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Knicks Fans Brand Elmo a Traitor _ Trump Storms Out of _Meet the Press_ Interview _ The Daily Show · Mic Drop Comedy

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome to The Daily Show. My name is Jon Stewart.
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: We've got a phenomenal show for you tonight. Later on,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: we're going to be joined by the legendary Jane Fonda.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: She's here.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to be promoting her upcoming UFC fight at
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: the White House.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: On some guy's birthday. But first, tonight is Game 3, baby!
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: New York Knicks! The excitement in New York is palpable.
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: The New York Knicks are now two wins away from
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: doing something they have not done since Richard Nixon was
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  Speaker 3: in office.
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  Speaker 2: Was that necessary? The Nixon reference? Oh, the last time
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks won, the flu was treated with leeches.
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  Speaker 4: No! No!
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  Speaker 1: I know it's been a long time. Look at me!
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  Speaker 1: But we're all excited here. Everyone in New York is
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: rooting for the Knicks. Well, almost everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Abuse that's piling up online for Elmo.
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  Speaker 1: After he tried to be neutral about.
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  Speaker 3: The NBA Finals, a Sesame Street star posted, Elmo hopes
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  Speaker 3: both teams have fun.
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  Speaker 1: You f * * * ing kidding me, Elmo?
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  Speaker 2: Today, Sesame Street is brought to you by the letter
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  Speaker 2: B for, you're a bitch. Surely, Elmo's fellow New Yorkers
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  Speaker 2: responded to his wavering with our trademark grace and understanding.
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  Speaker 3: New Yorkers didn't like that. They unleashed some fury on him,
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  Speaker 3: blasting Elmo as a traitor, telling.
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  Speaker 1: Him to pick a side.
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  Speaker 3: The city's transportation department even threatened, don't make us take
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  Speaker 3: this down, bro.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Happy, Elmo?
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna make the New York Department of Transportation leap
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  Speaker 2: into action and take that sign down 10 to 12
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  Speaker 2: years from now. But to get his side of the story, well,
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: let's welcome the.
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  Speaker 1: Muppet at the center of all this. Elmo, everybody, Elmo.
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  Speaker 5: Yay!
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  Speaker 3: Yay!
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  Speaker 1: Hi, everyone. Hey, John, are you still mad at Elmo? Elmo,
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  Speaker 1: you're a New Yorker. I'm just, I'm a little surprised
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  Speaker 1: you're not all in on the Knicks.
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  Speaker 5: Elmo can't help it. Elmo loves the Knicks and... Elmo
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  Speaker 5: loves the spurs.
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  Speaker 1: Elmo wants both.
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  Speaker 5: Teams to have fun, try their hardest, and Elmo just
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  Speaker 5: wants them both to hit the over.
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  Speaker 2: Yay!
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, did you just say hit the over? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, kids! The over!
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  Speaker 4: That's why the number of the day is plus 216.5!
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  Speaker 6: Yay!
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  Speaker 4: Of course, the number seems heavy, given that it's been
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  Speaker 4: a defensive series thus far.
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  Speaker 5: Yay!
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  Speaker 1: Elmo, do you gamble?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: This isn't a gamble. This is a lock.
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  Speaker 5: And Elmo needs it to come in because Elmo has
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  Speaker 5: been getting crushed by the unpredictable high school baseball scores.
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  Speaker 2: Yay!
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  Speaker 1: You can bet high school baseball on these apps? Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: Elmo banned from the apps. That's why Elmo bets with
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  Speaker 5: Big Ricky.
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  Speaker 1: He lives in a.
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  Speaker 6: Part of Sesame Street Elmo had never been to before!
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  Speaker 1: Yay! Elmo, I... This is stunning to me. This is shocking.
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  Speaker 1: You need help.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Elmo do need help, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: John. Elmo especially need.
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  Speaker 4: Help from Josh Hart.
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  Speaker 6: Because Josh Hart averaged 12 points during the regular season
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  Speaker 6: on 51% shooting from the field, but less than two
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  Speaker 6: points in the finals, ruining Elmo's play line!
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  Speaker 1: How much money did you lose, Elmo?
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  Speaker 4: Elmo can't count that high.
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  Speaker 1: But Big Ricky can.
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  Speaker 5: That's why Big Ricky had no choice but to break
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  Speaker 5: Elmo's legs.
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  Speaker 2: Look, look. He broke my legs.
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  Speaker 1: He broke.
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  Speaker 5: I can't use my legs anymore because.
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  Speaker 1: Of Big Ricky.
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  Speaker 4: Whee!
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  Speaker 2: Elmo, you've got to turn this around. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: get help. You're on a bad path.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: John. Elmo just on an unlucky streak. Elmo, turn this around.
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  Speaker 6: Elmo just need a sure thing, like a prop bet
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  Speaker 6: that can't go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh, is Mr.
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  Speaker 4: John going to the game tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, Elmo, I will be there tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: That's what Polly Market think, too. And now that everyone
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  Speaker 4: think Mr.
