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- 0:10SPEAKER_03: It's time again for Donald Drunk Theater No one knows what is up or down Jack or
- 0:18SPEAKER_03: why Legal or impeachable Everything is make-believe in Donald Drunk Theater So
- 0:24SPEAKER_03: let's pull the curtain back We are controlling transmission if we wish to make it
- 0:29SPEAKER_03: louder
- 0:30SPEAKER_03: We will bring up the body.
- 0:31SPEAKER_03: We can change the focus to a soft blur.
- 0:33SPEAKER_03: You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas.
- 0:38SPEAKER_03: You've just crossed over into...
- 0:56SPEAKER_03: Why does everything have to be so f***ing weird?
- 1:01SPEAKER_03: These are dangerous times.
- 1:02SPEAKER_03: Something terrible is going to happen.
- 1:05SPEAKER_03: Truth isn't truth.
- 1:06SPEAKER_03: I hear it's fake news, but maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
- 1:10SPEAKER_03: I think it's fake news, okay?
- 1:11SPEAKER_03: Now, would I do that?
- 1:13SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
- 1:13SPEAKER_03: The President of the United States has the authority to do what the President has the authority to do.
- 1:20SPEAKER_03: You will!
- 1:22SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I have to claim myself as king.
- 1:24SPEAKER_03: I learned a lot from Richard Nixon.
- 1:26SPEAKER_03: When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
- 1:29SPEAKER_03: I could cause panic much better than even you.
- 1:31SPEAKER_03: I could do much... I would make you look like a minor league player.
- 1:34SPEAKER_03: So, Professor, would you say it's time for everyone to panic?
- 1:38SPEAKER_03: Yes, I would, Kent.
- 1:39SPEAKER_03: Welcome to the resistance.
- 1:40SPEAKER_03: I promise you for the remainder of the next four years, I will only speak to you in this tone of voice.
- 1:46SPEAKER_03: It has been...
- 1:48SPEAKER_03: Two weeks since the election.
- 1:50SPEAKER_03: Feels like two months.
- 1:53SPEAKER_03: It's been 15 years since the election.
- 1:57SPEAKER_03: Today is not the worst day since Trump was elected.
- 2:00SPEAKER_03: That was yesterday.
- 2:03SPEAKER_03: Maybe tomorrow.
- 2:05SPEAKER_03: And also today.
- 2:06SPEAKER_03: Now, we all know Trump has big plans for his second term.
- 2:09SPEAKER_03: Mass deportations, tariffs, and finally building that statue of Arnold Palmer's .
- 2:17SPEAKER_03: The question is, who is going to come to the White House and help Trump carry out his glorious agenda?
- 2:24SPEAKER_02: There's no question he's the leader of our party.
- 2:26SPEAKER_02: So now he's got a mission statement.
- 2:27SPEAKER_02: His mission and his goals and objectives, whatever that is, we need to embrace it.
- 2:33SPEAKER_02: All of it.
- 2:34SPEAKER_02: Every single word.
- 2:36SPEAKER_02: If Donald Trump says jump three feet high and scratch your head,
- 2:39SPEAKER_02: we all jump three feet high and scratch our heads.
- 2:42SPEAKER_02: That's it.
- 2:43SPEAKER_00: This is about Trump filling his cabinet with who shot John, to quote old black people.
- 2:52SPEAKER_03: Yes, the story is Trump cabinet picks for making America great again and again, possibly forever.
- 3:01SPEAKER_03: And you know what?
- 3:01SPEAKER_03: The man has won the popular vote.
- 3:03SPEAKER_03: He's earned the right to pick his new team.
- 3:05SPEAKER_03: We owe it to him to hear him out without, you know, nitpicking.
- 3:09SPEAKER_03: How's the media characterizing Trump's unconventional cabinet selections?
- 3:14SPEAKER_00: They're saying this fool is crazy, but this is what we expected.
- 3:19SPEAKER_00: Shrug shoulders.
- 3:20SPEAKER_00: Boundary pushing and unconventional.
- 3:22SPEAKER_01: Downright provocative.
- 3:23SPEAKER_01: Seemingly out of left field.
- 3:25SPEAKER_01: Hair on fire, out of your mind, insane.
- 3:29SPEAKER_03: The New York Times reports that Elon Musk or Uncle Elon, as some people call him.
- 3:34SPEAKER_03: I'm not calling him Uncle Elon.
- 3:35SPEAKER_03: They're saying that Elon Musk is known at Mar-a-Lago and is putting his imprint on
- 3:40SPEAKER_03: the Trump transition,
- 3:41SPEAKER_03: and it's been far more hands-on than even his allies expected.
- 3:47SPEAKER_03: Elon Musk, who's been spotted at Mar-a-Lago basically since election day.
- 3:51SPEAKER_03: He's been seen golfing with Trump and hanging out there at dinner.
- 3:54SPEAKER_03: He's one of the few people sitting in this makeshift situation room that they built in Mar-a-Lago.
- 3:58SPEAKER_03: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will co-lead what he's calling the Department of Government Efficiency.
- 4:04SPEAKER_01: Elon Musk has been weighing in on some of Donald Trump's potential picks,
- 4:08SPEAKER_01: making it clear to the president-elect who he believes should have that role.
- 4:12SPEAKER_03: Ooh, good, good.
- 4:15SPEAKER_03: The world's richest man is helping the president-elect run the country.
- 4:19SPEAKER_03: I'm sure by the time Elon's done,
- 4:21SPEAKER_03: his businesses will be unregulated,
- 4:23SPEAKER_03: he'll have billions in new government contracts,
- 4:25SPEAKER_03: and it'll be illegal to point and laugh at a cyber truck.
- 4:28SPEAKER_03: The world's richest man is by the president-elect's side with no oversight or security clearances.
- 4:33SPEAKER_00: Responding to speculation about his position in the new administration,
- 4:37SPEAKER_00: Musk posted on X,
- 4:38SPEAKER_00: I'm happy to be first buddy.
- 4:40SPEAKER_03: Question to you all.
- 4:41SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 4:42SPEAKER_03: How's Uncle E helping out the incoming president?
