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Pon el reloj a correr.

Lo agradezco. Muchas gracias.

Gracias, gente.

Muchas gracias.

Gracias, señoras y señores.

Te doy la bienvenida.

Vale.

Muy bien. Muchas gracias. Yo

Lo veo en tus ojos. Sé por qué.

Hoy estás feliz.

Megan Markle y el príncipe Harry se van

de vuelta a Inglaterra.

Te digo que el hielo no está para juegos.

¿Eh?

No es eso. Fue idea de Harry. Él...

solo quiere estar más cerca de la familia

eso no le está hablando a él.

Y

Creo que

quizás saliendo justo a tiempo. No lo sé

¿Viste esto esta semana? Chacho,

Grandes noticias. La deuda nacional ahora tiene

superó los 40 billones y no en el...

dirección correcta. Este es el único

esas cosas que hacemos de manera bipartidista. Tú

Ya sabes, simplemente gastamos dinero que no tenemos.

Las dos partes están súper metidas en eso. Tiene...

se ha duplicado en 10 años y se ha cuadruplicado en

los últimos 20. Como Russell Crowe.

Me encanta Russell Crowe.

Nosotros sí.

Pero recuerda, no te vuelvas loco por eso.

la deuda solo importa cuando la

Los demócratas están en el poder.

Eh, hablando

Hablando de eso,

Tenemos un nuevo fiscal general. ¿Has...

¿Has visto a este tipo, Todd Blanch? Él estuvo en...

Encuentro con la prensa esta semana. Le preguntaron

si él

me negaría a, eh, hacer una promesa de que

actuaría de forma independiente del

La Casa Blanca y él se negó. Eh, esto es...

más o menos lo principal, el abogado

lo que se supone que debe hacer un general.

También me pareció súper preocupante.

que cada vez que él usaba la frase el

ley, usó comillas con los dedos. Yo, yo eso es que...

¿solo yo?

Pero déjame decirte,

El partido Demócrata tiene un nuevo ataque.

perro y se le da muy bien. Senador

John Oaf de, eh, Georgia. Eh, bueno, él es...

Tengo fanáticos aquí.

Él, eh, realmente se fue con todo contra Trump esta vez.

semana y en medio de ella él

mencionó a Natalie Harp. Esa es la joven

mujer que trabajaba para Trump cuando él llegó al poder

el carrito de la comida. Ella vino con él

afuera del avión.

Así que se han dicho todo tipo de rumores.

lo que está pasando ahora con su relación.

Bueno, déjenme contarles. Me demandaron.

sobre esto una vez. No, no del orangután.

No, esto fue hace solo un par de años.

Hace tiempo. Laura Loomer me demandó. Bueno, gané.

Por cierto. Pero bueno, está bien.

es que, pues, es caro y desagradable para...

que te demanden. Así que, ¿sabes qué? Me aguanté uno.

por el equipo en esto. Tú te encargas.

Todo lo que voy a decir.

Ahora, Natalie es como la de Trump.

empleado de apoyo emocional. Eso es cierto.

Pues ella viaja con él.

por todos lados y ella lleva una portátil

impresora inalámbrica para que pueda imprimir

Artículo halagador. Trump ya está mayor.

escuela. Él quiere copias impresas de la

le soplaron humo en el culo. Eh, pero...

pero eso es cosa de él. No sé por qué tú...

tengo que ir tras ella. Ya sabes, ella

parece súper entregada a su trabajo.

Nunca se toma un día libre. A veces ella está...

trabaja tanto que se le olvida comer y

dormir. Y ahora todos en América están

diciendo lo mismo. ¿Por qué no puedo conseguir un...

¿Quién millennial trabaja así?

Sabes, y...

hay, ya sabes, un poco más en lo que es el/la

Historia. Ella tuvo cáncer de huesos en sus veintitantos.

Le gusta Trump porque aceleró las cosas.

tratamientos experimentales que él

cree que le ayudó. Pero, ya sabes, en...

América, es como, ah, qué bien.

alguien nuevo a quien odiar.

Eh, Trump nos conoció, hicimos un podcast sobre eso.

Michael Cohen esta semana. Recuerda.

¿Michael Cohen? Su solucionador que una vez llamó

Trump es un tramposo, un mentiroso, un fraude, un...

matón, racista, depredador y estafador

hombre.

Él fue su propio vicepresidente Vance en una ocasión.

dijo que podría ser el Hitler de América. Su...

secretario de estado, Rubio, en el debate

se burló de los ojos de su polla.

Que el tipo tenga un solo amigo de verdad.

Está bien, que lo haga.

porque mira,

La guerra no va bien. O sea, con...

entonces tuvimos una tregua de 60 días que

terminaron. Así que para todos nuestros barcos en la

región, eso significa ¡todos a sus puestos! Eh, para...

los que todavía no se han animado

por la borda

eh, pues, ya sabes, tuvimos algo

algunos informes malos sobre lo que está pasando

en ese barco, pero ni se molesta

Pete Hexath. Pete Hgsathth, nuestro

Secretario de Guerra, él estaba en Iowa.

La feria estatal es esta semana y él dijo, "Sí, nosotros vamos."

entrenamiento, no traneo.

Bueno, eso la verdad que cayó bien.

multitud. Aunque la mujer con barba sí que...

salir caminando.

Pero eh

ya sabes todo nuestro rollo sobre el/la

lo que siempre tuvo Ramoose era que es

aguas internacionales. Ningún país puede

Reclámalo. Pues ahora Trump lo ha reclamado.

Claro, él dijo que, cito, él dijo que es...

nuevo territorio de EE.UU. Es el estrecho de

Here es nuevo territorio de EE.UU. No sé si...

