1 00:00:04,490 --> 00:00:05,490 Start the clock. 2 00:00:48,270 --> 00:00:48,949 Thank you, people. 3 00:00:48,950 --> 00:00:49,950 Great to see you. 4 00:00:51,490 --> 00:00:54,730 Thank you so much. I appreciate it. 5 00:00:56,870 --> 00:00:58,590 All right, please. 6 00:00:59,450 --> 00:01:06,330 Thank you so much. I know you're so glad you're in a good 7 00:01:06,330 --> 00:01:10,270 mood. Thank you very much. Thank you. I know why you're happy today. 8 00:01:11,410 --> 00:01:15,290 Because Trump said today we will not be using nuclear weapons in Iran. 9 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,520 I didn't know that was on the table, but okay. 10 00:01:19,740 --> 00:01:20,740 That's great. 11 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:22,720 Oh, 12 00:01:24,220 --> 00:01:27,880 this is a runway. It's gotten a little Groundhog Day, isn't it? It's always 13 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,620 of the same story every week. We're seizing their boats. They're seizing our 14 00:01:31,620 --> 00:01:34,540 boats. It's less like a war and more like a Florida divorce. 15 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:44,220 It's kind of become a war of 16 00:01:44,220 --> 00:01:46,580 you block me. No, I block you. 17 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,940 Straight or hermose, you think you can fuck it up? We could fuck it up. 18 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:58,560 That's our plan now, is to win slowly by destroying their economy. 19 00:01:58,940 --> 00:02:00,060 Hopefully their economy. 20 00:02:07,340 --> 00:02:10,880 Yeah, it was Earth Day this week, but we found out we still use a lot of oil. 21 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,360 Nobody can afford gas. This week, Tiger Woods crashed his bicycle. 22 00:02:24,830 --> 00:02:29,930 Eric Swalwell has been turning off the engine of the car when he gets blown. 23 00:02:31,230 --> 00:02:32,230 Really? 24 00:02:36,310 --> 00:02:39,730 Still some residual affection for Eric Swalwell? Oh, wow. 25 00:02:40,070 --> 00:02:44,930 Okay. But it's not just gas. It turns out everything is made of petroleum 26 00:02:44,930 --> 00:02:47,410 products. Did you see this week? Condoms. 27 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,000 Who knew condoms? Condoms, yes. 28 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,580 They're getting trapped in the Strait of Hormuz. 29 00:02:54,580 --> 00:02:58,480 So, condoms are now very scarce and very expensive. 30 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,840 More bad news from Mike Vrabel. 31 00:03:05,940 --> 00:03:12,640 The condom situation is so serious that we are changing the name from Operation 32 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:14,540 Epic Fury to The Trojan War. 33 00:03:18,030 --> 00:03:24,710 And yet, and yet, lately, Trump on the war has been so chill. 34 00:03:25,150 --> 00:03:27,890 Have you noticed that? I know, it's not like him to veer erratically. 35 00:03:29,730 --> 00:03:32,390 But, you know, a couple of weeks ago, it was, if you don't do what he would say 36 00:03:32,390 --> 00:03:36,930 today, I'm going to destroy your civilization, bomb the shit out of you. 37 00:03:37,330 --> 00:03:40,150 You think your pencils and dolls are expensive. Whoa. 38 00:03:40,710 --> 00:03:43,250 And now it's like, is it really a war? 39 00:03:44,870 --> 00:03:47,450 It's more of a situation, really, I think. 40 00:03:47,850 --> 00:03:51,490 And the problem is, he keeps saying we won, and we didn't. 41 00:03:51,950 --> 00:03:56,070 We didn't. Hormuz is not open. The people did not do an uprising. 42 00:03:56,450 --> 00:03:59,510 The regime is still in place. We did not win, sorry. 43 00:03:59,930 --> 00:04:04,530 And in social media, he keeps rubbing their noses in the victory we don't 44 00:04:05,930 --> 00:04:12,870 Every day... Every day, he bleeps out 45 00:04:12,870 --> 00:04:16,250 stuff that's inflammatory and contradictory, all these bullshit 46 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,820 I got to say, you can say what you want about his negotiating tactics. One 47 00:04:20,820 --> 00:04:23,600 tactic you can't get him on is the silent treatment. 48 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:36,080 Turns out the one thing we are really good at is killing 49 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:41,880 their leaders who are too stupid to go underground when we're trying to kill 50 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,640 them. That's what we've got. The current Ayatollah, who's the son of the old 51 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,880 Ayatollah, turns out he's very gravely wounded, he was badly burned, can hardly 52 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,380 speak. When he sentences people to death now, he used to do it with a look. 53 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,160 Very sad. 54 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:04,240 Oh, and in the middle of this war, here's big news, 55 00:05:04,580 --> 00:05:06,660 Pete Hegseth fired a white guy. 56 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:15,020 Yeah, the Secretary of the Navy. And, wow, this guy must have done some bad 57 00:05:15,020 --> 00:05:17,840 shit. That doesn't happen a lot with Pete Hegseth. 58 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:22,240 But it was either a war crime or, knowing that administration, there was a 59 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,500 picture of him with huge fake balloon tits. 60 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:28,900 A lot 61 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:35,800 of talk this week about drinking in the Trump administration, 62 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,320 which is ironic because Trump is a complete teetotaler, but, you know, Pete 63 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,870 Hegseth? There were some rumors about him. 64 00:05:43,930 --> 00:05:47,530 Head of the FBI, Kash Patel. He is suing the Atlantic. 65 00:05:47,930 --> 00:05:52,130 He denies it, but they wrote an article saying he drinks too much. The labor 66 00:05:52,130 --> 00:05:56,370 secretary this week resigned amid allegations that she drinks too much on 67 00:05:56,370 --> 00:06:00,870 job, that she had an affair with her security guy. 68 00:06:03,050 --> 00:06:08,110 and was, you know, going on trips, and I think it's true that she might be a bit 69 00:06:08,110 --> 00:06:09,110 of a party girl. 70 00:06:10,790 --> 00:06:17,630 Well, because she once said, as Labor Secretary, my 71 00:06:17,630 --> 00:06:20,210 first priority is to improve working conditions. 72 00:06:20,830 --> 00:06:23,310 That's an invitation I said. 73 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:25,550 And... 74 00:06:29,130 --> 00:06:32,290 And here's exciting news. The Michael Jackson movie opens today. 75 00:06:39,990 --> 00:06:41,770 Showings are 7, 9, and 11. 76 00:06:42,850 --> 00:06:46,870 Just like the victims. All right. We've got a great show. We have Sarah Isger 77 00:06:46,870 --> 00:06:51,990 and Chris Plummer here. But first up, he's a best -selling author and a U .S. 78 00:06:51,990 --> 00:06:56,390 Army veteran. And he currently serves as the 63rd governor of Maryland, Governor 79 00:06:56,390 --> 00:06:57,390 Wes Moore. 80 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,980 Governor, how are you? Good to see you again. Good to see you again. 81 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:06,880 All right. 82 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:10,680 Look at that. 83 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:13,420 Look at, you're loved here in California. 84 00:07:13,940 --> 00:07:17,880 It's nice out here. You're in California. You're on real time. You 85 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:18,880 running for president. 86 00:07:28,140 --> 00:07:33,120 funny because, you know, the GOP is like historically unpopular now, and yet 87 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:38,060 every week I have people on this show, Josh Shapiro, Alyssa Slotkin, you know, 88 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:42,180 you, Gavin Newsom is here next week, Andy Beshear. No one's running. 89 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:45,100 No one's running. It's going to be a great opportunity. 90 00:07:45,340 --> 00:07:48,780 Maybe I should do it because no one wants to do it. I don't understand. 91 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:51,360 Well, no, listen. 92 00:07:52,220 --> 00:07:57,340 I think I've always said, you know, everybody can do what they want. 93 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,680 But my thing is this, is that my state is under assault right now. 94 00:08:02,220 --> 00:08:07,200 You know, I've had over 31 ,000 people fired in the past year by Donald Trump 95 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,560 and J .D. Vance, federal workers. 96 00:08:09,420 --> 00:08:12,380 That's because a lot of federal workers live in Maryland. Because a lot of them 97 00:08:12,380 --> 00:08:15,120 live in Maryland. The federal government is there. Yeah, and people who have the 98 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,660 audacity of doing things like making sure our food is safe or making sure 99 00:08:18,660 --> 00:08:22,560 our planes are not colliding or giving veterans like myself, making sure they 100 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,640 can get the medication that they need. And those are the people who Donald 101 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,700 Trump... And J .D. Vance went out to first. So my point is this. You know, 102 00:08:29,700 --> 00:08:30,700 battle is now. 103 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:32,480 Our battle is now. 104 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,419 Well, I mean, I do think the midterms are going to be a blowout. I think the 105 00:08:41,419 --> 00:08:44,000 Democrats are going to just clean up. 106 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:48,380 I mean, I guess the question is, how do you think they're going to blow it? 107 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:54,740 I don't think they can blow it. I'm not worried about that. But my point is, 108 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:55,760 what does that mean? 109 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,980 Right. I mean, like, listen, I think it's very important that the Democrats 110 00:08:58,980 --> 00:09:00,540 can win Congress. 