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Media Woes Continue as Biden/Harris Roasted at Al Smith Memorial Dinner · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris wasn't in attendance at last night's Al Smith
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Speaker 1: Dinner in New York on Thursday night. She did offer
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Speaker 1: a video consolation to the attendees. Instead, Harris enlisted actress
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Speaker 1: Molly Shannon, who received her beloved Satay Night Live character
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Speaker 1: that she decided to bring out of retirement, the Catholic
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Speaker 1: schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher if you've ever watched SNL. In
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Speaker 1: the video, Harris began by speaking about Al Smith Dinner,
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Speaker 1: a tradition each election season where the presidential candidates roast
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Speaker 1: each other and themselves. As she speaks, Shenon runs behind
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Speaker 1: her as Mary Katherine Gallagher and says things like, Hey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? Harris says, who is that? Harris then
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Speaker 1: invites Mary Catherine to help her writer speech for the dinner,
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Speaker 1: which she describes as an important tradition that she decided
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Speaker 1: to skip and is so proud to be a part of. Saying,
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Speaker 1: my feelings about what you should say tonight would be
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Speaker 1: best express in a monologue from one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: made for TV series, Shannon replies. She then goes in
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Speaker 1: to explain that she believes that you need a woman
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Speaker 1: to represent the country that that is what this is
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Speaker 1: all about. I'm going to play it for you, but
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Speaker 1: I want to have the context for you to understood
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Speaker 1: exactly what you're listening to. Again, skipping the dinner didn't
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Speaker 1: go over well with the attendees, but this is the
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Speaker 1: video she put out on YouTube.
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Speaker 2: And distinguished guests. The Al Smith dinner provides a rare
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Speaker 2: opportunity to set aside partisanship.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sorry, what's going on?
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Speaker 2: Who was that?
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Speaker 4: Sorry?
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Speaker 3: Mary cokethan Elli Ry coming.
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Speaker 2: Very nice to meet you, Mary Catherine. Right now, I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to record my speech for tonight's dinner.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I know. I just want to say that
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Speaker 3: I'm Catholic and tonight is one of the biggest dinners
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Speaker 3: next to the Last Supper.
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Speaker 2: It is a very important dinner, and it's an important
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Speaker 2: tradition that I'm so proud to be a part of.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes when I get nervous, I stick my fingers on
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Speaker 3: in my arms and I swim on them like that.
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Speaker 3: That's gross.
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Speaker 2: So tell me something. I'm giving a speech. You have
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Speaker 2: some thoughts about what I might say tonight.
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Speaker 3: My feelings about what you say tonight would be best
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Speaker 3: express in a monologue. From one of my favorite made
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Speaker 3: for TV series. Okay, let's hear it, don't you see? Men,
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Speaker 3: we need a woman to represent us. A woman brings
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Speaker 3: more heart, more compassion, and think how smart you must
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Speaker 3: be to become a top contender in a field dominated
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Speaker 3: by men.
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Speaker 5: It's time for a woman, bro.
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Speaker 3: And with this woman, we can fly.
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Speaker 6: What series was that from?
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Speaker 3: Oh that's from House of Dragons, now streaming on HBO Max.
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Speaker 2: Is there anything that you think that maybe I shouldn't
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Speaker 2: bring up tonight?
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Speaker 3: Well, don't lie. Thou shalt not bear a false witness
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Speaker 3: to thy neighbor.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, especially thy neighbor's election results.
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Speaker 3: Just you know there will be a fact checker there tonight.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's great, Who Jesus? And maybe don't say anything
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Speaker 3: negativebout Catholics.
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Speaker 2: I would never do that no matter where I was.
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Speaker 2: That would be like criticizing Detroit.
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Speaker 7: In Detroit.
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Speaker 3: Does it bother you that that trunk guy insults you
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Speaker 3: all the time, Because it really bothers my friends and me.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Mary Catherine, it's very important to always remember you
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Speaker 2: should never let anyone tell you who you are. You
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Speaker 2: tell them who you are.
