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"Half past a Handmaid’s Tale.” (LIVE from Brooklyn) · Pod Save America

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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, Brooklyn? Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm Jon Favreau.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Akilah Hughes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John Lovett. I'm Tommy Vitor.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
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  Speaker 2: Later in the show, we will talk to one Attorney
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  Speaker 2: General who's not afraid of investigating Donald Trump. New York's
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  Speaker 2: Letitia James is here. And Donald Trump is here in
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  Speaker 2: New York somewhere. We were almost late for the show.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of traffic.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of traffic. All right.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of news to talk about from
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  Speaker 2: this week. Not all of it's that great. On Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: Governor Kay Ivey signed the most extreme anti-abortion legislation.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard of this.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the most extreme anti-abortion legislation in the country
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  Speaker 2: into law, which would outlaw abortion by making it a
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  Speaker 2: felony for doctors to perform the procedure, even in cases
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  Speaker 2: of rape or incest, a felony punishable by up to
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  Speaker 2: 99 years in prison. Republican politicians have pushed similar abortion
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  Speaker 2: bans in states like Ohio, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, and today, Missouri. Akilah,
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  Speaker 2: what are the... practical effects of abortion bans and restrictions
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  Speaker 2: like these, do they actually stop women from getting an abortion?
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  Speaker 6: No, they don't.
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  Speaker 7: Stop women from getting abortions. They just force women to
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  Speaker 7: have unsafe abortions. Honestly, I hope that there's a hell
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  Speaker 7: for her sake.
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  Speaker 3: She can burn there.
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  Speaker 6: And, you know, I live in Brooklyn and I.
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  Speaker 7: Squad, I'm pandering hard, but I'm from the South and... See,
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  Speaker 7: a lot of people in New York are not from
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  Speaker 7: New York. And I gotta say, I wasn't surprised that
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  Speaker 7: this is the way it went. I know my entire
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  Speaker 7: life it has been just a fight for women to
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  Speaker 7: maintain the rights of Roe v.
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  Speaker 1: Wade.
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  Speaker 7: And it's very disheartening, but we gonna get through this.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy, Planned Parenthood called this the most extreme abortion ban
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  Speaker 2: since Roe v. Wade was decided. And even Governor Ivey
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  Speaker 2: acknowledged when she signed the bill that this Alabama law
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  Speaker 2: may be unenforceable. So if she thinks it's unenforceable, what
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  Speaker 2: is the strategy behind passing a bill like this?
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  Speaker 1: It's a very good question.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, even Pat Robertson said that the bill might
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  Speaker 8: have been a little too extreme for him, which I
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  Speaker 8: think tells you a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Pat Robertson who thinks that feminism causes witchcraft.
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  Speaker 3: It does.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe also hurricanes. I believe he has a very
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  Speaker 1: checkered record on what causes hurricanes. And it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of gay stuff.
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  Speaker 8: So I think there's a pretty long history of Republicans
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  Speaker 8: who say absolutely outrageous, crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Things on this issue and lose elections.
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  Speaker 8: We all probably remember Todd Akin, who talked about how
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  Speaker 8: there was legitimate rape versus non-legitimate rape. And he said
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  Speaker 8: that the body had a way of preventing pregnancies in
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  Speaker 8: the case of some race, which is the craziest fucking
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  Speaker 8: thing ever. He was a Senate candidate from Missouri who
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  Speaker 8: was later destroyed. So I think that there is a
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  Speaker 8: very real and legitimate fear that all these anti-choice bills
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  Speaker 8: that are passing in states across the country are designed
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  Speaker 8: to get challenged in courts and then run up to
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  Speaker 8: the Supreme Court. I'm not an expert on this, but
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  Speaker 8: I do think that it's probably more likely that a
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  Speaker 8: bill like the one that was passed in Louisiana that—
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  Speaker 8: you know, sort of reduced abortion access at the margins
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  Speaker 8: by saying doctors who work in these clinics need to
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  Speaker 8: have admitting privileges at local hospitals, which is an incredibly
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  Speaker 8: onerous requirement, which would reduce the number of abortion providers
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  Speaker 8: in the state and reduce access. That's more likely to
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  Speaker 8: be the kind of thing that gets to the Supreme
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  Speaker 8: Court and will slowly chip away at abortion rights or,
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  Speaker 8: you know, ultimately lead to an overturning of Roe versus Wade.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it does seem like right now, our hopes are
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  Speaker 2: hanging on John Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's not good.
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  Speaker 2: Of all people being the swing vote on.
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  Speaker 1: John Roberts, he was the one on the plane with
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  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell and Pence, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's who it is.
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  Speaker 2: What were they doing on the plane together?
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  Speaker 1: Did anyone? Dick Luger's funeral.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay. Likely cover story. They were making small talk, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Dan, I want to talk about the politics of these
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  Speaker 2: abortion bans. Here's a New York Times headline that just
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  Speaker 2: posted before we came on stage. Republicans' messaging on abortion
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  Speaker 2: puts Democrats on the defensive. It says that, yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: is okay. This story goes on to say, Republicans have
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  Speaker 2: reset the terms of the debate, quote, forcing the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: to reassess how they should respond to attacks that portray
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  Speaker 2: the party as extremist on abortion. That would be the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party as extremist on abortion. Does that track with
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  Speaker 2: your assessment, Dan?
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  Speaker 4: I just spontaneously combusted over that headline.
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  Speaker 1: I think it.
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  Speaker 4: Is sort of, it feels almost uncomfortable to talk about
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  Speaker 4: the politics here because of what is at stake, right?
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  Speaker 4: Like this is the actual, this is a life and
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  Speaker 4: death situation for a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of women.
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  Speaker 4: And that's at stake here. But these decisions are made
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  Speaker 4: by politicians. So in that sense, the politics does matter.
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  Speaker 4: And when you look at the individual incremental, put it
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  Speaker 4: Alabama side, the individual incremental efforts to chip away at
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  Speaker 4: Roe versus Wade, many of those are popular. whether it's
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  Speaker 4: the 20-week abortion bill that they took up in the
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  Speaker 4: Senate a few years ago, when you use the term
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  Speaker 4: heartbeat bill, you can get a plurality, in some cases
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  Speaker 4: a majority, and some support for Democrats for that. But
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  Speaker 4: when you talk about the idea of overturning Roe versus
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  Speaker 4: Wade in banning abortion, that is a seven in 10
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  Speaker 4: Americans oppose that. So you would think the politics are
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  Speaker 4: bad for Republicans, but they will only be bad for
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  Speaker 4: Republicans if Democrats make the right argument, right? And so
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  Speaker 4: we can't get wrapped around the axle about the specifics.
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  Speaker 4: We have to make the case, which is the Alabama
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  Speaker 4: law is the position of the Republican Party. They may
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  Speaker 4: tell you, that they think it's too extreme or they
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  Speaker 4: want these exceptions. That is bullshit. They are mad at
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  Speaker 4: Alabama because Alabama took the secret plan and put it
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  Speaker 4: on the internet. And I think that's very important.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is the natural, to completely.
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  Speaker 4: Ban abortion in every instance, including rape and incest, is
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  Speaker 4: the natural extension of the mainstream Republican position. And we
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  Speaker 4: have to make the case that Republicans believe that women
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  Speaker 4: do not have the right to control their bodies. And
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  Speaker 4: that will be the consequence of losing the election in 2020,
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  Speaker 4: both in the White House and everywhere down the ballot,
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  Speaker 4: because it is only because we did not win elections
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  Speaker 4: or run candidates in some of these states, in the
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  Speaker 4: state legislative races in Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, Ohio, that they
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  Speaker 4: can pass these bills.
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  Speaker 1: Love it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think Republicans in swing states and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: want these bans to be part of their campaigns in 2020?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just today, even House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy
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  Speaker 2: said that he was opposed to the Alabama law.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think Dan's point is right. This
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  Speaker 1: is obviously the logical extension of their position. The only
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  Speaker 1: reason they don't adopt it is because they know it's
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  Speaker 1: bad politics. I mean, you know, look, there really are
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  Speaker 1: two kinds of winning coalitions. One of them is the
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  Speaker 1: Republican one that runs the gamut from a chunk of
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  Speaker 1: the population. It's a minority, but it's a big group
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  Speaker 1: of people that are pro-life and take the maximal position.