111 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,240 But but what then are we going to do? 112 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:09,440 Because we have to be very clear. And I and I take this from a very personal 113 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,940 perspective where I mean, I don't come from a political family. 114 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,800 You know, I come from a family, frankly, who's used to suffering the 115 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:16,740 consequences of policies and not used to making them. 116 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,560 And when you ask many members of my family about bad policies that we've had 117 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:22,660 deal with my entire life. 118 00:09:22,970 --> 00:09:25,450 they couldn't tell you if a Democrat was the author or a Republican was the 119 00:09:25,450 --> 00:09:27,750 author. They just know it was just a stupid policy. 120 00:09:28,230 --> 00:09:32,590 And so I just think that we need to make sure that we have to be able to control 121 00:09:32,590 --> 00:09:36,370 what in many ways is just a completely lawless federal administration right 122 00:09:37,030 --> 00:09:43,670 However, our job just can't be to 123 00:09:43,670 --> 00:09:45,530 now we can put back. 124 00:09:46,490 --> 00:09:49,530 We've actually got to figure out what does put forward actually look like. 125 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,760 What does it mean to actually create a society that people can actually root 126 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,440 for? What does it mean to make sure that you can have child care that people can 127 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,360 afford and making sure that people can get back to the workforce without 128 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,040 wondering, are my kids going to be okay? 129 00:10:01,260 --> 00:10:04,160 What does it mean to make sure that we can have safe streets in our 130 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,620 neighborhoods? So, like, if the goal of all of this in November is to say, yes, 131 00:10:07,660 --> 00:10:12,580 we can now, you know, do subpoenas against the president, then, frankly, I 132 00:10:12,580 --> 00:10:14,440 the American people are going to look at us and say that's not enough. What 133 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:15,980 policies are you talking about? 134 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:17,440 You said I hurt you. 135 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:24,040 This one, I mean, Obamacare, that helped. That didn't hurt, right? 136 00:10:24,140 --> 00:10:29,440 Okay. Medicare, Social Security, I mean, that's going back a ways. But the 1964 137 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:34,360 Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, I mean, even the EPA creation. 138 00:10:34,740 --> 00:10:38,720 I mean, these are policies the government created. Correct. Mostly by 139 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:39,960 not all. 140 00:10:40,340 --> 00:10:41,520 What are you talking about? 141 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,960 So I'm talking about, like, for example, if you look at what we're doing inside 142 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,780 of the state of Maryland, it's just simply saying, are you going to do what 143 00:10:47,780 --> 00:10:48,780 say you're going to do? 144 00:10:48,790 --> 00:10:51,930 So, for example, in my state, when I said we are going to make sure we're 145 00:10:51,930 --> 00:10:56,570 to invest in child care because it is a ridiculous issue of parents that are 146 00:10:56,570 --> 00:10:59,470 trying to figure out, can I go back to the workforce or can I make sure my kids 147 00:10:59,470 --> 00:11:02,210 are going to be okay? And so that's why in Maryland we've made the largest 148 00:11:02,210 --> 00:11:05,190 investments in child care scholarships in the United States of America. 149 00:11:05,590 --> 00:11:11,910 Right? When we said that we're going to invest in housing. 150 00:11:12,540 --> 00:11:16,480 And because housing is too expensive all over this country and in the state of 151 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,760 Maryland. And I said, well, you know what? Who's the largest landowner in the 152 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,640 state of Maryland? Guess what? It's the state of Maryland. 153 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,360 So I said, then you know what? We're going to take a look at all available 154 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,960 -owned land and land that is near transit, near trains, near buses. I want 155 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,860 access to all that land, and we are going to build affordable housing on 156 00:11:33,860 --> 00:11:35,620 land to give more housing for people. 157 00:11:37,670 --> 00:11:41,490 This is about what are we doing to be able to push back, to make sure we're 158 00:11:41,490 --> 00:11:44,510 going out to these corporations and these supermarkets who are price gouging 159 00:11:44,510 --> 00:11:47,550 people when they walk into supermarkets. We made Maryland the first state in the 160 00:11:47,550 --> 00:11:50,790 country that now bans price gouging and price manipulation. 161 00:11:51,030 --> 00:11:54,630 So when you go into a supermarket, they can't use your data against you when you 162 00:11:54,630 --> 00:11:57,910 go to the checkout counter. So you'd rather do that than what they're doing 163 00:11:57,910 --> 00:12:01,670 New York, which is city run. I mean, that's what Mayor, what, I see you 164 00:12:01,930 --> 00:12:04,850 Yeah, no, no, no. And I say good, laugh, because that's ridiculous. 165 00:12:05,170 --> 00:12:06,290 But that's what they're doing. 166 00:12:06,620 --> 00:12:11,180 And, of course, we find out now that the supermarkets that are around the areas 167 00:12:11,180 --> 00:12:14,900 where the city plans to put their supermarket are very pissed off because 168 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:16,740 they're like, well, of course, how are we going to compete? 169 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,520 But, you know, Mayor Mondami, that's extreme socialism. 170 00:12:21,820 --> 00:12:22,820 Some would say communism. 171 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,320 So you're not for that because I feel like the Democratic Party has two wings 172 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,360 now. One would be. 173 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,080 Democratic Socialists. That's the term they use. 174 00:12:31,340 --> 00:12:32,700 Montambi is one. Bernie Sanders. 175 00:12:33,140 --> 00:12:36,480 I mean, there are several others. AOC. Right. And then there's what I would 176 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:37,480 Democratic Classic. 177 00:12:38,060 --> 00:12:39,060 Which are you? 178 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:45,680 Well, I'm going to be very honest. I mean, like when I the Democratic Party 179 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:46,680 didn't choose me. 180 00:12:47,180 --> 00:12:50,240 Right. When I ran for governor, the Democratic Party put millions of dollars 181 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:51,099 try to stop me. 182 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:53,920 It just happened the people of Maryland had a different point of view. And the 183 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,180 people of Maryland made me the governor. But no party boss and no party. 184 00:12:57,610 --> 00:12:58,610 maybe the government. 185 00:12:59,050 --> 00:13:05,970 And I like that because there is no, I honestly believe if you 186 00:13:05,970 --> 00:13:10,930 just swallow a party ideology, you're probably not thinking hard enough. And I 187 00:13:10,930 --> 00:13:16,810 don't care what party. But what I want to do. 188 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,800 But when I talk about what are the things that we've got to make sure we're 189 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:25,000 focusing on when it comes to us, I believe that oftentimes the Democratic 190 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,580 is this, we have to stop being the party of no and slow and start being the 191 00:13:29,580 --> 00:13:30,600 party of yes and now. 192 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,340 Start being the party that actually moves to address with the kind of 193 00:13:34,340 --> 00:13:38,580 that people are requesting. If I'm telling you that, listen, the school 194 00:13:38,580 --> 00:13:42,320 kids are attending is not preparing them for college or career. 195 00:13:42,830 --> 00:13:45,450 I don't want to hear you tell me, and that's why I'm going to do a six -year 196 00:13:45,450 --> 00:13:48,370 study on it. Okay, but you mentioned scholarships before. And, I mean, this 197 00:13:48,370 --> 00:13:51,570 something Democrats, they are the party of education. That is their portfolio. 198 00:13:51,930 --> 00:13:54,010 So they should either own it for good or bad. 199 00:13:54,290 --> 00:13:58,350 Absolutely. Okay, but like in Pennsylvania, Governor Shapiro, not 200 00:13:58,350 --> 00:13:59,350 president. 201 00:14:01,730 --> 00:14:04,270 He's eliminated the need for a degree, 202 00:14:05,130 --> 00:14:06,129 a college degree. 203 00:14:06,130 --> 00:14:09,170 I've done that, too. You have done that, too. Yeah. So you're on that page. 204 00:14:09,350 --> 00:14:10,390 Yeah, because, I mean, because listen. 205 00:14:11,130 --> 00:14:15,890 We have eliminated this idea that somehow how we should be grading for our 206 00:14:15,890 --> 00:14:18,250 schools is based on your four -year college acceptance rate. 207 00:14:18,490 --> 00:14:23,270 Because that's not the right, that's an indicator, but that's not something that 208 00:14:23,270 --> 00:14:25,770 we should be looking at. So we've actually quadrupled. 209 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,860 the amount of slots in trade programs and apprenticeship programs for our 210 00:14:29,860 --> 00:14:33,660 people so that we believe in our four -year colleges and we invest in them. 211 00:14:33,660 --> 00:14:37,060 if someone doesn't want to go to a four -year college, we still need to make 212 00:14:37,060 --> 00:14:40,600 sure they have a path for long -term economic success and economic mobility. 213 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,600 And so we have allowed... 214 00:14:45,570 --> 00:14:49,250 we've allowed these four -year colleges to be able to dominate this conversation 215 00:14:49,250 --> 00:14:51,990 as if they are the end -all and be -all. 216 00:14:52,490 --> 00:14:56,110 And frankly, I mean, I think Einstein, I think, was the one who said it, that if 217 00:14:56,110 --> 00:15:01,090 you tell a fish that the definition of genius is climbing a tree, then that 218 00:15:01,090 --> 00:15:02,390 will always feel like it's insufficient. 