein.

are whether you're cheating on your
taxes or whether, you know, you break

laws, whether you have enough
accountants, whether you have enough

whether you have enough. And in this
case, what's so disturbing is you talk

about the bill you guys passed.

Everybody in Congress voted for it
except for one member, nearly unanimous.

We're about six weeks past the deadline.

where they were required by law.

They've been breaking the law every day,
not releasing these. And we're still,

we still have so many redactions, we
have no idea what's in these files.

So I want to ask you, too, because
you're two Republicans about, or a

Republican, but Republican -adjacent.

It does seem like this is not the only
issue that is cracking apart the

Republicans, because it does seem that
as opposed to a year ago when they were

very united, they had the whole united
government. I mean, they had everything

winded their back in every way. I mean,
all I read about is this infighting. I

mean, there's Tucker Carlson, who's Nazi
curious, shall we say.

No? No.

Well, that's certainly how I would say
that. I mean, he gave a very favorable

interview to somebody who is, I mean, I
think Nick Fuente's guy.

I mean, he's more than Nazi -curious.
He's Nazi -sympathetic.

But that doesn't make Tucker the same as
him. Well, to give a softball

interview? I don't agree with the guy at
all, but I don't think that makes

Tucker that way. I love Tucker Carlson.

Okay, interesting point.

So MAGA to me, MAGA to me meant secure
the border, no more foreign wars, no

regime change. We should care about
grocery prices. We should care about

prices. We should care about the next
generation. We should care about the

national debt, which I think you totally
agree on. And we should release the

Epstein files. We should have government
transparency.

That's what we campaigned on.

And I don't know how in one year's time
MAGA all of a sudden becomes okay with

bombing foreign countries, okay with
regime change. change against releasing

Epstein files.

So that's the split, is there's a lot of
people that voted for what we thought

MAGA was, and then it evolved into
something else. And I don't know what

happened. I agree with all of those
things that the Republican Party has

short on. They both are, though, on the
issue that you're talking about, on anti

-Semitism. After Charlie Kirk's tragic
death, Charlie can kind of hold.

a lot of these groups together because
he knew how to synthesize the groups.

After his tragic assassination, you
know, you look at Turning Point, you

Ben Shapiro going up saying, maybe we
shouldn't be so kind to anti

-Semites. You know, a Jew stands up and
says that. The rest of the conference,

everybody's attacking the Jew, Ben
Shapiro, for saying, maybe we shouldn't.

be, you know, basically putting their
arms around people who are anti

Yeah, they're all over the map. And
there's a massive split there. So if you

look at that, that's a danger. You look
what's happened with Hispanics. Donald

Trump did much better with Hispanics
than any Republican candidate in a long

time. They're upside down, Republicans
with Hispanics, upside down with Asian

Americans, which Republicans are doing
great with. Yeah, they've lost so, young

voters, they've lost so many of the
advantages they had.

Just a year ago. Well, that I
understand. That's easy to say. Why?

Because they go into Home Depot and
harass people who have been here for 10

years and are working here and are
necessary to be here. Okay. But the real

thing is totally different.

Yes. I mean, you have...

You know, you'll understand this as
someone who was accused of being a

conspiracy theorist for a long time. I
mean, Candace Owens is a conspiracy

theorist. I mean, she has crazy ideas,
and a lot of them involve how terrible

the Jews are. And some people defend
that, and some people don't. This is why

always thought it was so stupid to
compare Trump with Hitler.

Trump is not Hitler. This Nick Puente's
prick, he's Hitler.

Trump is von Hindenburg, okay?

If we want to use that analogy.

Trump is the one who said, and I give
him credit for this, he said, we don't

want you.

He adjudicated this recently. He said,
we don't want the NIC. We don't need

them. And he's right about that. That's
where the trouble is in this party.

Is the Candace Owens batting sometimes?

Megyn Kelly is on the wrong side of
this, I think. I don't get why you're

more upset about it. I don't agree with.

putting any type of hate or label on any
people group.