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  Speaker 1: And they can build a coalition with them all the
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  Speaker 1: way to the middle for people that have, I think,
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  Speaker 1: more complicated views on the subject. There's a democratic coalition
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  Speaker 1: that runs from people who are pro-choice and are proudly
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  Speaker 1: pro-choice and believe in protecting the autonomy of women, also
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  Speaker 1: known as human beings.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: And there is a winning coalition that is built on
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  Speaker 1: that base, plus a lot of people who, again, have
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  Speaker 1: mixed feelings on this issue, which is why the debate
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  Speaker 1: around abortion tends to be around trying to make the
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  Speaker 1: other side seem extreme, because they know that especially in
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  Speaker 1: the United States, which, being honest, tends to be more
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  Speaker 1: conservative on this than some other countries, there is a
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  Speaker 1: group of people in the middle that are able, that
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  Speaker 1: will vote in both directions. And so, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: idea that Democrats are on the defensive because Republicans have
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  Speaker 1: expose the maximal position, I think is just not true,
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  Speaker 1: which is why I think you will see Republicans take
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  Speaker 1: that position. I mean, this was a debate that went
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  Speaker 1: on during the Bush administration. George W. Bush appointed multiple
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices, and Roe versus Wade was upheld. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the one thing I would add to all of this
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  Speaker 1: is I think the question turning on will this Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court overturn Roe versus Wade may give them a little
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  Speaker 1: too much political leeway, because ultimately, we may end up
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  Speaker 1: in a position where they uphold Roe versus Wade while
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  Speaker 1: using one of these state laws to dramatically restrict abortion
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  Speaker 1: further than it's already been restricted by some other rulings.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think we need to be clear about
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  Speaker 1: that because I think there's a chance the way this
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  Speaker 1: media environment operates, as this article is an example of
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  Speaker 1: saying Democrats are on the defensive, that we will end
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  Speaker 1: up in a position where Roe versus Wade is upheld,
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  Speaker 1: women's rights are dramatically restricted, and it's seen as some
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  Speaker 1: kind of common middle ground when actually what it is
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  Speaker 1: is rolling the clock backwards for women's rights. So I
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  Speaker 1: think we need to be clear about that, that we're
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  Speaker 1: not just trying to uphold Roe versus Wade, we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to uphold the current regime of rights that protects access
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  Speaker 1: for women to healthcare across the country, which has already
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  Speaker 1: been restricted pretty substantially by the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a very important point, which is Roe
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  Speaker 4: versus Wade is the compromise. Like that is how we
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  Speaker 4: got here. And the Supreme Court upheld that in 1992.
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  Speaker 4: So anything that they do to chip away at that
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  Speaker 4: is a dramatic reversal for the rights of women and
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  Speaker 4: is an incredibly slippery slope. And yes, there is a
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  Speaker 4: danger in saying that the Supreme Court will definitely overturn
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  Speaker 4: Roe versus Wade this term. But regardless of what they
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  Speaker 4: do this term, If Donald Trump is allowed to appoint
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  Speaker 4: another Supreme Court justice, Roe vs. Wade is 100% certainly gone.
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  Speaker 4: This is the plan. This is what they are doing.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why it's so important that we make it
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  Speaker 4: clear that the Alabama position is the position of the
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  Speaker 4: Republican Party. It is their vision for the future of
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  Speaker 4: this country.
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  Speaker 1: Akilah, what can people do in the meantime.
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  Speaker 2: Starting now, to protect access.
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  Speaker 1: To abortion and fight for it?
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  Speaker 7: Well, obviously you need to donate. And I think that,
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  Speaker 7: you know, not everyone's in a position to donate. And
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  Speaker 7: so something that I have tried to internalize and something
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  Speaker 7: that I think is really effective is when people use
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  Speaker 7: their voice however they can. And so maybe you don't
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  Speaker 7: have a bajillion followers on Instagram, but a lot of
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  Speaker 7: people are posting about it. I think, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 7: that sounds like a trite thing, like, oh, post to
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  Speaker 7: your Instagram about how you think this is fucked up.
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  Speaker 7: But post to your Instagram about how you think this
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  Speaker 7: is fucked up. Because that's where people form their opinions now, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 7: And I think, honestly, I can't say it enough. If
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  Speaker 7: you have the means to donate, donate to local groups.
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  Speaker 7: Read local newspapers in Alabama, in Georgia. Don't just read
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  Speaker 7: these horrific headlines in the New York Times.
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  Speaker 6: I think that I went through a range of.
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  Speaker 7: Emotions when the official Alabama stuff came through, and I
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  Speaker 7: think that that's my microphone, so I don't apologize.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to hold it until I'm done with this point,
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  Speaker 6: and then I'll stop. But I.
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  Speaker 7: When I was reading the official word from Alabama that
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  Speaker 7: this is the way that they see women, that this
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  Speaker 7: is how women, you know, they have no control over
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  Speaker 7: their bodies and now doctors are going to jail for
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  Speaker 7: nearly 100 years when rapists will not go to jail
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  Speaker 7: for even a day, probably. Obviously, this shit's infuriating. Obviously,
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  Speaker 7: you know, all of that rage is warranted. And so
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  Speaker 7: I think that... You can be mad, but you have
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  Speaker 7: to take action and you need to listen to people
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  Speaker 7: who have.
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  Speaker 3: Resources, who know how to.
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  Speaker 7: Get the people safe abortions in Alabama, in Georgia, in Kentucky,
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  Speaker 7: in Ohio in the meantime. But yeah, we can't budge
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  Speaker 7: an inch. Women deserve rights over their bodies. Men don't
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  Speaker 7: get to have the say this time.
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  Speaker 3: Fuck all that. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: And like Akili was saying, specifically in Alabama, you can
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  Speaker 2: donate to the Yellowhammer Fund, which helps protect abortion access
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  Speaker 2: in the state of Alabama. Unfortunately now, because a similar
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  Speaker 2: bill just passed the Missouri Senate and is headed to
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  Speaker 2: the Republican-held House in Missouri as well, you can make
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  Speaker 2: sure if you live in Missouri, you know people who
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  Speaker 2: live in Missouri, you can make sure you call your
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  Speaker 2: legislators in Missouri. You can donate to local groups in
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  Speaker 2: Missouri that protect abortion access. Please donate to the ACLU
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  Speaker 2: because the ACLU is suing the state of Alabama. And
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  Speaker 2: they have won those lawsuits in the past. Abortion Funds
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  Speaker 2: is a nationwide network that helps pay for medical care, transportation,
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  Speaker 2: and for people who want to escort people who are
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  Speaker 2: getting abortions because sometimes that's very difficult to walk through
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of anti-abortion protesters. And then the other thing
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  Speaker 2: we should talk about is this is a reminder of
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  Speaker 2: why local and state elections matter, right? Because now that
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  Speaker 2: we're just sitting here waiting for the Supreme Court to
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  Speaker 2: do their thing, there are states that can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on a state level, you can vote to protect abortion access.
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  Speaker 2: And in 2019, there's gonna be a bunch of elections.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even have to wait till 2020. We relaunched
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  Speaker 2: Vote Save America this week, which we had in 2018.
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  Speaker 2: So if you go on Vote Save America, you can
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  Speaker 2: find out if you're registered. You can find ways to volunteer.
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  Speaker 2: And you can find a whole bunch of information and
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  Speaker 2: resources to make sure that you can vote. In 2019,
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  Speaker 2: we have elections in Virginia and Mississippi and Louisiana specifically
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  Speaker 2: where Democrats could actually flip control of the houses there.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a really big deal. And, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: can stop things like this from happening.
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  Speaker 4: We should, in the list of organizations, we should shout
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  Speaker 4: out one more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Which is run for something.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: An organization that recruits and trains people to run for office,
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  Speaker 4: the founder of which, Amanda Lippman, is here tonight in
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  Speaker 4: the audience.
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  Speaker 1: Can I just add, I want to add one more
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  Speaker 1: thing about this too, because it goes beyond just obviously
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  Speaker 1: we need to elect people who will respect the autonomy
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  Speaker 1: of women, but also it's not a coincidence that these
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  Speaker 1: are also places that have some of the highest infant
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  Speaker 1: mortality rates and some of the highest maternal death rates
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  Speaker 1: as well. Which is a reminder, too, that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these are states that refuse to expand Medicaid under Obamacare,
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  Speaker 1: politicians claiming to be pro-life while pursuing policies that have
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  Speaker 1: led to deaths of women and children in those states.
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  Speaker 1: And so, so much is on the line in these elections.
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  Speaker 7: And on top of that, I mean, just to be
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  Speaker 7: real petty, Alabama is 50th out of 50 in education.
