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Kamala Says Being Gay or Jewish was a Disqualifier from Being her VP Candidate plus Kimmel BACK on ABC · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well come in his verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben
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  Speaker 1: Ferguson with you and Senator we are going to get
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  Speaker 1: back to more of what we normally do on this
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  Speaker 1: show today after this incredibly sad but inspiring last week,
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  Speaker 1: especially as you and I have come back from the
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  Speaker 1: funeral of Charlie Kirk. And one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about is a very interesting
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  Speaker 1: book launch. And man, is she just throwing her colleagues
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  Speaker 1: under the bus, Kamala Harris going scorched to earth, but
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  Speaker 1: then trying to take some of it back in the interviews.
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  Speaker 2: It's really bad.
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  Speaker 3: Pr Well, I think Kamala Harris has decided she needs
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  Speaker 3: a new pair of shoes, so she wants to sell books,
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  Speaker 3: to sell a lot of books, and so she's.
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  Speaker 4: Come out with her book.
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  Speaker 3: And in the book she admits that she didn't pick
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  Speaker 3: Pete Buddhaje Edge's VP why because he's gay? And she
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  Speaker 3: didn't pick Josh Shapiro as VP why because he's Jewish.
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  Speaker 3: And then she's proceeded to say, no big deal, just
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat Party is no gays need apply, no Jews
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  Speaker 3: need to ply. But remember we're the party of tolerance
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  Speaker 3: and inclusion. We're going to break that down, tell you
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  Speaker 3: exactly what she said. And finally, Jimmy Kimmel is back
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  Speaker 3: on ABC, at least for a minute or two. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how long this will last, but he is
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  Speaker 3: back on. We're going to talk about that, what it means,
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  Speaker 3: what it means for ABC, what it means for America,
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  Speaker 3: what it means for free speech, all of that on
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  Speaker 3: today's Verdict.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you real quick about the
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  Speaker 1: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in something that is
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  Speaker 1: coming up that's really important that I want you to
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  Speaker 1: be involved in. It was nearly two years ago that
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  Speaker 1: the terrorists murdered more than one thousand, two hundred innocent
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  Speaker 1: Israelis and then they took two hundred and fifty hostages,
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  Speaker 1: many of them they've killed.
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  Speaker 2: Today, it seems as if.
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  Speaker 1: The cries of the dead and the dying have been
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  Speaker 1: drowned out by the shouts of anti Semitic hatred, and
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  Speaker 1: the most brutal attack on the Jewish people since the Holocausts,
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  Speaker 1: by many now has just been forgotten. Yet, as the
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  Speaker 1: world looks away, light shines in the darkness, and it
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  Speaker 1: is a movement of love and support for the people
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  Speaker 1: of Israel that we want you to be a part of.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Flags of Fellowship and it's organized by the
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  Speaker 1: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Now this is the
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  Speaker 1: best part. On October fifth, just a few weeks away,
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  Speaker 1: millions across America will prayerfully plant an Israeli flag in
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  Speaker 1: honor and solidarity with the victims of October seventh, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. And they're grieving families as well. And you
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  Speaker 1: can be a part of this movement this day. Also,
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  Speaker 1: you can get your church involved as well. All you
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  Speaker 1: have to do is get more information and you can
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  Speaker 1: join the Flags of Fellowship movement by visiting Fellowship online.
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  Speaker 1: Just go to IFCJ dot org and again you can
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  Speaker 1: get all the information on how to join the Flags
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  Speaker 1: of Fellowship movement. You can also find out how to
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  Speaker 1: get your church involved. That's IFCJ dot org. That's if
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  Speaker 1: CJ dot org. All right, So Kama put out this
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  Speaker 1: book and the name of the book is really funny.
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  Speaker 1: It's the number of days that her campaign was. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was forced after that first debate to
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  Speaker 1: get out. Kamala Harris was the obvious pick for multiple reasons,
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  Speaker 1: including it was the easiest way to keep the money
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  Speaker 1: rolling from the presidential campaign of Joe Biden. But she's
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  Speaker 1: now basically saying I'm a brilliant candidate. Everybody else was
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  Speaker 1: bad and no one helped me the way they should have.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like angry at the entire Democratic Party and
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  Speaker 1: also at Joe Biden and his family.