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Speaker 3: Hater's gonna hate, hate, hate, shake it off, Shake it off,
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Speaker 3: shake it off, shake it off. Oh yeah, okay. And
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Speaker 3: also remember one more thing, don't worry if you make
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Speaker 3: a mistake because Catholic people are very forgiving. Yeah. And
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Speaker 3: also one last thing I want to tell you, don't
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Speaker 3: forget to say superstar.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Mary, Catherine, thank you, Mama La, Thank you
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Speaker 2: your eminence and distinguished guests. The Al Smith Dinner provides
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Speaker 2: a rare opportunity to set aside partisanship and come together
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Speaker 2: to do some good by supporting the tremendous charitable work
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Speaker 2: of the Catholic Church. The church cares for the sick
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Speaker 2: and feeds the hungry, supports families with housing and education,
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Speaker 2: and in times of disaster, provides not only essential supplies
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Speaker 2: but also, in so importantly a sense of hope. The
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Speaker 2: Gospel of Luke tells us that faith has the power
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Speaker 2: to shine a light on those living in darkness and
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Speaker 2: to guide our feet in the path of peace. In
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Speaker 2: the spirit of Tonight's dinner, let us recommit to reaching
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Speaker 2: across divides to seek understanding and common ground, And in
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Speaker 2: honor of the Great Al Smith, let us fight to
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Speaker 2: build a better future with faith in God, our country
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Speaker 2: and in each other, Thank you, May God bless you,
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Speaker 2: and may God bless the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what makes me laugh is this is like
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Speaker 1: three and a half minutes where they try to make
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Speaker 1: it funny. The number of moments that Kama Harris is
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Speaker 1: funny would be like, I think it's fair to say
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Speaker 1: zero minutes of that time. And then she brings in,
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Speaker 1: which is a funny bit from Saturday Night Live, right,
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Speaker 1: this character to advise her on how.
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Speaker 5: To be funny, and it just didn't work.
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Speaker 1: Now, the attendees were unimpressed with the fact that she
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Speaker 1: missed such an important tradition. Now, she didn't miss it
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Speaker 1: by accident. This was done on purpose. I think she
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Speaker 1: was afraid, Okay, I really do. I think she was
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Speaker 1: afraid that she would bomb Donald Trump. However, went in
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Speaker 1: there and just killed it. He had even Democrats laughing.
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Speaker 1: And when you get a opportunity to just own the
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Speaker 1: room as he did, it was pretty impressed to watch
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Speaker 1: him roast many Democrats in the room, many Democratic leaders
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Speaker 1: from New York, including who was sitting to his left
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Speaker 1: right in front of him, Chuck Schumer.
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Speaker 5: That was actually hysterical.
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Speaker 1: Some of it I can't even play for you because
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Speaker 1: some of the words are not appropriate for radio, but
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Speaker 1: nonetheless absolutely hilarious.
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Speaker 5: This is I think the difference.
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Speaker 1: The big difference here is Donald Trump yet again shows up,
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris yet again hides, especially after what happened.
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Speaker 5: With her interview with Brett Baer.
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Speaker 1: I would have thought they would have wanted to make
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Speaker 1: sure that they went to this. I think the video
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Speaker 1: of it of her being funny, unless they just said, hey,
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Speaker 1: there's no way she can be funny, so we're just
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Speaker 1: gonna bail. And honestly, that may be part of it.
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Speaker 1: They may have just said, look, you're not funny. We
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Speaker 1: need to have a scripted video that makes it look
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Speaker 1: like you're funny. And that's how we're gonna put this
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Speaker 1: off like that, We're just gonna We're gonna do it
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Speaker 1: that way. I still think it was a bad decision.
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Speaker 1: I think if you're running for president and there's these
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Speaker 1: certain traditions, like you got to rise to the occasion,
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Speaker 1: like you just do you gotta you got to rise
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Speaker 1: the occasions, You got to be fired up, and look,
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Speaker 1: that room is liberal, it's in New York, for goodness sakes.
