WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 14 November 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.080 This is the US Report. 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.600 Good evening and welcome to the program. I'm Caroline Marcus 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:14.320 coming up tonight. The longest government shut down finally comes 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.600 to an end, But at what cost? The White House 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.400 fires Backer calls for the Epstein files to be released. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.520 Plus Kamala Harris claims she outsmarted Trump in last year's election. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.080 Yes, she's still that deluded. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.239 That's all next, But first, the BBC has taken the 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:39.440 extraordinary but correct step of apologizing to US President Donald 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.720 Trump for doctoring his January sixth speech to make it 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:48.360 look like he was directly inciting violence among his supporters. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:53.440 The corporation admitted the edit had given the mistaken impression 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.920 that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action, 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.760 and vowed not to show the program again. But the 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:08.320 British broadcaster has rejected the President's demands for financial compensation, 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.040 leaving it open still to the mother. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:13.360 Of all lawsuits. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.920 It said, while the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:22.120 which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.399 is a basis for a defamation claim. Trump had threatened 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.039 to sue the BBC for one billion US dollars. That's 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.920 one and a half Australian unless the corporation issued a retraction, 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:40.160 apologized and compensated him. Here's what the BBC Panorama program 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.080 showed and what Trump actually said. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.160 We're going to walk down to the capital and I'll 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:47.720 be there. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.600 With you, and we fight. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:51.440 We fight like hell. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.680 We're going to walk down to the Capitol. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.360 And we're going to cheer on. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.120 Senators and congressmen and women. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.200 It truly is indefensible and it's little wonder that two 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:12.239 BBC executives had no choice but to resign over that fiasco. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.240 The President is vowing to pursue damages in the eight 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:22.480 figures unless the broadcaster fully retracts the false, defamatory, disparaging 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:27.600 and inflammatory statements and and this is the kicker appropriately 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.920 compensates the president. Now, the claim has been filed in 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:36.320 a Florida court with the deadline of Saturday morning Australian time. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.560 Trump has claimed on social media the report interfered in 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.600 the US election, having aired only a week before voting. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.720 But as my colleague Chris Kenny has exposed, the BBC 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.120 is far from the only fake news channel to borrow 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.320 a Trump ism when it comes to this subject. Our 0:02:55.480 --> 0:03:01.720 own public broadcaster, the ABC also misrepresented that January sixth speech. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.760 This is how the Four Corners program cut and paced 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.440 Trump's words back in twenty twenty one, which had I'd 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:14.080 argue the similar effect of implying he had directly inside 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.720 of the riots. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.000 After this, We're going to walk down, and I'll be 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:24.760 there with you, because you'll never take back our country 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.520 with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:28.320 to be strong. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:34.600 Both public broadcasters, paid for with taxpayer dollars had selectively 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.600 omitted the part of the speech where Trump had told 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.760 the crowd to cheer on their brave senators and congressmen 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:42.240 and women. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:43.560 But unlike the. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.440 BBC, which has at least taken some accountability with that 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:52.880 apology and the exits of two senior staff, ABC managing 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.160 director Hugh Marx has stood by his network's report, denying 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:02.000 the program misrepresented Trump's comments, saying he was proud of 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:07.040 its journalism. Former ABC journalist turned Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.320 called for a Senate inquiry into this and other examples 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.560 of the ABC's impartial and inaccurate reporting. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:19.120 I remind everyone that the ABC has a statutory obligation 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:24.360 to report news and information. Impartially and accurately. There have 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.880 been too many times when it has breached that obligation, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.440 and I think it's got so serious, Chris, that we 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.080 need a Senate inquiry into these really serious incidents. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.640 But the left media were added again later this week, 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:42.440 again exposed for misrepresenting Trump, this time in relation to 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:47.920 pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. At White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.080 blasted them for so faithfully lapping up what she called 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.800 the Epstein hoax. Now this all relates to a tranche 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.080 of emails selectively released bi Democrats in recent days. It 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:05.279 purporting to show Trump spent hours with an underage Epstein victim. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.599 The email from Epstein to accomplish Gislaine Maxwell mentions Trump 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.800 by name, but the Democrats redacted the name of the 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:18.080 victim when it released the documents. The email reads, I 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.239 want you to realize that the dog that hasn't barked 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.039 is Trump. Victims spent hours at my house with him. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.080 He has never once been mentioned. Now you can imagine 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:33.039 how some of those journalists must have been salivating over 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.960 the idea of such incriminating dirt on Trump. But the 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:43.080 redacted name was vitally important. Because the victim being referred 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:48.440 to here was Virginia Jeffree, the Australian Epstein accuser who 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:52.800 committed suicide this year. Now why that's important is that 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:57.000 Jeffree repeatedly has said Trump was not involved in any 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.920 wrongdoing and in fact, he couldn't have been. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:00.960 I said to her. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.240 In this email you refer to with the name of 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.480 a victim that was unredacted now and has since been 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.119 reported on in this room. So I will go ahead 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.960 and say it Virginia Guffrey. And it was CBS's own 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.160 reporting WIJA that recently wrote that missus Guffrey maintained and 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.159 God rest her soul, that she maintained that there was 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.599 nothing inappropriate. She ever witnessed that President Trump was always 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.880 extremely professional and friendly to her. And so I think 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.640 it's a question worth asking the Democrat Party, and you 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.240 should all go ask them after this briefing of why 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.719 they chose to redact that name. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:38.359 Levitt even reminded lists how Trump had actually kicked Epstein 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.600 out from his Mara Laga resort for being well a creep, 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.600 including to Jeffree, who Trump had given a job there. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.920 But just like the Russia hoax, the temptation to smeared 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:56.080 Trump as some Epstein style child sex offender proved all 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:01.480 too irresistible for much of mainstream media, and aimfully Australia's 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:07.120 own ABC was again among the culprits. It's America's editor 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:12.560 John Lyons failing to disclose the victim here was Jeffree, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.920 even though that had already been made public by the 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.040 time he filed his report. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.800 He mentions the name of a particular victim and says 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.800 that she spent hours at my house with him with 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.200 Donald Trump. Now that's quite dramatic. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.160 Yes, this is the same reporter who prompted a royal 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.000 bollocking from Trump when he recently suggested the. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.800 President was involved in financial corruption. 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.160 That a president in offers should be engaged in so 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:48.480 much fitter's activity. 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:49.280 Well, I'm really not. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:50.760 My kids are running the business. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:51.480 Where are you from. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.800 I'm from the Australian Broadcasting. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.680 Rape and fullthorn and provoke the Australia's You're hurting Australia. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.960 In my opinion, you are hurting Australia very much. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.920 Thanks right now, never mind a Senate inquiry, the ABC 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.280 should be watching this potential billion dollar BBC lawsuit. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.000 Very carefully. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.680 Joining me now is The New York Post's editor at large, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.000 Kelly Jane Torrence. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.920 Kelly, thanks so much for joining me. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:24.080 The US House of Representatives has finally passed a vote 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.920 to end the longest government shut down in America's history. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.160 Now, this vote allows. 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.960 A short term bill to reopen the government after a 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.080 record forty three days. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.000 Take a look as the. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.240 President blasted the Democrats as he signed off on the bill. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.480 They deprived more than one million government workers from their 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:48.240 paychecks and cut off foodstamp benefits for millions and millions 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:52.079 more Americans in need. They caused tens of thousands of 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.200 federal contractors and small businesses to go unpaid, and the 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:00.680 total effect of the damage her antics cause will take 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.600 weeks and probably months to really calculate accurately. I just 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.199 want to tell the American people you should not forget 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.640 this when we come up to midterms and other things. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.520 Don't forget what they've done to our country. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.440 Kelly. It's finally over. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:20.520 But what happens now, Well a great question, Caroline, and 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.240 everybody here seems to be saying our long national nightmare 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.760 is over. But I think your average American it wasn't 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.520 as obsessed with this drama as everybody in New York, 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.480 where I am, of course in Washington, d C. Where 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.079 it is going to take some time to get back 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:42.240 to normal, the pre shutdown normal obviously with the flights 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.520 being canceled, delayed, that sort of thing that has a 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.680 domino effect, And so it's still going to be days 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:52.520 more of delays. And of course Thanksgiving coming up towards 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.720 the end of the month here in America, so they 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.840 should have it wrinkled out by then, but certainly the 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.840 next few days are still going to be a bit crazy. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:00.680 And then of. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:05.040 Course, you know, getting the food stamp money to the beneficiaries, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:11.520 paying the government workers and stuff all takes time. But politically, 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.000 where we go next is the question. The Democrats, you know, 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.600 really were trying to play chicken and utterly failed. They 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.439 did this, They shut down the government, creating a certain 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.360 amount of chaos just because they were upset at the 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.679 ending of Obamacare subsidies that were actually put into place 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.560 temporarily during COVID supposed to be temporarily, but that never 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.120 happens when you expand a government program, does it. And 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:42.160 also talking about giving up subsidies to people here, you know, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.400 from other countries, possibly legally. So the Dems really have 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.480 egg on their face. They didn't get anything out of 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.040 this except headlines. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.760 Well, the Democrats on the Republicans, they've both been at 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.760 loggerheads for weeks over who was to blame. It seems 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.640 to me like it's pretty clear, like point out, the 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.120 Democrats were the ones that dragged this out for some 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.480 unpernownes to us, at at least it's not obvious political reason. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.480 And it does seem like it was the Republicans who 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.400 finally got the job done and ended all of this. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.600 How did they manage to do that? 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.520 Well, Timing was part of it, Caroline, and that's when 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.560 the Democrats were finally willing to give in, And that 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.800 was after the elections last Tuesday. We had a bunch 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.560 of elections, not obviously not presidential, but there were some 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.360 seats up for grabs, some governorship up for grabs, and 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:44.559 of course the Democrats wanted to use this shutdown in 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.839 the hopes that it would help them, and it actually did, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.200 but that made me a very short term gain. And 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.200 we don't know if how much the shutdown really had 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.080 to do with their wins given that you know, in 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.800 some cases the Republicans didn't have the greatest candidates in 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.439 some races. Others it was going to be an uphill 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:05.880 battle for Republicans to win anyway. So it's it's unclear 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.480 really how much that had an effect. But that's after 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.760 the elections. The Democrats were a little more willing to 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.439 give in and once you saw this travel chaos getting 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.640 worse and worse, and if it was going to bother Thanksgiving, 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.160 you know, American Thanksgiving the biggest travel days of the year. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:23.360 Here. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.199 I think more people I know go to visit their 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.839 family for Thanksgiving than even do on Christmas. And so 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.400 they certainly didn't want that chaos ruining the holidays for 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:33.600 millions of Americans. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.840 Yeah, that wouldn't have been much goodwill for the Democrats 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.520 if they had led that impact the holidays. Kelly, it 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.520 seems like there's growing pressure nowt for Chuck Sherman to 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.720 step down and Senate Minority lead. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.000 Do you think that could happen? 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:53.360 And can you explain why he is facing that kind 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:54.160 of pressure. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:00.200 Well, it's funny, Caroline, because he's you know, anger a 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.760 lot of different Democrats. He's angered some on the more 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.440 left blank that wanted him to stay strong and keep 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.760 going with the shutdown, and then he has angered the 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.319 more moderates who said, this shutdown is not good for Americans, 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:17.000 It's not good for my constituents, everyone's constituents. Why was 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:21.120 he playing these games? You're Senator John Fetterman, who's you know, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:25.000 really the holds a mantle of the moderate Democrats now 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.479 saying that there was no point at all to the shutdown. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.120 And then you have people like aoc of course and 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.240 other members of the squad who really wanted the shutdown 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.080 to just go on and on until who knows what, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.600 because Republicans were not giving in on this one, and 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.400 they had no reason to. Really. The things that the 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.679 Democrats were fighting for were not even the things that 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.040 most Americans would have wanted them to fight for, and 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.360 it was just hurting, you know, those who really did 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.080 need the government open, like those on food stamps. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:00.000 Well, if Chuck Shaima doesn't last as seneatem and already 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.040 is there a suitable replacement within the party, who do 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:04.800 you think could it could be? 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.520 There's going to be a lot of action there, and 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.959 it's really going to show that there's huge divisions in 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:17.040 the party. You know, you've got the AOC types, Bernie Sanders, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.920 who's not a Democratic, caucuses with them. Of course, you've 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.280 got the squad Jasmine Crockett, who's doesn't hasn't you know, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.320 there's no TV that she can't find, TV camera, she 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.880 can't find on Capitol Hell, she's been trying to get 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.280 her name out everywhere. Those are the more people on 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.760 the left now to me. You know, John Fetterman would 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.960 would certainly be someone who can work much better with Republicans, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.120 and Chuck Schumer had and than any of those would. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.920 But mostly, you know, the lot of the party just 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.800 thinks he's too moderate for the party. And so it's 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.800 going to be quite an interesting thing to watch. And 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.760 that's why I say don't count out Chuck Schumer just yet. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.240 You know, it's very possible he'll be going down, but again, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.800 you need to find a replacement for him. And we 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.680 saw how long that took the Republicans. I mean, there's 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.960 been talk about Mitch McConnell talking them stepping down for 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.960 years and it took quite a while going to find 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.200 someone who they thought could be willing to do the 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:13.800 job and do a good job of it. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.960 Yeah, It's interesting you mentioned Chasmin Crockett because she features 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:18.640 on the show a. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.640 Couple of times as few as we'll see. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.440 She's quite a character, look, as I referred to at 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.520 the top of the show. The White House has responded 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:32.360 after twenty thousand new Jeffrey Epstein emails and documents were 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.680 released with direct references to Donald Trump. 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.200 Now Congress in the US is. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.480 Pushing forward on a vote to force the justice system 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.080 to release all its files related to Epstein, but the 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.760 measure still faces an uphill battle. Kelly, the President has 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.880 always denied any wrongdoing in regards to Epstein, But it 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.000 seems like this is a story that just won't go away. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.720 It really does. Just when you think maybe it'll have 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.920 gone away, and you know, it rears it's ugly head again. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.920 And of course, you know, I was talking to her 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.640 friend last night and he said, well, I guess the 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.560 big news of the day was, you know, the Donald 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.160 Trump stuff in the Epstein emails. And I said, but 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.360 they turned out to be nothing. What are you talking about? 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.960 And he just saw the headlines everywhere. He hadn't actually, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.880 you know, spent the time reading the story. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:22.480 Uh. 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.520 And then when you dig deeper. When you actually read 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.080 those emails, there was no you know, there was nothing 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.800 salacious really about Donald Trump. I certainly found out some 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.320 stuff about some other people, including the man formerly known 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.160 as Prince Andrew, but honestly, if there was something really 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.680 juicy about Trump, that would have gotten out a long 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.040 time ago. But the Democrats are using this now as 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.200 a political weapon, which is funny because it had had 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.480 been the Republicans for a while and now the Democrats 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.760 are using it. I just you know, released the files. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:54.640 You know, take some care for the victims. Release the 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.800 file so we can all move on. And the conspiracoris 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.280 rain on this one. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.000 Well, it's interesting you talked about those emails, and I 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.560 spoke at the top of the show about how it 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:13.879 seemed really cynical of the Democrats to release that particular 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.199 email where Trump was referenced but redact the name of 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:22.360 the victim, which was Virginia Jeffrey, of course, who has 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:27.119 repeatedly denied that Trump had been anything but nice and 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.000 good to her. So what did you make of the 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.400 decision from the Democrats to release the emails like that 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.920 in such a way as to I guess, perpetuate this hoax. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.240 It really shows Caroline just how dirty Democrats are willing 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.359 to play. And of course it's not like they also 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.480 could say, well, we had to redact her name, you know, 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.200 we didn't want her to be known. I mean, she's 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.760 written a book and she course ended her own life 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.199 this year, so there was absolutely no reason. And of 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.960 course they must have known that it would come out 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.720 who she was and how dirty the trick they played. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.639 But what do they care. They got the headlines they wanted. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.919 How more people saw those headlines than read the ones 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.480 explaining that actually what the Democrats said was in there 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.440 was really nothing. So they, you know, their media enablers 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.720 were happy to do the job for the Democrats. And 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.840 it really just shows you how dirty they play in 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:27.160 Washington these days. It's it's gone beyond you know, parody. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.280 And you know, again, the government's been shut down, they've 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.639 been really doing nothing, and then to come up with 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.000 this while the American people really have a lot, a 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.879 lot bigger things that they would like the representatives in 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.320 Washington to be worried about. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.840 Yeah, it's been a particularly bad way for the Democrats. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.320 I'd say, Kelly Jane Tarnes, thank you very much. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.960 For joining me, Thank you for having me. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:54.919 Joining me now is the Federalists Elections correspondent Brianna Lyman. Brianna, 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:59.159 thanks for joining me, Thanks for having me. Well, you're 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.680 joining us from New York, where it's been one week 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.240 since soor On maum Donnie was elected the city's new mayor. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.800 In his latest interview, m'm donnie says he plans to 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.800 call President Trump ahead of taking office. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:13.960 I will be reaching. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.639 Out to the White House, and as we prepare to 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.520 actually take office, I will. 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:19.919 Be proactive in the work that I do. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.760 And I think that is because the responsibility I hold 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.760 to eight and a half million people of being their mayor. 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.399 It is important that you are open to working with anyone, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:28.920 no matter what disagreements. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.440 You may have, Brianna. 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.679 The President has called maum Donnie his quote, little communist. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.320 How do you see that call playing out? 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.200 Yeah, well, mom, Donnie is doing this because New York 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.080 City has a very unique relationship both with New York 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.360 State and with the federal government, and President Trump has 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.040 made it very clear he is willing to cut off 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.320 funding to New York City if it descends into a 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.400 communist chaos regime, which I think a lot of us 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.639 believe it will give in Mom Donnie's policy. So I 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:00.600 think Mom Donnie is trying to put a good foot 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.400 forward with the President to try and you know, maybe 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.400 buy some political capital. But I don't think President Trump 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.399 will buy it. That being said, I think gets a 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.879 smart maneuver on Mom Donnie's part, because he doesn't just 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.720 represent liberals and progressives. He does represent, you know, hundreds 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:17.000 of thousands of Republicans in New York City. So having 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:18.920 a good relationship with the President wouldn't hurt. 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.200 Look, I guess it's better than not having one. 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.639 But he did tell him in his victory speech you know, 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.240 listen to what I have to say, and he was 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.360 aggressive himself, so it'll certainly be interesting. Look, I want 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:33.720 to stay with New York and the grandson of former 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:39.080 President John F. Kennedy, Jack Schlosberg, announced this week he 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.720 will run for the congressional seat of Manhattan. And this 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.560 is just some of him in his campaign launch. 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:51.080 He's stripping citizens of their civil rights and silencing his critics. 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:53.879 The worst part is it doesn't have to be this way, 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.080 and it wasn't always. We deserve better and we can 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.880 do better, and it starts with the Democratic Party when 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.560 back control of the House of Representatives. With control of Congress, 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.720 there's nothing we can't do without it, we're helpless to 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.400 a third term. My name is Jack Schlossburg and I'm 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.120 running for Congress Brianna. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.479 It seems like Schlosberg has taken a leaf out of 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.120 mom Donnie's anti establishment playbook. 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:21.880 Do you think he'll be successful? 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:24.560 I think he has a good chance. 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.600 You know, he'd be running for the seat currently held 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:31.000 by Jerry Nadler, who is just as far left as Schlosberg, 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:33.200 or you know whoever else would be taking that seat, 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.840 So it's not far fetched to think that this Kennedy 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.680 descended could win the election. That doesn't mean he's going 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.240 to be able to help bring the House back for Democrats, 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.000 even though I do think Democrats have a shot at 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.080 winning the House back next year. Something else that's jfkse 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.440 Granson said that was just really despicable. As he called 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:52.840 out RFK Junior. You don't attack family like that, especially 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:54.960 in public. And this isn't the first time we've seen 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.600 RFK Junior attack like this by his relatives, and I 0:21:57.640 --> 0:21:59.480 think it just goes to show you that these people 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.879 have no shred of decency or humanity, because someone with 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.120 both of those things would not publicly criticize a family member. 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:07.120 It's such a horrible way. 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:12.400 Yeah, we've seen that before, obviously, as you say, including 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:16.720 with our ambassador here to Australia, Caroline Kennedy. Look, I 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:19.959 spoke about this a bit in my editorial, but the 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:24.719 BBC is in turmoil this week after top executives resigned 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:29.320 following revelations that the broadcaster had docted a speech by 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:34.280 Donald Trump given on January sixth before protesters storm the Capitol. 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:38.240 The BBC has now apologized to Trump, but it says 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:42.320 that it won't pay him the compensation he wants. Brianna, 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.439