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  Speaker 3: Well, she's got a lot of anger, but I will
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  Speaker 3: admit that that there's actually at least a moment or
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  Speaker 3: two of honesty and candor in this book. And the
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  Speaker 3: honesty and candor is just how intolerant and judgmental and
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  Speaker 3: hateful the Democrat Party has been that.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, they're the party of tolerance. They've been saying
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  Speaker 1: it for years.
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  Speaker 4: Well here's what she wrote.
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  Speaker 3: She said that her first choice to be VP was
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  Speaker 3: her close friend Pete Botajetge, but she decided that it
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  Speaker 3: would be quote too big of a risk for a
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  Speaker 3: black woman to run with a gay man. And she
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  Speaker 3: says Buddhajetge quote would have been an ideal partner if
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  Speaker 3: I were a straight white man, but we were already
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  Speaker 3: asking a lot of America to accept a woman, a
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  Speaker 3: black woman, a black woman married to a Jewish man.
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  Speaker 3: Part of me wanted to say, screw it, let's just
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  Speaker 3: do it, but knowing what's at stake, it was too
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  Speaker 3: big a risk. Now, let me start by saying, listen,
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are at their core racist. They are at their
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  Speaker 3: core deeply bigoted. So her view of it. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: she didn't lose in Kamala's world because the Democrats agenda
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  Speaker 3: for four years under Biden and Kamala was a train racket,
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  Speaker 3: was a disaster. She didn't lose because of open borders
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  Speaker 3: and twelve million illegals coming into this country. She didn't
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  Speaker 3: lose because of Americans being murdered and raped and children
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  Speaker 3: being assaulted by illegals they'd released. She didn't lose because
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  Speaker 3: of out of control inflation making it harder for working
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  Speaker 3: Americans to buy groceries and pay their bills. She didn't
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  Speaker 3: lose because on the international stage they'd screwed everything up
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  Speaker 3: and went from peace and prosperity to two simultaneous wars.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't lose because of anti Semitic protests on college
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  Speaker 3: campuses that Democrats did nothing about. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: in Kamala's world, she lost because I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: back to her quote, we were already asking a lot
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  Speaker 3: of America to accept a woman, because clearly that's why
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  Speaker 3: she lost in Kamala's world. Because she's a woman, a
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  Speaker 3: black woman. Clearly, that's even more why she lost in
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  Speaker 3: Kamala's world, a black woman married to a Jewish man.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, is there a single voter on planet Earth
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  Speaker 3: who voted against Kamala because she's a black woman married
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  Speaker 3: to a Jewish man? Well, actually the answer maybe yes,
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  Speaker 3: but that would be a Democrat who is anti Semitic
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  Speaker 3: and can't stand that she was married to a Jewish man.
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  Speaker 3: But that was her world is she said, Well, because
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  Speaker 3: everyone's racist, like we and the Democrat Party are, I
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  Speaker 3: can't pick Pete. And she says Pete would be an
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  Speaker 3: ideal partner. That's who she wanted to pick. And the
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  Speaker 3: singular reason she did not is he was gay. If
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  Speaker 3: he were straight, she not explicitly says it, but she
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  Speaker 3: pretty clearly suggests he would have been her pick. And
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  Speaker 3: and she's quite open about saying nope, for her being
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  Speaker 3: gay was disqualifying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to play this, and there's two versions
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  Speaker 1: of it. I want to play the longer version because
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  Speaker 1: Comly went on the biggest TV show to sell a book.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a Democrat, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and Rachel
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  Speaker 1: is for you, they don't know she's openly gay. She
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  Speaker 1: was not happy with Kamala and had the book there
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  Speaker 1: and was clearly wanting to take her to task. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to listen to this back and forth and
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  Speaker 1: how awkward it got on.
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  Speaker 5: Let me ask you a politics question. I mentioned an
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  Speaker 5: intro tonight that you say in the book really bluntly
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  Speaker 5: that your personal first choice for your running mate would
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  Speaker 5: have been Pete Buda Jete, and you praise him effusively.
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  Speaker 5: You say you would have been an ideal partner if
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  Speaker 5: I were a straight man, and you say effectively that demographically,
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  Speaker 5: it was too much to ask of the American people
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  Speaker 5: to ask them to elect you with him as your
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  Speaker 5: running mate. I wonder if his reaction to that, since
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  Speaker 5: this part of the book has come out, if you've
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  Speaker 5: had any reflection on that, or.