- 4:45SPEAKER_03: Hey,
- 4:45SPEAKER_03: look,
- 4:45SPEAKER_03: let's be fair about this to Elon Musk,
- 4:47SPEAKER_03: and we all find him to be a little bit kooky,
- 4:48SPEAKER_03: but if it's him or Trump and one of them's got to make the decisions,
- 4:51SPEAKER_03: Elon Musk taking control of everything sounds a whole lot better to me.
- 4:55SPEAKER_03: Oh, my God, help.
- 4:57SPEAKER_03: Is this where we are?
- 4:58SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 4:59SPEAKER_03: Everyone at once, try to wake up.
- 5:04SPEAKER_03: Trump ain't built no rocket.
- 5:05SPEAKER_03: Elon built a rocket.
- 5:06SPEAKER_03: Elon paid somebody to build a rocket.
- 5:11SPEAKER_03: Counterpoint.
- 5:12SPEAKER_03: Counterpoint.
- 5:14SPEAKER_03: Elon paid them.
- 5:20SPEAKER_03: According to sources,
- 5:21SPEAKER_03: the unelected billionaire has attended nearly every candidate interview meeting and
- 5:25SPEAKER_03: has even sat in on calls with foreign leaders,
- 5:29SPEAKER_03: including President Erdogan of Turkey and President Zelensky of Ukraine.
- 5:33SPEAKER_03: And if you're wondering how those conversations went, CNN has obtained leaked audio.
- 5:39SPEAKER_03: Hello?
- 5:40SPEAKER_03: Who's that?
- 5:45SPEAKER_03: Trump made one pick right out the gate that made people think he might be taking this seriously.
- 5:51SPEAKER_03: Marco Rubio.
- 5:52SPEAKER_03: He's gonna be Secretary of State.
- 5:55SPEAKER_03: This Marco Rubio.
- 5:56SPEAKER_03: Marco Rubio.
- 5:58SPEAKER_03: Another corrupt, all talk, no action politician.
- 6:04SPEAKER_03: I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message.
- 6:07SPEAKER_03: Where's the lie?
- 6:08SPEAKER_03: Which is vintage Trump.
- 6:10SPEAKER_03: You call somebody an idiot until they kneel down,
- 6:12SPEAKER_03: and then you take them in your arms,
- 6:14SPEAKER_03: and you cradle them like a baby.
- 6:16SPEAKER_03: And while it's disappointing that a tough Trump critic like Marco Rubio would
- 6:19SPEAKER_03: humiliate himself for a position of power,
- 6:22SPEAKER_03: to his credit,
- 6:22SPEAKER_03: he did agree to talk to us.
- 6:24SPEAKER_03: And joining us now from Washington, Senator Marco Rubio.
- 6:27SPEAKER_03: Well, first of all, Senator, congratulations on becoming new Secretary of State.
- 6:33SPEAKER_03: You must be excited, I guess.
- 6:35SPEAKER_03: Well, I don't know what you're talking about.
- 6:37SPEAKER_03: I can just tell you that a con artist is about to take over the Republican Party
- 6:40SPEAKER_03: and the conservative movement,
- 6:41SPEAKER_02: and we have to put a stop to it.
- 6:43SPEAKER_03: Wait, what?
- 6:45SPEAKER_02: He is wholly unprepared to be president of the United States.
- 6:49SPEAKER_03: I've been saying that for years.
- 6:51SPEAKER_03: I have to say I'm shocked to hear it coming from you.
- 6:55SPEAKER_02: There is no way we are going to allow a con artist to take over the conservative movement,
- 6:59SPEAKER_02: and Donald Trump is a con artist.
- 7:01SPEAKER_03: Yes, yes, but if he's as awful as we both know he is, why do you think so many people voted for him?
- 7:08SPEAKER_02: I will acknowledge that there are some people watching this broadcast that are
- 7:12SPEAKER_02: intrigued by him because they think he's a straight talker and he fights for the
- 7:15SPEAKER_02: little guy.
- 7:15SPEAKER_03: But Donald Trump has spent 40 years sticking it to the little guy or longer.
- 7:19SPEAKER_03: So Trump picked Marco for state, then Trump started Trumpin'.
- 7:22SPEAKER_03: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is expected to be tapped as the Secretary of Homeland Security.
- 7:28SPEAKER_03: One of his main messages during the campaign was about killing the pets.
- 7:32SPEAKER_03: They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats.
- 7:34SPEAKER_03: He goes out and hires the woman who shot her puppy.
- 7:36SPEAKER_03: I mean, this woman has no national security experience.
- 7:39SPEAKER_03: She's the governor of South Dakota.
- 7:41SPEAKER_03: I will say Noam does have experience striking fear in the hearts of terrorists.
- 7:47SPEAKER_03: Wait, I read that wrong.
- 7:48SPEAKER_03: Terriers.
- 7:49SPEAKER_03: Fear in the hearts of terriers.
- 7:51SPEAKER_03: Yeah, sorry, sorry.
- 7:53SPEAKER_03: So who else is on board?
- 7:54SPEAKER_03: I promise, promise, promise, promise not to nitpick.
- 7:57SPEAKER_01: The former president also turning to a former House member,
- 8:00SPEAKER_01: Lee Zeldin of New York,
- 8:02SPEAKER_01: to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
- 8:04SPEAKER_03: Okay, just to nitpick for a second here.
- 8:07SPEAKER_03: Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin.
- 8:10SPEAKER_03: Now, the last I remember, he wasn't a big advocate for the environment.
- 8:15SPEAKER_03: What do you plan to do at EPA?
- 8:16SPEAKER_03: We have the ability to pursue energy dominance,
- 8:20SPEAKER_03: to be able to make the United States the artificial intelligence capital of the world,
- 8:25SPEAKER_03: to bring back American jobs to the auto industry.
- 8:29SPEAKER_03: We have the opportunity to roll back regulations that are forcing businesses to be able to struggle.
- 8:36SPEAKER_03: So the head of the EPA's top priority is protecting the auto industry,
- 8:40SPEAKER_03: boosting artificial intelligence,
- 8:42SPEAKER_03: and boosting business in general.
- 8:45SPEAKER_03: Where's the environment in all this?