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  Speaker 7: Don't talk about how you care about children when you
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  Speaker 7: all don't have schools that teach them anything.
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  Speaker 6: We need to fix the system.
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  Speaker 2: Also, by the way, the idea that Alabama has the
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  Speaker 2: politics of Alabama and that's the way it is has
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  Speaker 2: been proven wrong by recent history.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Because we elected Doug Jones not so long ago in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Alabama. And, you know, with redistricting and
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  Speaker 2: everything else, we can change things. All right, let's move
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  Speaker 2: on to the next happy topic. Because if there's anything
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  Speaker 2: Republicans enjoy more than a war on women, it's a
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  Speaker 2: war in the Middle East. The New York Times reported
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  Speaker 2: this week that National Security Advisor John Bolton was among
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  Speaker 2: a group Couple John Bolton fans here in the audience.
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  Speaker 2: John Bolton was among the- We.
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  Speaker 1: Like him, we like him. There's a tiny part of
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn that likes him. That's Michael Bolton.
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  Speaker 2: So Michael Bolton was among a group of White House
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  Speaker 2: officials that asked the Pentagon for a military plan that
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  Speaker 2: calls for sending more than 100,000 troops to the Middle
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  Speaker 2: East if Iran advances its nuclear program or attacks American forces.
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  Speaker 2: Then on Wednesday, the State Department ordered a partial evacuation
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  Speaker 2: of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, citing what the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration has called new threats from Iran. Tommy, how did
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  Speaker 2: we get from Trump pulling out of the Iran deal
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  Speaker 2: to the current crisis that we're in right now? And
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: how serious is this? How worried should we be?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm very worried. So at some point.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't the answer I was looking for.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot to worry about.
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  Speaker 1: Hey!
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  Speaker 5: Hey!
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  Speaker 8: At some point along the way, someone told Trump that
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  Speaker 8: Obama was nice to Iran, therefore he decided Iran is bad,
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  Speaker 8: so he pulled out of the Iran deal despite the
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  Speaker 8: fact that Iran was complying with all the provisions of
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  Speaker 8: the Iran deal that we'd want them to to limit
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  Speaker 8: their ability to get a nuclear weapon. On top of that,
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  Speaker 8: they started slapping sanctions on the Iranians that were just
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  Speaker 8: crippling their economy. We designated the IRGC, which is a
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  Speaker 8: military wing of Iran, a terrorist organization. And then so recently...
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  Speaker 8: we started reading these reports of intelligence suggesting the Iranians
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: were going to attack US forces in the region or
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: do something nefarious. And so Trump decided to send an
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: aircraft carrier over to the Gulf and a strike group
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: and a Patriot missile battery. And, you know, I don't
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: want to underplay the fact that the Iranians are bad actors.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: I mean, the Pentagon estimates that 600 US service members
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: were killed in Iraq in between 2003 and 2011 by
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: Iran-aligned Shia militia groups. They would provide them munitions that
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: could defeat our armor and certain things. They're bad people
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: who have done terrible things. But in this instance, we
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: are pressuring them into a place where I'm not surprised
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: that Iran decided to respond because there has been a
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: clearly articulated regime change strategy from this White House. In fact,
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: John Bolton, the National Security Advisor, said, the only way
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is to
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: bomb them.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: So I think we all just need.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: To be very worried about a couple of things. One,
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: you know, now there's some reports that maybe Trump is,
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: Trump is the adult in the room telling his people, right?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Makes me feel better.
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: Telling his own national security team that he doesn't want
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: them to go to war. But, you know, we also
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: heard during the campaign that Trump wanted to get us
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: out of war's And he sent more troops to Afghanistan.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: He talked about pulling all our troops out of Syria
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: and then backtracked on the decision.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: So I don't trust these reports at all.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: But I mean, in that area, in the Strait of Hormuz,
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: in that region generally, the risk of a miscalculation or
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: something happening that could escalate incredibly quickly is massive. And
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: a war with Iran would be way worse than a
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: war with Iraq.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: So John Bolton's plan to just send a few bombs
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: over there is not going to prevent them from creating.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: A nuclear weapon? No.
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: 120,000 troops is the high end of the options, apparently,
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: that Trump has presented. That is an invasion-sized force. That's
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: basically what we sent into Iraq, which was enough to
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: get us to Baghdad and then get into a decade-long quagmire.
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: So I think Congress needs to step up and say,
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: you do not have any authorization to go to war.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: I think that activists like the people in this audience
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: need to march— And make clear that this is unacceptable.
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: I hope all the Democratic presidential candidates say that in
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: no way is it in our strategic interest to go
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: to war with Iran.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: It's a big deal. It's frightening.
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: And I also worry that Trump could be convinced by
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: the religious right, by the Israelis, by the Saudis.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: By the last person he talks to.
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: By the last guy he talked to. By the Saturday
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: morning Fox and Friends guy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: To roll the fucking dice. That it's good politics. Who
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: brings him a Diet Coke last will determine.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: We're so fucked. Akilah, it's a tough night for news.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry that we're doing this to Brooklyn. I never
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: get to go out with you all in Brooklyn.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: What a week.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Akilah, I was wondering, Tommy was saying, and the Washington
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Post reported this too, that Trump is annoyed with John
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Bolton for being all warlike. He wants a more diplomatic approach.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Is the best way to avoid war here for Time
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: to have a Time magazine cover that says President Bolton
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and then he'll firearm? Yes, absolutely. Is this our best
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: bet here?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: If you look back, when people started saying Steve Bannon
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: was the president, where's that guy now?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gone.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Melting somewhere.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: So I think that that's a good idea.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: You just need to prop up John Bolton?
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: I mean, honestly, I think we have to try every
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: petty tactic, every reality show tactic.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: We have Deshante.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: We stay.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: He can go eat it.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Dan, what are the politics of another potential war in
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: the Middle East?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. What a question.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Well, what I'm wondering is, would Republicans line up behind
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Trump like they do everything else? Would Republican voters, I mean,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I notice this because I saw, of all fucking people,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Laura Ingram tweet yesterday, war with Iran is one of
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the few almost certain paths for Donald Trump to harm
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: his reelection prospects, which I thought was very interesting coming
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: from her.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: John, before Dan answers, and I want to hear Dan's answer.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Do you? That is such a relief to me.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: That's why I asked about the politics, man. Because honestly.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: That's not nothing. Laura Ingraham has a real... season eight
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Daenerys vibe, and it's a flip of the coin. It's
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a flip of the coin with her. So I'm glad
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: she landed. I'm glad she landed on being happy the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: bells were ringing. She did a bad haircut away from Daenerys.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I would say the politics of a war with Iran
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: are about as good as the politics of war with Iraq.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And it is worth remembering that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Wait, war with Iraq now, not war with Iraq when
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: it's like New York Times is like, let's go.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I think we have to be, I.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Think the politics are on their face bad, but we
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: have to be aware of a couple of things. One,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: if Trump were to decide to do this, Laura Ingraham
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: and all the people on Fox News will get right
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: in line. And they will challenge the patriotism of Democrats
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: who oppose it. And Trump's base, who will probably bear
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: a huge part of the sacrifice of that war, will,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: at the outset, support him. Because when he says he
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a voter,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: he's not fucking around. That is the reality of his
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: political situation with his base. But the question with all
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: these things is, the politics are bad, but the reason
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: why Bush could go to war was because he was
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: able to bully Democrats into letting him go to war.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that was my next question is like, do
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: we think that Democrats and Democratic candidates for president have
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: been sounding the alarm loudly enough yet? Because I feel
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: like I've seen a couple of statements here and there.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Some of them have been cautious, but I haven't seen
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: anyone's be like. fuck no, we're not doing this again.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I guess Bernie Sanders made a pretty strong statement.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I think that people can always do better, but it's hard.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: There are folks in the Senate, the few remaining ones
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: not running for president, like Chris Murphy, who are raising
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: fucking hell, right? And it's important to try to have
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: a vote, and I think we should do that in
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: the House and the Senate, to try to demonstrate that
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: the will of Congress is that Trump does not, if
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: he wants to do this, he has to go to
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Congress and and ask for authorization, and you can't use
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: some bullshit authorization that's been on the books for 18 years.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Right, which they've tried to do.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: Secretary Pompeo tried to suggest that the AUMF, which is
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: what we passed after 9-11 to go after Al-Qaeda, somehow
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: allowed us to go into Iran, which is batshit crazy.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: The good news is that there was some, this intelligence
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: that suggested Iran was about to attack our forces in
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: the region was briefed to Congress today, and then Pelosi
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: came out of that briefing and said there is no
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: authorization to go to war Trump would have to come
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: back to Congress. Now, it's Donald fucking Trump. That doesn't
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: make me feel better. He thinks that he can shoot
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: a couple of T-lams into Syria like he did after
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: the chemical weapons attack and that things will be fine.