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Speaker 1: They would have given her cover. But when you just
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Speaker 1: Brettbear explained more of the backstory of how things kind
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Speaker 1: of went down in this interval. Not only was Kamala
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Speaker 1: Harris purposely late because they were planning on doing this
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Speaker 1: interview taped to live. Basically, they were going to start
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Speaker 1: at five o'clock and then air it at six, so
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Speaker 1: as soon as the interview was ending, it was up
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Speaker 1: on the air. With the beginning, Kamala Harris was running
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Speaker 1: out the clock, showing up late for the interview on
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Speaker 1: purpose to basically minimize the amount of time he could
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Speaker 1: ask questions, and then four of her staffers losing their
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Speaker 1: minds trying to get Brettbair to wrap the interview because
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Speaker 1: it wasn't going well. There's a little more backstory on.
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Speaker 2: This, Dana.
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Speaker 8: I'll give you a little behind the scenes here. I
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Speaker 8: know you love this and it fits in with Dana
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Speaker 8: read sports. You know when the kicker in football, they
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Speaker 8: call a timeout right before he's going to kick the
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Speaker 8: field goal. They're icing the kicker. So we were supposed
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Speaker 8: to start at five pm. This was the time they
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Speaker 8: gave us. Originally, we're going to do twenty five or
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Speaker 8: thirty minutes, it came in and said, well, maybe twenty,
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Speaker 8: so it was already getting whittled down. And then the
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Speaker 8: Vice president showed up about five point fifteen. We were
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Speaker 8: pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around
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Speaker 8: for the.
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Speaker 5: Top of the six o'clock.
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Speaker 8: So that's how it started. And I could tell when
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Speaker 8: we started talking that she was going to be tough
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Speaker 8: to to, you know, redirect without me trying to interrupt.
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Speaker 8: I did this with President Obama. At one point I
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Speaker 8: just said, mister President, I know you liked the filibuster.
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Speaker 8: I just didn't even have the chance to sometimes redirect
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Speaker 8: in those ways.
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Speaker 5: I had a lot of other questions.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so what a missed opportunity for them, right, So,
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Speaker 9: I don't know what she had before. I know she
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Speaker 9: had that one event right before. But what's more important
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Speaker 9: than this interview today on your campaign schedule? If your
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Speaker 9: goal as a candidate at this point is to win
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Speaker 9: the day when the new cycle of the day, then
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Speaker 9: your interview with Fox is arguably your most important issue.
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Speaker 9: And I think you could tell at the end that
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Speaker 9: you were having to rush through it so that you
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Speaker 9: could get to the top of the show, and you
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Speaker 9: were trying to be respectful of their time, but it
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Speaker 9: would have been really interesting for her to be able
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Speaker 9: to say to her team, no, no, let's keep going, Brett,
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Speaker 9: what else do you have?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 9: And let it keep going?
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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree, by the way, more like, what are
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Speaker 1: you doing? Like, I'm not kidding when I say this,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Why do an interview? Cut it short?
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Speaker 1: Don't do the interview well?
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Speaker 10: Like?
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Speaker 1: And then you think that the American people are going
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Speaker 1: to respond in a positive light to you. It's the
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Speaker 1: best way I can describe it as delusional. And the interview,
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Speaker 1: by the way, was a disaster. Like I don't care
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Speaker 1: what anybody says about this interview. This interview was a disaster.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a guy that does interviews pretty much anybody.
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Speaker 1: And you look at Harris not going to the dinner
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Speaker 1: last night. Even this morning on CNN, Smercanis was saying,
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Speaker 1: she blew it. So not only did she limit her
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Speaker 1: interview and make herself look like an amateur on Fox,
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Speaker 1: she then missed the dinner.
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Speaker 7: Michael, would you make it the dinner last night?
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Speaker 11: So I've given the props to the Vice president already
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Speaker 11: because of that. Brett Pear interview. Now, let me tell
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Speaker 11: you that I think that she blew it by not
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Speaker 11: being there. She should have been there. Humor can be
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Speaker 11: such an effective political tool. I thought that Donald Trump
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Speaker 11: misread the room. I thought that he was undisciplined and
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Speaker 11: mostly unfunny. That editing of what you just showed was
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Speaker 11: very sympathetic to Trump because those were his absolute best lines,
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Speaker 11: and in most other instances he just missed the market.
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Speaker 11: It was cringe worthy and it was unnecessarily nasty. He
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Speaker 11: blew an opportunity.
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Speaker 5: As well to come in.
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Speaker 11: Hey, respect to the cardinal, be funny, keep it above board.