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  Speaker 5: John going to game, Elmo make big prep bet, and
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  Speaker 5: you miss game.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: John?
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  Speaker 1: Help Elmo out of Big Jam! Yay! Thank you, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: John!
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Elmo. No f * * * ing way.
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  Speaker 1: No way. I'm taking my son. We're going to the game.
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  Speaker 1: We wouldn't miss this for anything in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, please. Please, Mr. John. Elmo can't go back
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  Speaker 1: to the streets. No. Oh, Mr. John. You can't make it.
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  Speaker 4: Elmo will do.
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  Speaker 1: Elmo will do anything, Mr. John. Anything.
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  Speaker 5: Anything, anything, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Joe. Please, please, I can make, I can make you
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  Speaker 1: so happy. Elmo, Jesus, what are you doing? You're embarrassing yourself. Oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're not better than Elmo. Elmo will remember this. Elmo
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  Speaker 1: will haunt your f * * * ing dreams. F
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  Speaker 1: * * * you, Stuart. F * * * you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Elmo, everybody. Elmo.
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  Speaker 2: But seriously, because Elmo's not going to beat the game,
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  Speaker 2: but it is a hot ticket. So much so, even
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: the President of the United States has Nick's fever.
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  Speaker 1: He's dyed his face Nick's orange, and.
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  Speaker 1: And the back of his hands mix, let's say, purple.
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  Speaker 2: The president's going to be attending the game this evening,
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  Speaker 2: and New Yorkers couldn't be happier.
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  Speaker 4: I swear to God, this is New York.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody put up with Trump, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'm not gonna ask for Trump. We're gonna boo
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  Speaker 1: the out of you, bro.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in New York, no matter what your race, color,
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  Speaker 2: or creed, well, we all sound just a little Italian. Still,
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  Speaker 2: as a New Yorker and a Knicks fan, like the
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  Speaker 2: rest of us, he's probably been in a great mood
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  Speaker 2: this weekend because of the series.
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  Speaker 1: And he's looking forward to the game. At least the
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  Speaker 1: press is crooked.
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  Speaker 2: And so is ABC and CBS and CNN.
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  Speaker 1: Your one-sided crooked network. Let's call it quits because I've
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  Speaker 1: had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time. Holy sh...
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  Speaker 1: Storming out because he didn't like the question?
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  Speaker 4: Now....
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  Speaker 2: You could view this as the hissy fit of an
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  Speaker 2: incredibly fragile man baby whose paper-thin skin can't handle venturing
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  Speaker 2: out of the sycophantic embrace of his tongue-bathing acolytes.
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  Speaker 1: Or actually, I don't know how else you could view it.
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  Speaker 1: It really is just that. It's sad. It's very sad.
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  Speaker 2: It's sad because the interview with Kristen Welker of Meet
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  Speaker 2: the Press began as more of a rom-com meet-cute.
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  Speaker 7: As we're having this conversation, we can hear a little
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  Speaker 7: bit of rain.
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  Speaker 1: No, a lot of rain. A lot of rain. Is
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  Speaker 1: that wind or what?
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  Speaker 2: Nice rain. If you like pina colada of getting caught
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  Speaker 2: The rain is sweet, as long as it's not accompanied
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  Speaker 2: by scary sky booms.
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  Speaker 1: Hear that sound? That sound of thunder, lightning? People will understand.
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  Speaker 1: We're in a farm.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, you city slickers with your lack of rain and
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  Speaker 2: trans weather, whatever you have up there. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: when did Trump go to his stylist and go, hey,
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  Speaker 2: give me the Hugh Grant Oompa Loompa?
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  Speaker 1: But Trump was having a lovely time.
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  Speaker 2: So how did it go from, look at us, having
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful conversation in the rain, to you and the
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  Speaker 2: network you wrote in on? Because the interview began like
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  Speaker 2: so many other ones for Trump. Reasonable question, ridiculous answer.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 7: Is this a war as long as there's a naval
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  Speaker 7: blockade in place?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have a blockade. It's been extremely effective. And
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  Speaker 1: you'll see things like you've never seen. The oil will
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  Speaker 1: go down.
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  Speaker 2: The stock market already, as you know, is at an
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  Speaker 2: all-time high.
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  Speaker 1: I don't consider that a war, but if you want
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  Speaker 1: to define it as such, I guess you can. Well,
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  Speaker 1: how do you define it? I don't define it at all.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think about it. I just do what I
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  Speaker 1: have to do. Sure, why not?
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was William Tecumseh Sherman who said, War
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  Speaker 2: is hell, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really think about it.
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  Speaker 2: But then we get to a moment when the heartland,
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  Speaker 2: rain-swept rom-com becomes a man trapped in a barn with
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  Speaker 2: his worst nightmare, a woman who won't stop asking pertinent questions.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: President, one of your consistent campaign promises was no new wars.
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  Speaker 7: What changed? Because you insisted no new wars.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't guarantee no war.
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  Speaker 2: Bullshit!