Esto está relacionado, pero hoy cambió.

está verde y en la parte de abajo se está pelando.

Pues entonces

pero pues no sé

Escuché sobre eso. Lo llamaron.

Trump y, cito, dijeron que acepten.

realidad y derrota y dejar de estar metido en eso

Delirios. Eh, sí, chicos, ya lo intentamos.

Nosotros ese eso eso no nos funcionó.

No sé si va a funcionar para...

tú, pero pero eh no, Trump dice que no está

Va a hacerlo. Tiene una estrategia nueva.

ahora. Estrangulamiento económico. Eso es

Adónde vamos ahora. Ya dejó de disparar.

misiles porque no tenemos ninguno. Vale.

Pero

dice que vamos a destruirlos

la economía y estoy con el presidente en eso

este. Si hay algo que sé de él

puede lograrlo, es conducir algo

en bancarrota.

>> Muy bien, tenemos un programa genial. Tenemos...

Dana Bash y Jeremy Peters. Vaya, qué...

panel. Pero antes que nada, él es un...

artista estadounidense contemporáneo

autor superventas y recuperación

defensor, Hunter Biden. Señoras y

Señores, Hunter.

Hola.

Gracias por hacerlo. Gracias por estar.

Aquí. Está bien.

>> Está bien.

>> Dijo Hunter

Está bien. No te pongas nervioso. Solo vamos a...

tener como

>> Solo tenemos como 10 o 12 minutos.

Sí, yo

>> Estoy tan harto de todas las cosas que nosotros...

meterse en detalles y nos vemos

con en otro tu tu portátil, tu

esquela. La tercera palabra será portátil.

No sé, tú sabes, yo sé todo.

sobre la laptop. Más cosas de las que yo

quiero saber. Te he visto con tu...

polla fuera. Te he visto, te he visto con

con una pipa para fumar en la boca. Mi

Oye, ¿vas a postularte para presidente?

Eh...

Estoy aquí para anunciar

exacto.

>> ¿Has pensado en eso?

>> Sí. No, no lo he hecho.

>> No, tú

>> Mira, lo que pasa es que... si, si, si yo...

anunciar para presidente, luego alguien

Debería revisar para ver si recaí.

Eso es lo que yo...

>> Y no sé si todos están al tanto,

pero has estado completamente sobrio por

siete años.

>> Sí. Primero de junio de 2019.

>> ¿Qué te parece?

>> Yeah, I love it. I love it. Yeah, I do.

I do. You know, I my uh my whole reason

for being out there as much as I have

been is at least from my perspective,

they built this platform to beat the

hell out of me for about a seven-year

period of time. And um when the crowd

went home, the platform was still there.

And you know, there's 50 million

Americans that are still sick and

suffering every day from addiction. And

I get to go out there and I get to speak

to them. And even if it's one person

that sends me a message at any day, it

says, you know, I I saw your message and

I didn't drink today, then I've done

something that I think is incredibly

worthy. Yeah. I I

would uh I I think I would say to you

what I said to Charlie Sheen. You did

some bad things, but I don't think

you're a bad guy.

>> Yeah. Is that fair?

>> Yeah. You know, the the the thing that's

the most um has been the most edifying

for me over the course of this last few

months is this is the realization that

uh that my addiction isn't something

that disconnects me from people. and the

experience that I went through and the

fact that I had to have it all play out

on a national stage and then you know I

was on the cover of the New York Post

more times than I think anyone ever in

the history of the paper,

>> right?

>> And the the thing about it though is

what I realized is that all those things

that they thought were going to kill me

were the things that people identified

with and not necessarily, you know,

crack or you know, but and I mean it

like that that's like the shocking part,

right? is that when you say that word

you it's kind of like uh but everybody

everybody has a brother who's suffering

from addiction. Everybody including

themselves has have gone through periods

in their life in which they've struggled

and not just with addiction but with

grief and loss. You know, I I was

speaking about my dad's health, and you

know, the thing that is the most

astonishing to me is all of the things

that we all experience, these painful

things, are things that everybody's gone

through, but we never speak about it.

And nobody ever comes on on a show like

this and openly talks about it.

>> Well, I don't know about that. This is

America. We talk about it a lot.

>> Well, I don't know. I don't know.

>> Come on. Let's be real. We talk about it

a lot. We talk about addiction. We talk

about grief.

>> Yeah. I don't But you know what? But I I

think that we talk about addiction and

grief, but not in terms of our own

personal experience in which the the

vivid um technicolor pictures have been

released to the entire

and there's that piece of it. That's

what I'm talking about.

>> Well, I I think a fair person and

there's so few left in America because

everyone just likes to as I was saying

about Natalie, you know, everyone just

Oh, good. Someone to hate now. Someone

we can hate.

>> I don't know, Bill. I don't Here's the

thing. Can you imagine if if this

35-year-old staffer that uh wrote this

note that has this relationship and and

we were talking about Barack Obama,

>> what would be the what would be the

reaction then? Do you think that there

wouldn't be a howl from the right that

this is inappropriate

>> because everybody loves to hate? That's

what I'm saying. Does that make it

right? It doesn't make it right. I'm not

right. Do we Okay, let's not talk about

her. That's not the point.

The point I was making is that, you

know, I think a reasonable person who's

not filled with hate would say you both

took advantage of some of your

privileges by being the son of a

president and vice president and you

also were a target in a way that a

normal person would not have been. Is

that fair?

>> There's a part of that that is fair. I

one of the things that people I think

don't understand is that when my dad was

president, I didn't do any business. I

sold paintings and I sold paintings to

people that then had to testify before

Congress under oath. I made an average

of $225,000 a year.

>> Would you have been working for an

energy company out of Ukraine? Was that

really the thing you studied in school?

And you you got that job.

