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“Live Free or Run for President.” (LIVE in New Hampshire) · Pod Save America

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  Speaker 1: What's up, New Hampshire? Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Jon Favreau.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Melissa Mastromonaco. I'm John Lovett.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Tommy Vitor.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
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  Speaker 1: Later in the show, we'll talk to one of the
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  Speaker 1: many candidates running to be the Democratic nominee for president.
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  Speaker 3: Washington Governor Jay Inslee is here.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about the news from this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: President has been tweeting up a storm, including one with
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  Speaker 1: lots of capital letters and exclamation points, where he assures us, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I am not frustrated.
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  Speaker 3: I am not frustrated.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not frustrated. You're frustrated. You're shouting. I'm not shouting.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you shouting? I'm making a scene? What do
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  Speaker 2: you call this?
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  Speaker 1: But his most notable tweet was about Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar,
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  Speaker 1: who's recently been the target of multiple death threats and
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  Speaker 1: anti-Muslim bigotry. A few days ago, right-wing internet people dug
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  Speaker 1: up the video of a speech she gave earlier this
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  Speaker 1: year at the Council on American Islamic Relations, where she
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  Speaker 1: said that the Muslim Civil Rights Organization was founded after 9-11, quote,
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  Speaker 1: because they recognized that some people did something and that
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  Speaker 1: all of us were starting to lose access to our
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  Speaker 1: civil liberties. Conservatives expressed outrage over the phrase, some people
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  Speaker 1: did something, and then Trump tweeted a video that spliced
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  Speaker 1: together Omar saying that with images of the World Trade
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  Speaker 1: Center burning on 9-11. Tommy, I want to start with
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  Speaker 1: the conservative reaction to Omar's comments. Representative Dan Crenshaw said
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  Speaker 1: that they were, quote, unbelievable and suggested that Omar was
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  Speaker 1: minimizing 9-11 by refusing to use the word terrorist. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Kilmeade of Fox and Friends said, quote, you have to
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  Speaker 1: wonder if she's an American first. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: Omar meant by her comments, and why did conservatives pick
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  Speaker 1: this old speech to pounce on?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Dan Crenshaw, Republican congressman, retweeted this. He was also
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  Speaker 6: the one who famously went on SNL and said Americans
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  Speaker 6: can forgive each other, we can still see the good
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  Speaker 6: in each other. So not a particularly charitable retweet by him.
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  Speaker 6: So Ilhan Omar was speaking to CARE, which is a
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  Speaker 6: Muslim civil rights group, and she was speaking right after
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  Speaker 6: the New Zealand shooter shot up two mosques and killed
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  Speaker 6: 50 people. And she was talking about how, after a
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  Speaker 6: tragic event like this, Muslims are often told to lay low,
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  Speaker 6: maybe don't go to prayers, maybe don't wear your hijab
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  Speaker 6: in public. And ironically, after ISIS does something, or Al-Qaeda
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  Speaker 6: does an attack, they're told the same thing. They're asked
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  Speaker 6: to reassert their commitment to America or denounce all Muslims,
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  Speaker 6: which are things that I'm not asked to do. After
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  Speaker 6: the New Zealand shooter, a white guy, a white terrorist,
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  Speaker 6: shoots up a.
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  Speaker 3: Bunch of Muslims.
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  Speaker 6: And so she's talking about the erosion of civil liberties
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  Speaker 6: for Muslim Americans and how they've been treated like second-class citizens.
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  Speaker 6: And so Dan Crenshaw and Donald Trump sweep in to
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  Speaker 6: prove her point for her and twist her words and
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  Speaker 6: take them out of context. And the reason Trump did
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  Speaker 6: this is political, right? He sees her, and he does
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  Speaker 6: not hear her words. He doesn't hear that what she
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  Speaker 6: said sounds a lot like what George W. Bush said
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  Speaker 6: just after 9-11 when he said, the people who knock
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  Speaker 6: down these buildings will hear from all of us soon.
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  Speaker 3: The people who knock down the buildings? He just called
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  Speaker 3: them the people? That's right.
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  Speaker 6: He sees her skin color, and he sees that she
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  Speaker 6: wears a hijab, and he twists it for political purposes.
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  Speaker 6: And it is so cynical, especially if you know who
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  Speaker 6: she is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Ilhan Omar.
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  Speaker 6: Her family left Somalia in 1991. They lived in a
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  Speaker 6: refugee camp for four years because there was a civil
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  Speaker 6: war in Somalia before moving to the United States. Any
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  Speaker 6: hope that she and her family might have had of
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  Speaker 6: moving back to Somalia was destroyed by Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Islamic
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  Speaker 6: extremist groups. So I think she understands the horrors of terrorism. So,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they tweet these things because it's good politics,
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  Speaker 6: but the unfortunate reality is, you know, it increased risk
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  Speaker 6: to her.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the The.
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  Speaker 6: Coast Guard individual who was arrested recently, who had a
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  Speaker 6: kill list of a bunch of liberals, had her name
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  Speaker 6: on it. So it's a really cynical, nasty thing to do,
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  Speaker 6: and it's something we all should be condemning.
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  Speaker 1: Also, in that same speech, she talked about how proud
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  Speaker 1: she is of her country, how much she loves America,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a bill to help provide benefits for survivors
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  Speaker 1: of 9-11 and first responders that she is a co-sponsor
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 3: Dan Crenshaw is not.
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  Speaker 1: Alyssa, why was Trump a particularly bad messenger on this
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to 9-11?
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  Speaker 2: Well, like, let's start at the beginning.
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  Speaker 5: Well, no, look, so this all sort of got going
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  Speaker 5: with the New York Post cover of the towers coming
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  Speaker 5: down and Ilhan Omar's comments, right? So who are Donald
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  Speaker 5: Trump's friends? The people who own the New York Post.
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  Speaker 5: which the best part of this was that the Yemeni
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  Speaker 5: bodega owners actually boycotted and are no longer selling the
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  Speaker 5: New York Post currently in their bodegas because of how.
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  Speaker 5: Because of how irresponsible his comments were. But, like, you guys,
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  Speaker 5: what is the one thing we know about Donald Trump?
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  Speaker 2: He's a New Yorker.
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  Speaker 3: Like, he... he's nothing but a New Yorker.
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  Speaker 7: Like, what?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I guess he's president, but he's, no, but
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  Speaker 5: he is. And so what he did is he turned
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  Speaker 5: the city's, it's like, yes, the country's worst moment, but
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  Speaker 5: the city that he purports, well, I mean, he doesn't
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  Speaker 5: purport anything. I mean, he lived there. And he decides to,
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  Speaker 5: you know, go ahead and just turn something that was
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  Speaker 5: so terrible that he lived through into this, like, disgusting,
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  Speaker 5: spliced political thing video, which I want to know who
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  Speaker 5: paid for. The White House tweeted it out. Did the
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  Speaker 5: White House splice her comments into the towers burning? And
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  Speaker 5: just to say, as someone who is a New Yorker,
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  Speaker 5: but who was not there during 9-11, I did work
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  Speaker 5: in the World Trade Center, and I could not imagine
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  Speaker 5: ever saying anything like what he is doing, and he's
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  Speaker 5: our president.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would also say, on the day the towers
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  Speaker 1: fell on 9-11, Donald Trump called into a radio station
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  Speaker 1: and bragged that his building would now be the tallest.
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  Speaker 2: Which is actually not true. The tallest building brag on 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: And it's one of the strangest moments because even in
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  Speaker 2: the moment Donald Trump is like, I can't believe how
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  Speaker 2: bad a person I am. Which is rare to hear
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  Speaker 2: in his voice. He also pretended to clean up the
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  Speaker 2: rubble on 9-11. That's another one of his greatest hits.
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  Speaker 2: And even that too, he knows when he lies about
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 that it's even for him.
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  Speaker 3: Wrong.
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  Speaker 2: So when he talked about, he said, I went down
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  Speaker 2: to the rubble, I even cleaned it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He threw in a little bit, like he knew it
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  Speaker 1: was bullshit.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, I helped a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: If he actually did clean it up, he'd be making
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  Speaker 5: them pass the 9-11 responders bill because he'd want in.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: He also, by the way, cheated the system to get
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  Speaker 1: a small business loan that is reserved for small businesses
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  Speaker 1: that have been affected by 9-11, and he applied to
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  Speaker 1: change and take that loan for his own company.