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Speaker 11: He should have taken a page from Jim Gaffigan. Gaffigan
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Speaker 11: was hysterical and set the right tone for a night
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Speaker 11: like that.
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Speaker 1: Now, no doubt about it that Smerconna s hates Trump, right,
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Speaker 1: so he's got to criticize. But he did say, and
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Speaker 1: if you listen, Harris blew it by not attending the
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Speaker 1: Al Smith dinner. Humor can be such an effective political tool.
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Speaker 1: He's absolutely right. But when you don't trust your candidate,
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Speaker 1: this is what ends up happening, you know. Al Sharpton
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Speaker 1: said of Trump's Al Smith dinner remarks, which were hilarious.
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Speaker 1: And this is what they do every time, no matter
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Speaker 1: who you are, they'd say, oh, you're offensive and you're
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Speaker 1: you're awful. Rights, that's who you are. You're offensive and
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Speaker 1: you're terrible. Donald Trump sucks like I expect this, but
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Speaker 1: she wasn't there either, and that hurt her.
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Speaker 5: I think even more.
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Speaker 10: I think there's been clear for those of us that
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Speaker 10: have known and dealt with Donald Trump, throw and Colin
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Speaker 10: for years that he is really, in many ways not
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Speaker 10: the Donald Trump that we fought or that we dealt with.
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Speaker 10: No energy, there no sound bites that make sense. He's
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Speaker 10: lost it, and I think that it's almost like pushing
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Speaker 10: an old boxer back in the ring that you know
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Speaker 10: he can't fight, but just tell them to hold on
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Speaker 10: to the tenth round, and they're trying to make him
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Speaker 10: hold on and he just doesn't have it. He's sitting
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Speaker 10: in the stool saying, I don't want to go back
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Speaker 10: out there. I mean, last night his appearance at the
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Speaker 10: alfredy Smith dinner was ridiculous. It was offensive and it
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Speaker 10: was way off the mark. And I think that him
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Speaker 10: canceling the shade is in many ways saying there's a
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Speaker 10: shade on his whole campaign.
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Speaker 5: That's the attack you're going to get.
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Speaker 1: And that's when you know they're losing because they're like, well, Donald,
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Speaker 1: Notice how now age is everything right there?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 5: Donald Trump's old? He's losing it right.
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Speaker 1: They're using the same lines that we actually saw the
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Speaker 1: cognitive decline of Joe Biden, and they couldn't use those
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Speaker 1: lines because Joe Biden was still in the race. Now
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Speaker 1: that he's out, like, oh, he's old, right, Karen Finny
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Speaker 1: getting the memo on CNN saying the same thing. Do
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Speaker 1: you want a stable leader handling these global conflicts or
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Speaker 1: a little unhinged Trump? So this is their closing argument.
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Speaker 1: Karen Finny is a CNN political commentator. They must have
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Speaker 1: all gotten their talking points in the last twenty four
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Speaker 1: hours that Okay, we've got to go back to trying
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Speaker 1: to turn Trump into an unhinged individual, and we're just
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Speaker 1: gonna say it over and over again, and maybe the
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Speaker 1: voters will believe us because that's our new lie.
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Speaker 7: But more importantly, here's what I do think matters when
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Speaker 7: people are thinking about these global conflicts, and the more
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Speaker 7: we are seeing, like we saw last night, unhinged Donald
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Speaker 7: Trump going off on random tangents, profanitely lace rants. He
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Speaker 7: seems less stable, and even in twenty sixteen, one of
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Speaker 7: the things we found in the polling consistently, even though
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Speaker 7: people said they were going to vote for him and
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Speaker 7: they liked him, they were nervous about him having his
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Speaker 7: hand on the nuclear codes. And so I do think
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Speaker 7: what these conflicts remind people is do you want a
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Speaker 7: stable leader or do you.
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Speaker 6: Want somebody who's coming on little unghinge, who's not going
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Speaker 6: to have the same kind of guardrails around him, frankly
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Speaker 6: to keep him in check.
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Speaker 7: We know how he said he wants to lose our military.
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Speaker 7: They've said that, you know, his own military, his own
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Speaker 7: advisors have said he is a national security danger. So
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Speaker 7: I think that also comes into play here.