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  Speaker 4: I guess.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I'd ask you to just elaborate on that
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. It's hard to hear with you running
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  Speaker 5: as you know, you're the first woman elected vice president,
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  Speaker 5: you're a black woman and a South Asian woman elected
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  Speaker 5: that high office, very nearly elected president.
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  Speaker 2: To say that he.
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  Speaker 5: Couldn't be on the ticket effectively because he was gay,
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  Speaker 5: it's hard to hear.
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  Speaker 6: No, No, that's not what I said. That that's that he
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  Speaker 6: couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay. My point,
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  Speaker 6: as I write in the book, is that I was
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  Speaker 6: clear that in one hundred and seven days, in one
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  Speaker 6: of the most hotly contested elections for president United States,
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  Speaker 6: against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor, to
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  Speaker 6: be a black woman running for president United States and
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  Speaker 6: as a vice presidential running mate a gay man, with
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  Speaker 6: the stakes being so high, it made me very sad.
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  Speaker 6: But I also realized it would be a real risk
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  Speaker 6: no matter how you know. I've been an advocate and
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  Speaker 6: an ally of of the LGBT community my entire life.
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  Speaker 6: So it wasn't about it wasn't about it right, So
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  Speaker 6: it wasn't about any any prejudice on my part, but
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  Speaker 6: that we had such a short we had such a
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  Speaker 6: short period of time and the stakes were so high.
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  Speaker 6: I think Pete is a phenomenal, phenomenal public servant, and
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  Speaker 6: I think America is and would be ready for that.
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  Speaker 6: But at when I had to make that decision with
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  Speaker 6: two weeks to go, you know, and maybe I was
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  Speaker 6: being too cautious. You know, I'll let our friends, we
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  Speaker 6: should all talk about that. Maybe I was, But that's
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  Speaker 6: the decision I made, and I'm and I, as with
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  Speaker 6: everything else in the book, I'm being very candid about that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: with a great deal of sadness about also the fact
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  Speaker 6: that it might have been a risk.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, I'm not racist or bigoted. You are,
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  Speaker 1: so I couldn't do what I wanted to do because
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  Speaker 1: you're racist. And by the way, this would be among Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: She's literally saying to democrats, y'all couldn't handle a gay man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And if you listen to what she said to Rachel Maddow,
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  Speaker 3: and let's be clear, Rachel Mattow was pissed. Yes, she
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  Speaker 3: was clearly pissed. She was trying to restrain herself, but
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  Speaker 3: she was really unhappy. And and you listen, actually commonly
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  Speaker 3: interrupts Rachel at Mattow and says, quote, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: that's not what I said. That that's that he couldn't
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  Speaker 3: be on the ticket because he is gay, And that
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  Speaker 3: is exactly.
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  Speaker 4: What she said, yep. And she said if he were,
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  Speaker 4: he'd be on the ticket.
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  Speaker 3: So she said, I didn't say that he couldn't be
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  Speaker 3: on the ticket because he's gay. I just decided he
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  Speaker 3: couldn't be on the ticket because he's gay. And so
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  Speaker 3: her answer is, it's not me, it's just the voters
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  Speaker 3: are are so prejudiced that that that I decided to
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  Speaker 3: exclude him. But the amazing thing is that's not the
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  Speaker 3: only vice presidential candidate that she excluded, again for prejudice,
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  Speaker 3: And so she admits the very same thing about Josh Shapiro.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And Josh Shapiro, Look, you and I talked about this
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  Speaker 3: on the podcast. If you were a Democrat and you
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  Speaker 3: wanted the Democrats to win, Look, obviously you didn't want that.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want that.
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  Speaker 3: But if you wanted the Democrats to win, Josh Shapiro
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  Speaker 3: was the obvious choice. He was a popular governor in Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 3: the single most important and largest swing state in the country.
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  Speaker 3: And Harris wrote that she had three finalists, Shapiro, Tim Waltz,
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  Speaker 3: who she picked, and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and She
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  Speaker 3: interviewed them on one by one in her vice presidential residence,
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  Speaker 3: the Naval Observatory on August fourth, twenty twenty four. Two
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  Speaker 3: days later, she announced the selection of Waltz. Shapiro was
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  Speaker 3: apparently the first of the three she interviewed, and she
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  Speaker 3: writes quote, At one point, he Shapiro mused that he
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  Speaker 3: would want to be in the room for every decision.