>> I went to Yale law school. I you got

that job because you just

>> No, that's just it. Yeah. 100%. As I've

said on a million interviews is that,

>> you know, I'm incredibly privileged. I

mean beyond uh beyond anyone's wild it

imagination not only because of who my

dad was but because of the father that

he was and so a lot of it a lot of

privilege comes from that and and I

don't deny that

>> and also a target on your back.

>> Yeah. And by the way and also a target

on your back and also a resume though

that includes being you know I uh I I

taught uh at Georgetown University's

master's program in the school of

foreign service. I served on a dozen

boards. I went to Yale law school. I

worked for Boy Schiller Flexner. When I

took that role, I was a chairman of the

board of the US UN World Food Program at

that time, which serves 70 million

people in 82 different countries. It's

the largest humanitarian organization in

the world. I was chairman of the board

or vice chairman of the board of Amtrak

for over 5 years. And so, it wasn't

about whether or not I had experienced.

My judgment, however, was absolutely

completely ridiculously off. I didn't

realize the snake pit and I was naive in

that sense. And I gave them something. I

gave them something on a silver platter.

>> I'm going to ask you.

>> And by the way, let me also say this.

>> I did it for the money.

>> And that's what other people won't say.

I absolutely 100% did do it because it

gave me a sense of freedom particularly

when Bo was diagnosed with cancer, but

all for for me. And so 100% all happened

when the last year and a half of my

father's vice presidency. None of the

what happened that they have created and

spun up these conspiracy have anything

to do when my when my dad was president

>> and and just for perspective I mean

whatever you made it's pennies compared

to what Don Jr is making of a I mean

billions

>> that's just the truth

>> just just to put it in put it in

perspective in the last 500 days of of

this administration Don Jr's company has

made has has taken in over $3.4 billion

in uh Department of Defense contracts.

He got a $640 million loan pushed

through by the White House, the largest

single loan to any private company ever

given out by the Department of Defense.

And that's just a fraction of it. Forget

about what they've done with

cryptocurrency now, which is a bank in

which they are able to go and launder

their money. It is a abomination. And

that doesn't even include what Jared is

doing and Ivanka are doing. He gets paid

over a hundred million dollar in fees by

the Saudis, the Saudis alone, for a $6.5

billion dollar fund that he controls,

which is all Gulf State money. And he is

our unelected, unappointed

uh emissary to the Middle East for a war

that nobody asked for. It is absurd.

Literally absurd. What?

>> Not nobody like

>> Well, that's that's true. BB Netanyahu

asked for it and he was 100% your your

father your father among every other

Democrat

>> excuse me

>> every Democrat said Iran can't have

nuclear weapons

>> and every single Democrat and every

president said Jimmy Carter refused what

what the Israelis wanted refused what

the Israelis wanted was to bomb Iran.

Every single one of them. The only

person who fell for it was Donald Trump.

>> Yeah. True.

>> Yeah.

>> Okay. So, let me ask you this because

you you hit on this a minute ago.

>> You you created a a tough situation for

your father.

>> Yeah.

>> Because politics is the roughest game

there is. They will look for any

vulnerability, any opening. And you kind

of gave them one like you said on a

silver platter. Did you ever apologize

to your father about? Did you really?

You've said to him, "Look, I I I know I

can't."

>> From the moment it started every day,

it's the it's one of the greatest

heartaches of my life. I talk about this

in terms of of the the uh the the the

trouble with recovery is this is I get

to get out here and I talk about how

I've been healed, how I'm, you know, I'm

stronger than I've ever been. I've taken

all of this and I'm, you know, the

people that get the most hurt, uh, for

for those of us that survive, those of

us that the addict that's that make it

through, the rare ones that make it

through, the real harm happened to all

of the people around them. And the

trauma for them goes very, very deep.

And they don't get to come out on this

show and talk about how well they're

doing and everything's all great. And,

you know, I think about my daughters. I

think about um, every day. and and the

fact that you know for a 2-year period

of time um between 2016 and 2019 they

lost the most important person in their

life and also the other most important

person my brother and I was not there

for them and I can never make up for

that and same with my dad my dad is

unconditional love is not love without

consequences it's not a love that

doesn't have a a a limit has it's a love

that is limitless in this is that no

matter what he would always be there for

me but it doesn't make up for the fact

that you know every night he had to go

to sleep when I was in that state and

wonder whether or not I was alive just

after losing Bo and you know guilt is an

appropriate thing it's absolutely as the

addict you got to go and you got to make

amends as much as you can and sometimes

the greatest amend that you can make is

just living a life by doing the next

right thing that's what I hope I'm doing

right Yeah.

Well, I know uh

I know your father is uh struggling

right now.

>> Yeah.

>> Would you tell them myself and the

audience wished him a peaceful rest of

his days for us?

>> He's watching us.

>> Thank you for being here. I'll see you

on my podcast. I hope. All right. Hunter

Biden, everybody. Thank you, Hunter.

Let's meet our friend.

Hey, how are you? All right. He's a

national correspondent for the New York

Times and author of Insurgency: How

Republicans Lost Their Party and Got

Everything They Wanted. Jeremy Peters.

Uh she's an anchor and chief political

correspondent for CNN, whose forthcoming

book, The Elections That Change the

World, is available to pre-order now.

Donna Bash, hey, how you doing?

Okay, so it's almost Labor Day. Wow, we

blew through another year. I can't

believe it. Merry Christmas because

that's what's coming next. Uh they say

that people don't pay attention until

Labor Day, right? So, let's pay

attention for them because we have been

having primaries, right?

>> A lot of them.

>> A lot of primaries and they do tell us a

lot. Um I feel like people are reluctant

ever to say that, oh, Trump is toast

because people have said it so many

times before and it's not been true.