219 00:15:02,790 --> 00:15:06,010 We need to make sure that all of our young people understand that there is a 220 00:15:06,010 --> 00:15:09,550 place for them and there's a place for their long -term success regardless of 221 00:15:09,550 --> 00:15:12,290 what academic path they choose to go down. 222 00:15:13,090 --> 00:15:14,090 Okay, so... 223 00:15:19,740 --> 00:15:23,600 Governor Newsom here. I think he's on our show next week. Also not running for 224 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:30,480 president. He said if the Democrats want to win again, they have 225 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,740 to be what was more culturally normal. 226 00:15:33,420 --> 00:15:36,220 How do you interpret that statement? 227 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,400 And would you agree with that? 228 00:15:39,820 --> 00:15:41,260 Listen, I don't. 229 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:42,860 What I would say is that. 230 00:15:44,140 --> 00:15:47,820 The Democrats don't have a messaging problem. 231 00:15:48,380 --> 00:15:49,700 We have a results problem. 232 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,560 There's a results problem when we are turning around and not producing the 233 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,640 of results with the kind of speed that is necessary and required. 234 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,600 And you know who exploited that beautifully? 235 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:00,960 Donald Trump. 236 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,760 Because Donald Trump, Donald Trump was a fantastic vessel for the frustration, 237 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,060 right? He points things out like nobody else's business. 238 00:16:09,580 --> 00:16:11,240 He's just not a vehicle for the solution. 239 00:16:12,370 --> 00:16:15,350 Donald Trump was the one who was pointing out, you know what, we've done 240 00:16:15,350 --> 00:16:19,050 this work around electric vehicles and all this kind of thing and passed a big 241 00:16:19,050 --> 00:16:22,750 bill around it. And do you know how many electric charging stations we had by 242 00:16:22,750 --> 00:16:23,750 December of 2024? 243 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:25,350 37. 244 00:16:25,930 --> 00:16:26,950 He pointed that out. 245 00:16:27,530 --> 00:16:32,310 He pointed out the fact that we are now still watching inflation continue to 246 00:16:32,310 --> 00:16:36,010 rise. Now, he's done nothing but watch inflation rise under him as well. 247 00:16:36,490 --> 00:16:39,270 But again, he's a fantastic vessel for the frustration. 248 00:16:39,550 --> 00:16:44,170 I have an honest belief, and I think about it again with my own family. I 249 00:16:44,170 --> 00:16:49,330 the Army when I was 17 years old, and there's a philosophy we learned when I 250 00:16:49,330 --> 00:16:50,810 17, leave no one behind. 251 00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:55,720 I think if the Democratic Party can continue to embrace this idea of leave 252 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,960 one behind and making sure we can move with the speed and urgency that people 253 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:02,560 don't feel like they're being left behind, then we're not going to have an 254 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,740 electoral problem again. And you've actually just fixed your messaging 255 00:17:05,740 --> 00:17:09,280 by actually addressing with real results. But don't you think the 256 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,640 a problem with their primaries? I mean, everybody does because it only 257 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:13,640 encourages. 258 00:17:14,140 --> 00:17:18,819 the far extreme wing of the party. That's true of the Republicans, true. I 259 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,440 if you were to run for president, I'm not saying you are, of course. 260 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:27,800 But you would have to get through the primary process. Now, we talked about 261 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,740 when we had lunch at my friend's recently. 262 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:34,200 I said, I think you're a great one to do it in the Democratic Party because you 263 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,220 wear the magic armor. 264 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:36,440 It's just the truth. 265 00:17:36,730 --> 00:17:42,270 that a black candidate can say things and has permission to be more centrist 266 00:17:42,270 --> 00:17:45,250 the Democratic Party than a white candidate. Would you agree with that? 267 00:17:45,690 --> 00:17:50,130 I think that the closed primary process has run its course. 268 00:17:51,210 --> 00:17:55,590 You know, because I think the problem is the fastest growing political party in 269 00:17:55,590 --> 00:17:56,970 this country right now is independence. 270 00:17:57,850 --> 00:18:01,790 It's people who are saying, I do not affiliate with Democrats and I do not 271 00:18:01,790 --> 00:18:03,490 affiliate with Republicans. Here's the problem. 272 00:18:03,730 --> 00:18:04,730 Independence. 273 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,320 cannot vote until November. 274 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:09,920 Their voice cannot be heard. And when you're looking at the massive 275 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,020 gerrymandering that's taking place, for example, in the Congress, where over 92 276 00:18:13,020 --> 00:18:16,560 % of these congressional districts, 92 % are not competitive. 277 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:18,720 By November, it doesn't matter. 278 00:18:19,580 --> 00:18:22,720 And so that's the system that we have. You have a system where more and more 279 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,220 people are disenfranchised. More and more people are taken out of the 280 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,920 And so I think the whole idea of a closed primary system is one that has to 281 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,260 reevaluated. Because if you believe in democracy, then let people's voices be 282 00:18:34,260 --> 00:18:36,740 heard. And don't make them have to fill in with a political partisan. 283 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:39,240 All right. Well, you're good at this. 284 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:41,060 I never got you down. 285 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:42,860 You never got me down, right? 286 00:18:45,149 --> 00:18:48,870 Governor Westmore, I'll see you after this show. Coming back for overtime. 287 00:18:48,950 --> 00:18:50,290 Great. I'll see you again. 288 00:18:50,490 --> 00:18:51,029 All right. 289 00:18:51,030 --> 00:18:52,490 Thank you. Let's leave our panel. 290 00:18:58,250 --> 00:18:59,590 Couldn't get him down. All right. 291 00:19:00,030 --> 00:19:04,310 Here's the Chris Cuomo Project podcast on the fastest growing cable news show, 292 00:19:04,370 --> 00:19:07,190 Cuomo on News Nation. Chris Cuomo is here with us. 293 00:19:10,090 --> 00:19:14,050 Okay, she's the editor of the Dispatch's SCOTUS blog, whose new book is called 294 00:19:14,050 --> 00:19:17,470 Last Branch Standing. Sarah Isger. Sarah, great to have you back. 295 00:19:18,970 --> 00:19:19,970 Okay. 296 00:19:21,590 --> 00:19:23,890 Let's take a break from the war this week, shall we? 297 00:19:24,540 --> 00:19:29,600 It does seem to be just Groundhog Day. So this is the big story today. The 298 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,620 Justice Department is dropping its criminal investigation of Federal 299 00:19:33,620 --> 00:19:37,340 Chair Jerome Powell. Now, this gets to something I want to ask you about, 300 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,660 because you have this theory that, you know, we're actually blocking Trump more 301 00:19:40,660 --> 00:19:41,720 than people say. 302 00:19:42,020 --> 00:19:43,700 And I've read that, too. 303 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:50,020 Now, the Fed chair, the Fed is, is that monetary policy or fiscal policy? Right? 304 00:19:50,300 --> 00:19:51,300 One of them is. 305 00:19:52,710 --> 00:19:54,090 Okay, we're all stumped on that. 306 00:19:54,830 --> 00:19:58,890 I was just letting you go. It's monetary policy. Monetary. Okay, there are two 307 00:19:58,890 --> 00:20:01,630 different things, but it's important. And these are one of those norms we 308 00:20:01,630 --> 00:20:04,170 used to fuck with. But, of course, Trump fucks with every norm. 309 00:20:05,450 --> 00:20:08,990 And Jerome Powell, he's the chairman of the Fed, and he did not do what Trump 310 00:20:08,990 --> 00:20:13,050 wanted. And Trump has one speed when you defy him, publicly at least, which is, 311 00:20:13,090 --> 00:20:14,090 I'm going to kill you. 312 00:20:14,330 --> 00:20:20,870 So he went after Jerome Powell, you know what, for redecorating. 313 00:20:21,310 --> 00:20:24,690 I'm not joking. They were building a new headquarters, and there were cost 314 00:20:24,690 --> 00:20:28,450 overruns, like Trump would not know about cost overruns in buildings. 315 00:20:29,170 --> 00:20:33,250 So he had his attack dog, Jeanine Pirro, the U .S. attorney there now, go after 316 00:20:33,250 --> 00:20:37,310 him. The judge said, essentially, zero evidence in this case. But it does bring 317 00:20:37,310 --> 00:20:42,670 up this point. You know, is Trump being blocked more? I mean, you say it's the 318 00:20:42,670 --> 00:20:44,830 Supreme Court is doing it, right? 319 00:20:45,110 --> 00:20:45,829 Yeah, at least. 320 00:20:45,830 --> 00:20:49,330 he's being blocked at every turn. The Supreme Court has blocked him on alien 321 00:20:49,330 --> 00:20:50,330 enemies for immigration. 322 00:20:50,550 --> 00:20:54,410 They blocked him on federalizing the National Guard in Chicago. They blocked 323 00:20:54,410 --> 00:20:55,109 on tariffs. 324 00:20:55,110 --> 00:20:57,370 They're definitely going to block him on birthright citizenship. 325 00:20:57,710 --> 00:21:01,930 The reason that... Mail -in voting? Is that going to... Mail -in voting is 326 00:21:01,930 --> 00:21:03,630 coming, although that at least is a... 327 00:21:03,850 --> 00:21:06,050 statutory question for Congress, in theory. 328 00:21:06,570 --> 00:21:09,850 The question of whether someone can apply for asylum at the southern border, 329 00:21:09,990 --> 00:21:11,510 though, that's an executive action. 