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  Speaker 3: I told him bluntly that was an unrealistic expectation. A
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  Speaker 3: vice president is not a co president. I had a
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  Speaker 3: nagging concern that he would be unable to settle for
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  Speaker 3: a role as number two, and that it would wear
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  Speaker 3: on our partnership. I had to be able to completely
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  Speaker 3: trust the person in that role every day. As president,
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  Speaker 3: I said, I'll have ninety nine problems, and my VP
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  Speaker 3: can't be one. But then she went on to say
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  Speaker 3: that the real reason she didn't pick Shapiro is that
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  Speaker 3: he's Jewish. And here's what she writes in her book.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's a shocker. It's surprised.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, there's bigots in the Democratic Party. Never
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  Speaker 1: saw that coming. Keep going, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 4: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about how to handle the attacks he'd confronted
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  Speaker 3: on Gaza and what effect it might have on the
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  Speaker 3: enthusiasm we were trying to build. Big protests at the
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  Speaker 3: convention were a major concern. I understand what she's saying there.
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  Speaker 3: Number One, she was worried, if I pick a jew
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  Speaker 3: the problem will be what effect it might have on
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  Speaker 3: the enthusiasm we were trying to build. Democrats would be furious,
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  Speaker 3: how dare you pick a Jewish person as your VP.
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  Speaker 3: But then the next thing she wrote is even more astonishing.
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  Speaker 3: Big protests at the convention were a major concern. But
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  Speaker 3: by the way, who would be protesting. It's not right wingers,
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  Speaker 3: it's not the Klan. She was worried that left wing
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  Speaker 3: pro Haamas sympathizers would protest at the convention, and you
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  Speaker 3: know what they would have. The fundamental problem is the
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  Speaker 3: pro Hamas wing of the Democrat Party has taken over
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  Speaker 3: the party. And you and I said at the time,
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  Speaker 3: the reason she did not pick Josh Shapiro is the
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  Speaker 3: pro Hamas wing of the Democrat Party now has a
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  Speaker 3: veto and they vetoed Shapiro because he is Jewish. That's
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  Speaker 3: what she admits. She also says that she and Shapiro
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  Speaker 3: discussed an opinion piece he had written as a twenty
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  Speaker 3: year old, in which he said that the people in
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  Speaker 3: Palestine quote are too battle minded to be able to
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  Speaker 3: establish a peaceful homeland of their own. And to be clear,
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  Speaker 3: Shapiro has since run away from that and has embraced
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  Speaker 3: a two state solution. And by the way, his stated
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  Speaker 3: positions on Israel are the same as hers, which is
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  Speaker 3: they are all in against the government of Israel. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 3: she is unequivocal. Shapiro was vetoed because he's Jewish, and
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  Speaker 3: Buddha Jedge was vetoed because he's gay, and that is
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  Speaker 3: her own con confession written in her own book.
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  Speaker 1: So here's my question, then, who does qualify to be president?
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  Speaker 1: Because the white guy, I guess is kind of acceptable
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  Speaker 1: I should say VP, but not if you're gay and
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  Speaker 1: or if you're Jewish. So is it just like it's
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  Speaker 1: just only people that either don't look like her or
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  Speaker 1: only people that are just straight white guys. I'm really
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  Speaker 1: confused now in the new Party of the Democratic like,
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  Speaker 1: who is an appropriate candidate?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want to know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, and she managed to find the weirdest white
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  Speaker 3: guy she could Tim Waltz, And there's an irony because
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  Speaker 3: until she picked him as VP, the only thing people
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  Speaker 3: knew about Tim Waltz is that he said Republicans were weird.
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  Speaker 3: That was sort of his breakthrough moment where he said
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  Speaker 3: they're weird. And then suddenly he gets on the national
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  Speaker 3: stage and everyone's like, holy cow, this guy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like the nickname he got of jazz hands, Like I
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  Speaker 3: don't get how he like waves, but you know, you
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  Speaker 3: know who he reminded me of who is the hut?
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  Speaker 3: Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live when he played the
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  Speaker 3: cheerleader with Cherio Terry. Yeah, I mean, I mean that
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  Speaker 3: is Tim Waltz.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, I almost wish he'd been on the national stage
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  Speaker 3: for longer than twenty two seconds, because if they could
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  Speaker 3: have brought Will Ferrell back to reprise him, he could
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  Speaker 3: have done the most spectacular.
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  Speaker 4: Tim Waltz. But the problem is they'd never do it.