Mhm.

>> I think he's toast. Um

>> because uh well, I'm just going by

uh the approval rating now is 33%.

That's the floor.

>> Well, maybe.

>> No, I think it is. I think that is the

people who just absolutely hate

Democrats. So, it really doesn't matter

>> whatever he does. It's just that I think

I don't think it ever gets They used to

be called Birchers. Then they were

birthers. their Tea Party. That's the

33%.

>> That's also the Democratic party's

approval rating, by the way. I mean,

they're in

>> as a party

>> as a party. And Chuck Schumer's uh

approval rating is actually lower than

that. So, as a party, they have not

managed to move up in favorability since

Trump took the oath the second time

around, and that's pretty damning.

>> Okay. Endorsements, though.

>> Yeah.

>> Trump used to win all his endorsements.

Now, he's winning almost none of them.

That's right.

>> He lost Wyoming a race there. Five

governorships have not gone his way. Two

people in Florida, which he calls his

home state.

>> The people are kind of over the

corruption. That message got through.

Inflation and gas prices, which is what

they hated Biden for.

>> Uh he always got it in front of that

banner that said promises kept. The war,

they see that as a promise not kept. I

won't get you into wars. Epstein, they

didn't like that. I think this election

coming up, the midterm, is a referendum

on the president. It almost always is.

So, I don't think there's any way the

Democrats can possibly blow this,

although they will try.

But I feel maybe

I feel like this election is no, we have

to be mad at Trump first and then the

the Democrats will lose the 2028

presidential. Except I agree with you on

everything you said about uh the

endorsements because I think it's up to

10 or 11 now. House endorsements,

governor's endorsements. He did pretty

well in some races that the Republicans

who want to win are really pissed at him

about like in Texas. They're really not

sure that Ken Paxton is I mean it's

Texas so he'll probably win, but it's

not a shoe in like John Cornin would

have been.

>> He's a very hard right-winger Ken

Paxton, right? and he's got some ethical

issues and and James Telerico is um

>> a young Democrat

>> Christian and and so forth. But I will

add a well I mean he's he wears his

faith on his sleeve in a way that that

he believes will help him.

>> Well, in the Democratic party, as long

as that faith faith isn't Jewish, you're

good.

>> Which, well, you said it. But um

>> I Yeah, I said it because it's true. I I

do want to put one more data point into

your um thesis there and that is that if

you look on the Democratic side, one

thing that happened this week is that

Alexander Binman lost. Alex Democratic

socialist. Let's remind the audience who

isn't political junkies. So, Alexander

Vinman was uh in the in the military and

he went and testified against President

Trump and Trump won because he heard the

phone call between President Trump and

>> the perfect call.

>> The perfect call between President Trump

and the Ukrainian leader.

>> So, he's a big hero of the left.

>> Exactly. He is a part of

>> and he lost.

>> And he lost. But he's a part of the

Trump resistance. And another pattern

that we have seen is people who have

become prominent in the Democratic party

as part of the Trump resistance also

losing. So it's not just that the

president is not doing as well with the

people in his base, he's lost his luster

with the people who hate him on the on

the left.

>> And let's not forget that the Democrats

um have a real enthusiasm problem,

right? I mean, a lot of voters are

looking at the Republicans and Trump and

the Democrats and saying, "I'm not

thrilled with either choice." And so

that enthusiasm problem, even though,

Bill, you're right. Democrats would

really have to screw something up to

lose in this midterm election. I It's

really not clear how well they will do,

even if they have a majority, because

the Democrats in the House that I talked

to are really worried that if they don't

pick up a dozen seats, they're going to

be beholdened to the new squad in this

handful of of of Democratic socialists

who will essentially have veto power

over the entire Democratic establishment

agenda. That's a big concern. Will they?

>> They will. Well, if it's if it's a slim

majority, just like you're seeing on the

right with the Tea Party and a little

bit less so now, if it's slim majority

minority rules on on within the party

and so if you have, let's say, I mean,

you had four members of the squad and

then it was growing. Let's say you have

10 people who are absolutely I'm not

going to do anything unless you pass

Medicare for all. Just for example,

Hakeim Jeff, if he doesn't have a

majority more than 10 people, he's

screwed.

>> Almost like a parliamentary government

where you bring in a like in an Israel.

>> The the the government only exists

because they had to bring in like four

or five members of the far far

right-wing party and they do control in

a lot of ways what goes on in that

government.

>> Yeah, they absolutely do. And they're

not running to be members of the

Democratic party. They're running many

of them anyway as democratic socialists.

It's a totally different political

organization. And in fact, they want to

take out the Democratic party. I mean,

that's their stated goal. They not only

want to take out the Democratic party,

they want to take out the entire

constitutional system that the

Democratic Party is allowed to

participate in governing.

>> And they like communism. I proved it

here a couple of weeks ago just by

quoting them. They use the word a lot.

They're not actually trying to hide it,

although if you ask them, they will

deny.

>> Yeah. It's so interesting.

>> They will, but some of them, I mean,

this is why Elsa did quite well in

Michigan. This is why the woman who is

running against Karen Bass as mayor of

LA is doing quite well because they've

learned how to sand down the rougher

edges and they don't talk about

socialism. They don't talk about seizing

the means of production and stuff like

that. Uh they're getting many of them,

some of them are not quite ready for

prime time, let's be clear, but a lot of

them have really done a good job of

selling themselves to the public as

quite reasonable mainstream politicians.

And that's how uh Angie Nixon, who beat

Alexander Vman in Florida this week.

>> Okay. So that explain who that is.

>> She is a Democratic socialist uh who

raised like not even a million dollars.

>> That's right.