But I think what you're talking about is
it is okay.

to criticize a foreign government the
same way we can criticize our

Yes. No one's arguing that. Of course.
But for me, I don't want to see American

tax dollars go to any foreign government
or foreign war. And that includes

Israel. It's okay to say that. That's
not anti -Semitic.

And I think it's important to...

to be able to say that as an American.
Well, you can say that, though. I mean,

I've been pro -Israeli forever. I mean,
when I was in Congress, people said

anytime you want, like, a key to the,
you know, city of Tel Aviv, you can have

that. It's okay, though, for me to say
that Netanyahu, I think he's been a

disaster. He's been a disaster not only
for the region, he's been a disaster for

the Israelis.

So you can say that.

There's nothing anti -Semitic about
saying that. But what we're talking

when you're talking about Nick Fuentes,
when you're talking about Candace Owen,

when you're talking about a lot of these
fellow travelers in this area, that

needs to be called out. That's what
Ronald Reagan did. That's what William

Buckley did.

That's how they grew the Republican
Party at a time when people liked to

sideline Republicans. They need to do
that again.

All right. We'll leave it there. Thank
you, you two.

A lot of fun. Time for news, everybody.
News.

New Rule, please no one tell the Federal
Government National Weather Service

that their winter storm temperature map
looks a lot like the gay pride flag.

It's embarrassing enough they keep
having to say, watch out for ice.

New Rule, someone else? Ask the makers
of Pampers Prestige, the new high -end

baby diaper with a silk lining.

You do know they're just going to shit
in it, right?

Does everything in America have to have
a high -end version?

If you feel your baby needs to have the
same underwear experience as the royal

family of Lichtenstein,

You've lost the right to bitch about the
price of eggs. That's all.

No, the media has to stop asking the
climber Alex Honnold, who just climbed a

100 -story building with no ropes or
nets, why he still risks death now that

he's married with a wife and kids at
home.

Haven't you answered your own question?

Hmm.

Let's see, what should I do this
weekend? Free solo a skyscraper in

make small talk with the other dads at
Dylan's fourth birthday party?

Yeah, I'm going to take my chances with
the building.

If I fall, at least I won't die on the
inside.

New Rule, quit trying to sex up my
virtual assistant.

Hi, I'm Velma, your virtual assistant.
How can I help you?

Well, hello, Velma.

I'm Bill. Can you help me? I don't know,
can you?

I see you've changed your hair color,
Velma. I like it. See, two minutes in, I

remember why I was pissed at Comcast.

Kanye West has taken out a full -page ad
in the Wall Street Journal apologizing

for his whole, well, just all of it.

He has to tell us why the Wall Street
Journal.

And if his answer is, that's the one
Jews read, right?

Well, we're right back where we started,
aren't we?

And...

And finally, New Rule, as we're now
right in the middle of awards season

Hollywood, how about everybody drop the
politics for a couple of hours and just

enjoy these happy, dopey celebrations of
show business.

You know, I was up for a Golden Globe
this month and...

I'll

put it with the 33 Emmys I lost.

That's a real number. And walking...

And walking in, some reporter asked me
why I wasn't wearing a lapel pin for the

first Minneapolis shooting a couple of
weeks ago. And I said, well, it was a

terrible thing that happened and it
shouldn't have happened. And if they

act like such thugs, it wouldn't have
had to happen. But I don't need to wear

pin about it.

Now, please understand, I had no idea
this question was coming. And so

I'd like to say that if I had the chance
to think about it, my answer would be

exactly the same.

Yes, the same.

Ice thugs pins stupid.

I'm with me on this one.

So no need to keep... No need to keep
sending supporting texts.

Yeah, you know how I hear about whatever
my latest scandal is?

I open my phone and there's a dozen
texts.

I support you.

Great, I assumed you did. About what?