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  Speaker 2: Also, and it was like 15 grand, he is not
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  Speaker 2: a billionaire. He's not. These are not billionaire level grips.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, so this happens, it's gross, it's Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: being Donald Trump, it's the right wing being the right wing.
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  Speaker 1: So then the controversy moves over to How should the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats respond to this? So this is what's happening over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. So many, including most of the presidential contenders,
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  Speaker 1: accuse Trump of inciting violence. Others, like Nancy Pelosi, didn't
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  Speaker 1: go quite as far. Some didn't mention Ilhan Omar's name
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  Speaker 1: specifically in their statements. This then caused an uproar. What
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  Speaker 1: do we think about all this, Dan? Start with you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like any of it.
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  Speaker 7: Just a couple of things that are worth knowing here,
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  Speaker 7: which is one, every Republican who talked about this knew
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  Speaker 7: they were full of shit. This was a completely bad
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  Speaker 7: faith argument. What they do is they troll the internet
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  Speaker 7: and look for someone, something or anything that can fuel
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  Speaker 7: the outrage machine. And if that is a woman of color,
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  Speaker 7: all the better. That's a woman of color wearing a hijab,
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  Speaker 7: That is exactly what they want, because they want to
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  Speaker 7: scare the shit out of white people. That is their
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  Speaker 7: political strategy. So they did that. So then the Democrats
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  Speaker 7: respond to that. And there were great responses. There were
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  Speaker 7: OK responses. And there were some bad responses. And they
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  Speaker 7: ran the gamut from understanding what Trump was trying to do,
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  Speaker 7: which is to, and I think this is very important,
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  Speaker 7: because it is important to understand that the argument is
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  Speaker 7: made in bad faith. In your response, like Kirsten Gillibrand,
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  Speaker 7: who we love, but I did not love her response,
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  Speaker 7: it talks about minimizing what happened on 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: Insinuated that perhaps Ilhan Omar minimized.
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  Speaker 7: The pain of 9-11. You're accepting the bad faith on faith.
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  Speaker 7: You're accepting the premise of the argument. That is a problem.
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  Speaker 7: There are people who mentioned her name. There are people
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  Speaker 7: who didn't mention her name. Democrats got very upset about it.
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  Speaker 7: I have a couple things to say about that. One is,
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  Speaker 7: you have like the Democratic candidate that I want is
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  Speaker 7: one who knows the Republicans are full of shit, but
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  Speaker 7: will call them out on it, right? So it's not just,
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  Speaker 7: are you gonna mention Ilhan Omar's name? Are you going
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  Speaker 7: to attack what Trump said? Is I want someone who
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  Speaker 7: is going to call out why Trump and the Republicans
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  Speaker 7: are doing this, right? This is a game they're gonna
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  Speaker 7: play every single fucking day. So they have to explain
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  Speaker 7: like why is it they wanna scare Americans by distorting
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  Speaker 7: the words of a Muslim American congresswoman. What are they
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  Speaker 7: trying to distract from? Is it the corruption, the criminality,
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  Speaker 7: the fact that we have an energy lobbyist who now
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  Speaker 7: runs the interior of the United States? Like, that is
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  Speaker 7: what they are trying to do, and call it out
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  Speaker 7: for what it is. Like, we have to call out
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  Speaker 7: the game instead of playing the game. The other thing
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  Speaker 7: I'll say is, Democrats got very mad about this. And
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  Speaker 7: I think we should put pressure on our leaders to
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  Speaker 7: do a better job. But we also have to recognize
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  Speaker 7: that the entire fucking world is on fire. And we
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  Speaker 7: are not one killer tweet away from solving this whole
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  Speaker 7: Trump problem. So, like, if Nancy Pelosi's first tweet wasn't great,
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  Speaker 7: let's tell her that. But Nancy Pelosi's also pretty fucking great.
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  Speaker 7: She's doing a lot of other great things.
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  Speaker 2: And let's move on.
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  Speaker 6: It is the deeply frustrating, unwritten rules of politics, though,
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  Speaker 6: that we were observing in real time, which is that
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  Speaker 6: So Ilhan Omar said a comment about AIPAC that people
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  Speaker 6: viewed as suggesting that the only reason you support the
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  Speaker 6: state of Israel is for political donations that she apologized for.
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  Speaker 6: She said another comment that people thought might have been
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  Speaker 6: suggesting that members of Congress should support Israel at dual loyalty.
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  Speaker 6: And thus, so when Dan Crenshaw retweeted the Imam of Peace,
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  Speaker 6: an Australian... Imam that I'm sure he follows regularly and
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  Speaker 6: is constantly retweeting it wasn't afforded by some right-wing organization
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  Speaker 6: saying hey retweet this to kick up a shitstorm People
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  Speaker 6: were like, oh man, she stepped in it again Well,
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  Speaker 6: we won't necessarily full-throatedly defend her this time and that
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  Speaker 6: is bullshit because we need to evaluate each of these
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  Speaker 6: things on the merit and is so clear that she
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  Speaker 6: was no way minimizing the 9-11 attacks and it was
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  Speaker 6: just political gamesmanship and in the the press corps and
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  Speaker 6: the sort of body politics scores these things and in
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  Speaker 6: this weird sort of meta way, and it is garbage,
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  Speaker 6: and I bet a lot of Democrats reject it.
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  Speaker 7: It's also, let's be very clear, this was a fucking plan.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: Someone found this, they're like, who is the best person
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  Speaker 7: to raise this point? Who would be an unassailable person
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  Speaker 7: to do it? And they picked Dan Crenshaw because he's
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  Speaker 7: a Navy SEAL who served, I think, five tours overseas,
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  Speaker 7: and he has become this, like, Republican we're supposed to
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  Speaker 7: respect because he was made fun of on SNL once.
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  Speaker 3: Because Pete Davidson attacked him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I do think, like, I wonder how we deal with
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  Speaker 1: situations like this overall, because you could imagine a controversy
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  Speaker 1: like this taking up every weekend, every week, from now
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  Speaker 1: until 2020.
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  Speaker 7: That's the fucking plan.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's their plan. And, look, on one hand, you
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  Speaker 1: can't say, just ignore this, Democrats. When Trump does something
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  Speaker 1: like that, when he attacks Democrats, Ilhan Omar you know
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  Speaker 1: takes her words out of context tries to incite bigotry
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  Speaker 1: potentially violence like we should just you can't just say
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  Speaker 1: we're going to ignore it but at the other hand
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand we also can't just let ourselves
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  Speaker 1: be consumed by it you know so I wonder what
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  Speaker 1: sort of the strategy is here to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we hit back and call out their bullshit when they
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  Speaker 1: do it but then sort of move on to the
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  Speaker 1: next thing and not let them own the whole narrative on.
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  Speaker 2: This yeah I think I think it is just what
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  Speaker 2: Dan is saying I think it is pointing out that
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  Speaker 2: this is the strategy and this is the plan and
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  Speaker 2: this is going to happen again and again and again.
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  Speaker 2: I think to Tommy's point, I think one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons they would choose to do this is because there
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  Speaker 2: was blood in the water from last time. And they
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  Speaker 2: saw how with just a little bit of bad faith,
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  Speaker 2: they could get Democrats to say things against Democrats on
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  Speaker 2: the AIPAC.
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  Speaker 4: Stage, right?
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  Speaker 2: That has value to them. We're stuck, right? We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about it right now. It was the first story, right?
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about it. We're not talking about the things
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  Speaker 2: we want to be talking about. Because this does command attention,
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  Speaker 2: it matters when a president uses incredibly anti-Muslim sentiment and
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  Speaker 2: uses it to try to delegitimize a Democrat because they
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  Speaker 2: don't like the color of her skin and they think
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  Speaker 2: it's politically useful to them, even if it stirs up
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  Speaker 2: the kind of animus that will cause some person to
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  Speaker 2: take matters into their own hands, because that's what's happening
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  Speaker 2: again and again and again. So, you know, it's the
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  Speaker 2: central problem to Trump, right? What do you do when
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  Speaker 2: the person in the office is so fundamentally unfit? It
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  Speaker 2: should take all of our attention all the time. When
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  Speaker 2: defeating him depends on talking about anything else.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's also, by the way, we've been talking about these
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  Speaker 1: comments the whole time, but, like, let's remember, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: ran for president on the promise that he would ban
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  Speaker 1: all Muslims from the country, from coming to the country.