>> And he raised about $16 million. So I'm

not a mathematician, but I think that's

like 16 to1. And he crushed She crushed

him

>> in Florida. Absolutely. In Florida,

which is a red. Yes. But this is

>> But this is of course the Democratic

primary.

>> It's a Democratic primary.

But she but she did it by she's a

democratic socialist but she did it by

really narrowing down her message about

affordability about about money about

trying to uh you know live the American

dream in a way that

>> but again this is a race within the

Democratic party so when she runs in the

general against the Republican for

governor she's be very hard very hard

>> she's going to run against Ashley Moody

who's the um sitting Republican senator

and It's it I mean I don't want to say

impossible but if there is an impossible

race that could be.

>> So what do you think of this new star

John Oaf I mentioned in the monologue. I

mean we've mentioned him before. He's

been there for a couple of years in

Georgia. He's kind of Obama-esque when

he speaks and he really led into Trump

in a way that people seem to be

certainly on the left thirsting for. Um

and um the problem is he's Jewish. Mhm.

>> I mean, I I know we don't want to talk

about that, but we need to talk about

that because that is the situation in

the Democratic Party. They think Gaza is

a genocide. It is not. There's an actual

meaning into the word genocide. It

doesn't come close. But as long as you

tag that name genocide, of course, what

kind of normal person would not hate

someone who's responsible for a

genocide? And they've all just signed on

to this because they're just big on

buzzwords and lawn signs and bumper

stickers. That's as deep as they go

>> and likes on their social media

>> and likes. So, uh they you have to say

it. There was a uh Congressman Scott

Weiner, he's I think going to take Nancy

Pelos's seat in San Francisco. And he

wasn't saying genocide and they

surrounded him a mob and yelled at him

and said, "You're not gay." He's gay.

They're not really gay unless you What

the [ __ ] does that have to do with

genocide?

>> Right. Right.

>> Say it. And he did because the Democrats

are cowards.

>> Can I just This is factual. Do you know

the only country in the Middle East that

has gay rights?

>> Of course.

>> Yes. That's why the people with the

queers for Palestine t-shirts are so out

of their mind. Can I can I say one thing

about the Jew because um I actually uh

earlier this summer I interviewed Josh

Shapiro, governor of

>> another Jewish politician,

>> governor of uh of Pennsylvania running

for reelection but also very much in the

conversation about 2028. And I asked him

this question point blank. Do you really

think that a Jewish politician can win a

Democratic primary for president in this

environment for for Jews? and he gave an

answer about how he's been talking about

his faith a lot. He doesn't hide from

it. Pennsylvania is a purple state. He's

very popular in Pennsylvania. Um and you

know, I thought a lot about it. We'll

see. But the other thing that I thought

about, Bill, is that even or maybe

despite this climate, you have Josh

Shapiro, John Oaf, JB Pritsker, Rahm

Emanuel. I don't remember a time where

there were more Jews who were even

thinking openly about running for

president in the Democratic primary.

>> We'll see what happens when they get

asked about Israel. I think Bill has a

has a good point is that they twist

themselves in into knots over it because

the activist left has done such a good

job of making this a third rail like you

know you have to buy into the rhetoric

just like you used to have to say I want

to defund the police or I want you know

there to be

>> it's a litmus test.

>> Yes. Exactly. And and as is often the

case, and this is something I think

Democratic strategists worry about

privately, is the absolutist nature of

some of the activism rhetoric on the

left is a real problem because they're

always trying to explain it away, right?

Well, we don't really mean defund the

police. Well, uh, we don't really mean

that Donald Trump is a king or they're

using kind of jargony language like, um,

let's, you know, stop the oligarchy or

or, you know, whatever that tour is. And

ordinary people don't know what that

means. They don't it it just

>> it doesn't resonate with them or care,

right? And this unless Democrats learn

how to talk to voters in a way that is

is is more to their hearts rather than

to their heads and you know to to to a

political dictionary that you need to

translate what they're saying. I you

know they this will be a difficult year.

>> But I think back to what you

>> what you said about John Oaf that is one

of the main reasons why he's taking off.

I I watched that whole speech that he

gave last Sunday and it wasn't just the

the line that everybody's talking about

about Natalie. The whole the whole way

that he wo in um the heart and the soul

of fighting for affordability but also

fighting against Donald Trump was

incredibly unique. Well, again, these

issues like corruption. I mean, the the

World Financial, is that Trump's

crypto? He's got his own crypto

company. And I see today now they're

letting them have a bank. It It's just

It's very close to just backing a truck

up to Fort Knox.

>> And people get that. You know, it's like

we're struggling. You said you were

going to stop our struggling. You said

gas prices and inflation were going to

go down. They're not. But you guys are

making out great.

>> All right. Um, it is back to school

time.

>> So, um, that includes college and for

some reason college includes Arizona

State. I've never understood that. Um,

but they are.

It's true.

They are in the news because they have a

Walter Kankite School of Journalism and

Mass Communication. Guess what the new

uh curriculum is about? They're you're

gonna get be able to get a course in

influencing.

I wish I was just making this up.

You can literally get a BS in BS. Now,

would you like to hear

would you like to hear uh

we got a hold of the the syllabus. Would

you like to hear some in the course? I'm

sure you would. Uh, for example, there's

uh intro to influencing duck lips, pea

signs, and you love it.

You need that intro course. Of course,

uh, strategies in making a toilet seat

look like a private jet. Oh, yeah.

That's

biology 301. Diagnosing yourself is

something you Googled this morning.

Uh,

math 101. Why you don't need it.

A camera phone mechanics. How to make

your tits the focus of whatever you're

yammering about.

Uh, unboxing 101. Losing your [ __ ] over

new material goods in an age of

socialism.

Uh, intro to public speaking tips on

shaming people in public who aren't

really even doing anything.