What are we talking about? I'm sorry, I
don't get my gossip from the internet

like most people. I get it old school
from the girls at the nail salon.

I, uh... I'm not a social media
crackhead. I use it strictly to watch

confused by magic tricks and the
occasional video of a cow getting his

stuck in a tree. That's it.

But then I'll be out to dinner, and the
waiter will come over and say, Big fan,

Bill. Stay strong.

About what?

And then when I see what it is, I'm
like, Holy fuck, this is what you people

so worked up about?

According to the internet, what I did
with my comments at the Globes was

scoff, mock, take a dig at, and refuse
to join Golden Globes activism.

Golden Globes activism?

Oh, you mean the activism of fixing a
fucking pin to my suit?

I'm sorry,

it clashed with my keffiyeh.

I hope I didn't... spoil the perfect
record of pins and ribbons solving all

the world's problems.

I mean, you can't name a problem from
guns to AIDS to bullying to breast

that still exists after people wore a
ribbon for it.

Except all of them.

You fucking posers.

Three years ago, everybody was all into
Ukrainian flag.

What happened to that?

Another cause tossed into the junk
drawer with yesterday's joke collar.

Get out of here with your virtue
signaling body ornaments.

They're just crucifixes for liberals.

Because every time I see one, I think,
Jesus Christ.

But, you know, congratulations for
raising awareness, the awareness you

care about, which is how wonderful you
are.

Ricky Gervais once told the award show
crowd, don't use it as a platform to

a political speech.

You're in no position to lecture the
public about anything.

You know nothing about the real world.

And of course, this is where celebrities
say, how dare you? We're citizens with

just as much right to speak out. Agreed.
You absolutely do. I'm just saying,

don't.

It's having the opposite effect of what
you want.

Every big name in show business came out
for Kamala Harris, from Oprah to

Clooney to Beyonce, and she lost every
swing state.

A survey of Ohio voters found Taylor
Swift's endorsement actually had a

impact, with 24 % saying it made them
less enthusiastic about her as a

candidate. Read the room, Democrats.

Celebrities aren't helping, and why
would they?

In a country where the big issue now is
affordability, outside of, I don't know,

Springsteen and a few others,
celebrities don't strike people as

touch. And what their activism mostly
activates is eye rolls.

Because... Because

stars, they're not just like us.

They're just not.

They fly private. They have five houses
all over the world. They give their kids

ridiculous names.

They make candles that smell like

their vagina.

They wear crazy

amounts of jewelry.

They buy castles.

They buy towns. They buy islands.

They have shark tanks. They insure their
pit.

They show up three hours late for their
own concerts and people still go.

Please, it's okay. You're stars.

We like you for who you are.

Insulated divas whose talent allows you
to pig out on the finer things in life

because we all need something to aspire
to.

But being talented, which you are, isn't
the same as knowing things or having

the credibility to advise people on
their politics. You rail against

but you avail yourself of the greatest
privilege of all, to remain clueless.

Dave Chappelle laughed out at me last
month because I called him out for

there was more free speech in Saudi
Arabia than here.

While I was right, what he said was
stupid.

America has many problems, including
free speech issues on both left and

but we're real different than Saudi
Arabia.

If you don't believe me, try opening a
lesbian art gallery there.

Or wearing a T -shirt that says Jesus is
the one true God.

Ricky's right.

Celebrities don't know about the real
world. So Democrats... It's great you

all the big celebs, but people see them
as an arm of the Democratic Party, which

they already suspect for lacking common
sense.

I know the

celebrities mean well, and we thank them

for having their heart in the right
place, but just do you. Do what you do

well. Use your extraordinary talents for
the noble cause of bringing relief.

from the problems that ribbons and pins
can't fix.

I know it's very important to you that
you feel that you're making a

So let me assure you, you are. You're
making independents vote Republican.

All right, that's our show. I want to
thank Joe Scarborough, Marjorie Taylor

Greene, and Nate Pargesi. Club Random,
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