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: I think that that would rapidly escalate. It would not
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: be a Syria-like situation. This would be a war that
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: would escalate quickly. You would see proxy forces like Hezbollah
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: start to attack Israel. I mean, it would be just
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: an exponentially worse situation.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, so in this situation, things that are making us
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: feel hopeful, Donald Trump and Laura Ingraham.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: The Trump thing is sort of an important point, which
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: is like, yes, he did say that he was against
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: wars in the Middle East. Like, he did say that.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: He also said... He was against tax cuts for the rich.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: He was against cutting Medicare. He was for protecting people
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: with pre-existing conditions.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: He was pro-choice at one point.
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: We can't take that to the next.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: It's almost as if he has no actual positions whatsoever.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: And the thing about Trump, too, is the reason you
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: don't give matches to a baby is because the baby's pro-fire.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: It's because they're too dumb to have dangerous things.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: In their hand. I have.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I have absolutely no doubt that Donald Trump could be
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: easily led into war. But what I keep thinking is
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: he is president who is a low information cable news viewer.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: That's who he is. That's who he's been all his life.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Except he owns the network.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right. And because he's that, he knows that... He
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: watched cable news all through the Iraq War, and he
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: knows how unpopular it is and how unpopular a president
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: can be, because he used to say this about George
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Bush all the time, a president could be that takes
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: the country into war when there's a 10-year quagmire.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Do you mean two-term President George W. Bush?
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: The first year turns out okay, generally, though, for the
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: president who's heroically leading you into war.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: It's 3-4-5. I will say that there is a.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Another facet of Donald Trump that is useful, which is
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that he does have, despite his bluster, an innate and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: inconquerable cowardice to his conduct generally. It's why he was
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: only willing to go so far in Syria. And I
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: think it actually does affect his decisions now. I mean,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the man can't fire anyone face to face. Yeah, he's
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: scared of Amorosa. I mean, look, nothing has made Donald
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Trump seem smaller. I mean, he's shocked himself. I mean,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: nothing has made Donald Trump seem smaller than the powers
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of the presidency. And he is It's actually been one
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: of the saving graces for the country is that he
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: is terrified of the awesome responsibilities bestowed to him. No, look,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for silver linings here. They're not great, but
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: that's one.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: From the foreign policy expert. What is the path towards
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: de-escalating the situation? To leave it on a hopeful note,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: how does this, because look, we're not at war with
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: North Korea yet. Jesus Christ.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: I would do a side note today, which is Fox
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: News just came out with a new poll, which is
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: not awesome in a lot of ways, but it does
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: say that most voters now think Trump is not tough enough.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: In North Korea. Yeah, I saw that.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: So Trump loved the pomp and circumstance of his negotiations
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: with North Korea.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: So that is a good thing.
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: And there was a report in the New Yorker recently
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: that said Trump had invited President Rouhani of Iran to
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: dinner multiple times. But Rouhani said no. But this sort
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: of gets at the.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: He doesn't like McDonald's.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Easy, yes, man.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: Well, but this is the difference. North Korea doesn't have politics.
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: You have an absolute dictator, ruler, who can do whatever
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: the hell he wants. Iran has real politics. The Supreme
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: Leader calls the shots, not the president of Iran.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Rouhani will have an election.
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: And Trump has backed him into a corner where anything
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: that looks like capitulating to the Americans might get him
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: not reelected. It might, you know, the sanctions might lead
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: to the collapse of the economy, which might hurt him politically. So, like,
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: this is how they're misplaying the situation. We've also completely
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: lost the international community. I mean, the Europeans have tried
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: to stick with the Iran deal. So, like, That's where
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: he's completely, fundamentally misplayed this game. That said, if Rohani says, yeah, man,
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: I'll meet you at Mar-a-Lago for a well-done.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Steak, I think we could be out of this thing.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I just don't know how we get from here to there.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: I just want to say, sitting next to Akilah, watching
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: you listen to Tommy, you're like, He'll say something that
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: may be hopeful, and then he'll be like, but probably not.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: And then you just go like this.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: I am so deflated. It is half past Handmaid's Tale.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: We got to leave this bitch tonight. Anybody who has
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: a car, meet me around back. Little America is forming
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: in Toronto. Let's just go. I'm so over it. What
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: are we even doing anymore? We're hoping that this guy
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: is rational with dictators.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Fuck that.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Akilah, I come from a long line of Jews who
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: knew when to get the fuck out. There you go.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And so just if I'm here, we're cool. Thank you. Probably.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll have more news in a bit.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Now it's time for OK Stop. You know how it works.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Roll a clip and the panel can say OK Stop
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: at any point to comment. Rudy Giuliani. Your favorite mayor ever.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And your favorite mayor to run for president.
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: They don't know what to do.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I promised I would wait for the 2020 section. I promised.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about it. Oh my god. Oh man.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: So tall. Rudy went on. Rudy went on Fox News
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to discuss how he himself did some investigating in Ukraine
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and discovered something nefarious about one Joe Biden. Let's take
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: a look.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: The reality is this has nothing to do with the
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: election of 2020. The election of 2020 is a long
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: time from now. And if I wanted a medal in
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: that election, which I don't, I could have held this
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: for a year and dropped it right before.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: I know he's been hanging out with Trump a lot.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: We're not going to pretend we don't see this tan.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I know. Oh, the tan. The tan.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: What were you looking at? The hairline?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: No, not the hairline. He's about to have a swoop.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: He's got black hair. He didn't have that before. He's
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: using the Stephen Miller hairspray.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, God.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I think that's cool. I think that's cool.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Rudy is going through something, all right? He's going through
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: something personally. He's going through something politically. And honestly, if
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: that new face color and new hair color is the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: thing that gets him on that date, that lends him
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a little bit of comfort and happiness that stops him
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: from being a roving lunatic for the worst president in history,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: maybe the die is worth it.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: I'm going to stay tuned to find out.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: The reality is I came about this by accident investigating
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Ukrainian collusion with Democrats.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, stop. Rudy Giuliani has never discovered anything on purpose.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: The idea that he just happened to be in Ukraine,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: minding his own business, eating some.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Is this malfeasance I've discovered? How did this happen?
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I'm I just came... I'm trying to remember what cities
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: are in Ukraine. I'm going to go for it. I
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: came to Kiev to relax. A little R & R.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: And I discovered that Joe Biden is a criminal.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: To affect the election and also to help create the
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: false narrative against the president. And over the next three
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: to four months, you're going to find out all about that,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: including the corruption that.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Went on with the.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, stop.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: Doesn't this sound like the worst podcast that's about to
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: come out? I'm just saying I don't care to listen
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: to Rudy Giuliani for.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: The next four months. It's a fake crime podcast.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Fake crime starring Joe Biden.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: From Sarah Koenig, you'll never believe what didn't happen.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: It is upfront season. So this is him debuting it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I've done Biden, yeah.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Dossier and the corruption that went on with Papadopoulos and
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: the way he was set up. It's all part of
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: one large conspiracy that has about two or three parts
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: to it. You're also going to find, I think, that
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: some of the Steele memorandum was written in the Ukraine.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: After all, Steele didn't go to Russia for nine years.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: How could he have written a memorandum about Russia if
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: he hadn't been there for nine years?
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: The internet?
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: What is he talking about?
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: What is he even talking about? Does anyone understand what
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: he's talking about?
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: Don't tell Rudy Giuliani about the internet. It's bad enough
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: as it is.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know what he's referring to, but it's somehow
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: on the same universe as the pee tape.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: That's all I know.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: Could Comey have accepted it as true without asking him? Okay,
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: let me ask you about something here.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: You phone call.
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: Okay, stop.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: It is insane for me.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: To feel like this woman on fucking Fox News needs
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: someone to.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Step in so that she can be heard.
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: It is wild that I feel compelled to advocate on
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: her behalf.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Let her speak.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: I hate you, Rudy.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: For intelligence information?
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: I don't know, because I'm not a spy.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know about a clue. Okay, stop. You know what?