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  Speaker 1: Listen... All of us who lived through.
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  Speaker 2: His campaign know that he made that kind of a centerpiece.
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  Speaker 1: He said this. Under Trump, we will have no more wars.
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  Speaker 1: And he also said this. I'm not going to start
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  Speaker 1: a war. I'm going to stop wars. Of course, he
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  Speaker 1: also said this. I'll keep you out of wars. So
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  Speaker 1: no wars again? We won't have wars again.
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  Speaker 2: But this reporter on this day had the temerity to
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  Speaker 2: mention to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: That, well, actually, he did say that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But you said it over and over again. Oh, shit.
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  Speaker 2: She just lit the fuse on the bullshit bomb.
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  Speaker 3: In the midst of the greatest stock market in history,
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  Speaker 3: in the midst of the most successful country.
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  Speaker 1: Ten, nine, eight. A couple of years ago, we were
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  Speaker 1: a dead country. Now we have the hottest country anywhere
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Seven, six, five.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I gave farmers last term $ 28 billion because
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  Speaker 2: China took advantage and other people.
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  Speaker 1: And you know who paid for it? China. Four, three, two.
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  Speaker 3: I built a thousand miles of wall on our southern border.
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  Speaker 1: The election was rigged. It was a dirty election. Boom!
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  Speaker 1: It was a dirty, rigged election. He went to it, folks.
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  Speaker 1: He went to it.
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  Speaker 2: The fail safe in case of journalism break glass. The
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  Speaker 2: EpiPen in case you've been stung by reality. But finally,
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  Speaker 2: in this instance, when he went to the rigged election, oh,
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  Speaker 2: sweet Jesus, finally. his universal get-out-of-interview card didn't work.
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  Speaker 7: You've never presented evidence that the 2020 election was rigged.
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  Speaker 1: It's happening right now in California. Right now, look at
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in California. Where's the evidence to that? Where's
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  Speaker 1: the evidence? Trump's fail safe failed too safe. And now
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  Speaker 1: he's left with but two options.
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  Speaker 2: One, to reckon with the fact that his claims of
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  Speaker 2: a 2020 stolen election have never survived even the slightest
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  Speaker 2: of legal scrutiny. And that despite having six years and
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  Speaker 2: his own Justice Department at his beck and call, he
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  Speaker 2: has never presented a shred of credible evidence or even
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  Speaker 2: a theory of a credible case as to how this
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  Speaker 2: 2020 election was rigged.
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  Speaker 1: Or he could do his second option. Smoke bomb! Let's
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  Speaker 1: call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling.
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  Speaker 4: Have a good time. Why?
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Now, we all know Trump's not actually going to leave
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  Speaker 2: the building.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's raining.
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  Speaker 4: Out.
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  Speaker 2: And as you know, moisture is the natural enemy of
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  Speaker 2: the North American comb-over. But this is where Kristen Welker
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  Speaker 2: nearly undoes all of the good work she did with
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  Speaker 2: one of the worst pleas in the history of journalism.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: President, let's please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: You can't leave, sir. I was in business class. Business.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: President, please, Wisconsin, Wheel of Fortune is on an hour
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: earlier here. These people are savages. Their Chinese restaurants only
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: serve Szechuan. No Cantonese to be found.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: We'll all die of consumption. But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe finally this moment will give journalists permission to not
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  Speaker 2: back down, to not just leave it there and move on,
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  Speaker 2: and to finally be honest about Trump's inability to be
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  Speaker 2: challenged in the moment.
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  Speaker 7: I spoke with President Trump on Saturday, and we both
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  Speaker 7: acknowledged the complications during the interview posed by the rain.
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  Speaker 1: You were inside! There was no challenge in the rain?
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  Speaker 4: F * * * that!
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  Speaker 1: No!
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump was not thrown off by the ambient noise
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  Speaker 2: during the interview.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, ambient farm rain is the least disruptive noise environment.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: He conducts interviews and these are real clips of his
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  Speaker 2: interviews that we have not edited the audio on at all.
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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President, what are you doing over there?
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  Speaker 1: Taking a little walk. We're having a big day.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see how it all turns out.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we made up the last one, but still,
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  Speaker 2: the other ones are.
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  Speaker 1: Real. The point is, he wasn't aggravated by the rain.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump didn't storm out because of the rain. He
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: stormed out.
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  Speaker 2: Because he was challenged, not because he was distracted. So
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's time we stop making excuses for that man
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  Speaker 2: in order to preserve access to his constant bullshit.
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  Speaker 7: He agreed to sit down with me for another Meet
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  Speaker 7: the Press interview.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: And what are the odds that the result of that
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  Speaker 2: interview will be any different.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh. What are the odds that that happens?
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  Speaker 2: No, Elmo, no! Don't!
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Don't do it!
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Come on!
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Come on, Mr.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: John!
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  Speaker 1: Make the bet!
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Float Elmo the money, Mr.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: John!
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Elmo, good for it! Once you go red, John!
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Ah! Ah! Ah!