330 00:21:12,050 --> 00:21:15,390 Lisa Cook is still a governor on the Federal Reserve because the Supreme 331 00:21:15,390 --> 00:21:17,770 blocked President Trump's ability to remove her. 332 00:21:18,170 --> 00:21:21,990 But, and this is where I think you and I might agree, the Supreme Court, the 333 00:21:21,990 --> 00:21:26,270 lower courts can block Trump every which way, all these indictments against 334 00:21:26,270 --> 00:21:28,750 James Comey or law firms or universities. 335 00:21:30,190 --> 00:21:31,850 But there is a political cost. 336 00:21:32,430 --> 00:21:36,290 there is still the fact that then people are afraid of being sued. People are 337 00:21:36,290 --> 00:21:40,250 afraid of being indicted, and it changes their behavior. So he may lose legally 338 00:21:40,250 --> 00:21:43,850 and still win politically, culturally, normatively. 339 00:21:44,170 --> 00:21:45,170 That's not good. 340 00:21:45,450 --> 00:21:48,850 No, he... Yeah. 341 00:21:54,590 --> 00:21:56,150 Yeah, I know this personally. 342 00:21:56,690 --> 00:21:59,030 You know, I mean, a lot of it's in the media. 343 00:21:59,530 --> 00:22:01,870 The club you never wanted to join. 344 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,160 What's it like to be targeted by the president of the United States? 345 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:06,939 It's okay. 346 00:22:06,940 --> 00:22:12,600 I'd rather be engaged than just not engaged at all. I think as long as he, 347 00:22:12,660 --> 00:22:16,520 because he has said once, and I think he's right about this, he said, what 348 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,800 people don't get about me is I have no permanent enemies. 349 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,380 Like one day you're out, next day you're in, next day it's like it never 350 00:22:23,380 --> 00:22:27,830 happened. I'd rather have it that way and talk to him and keep the dialogue 351 00:22:27,830 --> 00:22:31,690 going because, you know, I've said many times, I think we need more people like 352 00:22:31,690 --> 00:22:33,690 me talking to him. You know, you can 353 00:22:33,690 --> 00:22:40,610 hyperventilate all you want about what he does 354 00:22:40,610 --> 00:22:44,010 is wrong. I agree. It should not be a government by people of saying. 355 00:22:44,810 --> 00:22:48,590 He should be home reading the briefing books like Obama did. But that's not 356 00:22:48,590 --> 00:22:53,290 going to happen. It is a government by people are saying, be one of the people 357 00:22:53,290 --> 00:22:57,450 saying. I would just like, yes, I'm glad you're talking to me. 358 00:22:58,010 --> 00:23:01,770 I agree with your point. Although the problem is when you have a president who 359 00:23:01,770 --> 00:23:04,910 is talking to someone like you, he's also talking to Laura Loomer. And if I 360 00:23:04,910 --> 00:23:06,690 to pick, I'd rather take both of you off the map. 361 00:23:08,210 --> 00:23:09,850 You've never been compared to her. Why me? 362 00:23:10,110 --> 00:23:13,530 Why would you take me off? Not me, Bill. I wouldn't take you off. What about me 363 00:23:13,530 --> 00:23:15,330 should be compared to Laura Loomer? 364 00:23:15,690 --> 00:23:19,090 I'm saying we get the same ones, and we get the insane ones. 365 00:23:20,970 --> 00:23:24,290 You lost them with the Loomer thing. Yeah, it really lost me there. 366 00:23:24,750 --> 00:23:26,850 It's all right. I'll show myself off. You'll be back. You'll be back. 367 00:23:27,510 --> 00:23:30,570 You've worked yourself back in. I've been where you are right now. It's a 368 00:23:30,570 --> 00:23:31,650 cold, but it'll get better. 369 00:23:34,410 --> 00:23:37,910 So what is the scorecard on backing Trump? Because a lot of people would say 370 00:23:37,910 --> 00:23:41,810 Supreme Court, when they ruled that he had, what was it, complete immunity to 371 00:23:41,810 --> 00:23:48,650 whatever he wanted? What was the absolute immunity for actions that 372 00:23:48,650 --> 00:23:54,470 relate to core or exclusive presidential powers? That does seem sweeping, no? 373 00:23:54,610 --> 00:23:55,890 Look, one. 374 00:23:56,639 --> 00:23:57,599 Shameless plug. 375 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:02,160 Sarah's book is really good, The Last Branch Standing, about what the Supreme 376 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,020 Court is supposed to be about. 377 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,660 They are in a jam now because the answer to your question about whether they're 378 00:24:08,660 --> 00:24:10,480 checking Trump more is they have to. 379 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:16,020 He is doing more absurd bullshit as president of the United States than we 380 00:24:16,020 --> 00:24:21,720 ever seen before. We have never had a president even think about, you know 381 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,960 I'm going to do? Let me just sign this right now and change the Constitution. 382 00:24:26,199 --> 00:24:31,680 Nobody has ever been ignorant and arrogant enough to try something like 383 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,760 That I'm going to change birthright citizenship. 384 00:24:33,980 --> 00:24:35,880 I don't think that's the way it works for us anymore. 385 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:37,660 They have to check him. 386 00:24:38,260 --> 00:24:42,080 The problem is, I feel bad for the people who voted for him because they 387 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:43,660 right to want to see the law fair stop. 388 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,180 They were right to want to see it stop. You should not use your power to punish 389 00:24:48,180 --> 00:24:49,180 your political enemy. 390 00:24:49,380 --> 00:24:52,940 And we saw way too much of it. The problem is, he's doing more of it than 391 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,940 And for the DOJ, which, you know, Sarah was the voice of the DOJ. Glad you're 392 00:24:57,940 --> 00:25:00,440 not right now, by the way, you know, may help the book sales. 393 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:06,200 But, you know, they usually if you hear, God forbid, they're looking at you, 394 00:25:06,220 --> 00:25:09,760 Bill, you better call everybody, you know, because you got problems. But now 395 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:10,760 they lose cases. 396 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:16,300 They have like a 97 percent conviction rate. He's bringing it down. Why? B .S. 397 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:18,500 cases that are just political payback. 398 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,280 James Comey, that was embarrassing. 399 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,760 What they just did with Powell was embarrassing. 400 00:25:23,460 --> 00:25:26,760 And they're losing. What they're doing with the Southern Poverty Law Center, 401 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:31,640 people really are going to believe that they created the KKK? Okay, so we agree 402 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,680 that he is being blocked. 403 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,800 I always said the thing about him that was just the biggest thing for me, he 404 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:38,800 doesn't concede elections. 405 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,960 If you don't have elections, if you don't have the peaceful transfer of 406 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,500 you don't have the country. Another time the court blocked him, unanimously. 407 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,200 On what? 408 00:25:47,210 --> 00:25:52,690 After 2020, right? He appealed and appealed. Every Federalist Society judge 409 00:25:52,690 --> 00:25:55,330 no, and the Supreme Court unanimously was like, get out of here. 410 00:25:55,650 --> 00:26:01,090 Good. But, I mean, he's very mad at his own justices now. He said this week, 411 00:26:01,250 --> 00:26:04,750 certain Republican justices have gone weak, stupid, and bad. 412 00:26:08,159 --> 00:26:09,240 I got to get him. 413 00:26:10,340 --> 00:26:14,380 He knows all the words. All the best words he knows. My five -year -old knows 414 00:26:14,380 --> 00:26:15,380 them. 415 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,280 I've always thought, I mean, look, justices, whatever judge you are, I 416 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:26,200 there's a whole big wall of law books behind you. I don't think they really go 417 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,520 to the idea of what does the actual law say. 418 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,120 Go by their gut. They go by what they believe, and then they find a reason in 419 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:36,520 one of those law books. It's very much like the Bible. 420 00:26:36,740 --> 00:26:40,600 You can find anything you want in the Bible. And by the way, they're doing a 421 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:41,600 Bible reading this week. 422 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:46,260 The whole country for our 205th anniversary, because we're a Christian 423 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,460 Not really, but that's what they think. They're all reading the Bible like Trump 424 00:26:52,460 --> 00:26:53,460 is taking a... 425 00:26:54,450 --> 00:26:57,990 paragraph or something, or whatever it is in the Bible, a passage. 426 00:26:58,230 --> 00:27:00,670 In Texas, they're putting the Ten Commandments back in school. The Ten 427 00:27:00,670 --> 00:27:02,830 Commandments are back in the school. 428 00:27:03,210 --> 00:27:07,110 And the Fifth Circuit judge in Texas said this is okay? 429 00:27:07,430 --> 00:27:08,530 Were you on that? 430 00:27:09,190 --> 00:27:11,890 Yeah, I clerked on the Fifth Circuit for the judge who wrote that. 431 00:27:12,470 --> 00:27:16,790 So, look, this is actually another interesting part. Have I got a book for 432 00:27:16,850 --> 00:27:19,910 Bill, to read? I think you'll really like it. What's it called? Last Branch 433 00:27:19,910 --> 00:27:20,910 Standing Press. 434 00:27:21,090 --> 00:27:22,090 Thank you. 435 00:27:27,210 --> 00:27:30,290 This narrative that the court is so conservative, right, and it's just 436 00:27:30,290 --> 00:27:34,290 controlled by Trump. The Ninth Circuit used to be the court that was overturned 437 00:27:34,290 --> 00:27:37,190 the most. That was the liberal Ninth Circuit where we are now, California and 438 00:27:37,190 --> 00:27:38,109 the West. 439 00:27:38,110 --> 00:27:40,970 That's not the court being overturned the most by the Supreme Court anymore. 