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know who this is. May never know. But
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: that was cool.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: When Comey signed that affidavit, using the Steele dossier, which
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: he didn't bother to verify, which if you read it,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: reads like a porn novel.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, stop.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: That was phrasing.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I would just say, I would just say, How do
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: you know? And what the fuck is a porn novel? Novel, yeah.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Like a supermarket one? Were they like 1925? Once again...
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: You don't have to picture it anymore.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Once again.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to curl up with my porn novel.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: He doesn't know about the internet.
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: Let's keep him off of it.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: And worse... Either Comey was sleeping for five months or
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: he deliberately didn't want to verify that and he gave
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: false evidence to the court in order to invade the
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: rights of an American citizen who turns out to be
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: perfectly innocent. I don't know what you call that. I
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: don't know if it's a coup or it's making a
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: false statement.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Your two options are.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Coup and false statement.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: That's a range. That's a range. And he doesn't know
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: what you call it.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I was either going to overthrow the government or tell
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: a tall tale.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: You know, it's a Wednesday, so Thursday.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: My thing is, who is this guy that is clearly
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani's hot younger brother, you know? Because I got
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: to tell you, he sounds just as crazy as Rudy Giuliani.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: And that's okay, stop. Now let's, I guess let's talk
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: about the news again.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about 2020.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: It's happening.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: A lot of apprehension in those cheers.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This week, two more men have rounded out the
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: record-breaking field of 23 Democratic candidates. Guys, just wait. Montana
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Governor Steve Bullock. Okay, got some Bullock fans. And New
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: York City's own Mayor Bill de Blasio.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Now, for everyone listening at home, what you're hearing is, boo,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: and a room filled with de Blasio 2020 signs.
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: What does that say? Love it for President 2020? There's
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: a sign out there.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: Wait, put it back.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Hi, Mrs.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: As the Washington Post wrote on Wednesday, quote, some Democratic
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: leaders worry privately that this army of candidates makes it
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: harder for the party to coalesce around a single standard
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: bearer and deliver a clear message, no shit. And for
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: the candidates, the landscape makes it increasingly difficult to strategize,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: stand out, and make their case. Akilah, we're going to
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: start with you because I know Lovett has a lot
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: to say about this candidate, but you are a constituent
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: of the mayor's, along with all of you, many of you.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: What do you think about his presidential candidacy?
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: I just don't understand why it's necessary. I don't get it.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I don't get it. I, I feel like, I feel.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: Like the field of Democrats now is like the song
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: Freak-A-Leak by Pete Bob. It's like Keisha, Tara, Monica, Monique, Krista, Duranda.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Like it's just so many, so many people. And I'm like,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm not going to learn your name.
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: Like this is, It's so ridiculous and like I live
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: in New York and I'm not learning de Blasio.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm just saying. I love it. Here's the thing.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: How much later for Star Wars in New York City
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: can this guy get? Because he's very tall.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: So tall.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I just think people this tall have too much confidence.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: And I just want to make a couple points. I'm
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: a full foot shorter than Bill de Blasio, which means
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: that if I had dropped that groundhog, it would still
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: be alive. I will also just say, I get, look,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: it must be very frustrating to be the mayor of
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: New York City, the biggest country, biggest city, the biggest city. Listen,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: you guys leave, I'm coming. And you're like, wait a second.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I run the most complicated city bigger than like 15
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: American states. And this mayor from South Bend, Indiana, who
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: basically runs three blocks of Hell's Kitchen, that must drive
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: him crazy. He's the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. You
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: could fit South Bend between like I don't know, like
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Madison and Park. So like, that must, I mean, it
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: must be insane. And then how fucking frustrating it is
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: to say, you know what, if he can do it,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I can do it. And then 8 million people say,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: go fuck yourself, come on. You don't leave New York
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: till we're done hating you. So anyway, long story short,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I think New York needs a shorter mayor.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Dan, just so we can play devil's advocate here, if
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: you're Bill de Blasio or Steve Bullock and you see
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: a field this large, talented, diverse, why do you get
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: in the primary at this stage? What do you see?
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: What is the case for some of these lesser-known candidates
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: who don't have the name ID that some of these
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: other candidates have that haven't been around as long? What's
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: the case?
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: There isn't one.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: I think, let's be clear.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to keep asking until someone.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Makes the case. I mean, yes, I guess anything is
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: possible if you try it enough times.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Trump is president.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: But that's the problem, is.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: Everyone looks and says, Trump won, therefore I can win.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: But the problem with that argument is that Trump had
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: 100% name ID. He was leading in the polls when
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: he started. He was leading in the polls in the
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: 2012 Republican primary when he was contemplating getting in. Trump
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: winning is not a Horatio Alger tale of a mayor
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: or a governor that no one knows working their way
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: to the top.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: He was one of the most famous people in the world.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, who was a dominating force in right-wing media who
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: said all the things the base wanted him to say.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: That is not what's happening. And I think we have to...
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Like a couple points, one, anything is possible, but that
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: doesn't mean that it is probable or even plausible for
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: some of these people to come from nowhere. Second, there
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: is a difference between saying you're running for president and
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: actually running for president. Running for the Democratic nomination is
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: about getting a majority of delegates. That means you have
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: to be able to run real, well-staffed, well-organized, funded campaigns
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: in four early primary states. Of the 25 fucking people
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: who are currently running for president, maybe 10 of them
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: can do that, right? And so I think At some point, yes,
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: we have apparently very easy to get into debate criteria.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: People should do that. We should let it play itself out.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: But there is a distinction between the people who have
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: shown that they can actually win the nomination and the
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: people who just put out a really cute video early on.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, Tommy, how do candidates... How do the candidates,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: maybe the 10 candidates that Dan's talking about that have
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: a chance... How do those candidates stand out and command
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: attention in a field this large? What are the good strategies?
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: What are the not so good strategies?
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: Light yourself on fire. I sincerely don't know because I
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: keep thinking about Martin O'Malley.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Remember him? Ran against Bernie and Hillary.
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: And he couldn't break through or get press attention or
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: make news at a debate. So it's going to be
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: exponentially harder when there's literally two separate debates on different nights. So,
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: you know, look, not to knock the most recent entrance
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: to the race, but like there is a group of
• 44:02
  Speaker 8: people who see running for president as a way to
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: increase your profile, get a book deal, get speaking fees.
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: I mean, I think it's more true on the Republican side. Now,
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: the counter argument to everything we're saying is that if
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: Stacey Abrams got in, That.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Reaction speaks for itself, right?
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: So, like, there clearly are a lot of people out
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: there who look at the 2,500 people running.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: And think, like, I'm not sold yet. What's next? So, look,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: it's a long process. We shall see. But I feel
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: like it's going to end poorly for a lot of
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: these candidates.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: And the argument against what we're all saying is Pete Buttigieg, right? Like,
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: this is the mayor of... The fourth largest city in Indiana.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: And he gets in the race. And his strategy is,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: his communication strategy is, say yes to everything, every media availability.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: And he's got a lot of talent and a lot
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: of charisma. And so because he says yes to everything,
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: he makes a name for himself purely through doing a
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: lot of media and a lot of interviews. And now
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: he's one of the top five or six candidates in
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: the race. So I'm guessing that a lot of these
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: other candidates are like, well, I could be Pete Buttigieg too.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: You know? They can't.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: They can't, maybe. But maybe they can.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: We don't know, you know? But that's, it really does
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: sort of, it is a, you know, look, this becomes
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: ultimately subjective. The reason Pete Buttigieg was able to break
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: through is he took a gamble that what he had
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: to say was interesting and compelling enough, once he said
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: it to enough people, that it would launch him into
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: the top tier of the race. And it did. And
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: it absolutely did. And by the way, and like, to
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: be serious, it is completely possible, maybe not probable, but
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: possible that someone like Steve Bullock or even someone like
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Bill de Blasio could do that. The fact that in
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: his own city, the fact that in his own city
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: he is booed for running for president though is interesting
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: and important and shouldn't be, jokes aside, If you're going
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: to launch a campaign in which your own city is
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: going to be angry at you for doing it, that
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: tells you something.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: South Bend is not booing.
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: Well, South Bend is like, we have name recognition now?
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: It's also a great window into literal media bias because
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: there's a lot of blue check marks on Twitter who
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: are reporters who live in Brooklyn or Manhattan who normally
• 46:17
  Speaker 8: write objectively about candidates who are.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Like, fuck that guy.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: He's the worst.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Just destroying him. You're like, ah, okay, objective. And honestly,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: not even really based on his record, just based on
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: having a personal animus towards him as a man. Yeah,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: they just don't like that he goes to the gym
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: at 10 a.m. They don't like his gym routine, and
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: they don't like that he's late to important shit. And
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: you know what? I don't like either of those things either, honestly. But, no,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: but like to make it... Yeah, 5 a.m. gym.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say, what time are you
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: clocking in?