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  Speaker 3: They'd probably bring in I don't know, Brad Pitt to
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  Speaker 3: play him instead, because you know, Saturday Night Live is
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  Speaker 3: all about lionizing the left and attacking the right. But
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  Speaker 3: if they were being honest, Will Ferrell could have done
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  Speaker 3: a spectacular Tim Waltz.
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  Speaker 1: why wouldn't the homeowner just use a gun in this case?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, one, it comes down to the legality. You know,
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: in this part of California, it made me very difficult
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: to use a gun. And then two we saw that
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: this intruder literally just stumbled into the wrong home in
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: an altered state of mind. Nobody wants to kill anybody
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: that doesn't need killing that they absolutely don't have to.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: So this is a great instance where the burner was
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: able to be used. The lowest level of les legal
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: forces able to use recfoted situation without bringing a gun
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: into that situation.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I tell you I have one of these. My
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: family members do as well a lot of my friends.
• 19:09
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• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I I I actually kind of expected this from Kamala.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: There's one consistently see with her, it's never going to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: be her fault anything. You know, she had a really
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: hard time in the White House keeping staff with that
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: was well documented.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Uh, there's there a lot of the.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Staff it felt like she just chastised them and berated them.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: A lot of them quit early on. There was not
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: like a big tenured staff there either. And now it's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: not her fault. The American people didn't reject her before
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I when she was running for president and had pulling
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: it like one or two percent, and then they're like, well,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: it's not my fault that I didn't win, it's their
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: fault that I didn't win, and they didn't do it right.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And she also trashed her the guy who made her
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: into even having a chance at the White House, and
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, and trash Joe Biden's family as well. I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: think you're going to see probably some pushback from them
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: in the near future because this book was not flattering
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of Joe Biden, who really without Joe Biden, she wouldn't
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: have even gotten to write this book.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Well, look, Joe Biden, I mean, let's be honest, he
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: can't stand Kamala Harris and he has never been able
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: to stand Kamala Harris. If you remember the twenty twenty
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: presidential primary, Kamala lit into him and basically called him
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: a bigoted clansman. In fact, her signature breakout moment was
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: when she was talking about little girls, little African American
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: girls being left behind and segregated schools and bussing. She said,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I was that little girl, and it was a you know,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: tear down this old white bigot moment. Now it failed,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: and she ended up getting I think effectively zero votes
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: in the Democrat primer. I don't know, maybe she got
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: more than zero votes, but she got zero delegates. She
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: dropped out before Iowa, but Biden trapped himself. So do
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: you know why why Kamala was was Biden's VP?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I think he had no choice.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: She was going after him saying he's a racist, old
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: white guy, and they're like, how do we shut her up?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, So I don't believe that is I'm ready. Okay, Okay,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: So I have a theory. I can't prove this, but
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: but I feel pretty good about my theory. So Biden
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: had initially promised that he would pick a woman as VP.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: And and listen, I.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Went back to the Democrats. They are being counters. Nobody
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: is an individual. You are not a human being in
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: their book. You are a white male Southerner conservative. You
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: don't even exist. Yeah, but everyone falls into a category.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And so Katanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden promised, I'm going
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: to nominate a black woman to the court. Katanji becomes
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Justice Jackson. Biden early on promised, I'm going to nominate
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: a woman as VP. And it's again, it's the it's
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: the everyone is their characteristic rather than who they are.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: And what they say and what they believe.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I believe personally that Biden intended to pick Amy Klobuchar.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I think that when he said that that was in
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: his mind. He likes say they get along. And then
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: what happened that messed up his plan is is George
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Floyd was killed, and we saw the country irrupt in violence.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: We saw riots, violent riots and cities all across the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: country Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots. We saw police
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: cars being firebombed, and suddenly it changed the dynamics of
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: a Democrat primary. So he was heading to be the nominee.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe he was the nominee Africa. Forget the exact timeline,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: but he was the nominee, and the realities of Democrat
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: primary politics meant suddenly it didn't just have to be
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: a woman, It had to be an African American woman.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Yep. And he was suddenly stuck.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: So if you look at the category of senators or
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: governors who are African American women, there was precisely one
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris. He could choose others. He chosen their couple
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: of House members that he could have chosen. There are
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: a couple of mayors that he could have chosen, But
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden is a man of the Senate. He spent