- 8:49SPEAKER_03: What was the first pick that made it seem like Trump was really not serious at all?
- 8:56SPEAKER_03: It was nominating Fox & Friends host Pete Hexif to be the Secretary of Defense,
- 9:01SPEAKER_03: a position that oversees the military and its $900 billion budget.
- 9:07SPEAKER_03: What credentials did this Fox and Friends employee have for the gig besides serving
- 9:13SPEAKER_03: in the National Guard and being accused of sexual assault?
- 9:16SPEAKER_03: Oh, well, those were my two.
- 9:18SPEAKER_03: Trump reportedly picked Pete to run the Defense Department because he thinks he has the look.
- 9:24SPEAKER_03: He also almost killed somebody on TV with an ax.
- 9:27SPEAKER_03: Pete and Clayton are facing off.
- 9:29SPEAKER_03: They're testing their skills with the ax.
- 9:32SPEAKER_03: Who's going to win this battle with the Lumberjacks?
- 9:38SPEAKER_03: So I'm guessing he wasn't a sniper when he served.
- 9:44SPEAKER_03: The dumbest person in that video is the drummer.
- 9:47SPEAKER_03: You got hit with an ax and trying to walk it off.
- 9:49SPEAKER_03: Lay your ass down and get your lawsuit money.
- 9:53SPEAKER_02: Why?
- 9:55SPEAKER_03: We have seen Trump also announce his choice for director of national intelligence, the senior most U.S.
- 10:00SPEAKER_03: intelligence official in this country as Tulsi Gabbard, someone who has been at odds with U.S.
- 10:07SPEAKER_03: intelligence assessments.
- 10:08SPEAKER_03: Gabbard is a conspiracy spreading MAGA hanger-on who was not on anyone's radar to
- 10:13SPEAKER_03: be nominated for director of national intelligence,
- 10:17SPEAKER_03: the head of all of America's spy agencies.
- 10:20SPEAKER_03: Her nomination has stunned current and former members of the intelligence community.
- 10:24SPEAKER_03: Now,
- 10:24SPEAKER_03: one of the reasons that Gabbard is such an awful choice for the role is that we
- 10:28SPEAKER_03: can't be sure which country she's working for.
- 10:30SPEAKER_03: She's been a booster for autocrats such as Syria's Bashar al-Assad,
- 10:34SPEAKER_03: Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
- 10:37SPEAKER_03: and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
- 10:39SPEAKER_03: And look,
- 10:39SPEAKER_03: I'm not saying she's a Russian asset,
- 10:41SPEAKER_03: but when I think of her being director of national intelligence,
- 10:44SPEAKER_03: I do have a strong desire to drink vodka.
- 10:49SPEAKER_03: For the next pick,
- 10:49SPEAKER_03: I'm going to play a clip of a Republican senator,
- 10:52SPEAKER_03: Mark Wayne Mullen,
- 10:53SPEAKER_03: describing the nominee.
- 10:54SPEAKER_03: You tell me, based on the clip, what job this nominee is up for.
- 10:57SPEAKER_03: This is a guy that didn't have...
- 10:59SPEAKER_03: The media didn't give a time of day to after he was accused of sleeping with an
- 11:03SPEAKER_03: underage girl.
- 11:04SPEAKER_03: There's a reason why no one in the conference came and defended him,
- 11:08SPEAKER_03: because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor.
- 11:11SPEAKER_03: So...
- 11:12SPEAKER_03: Who is this underage section?
- 11:16SPEAKER_03: That's Matt Gaetz of Florida.
- 11:18SPEAKER_03: I think it's District 1.
- 11:19SPEAKER_03: Oh, you know what the street he lived on and everything.
- 11:21SPEAKER_03: You got to keep an eye on those guys, buddy.
- 11:24SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're talking about Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz.
- 11:27SPEAKER_03: Seen here, looking like he's shocked to know that she's over 18.
- 11:31SPEAKER_00: Gates,
- 11:32SPEAKER_00: who traveled with Trump to Washington today,
- 11:34SPEAKER_00: now tapped to lead the Justice Department,
- 11:36SPEAKER_00: the same department that was investigating the congressman for years for alleged
- 11:40SPEAKER_00: obstruction of justice and for alleged sex trafficking.
- 11:43SPEAKER_00: The congressman is currently at the center of an ongoing bipartisan House Ethics
- 11:47SPEAKER_00: Committee investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use.
- 11:53SPEAKER_03: Gates for AG was easily the most shocking of Trump's cabinet picks so far.
- 11:58SPEAKER_00: I was shocked that he has been nominated.
- 12:02SPEAKER_03: Welcome to The Lead.
- 12:03SPEAKER_03: I'm Jake Tapper.
- 12:04SPEAKER_03: And let me begin the show by uttering some words that I never contemplated using together before.
- 12:10SPEAKER_03: And those words are U.S.
- 12:13SPEAKER_03: Attorney General Matt Gates.
- 12:16SPEAKER_03: Jake looks so strange trying to get them words out of his mouth.
- 12:20SPEAKER_03: Just to give you an idea how insane this is, here's our Republican House member named Mike Simpson.
- 12:24SPEAKER_03: One of Gates' colleagues responded when reporters asked him if Gates had the
- 12:27SPEAKER_03: experience and character to be attorney general.
- 12:30SPEAKER_03: Again, this is a real quote.
- 12:31SPEAKER_03: Are you me that you just asked that question?
- 12:34SPEAKER_03: No.
- 12:35SPEAKER_03: But hell, you'll print that, and now I'm going to be investigated.
- 12:39SPEAKER_03: I love an answer that starts with, are you me, and ends with the realization that you're yeah, dude.
- 12:47SPEAKER_03: You're about to get audited, and I believe this is the technical legal term up of the wazoo.
- 12:52SPEAKER_03: Question though, panel.
- 12:52SPEAKER_03: Why did Trump pick Matt Gaetz to run the Justice Department?
- 12:56SPEAKER_03: He's your buddy.
- 12:56SPEAKER_03: Why not?
- 12:59SPEAKER_03: Yeah, as a matter of fact, yeah, he picked him because he's going to go after the Justice Department.