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Speaker 1: There's the narrative for the next twenty days. Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: is unhinged. They used it in the last election. It
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Speaker 1: seemed to work, and so now they're doing the exact
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Speaker 1: same thing now. Bob Woodwards out with a new book,
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Speaker 1: same thing. What does he say, same thing?
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Speaker 5: Right? A little unhinged here, little unhinged.
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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, Okay, I'm not I'm not surprised at all.
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Speaker 5: That this is where we are.
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Speaker 1: And you know, Donnie Deutscher whatever his name is, on
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Speaker 1: MSNBC he said Trump will turn the US into hungry
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Speaker 1: and said, oh, the he's going to become a dictator,
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Speaker 1: by the way, I know, I know Victor Orbun sat
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Speaker 1: with him several times in Budapest.
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Speaker 5: Not a dictator.
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Speaker 1: He does, by the way, like like closed borders and
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Speaker 1: doesn't think that you should have illegal immigrants running him up.
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Speaker 5: That's that's that's true.
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Speaker 1: He has order in his state and people hate that,
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Speaker 1: and so they're like, oh, this guy's radically, he's extremist,
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Speaker 1: he's crazy, and you just got to laugh. You've got
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Speaker 1: to laugh when this stuff happens, because it is, in
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Speaker 1: fact that funny. Yesterday, in that conversation that took place
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Speaker 1: with Brett Bher and Kamala Harris, there is one moment
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Speaker 1: that is really continuing to go viral, and it is
19:01
Speaker 1: about the impact of legal immigration in this country and
19:04
Speaker 1: those that have died because the policies.
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Speaker 8: Take a listen, Joscelyn Mungarry, Rachel morin lacln Riley. They
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Speaker 8: are young women who were brutally assaulted and killed by
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Speaker 8: some of the men who were released at the beginning
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Speaker 8: of the administration, well before a negotiated bipartisan bill. Former
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Speaker 8: President Clinton actually referred to Lake and Riley Sunday campaigning
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Speaker 8: for you, and Georgie is saying, if those men had
19:28
Speaker 8: been properly vetted, Lake and Riley probably would not have
19:31
Speaker 8: been killed.
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Speaker 5: So if it wouldn't have happened, this.
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Speaker 8: Is well before any negotiation, This is well before Donald
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Speaker 8: Trump got involved in the politics. This is a specific
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Speaker 8: policy decision by your administration to release these men into
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Speaker 8: the country. So what I'm saying to you, do you
19:47
Speaker 8: know those families? I think an apology.
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Speaker 2: Let me just say, first of all, those are tragic cases.
19:54
Speaker 2: There's no question about that. There's no question about that.
19:59
Speaker 2: And I can to imagine the pain that the families
20:03
Speaker 2: of those victims have experienced for a loss that should
20:07
Speaker 2: not have occurred. So that is true. It is also
20:14
Speaker 2: true that if a board of security had actually been
20:17
Speaker 2: passed nine months ago, it would be nine months that
20:21
Speaker 2: we would have had more border agents at the border,
20:24
Speaker 2: more support for the folks who are working around the
20:28
Speaker 2: clock trying to hold it all together.
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Speaker 8: Madam President, ensure that.
20:32
Speaker 2: No future harm would occur, and this election in twenty
20:37
Speaker 2: days will determine whether we have a president of the
20:41
Speaker 2: United States who actually cares more about fixing a problem,
20:45
Speaker 2: even if it is not to their political advantage in
20:48
Speaker 2: an election. Because there was a solution, Bret.
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Speaker 8: Madam, Vice President, it was a policy decision in the
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Speaker 8: early part of your administration. I will let one of
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Speaker 8: the mothers talk about it. Take a listen.
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Speaker 12: Because of the Biden Harris administration open border policies catch
21:05
Speaker 12: and release, they were enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention program.
21:09
Speaker 12: This meant that they were released into the United States.
21:12
Speaker 12: It was not even a full three weeks later that
21:14
Speaker 12: they would take my daughter, Joscelyn Ungery's life.
21:17
Speaker 10: I believe the.
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Speaker 12: Biden Harris administration open border policies are responsible for the
21:22
Speaker 12: death of my daughter.