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  Speaker 2: He called it the ban. His press people were like,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a ban. He's like, it's a ban.
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  Speaker 1: LAUGHTER So it's like trying to figure out like what
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  Speaker 1: they meant by this, what they were trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: Like we know what he was trying to do. He
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  Speaker 1: ran for president saying, I want to ban all Muslims
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  Speaker 1: from coming to the country. And then he instituted a
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  Speaker 1: travel ban that affected all Muslim majority countries.
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  Speaker 6: She's talking about how Muslims are treated like second class
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  Speaker 6: citizens and the erosion of their civil rights.
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  Speaker 3: And he swoops in to prove her point.
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  Speaker 6: So we just have to call that out time and again,
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  Speaker 6: because it's the right thing to do. And I think
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  Speaker 6: ultimately being strong in the face of that kind of bullshit,
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  Speaker 6: people will see through it and they will understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I want to move on to a story that's
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  Speaker 1: been a little more under the radar, but every bit
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  Speaker 1: as alarming. In three different states, Republicans have recently passed
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  Speaker 1: fetal heartbeat laws that ban abortions as early as six
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  Speaker 1: weeks into a woman's pregnancy, sometimes before many women even
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  Speaker 1: know they're pregnant. In the past, courts have ruled that
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  Speaker 1: similar laws are unconstitutional, but with Brett Kavanaugh on the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court, anti-abortion activists are making a renewed push to
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  Speaker 1: overturn Roe v.
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  Speaker 3: Wade.
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  Speaker 1: Alyssa, how alarming is this? What do we know so
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  Speaker 1: far about Brett Kavanaugh's views on abortion since he's become
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  Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice?
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  Speaker 5: So, this is sort of the result of everybody paying
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  Speaker 5: attention to this fake war he's waging against Ilhan Omar, right?
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  Speaker 5: We're all talking about that. Very few people know that in,
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  Speaker 5: and I wrote this down because I didn't want to
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  Speaker 5: get it wrong, North Dakota, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, and
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  Speaker 5: soon to be signed in Georgia, is the heartbeat ban.
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  Speaker 5: The reason, as Fab said, that This makes abortion illegal
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  Speaker 5: after a detectable heartbeat, which is approximately six weeks, which
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  Speaker 5: is before most women know they're pregnant. The reason that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, some sort of like liberal folks aren't that
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  Speaker 5: worked up about it is because they're like, well, it's
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  Speaker 5: still illegal. It's illegal under Roe v.
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  Speaker 2: Wade.
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  Speaker 5: These laws are illegal. But this is the whole point.
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  Speaker 5: They want these cases to be brought up to the
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  Speaker 5: Supreme Court where we have Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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  Speaker 5: Brett Kavanaugh, who Susan Collins said... He says Roe v.
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  Speaker 5: Wade is settled law.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Allegedly.
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  Speaker 5: And thanks, Joe Manchin, for endorsing Susan Collins. Like, thank you, goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: But... I'm sorry. Sorry.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: I can't stand it. Stop reminding us of the news.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm glad we're mad. Don't yell at me.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: It's not my fault.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: But the sort of, where this is getting to an
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: even crazier place is that in Texas, there is actually
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: a law that's been passed that says a woman who
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: has an abortion can be eligible for the death penalty.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Like, this is where we're at. And none of you
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: knew that, did you?
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: No one knew that.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: And that's really happening. And you know what I just
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: have to end with is like, What about the fucking dudes?
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: How come like the woman didn't get pregnant on her own,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: but she, she is going to go on death row.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: And like all these conservative dudes are like, yeah, it's
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: her fault. So she's going to go on death row,
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: but he's fine. And so, but this is what's happening
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: when we all pay attention to the stupid stories that
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Trump kicks up every day is that the Republicans are
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: super organized and this is happening in every state, which
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: is why like when everyone starts talking about 2020, which
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: is great and it's sexy and it's exciting, it is
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: nothing compared to the local elections that are happening all
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: the time where this stuff happens.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: So. Obviously, we can't do anything about the Supreme Court
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: right now. We're waiting for a presidential election in 2020.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: What can be done on a state level to protect
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: access to abortion?
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: So one, I think that everybody should sign up at
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: their local NARAL or NARAL National, N-A-R-A-L, and follow because
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Elise Hogue, who is the executive director and the organization,
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: are really doing everything they can to make sure that
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: everybody knows what is at stake in their region, in
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: their state, in their city, in their town. And, um,
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: they have been super, uh, active, especially through Kavanaugh. And, um,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: because it's, I mean, the thing is people just have
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: to realize what's happening in their community.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: That's the most important thing.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: And a number of states that have democratic majorities, right,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: can pass laws protecting.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: They can, they can, they can, and some of them have,
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: and some of them since, uh, since Kavanaugh, uh, since
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: the election and since Kavanaugh was put on the court,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: several states have passed, um, protections for abortion in case
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Roe was overturned.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, that's good news.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Okay. We will be right back with more news after this.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Now it's time for OK Stop. We'll roll a clip.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: The panel can say OK Stop at any point to comment.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Because it's Palm Sunday, I thought we'd enjoy a clip
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: from the Fox News journalist who most often causes me
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: to smack my face with my palm. I'm speaking, of course,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: of everyone's favorite Fox News host who ties his hood
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: in a bow tie, Tucker Carlson. Last week, he was
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: pretty mad Democrats were making it easier to vote. Let's
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: take a look.
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: Lowering the voting age to 16.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: You for that?
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: Again, I think what we're trying to do with HR1
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: is safeguard against voter suppression.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: You think it's a joke. Okay, stop.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: That's a former Clinton advisor? Who is that?
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know who that is.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Never seen him in my life.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: It's not. I will say, Tucker Carlson does not. Know
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: how to laugh?
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: No.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: It is hysterical. Yeah, he laughed like he just pushed
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: somebody into a pool who was wearing a tuxedo.
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: I think it's a joke to say that children should vote. Look,
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: in a lot of states in the country, people are
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: taking measures, closing polling places, reducing the number of days
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: for early voting.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: It's not true.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: It's an attempt to whip up racial hysteria, and actually,
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: African-American voters in the last couple of elections, in a
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: lot of places, have a much higher turnout than white voters.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, stop. I just... Not all of them are not voting.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Well, it's just like, because black turnout is up, then
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: suppression hasn't happened anywhere?
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: No, exactly right.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: In a lot of places, black turnout is up. Well,
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: the places where the voter suppression is occurring, it is down,
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: you fucking prick.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: That is the whole point.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: But also, it's just saying, like, There are laws in
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: place to try to suppress the vote. Sometimes they work,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: but sometimes they didn't. Sometimes people overcame those laws.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: One of the reasons one law was overturned, one of
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the laws he's saying wasn't passed because for racial reasons,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the court overturned it by saying it targeted African Americans
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: with surgical precision. That is the exact quote from the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: court ruling about these laws.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: That's all.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: I'm sure that there is crummy voting behavior, maybe even
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: suppression in isolated places.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: He made a deliberate choice to ditch the bow tie.
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: He looks like he beat up a local prep school
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: kid and took that tie that he's wearing.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: I'm not sure how that fight played itself out.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Very subtle imagery with the black donkey there, too.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: The opposite of the truth, actually, as you know.
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: No, because I think they'd be voting in bigger numbers
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: still if they were.
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: They have a higher turnout than white voters. So let's
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: be real for a second.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: How is that possible?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: All the Democrats were like, you know what? We should
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: just go on Fox more. Just go on Fox more.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: this fucking guy hasn't said two words. It's not a
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: fair fight when you go on. He's also waving a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: teal marker, which is strange. This isn't some environment where
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: they let you on the show and they're like, let's
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: have a fair debate.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: I don't know why Democrats didn't debate on this network.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: And not racist. Finally, a Democratic voice is breaking through
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to Tucker's viewers and cracking that delicate latticework of propaganda that's.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: That may be a lot of things. It's not suppression.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: So let's stop saying that because it scares people.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Well, no.