- 13:03SPEAKER_03: Did you see some of those videos that he was showing on the floor?
- 13:05SPEAKER_03: I sat with Matt.
- 13:06SPEAKER_03: I've sat with Matt about every day,
- 13:08SPEAKER_03: and he has never showed me any videos or anything that's inappropriate.
- 13:12SPEAKER_03: So y'all not that cool.
- 13:14SPEAKER_03: Do you think the Republican from Oklahoma is lying?
- 13:16SPEAKER_03: Well,
- 13:17SPEAKER_03: Mark Wayne Mullen is best friends with the former speaker who Matt had and the few
- 13:23SPEAKER_03: of us voted to kick out.
- 13:25SPEAKER_03: So there's a there's a history there.
- 13:27SPEAKER_03: A member of Congress wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17 year old.
- 13:31SPEAKER_03: An ethics complaint that started before I ever became speaker.
- 13:35SPEAKER_03: And that's illegal.
- 13:36SPEAKER_03: And I'm not going to get in the middle.
- 13:37SPEAKER_03: It sounds like y'all got a high school over there.
- 13:39SPEAKER_03: High school.
- 13:41SPEAKER_03: You're promoting it.
- 13:42SPEAKER_03: It's a junior high school, man.
- 13:44SPEAKER_03: It's a junior high school.
- 13:45SPEAKER_03: Junior high school does sound right, actually.
- 13:47SPEAKER_03: I need a flow chart just to figure out who's on whose side.
- 13:50SPEAKER_03: Well, here's what Trump said he liked about Gates.
- 13:52SPEAKER_03: Trump liked that Gates seemed like the only one who'd say,
- 13:55SPEAKER_03: quote,
- 13:56SPEAKER_03: yeah,
- 13:56SPEAKER_03: I'll go over there and start cutting fucking heads.
- 13:59SPEAKER_03: The timing for Gates could not have been any better for him.
- 14:02SPEAKER_03: After Donald Trump announced he'd pick Gates to lead the Justice Department, he resigned from Congress.
- 14:07SPEAKER_03: The House Ethics Committee was set to vote Friday on releasing a highly damaging
- 14:12SPEAKER_03: report on its investigation into Matt Gaetz.
- 14:16SPEAKER_03: Once you resign from Congress,
- 14:18SPEAKER_01: That report likely will get buried.
- 14:21SPEAKER_01: Potentially,
- 14:21SPEAKER_01: it could still be made public,
- 14:23SPEAKER_01: but that would mean that a Republican would also have to vote on the committee with
- 14:27SPEAKER_03: the Democrats to release that.
- 14:29SPEAKER_03: So now, Gates almost certainly won't face consequences.
- 14:33SPEAKER_03: Now,
- 14:33SPEAKER_03: reactions from across the political spectrum have been swift,
- 14:35SPEAKER_03: with Trump's own former National Security Advisor John Bolton calling this the
- 14:39SPEAKER_03: worst nomination for a cabinet position in American history yet.
- 14:42SPEAKER_03: I mean, you forgot the word yet.
- 14:44SPEAKER_03: Trump's still got plenty of time to outdo himself.
- 14:46SPEAKER_03: Just wait until he names his secretary of the interior a bear who got stuck in a dumpster.
- 14:52SPEAKER_03: We love Dumpster Bear, don't we, folks?
- 14:54SPEAKER_03: He got out of the dumpster, and we like that about him.
- 14:57SPEAKER_03: He got out of the dumpster like we're getting out of NATO.
- 14:59SPEAKER_03: And former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb called Gates' nomination a you to America.
- 15:05SPEAKER_03: Wow.
- 15:06SPEAKER_03: So I think this choice is nuts.
- 15:08SPEAKER_03: And it's not just because I have the woke mind virus,
- 15:11SPEAKER_03: which I'm happy to say I'm finally getting treatment for.
- 15:13SPEAKER_03: You know what they prescribe me?
- 15:15SPEAKER_03: Ivermectin.
- 15:15SPEAKER_03: And you know what?
- 15:16SPEAKER_03: It's great.
- 15:18SPEAKER_03: It's really great.
- 15:19SPEAKER_03: You know, so I'm eating a lot of crow right now and a lot of horse pace.
- 15:22SPEAKER_03: You've been feeling under the weather since the election.
- 15:25SPEAKER_03: Don't worry.
- 15:26SPEAKER_03: Pretty soon, everyone else will be sick, too.
- 15:28SPEAKER_03: President-elect Trump on Truth Social just made it official.
- 15:32SPEAKER_03: He wrote, quote, I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- 15:35SPEAKER_03: as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- 15:42SPEAKER_03: Unpasteurized whale juice for everybody!
- 15:46SPEAKER_03: Exactly what everyone voted for.
- 15:49SPEAKER_03: Surely this will lower the price of eggs.
- 15:54SPEAKER_03: On Thursday, Trump fulfilled his campaign promise of nominating RFK Jr.
- 15:58SPEAKER_03: as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- 16:01SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 16:03SPEAKER_03: But what are people saying...
- 16:06SPEAKER_03: What are people saying about the possibility of having a Kennedy back in the government?
- 16:12SPEAKER_03: The comedian Lori Kilmartin had a great joke, and I hope I get it right.
- 16:17SPEAKER_03: She said, now a Kennedy is trying to assassinate us.
- 16:20SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 16:21SPEAKER_03: It's a great joke.
- 16:25SPEAKER_03: The New York Post called RFK Jr.
- 16:28SPEAKER_03: nuts on a lot of fronts.
- 16:32SPEAKER_03: RFK Jr.
- 16:33SPEAKER_03: spread a racist conspiracy that COVID-19 was ethnically targeted to spare Jewish and Chinese people.
- 16:40SPEAKER_03: So, good news to everyone of Chinese or Jewish descent who got COVID-19.
- 16:46SPEAKER_03: What is Professor Brain Worm's plan to make America healthy again?
- 16:52SPEAKER_03: He's going to outlaw gummy bears.