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Speaker 8: That's the early days. So do you owe them an apologies?
21:28
Speaker 2: I shall tell you that I am so sorry for
21:30
Speaker 2: her loss. I am so sorry for her loss sincerely,
21:37
Speaker 2: But let's talk about what is happening right now with
21:42
Speaker 2: an individual who does not want to participate in solutions.
21:46
Speaker 2: Let's talk about that as well. I want to answer,
21:49
Speaker 2: in all fairness, I told you I feel awful for
21:52
Speaker 2: what she and her family had experienced during that time.
21:56
Speaker 1: Notice there's no apology. It's very clear she's not gonna
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Speaker 1: admit that her policy of open borders and allowing millions
22:06
Speaker 1: of people to come in this country illegally is a
22:10
Speaker 1: policy that she is going to say, Hey, yeah, I
22:13
Speaker 1: really screwed that up. Like it's not gonna happen. Because
22:17
Speaker 1: when you're fundamentally trying to change this country, this is
22:20
Speaker 1: exactly what you do. And if you think she's going
22:23
Speaker 1: to change your policy, if she's elected in twenty plus days,
22:27
Speaker 1: you're wrong. She's clearly not going to She's made that clear.
22:34
Speaker 5: I'm not changing. You're not gonna force me to change.
22:38
Speaker 1: I may lie to you, i may tell you something different,
22:45
Speaker 1: I may point in a different direction, but at the
22:52
Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm not doing it right, at
22:56
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'm not changing.
22:59
Speaker 5: That is what I'm not going to do.
23:02
Speaker 1: And I think you can clearly hear that she is
23:06
Speaker 1: defiant even when the worst stories come out, even when
23:10
Speaker 1: things get tough.
23:12
Speaker 8: You know, voters tell polsters all over the country and
23:15
Speaker 8: here in Pennsylvania that immigration is one of the key
23:17
Speaker 8: issues that they're looking at this election, and specifically the
23:20
Speaker 8: influx of illegal immigrants from more than one hundred and
23:23
Speaker 8: fifty countries. How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your
23:29
Speaker 8: administration has released into the country over the last three
23:33
Speaker 8: and a half years.
23:34
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you raised the issue of immigration because
23:36
Speaker 2: I agree with you it is it is a topic
23:39
Speaker 2: of discussion that people.
23:40
Speaker 6: Want to rightly have.
23:42
Speaker 2: And you know what I'm going to talk about.
23:44
Speaker 8: Yeah, but do you're just a number? Do you think
23:46
Speaker 8: it's one million, three million?
23:48
Speaker 2: Rt Let's just get to the point, okay. The point
23:51
Speaker 2: is that we have a broken immigration system that needs
23:55
Speaker 2: to be repaired.
23:56
Speaker 8: So your Homeland Security secretary said that eighty five percent
23:59
Speaker 8: of apprehension.
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Speaker 7: I'm not finished.
24:00
Speaker 2: We have we have some of six.
24:03
Speaker 8: Million people have been released into the country, and let
24:06
Speaker 8: me just finish. I'll get you the question.
24:07
Speaker 2: I promise you. I was beginning to answer.
24:09
Speaker 5: And when you.
24:11
Speaker 1: Can hear it there like she's not backing down, and
24:15
Speaker 1: she wasn't answering the question. And he's like, how many
24:19
Speaker 1: millions have you led into this country with your policies?
24:23
Speaker 1: And do you regret that decision of letting in millions
24:27
Speaker 1: and millions and millions? And that's not an exaggeration of
24:31
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants coming to this country when people are suffering.
24:34
Speaker 1: One of the questions I wish a journalist would ask.
24:37
Speaker 1: And this is not a critique of Brett Beer, because
24:39
Speaker 1: he did an amazing job. I'm just saying in general,
24:42
Speaker 1: one of the questions that I wish was asked would
24:49
Speaker 1: be this, what do you say to all the Americans
24:55
Speaker 1: who are having a really hard time, a really hard
25:02
Speaker 1: time trying to find affordable housing when they're competing with
25:07
Speaker 1: ten million, eleven million, twelve million, fifteen million illegal immigrants
25:14
Speaker 1: for housing. Many of the people that supported you and
25:18
Speaker 1: support you are having a hard time finding affordable housing.