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: I get to where I'm supposed to be at the
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: exact moment I should be. I am gay punctual.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: That's not a thing.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Homophobia. I think that the truth is anyone can get
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: in this race now. It's not too late. But the
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: reason you're getting in is because you look at a
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: field of 45,000 people and say none of them is right.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: None of them are saying what I believe needs to
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: be said. None of them is me. But also, I
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: believe that I have a strong and compelling unique case
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: that is the best case to take on Donald Trump
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: and to lead this country. And so the later these
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: people are getting in, the more important it is, the
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: words they use when they launch. And I watched Bill
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: de Blasio's video, and I didn't find it that impressive.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I honestly didn't. Because at this late stage, saying you're
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: going to run a campaign for working people doesn't cut it.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: It's not special enough when we have a lot of
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: candidates making that same argument. So the later these people
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: get in, the bigger the pressure is on their argument. So,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: you know, any one of them can make that beat,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: put a judge move, but it depends on being extraordinarily
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: unique and compelling. And really, it'll It's up to them
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: to prove that they were right to get in. Timing matters.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Akilah, since we haven't had you on stage yet, who
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: in the 2020 field is interesting to you? And if
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: you don't want to say that, what are you looking
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: for in a candidate as you're assessing this field?
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: So many interesting people in the world, John. I would
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: never be mean to our mayor. In person, he's very tall.
• 48:24
  Speaker 7: I can't take him.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: But....
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think Elizabeth Warren is saying real shit.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: I'm going to pretend that applause is for me and.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Not for Elizabeth Warren.
• 48:41
  Speaker 7: But I think that she's one of the only people
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: who has real policies on her website that you can read.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: And that's important.
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: I think that a lot of people are treating this
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: campaign season and the road to 2020 as if it's 2015.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: And we're like, we're going to win for sure. And
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't care about that.
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Like, like I said, half past Handmaid's Tale, like it's time.
• 49:06
  Speaker 7: And so I think she's great. I think, you know,
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: I don't know that Kamala has been so outspoken on
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: her policy, but I do think that she has shown
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: that she's not backing down when faced with.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: GOP people who really don't have an argument.
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: Which is important. You know, so let me just shout
• 49:25
  Speaker 7: out my ladies. Was it Klobuchar with that comb fork?
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: I think she's resourceful, and that's not nothing, especially in
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: the Hunger Games.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: What are you eating your salad with, Bill de Blasio?
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Exactly. In Cormac McCarthy's 2020.
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: Cormac? Yeah.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Corman?
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: Cormac.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: In the road, you'd want to be with Klobuchar.
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: You got to be. You got to be.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: She's a little seedy, and I like that.
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: But the rest of it, I just think, like I said,
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: Petey Pablo. Too many people, not really that interesting. I mean,
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: Buttigieg obviously would be a step in the right direction,
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: and I think another candidate who is safe.
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: I mean, maybe not as.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: Many policies on the website. What's going on with your webmaster?
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Figure it out. But, yeah, and also this person with
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: the Love It 2020 sign.
• 50:25
  Speaker 7: I mean, I just feel like the party bus would
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: be lit.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: And so I'm down. All right.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: I like that assessment.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: I can get 65,000 donors. Oh, God. Okay.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll have an interview with your
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Attorney General, Letitia James.
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: She's a lawyer, activist, and politician currently serving as the
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: Attorney General of New York. Please welcome Attorney General Letitia James.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you. This feels like a home audience. What's in
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: those red cups? Water, lots of water.
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: Your office has been doing everything. You guys have investigations
• 51:31
  Speaker 8: against prescription drug companies, Facebook, grifting presidents and their families.
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: Can you tell our listeners why the New York Attorney
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: General's office is so uniquely positioned to seek restitution and
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: damages and investigate fraud?
• 51:46
  Speaker 11: So, Tommy, first let me just say welcome to the
• 51:48
  Speaker 11: People's Republic of Brooklyn. And two, you were talking about Alabama,
• 52:00
  Speaker 11: and I will not allow anyone to silence the voice
• 52:03
  Speaker 11: of women and to close Planned Parenthood.
• 52:06
  Speaker 10: And that's what's critically important.
• 52:08
  Speaker 11: These are, yeah, it's important that everyone know that it's
• 52:14
  Speaker 11: our bodies, right, and our choice and no one else's.
• 52:17
  Speaker 11: And so I'm confident that That radical law that they
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: signed will be declared unconstitutional. But as your guests said,
• 52:31
  Speaker 11: they're chipping away at Roe v. Wade, and all of
• 52:33
  Speaker 11: us have got to respond. So the Office of Attorney
• 52:36
  Speaker 11: General is unique. It's unique in the fact that there
• 52:40
  Speaker 11: are a number of bureaus, and particularly as we investigate
• 52:43
  Speaker 11: the Trump Foundation, the Trump Organization.
• 52:46
  Speaker 10: The NRA, opioids.
• 52:52
  Speaker 11: We're doing one of, you know, we have a charities bureau,
• 52:55
  Speaker 11: and the charities bureau has responsibility, and I think that's
• 52:59
  Speaker 11: a staff member, and jurisdiction over charities in the state
• 53:04
  Speaker 11: of New York, and it's really critically important that we
• 53:07
  Speaker 11: respond to the needs of donors as well as beneficiaries,
• 53:11
  Speaker 11: and that we make sure that organizations are adhering to
• 53:13
  Speaker 11: the law and comply with the law. And so that's
• 53:16
  Speaker 11: why we are investigating the Trump Foundation based on.
• 53:23
  Speaker 11: Based on the testimony of Michael Cohen and based on
• 53:27
  Speaker 11: other evidence that we've received.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: So that's not all you're doing.
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: I believe the state of New York has over 200
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: legal actions against Trump and the administration right now. I'd
• 53:39
  Speaker 8: like to ask you about one in particular, which is
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: the 2020 census case. President Trump wants to add a
• 53:44
  Speaker 8: citizenship question to the 2020 census, which almost everyone involved, politicians, mathematicians, everyone,
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: thinks would lead to an undercount of millions of Latino, Asian,
• 53:54
  Speaker 8: and immigrant households. Why did your office decide to sue
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: over this case? And do you think we have a
• 53:59
  Speaker 8: chance of preventing them from adding this question?
• 54:02
  Speaker 11: So we argued before the Supreme Court about two weeks ago.
• 54:04
  Speaker 11: Barbara Underwood, the Solicitor General of the State of New York,
• 54:07
  Speaker 11: did an amazing job.
• 54:10
  Speaker 10: An amazing job. But it was difficult. It was a
• 54:13
  Speaker 10: difficult question.
• 54:14
  Speaker 11: And believe it or not, you have to laugh to
• 54:18
  Speaker 11: keep from crying. is because the justification that they used
• 54:22
  Speaker 11: is that they wanted information to enforce the Voting Rights Act.
• 54:26
  Speaker 11: Like as if they care about the Voting Rights Act.
• 54:29
  Speaker 10: But nonetheless, some of.
• 54:30
  Speaker 11: The jurists believed that and unfortunately, one would respect the
• 54:39
  Speaker 11: discretion of the Trump administration. What will happen to New
• 54:43
  Speaker 11: York and why this is so important is one, because
• 54:46
  Speaker 11: immigrants tonight are hiding in the shadow Two, because it's
• 54:49
  Speaker 11: going to have an impact on reapportionment. There's a possibility
• 54:52
  Speaker 11: in New York State, we may lose not one, but
• 54:54
  Speaker 11: two congressional districts. And three, we will lose federal funding
• 54:58
  Speaker 11: for districts and for municipalities all across the state of
• 55:01
  Speaker 11: New York who need it, particularly in marginalized and vulnerable populations.
• 55:06
  Speaker 11: It's unconscionable, but unfortunately, it's up to Roberts. It's really
• 55:10
  Speaker 11: up to Roberts. And so I don't know how it's
• 55:12
  Speaker 11: going to go. But if in fact we lose, It's
• 55:16
  Speaker 11: going to be up to all of us to knock
• 55:18
  Speaker 11: on doors and to get individuals out because they're not
• 55:21
  Speaker 11: going to respond to government.
• 55:23
  Speaker 10: They're afraid of government right now.