- 16:54SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 16:55SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 16:57SPEAKER_03: RFK plans to wage a war on public health by promoting raw milk during a bird flu outbreak,
- 17:04SPEAKER_03: discouraging people from vaccinating their kids,
- 17:07SPEAKER_03: and banning fluoride from the water supply.
- 17:10SPEAKER_03: And also this.
- 17:12SPEAKER_03: There's atrazine throughout our water supply.
- 17:15SPEAKER_03: If you,
- 17:15SPEAKER_03: in a lab,
- 17:16SPEAKER_03: put atrazine in a tank full of frogs,
- 17:19SPEAKER_03: it will chemically castrate and forcibly feminize every frog in there.
- 17:25SPEAKER_03: If it's doing that to frogs,
- 17:28SPEAKER_03: there's a lot of other evidence that it's doing it to human beings as well.
- 17:32SPEAKER_03: The truth is, when you look at Trump's cabinet picks so far, they're kind of all over the place.
- 17:36SPEAKER_03: You got mainstream politician Marco Rubio as secretary of state,
- 17:40SPEAKER_03: far-right weirdo Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff,
- 17:43SPEAKER_03: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as U.N.
- 17:46SPEAKER_03: ambassador, even though she has no diplomatic experience.
- 17:51SPEAKER_03: I mean, what common thread could there possibly be?
- 17:54SPEAKER_03: I know it seems like a diverse group, but all of Trump's cabinet picks do share one thing in common.
- 18:00SPEAKER_03: What is the one thing they share in common?
- 18:01SPEAKER_03: That nobody else would hire them to do these jobs except for Donald Trump.
- 18:06SPEAKER_03: Literally nobody.
- 18:09SPEAKER_03: We were looking for this.
- 18:10SPEAKER_03: That is loyalty to Donald Trump.
- 18:12SPEAKER_00: The president is rewarding loyalty.
- 18:14SPEAKER_00: Trump is putting loyalists to the MAGA agenda.
- 18:18SPEAKER_03: Congressman, you're a big Trump supporter.
- 18:19SPEAKER_03: Are you hoping to get a call to go serve in the Trump administration?
- 18:23SPEAKER_03: No.
- 18:25SPEAKER_03: But you were nodding your head yes as you were saying no.
- 18:30SPEAKER_03: The story is Trump's outside of the cabinet picks for his incoming administration.
- 18:35SPEAKER_03: I look forward to seeing all the fired asses on a future season of The Masked
- 18:38SPEAKER_03: Singer or his paid contributors right here on CNN.
- 18:43SPEAKER_03: President Trump risks everything for us.
- 18:47SPEAKER_02: Leading us in this fight will be a man who,
- 18:49SPEAKER_02: although wounded and facing danger,
- 18:51SPEAKER_02: he stood up and raised his fist.
- 18:54SPEAKER_02: He is the toughest man that I have ever met.
- 18:56SPEAKER_00: Ever.
- 18:57SPEAKER_00: Nobody has endured more than what he has gone through.
- 19:00SPEAKER_03: Nothing, absolutely nothing, will stop President Trump from standing and fighting for our great country.
- 19:07SPEAKER_03: Donald Trump's a style icon.
- 19:09SPEAKER_03: Stephen Miller wants to put kids in cages, but that is perhaps the most offensive thing he has said.
- 19:17SPEAKER_03: But I guess that's the uniting factor.
- 19:19SPEAKER_03: These people are kissing Trump's ass so hard, they've got bronzer on their nose.
- 19:25SPEAKER_03: We're starting to get more of a sense of what season two of The Celebrity a President might look like.
- 19:30SPEAKER_03: And it is,
- 19:31SPEAKER_03: according to his new chief of staff,
- 19:33SPEAKER_03: Susie Wiles,
- 19:34SPEAKER_03: Trump plans to issue a number of executive orders on day one.
- 19:37SPEAKER_03: He wants four Big Macs, six large fries,
- 19:41SPEAKER_03: Two buckets of KFC.
- 19:43SPEAKER_03: And in addition,
- 19:44SPEAKER_03: he wants to put executive orders eliminating immigration and his ongoing fight
- 19:51SPEAKER_03: against the climate.
- 19:52SPEAKER_03: Trump is going to keep holding rallies.
- 19:53SPEAKER_03: You know those rallies he loves?
- 19:55SPEAKER_03: He's going to keep doing them, even though the election's over.
- 19:58SPEAKER_03: That way, Americans can stay up to date on the size of the late Arnold Palmer's dong and whatnot.
- 20:06SPEAKER_03: But Donald Trump is returning to power, and so once again it is time to saddle up la résistance.
- 20:13SPEAKER_03: Because, if you remember, before Trump won the election,
- 20:18SPEAKER_03: Democrats were clear-eyed about the stakes.
- 20:21SPEAKER_03: It's time that fascism is called fascism, and Americans know exactly what they're voting for.
- 20:26SPEAKER_03: Meanwhile,
- 20:27SPEAKER_03: Joe and Mika Brzezinski Scarborough,
- 20:30SPEAKER_03: who famously warned of the growing threat of Trump's fascism,
- 20:33SPEAKER_03: also had an interesting announcement to make.
- 20:36SPEAKER_00: Last Thursday,
- 20:36SPEAKER_00: we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate
- 20:41SPEAKER_00: the opportunity to speak with the president-elect himself.
- 20:45SPEAKER_00: On Friday, we were given the opportunity to do just that.
- 20:50SPEAKER_00: Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump.
- 20:55SPEAKER_00: And for those asking why we would go speak to the President-elect during such
- 21:00SPEAKER_00: fraught times,
- 21:01SPEAKER_00: especially between us,
- 21:03SPEAKER_00: I guess I would ask back,
- 21:06SPEAKER_00: why wouldn't we?
- 21:06SPEAKER_00: Uh...
- 21:10SPEAKER_03: because you said he was Hitler.
- 21:12SPEAKER_03: It's time that fascism is called fascism and Americans know exactly what they're voting for.
- 21:16SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 21:22SPEAKER_03: Tap out, tap out.
- 21:24SPEAKER_03: But look, we don't know what the visit was.
- 21:26SPEAKER_03: We don't know what the tone of the visit was.