25:24
Speaker 1: So what do you say to them as they're out
25:26
Speaker 1: there competing with millions and millions of legal immigrants.
25:28
Speaker 5: For that housing?
25:29
Speaker 1: Like, that's not I don't believe a political question that
25:33
Speaker 1: that for me, is just an honest, real world question
25:41
Speaker 1: that should be applied to anybody that is running for
25:44
Speaker 1: office when this is what they are saying, and this
25:46
Speaker 1: is what they believe in, and this is what they
25:48
Speaker 1: are doing. She can't answer that question. And these are
25:54
Speaker 1: the types of questions that need to be asked.
25:57
Speaker 8: So decriminalizing border cross things like you said in twenty nineteen.
26:02
Speaker 2: I do not believe in decriminalizing border crossings, and I've
26:06
Speaker 2: not done that as vice president. I will not do
26:08
Speaker 2: that as president.
26:09
Speaker 8: So these are ass that you've had.
26:11
Speaker 2: Well, let's be very clear. I'm the only person who's
26:13
Speaker 2: running for president who is prosecuted transnational criminal organizations, from
26:18
Speaker 2: the Sinaloa cartel to the Guadalajara quote cartel to people
26:24
Speaker 2: who have trafficked in guns, drugs, and human beings. I
26:26
Speaker 2: have spent a significant part of my career going after
26:31
Speaker 2: people who present a threat to the safety of the
26:34
Speaker 2: American people and cross our border with the intent of
26:39
Speaker 2: doing US harm and cross our border illegally, and I
26:42
Speaker 2: will do that work as vice president. I take that
26:45
Speaker 2: work quite seriously.
26:46
Speaker 8: This is a time when vote.
26:49
Speaker 1: I mean, listen to what she said, and believe her.
26:54
Speaker 1: She said it. He quoted her accurately. You want to
26:58
Speaker 1: decriminalize people come across the border illegally. That is what
27:02
Speaker 1: you've said, That's what you've advocated for, that is what.
27:04
Speaker 5: You've wanted to do.
27:07
Speaker 1: Comedian Jim Gaffagin addressing the Al Smith dinner last night,
27:12
Speaker 1: he had some pretty good one liners for you, including
27:15
Speaker 1: this one.
27:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, this has been an interesting presidential campaign. But Democrats
27:21
Speaker 4: have been telling us Trump Trump's reelection is a threat
27:26
Speaker 4: to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned of this
27:29
Speaker 4: threat they staged a coup, ousted there democratically elected incumbent
27:36
Speaker 4: and installed Kamala Harris. In other words, all her dreams
27:41
Speaker 4: have come true. It really makes you consider the power
27:45
Speaker 4: of prayer, right, Cardinal, Sometimes prayers take three and a
27:50
Speaker 4: half years and a George Clooney op ed, I don't
27:58
Speaker 4: know who's angry, but I don't care anyway, can I
28:03
Speaker 4: point out? So it's a you know, I think I
28:07
Speaker 4: should get right to you know.
28:10
Speaker 1: It's I love by the way that he actually did that,
28:15
Speaker 1: because it's the truth, right, It just makes me laugh,
28:21
Speaker 1: like it's so abundantly clear. He also he said that
28:27
Speaker 1: and again go back this line. Dems have been so
28:30
Speaker 1: concerned about Trump, they threatened democracy, about Trump's threatening democracy
28:35
Speaker 1: that they staged a coup. Jim also took a shot
28:40
Speaker 1: at the Democrats for just getting rid of Joe Biden.
28:45
Speaker 4: This, of course, is a Catholic event honoring Governor Al Smith,
28:50
Speaker 4: who in nineteen twenty eight was the first Catholic to
28:55
Speaker 4: run on a major party to put that in perspective.
28:58
Speaker 4: In nineteen twenty eight, Chuck Schumer was a first term senator.
29:05
Speaker 5: Thanks for sitting here, Chuck.
29:10
Speaker 4: Of course, Joe Biden was our second Catholic president, right
29:14
Speaker 4: after JFK. President. Biden couldn't be here tonight. The DNC
29:19
Speaker 4: made sure of that. Oh, oh that's I guess I'm
29:33
Speaker 4: the only one that reads history.