• 55:25
  Speaker 11: So we must respond to the needs of our neighbors
• 55:28
  Speaker 11: and communities and people in need and to tell our
• 55:32
  Speaker 11: allies and our friends and immigrants right now who are
• 55:34
  Speaker 11: under attack that we're their friends and we're here to help.
• 55:43
  Speaker 8: So as a lawyer, as a law enforcement person, Fishel,
• 55:46
  Speaker 8: I want to get your opinion. Can a president be
• 55:48
  Speaker 8: indicted in a state court asking for a anxious nation?
• 55:53
  Speaker 11: So most of our investigations are civil in nature.
• 55:57
  Speaker 10: They're not criminal.
• 55:59
  Speaker 11: And let me also go on to say you asked
• 56:00
  Speaker 11: me a question that I did not answer, and that
• 56:03
  Speaker 11: was in response to our lawsuit, the most extensive lawsuit
• 56:07
  Speaker 11: in this nation against manufacturers and distributors and the Sackler
• 56:11
  Speaker 11: family related to the opioid crisis.
• 56:13
  Speaker 10: In the state of New York.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: They seem real cool.
• 56:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're right.
• 56:19
  Speaker 11: And the fact is that in New York State, nine
• 56:23
  Speaker 11: individuals die every day as a result of the opioid crisis,
• 56:26
  Speaker 11: and one of the things that I promised to mothers
• 56:28
  Speaker 11: and to fathers who were crying before open caskets that
• 56:31
  Speaker 11: I would do something about it, and that is why
• 56:32
  Speaker 11: I'm so proud of the Office of Attorney General, and
• 56:35
  Speaker 11: I'm so glad that we sued the bastards.
• 56:43
  Speaker 8: Speaking of suing bastards, a few weeks ago, you opened
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: an investigation into the NRA's status as a nonprofit. The
• 56:53
  Speaker 8: NRA is registered as a nonprofit in New York, which
• 56:56
  Speaker 8: makes it tax-exempt, but there have been reports that executives
• 56:59
  Speaker 8: and vendors of the organization have been siphoning off money
• 57:01
  Speaker 8: from their budget, millions of dollars. In fact, you said, quote,
• 57:05
  Speaker 8: the NRA holds itself out as a charitable organization, but
• 57:08
  Speaker 8: in fact, it really is a terrorist organization.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess that's pretty straightforward, but... What did
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: you mean by it?
• 57:15
  Speaker 11: So, first of all, I said that when I was campaigning,
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: not as Attorney General, but as a candidate and as
• 57:19
  Speaker 11: a public advocate of the city of New York. I'm
• 57:21
  Speaker 11: in a different capacity now. I got you, Tommy.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: It was a good quote.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 57:27
  Speaker 10: Well, I know. I don't know. I have to be neutral.
• 57:30
  Speaker 11: The reality is that they're imploding, and so I want
• 57:33
  Speaker 11: to thank Oliver North.
• 57:34
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 57:34
  Speaker 11: That's all that I can say.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, so, I mean.
• 57:41
  Speaker 8: I believe you have the power to dissolve the NRA
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: if you find evidence.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you think that could happen?
• 57:48
  Speaker 11: So we're in the process of dissolving the Trump Foundation.
• 57:51
  Speaker 11: And because we have jurisdiction over charitable organizations, and that
• 57:58
  Speaker 11: includes the NRA Foundation, that is but one remedy that
• 58:03
  Speaker 11: we could possibly pursue. Let me also give a shout
• 58:05
  Speaker 11: out to Jarrett Hova, who's here somewhere.
• 58:07
  Speaker 10: He's a staff member. Jarrett, how are you? How are
• 58:10
  Speaker 10: you doing? And your lovely wife, Mallory.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Serious Jarrett fans in the front row here. Okay.
• 58:17
  Speaker 8: So I feel like you didn't want to take that one.
• 58:18
  Speaker 8: So purely hypothetical question. So let's say I work at
• 58:23
  Speaker 8: a fascist pro-machine gun rights organization. We have a leader,
• 58:28
  Speaker 8: let's call him Dwayne the Rock LaPierre. He spent 275
• 58:34
  Speaker 8: grand at a tacky boutique in Beverly Hills. Would that
• 58:38
  Speaker 8: kind of blatant corruption and spending of a non-profit's money
• 58:43
  Speaker 8: make you want to dissolve Dwayne's charity?
• 58:46
  Speaker 11: It would make me want to initiate an inquiry and investigation.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, got it. Okay, so.
• 58:55
  Speaker 8: The first two years of the Trump administration, there was
• 58:57
  Speaker 8: just no oversight by Congress, right? I mean, it was
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: Republicans who let him do whatever they wanted. Now that
• 59:03
  Speaker 8: Democrats control the House, they're being stonewalled. I mean, how
• 59:05
  Speaker 8: do you think states like New York can fill those
• 59:09
  Speaker 8: oversight gaps?
• 59:10
  Speaker 11: So it's really critically important, and it's important that everyone understand,
• 59:13
  Speaker 11: attorney generals all across this nation But most importantly, Democratic
• 59:17
  Speaker 11: Attorney Generals have been the firmest pillar of our democracy.
• 59:21
  Speaker 11: And we have been active in filing lawsuits from the
• 59:25
  Speaker 11: beginning of time, from DACA to protecting immigrants, protecting the EPA,
• 59:30
  Speaker 11: standing up for the LGBT community, standing up for women,
• 59:33
  Speaker 11: Title 20, the opioid crisis. standing up for standards in
• 59:39
  Speaker 11: school lunch, and the list goes on and on and on.
• 59:42
  Speaker 11: Each and every day I wake up, I go to
• 59:44
  Speaker 11: the office, I find out what he decided to rescind, repeal,
• 59:48
  Speaker 11: I sue him, and then I go home.
• 59:49
  Speaker 8: Does it drive you crazy when the President of the
• 59:57
  Speaker 8: United States was running a charity that was just clearly
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: designed to allow him to self-deal and that Congress doesn't
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 8: do anything about it?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 10: It drives me crazy.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 11: And it's the reason why I ran for the Attorney General.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 11: Because our values and our democracy is at risk. Because
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 11: we live in a country where you have a individual
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 11: who's impugning the free press, the independent judiciary. He's attacking immigrants,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 11: vulnerable populations. He's destroying institutions. He has no respect for
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 11: the rule of law. That's what drives me crazy. And
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 11: that's why I ran for the Office of Attorney General.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 11: It was the fierce urgency of now. But it's not
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 11: just me. Let me step outside of the Office of
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 11: Attorney General. It's going to be up to all of you.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: We live in a bubble. We live in New York
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 11: City and New York State.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 10: We need to.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 11: Leave this comfortable blue, blue, blue state and city. We
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 11: need to go to Alabama and Georgia and Mississippi and
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 11: all of those red states and talk to individuals and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 11: register individuals and all of those states that are struggling
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 11: under the weight of poverty and all of those women
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 11: right now who unfortunately are being treated like second-class citizens.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 10: That's what we need to do.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 11: It's really critically important that, again, we get ready for
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 11: 2020 and that we make sure that we have a
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 11: democracy that believes in liberty and freedom and justice for all.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 8: You tweeted that this draconian, horrible new abortion law in
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: Alabama infringes on the rights that have already been protected
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 8: and we'll continue to protect them in New York. Are
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: there steps that states can and should take to protect
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 8: women's health before we get to that point?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 11: So in New York, you know, the governor and the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 11: governor were attempting to codify Roe v. Wade so that
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 11: women's rights are protected in New York state. And we
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 11: just have to make sure that We protect the woman's right.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 11: We have to make sure that individuals are properly escorted,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 11: that we can provide transportation to them. And the abortion
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 11: pill is now on the internet.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Unexpected applause line. Mayor Bill de Blasio.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 8: Launched his campaign for president. John Lovett endorsed him tonight.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 8: How excited are you 1 to 10 about President de
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 8: Blasio's campaign?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 6: No, seriously.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 11: Listen, we need a mayor who is going to be
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 11: on the job 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 11: And so I ask the question, Has the crisis in
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 11: affordable housing been addressed?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 10: Has income inequality been addressed?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 10: Equal pay for equal work?
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 11: How about cyclists who unfortunately are dying on our streets
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 11: as a result of crashes? Has that been addressed?
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 10: Environmental issues, has that been addressed?