440 00:27:41,330 --> 00:27:45,390 It's the Fifth Circuit because of cases like this Ten Commandments case. 441 00:27:45,610 --> 00:27:49,410 And if you really want to look at what the court is doing these days and why it 442 00:27:49,410 --> 00:27:50,410 is, you know. 443 00:27:50,650 --> 00:27:54,290 So much part of our conversation, why I can write a book about it, it's because 444 00:27:54,290 --> 00:27:56,070 Congress isn't doing anything anymore. 445 00:27:56,290 --> 00:27:59,970 So what used to be the Supreme Court would say yes or no, and then Congress 446 00:27:59,970 --> 00:28:01,490 could just pass a law the next day. 447 00:28:01,690 --> 00:28:04,910 None of us believe that they will do that. None of us believe that we have 448 00:28:04,910 --> 00:28:06,730 power to amend the Constitution anymore. 449 00:28:06,990 --> 00:28:11,050 So we keep looking to the Supreme Court to be the last word on things, when in 450 00:28:11,050 --> 00:28:12,690 fact it was supposed to be part of this dialogue. 451 00:28:12,950 --> 00:28:16,310 They're not politically accountable, and so the pressure builds because we feel 452 00:28:16,310 --> 00:28:19,890 like we can't change it. They don't answer to us. They're not supposed to. 453 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,300 They're counter -majoritarian. 454 00:28:21,580 --> 00:28:25,280 They're supposed to tell all of us to go buzz off, like they did in Brown v. 455 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,220 Board of Education and West Virginia v. 456 00:28:27,460 --> 00:28:30,460 Barnett. Their worst decisions are the ones where they went with the majority, 457 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,140 in Dred Scott, in Plessy, in Korematsu. 458 00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:36,140 Buck v. Bell is my favorite, the eugenicist case, if you haven't read 459 00:28:36,140 --> 00:28:37,920 Yeah, we don't all know those, just by the way. 460 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,680 I mean, we get it. 461 00:28:44,420 --> 00:28:48,420 We get it. You're the expert. By the way, Laura Loomer sued me, and I won 462 00:28:48,420 --> 00:28:49,460 week. Oh, man. Okay, okay. 463 00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:57,820 No commentary. That's just 464 00:28:57,820 --> 00:28:58,820 a fact. Okay. 465 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,100 Let me go back to the Ten Commandments just a little bit, because it seems such 466 00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:06,080 a clear case that you shouldn't have the Ten Commandments in a school. The 467 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,420 school is just for learning. It should be. Now, obviously, the left has fucked 468 00:29:10,420 --> 00:29:11,339 that up, too. 469 00:29:11,340 --> 00:29:13,920 I mean, there's lots of leftist indoctrination in schools. 470 00:29:14,180 --> 00:29:19,680 So both sides. But this one seems very clear. I'd also like to ask all the anti 471 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,440 -Semites out there who seem to populate both the left and the right, who love 472 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,700 the Ten Commandments so much, are you aware that this is a complete Jew -y 473 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:27,700 thing? 474 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,420 The Ten Commandments. 475 00:29:31,460 --> 00:29:32,460 Well, 476 00:29:32,980 --> 00:29:33,980 it is. 477 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,140 I mean, it's... 478 00:29:36,460 --> 00:29:40,280 It was written many, many years before Christ came along. It's just Jews 479 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,440 to Jews about Jews. Chosen people conversation. 480 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:44,100 Chosen people. 481 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:51,640 I think that you get it in the picture of the guy who's fighting to put them in 482 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:56,420 the school is the guy who has some of the ugliest allegations against him of 483 00:29:56,420 --> 00:30:01,420 immorality. And what we don't want to do with all these people of faith in our 484 00:30:01,420 --> 00:30:06,060 society, which is great depending on how you use it, live the Ten Commandments. 485 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:08,060 Show us how you live. 486 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:13,900 Don't just say what you want us to think about you. And for Paxton to say, yeah, 487 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,220 I'm going to put the Ten Commandments in, when he clearly only knows like two 488 00:30:17,220 --> 00:30:22,080 them in terms of his own life, what is the message for people? All those 489 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,000 kindergartners committing adultery, really, if they had it up there, maybe 490 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,000 wouldn't do it. 491 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,140 Coveting is a big word in lower school these days. You know, covet, covet. The 492 00:30:30,140 --> 00:30:32,480 kids are crazy about it. All right, well, before we... 493 00:30:33,740 --> 00:30:37,100 Lose track of time. I did want to congratulate Trump on one thing this 494 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:38,900 He'd made it easier to smoke pot. 495 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:45,420 I've got to say, all of us potluckers have been asking somebody to make 496 00:30:45,420 --> 00:30:47,060 marijuana less criminalized. 497 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,240 He's got to help with hemp. Hopefully he does. Well, good luck trying to get 498 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,240 high on hemp. 499 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,940 Some people use it for other things. It's only useful for other things. 500 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,640 It is a biological cousin. 501 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,580 Of the stuff I smoke. It is not something you can smoke. It should never 502 00:31:05,580 --> 00:31:07,460 been illegal in the first place. Yeah. Okay. 503 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:12,600 But it brings me to the bigger story that, you know, Trump is a teetotaler. 504 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,300 really does not like liquor because I think he lost his breath in alcoholism. 505 00:31:16,340 --> 00:31:21,040 Okay. But it turns out that that administration does not follow the 506 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:26,220 the boss on this one. I mean, this week we found out the big story. Kash Patel 507 00:31:26,220 --> 00:31:28,880 is suing the Atlantic because they wrote this story. 508 00:31:29,140 --> 00:31:33,360 And he denies it. of course, but they say, you know, he sometimes didn't show 509 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,040 at work because it was too much the night before. 510 00:31:35,420 --> 00:31:38,720 And then there's, oh, there's that picture. 511 00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:45,140 Yeah, I mean, we have, I mean, but you know what? That doesn't say anything. I 512 00:31:45,140 --> 00:31:48,480 don't believe it just because the Atlantic said it. It might be true, and 513 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,160 they got a picture with a bottle in his mouth. 514 00:31:50,820 --> 00:31:52,320 We've all had a bottle in our mouth. 515 00:31:54,459 --> 00:31:55,560 When we were babies. 516 00:31:56,780 --> 00:31:59,980 You've never had a beer in your mouth, Chris. Yeah, but I've never been telling 517 00:31:59,980 --> 00:32:04,040 people I don't drink. You don't have to worry about it. And then he's literally 518 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,360 downing the whole thing. Take a break. 519 00:32:06,940 --> 00:32:10,640 But does that really... See, this is just the... Look, do I care if he drinks 520 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:15,000 not? No. Do I care that you put somebody who is selling conspiracies about 521 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,560 Epstein into the highest position of power at the DOJ? Yeah, that bothers me. 522 00:32:26,340 --> 00:32:31,440 All right. So the point is, it is kind of a boozy administration because I 523 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,020 remember Jeanine Pirro, who's now the U .S. attorney. I remember when she was on 524 00:32:35,020 --> 00:32:37,820 Fox News. That was always the talk about her. Again, I don't know if it's true 525 00:32:37,820 --> 00:32:38,439 or not. 526 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,440 And then there's the labor secretary. 527 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,600 She quit this week because apparently the same kind of rumors. And of course, 528 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:50,120 there was always Pete Hegseth. I mean, those pictures I would agree with. We 529 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:54,110 don't know. But we thought we, as a PSA, because we're always trying to do 530 00:32:54,110 --> 00:33:00,010 service to this country, we would want to put a little guideline to know if you 531 00:33:00,010 --> 00:33:04,210 are part of a too -boozy administration. Would you like to see if you... These 532 00:33:04,210 --> 00:33:06,790 are just some of the ways you can tell. 533 00:33:08,230 --> 00:33:12,330 For example, if among all your colleagues, no one can remember who 534 00:33:12,330 --> 00:33:13,330 attack on Venezuela. 535 00:33:19,630 --> 00:33:22,530 Cabinet meetings begin at 5 o 'clock somewhere. 536 00:33:28,390 --> 00:33:33,330 If RFK asked if you'd like to see a dead raccoon penis and you said yes. 537 00:33:38,570 --> 00:33:42,170 If you got arrested because you were climbing on the ballroom construction 538 00:33:42,170 --> 00:33:44,610 equipment in the middle of the night. Yes. 539 00:33:45,890 --> 00:33:47,050 Definitely a sign. 540 00:33:47,350 --> 00:33:48,350 Oh. 541 00:33:49,130 --> 00:33:52,170 Here's one. You keep slurring your ethnic slurs. 542 00:33:57,490 --> 00:34:02,170 If everybody does a shot every time the Strait of Hormuz opens back up. 543 00:34:04,450 --> 00:34:06,570 That's kind of understandable, that one. 544 00:34:08,650 --> 00:34:12,850 If when you tell a Senate panel, I don't recall, you actually don't recall. 545 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,000 You appear on Face the Nation with a dick drawn on your forehead. 