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: It's a demonstrable fact. Take Georgia as an example where
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: you know what happened. There were all these people that
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: were stripped from their voter rolls who were disproportionately black.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, you call that what you want. It feels
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: like voter suppression.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Racializing everything only makes people.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Hate each other. Okay, stop.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: Racializing everything is on the wall in the bathroom at Fox.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: It's her mission statement.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: They printed on stress balls.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: There is bias in the country. Let's expose it. But
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: saying there's suppression when African-American voters vote in a higher
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: percentage than white voters, it's just, it's a terror attack.
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: But if you're stripping people out and it so happens
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: that they're disproportionately black, you call that what you want.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I'm just looking at a fact.
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: I'm not putting a label on it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I'm just looking at.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: I'm not sure we sent our best here.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: No. I think he's doing okay.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I actually think he's doing okay. I want to be fair.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I think he's doing okay.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Fact.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Okay. It's a fact-based analysis. To those people, it's actually
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: not funny. No, I know it's not. That's why it's
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: so funny.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, stop.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: He's right. It's not funny.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: I thought.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: You were going to say something.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: No, wait for it. Go for it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: Richard, thank you very much.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: 900-foot, one-bedroom apartments in San Francisco rent for just $.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: 4, 500 a month.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: And if you can afford the rent, you'll be able
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: to see for yourself just how repulsive San Francisco's trash-covered,
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: syringe-laden streets have become. Investigation into the crumbling state of California.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Straight ahead.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about 2020.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait, wait, wait. John. John, how dare you? And
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: that's okay. Stop. Back to you.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: So 2020, since we're here in the home of the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: first in the nation primary.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Easy pander. Easy pander.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Very easy.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Two more Democratic candidates who'd been in an exploratory phase
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: officially kicked off their presidential campaigns this weekend. South Bend
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Mayor Pete Buttigieg and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Okay. Wow.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Very interesting.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Tell us how you really feel.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Who was the other one? Cory Booker? Cory Booker. So
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I want to start with Mayor Pete.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know what.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Okay, Bernie.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's also a candidate. We're going to be here
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a long time if everyone yells at all the candidates.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: We can't name them all. Anti-Game of Thrones.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I want to start with Mayor Pete, who's... Meteoric rise
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: in the polls can be traced directly to the Pod
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Save America interview he did with.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Dan last month.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: You're welcome, Mayor Pete.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: It's the Dan bump. Dan, Pete raised more money than
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: all but three other Democrats. He's probably received the most
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: glowing media coverage of any Democrat running. What are his
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: challenges now? What does he need to do to make
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: sure this is more than just a moment for him?
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: He has to take the momentum he has, the money
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: he has, and turn it into an organization that can
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: run a real campaign in the four early primary states
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: to set them up to have a chance to compete
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: in all the rest of the states that come right
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: after South Carolina. You can get lots of press coverage
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: and raise lots of money, but if you do not
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: take the opportunity you have when you have it and
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: translate it into, as everyone here in New Hampshire knows,
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: a real campaign filled with organizers and volunteers that go
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: door to door and build a true grassroots organization. If
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: you don't do that, then you'll just have your moment
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: in the sun and it'll be someone else's turn.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: And do you think when a candidate has the momentum
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and sort of excitement behind them that Pete currently does,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: that obviously even if you're starting very late building an
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: organization as he is, because he did not obviously expect
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to get this far, um, that obviously helps build that organization.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Do you think there's enough talent organizers on the field
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, for sure. I think there are a lot
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: of people who have been holding their fire. There have
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: been very few endorsements from Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina,
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: et cetera, political leaders, elected leaders, because they're looking at
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: this huge field that is huge, filled with very talented people,
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: and they're sort of holding their fire for later on.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: I think that for Mayor Pete, the challenge is going
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: to be figuring out what his path is, right? Like
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: where is he gonna compete, how is he gonna compete,
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: and how can you maintain this momentum, right? Like generally
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: you wanna have your momentum late, right? Like we know
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: from how we worked for President Obama, we came in
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: the race in early 2007, huge gangbusters, huge first quarter fundraising,
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: and then it was a fucking slog until the month
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: before Iowa. We were down 30 points in the polls
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: to Hillary, and we hit our momentum, right? right in
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: Iowa at the very last minute there.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: That was right about when you guys sent me to
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: New Hampshire.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: It's true.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: I just want to also say, Dan, I want to
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: thank a New Hampshire that decided to make 26-year-old, very
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: sad gay speechwriter who's very tired hold out hope for
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: another six months.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Sorry, Dan.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: So the question for Mayor Pete is, like, this momentum
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: will go away, right? Momentum comes and goes, but organization
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: is what sustains. So will we be able to build
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: an organization that can get him through what will invariably
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: be ups and downs of a campaign in slow months
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: to when it actually matters is when people start voting.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Alyssa, what do you make of the Mayor Pete phenomenon?
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: So a couple things.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: You guys know that I have a very different perspective
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: than some other people. So I thought that, like, I
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: watched Mayor Pete's entire event today when I was on
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: my way here. And just kind of building up to it,
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: I think that the one thing he's done really well
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: is that I think that his campaign has, like, a
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: real aesthetic and, like, an ethos. Like, you know what
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Mayor Pete stands for. You get a sense. Like, you
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: go to his website. He has, like, the media toolkit. Like,
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: just some, like, very sort of granular... things that I
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: look out for and care about. But I think they've
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: done a really good job of like slowly building under
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: the radar to today. And so he had this like,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: I thought very good launch. He had, you know, I
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: would just caution anyone who's like announcing for president, just
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: like fewer people in your pre-program because it's kind of
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: a buzzkill.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: But but no, you know, I think that he.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Came out with like a really good like I feel
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: like I know a lot more about who he is
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: and what his campaign's about than I do some of
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: the other candidates.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: We said when he first announced an exploratory committee and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: he came up with that video when most people barely
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: knew who he was. You instantly were like, oh. generational change,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: there's his message, there's his story, it fits with his identity,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: it fits with his own personal story.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: He seems comfortable, too.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: Some people are preaching, you're like, okay, I get, you
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: think that's what we want to hear. But I feel
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: like that's really kind of, I think that he's being,
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: for lack of a better word, pretty authentic, and that
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: his campaign is really fueled by people who get what
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: he's about, win or lose. I feel like he's got
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: all the right people on board to help him.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: What did you guys think of the speech today?
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: I mean, I thought Mayor Pete's speech forged an emotional
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: connection with the listener. When he talked about his parents
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: needing health services and the fact that his husband, who
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: several years ago he would not have been able to marry,
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: could be there because of laws that were passed, it
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: made me understand who he is and his values and
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: why he cares about change on a deep emotional way.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: And you contrast that with some of the other speeches
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: we've seen. For example, Cory Booker's speech was also this weekend.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: And he is an incredibly passionate, intense, emotional person, but
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: that speech was less a story about himself and what
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: he'd done in Newark and the things he cares about
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: than a litany of policy areas. Mayor Pete's speech was
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: actually pretty policy-free in a strange way, but I connected
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: with that emotional story just because that's how humans work.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: We connect with stories. That's how we learn. That's how
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: we understand things. It's a good lesson for Anyone who
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: wants to run for any office, you have to make
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: your audience understand who you are and what you care
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: about because that makes you believe while you be for them. So,
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: you know, I get the Pete Boomlin.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: I really do.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Like most, I feel like most speeches... I mean, our platitudes, like,
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, let's just be honest. That's sort of what
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: the announcement speech is.
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: Take that, speech writers.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: How dare you? Okay, when it's artfully done.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Shame on you.
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: Well-written platitudes.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: We invite you to come with us. We love having
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: you around. We think of you as a dear friend.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: We get on the stage. You just might as well
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: just want to bury my career in the ground. What
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: about John's?
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Hey, platitudes make the world go round.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: You guys, at.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: The back of my car, I drive with platitudes on
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: my Ford Escape. I'm just saying that he did a
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: good job of punctuating the platitudes, as Barack Obama did.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: With personal stories.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Hey, Alyssa, what's the name of your book with a
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: bunch of emotional stories that made me feel and want
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: to know you better?
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, do you mean So Here's the Thing?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Well, I will say this. You're absolutely right about the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: story thing, right? Because the people who say, oh, I mean,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: so like, He didn't have a ton of policy. There
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: wasn't like a ton of substance, right? But yet it
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: was an emotional speech that forged a connection, right? So
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: all the people who say like, oh, you just got
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to have policy and substance. Of course you do. That's
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the basis of any campaign. The person who's leading with
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: the most policy in the campaign right now is Elizabeth Warren, right?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: But I will say this.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren's announcement speech, which she did in Lawrence, and
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: she told a story about a strike there. She told
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: a story about her own life. That was an excellent
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: announcement speech as well. Why was that an excellent announcement speech?