- 21:28SPEAKER_03: We talked about a lot of issues,
- 21:30SPEAKER_03: including abortion,
- 21:31SPEAKER_03: mass deportation,
- 21:33SPEAKER_03: threats of political retribution against political opponents,
- 21:36SPEAKER_03: and media outlets.
- 21:38SPEAKER_03: Oh, I bet you really laid down the gauntlet, Joe.
- 21:42SPEAKER_03: I bet you walked in there and just let him have it, didn't you, Joey?
- 21:46SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna do a one-act play called Joe and Mika Go to Mar-a-Lago.
- 21:49SPEAKER_03: Boom.
- 21:59SPEAKER_03: Mr. President, your rhetoric is outrageous.
- 22:03SPEAKER_03: I cannot in good conscience.
- 22:05SPEAKER_03: Who are those macaroos?
- 22:11SPEAKER_03: The pink one is raspberry.
- 22:15SPEAKER_03: We've learned nothing.
- 22:18SPEAKER_03: even those putting up resistance to Trump's agenda, don't seem to understand who they're dealing with.
- 22:24SPEAKER_03: Senator Elizabeth Warren accusing President-elect Donald Trump's transition team of
- 22:28SPEAKER_03: breaking the law as there are reports it missed a deadline to file a required
- 22:33SPEAKER_03: ethics pledge.
- 22:33SPEAKER_03: Hear ye, hear ye, Hitler missed the reporting deadline.
- 22:39SPEAKER_03: The war is over.
- 22:41SPEAKER_03: I've said it before and I'll say it again.
- 22:43SPEAKER_03: Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because
- 22:48SPEAKER_03: they glued their balls to their thighs.
- 22:53SPEAKER_03: That is what is happening.
- 22:55SPEAKER_03: The election that we just had was a repudiation of the status quo,
- 23:02SPEAKER_03: an overly regulated system that is no longer responsive or delivering for the needs
- 23:07SPEAKER_03: of the people.
- 23:08SPEAKER_03: He is paving the way to become a Vladimir Putin or to become an Adolf Hitler.
- 23:14SPEAKER_00: He is a threat to democracy.
- 23:15SPEAKER_03: He is a clear and present danger to our democracy, to our way of life.
- 23:19SPEAKER_03: Damage may be irreversible.
- 23:22SPEAKER_03: The destruction could be unthinkable,
- 23:24SPEAKER_03: and it would be a betrayal of everything that our framers fought for.
- 23:28SPEAKER_03: I feel passionately.
- 23:32SPEAKER_03: We should fight him on the beaches.
- 23:37SPEAKER_03: In the field.
- 23:40SPEAKER_03: God forbid the streets.
- 23:41SPEAKER_03: The asphalt and the silence.
- 23:48SPEAKER_03: Now,
- 23:48SPEAKER_03: I assume now that the Democrats have lost to the greatest threat we've ever faced
- 23:52SPEAKER_03: as a nation,
- 23:54SPEAKER_03: that they will be forthright in acknowledging,
- 23:56SPEAKER_03: one,
- 23:57SPEAKER_03: the Democrats' role in this catastrophic defeat,
- 23:59SPEAKER_03: and two,
- 24:00SPEAKER_03: the bleak hellscape we now face.
- 24:04SPEAKER_03: We're proud of the fact that we've defeated more House Republican incumbents than
- 24:10SPEAKER_03: they've defeated House Democratic incumbents.
- 24:13SPEAKER_03: We did flip three House seats from Republican to Democrat and gained back almost
- 24:20SPEAKER_03: all of those that we had lost in 2022.
- 24:22SPEAKER_03: Yeah, almost is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
- 24:28SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we almost gained back all we had lost.
- 24:31SPEAKER_03: Almost is kind of a load-bearing adverb.
- 24:34SPEAKER_03: Parents, good news, we gained back almost all of the children we lost on the field trip.
- 24:43SPEAKER_03: It's a new dynamic.
- 24:45SPEAKER_03: It is a willful, bright-siding, this shit show.
- 24:49SPEAKER_03: Yes, Democrats have less seats, but have you heard who's in those seats?
- 24:55SPEAKER_00: In this freshman class alone,
- 24:57SPEAKER_01: and I'm gonna stop for cheers for each one of these because they're remarkable,
- 25:00SPEAKER_01: we have our first trans member of Congress.
- 25:04SPEAKER_01: We have an engineer from an immigrant community in the San Bernando Valley.
- 25:10SPEAKER_01: We have the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress.
- 25:16SPEAKER_01: We have the youngest member ever elected to the House from New Jersey.
- 25:19SPEAKER_03: That's not a thing.
- 25:29SPEAKER_03: How did you go from the reasonably impressive first Iranian Democrat to hold the
- 25:34SPEAKER_03: seat to the,
- 25:35SPEAKER_03: I think somewhat reaching for,
- 25:37SPEAKER_03: youngest person ever from New Jersey?
- 25:42SPEAKER_03: And by the way,
- 25:42SPEAKER_03: to the audience,
- 25:44SPEAKER_03: if you think that that framing is not that interesting,
- 25:47SPEAKER_03: wait till you hear that this record-breaking young phenom from New Jersey is 38
- 25:54SPEAKER_03: years old!
- 25:58SPEAKER_03: 38 years old yeah how come on how far are we going with this oh in illinois we
- 26:09SPEAKER_03: elected a ginger oh hey yeah wow this is going to be the most diverse group of
- 26:15SPEAKER_03: congress people to ever get all their legislation blocked so inspiring but you know
- 26:21SPEAKER_03: what
- 26:27SPEAKER_03: people.
- 26:27SPEAKER_03: But of course,
- 26:28SPEAKER_03: as the Democrats struggle,
- 26:30SPEAKER_03: Donald Trump headed to Madison Square Garden with his grab him by the pussy posse
- 26:34SPEAKER_03: to do his favorite thing.
- 26:36SPEAKER_03: Watch people submit.
- 26:38SPEAKER_03: Oh, Trump likes submission in the octagon.
- 26:40SPEAKER_03: He likes it out of the octagon.
- 26:42SPEAKER_03: He likes submission from his enemies and even from his new friends.