546 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,080 Too boozy. 547 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,719 If you wake up on the couch and Lindsey Graham is making waffles in a bathroom, 548 00:34:32,980 --> 00:34:35,960 that is definitely a sign. 549 00:34:37,460 --> 00:34:40,340 I'm just, it's a public service, people. 550 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,320 And if everyone keeps asking, do you think Hunter Biden left any more cocaine 551 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:46,320 lying around? 552 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:54,840 Okay, so... All right, now let's talk about the big political 553 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,220 bombshell that happened this week, which was the state of Virginia. They 554 00:34:58,220 --> 00:35:00,600 gerrymandered the fuck out of the state. 555 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,340 And I hate to sound like a five -year -old, but Trump started it. 556 00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:09,760 He did. I mean, now it's out of control, but that's just the fact. 557 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:11,420 He started it. 558 00:35:12,069 --> 00:35:17,210 He encouraged Texas to do this. And I thought, like, I had Eric Holder on, 559 00:35:17,210 --> 00:35:19,770 not that many, a couple of years ago. And it was like, we're going to fix 560 00:35:19,770 --> 00:35:23,170 gerrymandering. We're going to stop it because, you know, gerrymandering is 561 00:35:23,170 --> 00:35:24,850 not fair. Both sides do it. 562 00:35:25,090 --> 00:35:31,170 And then Trump just, of course, had to make it worse. So now Virginia, it looks 563 00:35:31,170 --> 00:35:33,570 like it's going to be only the suburbs. 564 00:35:33,790 --> 00:35:38,230 We were talking to the governor of Maryland there. Only his people, his... 565 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:43,440 constituents in that area. Those are the suburbs around D .C. That's part of 566 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,840 Virginia. And they're all mostly they do work in the government. That's why so 567 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,320 many government workers got fired. 568 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:52,100 So many people in Maryland got fired because the government workers, they're 569 00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:56,320 going to gerrymander the state. So like almost all the votes are coming from 570 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,140 there. And the rest of the state's a big state full of hicks. 571 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,840 And I say that in a not in a mean way. 572 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,180 Hicks are not to be stupid. 573 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,558 You're a hick? Okay. 574 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:06,560 I live in Virginia. 575 00:36:06,740 --> 00:36:09,900 Yeah, but rural people... Oh, you do? Yeah, well, that other part. 576 00:36:11,260 --> 00:36:15,060 Which part do you live in? I live right on the hick to Democrat line. 577 00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:20,500 Okay. 578 00:36:25,130 --> 00:36:28,690 But this is just a race to the bottom, is it not? Because now, I mean, 579 00:36:28,710 --> 00:36:32,690 California has done it, Illinois has done it, Maryland has done it. We're 580 00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:36,510 going to get to, it was like the last pillar of somewhat a resemblance of 581 00:36:36,510 --> 00:36:39,790 democracy that we didn't fully do this, and now we're just going to do it where 582 00:36:39,790 --> 00:36:42,010 every state is just rigged, rigged. 583 00:36:42,570 --> 00:36:43,570 Okay. 584 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,720 On the one hand, I think it's really funny to fight over which party should 585 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:50,880 control a branch of government that doesn't do anything anymore. Like, why 586 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,200 we fighting over Congress? 587 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,320 What's the point? 588 00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:56,720 That's a great take on that. 589 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:02,480 But okay, like, that's a fun, you know, tug -of -war team jersey thing to play. 590 00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:08,460 Virginia used to have a bipartisan, nonpartisan redistricting commission, so 591 00:37:08,460 --> 00:37:09,860 we're actually getting worse. 592 00:37:10,540 --> 00:37:11,540 But here's the good news. 593 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:16,680 In order to gerrymander this hard in all of these states, you actually do have 594 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,600 to make the districts more competitive. 595 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:23,800 So in a wave election, like what we're planning to have this fall, where 596 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,560 Democrats will take... What do you mean, make it more competitive? Well, each 597 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:28,640 district gets... 598 00:37:29,470 --> 00:37:33,150 gerrymandered to make sure that Democrats can win, but instead of 599 00:37:33,150 --> 00:37:38,650 seats by, you know, 80%, now they can only win them by 54%, 55%. Oh, I see, 600 00:37:38,830 --> 00:37:44,050 right. So in a wave election, the water would swamp you out. So Texas, my home 601 00:37:44,050 --> 00:37:47,370 state, Trump pressured them into doing it like you said. They started this. 602 00:37:48,110 --> 00:37:51,930 They're actually quite likely to lose many of the seats they gerrymandered if 603 00:37:51,930 --> 00:37:55,350 the Democratic wave gets high enough. They will be underwater. 604 00:37:55,650 --> 00:38:00,150 And in a year where there's a Republican wave, these Virginia seats will 605 00:38:00,150 --> 00:38:03,910 actually be lost by Democrats. So, like, maybe, again, I don't know what we're 606 00:38:03,910 --> 00:38:06,730 fighting over. Again, a branch that, like, sits on Instagram and, like, takes 607 00:38:06,730 --> 00:38:08,310 pictures of themselves and says $75? 608 00:38:09,010 --> 00:38:11,370 So glad one party controls that. Phew! 609 00:38:12,170 --> 00:38:13,910 Wow. Oh, come on. 610 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:21,380 If the Democrats have the kind of success a lot of us think they're going 611 00:38:21,380 --> 00:38:24,200 have in the midterms, you don't think that's going to make a difference? You 612 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,540 don't think that's going to be different? If the Democrats control all 613 00:38:27,540 --> 00:38:31,400 committees in that Congress? They will not pass so much more not passing of 614 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,780 legislation. You're right. Wow. 615 00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:36,860 They'll do oversight and they'll have hearings where they do more Instagram 616 00:38:36,860 --> 00:38:40,600 reels to raise more money. They're not going to actually use the power of the 617 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:41,620 purse, pass legislation. 618 00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:45,020 They might impeach someone. They're certainly not going to convict them in 619 00:38:45,020 --> 00:38:48,000 Senate, so it'll be another great... That's the one thing they can't do is 620 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,980 impeach. You're right. They can't impeach. They cannot remove. 621 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:52,799 That's the problem. 622 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,900 Okay, well, nobody cares about that. Well, but I'll tell you when you care is 623 00:38:55,900 --> 00:39:00,000 when you see six months of your life vanish because you're watching that 624 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,020 unfold and you know how it's going to end when you've been through it twice 625 00:39:03,020 --> 00:39:06,660 before, and they're doing it for the same reason they do the gerrymandering, 626 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:10,660 which is... All that matters to these people now is the retention of their own 627 00:39:10,660 --> 00:39:14,800 power. And I think the reason it's important this is happening is for 628 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,560 see what the governor was talking about. 629 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:21,200 Independent is the fastest growing part of the electorate for a reason, which is 630 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,200 they hate the party. 631 00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:25,960 And the more people are anti -party, the better a chance we have that anything 632 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:26,960 gets better. 633 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:29,100 Although on the flip side... 634 00:39:32,910 --> 00:39:36,230 we're talking about this on the flip side the reason so independents now are 635 00:39:36,230 --> 00:39:40,250 more than republican or democrats for the first time in american history more 636 00:39:40,250 --> 00:39:43,750 people don't identify with a political party i would argue it's because we 637 00:39:43,750 --> 00:39:47,810 have political parties anymore we got rid of them with campaign finance reform 638 00:39:47,810 --> 00:39:52,960 in 2002 which sounds like a good idea, but it means there is no one keeping all 639 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,600 of the inmates in the asylum anymore. 640 00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:00,220 The parties have no carrots, no sticks to keep these people in line, no policy 641 00:40:00,220 --> 00:40:02,800 agenda. There's no policy platform for either party. 642 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,780 Donald Trump defeated the Republican Party before he defeated the Democratic 643 00:40:06,780 --> 00:40:07,940 Party in 2016. 644 00:40:08,540 --> 00:40:12,720 That's because we don't have political parties, and I loved not having 645 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:16,040 parties until I saw the result now, and I'm like, this isn't better. 