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: forty years in the Senate. I think it was just
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Biden was incapable of picking what he would view as
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: a lowly house member, a lowly mayor. It just did
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: that was not in his range. And he suddenly was
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: backed into it must be a woman. And because of
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: George Floyd, now it must be an African American woman.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: And there was one only one choice, and that was
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris and boom he named Kamala. But I think
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Biden to this day can't stand her, and I think
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: she to this day can't stand him. Yeah and so
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: and and by the way she she was fully.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: He really couldn't stand her from the very beginning. Apparently
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: from internal reporting, she did not want Joe Biden to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: pick her, didn't like her, didn't trust her, didn't want
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: her to be the VP.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: But he trapped her, like what other choice did he
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: have when he said it was going to be a woman.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Do you agree with me that as a matter of
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Democrat politics after George Floyd, it had to be an
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: African American.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think they panned her so much in
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: their world. Yes, and I think, like you said, it
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: had to be a woman. And if you look at
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that list, who's on that list is at that level.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And yeah, and also.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: It's literally a set of It's literally a set of one.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: What he could have picked Karen bass now, the mayor
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: of Los Angeles, who was this you know, Marxist, Fidel
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Castro loving house member, like like Biden was not going
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: to do that. Yeah, and and and so he was stuck.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: But but and let's be clear, when Biden cratered, So
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: for most of the Biden presidency, the president froze kamalad everything.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: They couldn't stand her. She was screwing up, she she
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: was losing staff, she she every time she did an interview,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: she messed it up. And so they just frozed her out.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: And so then.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: When Biden had his disastrous debate with Trump, look it
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: was Kamala who was quite eager. She let others actually
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: plunge the knife in. It was Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Schumer and others that that finish the job of a
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: tube brute and stabbed Biden in the back and took
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: him out. Although to be clear, and longtime listeners a
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: verdict will remember this. Ben, You and I did a
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: special podcast the night of that debate, YEP, where we
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: predicted that night we said, this show will go down
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: as the most consequential debate in presidential history. Why because
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: this debate changed the names that will be on the
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: ballot in November, and we predicted that night within an
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: hour of the debate, Joe Biden will not be on
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: the ballot November because of this debate. By the way,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: we'd been predicting for a year that the Democrats would
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: pull Biden, and a bunch of the corporate media had
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: been mocking us, and to be clear, me in particular
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: for saying that, And of course that prediction proved right.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: But Kamala, the bad blood between them is real and
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: it's significant, So she's evening a score there. But it
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: is amazing how she can readily admit she excluded Shapiro
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: because he's Jewish and Buddhagic because he's gay, and yet
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: she can nonetheless feel self righteous that theirs is the
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: party of inclusion and it's the Republicans that are intolerant
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: and hateful, and it's just it just falls all right.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I want to pivot real quick to something that just
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: truly is hysterical, and that is ABC News. We thought
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: they had actually done the right thing, and we're willing
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to say that it Yet, No, Jimmy Kimmel, you're not
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: going to go out there and lie about who assassinated
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and what they believed in of Charlie Kirk. We now
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: know that the sin for doing that, for that crime
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: is a sentence of going on a vacation for about
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: six days, so less than a week. And ABC News like,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: all right, we started back up on Tuesday night. Now here,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: here's the other instant thing. Not everybody's going along with this.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Next star in Sinclair are saying no, they're not going
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to be hearing it.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: They want and a real.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Apology for him before they think about putting him back
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: on the air.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Your reaction to.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: That, well, you and I are recording this show Tuesday night,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: and as we're recording it, Kimmel has not yet gone
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: on air, So I don't know what he's going to say.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: He might do all sorts of things. He might stand
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: up and give a heartfelt apology. He might admit that
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: in his last show he told a lie. He engaged
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: in active disinformation. His sort of joke, which wasn't remotely funny,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: was that the murderer of Charlie Kirk was a right
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: wing maga guy. Now that's a lie, and it's a
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: lie with consequence. I mean, we've seen the polling that
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: shows a majority of Democrats believe Charlie Kirk's killer was
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: a right winger. Now that is a brazen lie. Charlie
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Kirk's killer was radicalized. He was a leftist. Law enforcement
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: has said this over and over again. He was living
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: with his boyfriend who was a transgender, who was a furry,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: who was a man transitioning to be a woman. The
