WEBVTT - Maine's Radical Reckoning 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.280 All right, News round Up, Information Overload Hour. Here's a 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.000 toll free telephone number you want to be a part 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:05.720 of the program is eight hundred and nine four one 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:07.480 Sean if you want to join us. Linda, did you 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.039 see last night Graham Platner. You know, I'm not a 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.760 man of God, but amazing grace it starts. You know, 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.160 he's now turning himself into a martyr. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.880 He's an idiot. Pretty it's actually painful. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.200 Yeah, I mean, for twenty years he has a Nazi tattoo. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.600 You know, he tells a woman that's raped or women 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.680 in the military, well, maybe you should stop getting so 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.520 effed up and you know, and crying about it, something 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.159 to that effect. I mean, it's horrible, you know, all 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.120 the explicit messages, apparently right after he got married, hanging 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.680 out on websites with a with a towel around him 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.120 where young people frequent Pretty pretty unbelievable, says a US soldier, 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:55.040 a hero that he doesn't deserve to live, self proclaimed communist, 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.680 blaming sexual assault victims, of course, saying about the people 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.000 of his state that they're stupid and racist. Why would 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.000 you ever why would you ever vote for somebody like that? 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.959 He can't pass a porta potty apparently without getting sexually 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:15.720 stimulated and going in and having self gratification. And he's 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.000 talked about that. I mean, it's just so bizarre on 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.640 so many levels. I want to play. And then he 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:26.880 lies through his teeth like crazy, and you know, saying, oh, 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.080 the nature of his wife and his relationship has blown 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.080 out of proportion. This happened long before his marriage, and 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.480 center run. That's not true. It happened after he got married, 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.440 which is why he said he was in therapy. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:45.360 Listen, I will just say that the nature of Amy 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.520 and ies relationship has been blown I would stay totally 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.360 out of proportion. Early in our marriage, we had some 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.160 struggles and we worked through them because that's what you 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.200 do when you're in love with somebody, and it made 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:05.400 our marriage much, frankly, a much happier and communicative couple. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.440 I was single for the majority of my adult life. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.799 I was in my twenties and thirties, and I dated. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:21.359 And you know, that's in the modern age, that's what happens. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.120 You date people, and you use dating apps and you 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.639 do all the stuff. And frankly, that all happened long 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.720 before I got married and happened long before he designed 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.000 to run for the United States Senate. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.520 Then I guess he goes on with Liberal Joe in 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.720 the morning and then he says, there's nothing out there 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:42.160 that's actually concerning. Really, listen, I. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.079 Made it clear there's nothing out there that's actually concerning. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.840 People will make everything seem very concerning because that's what 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:56.280 people in politics. But you know, I think the thing 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.799 about all of this is what I find to be 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:03.440 kind of most curious, is this is what everyone wants 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.440 to make the campaign about. So we do not talk 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.480 about the struggles of working. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.120 Manors anyway here to analyze what impact And we were 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.119 going over this with O'Reilly earlier, But I think it's 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.360 that big story is Steve Robinson of the Main Wire 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.760 and Laurel Libby, Estate Rep from Maine. Okay, I say 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.760 he's lying. What say you, Laurel Libby. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.280 Well he is lying. But you know, Sean, the scariest 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.840 thing about Graham Platner is not his history in his 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:33.880 personal life, but it's what he would do if he 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.240 actually got to the Senate. He represents the most extreme 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:43.040 left of the Democrat Party. He was recruited by Democrats, socialists, 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:47.040 and he wants to take the same agenda that Donnie 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.800 is executing in New York and bring it to DC. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:52.360 That would be disastrous. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.160 Well, I mean he's a self avowed communist on top 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:59.200 of everything else. I have been following what you have 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.560 been covering, Steve Robinson of main Wire. You guys have 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.560 been exhaustively examining this guy in his record. What am 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:06.040 I missing? 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:11.520 Well, the lies have mounted to the point where you 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.160 can only conclude that this guy is pathological. He's lied 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.159 about how he purchased his home. He's lied about his 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.760 oyster business. Sean in maybe, but by the way. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.680 He had one customer, his mother, and he was growing 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.200 up a kid of privilege, and he talks about rich 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.200 people as if they are the worst human beings on 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.800 earth and didn't deserve a thing that they got. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.720 And I would doubt that his mom was even a customer. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.960 To be honest, you know, nothing about that business really 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.640 adds up. It's not it was a hobby, not a business. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.760 There's no such thing as an oyster man. No one 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.880 in Maine calls himself an oystermn Graham is the first 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.960 person to do that, and it's part of his New 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.560 York marketing campaign that appeals to out of staters and 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.160 people who lived who moved to Maine to live on 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.360 the coast. So that's the you know, the first lie. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.080 That's where the lines, well, slow down here. There are 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.400 no oyster men in Maine. I did not know that. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.479 I know those lobster guys up there. I assume there's 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.359 there's you know, clamming up there, right. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.560 Yes, so there are there are oyster farmers, there's oyster aquaculture. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.120 But the term oyster man was invented by this GQ 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.279 columnist who wrote this really homo erotic column about Graham Plattner. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.360 They've invented this marketing term because they created this guy, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:31.239 Tabolo Rossa. They just invented a character around his fake business. 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.640 But that's not that's just the beginning of the lies. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.280 He lied to The New York Times about how he 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.520 was able to purchase his home. Said it was with 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.480 a VA program, but it was actually a sweetheart mortgage 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.479 from his daddy. He's lied about the number of affairs 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.240 that he's had, his promiscuous sexting. He lied to his 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.560 campaign staff. He continues to lie to his campaign staff. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.560 He went down to Washington, d c looked all of 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.200 his you know, hopeful future colleagues in the face and said, 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.440 there's nothing more coming out, and then abuse allegations pour 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.040 out in the New York Times of all places. So 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.240 this guy is nothing less than a pathological liar, and 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.279 more is almost guaranteed to come out because if he 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.560 is admitting to having sex relationships, like to sexting with 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.800 at least six people using the kick app, you can 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.640 bet that the number is higher than that. I use 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.480 the beer rule to analyze that. When your wife asks 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.559 you how many beers you have, you divide by three. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.240 So that's probably there's a lot of women out there 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.120 who the Daily Mail is probably looking to offer some money, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.720 like they did with Sydney Letters when she was reporting 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:38.680 on Anthony Wiener. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.359 Well, let me ask you to go a little deeper 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.920 in the paint and analyze the race, because you're right, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:50.320 Maine is not New York City. Maine is not socialist. 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.560 I think it reminds me a lot of Alaska, rugged individualism. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.200 People live off the grid. People are tough and hardy, 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.320 and you know they they which is probably why Susan 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.559 Collins has worked out as such a great senator Because 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.760 She is in many ways her own voice and the 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.040 conscience of the people of Maine and wants to reflect 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.640 their values. And it does put her at odds at 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.760 times with the President and Republicans, and she has no 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:22.120 problem standing independently. But you know, will the people of Maine, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.600 I mean, these were Democratic primary voters, the most radical 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:30.160 left voters that went for Platner. Will regular people of 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:34.480 Maine buy into all of his lying excuse making, his 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:39.640 behavior and his rough gruff, you know persona. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.000 Well, I think that the electorate in Maine has changed 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.000 significantly since twenty twenty because of the pandemic. We had 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.520 some of the most extreme left wing voters moved to 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.520 the state and bought you know, coastal mansions where they 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.560 thought they were going to live out the pandemic. They've 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.760 stayed here, They've brought their politics with him, and you 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.160 can see in subsequent elections there's another twenty thousand or 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:06.120 twenty five thousand hard left, extreme left liberals. So they've 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.720 got that will be Platner's base and they will turn 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.960 out for him. And so this isn't going to be 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.520 a walk off election for Susan Collins. She's probably in 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.240 for the toughest fight of her career. But you have 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.280 to remember she is the best at winning statewide elections 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.200 in Maine in recent campaign history the last three decades. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.600 No one is better at winning statewide elections than Susan Collins. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.800 And it's because she has a professional operation and also 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.440 a world class constituent services. Everyone who's ever interacted with 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.640 Senator Collins office leaves with a good experience, and that's 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.760 the kind of thing that you can't really put in 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.920 an advertisement. That's the kind of experience you can't buy, 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.800 and that's how you earn loyalty from voters, whether they're Democrats, Independents, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:49.719 or Republicans. And Senator Collins has that. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.640 What do you think as you listen to this Laurel, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.840 You know, the average person of Maine. One of the guys, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.319 a friend of mine I grew up with, lives in 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.679 Maine and he's got along and I call him now 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.320 mountain men, and we have jokes about it, and he 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.559 sends me pictures in the wintertime of these massive snowstorms 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.240 and he loves the life there. And it's not that 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.640 he lives off the land, but he lives a tough life, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.320 but he loves He loves the outdoors. It's his passion. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.600 He can't live without it. How will the people of 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.480 Maine react to all of this Platinu information. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:30.120 Well, you know, the people of Maine are rugged, individualistic, 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:36.880 We're independent minded folks and common sense. I mean, I 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.840 think we're absorbing a lot of information coming out about Platiner. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.960 But the thing that I'm bearing in mind as we 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.920 go into this general election is Maners have been suffering 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:51.080 under the way of governor Democrat governor and Democrat House 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:55.120 and Senate for the last eight years. And we have 0:09:56.000 --> 0:10:00.120 energy costs that have skyrocketed up forty since twenty twenty. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.880 We pay sixty three percent of of the national average 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.760 for electricity. If we if you're looking at someone who 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.760 earns under one hundred thousand dollars a year in Maine, 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.199 which is most Maners. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:10.760 We pay the. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.520 Highest state income tax in all of New England. And 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:18.839 so Maynors are suffering under this weight and most of 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.080 us don't know who to blame. Right You look at 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.280 the who's in charge in the White House and think 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.120 that's who is to blame, But really state government bears 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.160 a responsibility there. Mayners are looking for a savior they think, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.240 some of them think that that is Grand Platiner. And 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.120 so it's our job to make sure that we expose 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.240 the lies, expose what he really promises, to bring just 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.000 more pain to manors if he ends up in DC, 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.199 so that they stand by their common sense roots and 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:48.640 vote for Susan Collins. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.400 Do you think the what did the odds this guy 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.800 can break through? Now we keep hearing and I'll ask 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:02.800 you about this. You don't mind, Laurel First, what do 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.160 you think is going to happen between now and the 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.160 twenty seventh? Because I think there's going to be a 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.240 lot of pressure brought to bear on Platner by nationalists, 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:16.760 by some national Democrats quietly that he has a window 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.440 where he could bow out of this race. There's a 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.280 little known provision in Maine that would allow him to 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.200 bow out of the race. Then Democratic operators would pick 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.240 or choose his replacement, which I assume would be the 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:35.319 current governor Mills. So would he give into that pressure 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.880 with whatever percentage you won with last night seventy five, 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:38.640 seventy six. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:43.800 Percent, I don't see that happening. Based on what we've 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.480 seen of Platner, his ego his hubris. He thinks he's 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.480 indestructible because his base loves him even more with every 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.240 scandal that appears. I don't see him dropping out unless 0:11:55.360 --> 0:12:00.800 something actually straight up illegal comes out, more legal than 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.679 buying drugs in foreign countries, which he's already you know. 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.360 And do you agree with me that a lot of 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.280 this zop research did not come from Republicans, that it 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.520 all came from Democrats trying to push him out. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.480 Yeah, I think it's been a mixed bag. Everybody has 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.000 their own reason to want Platner out of the race, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.520 and so that's surprising to me that we didn't see 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.440 more of this come out when Mills was in the race, 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.120 because you know, the results last night might have been 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.440 a little bit different had it come out earlier. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.800 Let's get your final thoughts if you don't mind, Steve Robinson, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.560 and by the way, I urge people to read the 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.160 main Wire if you want to know about Plattner. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.680 Well, I would agree with everything Laurel said, but you know, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.280 I think that Plattner has reached his ceiling here and 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.400 it's going to take a little while for people in 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.880 Maine to learn exactly who he is. And the shock 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.320 factor of you know, having the Nazi tattoo isn't the 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.360 significant thing here. The significant thing here is that he's 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.640 lied about it over and over and over again. And 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.880 I think that there's plenty of time remaining to convince 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.720 people that I is a pathological liar, and more information 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.079 is going to come out, not through partisan opposition research 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.840 or hit jobs, but just through good old fashioned research journalism. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.240 I mean, like, we found and reported that Graham Platner 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:20.440 was the running of paramilitary training for the Socialist Rifle 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.880 Association of Maine. He admits to this in his Reddit thread, 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.240 his infamous Reddit thread, but we also found pictures of 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.600 him on the range training a far left Antifa type 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.319 group how to take rifle shots that human shaped targets 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.800 from seventy five yards out, and he calls him self 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:41.480 defense training courses. So the amount of potential stories for 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.560 a willing journalist to find in Graham Platner's background, I 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.240 think there's a lot a lot there. And we still 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.240 haven't heard, by the way, from anyone who served with 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.160 him in the military, which I find very curious. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.520 Will you please keep up the great work if people 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.600 want to read about what you're printing about him. Where 0:13:58.640 --> 0:13:59.360 can they get main. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:03.079 Wire everything that vnamewire dot com? 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.960 All right, appreciate you also, Laurel Libby, State Rep. Romaine. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.520 Thank you both. We will follow this very closely all 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.280 the developments, especially now through the twenty seven see if 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:23.880 they get up to the dirty tricks keeping the truth alive. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:51.640 Nity is on right now, all right, so it's summertime, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.800 all right, quick break right back to our busy phones. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.800 Here's our toll free number. It's eight hundred and nine 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.360 four one, Sean, if you want to be a part 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:34.480 of the program, Alec Baldwin's favorite radio talk show host 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:39.880 is on the air right now, right, mister Baldwin here 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.640 Sean Hannity, Linda, have you been following the drama with 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.240 our best buddy Steven A. Smith. I want to say 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:51.160 up front so there's no ambiguity. Stephen A. Smith and 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:55.000 I are best friends. I love this guy. We have 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.360 been friends, Linda. You were friends with him before me 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.840 and I was. But we've been friends for decades, right 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:01.800 m hm. 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:03.160 That's true. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.560 And he takes a lot of crap for being my friend, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.360 and I take a lot of crap sometimes with being 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.880 his friend. To be honest, but we don't let that 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.480 get in the way. We don't have political differences getting 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:19.080 the way. I don't know what has happened. He's going 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.400 to be on TV tomorrow night and it should be 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:27.880 very entertaining. But he was apoplectic that Donald Trump was 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.880 going to the Nick game the other night. I mean, 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.400 he just lost it. He has no business being Donald 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.520 Trump's been a Nick fan forever. And then we have 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.880 the pictures to prove that he's been at the garden, 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.480 you know, going back to when the Knicks were actually 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.640 a relevant team, which they haven't been until this year 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.520 for a long long time. All Right, that's a whole 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.760 separate issue. He's the president. He goes to sporting events, 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.000 he goes to more than anyone else. And he says 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.600 he has no business showing up in New York City 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.320 for a k next game. Why not? 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:06.400 Player is strictly a basketball segment. This president has no 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.280 business showing up in New York City. I am dead serious. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:16.680 It is selfish, it is narcissistic. It is ridiculous that 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.320 he is coming to this game. I would say the 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.879 same thing if it were Obama, George W. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:23.080 Clinton. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.000 I don't give a damn. We went back to Reagan. 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.360 This is not a football. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.320 Stadium in some space in Texas where you've got a 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.639 whole bunch of outlays and all of this. This is 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.840 the garden. This is midtown Manhattan. You have any idea 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:36.520 what the congestion is going to be like in New 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:37.040 York City. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.639 Here the first thing I'd say to Steve and I 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.760 look at the skyline in New York and Trump built 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.439 out a lot of those buildings. All right. Then the 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.359 best part, and it even gets better after this part. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:54.560 He blames Trump that the Knicks lost. The Knicks didn't 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.160 lose because Donald Trump went to the game. The mom 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.159 Nadi curse was fun because it went on for so 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.760 long with the Mets after he hugged mister Mett. But 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.600 I don't blaming Donnie in real life that the Mets 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:10.199 were losing. Donnie curse. There's one game that Trump goes to, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.080 and he's blaming Trump for the fact that San Antonio, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.800 which has a very good team, these games have been 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.520 very close that they won. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.040 Listen, he should have been ashamed of himself for disrupting 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.320 that is, showing up to the game in game three, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.040 And I do blame him for the loss because, as 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.760 far as I'm concerned, it disrupted the momentum. I'm a 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.840 New York Knicks fan. Everybody knows that, so is. He 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.280 saw all of us as New Yorkers, and in the 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.960 world of sports, you do get a bit superstitious at times. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.240 Whatever is working, don't disrupt it. The New York Knicks 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.800 won seven thirteen straight playoff games, too shy of a 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.200 record tye in the Golden State wards of twenty seventeen, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.240 and it got ruined the moment Donald Trump showed dumb 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.560 damn right, I blame him. I said it before and 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.480 I'm saying it again now. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.720 Linda, listen to this. This is Stephen A saying if 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.199 they lose the series, and I don't think Trump has 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.359 any plans. I've not heard any plans or read about 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:10.560 any plans for President Trump to go to any more games. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.000 But now he's saying, whether Trump goes or not, if 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.359 the Knicks lose the series, that it's going to be 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:25.119 Donald Trump's fault. If this is not Trump derangement syndrome 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:29.240 at its maximum level, and I appreciate his passion for sports. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.879 If the Knicks lose, it's because the Knicks lose on 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.520 their own, has nothing to do with who might go 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.159 to see your game or not see a game. And 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:43.400 the President Trump couldn't heard about it. And he responded, 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.120 he said he's too low IQ to run for president. Listen, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.960 be comminator Stephen A. Smith, who're talking about running for president? 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:52.040 He said he would. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:53.680 Blame you if the Knicks lost the game. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:54.760 How do you repond about it? 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.679 I think he's a nice guy, but you need a 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:59.520 certain aptitude to run for president. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.560 You need a high IQ. I'm not sure that steven 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:02.920 has that. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.399 I don't think he does. Actually, obviously there's been this 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:13.120 long flirtation with this lose the series. Now. I love 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:15.639 steven A. I love his passion for sports. What steven 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.320 A doesn't know he thinks I don't know anything about sports, 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.720 or you know, I have no stay in your lane, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.119 he always says. I tell him to stay in his 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.800 lame with politics. We have fun doing all that. And 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.440 all I can tell you is this is a team 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:32.480 wins or loses based on their performance in big moments, 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.760 and if they allow any one person to distract from 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.400 their mission, which is to get a championship, that's on them. 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.040 I can tell you all about the championship team of 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:48.000 Walt Frasier, Earl the Pearl, Willis Reed, Dave de Busher, 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.000 Bill Bradley, one of the greatest teams ever to play 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.120 the game, and they were a championship team. I get 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.320 it that New York's hungry. And I'll tell you you know, 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.200 after the Knicks won the first two games, I said, 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:02.600 I let him sweep. I don't care. What's a big deal. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.960 I'm not New York anything. And now I'm now because 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.439 of Steve and A I am all in on San Antonio. 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:11.560 How do you like that, Linda? 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:16.000 So you like the Spurs, So you know, I think 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.520 the thing about Wemby, I mean, he's seven to four 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.680 and it's absurd because you know it's I mean really 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.360 it's it's almost silly sometimes watching him and just how 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:25.040 easy it is. 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.440 But there were a number of the technical. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.080 Fouls in front of the New York Post today, though 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.080 no I didn't, he says, wanted for crimes against the 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:41.680 Knicks alias Wemby seven, nationality, French charge, flagrant foul reward, 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:46.040 NBA trophy. Even soft on crime. Da Bragg would find 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:46.680 him guilty. 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.639 I mean, yeah, it was. It was painful to watch. Boss. 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.280 I got to say, as somebody who's and I just 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.520 let the audience know I am not an expert on basketball. However, 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:57.880 I have a house full of kids that all want 0:21:57.920 --> 0:21:59.800 to watch these games, and so I'm seeing them. And 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:02.600 I happened to look up when Wemby had that technical 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:04.720 foul against one of the NIXT guys, and it was 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.399 aggressive and then he said, no technical foul. I'm like, okay, 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:10.119 I'm a regular person. I can tell you that that 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:10.920 was not okay. 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.159 But you know it's all. 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.040 Referee sucks most it does? 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:17.520 It does? 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.119 I mean, and I'm not blaming them. I think they 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:20.880 got a hard job. 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:23.040 You know, he had an earlier part of his day 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.600 where he was, you know, drawing in Grammercy Park. I'll 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:27.440 bless him. He's got a softer side, but I didn't 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:29.000 see that definitely on the court. He was a bit 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:30.560 of a jerk in my opinion. 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:31.960 Now to stephen A, that's. 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:37.159