646 00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:18,580 But all his original fans are turning on him. 647 00:40:18,940 --> 00:40:24,620 Have you seen that? I mean, this week, Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson both 648 00:40:24,620 --> 00:40:31,420 renounced the leader, as has Candace Owens did it, Alex Jones, 649 00:40:31,780 --> 00:40:37,260 all the people. All the people I look to for advice. I know. I respect how 650 00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:42,440 seriously you're laying this out. I do. I do. But just think about what it says 651 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,440 about where we are. 652 00:40:44,070 --> 00:40:48,450 That we are in a place where we are looking at Candace Owens and Tucker 653 00:40:48,450 --> 00:40:51,970 and Joe Rogan as bellwethers of our political status. 654 00:40:52,490 --> 00:40:57,150 You know, like, wow, Rogan, what am I going to do now that he's not with 655 00:40:57,270 --> 00:41:01,850 It's like we are in mouth breather land in terms of how we formulate our 656 00:41:01,850 --> 00:41:06,150 positions. It's like, oh, Tucker Carlson, he got attacked by a demon last 657 00:41:06,150 --> 00:41:09,930 in his bedroom, but now he's in the light about Trump. I don't know how to 658 00:41:11,710 --> 00:41:12,730 It's a weird place. 659 00:41:12,950 --> 00:41:14,050 We're in a weird place. 660 00:41:15,870 --> 00:41:20,590 I never thought I would say that. Wow, Tucker Carlson. Yeah, Trump's going to 661 00:41:20,590 --> 00:41:21,288 have a problem. 662 00:41:21,290 --> 00:41:24,310 He's going to have a problem keeping the faithful in there. He's got Joe Rogan, 663 00:41:24,330 --> 00:41:27,630 you know, the psychedelics, you know. Thank God he had that. 664 00:41:27,990 --> 00:41:30,170 Otherwise, he would have lost them completely. I think there's a difference 665 00:41:30,170 --> 00:41:33,810 between Joe Rogan and Candace Owens and Alex Jones. I do. I think there's a bit 666 00:41:33,810 --> 00:41:34,810 of a difference. I hope so. 667 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:41,240 Well, I don't know he's apparently going to the Trump is the Correspondents 668 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:44,340 dinner this year I would I'm very interested to see what this is going to 669 00:41:44,340 --> 00:41:47,850 like because you know the correspondence dinner that I think I did it one year. 670 00:41:47,890 --> 00:41:51,730 They used to have comedians. By the way, I said that because I got shit about 671 00:41:51,730 --> 00:41:54,170 it. Everybody, every comedian gets shit about it. It's the worst gig in the 672 00:41:54,170 --> 00:41:56,810 world because half the people in the audience are Republican, half are the 673 00:41:56,810 --> 00:41:59,450 Democrats. You can insult anybody, whatever, what they say. 674 00:41:59,770 --> 00:42:01,850 So they always, I said, just get a magician. 675 00:42:02,210 --> 00:42:05,710 Just get somebody who doesn't do political. They're always trying to get 676 00:42:05,710 --> 00:42:08,970 political, and it's like the worst thing. Now they got a mentalist. 677 00:42:09,270 --> 00:42:11,530 So they can have a mentalist and a mental patient there. 678 00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:16,280 I kid. I joke with the president. 679 00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:23,480 But, you know, the president traditionally, I mean, this is why 680 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,200 people say this is why he ran for president in the first place, because he 681 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:31,400 at the one where Obama just tore him a new asshole from the podium, and now 682 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,960 going to get a chance to say all sorts of insulting things to the press, just 683 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,720 like any one of his press conferences, so it's not really that different. 684 00:42:38,410 --> 00:42:41,550 I agreed to do this show so I could avoid that dinner tomorrow night. So 685 00:42:41,550 --> 00:42:42,890 you so much. Oh, really? 686 00:42:43,090 --> 00:42:44,090 Yeah. 687 00:42:45,170 --> 00:42:48,290 I wasn't invited. 688 00:42:49,110 --> 00:42:51,770 No, I wasn't. But I wouldn't have gone if they had invited me. I want you to 689 00:42:51,770 --> 00:42:53,770 know that right now. Right. I would have said no. 690 00:42:54,390 --> 00:42:56,410 I'm going to give that tuxedo back right away. 691 00:42:57,850 --> 00:42:59,570 Blue. But he, I mean. 692 00:43:00,740 --> 00:43:03,880 It's kind of interesting because, you know, when I look at the list of 693 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:10,780 paramounts, which now apparently owns me, paid $16 million 694 00:43:10,780 --> 00:43:15,980 to settle a lawsuit. You know, this is the media that he's talking to here over 695 00:43:15,980 --> 00:43:18,220 the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. 696 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:23,380 Disney, one of my other old sponsors that fired me once. 697 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,160 agreed to pay $16 million over the George Stephanopoulos interview. I mean, 698 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,400 famously took Jimmy Kimmel off the air for a while. I mean, it's a little 699 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:37,820 awkward, him speaking to the people who he also calls the enemy of the American 700 00:43:37,820 --> 00:43:43,980 people. He literally calls them the enemy, which I find to be, I would be 701 00:43:43,980 --> 00:43:46,920 personally affronted by it, but, you know, he does that to everybody. 702 00:43:47,180 --> 00:43:48,740 But it is the fourth estate. 703 00:43:49,180 --> 00:43:52,960 I mean, when you take on the press like that, I think you are flirting with 704 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,580 something that really knocks out one of the pillars of what we love about this 705 00:43:56,580 --> 00:44:02,140 country. Well, look, I think that we all get it. We just don't know how anything 706 00:44:02,140 --> 00:44:03,620 gets better anymore. 707 00:44:03,860 --> 00:44:05,200 And I don't have any problem. 708 00:44:05,710 --> 00:44:06,589 With nerd prom. 709 00:44:06,590 --> 00:44:09,630 You know, I get that people like to get dressed up. They like to go. 710 00:44:09,850 --> 00:44:12,150 Is that what you call it? Nerd prom? Yeah, everybody. 711 00:44:12,710 --> 00:44:15,350 Hollywood for ugly people. Yeah, that's right. But we've always called it. 712 00:44:15,690 --> 00:44:19,450 It's the nerd prom, and that's great. That's great. Well, I wasn't invited, 713 00:44:19,450 --> 00:44:20,450 know. I'm too good looking. 714 00:44:20,490 --> 00:44:24,670 So, you know, what I think you'll see there also, Bill, is how manufactured 715 00:44:24,670 --> 00:44:26,550 is. The division is manufactured. 716 00:44:27,090 --> 00:44:30,450 Trump hates you, as you said, until he doesn't. And he's going to go there, and 717 00:44:30,450 --> 00:44:31,450 he's going to get laughed. 718 00:44:31,820 --> 00:44:34,900 And you'll see that all these people who are there who are saying, you know, 719 00:44:34,900 --> 00:44:37,780 they are not real journalists and this isn't real one. They're all getting 720 00:44:37,780 --> 00:44:39,020 along. It's a club. 721 00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,680 And once you understand that, you realize why things don't change. 722 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,540 I mean, again, to bring this back to the Supreme Court a little, that's the 723 00:44:52,540 --> 00:44:55,260 branch that is functioning. That's the branch that gets along. 724 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,240 They actually spend time together. They have lunch three, four times a week 725 00:44:59,240 --> 00:45:02,480 after they have oral argument where they are not allowed to talk about work. 726 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,720 They have to talk about sports or what their kids are majoring in. 727 00:45:07,150 --> 00:45:10,970 Amy Coney Barrett loved binge -watching Slow Horses. She was super pumped about 728 00:45:10,970 --> 00:45:11,948 the new season. 729 00:45:11,950 --> 00:45:15,710 Like, this is a good thing for people to actually have to see each other as 730 00:45:15,710 --> 00:45:19,890 humans. And I hope that's what happens at the White House Correspondents' 731 00:45:19,890 --> 00:45:25,670 Dinner. I read that reality TV viewership is plummeting, and I think 732 00:45:25,670 --> 00:45:29,610 downstream from culture, and I hope we are turning the ship slowly away from 733 00:45:29,610 --> 00:45:30,650 reality politics. 734 00:45:31,190 --> 00:45:33,490 All right, let's end on that positive note. 735 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,660 All right, thank you, and you're both beautiful people. It's time for new 736 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,380 everybody. New rules. 737 00:45:42,060 --> 00:45:43,060 Okay, 738 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:46,799 new rule. 739 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,460 Don't make your baby spout your political opinions for you. 740 00:45:50,940 --> 00:45:52,540 You don't know what that kid believes. 741 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,140 He looks pretty MAGA to me. 742 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:03,660 I say to babies what right -wingers say to athletes. Shut up and dribble. 743 00:46:09,420 --> 00:46:13,300 No, really, if you complain about Columbus Day because it ignores the fact 744 00:46:13,300 --> 00:46:17,520 he killed Indians and you complain about President's Day because it ignores the 745 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:22,220 fact that Washington owned slaves, then you can't happily go see a movie where 746 00:46:22,220 --> 00:46:24,120 Michael Jackson doesn't sleep with kids. 747 00:46:31,100 --> 00:46:34,580 Which is the movie that's out now where we just hear about the fun things 748 00:46:34,580 --> 00:46:38,420 Michael did. It's playing on a double bill with Jeffrey Epstein, super host 749 00:46:38,420 --> 00:46:42,540 extraordinaire, and John Wayne Gacy, thanks for the laugh. 750 00:46:48,900 --> 00:46:54,440 Now that Red Lobster is reviving its endless shrimp deal, two years after 751 00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:59,360 stopped doing it because it had led to an $11 million loss, they must tell 752 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:00,860 How can this work financially? 753 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:05,620 Unless you're planning to sell some outdated stash of frozen shrimp that 754 00:47:05,620 --> 00:47:07,120 had on ice since 2009. 755 00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:08,400 Oh, I see. 756 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,680 Let's all give President Trump credit where credit is due for forcing Iran to 757 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,120 call off their scheduled execution of these women protesters. 