- 26:45SPEAKER_03: By the way, it doesn't take much of a transgression to warrant a bended knee for Trump.
- 26:49SPEAKER_03: For instance,
- 26:49SPEAKER_03: last week,
- 26:50SPEAKER_03: Trump's newly-mitted health and human services nominee hit Trump with a bit of a
- 26:55SPEAKER_03: light-hearted jab about his diet.
- 26:58SPEAKER_03: The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad.
- 27:03SPEAKER_03: It's not... Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is, like, just poison.
- 27:17SPEAKER_03: A little friendly swipe, boop.
- 27:20SPEAKER_03: A little bit of ribbing, gentle ribbing, boop.
- 27:23SPEAKER_03: And he will pay for his insolence.
- 27:26SPEAKER_03: President Trump,
- 27:26SPEAKER_03: Elon Musk,
- 27:27SPEAKER_03: Don Jr.,
- 27:28SPEAKER_03: RFK Jr.,
- 27:29SPEAKER_03: and Speaker Mike Johnson eating McDonald's on Trump's private plane.
- 27:33SPEAKER_03: Hey, Robert, come on in here.
- 27:38SPEAKER_03: You think that's poisoned, yeah?
- 27:40SPEAKER_03: Eat it.
- 27:44SPEAKER_03: Hey, hey, hey, Robert.
- 27:47SPEAKER_03: Eat the whole thing.
- 27:48SPEAKER_03: Yeah, in front of us right now.
- 27:51SPEAKER_03: Eat the whole thing.
- 27:52SPEAKER_03: And by the way, when you're done eating the whole thing, Grimace is gonna come in here and f***ing ass.
- 27:56SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's what we're gonna do.
- 27:58SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
- 28:00SPEAKER_03: Grimace.
- 28:01SPEAKER_03: Hey, hey, Robert, eat the whole thing.
- 28:03SPEAKER_03: Grimace is gonna f***ing ass while we're doing it.
- 28:06SPEAKER_03: You gotta make eye contact with him the whole time.
- 28:07SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're gonna film it.
- 28:12SPEAKER_03: Government is theoretically a constitutional system of checks and balances between
- 28:17SPEAKER_03: equally powerful branches.
- 28:18SPEAKER_03: But what government actually is is an overly complicated Byzantine bureaucratic
- 28:23SPEAKER_03: maze of rules,
- 28:26SPEAKER_03: loopholes to those rules,
- 28:28SPEAKER_03: and norms.
- 28:29SPEAKER_03: Complex enough that, A, if you want to find a rule that keeps you from doing something, you'll find it.
- 28:34SPEAKER_03: And B, if you actually want to do something, you can find a loophole to get around said rule.
- 28:41SPEAKER_03: And then the norms are just how often you've had to pull any of this shit.
- 28:46SPEAKER_03: For example, Trump's, let's be generous, provocative, and unorthodox cabinet picks.
- 28:54SPEAKER_03: I don't think Hulk Hogan's been nominated yet.
- 28:56SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 29:01SPEAKER_03: Democrats are positive that the vaunted constitutional rules of the Senate shall be
- 29:07SPEAKER_03: the guardrail to this madness.
- 29:10SPEAKER_03: Certainly, we can fight back.
- 29:11SPEAKER_01: The president nominates.
- 29:13SPEAKER_03: The Senate confirms.
- 29:14SPEAKER_03: We're a check and balance.
- 29:16SPEAKER_03: We're there to be a guardrail.
- 29:17SPEAKER_03: The Senate has a constitutional obligation to advise and consent on this nomination.
- 29:23SPEAKER_03: Oh, shit.
- 29:24SPEAKER_03: You want Matt Gaetz, Mr. President?
- 29:26SPEAKER_03: Prepare to be advice and consented, biatch.
- 29:32SPEAKER_03: There is no way for the Constitution to allow you to get past it.
- 29:37SPEAKER_03: The Constitution does give the president power to adjourn the House and Senate on
- 29:43SPEAKER_03: extraordinary occasions.
- 29:44SPEAKER_03: To unilaterally install his most controversial nominees and bypass the Senate
- 29:48SPEAKER_03: confirmation process entirely.
- 29:51SPEAKER_03: That is our government in a nutshell.
- 29:53SPEAKER_03: The rules say we can stop it.
- 29:56SPEAKER_03: The loophole says that.
- 29:59SPEAKER_03: And so what are you left with the last refuge of losers.
- 30:04SPEAKER_03: The norms.
- 30:06SPEAKER_03: I don't think that's appropriate and I don't think that's what the founders
- 30:08SPEAKER_03: intended that is not the custom.
- 30:17SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you can do it and it's legal wire.
- 30:21SPEAKER_03: Whatever guy.
- 30:24SPEAKER_03: We're going to think you're a dick.
- 30:27SPEAKER_03: Republicans exploit the loopholes.
- 30:30SPEAKER_03: Democrats complain about the norms over and over and over, and it has ghastly consequences.
- 30:36SPEAKER_03: Remember when President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court?
- 30:40SPEAKER_03: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to give that a vote,
- 30:44SPEAKER_03: saying,
- 30:44SPEAKER_03: well,
- 30:44SPEAKER_03: it's only one full year before the election.
- 30:46SPEAKER_03: It's too close.
- 30:48SPEAKER_03: Now,
- 30:48SPEAKER_03: you could make a case that Obama could violate the norm,
- 30:52SPEAKER_03: say the Senate failed their advice and consent,
- 30:54SPEAKER_03: and appoint him anyway,
- 30:56SPEAKER_03: and see whatever the f*** happens.
- 30:58SPEAKER_03: Fight.
- 30:59SPEAKER_03: But they just went, well, we never heard of that rule, but, uh, okay.
- 31:05SPEAKER_03: Smash cut.
- 31:07SPEAKER_03: Two months before a presidential election,
- 31:10SPEAKER_03: Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the completely
- 31:14SPEAKER_03: unforeseeable death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- 31:17SPEAKER_03: And as you can imagine, the Democrats went right to the nearby Kinkos.
- 31:22SPEAKER_03: Behind me is the McConnell rule.