29:36
Speaker 1: I love, by the way, then mocks the ones that
29:38
Speaker 1: Booty's like, Oh, I guess I'm the only one that
29:41
Speaker 1: reads history. Yes, Jim also making another point about Catholic voters.
29:52
Speaker 4: You know, this event has been referred to as the
29:56
Speaker 4: Catholic met Gala of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will
30:04
Speaker 4: be a key demographic in every battle ground state. I'm sorry,
30:10
Speaker 4: why is Vice President Harris not here?
30:20
Speaker 5: I mean, consider this.
30:22
Speaker 4: This is a room full of Catholics and Jews in
30:26
Speaker 4: New York City. This is a layup for the Democratic nominee.
30:34
Speaker 4: I mean in her defense, I mean she did find
30:37
Speaker 4: time to appear on the View Howard Stern, Colbert and
30:43
Speaker 4: the longtime staple of campaigning to call her Daddy podcast.
30:51
Speaker 4: You know what I think it is. I think she
30:54
Speaker 4: doesn't like me. Chuck, do I have bad breath?
31:01
Speaker 13: You know?
31:02
Speaker 4: But I love New York City.
31:04
Speaker 1: I mean, he was relentlessly pointing out the obvious, right
31:08
Speaker 1: like he was like that, that's just exactly. This is
31:14
Speaker 1: one of those moments where he told truth to a
31:20
Speaker 1: room full of powerful people that are honestly scumbags who
31:24
Speaker 1: did stage a coup, and then mocked the fact that
31:28
Speaker 1: like this is a woman's like this. Catholics are key
31:30
Speaker 1: demographic and she couldn't shop tonight. It's too busy doing
31:33
Speaker 1: interviews and call her daddy Donald Trump on Kama's absence.
31:41
Speaker 1: This is what he said about that.
31:42
Speaker 5: Listen, it's changed the name this way.
31:44
Speaker 13: What you know they it is Democrat. But I must
31:48
Speaker 13: say I was shocked when I heard that Kamala was
31:51
Speaker 13: skipping the Al Smith dinner. I'd really hope that she
31:54
Speaker 13: would come, because we can't get enough of hearing her
31:57
Speaker 13: beautiful laugh. She laughs like crazy. We would recognize at
32:02
Speaker 13: any place in this room, and all poles are indicating
32:05
Speaker 13: I'm leading big with the Catholic vote, as I should be,
32:10
Speaker 13: as I should be. But I don't think Kamala has
32:13
Speaker 13: given up yet. She hasn't. Instead of attending tonight she's
32:17
Speaker 13: in Michigan receiving communion from Gretchen Whitmer. That's not a
32:26
Speaker 13: pretty sight. But Catholics, please don't be too insulted by
32:32
Speaker 13: Kamala's absence. If the Democrats, thank you very much. I
32:38
Speaker 13: appreciate it. The Democrats really wanted to have someone not
32:42
Speaker 13: be with us.
32:45
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's just like, yeah, I'm here,
32:48
Speaker 1: she's not. I'm going to torch this room and just
32:51
Speaker 1: burn it down. It's just amazing, it really is. I
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Speaker 1: three five nine seven three two five three five nine
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Speaker 1: seven three two one four seven four nine seven three
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Speaker 1: two one. Last thing that was said was this about
33:12
Speaker 1: it was a pleasure to be invited. As Donald Trump
33:15
Speaker 1: put it, Listen, that's not an.
33:19
Speaker 13: Easy thing to do, especially when your name is Trump
33:21
Speaker 13: and you're on the New York Times list. I think
33:23
Speaker 13: that thing I must be selling like hotcakes. But thank
33:27
Speaker 13: you for match. I appreciate. Good job you did it.
33:30
Speaker 13: That's a true pleasure to be with you this evening.
33:32
Speaker 13: Amazing pleasure. And these days it's really a pleasure anywhere
33:38
Speaker 13: in New York without a subpoena for my appearance anytime,
33:46
Speaker 13: I don't get a subpoena. I'm very happy they've gone
33:50
Speaker 13: after me, mister.
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