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Not because she rattled off all her policies in that speech.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: She did not.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: She again told a story about who she was and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: her rationale for running. And obviously Pete, at some point soon,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: is going to have to have some substance. I think
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: his speech, the ending of his speech was beautiful and
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: powerful and very good. I think the parts where he
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: talks about freedom, security, that's fine. Yeah, that's a rationale,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: but whatever, that'll be filled out with substance. But I
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: think the emotional parts of that speech, the parts that
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: really connected were the parts about his life and what
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: he's doing in the race and what's driving him to
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: run for president and want to serve.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: And I think that's really powerful.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I think that's right. I also think, in addition to
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: what Dan pointed out to you about organizing, I do
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: think a challenge for all of these candidates who are
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: all being very ambitious because they know where they're... They
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: know who they're trying to reach and where their heads
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: are at right now. Very ambitious in painting, telling a
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: story about a fundamental shift, right? That's not just away
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: from Trump, but there's been an embrace of very big
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: ideas and big policies and accepting the notion that America
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: needs big changes. That's partly how we ended up in
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: this mess and kind of facing and reckoning with big problems.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: And they're all struggling to put forward platforms that rise
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to that level. But I think even that's true for
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Cory Booker. That will be true for Mayor Pete, making
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: sure that when he does put forward policies, it reaches...
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: the heights of the kind of rhetoric and story he's
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: telling about America.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: That's true. That's necessary.
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: And we always say in Obama world that campaigning is
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: about telling a story. But the moment we're in, how
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: we get out of that moment and why the candidate
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: is the person uniquely suited to get us out of
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: that moment.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: And so you have to have a good story. But
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: I think what is important to Mayor Pete's rise is
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: that in this totally fucked up media environment where we're
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: supposed to talk about Ilhan Omar and everyone's tweets and
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: a thousand channels and a thousand options, Being able to
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: tell your story to people, like how do you get
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: it from your mouth into people's brains is a fundamental
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: part of a campaign. We have a lot of candidates
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: with great stories, but how do you make it that
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: people know who you are and know why you're running?
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: And Mayor Pete, to his great credit, has found a
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: way to break through in this environment, a way that
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: a lot of other candidates haven't. And that is important
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: to someone just in a primary of 1,000 people. to
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: rise to the top of that, but it is also,
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: in a nominee, when we all say in polls, we
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: want someone who can win, because obviously we don't want
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: someone who's gonna lose, because that'd be a waste of time.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: But part of it is, how do you tell your
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: story instead of just responding to Trump's story? That's what
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: we want in a nominee, who is not gonna be
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: wrapped around the Trump axle the whole time. And I
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: will say, The fact that the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana,
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: the fourth largest city in that state, is able to
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: rise to the point where people know who he is
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: and he gets a loud applause in this room in
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: New Hampshire, which happens to be an important state, is
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: a credit to the fact, never changed New Hampshire, is
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: a credit to his ability to not just have a
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: good story, but to be able to communicate it.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Dan, what is it? Why do you think.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: What is the thing that has allowed Pete Buttigieg to
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: break through? Because I don't know that you would see
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: it in a transcript, right? What exactly do you think
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: has managed to cut through? Because he's very mild-mannered, right? That's,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: I think, part of what makes it impressive. But what
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: do you think it is?
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: I think it is both a question of message and
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: a question of message delivery. And so on message, he
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: very clearly knows why he's running. It is very much
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: about generational change. which separates him from everyone else in
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: the field. Because most people who are running, not everyone,
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: but most people have a very similar reason for why
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: they're running. They think they'd be a better president than
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: Donald Trump, which is a good reason to be president.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: But we'd be better presidents than Donald Trump.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: It's true of 300 million Americans as well. But he
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: also has been unafraid to go everywhere. He has been
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: omnipresent in the media. And he understands that in this
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: disaggregated media age that you have to speak to everyone
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: all the time. So he does Positive America, which is
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: obviously a great thing to do, but he's doing Preet
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: Bihar's podcast, he's on.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: CNN, he's on the- He said yes to everything.
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: He says yes to everything. And what he understands is
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: that like a most more traditional old school politicians think,
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna say one thing and then it's gonna be
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: the media outlets job to take that my message and
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: communicate to voters. Pete understands that to get your message
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: out in this environment, you have to work harder and
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: longer and speak more often than in any other time
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: in American history.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: And he is doing that.
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: Now, the question for him will be, he's now done
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: all these interviews. What comes next? So he's going to
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: have to find ways that is more than just telling
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: the Pete Buttigieg story to get his message out. He's
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: going to have to find substance, different contrasts, battles with Trump,
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: battles with Democrats that allow that message to keep going
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: for another year now. But he has understood this media
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: environment better than anyone else running.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: And the oppo people are going to start coming his
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: way and attacking him as much as they've been attacking
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: some of the other frontrunners.
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: That is the other thing, is that up until this point,
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: I think the other candidates have treated Mayor Pete as
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: their non-threatening friend. Seems like a nice young man. We'd
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: love to have him in debates.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Do you mean the way you guys treat me?
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: I was just kidding.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I think you're very threatening. You terrify me, Alyssa. No,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: I don't love it. You scare me. You look beautiful.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: You scare me to my core. You're so thin.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about New Jersey's Cory Booker, who was also
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: a mayor of a city almost three times as large
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: as South Bend, went on to become a U.S. senator
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: with some notable accomplishments around criminal justice reform, and now
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: finds himself trailing candidates like Buttigieg in both polls and fundraising,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: and he's in the middle of the pack. What do
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: you think of his speech, first of all, Tommy, you
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: started talking about that, but what's his strategy to break
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: out of the pack here?
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I don't know yet. That's the problem, right?
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, I thought the speech wasn't as good as
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: Cory Booker is, especially on paper, because you compare Mayor
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: Pete to Cory Booker. Cory Booker is the mayor of
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: a much bigger city. Now he, with some success. He
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: has a great story to tell about Newark. He has
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: a great story to tell about his time as mayor.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: He has lived his values. He still lives in Newark
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: in a low-income neighborhood. He was elected to be a U.S.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Senator.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: And he's done some impressive things. And he is someone
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: who is brilliant. And, you know, I think he is
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: an undervalued stock. I think he has enormous potential to
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: break through because I think that a hopeful, optimistic message
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: about love and uplifting people has the chance to be
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: what people want to hear in.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: An era of Trump. But we just haven't gotten there yet.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: What did you think, Lovett?
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Like, you know, as you all know, I am for
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: every candidate during their announcement videos for at least 15
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: minutes thereafter until the glow fades. I am in in
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: their speeches. When I'm supposed to be emotional, I tend
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: to be. I thought what made me excited about Cory
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Booker is in his announcement video, he reminded me about
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: what makes Cory Booker interesting. And he does have a
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: language about love that sometimes is a bit extra, but
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: is him and is compelling. And what I was disappointed
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: What I'm disappointed with when I see Cory Booker speak
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: is when he gives a speech that other politicians could
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: give because he's not other politicians. And so I don't
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: need to hear a litany of Democratic positions that Hillary
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Clinton could take and would take because they're good policies.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Or another candidate might have on their roster, too, and
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: that will certainly be the Democratic platform no matter who's
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: the nominee. You say an interesting thing about the importance
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: of love and how radical it be and how central
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: it is to our politics. You talk about compassion for
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: even people we disagree with and making it a point
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: of difference with other candidates and talking about the importance
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: of compromise. I want to know what that means because
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I do think it's interesting and I do think it's important.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: What do you mean by bring people together in a
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: deeper fundamental way in which you recognize your opponents as human?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: What does that actually do? And what are we not
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: doing right? Because certainly you can't be saying that the
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: way we bring people together is just by winning, right?
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: We must be doing something wrong too. What is it?