- 31:24SPEAKER_03: On February 13th,
- 31:25SPEAKER_03: 2016,
- 31:25SPEAKER_03: when Justice Scalia passed away,
- 31:27SPEAKER_03: Senator McConnell said,
- 31:28SPEAKER_03: and I quote,
- 31:29SPEAKER_03: this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
- 31:33SPEAKER_03: And so Amy Coney Barrett was forced to head back to her homestead,
- 31:37SPEAKER_03: never to be heard from a...
- 31:39SPEAKER_03: Oh,
- 31:39SPEAKER_03: they didn't give a...
- 31:41Oh!
- 31:42SPEAKER_03: Oh, right, I forgot.
- 31:43SPEAKER_03: They didn't give a... Look!
- 31:47SPEAKER_03: Let this show be the utterly ineffective hypocrisy finders.
- 31:51SPEAKER_03: I can tell you from experience, it does nothing.
- 31:53SPEAKER_03: You guys be the loophole guys that figure out how to get shit done because they
- 31:58SPEAKER_03: don't give a about your norms.
- 32:01SPEAKER_03: They will exploit any loophole, even if they have to go through clearly closed windows to do it.
- 32:08SPEAKER_03: You would think after Trump's presidency, Democrats would have learned
- 32:13SPEAKER_03: But they doubled down.
- 32:15SPEAKER_03: When Biden tried to get immigration reform into the Inflation Reduction Act and the
- 32:18SPEAKER_03: Senate parliamentarian told him he couldn't,
- 32:22SPEAKER_03: did he respond to the rule with a loophole?
- 32:25SPEAKER_03: Or did he... That's for the parliamentarian to decide, though.
- 32:30SPEAKER_03: Not for Joe Biden to decide.
- 32:32SPEAKER_03: No!
- 32:33SPEAKER_03: That's for...
- 32:34SPEAKER_03: You take the parliamentarian and you put them in a locker and then you bring
- 32:39SPEAKER_03: Grimace in and have him...
- 32:43SPEAKER_03: THAT'S WHAT YOU DO!
- 32:45SPEAKER_03: DO YOU GUYS GET WHAT I'M SAYING?
- 32:46SPEAKER_03: PERHAPS A DEMONSTRATION IS IN ORDER.
- 32:50SPEAKER_03: TO GET ANYTHING DONE,
- 32:51SPEAKER_03: THE DEMOCRATS FEEL LIKE THEY MUST THREAD THE NEEDLE TO MAKE SURE,
- 32:54SPEAKER_03: OH,
- 32:55SPEAKER_03: WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE EACH NORM FOLLOWS THE OVERLY COMPLEX BUREAUCRATIC PROCESS THAT
- 33:00SPEAKER_03: WE CREATED OURSELVES.
- 33:01SPEAKER_03: OH, OH, THE PARLIAMENTARY, OH, I CAN'T DO BECAUSE THE NORM SAYS, OH, I CAN'T GET ANYTHING DONE.
- 33:06SPEAKER_03: MEANWHILE, THE REPUBLICANS COME IN AND ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS FINGER BANG A DONUT.
- 33:10SPEAKER_03: THAT'S ALL THEY HAVE TO DO.
- 33:12SPEAKER_03: Oh, how are we going to get Matt Gaetz in if the advice and consent?
- 33:16SPEAKER_03: Oh, there it is right there.
- 33:18SPEAKER_03: Boom, boom.
- 33:19SPEAKER_03: There he's in there.
- 33:20SPEAKER_03: There he's in.
- 33:21SPEAKER_03: Ah, look at who he's in.
- 33:22SPEAKER_03: Now Trump has the House, Senate, presidency, and judiciary.
- 33:27SPEAKER_03: So it's going to get harder, not easier.
- 33:29SPEAKER_03: Democrats are going to have to forcefully play the loopholes.
- 33:32SPEAKER_03: But the good news is you're well set up for it.
- 33:35SPEAKER_03: the youngest congressional representative ever from New Jersey, 38-year-old LaMonica McIver.
- 33:43SPEAKER_03: Unless... Wait, I've got a loophole.
- 33:47SPEAKER_03: What if Joe Biden got his vice president to not certify... No, no, President Biden, wait!
- 33:52SPEAKER_03: Listen!
- 33:53SPEAKER_03: Listen to the plan!
- 33:55SPEAKER_03: Joe!
- 34:18SPEAKER_03: Thanks for the songs from Golden Earring and In Order To Survive.
- 34:21SPEAKER_03: And thanks for the clips and excerpts from Jordan Klepper,
- 34:24SPEAKER_03: Troy Nels,
- 34:25SPEAKER_03: Amber Ruffin,
- 34:25SPEAKER_03: Roy Wood Jr.,
- 34:27SPEAKER_03: Jonathan Lemire,
- 34:28SPEAKER_03: Lamani Jones,
- 34:29SPEAKER_03: Jimmy Kimmel,
- 34:30SPEAKER_03: Marco Rubio,
- 34:31SPEAKER_03: Stephen Colbert,
- 34:32SPEAKER_03: Michael Ian Black,
- 34:34SPEAKER_03: Mark Wayne Mullen,
- 34:35SPEAKER_03: Susan Collins,
- 34:36SPEAKER_03: Jake Tapper,
- 34:37SPEAKER_03: Seth Meyers,
- 34:38SPEAKER_03: Tim Burchett,
- 34:39SPEAKER_03: Kevin McCarthy,
- 34:40SPEAKER_03: Stephanie Ruhle,
- 34:41SPEAKER_03: Robert F.
- 34:42SPEAKER_03: Kennedy Jr.,
- 34:43SPEAKER_03: Stuart Varney,
- 34:44SPEAKER_03: Laura Ingram,
- 34:45SPEAKER_03: Joe Scarborough,
- 34:46SPEAKER_03: Mika Brzezinski,
- 34:47SPEAKER_03: Hakeem Jeffries,
- 34:48SPEAKER_03: Chuck Schumer,
- 34:49SPEAKER_03: and Dan Goldman.
- 36:21SPEAKER_01: They'll know that they'll notice now.
- 37:07SPEAKER_03: So you will come to know When the bullet hits the bone When the bullet hits the bone