>> Uh, career development, explaining to

your grandparents what exactly it is you

do.

and senior seminar when to call it quits

and transition to only fans. All right.

>> So, let's uh

let's talk about higher education, shall

we? Because this is this is not the only

story in the news. Quite a few.

University of Michigan.

>> Mhm. Where I went. Yes.

>> That's where you went.

>> I did. Yes. I wish I wouldn't have had

grades. That would have been great.

Right. They are going to no grades now.

And the reason given

>> just as freshman or for the whole the

whole thing.

>> I'm not sure about that. I But what

>> it doesn't matter.

>> It's it's ridiculous. And they're saying

it because sometimes a kid gets a gra

bad grade and it makes them sad.

>> I can't

>> I'm not making that up.

>> I mean, no grades. And what is that what

does that school cost? It's not cheap,

right?

>> It's not cheap. I can tell you what it

was 25 years ago, but um no, but look,

this is part of the coddling of the

American mind effect that you know um

we've been reading about and and

scholars smarter than I am have been

writing about for 15 years. And I don't

see how when you have uh you know a

studentageed population that is already

losing its jobs to losing what they

trained for to AI uh and and how they're

basically as a generation having to face

you know what a future looks like on a

planet that that is is so hot and so

inhospitable that you know it it's

rejecting human life. I mean yeah this

is it's it's not a great outlook. I grew

up I'm Gen X. So I grew up basically

feral like the rest of our the rest of

our generation.

>> I'm a boomer. You think you're feral?

>> Yeah. I mean and so

>> I'm out of the dump. Yes.

>> I mean literally. So the idea that we

can't I mean I look I understand there

are very real mental health challenges

that people not just kids but people

have for many many reasons including

their phones and there's a cultural

issue but like come on. It's I mean I

know Trump University is a scam, but

when there's no grades, isn't that a

scam, too? I mean,

>> well, it it's I mean, what

>> it it goes to the question of what

college is what a four-year degree is

really training kids for.

>> Well, I let me answer that now. This is

this is nothing. This is the second this

is even scarier.

>> AI, which in the old days, like two

years ago,

was writing the papers.

>> Uhhuh.

>> And sometimes grading them.

Now it can take the course all by

itself. This AI taking college courses.

This is from your paper

>> with simple commands like log in and

complete my quiz.

>> Mhm.

>> It can lecture take watch lecture

videos, take tests, write papers, and

chat with classmates about reading

assignments. Students may never meet

with their professors or their peers.

>> Yeah.

>> What's the point?

>> What the [ __ ]

>> I mean, what let me let me defend take a

little bit of an unorthodox approach

here and defend the kids because I don't

actually think that all of this is their

fault. They've been told by CEOs from AI

companies that this technology is going

to replace them. So to so to a certain

degree, it seems like a lot of them by

adapting this adapting to this

technology and having it do everything

for them are basically saying, "All

right, let's get on with it." Uh, but at

the same time, what they could be doing

with this, like how Dana uses AI, how I

try to use AI, how I'm sure you do, is

to make your make yourself better at the

job that you're doing, more efficient.

>> I don't use it.

>> What they're doing, I don't want it

>> at all. Nothing.

>> I don't want it in my phone. The second

I the second people started hamming it

and telling me what it did and and oh it

>> it knows everything about you. It's in

your phone. It sees every one of your

pictures. It knows every text you ever

sent. You think I want that in my

[ __ ] phone?

>> You people are crazy if you're doing

this. You're crazy.

>> Well, what what it does is

>> and it can't do my job.

>> What what

>> that is for sure.

>> What people have told

>> I hope these

Thank you.

>> What the heads of these AI companies

have been all too eager to tell us is

that this technology is going to replace

us. That it will do everything that you

used to do when really it's not going to

do that. It is never going to replace

human beings. It's going to make our

jobs easier and and in some ways make

workers more efficient. So people should

really uh you know if you're teaching

students how to use this as a way to not

do their work instead of using it as a

way to improve their work. It's just not

going to ever be a you know a tool that

they learn how to use appropriately.

>> But I I think one of the if there is a

benefit from AI I think it is if you

think about it it is a reminder of why

human interaction is so important. Like

I mean just even here

>> this is not you can't have this as an AI

experience. There are real human beings

here watching a

show and that can't be replicated in AI.

It just can't. It just can't. And for

the students, I understand that there

are some reasons why students want to go

online, but it is also a reminder of how

great it is to have a human interaction

with fellow students in a classroom with

a professor to there are things that you

just can't learn or even pretend to

learn if you're dealing with a AI

without that human interaction.

>> I take your point, it's not all their

fault, but it's also I've said this

before, but we talked about AI. It is

also their place to stop it. They're the

younger generation when they want to

protest against something. Yeah. They're

not shy about it. Right.

>> Okay. So, they're using it. If AI can do

the job of going to school for you

>> completely,

>> why wouldn't it be able to do the job

you were going to get trained for in

school? So, you're you're building your

own gallows.

>> It's up to that generation to

>> stand across history and say, "Stop."

Um, and I don't think we can look to the

Silicon Valley companies for any type of

moral leadership on this issue. I mean

that and that's a big, you know, when

you talk to to the heads of these

companies, which you and I have both

done as part of our jobs, they what's

striking is how often they liken their

work to a humanitarian cause, to saving

civilization. And I'm not kidding. They

really see it this way. And if this

doesn't sound too much like Facebook as

you know the the promoter of democracy

and free speech in the town square that

was going to be good for us all then you

know I think you should take take

another look at how you're reading this

>> and you also talked about something I

think you and I both agree on that this

is not just the beginning I mean the end

of the rot in higher education. It

started long ago when they stopped

teaching people things because they

became indoctrination centers. Two

stories from this week I think will show

you that this has now infected our

political discourse. Megan Romer, she is

the co-chair of the DSA. She was on

David Remnik's podcast

>> and she talked about taxing the hell out

of them and he said, "Um, what do you

mean by that?" And she said, "Uh, well,

you know, I don't really have a solid."