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: killer engraved Antifa and transgender slogans on the casings that
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: he used for the assassination. So there's no ambiguity. This
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: is a man of the left. And so maybe, maybe,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: just maybe, and I may be holding out hope. Kimmel
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: stands up and gives a heartfelt apology, says I'm sorry,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: and what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific. It was
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: a political assassination. It is wrong, and it's clear this
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: was not some right winger who did this. This was
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: a leftist this is my side of the aisle. This
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: is Jimmy Kimmel speaking, and I'm sorry. If that happens,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I think the odds are very very high. You and I,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: almost regardless of what happens, are going to be talking
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: about this on Friday's pod.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: So on Friday will know what he said. We don't
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: know what he said right now.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: I think that's unlikely. Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: I think it's unlikely that Kimmel. He may give a
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: half hearted apology. He may say I'm sorry some people
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: were offended. Maybe I actually think he's more likely to
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: be defiant and say, to hell with you everyone who
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: was offended by the lies that I told. But we'll
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: see what I will say. Look my view on Kimmel,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I think he is profoundly unfunny. He hasn't been funny
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: in years. There was a long time ago when he
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: could be a comedian, a thousand years ago, but then
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: partisanship and hate overcame him, and his show consists of
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: just relentlessly screaming I hate Donald Trump. I hate Donald Trump,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: I hate Conservatives, I hate Republicans. By the way, frequently
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: I hate Ted Cruz. Ever since I beat him at basketball.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: I've lived rent free in his head.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: And the problem is, listen, I'm as a Republican, I'm
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: actually fine with comedy that is roasting Republicans and Democrats.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I think good comedy makes fun of everyone. Actually, today
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I retweeted so so so John Stewart did a whole
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: riff on The Daily Show blasting me, and it was
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: funny as hell. He actually played a clip from our
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: last verdict, uh where.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: You know where where I.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Talked about Kim Elenna and I did an impression of
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: of of of a godfather. Actually, I'll tell you what.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Let's play John Stewart, because this is actually comedy.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Listen.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I don't agree with John Stewart's politics, but Stuart is
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: actually funny. I mean he makes me laugh and and
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: and and so let's play the clip. I'm gonna play clip.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: This is making fun of me, but to all our
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: our vertical listeners, this is me playing John Stewart, just
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: mocking me, and he does a very good job. He's
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: a talented comedian. I'm perfectly fine with comedians who mock me,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: as long as that's not all they do, as long
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: as they don't just scream.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I hate you.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I hate you, I hate you, but they're actually funny.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: So here was John Stewart on the Daily Show talking
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: about he's going to quote verdict and then he's just
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: going to mercilessly mock me.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Give a listen.
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: Now, Cruz has supported this president through insults to his
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: own wife's looks and to his own father's loyalties, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: yet Cruz still manages to maintain a modicum of self
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: respect when it comes to this president trampling all over
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: a constitution, Sir, it brings me no pleasure.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: To have to play this. Look. I like Brendan Carr.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: He's a good guy. He's the chairman of the FCC.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: I work closely with him. But what he said there
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: is dangerous as hell.
• 32:58
  Speaker 9: Fantastic, fantastic, Senator Ted Druz boldly stating that the FCC
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: chairman threatening the licenses of networks is dangerous, and Senator Cruz,
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: I would just say, maybe you should stop there.
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: I would stop there. I would not continue with the
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: thought perfect no notes, all right, go on.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: And I gotta say he threatens it. He says we
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: can do this the easy way, but we could do
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: this the hard way.
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: The fuck.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Sort of rerep the hard way. Oh, what kind of monster.
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: Have you ever heard?
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: We can do it DoD Way, We could do it
• 33:55
  Speaker 11: day bright, DoD Way, easy odd.
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: That's not the Godfather that Lenny from Mice and Men.
• 34:06
  Speaker 11: I get bunny. Your bunny can do a daisydd Way.
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: You got more, Senator, don't you?
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: And I got to say, that's right out of good Fellows?
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: That that that that's right out of a mafioso coming
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: into a bar going nice bye.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: You have here. It'd be a shame if something happened
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: to him.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: That's not a good Fellaw's quote.
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: I know this because all of my decorative.
• 34:40
  Speaker 11: Pillows have good Fellaw's quot karma.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would go home.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: I would say, that's me at home.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: Look at me, not Senator.
• 34:53
  Speaker 10: A lesser man might tell you to go home and
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: get your shine.
• 34:55
  Speaker 11: Box, but I don't because you wouldn't even know what
• 34:58
  Speaker 11: that needs dead cruise.
• 35:01
  Speaker 10: I mean to do that with Goodfellas, with that accent.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: Is there anything in pop culture that I love that
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: you can't ruin?