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 10: So what is the legacy? What are you running on?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 11: Has school segregation been addressed?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 11: So all of these issues and more, obviously, listen, he
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 11: could run, he's the 23rd candidate, I understand that, but
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 11: the question is why?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 10: Por que? Like, what's up?
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: But he's a friend. Final question. Final question.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: Is there any chance that your office is planning to
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 8: investigate the NBA or the NBA draft lottery? Because there
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: is something happened.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: People are upset.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 11: So I don't know if you know, Tommy, my history
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 11: with the NBA and my history with the New York,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 11: New Jersey, Brooklyn Nets.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 6: I don't know if you know my history.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 10: So, well, they're the worst team in the NBA.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 10: Anyway, so, no.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: That's all I got.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 8: I mean, this was the most fun interview I've ever
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 8: done on a stage. Your Attorney General, Letitia James.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: We get a... Got a broom and a dustpan. There's
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: chunks of Bill de Blasio all over the stage. Holy shit.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 7: Can I just say, I love black people so much.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: That's all. Love us.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Shall we play a game? Yeah. New York. Home to
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: the best pizza. And some of the best people on
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: the planet. People like Jared Kushner. And Bernie Madoff. And
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: of course, Zion Williamson. Explain the joke. Don't worry.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: He writes them himself.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the Knicks... will land a big free agent
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: like Al Horford. I read sports jokes like Trump reads
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: condolence letters. It doesn't ring true. And each time I
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: read something about sports, I feel like I'm crawling through
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: the Indiana Jones, like blades are gonna come out, I
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: gotta know how to spell the name of God, like
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know what anything's happening. Al Horford. But New
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: York isn't just a city for rich young people who
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: want to pretend they're in Broad City for a few
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: years before they finally get a job selling predatory loans
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: at Wells Fargo while developing a cocaine addiction. It also
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: happens to be the home to the Southern District of
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: New York, the U.S. District Court that has the best
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: chance of taking down Donald Trump. You see, Donald Trump
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: can't pardon folks over crimes committed at the state level.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: According to the Mueller report, Big Daddy Bobby M and
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: his team of 12 socialist FBI agents referred 14 different
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: cases to other jurisdictions, and because of that, New York
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: is looking at a lot of shit. Between the Mueller
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: probe and other investigations, the public currently knows about six
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: different Trump investigations ongoing here in New York, with most
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: journalists thinking there are many more behind the scenes. In fact,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: SDNY has so many current investigations, we don't think you'll
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: be able to tell what's real and what's fake in
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: a game we're calling The Only Living Boy in New
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: York Not Being Investigated by the Southern District of New York.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: Travis is out there with a microphone. Would someone out
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: there like to play the game? Get him, Travis. Hi,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: what's your name? Katie. Katie, where are you from, Katie?
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: I am from New York.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Well, Queens, yes.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 7: You could get judged.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Unacceptable. Unacceptable. What do you do here in New York City?
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: I have a hair salon in Murray Hill. All right. Katie,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: are you familiar with the president's crimes?
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, all of them.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, then you're ready for this game. Here's how it works.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: The panelists will tell you about four different investigations, and
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: you have to tell us which one is a real investigation.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Are you ready? Yes. Question one, Katie. Which of the
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: following is a real investigation currently being undertaken by the
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Southern District of New York? Is it A?
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: Investigators are examining evidence that Jared Kushner offered Russian oligarchs
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: access to the president if... They promised to bury footage
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: of Kushner walking around in a sailor outfit while carrying
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: a giant lollipop.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: Or is it me?
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 7: They're investigating Donald Trump Jr. for allegedly approaching White House
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 7: tour goers and offering to show them the bedroom where
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 7: Abe Lincoln totally boned for 10 Or is it C?
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 9: They're investigating the Trump Organization, its chief financial officer, and
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 9: top executives to determine their role in payments to women
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 9: to never discuss their sexual affairs with Trump, which.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Is something a lot of women would do for free.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Or is it D?
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: They're looking into Trump campaign spending on the inauguration and
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: whether future Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross really ate $ 100, 000 worth
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 4: of split pea soup at the Trump International.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: What do you think, Katie?
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going with the Tommy option.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: You got it. You got it. Question two. Which of
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: the following is a real investigation currently being undertaken by
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: the Southern District of New York? Is it A.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: They're weighing additional charges against Michael Cohen for watching Goodfellas
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: on his iPhone on a plane, full volume, no headphones
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: or anything.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Literal monsters are doing this. Is it B?
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 7: Prosecutors are attempting to determine if there is any truth
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 7: to Jared Kushner's claim that he is the smoothest little
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 7: boy in all the land.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: That one's weird.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: That one's weird if that's true. If that's it, it's weird. Weird.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Or is it C?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 8: Investigators are weighing obstruction charges against President Trump. At issue
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 8: is whether it is unlawful to attempt to collude with
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 8: people who do not exist, like Thanos or moderate Republicans.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to come back to that one in one second.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: Just remember what Tommy said. Keep that in your mind.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: Or is it D?
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: They're investigating two lobbying firms that worked with Paul Manafort
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: to determine whether they violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: which could make lobbyists everywhere appear somewhat dishonest and possibly
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: even tarnish democracy. the sterling reputation of the lobbying industry?
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: That last one really messed me up.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: God. Let's have an answer, Katie. So many. I'm sorry,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: you're wrong. It was D. Did Tommy say Thanos? Is
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: it Thanos? Unbelievable.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: Of course you didn't see the movie. Nobody with cheekbones
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: like that saw the movie.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 8: We came into the office on Monday and Lovett yelled
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 8: at us for not seeing this stupid fucking movie.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: I like to call Tommy, Pod Save America's Jared Kushner type.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: Shots fired. I am very smooth. Very smooth. Question three.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Which one of these is real? Is it A?
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: They're investigating weekly $ 5, 000 stipends allocated to Melania for, quote,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: touching Donald's hands in public, or at least not being
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: too obvious about slapping them away.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Or is it B?
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 6: They're attempting to determine whether the Trump Organization committed insurance
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 6: fraud by submitting inflated claims in past years, or conversely,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 6: whether insurance claims are the one area where Trump has
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 6: been totally forthright and honest.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Or is it C?
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 8: They're looking into reports that Jeff Sessions offered several members
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 8: of Trump's campaign staff $ 100 to punch him in the
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 8: stomach as hard as they could.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: Or is it D?
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 4: Investigators are examining the finances of Trump Steaks to determine
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: how Trump managed to sell world-class USDA Prime-certified Angus beefsteaks
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: at such incredible prices. Today's episode is brought to you
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: by Trump Steaks.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Trump Steaks, it's the art of the veal. Dan, I'm
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: sorry that you missed.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 4: Sadly, I'm going to say B because everything should be investigated.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's B. You got it. Sorry, Dan, that we
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: made you say that part. Question four, which is real.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: Is it A?
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: They're investigating whether the President's inaugural committee, including whether the
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: committee accepted illegal donations from foreign nationals and submitted false
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: information to the FEC, while simultaneously reminding everyone that Three
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: Doors Down actually played live in concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: Or is it B?
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 7: Okay, before I read it, do you guys dare me
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 7: to name one Three Doors Down song?
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: Name two and sing it.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: Two?
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: Ooh.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: Give us a couple notes.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: Wait, that one song.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 7: I'm here without you, baby.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 6: That's them for sure, right?
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Is that them? I don't know.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: I feel like it might be.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: It's like them, One Republic.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: It's all the same. Yeah, it's all.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: Did you read your answer yet?
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Or is it B?
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 7: Investigators have been examining issues surrounding the so-called P-Tape. Specifically,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 7: they've been tricking each other into watching it. Then they
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 7: laugh and laugh. Being a federal investigator is a challenging job,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 7: but it can be fun, too.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: Or is it C? Two Trumps, one tape. They're looking
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: into whether....
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 8: They're looking into whether Donald Trump has been selling bootleg
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 8: copies of Home Alone 2, Lost in New York, from
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 8: the Mar-a-Lago gift shop.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: No one has accused him of this. It just feels
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: like something he would do. Or is it D?
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: Investigators are looking into whether Saturday Night Live has been
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 4: clandestinely granted high-level security clearance, since let me tell you,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 4: those skits are pretty close to reality with this knucklehead administration.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: Dan, that one was brutal. It's like, what happened to
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: the joke writers?
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go with A.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: You got it. And Katie, you've won the game. Guys,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: give it up for Katie from Queens. Thank you to
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Letitia James. Thank you to Akilah Hughes. And thank you, Brooklyn,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: for coming out.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: We'll see you soon.