And then just ribbled off.

>> Yeah. And he said, "But shouldn't you

shouldn't you be more specific about

what taxing the hell means?

>> They don't know anything." Okay. Okay.

Then Lindsey Graham's sister

>> was running and is now running in South

Carolina.

>> She was asked about Taiwan and she said,

"I'm not that informed on social on

national security." Well, you're running

for the Senate. That's not an answer

that is acceptable. I'm not that

informed. I guess my question is, does

it matter that people don't know

anything? Yes.

>> I'm so glad you're here.

So glad you're here.

>> One word answer. Yes. It matters a lot.

It matters a lot. But I will say that I

that interview that David Remnick did

with the DSA chair was is something that

everybody should watch as an hopefully

an antidote to what you just said.

>> This isn't this is like real life. This

isn't just a string of slogans put

together. It's actual policy that when

you get to a place where you're running

for uh elected office or if you actually

are successful in elected office, you

got to know stuff.

>> Yeah. And by the way, there's been a

slew of interviews just like this where

candidates for who represent the

Democratic Socialists of America have

really struggled to articulate how they

don't subscribe to communism, whether or

not they really believe in Marxism and

basic facts about how their ideology

would help them govern the United States

out of this affordability crisis. Look,

a lot of these people are are really

talented politically. I think you know M

Dani is a generational political talent.

He's out of the democratic socialists of

America. Um this uh say El Say in

Michigan is also very talented. He's not

a democratic socialist although they do

claim him as one of their own. But by

and large a lot of these candidates come

out of the activist wing of the party.

They're very academic. They're, you

know, very into, you know, reading

reading Karl Marx and and and left-wing

theory. And we've seen time and time

again that a lot of them just don't

withstand the scrutiny.

>> There was a story I mean if you're

talking about academics this week I just

have to bring this up. This Jason Arday

story. He's a professor. Really sad.

>> Very sad. It turned into it was a

suicide at the I mean a week ago it was

not that story. He was the first black

professor at Cambridge I think.

>> Yes.

>> Young

>> and the youngest.

>> The youngest. Okay. Whenever I hear a

story like this, first of all, I don't

believe anything. I don't believe

anything anybody says, right? I have to

read two or three more articles, do a

deep dive. But the first story was,

okay, this guy was just wanted by the

left to be what they wanted him to be,

which was the first hero, professor,

black professor, but really he was

guilty of plagiarism and all sorts of

incredible lies. And because they're so

captivated by DEI and wanting this, they

just let him pass. And I, well, I'm

going to check this out. No, that's

exactly what happened, right?

>> It's the soft bigotry of low.

>> It's not just that they let him pass.

It's that they ignored the glaring red

flags like grammatical errors in his

thesis and things in his back in his

backtory that just didn't add up like

running 30 marathons in 35 days. And to

me, Cambridge has a lot of explaining to

do about how they seem to have really

cynically used this person who was

obviously struggling with mental illness

to further their own diversity. He said

goals.

>> He didn't learn to speak until he was

18, right? He he said he was autistic.

He said a number of diseases. He said uh

he was uh where was Oh, I can't find it,

but he was just crazy. Oh, he's

testicular cancer, brain tumor,

epilepsy, locked in syndrome. I don't

know what that is. He said he ran the

marathons with a broken leg.

>> He said he was mute until age 11 and

illiterate until 18 and then became the

greatest professor in I mean, it's like

a prank. like, can we make liberals who

want to believe this actually do it? And

they did. And it's not much more

complicated than that.

>> Well,

>> white people are crazy.

>> And to back that up, what is sad and

tragic is, as you said, perhaps

Cambridge let him down, but it once this

got out and the investigation began,

then the mob went after him.

>> Mhm. And it was, you know, in the UK the

press are tough to say the least and

kind of what you were talking about

before about sort of the hate mob and

that's what happened to him. Now if he

had underlying I mean obviously he had

underlying mental health issues he he

took his own life but it's those two

things combined that is such a

cautionary tale of where we are right

now society and culturally. the system

played a huge role in his death and if

if Cambridge is doing an honest

examination of this they you know they

should address that.

>> They should. All right. Thank you guys.

Time for new rules.

Okay.

All right.

No, everyone in the media who's having a

good time mocking Kaia Gerber for

revealing that when she was a child, she

had an exorcism performed on her with a

derigit is missing the point. It works

because when some hippie starts playing

the derigue, even evil spirits say,

"Let's get the [ __ ] out of here.

Uh, new world drug companies have to

make at least one ad for prescription

medication where no one becomes a DJ

or

or at least list it as a possible side

effect. Stop using Skyrizzy if you're a

white man in your 40s and you experience

the uncontrollable urge to drop sick

beats.

Uh, Nural, now that researchers have

proven that dogs can tell if people are

happy or sad by reading our faces, they

must teach dogs to do that with legs,

>> which they always always seem to read as

asking for for it.

New roll. Don't be surprised that

Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, says

he would make her finish her homework

before he'd let her go outside and play.

That was Michael's way. He was always

very hard with kids.

>> Uh, new rule. Now that Air France uh

decided to close the sauna area in its

Paris lounge because passengers were

using it for inappropriate activity.

>> I have to ask, what happened to you,

France?

You gave the world inappropriate

activity.

The French kiss, the topless beach

lingerie, the managatu,

that thing where husbands and wives

don't ask each other where they were

from 5 to 7

and now you're Utah with croissant.