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: Dad?
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: I'm a vegetarian.
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: I don't eat animals.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: But Lisa, animals are so delicious.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: There's the animal we get bacon from the animal, we
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: get a ham from the animal, we get sausage from dad.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: That's all the same animal.
• 35:26
  Speaker 12: Smithers, release the hounds eggs.
• 35:38
  Speaker 10: They're not booing, they're saying boo earns. Imagine having to
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: endure a Texas power outage with this guy who wants
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: to hear my apoo anyone. Well, they ruined my love
• 35:58
  Speaker 10: of the sentence. At least I've still got my favorite franchise,
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: Star Wars, all to myself, So I don't have The.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Force is strong with this word. There is no try do.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: Or do not.
• 36:19
  Speaker 10: At best, he sounds like Yoda with a sinus infection,
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: trying not to come.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Your duke.
• 36:39
  Speaker 10: You may enjoy Star Wars at Chris, but there's one
• 36:41
  Speaker 10: thing will never have in common, and that's my comfort movie.
• 36:43
  Speaker 10: The Princess Briane, a fantastical tale of adventure and true
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: love with an outstanding cast and oh you.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Know what's coming? You know what's coming with.
• 36:53
  Speaker 10: An outstanding cast, including the inimitable Oh just roll it.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Why is it you have so worth living for?
• 37:02
  Speaker 12: He presses on his chest and Wesley goes true, Long.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Shut up, witch, I'm not a witch.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: I'm your wife.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: But after what you just said, I wish I wasn't.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Don't say that name what humping hopping, humpet it.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: I can't hear you, So.
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: WHOA, that was a strange I'm like, oh, the One
• 37:21
  Speaker 11: Man Show.
• 37:27
  Speaker 10: Do you know how hard it is to make Mario
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: Lopez uncomfortable? Truly, Mario Lopez, the man who need I
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: remind you did this dance in a tank tee in
• 37:45
  Speaker 10: front of everyone at the Max.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: All Right, I gotta say I'm laughing a little bit
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: because it is pretty good road, so I'm not gonna lie.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Look, Ben, that's hysterical. I do like to do impressions.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I'm not particularly great at him, but I have fun
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: and I like pop culture. But like, that's actual comedy.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Like I'm going to make a prediction right now. What
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: John Stewart just did there is one hundred thousand times
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: funnier than whatever Jimmy Kimmel will do tonight. So we'll
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: see what he does. But look, the point that I
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: made in this podcast is the federal government, the FCC,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: should not be threatening the licenses of ABC in order
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: to force them to take someone off the air, even
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: someone incredibly unfunny with terrible ratings, who gets one point
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  Speaker 3: one million views, which means he gets fewer views and
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  Speaker 3: listens than Verdict. Does we beat Jimmy Kimmel regularly and
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: someone who was actively lying about a political assassination. I
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: think all of those are reasons for ABC to fire him,
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: But I don't think the federal government should be forcing
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  Speaker 3: ABC to fire him. Why because look, when Biden was president,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: the Biden FCC tried to yank Fox News's license and
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: I led the fight against it. We beat them, we
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: stopped them from doing it. You know what, if we
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: embrace the FCC stripping licenses from anyone who says something
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  Speaker 3: you disagree with, the next Democrat president who gets in
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  Speaker 3: the White House will do this and will come after,
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  Speaker 3: will come after everyone right of center, And so that
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  Speaker 3: is that is a slippery slope to oblivion. But at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, understand, just because I'm saying the federal
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  Speaker 3: government shouldn't force Kimmel off the air, I think market
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: forces should. And it's interesting that that sixty six ABC
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  Speaker 3: stations did not carry the Kimmel program tonight. And if
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: there are enough market forces, ABC ultimately will respond to them.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: I think market forces are a great check for horrific, unfunny, partisan,
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  Speaker 3: dishonest speech. And by the way, if you're dishonest enough,
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: there could also be legal liability and litigation and all
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: sorts of consequences that come when you lie on air.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't think it should be government regulators saying
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  Speaker 3: we don't agree with the politics of your speech, so
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: we're taking your license. But that being said, the world
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  Speaker 3: is better off without an unfunny, dishonest left wing partisan
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  Speaker 3: who lies to the American people. And sadly, there was
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: a time when Jimmy Kimmel could be funny, but that's
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: what he has become.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great point.
• 40:39
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• 40:42
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