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: And I think that if he can start telling that
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: deeper story, which I believe he's thought about.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Because he's staked the campaign on that rationale.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: And I think that is, to Tommy's point, what makes
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Cory Booker special and different. And I think.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: That's what I want to hear moving forward.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: I think the sports equivalent of Cory Booker's speech is
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: when you were down 20 points, you don't have to
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: get all 20 points back in the second quarter. That speech,
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: which had a lot of really good points.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Don't you need more than 20? What's that? Don't you
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: need more than 20? You don't need to make them
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: back right away because they'll be the third quarter and
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. You can get 7.7 points, 6 points
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: if you needed to. That's why we bring you on.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: The math.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: And you don't have to solve all your problems right now.
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: And I felt like he was trying to do a
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: lot in that speech. And in trying to do too
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: much in that speech, he lost the parts that are
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: the best about Cory Booker, which is his story in
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: Newark and where he wants to take the country.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he said towards the end of the speech,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I'm the only senator that goes home and lives in
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: a low-income community. And I was like, start with that.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: So one last thing to talk about.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: We've got the specific advice sometimes. We've got very tactical
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: in a way that I like and I'm finding it interesting.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: We're trying to be helpful.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: No, I'm into it.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Like you said, we're pulling that lever for all of them.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Any one of them that walks in there. One last
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: thing to talk about since we're here in New Hampshire.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: As I said before, the state will hold the first
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: in the nation primary.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Applause.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: But recently.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Be more bashful about it. He's like, you're bragging about
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: this thing. The rest of us notice. We like voting too.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Finished my sentence.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: But recently, us assholes in California decided to move our
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: primary up to March 3rd. And our early voting will
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: begin about a week before the New Hampshire primary.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: And it'll be 78 and sunny.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Dan. Dan.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: How does– I got a real laugh, love it.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: How does California moving up, Texas moving up, states like that,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: how does that affect New Hampshire and Iowa's and South
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Carolina and Nevada's influence on the primary process?
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: Here's a rule that you can take to the bank.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 44:08
  Speaker 7: In a world where you can take a lot of
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: rules to the bank. which is whatever the intention of
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: any Democratic Party primary reform is, we'll have the opposite effect.
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: So the goal was to reduce the influence of Iowa
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: and New Hampshire in particular, and so we'll move these
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: giant states that are too expensive and too big to
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: organize in, we'll move them to two days after, or
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: three days after the South Carolina primary, therefore making it
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: the four early states massively more important. Because you, in
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: a party, in a field of 19 people, you're important.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: We know it.
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: In a field of 19 people, there is no candidate.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Boo, we don't like being reminded that we're second. It
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: makes us feel bad.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, I just want to say I've always come
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: to New Hampshire, never Iowa, so.
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: What has this devolved into? Yeah, I know.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: We're like, New Hampshire, woo.
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: Point being is that no candidate is going to be
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: able to skip Iowa and New Hampshire to campaign in California.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:22
  Speaker 7: The nominee will almost certainly be someone who won either
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: Iowa and New Hampshire. Because you need the momentum of
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: winning one of those two states, if not both of them,
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: to get the name ID and the funding you need
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: to run real campaigns in a state as large as
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: California and Texas.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Tommy, states like New Hampshire and Iowa, where you lived
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: for years, Obama's press secretary, why you have all that
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Iowa love, do get criticism for their early status because
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: they're small, because they're not as representative as.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: The population as a whole. Why are these.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: early contests valuable and worth having um or maybe you
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: think they're not no i do.
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: So discuss dan's point is so funny he's also it's
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: like democrats like let's reduce the role of money in
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: politics by making the two most populous biggest states in
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: the country earlier in the process therefore increasing the need
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: to advertise in them and raise money but i digress
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: that was not your question um my year in iowa
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: which is obviously rose-colored glasses i look back on it
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: but was marked by hundreds and hundreds of hundreds of
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: town halls with incredibly well-informed, well-educated voters who threw fastballs
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: at Barack Obama all day every day and made him
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: a better candidate. The first time I heard about some
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: of the most onerous, problematic provisions in the Patriot Act
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: were in a backyard in Iowa, and I was like,
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: oh fuck, I hope he knows what that farmer is
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: asking about, and luckily he did because he was a
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: constitutional law professor.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: So I think.
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: I hope, I hope, I hope, truly, that we never
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: lose the part of the political process that is mom
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: and pop and some candidate driving around in a van
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: doing five stops in cafes and restaurants. Are you going
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: to announce? Which is why tonight I have to tell you. No,
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: it's like, so, look, I was 90% white.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: That is.
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: That is not representative of the country. It's not representative
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: of the Democratic Party. I think there are real representation
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: problems that the Democratic Party has sought to solve by
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: moving up Nevada and California. No, by moving up those states.
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: And South Carolina is a much larger African-American population. But
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: I do think that the way politics is practiced in
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: some of the early states, the way that voters in
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: the press have real access to these candidates to ask
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: them questions, is incredibly valuable. It makes them better candidates,
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: better presidents, and it's a good way to vet them.
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: We don't want campaigns that are run on television all
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: the time.
• 48:02
  Speaker 8: No.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: It sucks. It's just bad. Just Twitter.
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: All campaigns on Twitter.
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: RTs and faves.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll have Governor Jay Inslee.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: He is the governor of Washington State, and now he's
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Jay Inslee.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: I'm happy to be here and looking forward to getting
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: everybody to the Game of Thrones as soon as we can.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No spoilers. Don't yell anything.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: It is all about climate change, though, I have to say.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Dan did a longer interview with you as part of
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: our candidate series earlier today, so that will be out
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, but we'll do a little short interview now.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: I noticed that you were one of the first two
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: or three candidates to issue a statement in support of
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar over the weekend. What made you act so fast?
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: What was your thought process when you saw Donald Trump's tweet?
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Outrage, number one.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: And two, a consistent pattern of how I've responded to
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: his incredible hatred and divisiveness. I was the first governor.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: I was the first governor to say we should accept
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: Syrian refugees. This has been inhumane what Trump has done
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: to refugees. When he announced his Muslim ban, I went
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: right to the airport to try to reunite families, something
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: I believe very strongly. And this was an obvious attack
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: because he cannot stand, he just can't stand the thought
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: that we could have a woman of color wearing a
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: hijab in the United States Congress. I can stand that.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: We believe that diversity is a strength. And so that
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: was the right response when he exposed her personally to violence.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: And by the way, that was not just an attack
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: on her. It was an attack on every single Muslim
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: in America, including people in the service, in the armed
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: service of the United States. So it was the right
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: thing to do, and I'm glad others joined me.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: Gene?
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Do you think when he does stuff like that he
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: is intentionally inciting violence? Or do you think he's just
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: not thinking and being his oafish self and tweeting shit
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: like that?
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: You know, I'd never want to go into that dark.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: Space between his ears. It's probably smart.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: Listen, we know for a certainty that he has an
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: interest in just trying to stir up his base. I
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: think he has demonstrated a callous indifference to humanity in
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: so many different ways that I don't think it would
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: bother him if in fact it did result in violence.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: That's a really hard thing to say. It's a very
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: hard thing to say, but I believe that it is true.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: So it is our responsibility now to do everything possible
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: to restore democracy and justice, and that's why I intend
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: to make him a blip in history in 2020. That
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: is my intention.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: I saw you on Meet the Press this morning talking
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: about Trump's so-called threat to send asylum seekers to sanctuary cities.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: Obviously, Seattle is one, and you welcomed this.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: On the broader question of immigration reform, one of the
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: candidates running, Julian Castro, has put out a detailed immigration plan,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: and he has a proposal to decriminalize unauthorized border crossing
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: so that they'd be treated as a civil offense and
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: not a criminal offense. What do you think of that proposal?
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: You know, I haven't thought a lot about that, but
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: by the way, I just want to mention Trump has, quote,
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: threatened us by sending refugees. Go ahead and send them.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: That doesn't threaten us at all. We know refugees become
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: part of our community. I just want to say that. Look,
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: we need truly comprehensive immigration reform. We have 11 million people,
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: some of the hardest working people in my state, need
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: to have a path to citizenship, number one. Number two,
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: we have to stop Donald Trump from treating dreamers like
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: poker chips. These are some of the most ambitious people.