I'm sorry, but if two, possibly three

consenting adults can't do it between

connecting flights in the airport, then

maybe Tucker Carlson is right. Why did

we even defeat the Nazis?

And finally, new rule, free the

workplace romance. Let's go back to

letting love connections happen at the

office. It's funny. All I hear about

these days is the loneliness epidemic

and how nobody socializes anymore and

Jenzie isn't dating. Jenz isn't [ __ ]

Here's a crazy idea. Stop being overly

paranoid about power imbalances in one

of the last places humans actually

interact anymore and let people [ __ ] at

work.

>> I I don't mean literally have sex in the

supply closet, but flirt, acknowledge

mutual attraction, and maybe get into a

relationship and then have sex in the

supply closet.

But

but that's not really where we are

because America always overreacts

usually on the side of too much safety.

We did it with overprotecting our

children. We did it with drugs because

some people get addicted. For decades,

no one was allowed to even smoke pot

legally. And we do it with sex. In

Congress, they already have a rule that

says you can't date anyone in your own

office. And now they're considering one

supported by Speaker Mike Johnson that

would ban members from dating any

staffer from any office because telling

people who they're allowed to love is

repulsive when the Bible does it. But

it's okay when it's a weirdo like Mike

Johnson

who who

Mike Johnson who who has an app on his

phone called Covenant Eyes which scans

everything you open and reports any porn

use to a sponsor which in this case is

his son. Ew.

But you know Mike is not the only one

who supports this. It's bipartisan. AOC

agrees. Yeah. She says no one who works

on Capitol Hill should ever date anybody

else who works on Capitol Hill. Okay.

But where else are they supposed to

meet? It's where they spend all their

time. They run home to get 4 hours of

sleep, eat a toaster strudel, and

run back to the office to write the

actual bills that their bosses, the

elected representatives, don't even

read.

But AOC says there are a lot of fish in

the sea. If someone is seeking a

partner, we don't need to necessarily do

that here. Uh, no, you don't have to,

but maybe if you did, your eggs wouldn't

be in a freezer on 14th Street.

Look, please, I'm all for it. Freezing

eggs or whatever you want to do that's

consensual, and that's the point. Stop

punishing all the people who want a

consensual relationship because offices

contain some male creeps as does

everywhere in life. The question is, is

it the smart thing to throw out the baby

making with the bathwater?

And

according to a recent article in Inc.

called Jenzers and Millennials want

workplace romance normalized even if it

breaks company rules. No, it's not.

Because here's the thing. While there

are plenty of fish in the sea, there

aren't a lot of seas.

That is not a lot of places to meet

fish.

The workplace is where most people have

always done it. It's where most married

couples caught their fish.

Forbes did a study and found 43% of

workplace romances ended in marriage.

The other 50% 57% ended on the jumbotron

at a Coldplay concert.

Now,

is the workplace the perfect place to

be? No. But what's better? dating apps,

bars, which are now places where people

go out and yet somehow are still on

their phone.

Of course, no woman in off in an office

wants the guy in the next cubicle giving

unsolicited back rubs or making comments

about her appearance, unless he's cute

and then it's why is he ignoring me?

But that stuff is already, if not

outright illegal, very frowned upon.

This is 2026. Every company has an HR

department. Now, when a true predator

like Eric Swallwell was finally exposed,

people said, "What took so long?" Well,

what took so long is nobody reported it

for a long time. Now, does it take guts

to do that? Sure. Yes. But call me a

radical feminist. I think women in 2026

are capable of guts and of handling most

clumsy overtures without an act from

Congress.

There is a congressman from North

Carolina, Chuck Edwards, Republican,

Christian, married to the same woman for

40 years. Not really my jam.

But I also don't think he should have

been forced out of his race, which he

was, for what he did, which wasn't much.

A bipartisan House ethics committee did

a full investigation and found zero

evidence of sexual activity, physical

contact, or lewd propositions. No. What

Chuck did was buy the women in his

office gifts. A lot of them. He bought

shoes, jewelry, purses, cell phones,

laptops, massages, kitchen appliances,

spa treatments. You know, a real

monster.

One time, one time after a staffer had a

bad breakup, Congressman Edwards paid

for her and a friend to go to New York

and see Hamilton

>> without without him on the trip.

>> The only thing this guy couldn't keep in

his pants was his credit card.

There's a song in Hamilton called The

Room Where It Happens. And this tragic

castrad literally couldn't get in the

room where it happens,

a room he paid for, which explains his

campaign slogan. I still believe in a

place called the friend zone.

I tell you, thank goodness we stop this

sick, demented [ __ ] before he sends

another poor, defenseless woman on a spa

weekend.

This

this maniac even once arranged for a

singer at a staffer's birthday party.

And this was so traumatic that one

staffer confided in a friend that she

was low-key scared.

The congressional panel also found some

women were uncomfortable with the gifts.

Yeah, but not so uncomfortable they

didn't take them.

Maybe

Maybe let's all try a little more

romance and a little less hypocrisy. You

know, we hate it when people have sex in

the office, but you know what TV show?

We love The Office.

The most popular sitcom of all time,

reproduced all over the world, and the

entire show is an HR department's worst

nightmare. Everybody is either [ __ ]

or trying to [ __ ] everybody else. And it

doesn't make anybody low-key scared.

Jim and Pam, Jim and Karen, Michael and

Jan, Michael and Holly, Aaron and Gabe,

Aaron and Andy, Erin and Pete, Brian and

Kelly, Angela and Andy, Angela and

Dwight. There was less incestuous

[ __ ] in Fleetwood Mac.

All right, that's our show. I want to

thank Jeremy Peters, Denn Bash, and

Hunter Biden. Club Random drops every

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