758 00:47:23,710 --> 00:47:27,450 It was the right thing to do, and it sends a powerful message to the world. 759 00:47:27,450 --> 00:47:33,530 you're a woman in Iran and you look hot, at least an eight, America has your 760 00:47:33,530 --> 00:47:34,530 back. 761 00:47:41,850 --> 00:47:45,770 You know, shopping in the grocery store has to stop making me feel like I'm 762 00:47:45,770 --> 00:47:47,290 flirting with statutory rape. 763 00:47:48,190 --> 00:47:51,050 What's with very young, small, sweet peas? 764 00:47:55,010 --> 00:47:59,490 Tater tots and baby carrots and extra virgin olive oil. 765 00:48:01,930 --> 00:48:06,150 Gee, if I wanted to feel this pervy, I'll go see the Michael Jackson movie. 766 00:48:12,450 --> 00:48:17,890 And finally, new rule. Someone has to explain the American economy to me. I 767 00:48:17,890 --> 00:48:20,290 I've said this before. I still don't get it. 768 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:26,960 Last week was tax day, and as usual, because HBO is so generous, and I'm sure 769 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:33,820 will be the new owners, I paid to the government, if you add in state tax, 770 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:40,460 local sales, property fees, Obamacare, probably almost 60 % of what I earn. 771 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:45,940 That's a lot. And I still wouldn't mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the 772 00:48:45,940 --> 00:48:47,140 rich don't pay taxes. 773 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,580 And while I'm sure the super rich, with their army of accountants and corporate 774 00:48:57,580 --> 00:49:02,520 loopholes, get away with murder, us regular rich people pay a shit ton of 775 00:49:02,900 --> 00:49:06,700 And who stands up and gives us a pat on the back? Nobody, that's who. 776 00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:20,740 The top 10 % pay 72 % of all federal income taxes, and the bottom half, 777 00:49:20,940 --> 00:49:27,640 3%. The democratic socialists talk about socialism like we don't already have a 778 00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:32,360 lot. Social security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, 779 00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:37,860 Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies. Again, not against it. Just 780 00:49:37,860 --> 00:49:42,860 question. How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? 781 00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:54,920 So badly that on 60 Minutes last week, they were redoing the story they did 18 782 00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,840 years ago about remote area medical. 783 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:02,500 That is the program modeled after medical teams that drop into the poorest 784 00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:07,040 countries in the world for a few days to set up a tent where people with no 785 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,840 access to health care can get some. 786 00:50:09,180 --> 00:50:11,260 And now we're one of those countries. 787 00:50:11,740 --> 00:50:13,020 Doctors within borders. 788 00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:26,260 How can it be that the federal government alone took in over $5 789 00:50:26,260 --> 00:50:28,320 taxes last year and we still need that? 790 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:32,180 Are we really this incompetent and corrupt? Don't answer that. 791 00:50:33,820 --> 00:50:39,380 Whatever it is, somehow the ultra -rich keep getting ultra -richer while a 792 00:50:39,380 --> 00:50:43,260 growing percentage is feeling truly desperate. You just wouldn't know it 793 00:50:43,260 --> 00:50:45,100 everyone on TV is rich. 794 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,720 Reality TV, rich women day drinking. 795 00:50:49,530 --> 00:50:51,810 Drama, rich women whose friend got murdered. 796 00:50:53,010 --> 00:50:55,490 Comedy, rich men shouting into cell phones. 797 00:50:56,770 --> 00:51:01,210 But these are the people with all the money. Get this, the richest one -tenth 798 00:51:01,210 --> 00:51:03,190 now does half of all the spending. 799 00:51:03,550 --> 00:51:09,390 Somehow we created an economy where the number of households worth $20 million 800 00:51:09,390 --> 00:51:13,530 or more is 644 ,000. 801 00:51:14,670 --> 00:51:16,650 Wow, that's a lot of people with $20 million. 802 00:51:17,070 --> 00:51:21,050 And all of them are looking for a girlfriend on sugarbabies .com. 803 00:51:29,710 --> 00:51:34,470 Corporations go where the money is. Las Vegas used to be the town of $8 all -you 804 00:51:34,470 --> 00:51:37,670 -can -eat buffets and hotels where every room was $29. 805 00:51:38,310 --> 00:51:40,910 Nope, not anymore. Go fuck yourself. We don't want you. 806 00:51:42,030 --> 00:51:45,030 Their business model now is they only want the high rollers. 807 00:51:45,370 --> 00:51:49,010 Are you a whale? No? Then float yourself back out to sea. 808 00:51:56,530 --> 00:52:00,310 Who that is not rich could afford a concert now? 809 00:52:01,150 --> 00:52:05,390 Woodstock was free. Now if you want to see Morgan Wallen, you have to take out 810 00:52:05,390 --> 00:52:06,810 second mortgage on your trailer. 811 00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:10,960 I kid the hicks. 812 00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:13,100 I love the hicks. 813 00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:18,720 Disneyland, for a family of four to spend the weekend. 814 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:24,640 Between the cost of the ticket, plus lodging, airfare, rental car, souvenirs, 815 00:52:24,660 --> 00:52:26,560 food, we're talking ten grand. 816 00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,680 To afford that, the average dad would have to be cooking meth on the side. 817 00:52:37,900 --> 00:52:44,770 The, uh... Disneyland's staff manual used to read, we roll out the red carpet 818 00:52:44,770 --> 00:52:49,510 for the Jones family from Joliet just as we would for the Eisenhowers from Palm 819 00:52:49,510 --> 00:52:51,670 Springs. No, you don't. 820 00:52:52,190 --> 00:52:57,050 Because the Eisenhowers from Palm Springs can buy a Lightning Lane Premier 821 00:52:57,050 --> 00:53:01,430 that lets you skip the lines. The Jones family can suck my dick. 822 00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,100 And Mickey could give a rat's ass. 823 00:53:15,300 --> 00:53:18,580 Because that's what our economy has become. 824 00:53:18,900 --> 00:53:24,260 In 1992, a Lego speedboat toy set cost $2 .99. 825 00:53:24,780 --> 00:53:28,700 Today, Lego sells Titanic for $680. 826 00:53:29,860 --> 00:53:33,360 It's an educational toy because you learn it sucks to be poor. 827 00:53:36,300 --> 00:53:40,340 And nowhere is that more true than when it comes to health care. 828 00:53:40,890 --> 00:53:45,950 Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can buy healthiness. Half the country 829 00:53:45,950 --> 00:53:52,230 buy access to concierge doctors, specialists, new treatments, personal 830 00:53:52,550 --> 00:53:57,210 nutritionists, private chefs, and whatever Gwyneth Paltrow is putting in 831 00:53:57,210 --> 00:53:58,210 vagina. 832 00:54:07,150 --> 00:54:11,670 And the other half has the place I was just talking about, Remote Area Medical, 833 00:54:11,830 --> 00:54:16,430 the pop -up health care clinic that rolls into town once a year like a 834 00:54:16,430 --> 00:54:21,330 fair, except instead of riding the tilt -a -whirl, a volunteer doctor pulls your 835 00:54:21,330 --> 00:54:22,330 infected tooth. 836 00:54:22,570 --> 00:54:27,550 And the saddest thing in the 60 Minutes piece is that nothing has changed. 837 00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:29,900 since they covered it in 2008. 838 00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:34,740 Same line of cars parked overnight so people make sure to get seen. 839 00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:40,020 Same people who work two jobs but still can't afford to see a doctor unless a 840 00:54:40,020 --> 00:54:43,100 touring nonprofit sets up shop in a parking lot. 841 00:54:43,700 --> 00:54:47,400 But here's the truth. You're not going to get health care to these people by 842 00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,620 threatening to tap and eat the rich. 843 00:54:50,020 --> 00:54:53,400 You raise billionaire taxes, they just leave the state. 844 00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:57,180 Or they leave the country. Or in some cases, the planet. 845 00:55:04,330 --> 00:55:08,210 I kid Elon, but you know, he had a good idea recently that might be apropos 846 00:55:08,210 --> 00:55:13,290 here. During the recent government shutdown, he volunteered to pay all the 847 00:55:13,290 --> 00:55:15,850 workers himself. You know, with couch money. 848 00:55:18,650 --> 00:55:24,030 That's how super rich our super rich are. They can single -handedly fund 849 00:55:24,030 --> 00:55:25,230 government programs. 850 00:55:25,730 --> 00:55:27,850 Okay, so let's make that a thing. 851 00:55:28,430 --> 00:55:31,290 The Adopt -a -Cause Challenge for Billionaires. 852 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:43,940 Teachers who buy school supplies with their own money or people without homes 853 00:55:43,940 --> 00:55:48,700 disaster victims, whatever it is, make the rich folks competitive about solving 854 00:55:48,700 --> 00:55:51,820 it because that's all they care about anyway, beating each other. 855 00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:56,760 Yeah. 856 00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,620 Just... Skip the middleman. The government and the health care 857 00:56:01,620 --> 00:56:05,080 that, for whatever reason, no matter how much they take in, never seem to get 858 00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:09,020 enough to the people and just shame the billionaires into doing it directly 859 00:56:09,020 --> 00:56:14,000 because they have all the money. And noblesse oblige isn't just the name of a 860 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:18,360 cologne. All right. Thank you very much. That's our show. I want to thank Chris 861 00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:23,780 Cobo, Sarah Esger, Kevin O. Westmore, Trevor Adams drops every Monday on 862 00:56:23,780 --> 00:56:25,500 or listen wherever you get your podcasts. 863 00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:31,660 watch overtime on youtube thank you very much everybody i appreciate it thank 864 00:56:31,660 --> 00:56:32,660 you