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: And I have been very successful getting them a way
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: to finance college education. I'm happy about that. We know
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: we have to increase the capacity we have fairly processed
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: asylum seekers. We know we have to do that. And
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: I think that could be the single most important thing
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: that we can do. You won't have to make the
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: changes that you just suggested, as long as people have
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: a fair day in court. Now, the other thing we
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: need to do is, a lot of these people are refugees,
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: not just asylum seekers. They are climate refugees. They're the
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: tip of the iceberg. So here you have Donald Trump,
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: who calls climate change a hoax, refusing to do anything
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: about the thing that is driving migration and will drive
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: millions of people as climate refugees in the future. It
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: is time to have a president who will make defeating
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: climate change the number one job in the United States,
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: and we have that with the results of those migrations.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: So obviously, as you just said, and a lot of Democratic,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: most of the Democratic candidates have said this, You want
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: to make sure we have a path to citizenship for
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: the 11 million or so undocumented immigrants who are here.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: You want to make sure that DREAMers can become citizens.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: What do you do about immigration enforcement? Would you go
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: back to the enforcement policies of the Obama years, or
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: do you think we need something different?
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: Well, I think that we need to be responsible on
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: a variety of measures. Number one, we have to be
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: human in how we treat humans and stop separating children
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: from their parents, number one. Number two, we have to
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: follow the law, which today allows asylum for legitimate purposes.
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: And those folks deserve, and we deserve, to have a
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: system that allows them in a timely fashion have their
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: cases adjudicated. That means a lot more hearing judges. By
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: the way, Trump says he wants to get rid of judges.
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: We need more judges to rein this guy in. I'm
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: glad we're 18-0 in our lawsuits against him right now,
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: by the way. That's a pretty good track record.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: So....
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: We need to have not the wall, which we know
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: is a vanity project. Can you imagine how many people
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: we could put to school and how much health care
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: we could do with all that money going to that wall?
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: And it's interesting to me because even the Republicans rejected
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: the wall, right? Even the Republicans rejected the wall. And
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: I'm hopeful that the courts are going to throw it out.
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: Maybe that'll be 19-0 or 18-0 right now.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: So we were just talking about how Democratic candidates stand
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: out in a crowded field. You're doing that by focusing
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: on climate change, you just mentioned, as the reason why
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: you're running for president. It is now one of the
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: top issues for Democratic voters, but it's still not being
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: covered or talked about at a level, I think, that's
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: commensurate with the challenge.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that you would agree.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Why do you think that is, and what are some
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: of the strategies you've pursued in Washington to keep this
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: issue at the top of the agenda?
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: How do you make people care about this?
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: Well, what makes people care about this is the disasters
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: they're seeing. I personally try to help make sure people
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: understand this. I was in Hamburg, Iowa the day before yesterday,
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: a town of about 1,100. It was founded in 1878
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: or 58, I can't remember which. Never had a flood.
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: Now it's been inundated by the flood of the Missouri
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: River and substantially destroyed. I was in Seminole Springs in California,
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: in the foothills of Los Angeles, where 100 people with
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: mobile homes, beautiful little community, devastated. And I went there
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: to bring attention to this issue. And I met a
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: woman named Marsha Moss that sticks out in my mind.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: She asked me to come see her home or what
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: was left of it. And I went up and looked
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: at it. It was just this pile of melted aluminum.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: But what she told me was interesting. She said, I
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: want to show you my entire net worth. I have
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: lost everything in life. because a lot of these people
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: are uninsured in their mobile homes. But I have this.
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: I have this driveway. I built this driveway by hand,
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: and she did this kind of intricate rock work that
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: she was very proud of. She said, I'm proud of this.
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: It's still something I have, number one. And number two,
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: I have a measure of hope, because you have come
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: here today as a governor, and you have said that
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: you're going to make defeating climate change so that these
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: forest fires don't devastate other cities, and that is hope
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: we need. And I'm running for President of the United States, fundamentally,
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: because I want to be able to look at my
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: grandchildren in the eye, and my last day on Earth,
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: and said, I did everything I could to save them
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: from the scourge of climate change. And I'm going to
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: make this job number one, if I'm given this honor,
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: because if it's not job number one, it won't get done.
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: And there is one candidate saying that, and that's me,
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: and I'm ready to defeat climate change as President of
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: the United States. So that's what I'm doing.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: What, in your opinion, is the most exciting, promising climate
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: policy that we're not talking enough about?
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: Well, I think the one I've learned two things. And look,
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: I've been at this for 20 years. I co-authored a
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: book on this in 2007. It was about it's called
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: Apollos Fire, Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy. By the way,
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: the movie rights are still available for anyone who's interested.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: Snap them up.
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: You know, I founded the U.S. Climate Alliance with Jerry
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: Brown and Governor Cuomo. We now have 23 states who
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: are in the Paris Agreement. We wanted to demonstrate to
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: the world that there is intelligent life in the United States.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: And we were able to do that, okay? So I
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: ran for Congress in 1992 saying that we should limit
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: carbon dioxide. So I've been at this for a long time.
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: I've learned two things. Number one, the most important renewable
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: fuel is perseverance. We just cannot give up in the
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: face of frustrations. Because this is our last chance. We
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: have kicked this can down the road for 30 years.
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: We have one more shot to save the planet. It's
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: the next presidency. And that's why we have to understand
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: this is a matter of urgent peril where we only
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: have one chance. We have to take it. The second
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: thing I've learned is that there are multiple ways to
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: skin this cat. And that's good news. So in my state,
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: we've built a $ 6 billion wind turbine industry because of
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: a renewable portfolio standard. In my state, we're going to
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: have 50,000 cars that are all electric here in the
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: next several months. In my state, we're spinning off businesses
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: that are clean fuel businesses. In my state, my house
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: passed my 100% clean electricity bill. We're going to have
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: 100% clean electricity with no fossil fuels in the decades
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: to come. And we're closing and we're closing we are
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: closing our only remaining coal plant and we are getting
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: ourselves off of coal-based electricity. But there is more to do.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: One of the things we have to do is we
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: have to end kaput, end the gravy train of $ 27
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: billion of tax breaks going to the fossil fuel industry.
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: We need to end that right now. We need to
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: stop allow the pillaging of our public lands and stop
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: these leases of giveaways of fossil fuel off of our
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: public lands. Now, we need a new president to make
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: sure that that happens.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Obviously, so the promise of the Green New Deal is twofold, right?
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: One is we do everything we need to do to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: tackle climate change. The other is we do so in
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: a way that ensures not only economic opportunity but economic
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: justice for underserved communities. And that's everything from a job
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: guarantee to healthcare to making sure that underserved communities, communities
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: of color don't bear the brunt of the transition. Do
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: you think that second part is absolutely necessary? Or do
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: you think that we can focus on the climate challenge
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: and then it would be nice if we can focus
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: on this too on the economic side or how do
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: you see this?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: I think there's two fundamental parts of the American character
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: that need to be imbued in this national mission and
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: it is a national mission. Number one, we have to
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: make sure we have not just a transition but we
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: need a just transition. We know we have to transition
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: off of a carbon fuel based economy to one that
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: is based on clean energy and in that period we
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: have to have justice and can have justice to use
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: this system of reducing income inequality, of riding along of
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: the ancient wrongs we had in our society, in taking
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: care of the marginalized communities. It's usually people in poverty
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: and communities of color who are the first victims of
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: climate change. And so we need to target them for
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: relief and protection in our infrastructure in a variety of ways.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: We've got to help them like I'm doing in my
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: 100% Clean Bill. We're giving protection for low-income people to
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: help them with their utility bills, for instance. We have
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: another bill called the HEAL Act, which will map the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: state to find out where these communities of poverty are
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: being injured by climate change. But we also have to
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: think about justice in another regard. We cannot forget the people...
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: who have worked their lives in industries that are going
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: to go through transition. And we have to take care
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: of their needs and their aspirations. These are great people.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: They've worked hard all their life. They've built the American economy.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: And we can't forget them. So let me give you
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: an example. We're closing our last coal-fired plant. But we
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: just didn't shut it off and tell all those workers
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: to go fish. We created a $ 55 million fund to
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: make sure that those people who might not be able
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: to continue their careers to get into another career and
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: get the training that's necessary. And a plan to help
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: small businesses to grow and a plan to help the
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: local communities in their infrastructure. We should put justice into
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: this transition. I'm committed to that. Now the second thing
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: I think we need is optimism and confidence. And I'm
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: an optimistic person. I believe we can do this. We innovate,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: we create, we build. Today, clean energy jobs are growing
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: twice as fast as the average in the rest of
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: the economy. The number one fast-growing jobs is in solar installer.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: The number two is wind turbine technician. Donald Trump is wrong.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: Wind turbines do not cause cancer. They cause jobs, okay?
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: They cause jobs. That's what they cause. So we need
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: to have... We need to look at this as an
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: enormous economic opportunity. And this is how we win. Look,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: I was Democratic chair of the Democratic governors this year.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: We flipped seven seats from red to blue. We won.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: We won. By the way, that was right in the heartland. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: We flipped these seats because we took a message to
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: people of economic hope associated in large part by clean
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: energy jobs. This is how we win. We know how
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: to win, and I'm confident in our ability to do so.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: One last question.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: You recently said that Washington state has America's best marijuana.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: Is that something that you hear? How can you prove that?
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: Well, it was... I.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: Can tell you it was.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: Reasonably good on two occasions in the 1970s.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: Perfect. That's all I was looking for.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: But before we go, I want to say something. My
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: candidacy is not just about climate change. It's about a
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: progressive template for progressive values in the United States. Under
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: my governorship, we've done the best paid family leave in America,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: the best minimum wage, the first net neutrality bill in
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: the United States to guard our freedom of the internet,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: the best gender pay equity. We're radicals in Washington. We
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: think women should get paid the same as men. The
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: best reproductive parity act. And you know what? This year
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: I got a 12% increase for educators in my state,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: and I'm very proud of this.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: Very good.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: So we've done some good things.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: We want to take that to the nation.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: Excellent.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: Governor Inslee, thank you so much. You want to stick
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: around for a little game?
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you bet.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: I'm game. You bet.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: New Hampshire. Live free or die in a car accident
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: because it's the only state where you aren't required to
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: wear a seatbelt. Live free or go back to Massachusetts.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: Live free and ski on basically ice. Yikes. It melts,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: it freezes, it melts, it freezes. What do you think
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: is happening? And shore. New Hampshire might seem like the
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: South snuck up into the woods and decided to cosplay
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: as liberals. But you're also hiding a secret. New Hampshire's
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: a fantastic place to vote. The voter turnout in New
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: Hampshire was in the top five for the 2016 election
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: with nearly 70% of eligible voters casting ballots, a big
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: reason New Hampshire traditionally has made it easy for grounded
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: staters to register and cast a ballot. But don't worry.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: Last year, Republicans passed a lot of change, all that.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: The New Hampshire-tonians, I believe is the word, will need
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: to pay to get a New Hampshire driver's license and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: register their car in the state. If a student can't
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: afford that, they can't afford to vote. So let's talk
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: about New Hampshire's proud tradition of voting and the Republicans'
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: plans to screw it up. In a game we're calling
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: Vote Free or Die, Like how the old man of
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: the mountain killed himself when he found out Trump would
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: be president. Would someone out there like to play the game?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: Hi, what's your name? Corey. What was it? Corey.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: Courtney?
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: C-O-R-E-Y.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: Corey?
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: I'm a teacher. You're a teacher. What do you teach?
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: English.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: English? Uh-huh. And are you from New Hampshire?
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: No. Okay.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: But every time, like clockwork, the second someone says they're
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: not from here in a game, you turn into a
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: Trump rally.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: You guys have your cards, you're ready to play. Governor,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for enduring this entire thing I
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: just did. Question number one. New Hampshire Republicans claim the
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: new residency requirement is designed to prevent voter fraud, but
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: voter fraud is already a crime and already extremely rare.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: Why might Republicans actually want to keep college students from
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: the polls?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: Is it A?
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to do literally any human activity
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: in a college town? Just a bunch of fully grown
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: adults in hoodies and flannel pajamas with no voice modulation
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: who think they're tired because they're hungover and have never
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: actually been tired their whole goddamn lives.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: Or is it B?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: Young people prefer Democrats. In 2016, 18 to 29-year-old voters
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 5: in New Hampshire made up over 20% of the electorate,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: and they preferred Clinton over Trump by an eight-point margin.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: Clinton won the state by just 0.3%, roughly 3,000 votes.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: Or is it C?
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: Republicans were mostly interested in keeping out the jocks from
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: Kappa Sigma after Spanky and Moose pants Governor Sununu.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: Or is it D?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 6: One Republican legislator was quoted saying, these very handsome athletes
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 6: with their perfect toned arms... have no business making me,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 6: I mean my wife, uncomfortable.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: Or is it E?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 7: If college kids wanted to vote, they should have thought
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 7: of that before turning 18 while America was sliding into
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 7: a kind of post-empire, semi-literate, authoritarian decline.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: What do you think, Corey? B. It's B, you got it.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Your own Bill O'Brien said to a tea party gathering
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: in 2011, this is what he said when he was
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: New Hampshire Speaker of the House, the kids are coming
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: out of the schools and basically doing what I did
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, which is voting liberal. That's
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: what kids do. God bless them. Question two. In 2012,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: Republicans passed the first voter ID law in New Hampshire.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: If voters didn't have an approved form of photo ID,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: they could sign an affidavit or have an election official
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: verify their identity, which doubled wait times at polling places.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: But the law wasn't suppressy enough, so Republicans had another
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: go in 2015. Just in time for the 2016 election,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: New Hampshire voters without an approved form of photo ID
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: can only cast a ballot if you let a poll
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: worker do what? Is it A?
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Tell you why Game of Thrones is totally overrated, which
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: is so annoying it's anti-American.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Is it B?
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  Speaker 5: Spend one night with their wife. Voting rights organizations were
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: quick to denounce this policy, calling it truly an indecent proposal.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: So it's like a weird 90s movie thing, or is
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: it C?
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  Speaker 4: Take your picture. Voting rights groups call the law an
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: attempt to intimidate voters, and over 100 new New Hampshire
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 4: election officials criticize this bizarre rule.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Or is it D?
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 6: Give you a Biden-style shoulder rub. And then film a
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 6: three-minute non-apology about it.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, could be that. Or is it E?
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 7: Use your HBO Now login, even though he just said
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 7: he hates Game of Thrones, because it turns out he
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 7: actually wants to watch old episodes of Hung.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: Weird reason. What do you think?
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: I hope it's C.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: You got it. Last question. In spite of all this,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: New Hampshire's 70% turnout in 2016 is above the national average, 56%.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: But why should people from New Hampshire... feel bad anyway?
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: Is it A?
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  Speaker 3: Granite State? You're named after countertops.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: Or is it B?
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  Speaker 5: Here's a reason to feel bad. New Hampshire doesn't have
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 5: a signature food. Visit basically any other state and people
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: will be like, you gotta try the gumbo. Or we
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: put crackers on our spaghetti here.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: We're fucking insane.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 5: But New Hampshire has what?
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: Lobster?
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 5: Sorry, that belongs to Maine. Clam chowder. Well, you also
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 5: have Susan Collins, so careful.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: Clam chowder.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: You really stuck it to those Mainers out there. Wow.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: Look at you, huh? Wipe that smile off your goddamn faces.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: Wait, clam chowder? Nope, that's Massachusetts. So what's left? We
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: saw a Chipotle on the way in. Does that work?
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: No signature food. Oh, you know what? You said 15
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: foods and none of them are famous. Or is it C?
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: You try sharing a 250-mile border with a bunch of
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 4: Subaru-driving granola munchers. Yeah. Granola munchers over there in the
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: Soviet Republic of Vermont.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: We need.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: We need a wall. And Vermont is going to pay
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 4: for it.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: Or is it D?
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: Pretty lucky that primary is late, huh, Governor?
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 6: Plenty of countries do better than 70% turnout, including Hungary, Finland,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 6: New Zealand, Israel, Dorne, the Iron Islands, most of Westeros,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 6: South Korea, Australia, and Belgium because they have laws that
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: encourage voting instead of trying to make it harder.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: Or is it E?
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 7: One reason and one reason only. Massachusetts has the Kennedys.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 7: You have this in your news.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: What are you booing exactly? Think about what you're booing.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: Think about what you're booing. Face what you're booing. There's
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: a question in there with an obvious answer. Did you
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: figure it out?
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: Travis told me it was D.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: You got it, Corey. You bought a parachute gift card.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: And a Butcher Box gift card. Get some sheets, get
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: some meat. Thank you, Corey. Thank you, Governor, for playing
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: our game and for being here. That was so fun.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We try, you know. We try.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Governor Inslee. Thank you, Congress, for coming.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Alyssa Mastromonaco.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: Thank you.