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Speaker 4: Steven A.
Speaker 2: Smith is going to be joining me later.
Speaker 1: The Folks is run out.
Speaker 4: But first I want to talk about this very briefly.
Speaker 3: I was in Los Angeles over the weekend getting BBL
Speaker 3: from a celebrity doctor and quick question for those of
Speaker 3: you who live in that area, is your city ever.
Speaker 4: Not on fire?
Speaker 3: Whether you win a basketball championship, a World Series championship,
Speaker 3: whether you have an exploding pinata, gender reveal gone wrong, congratulations,
Speaker 3: it's a boy and an evacuation, or you're just protesting
Speaker 3: the Trump Administration's expanded deportation raids. LA continues to be
Speaker 3: our most flammable city. This weekend's combustion was the very
Speaker 3: predictable result of a liberal city reliant on an immigrant
Speaker 3: population colliding with a heavy handed MAGA migrant trawling operation
Speaker 3: looking to hit its quota of brown pokemen.
Speaker 4: Got to catch them all.
Speaker 3: Yes, America, this is where we started.
Speaker 1: We got to get the criminals out first.
Speaker 5: We got to get the criminals, the murderers, the drug dealers.
Speaker 4: And this is where we are now.
Speaker 3: Protests started following ice raids at a home depot, parking
Speaker 3: lot and Paramountain south of the city. Home from the
Speaker 3: worst of the worst to a home depot. Jeez, Ice,
Speaker 3: if you need assistance and arresting people, you know those
Speaker 3: guys are looking for work. So it's an explosive situation
Speaker 3: on the cusp of federalism versus States rights, border control
Speaker 3: versus due process, terrifyingly militarized sweeps versus hard working people
Speaker 3: in local communities, the United States Marines versus the Postmates
Speaker 3: guy who brought you an egg sandwich. It's going to
Speaker 3: require a deft and firm, experienced and wise. I think
Speaker 3: you know where I'm going with this. A deaf touch
Speaker 3: from leadership in Washington.
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna have troops everywhere. We're not going to
Speaker 1: let this happen to our country.
Speaker 6: They spit, that's a new thing.
Speaker 1: And when that happens, I have a little statement.
Speaker 2: They say, they spit, we.
Speaker 3: Hit well, well, done, mister Churchill, when they spit, we hit.
Speaker 4: For the love of God, someone protect hawk to a girl.
Speaker 4: They cool.
Speaker 3: Now, obviously this is a bit of a change in
Speaker 3: attitude from Trump towards protecting law enforcement, from his previous
Speaker 3: January sixth attitude of they hit, we don't give a shit.
Speaker 4: So why this escalation?
Speaker 2: Top? Trump aid Stephen Miller.
Speaker 7: Oh, what is it, young Lord Vader wanted?
Speaker 8: Stephen Miller held a meeting screaming at ICE officials to
Speaker 8: arrest more undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds like him, although I'm pretty sure Stephen
Speaker 3: Miller wasn't screaming. I think it's just his default tone
Speaker 3: is banshee. It's what happens when oxygen molecules are desperate
Speaker 3: to exit his unholy lungs.
Speaker 4: So it just comes out like.
Speaker 8: Good whom Miller setting a new quota of three thousand
Speaker 8: arrests per day to include more than just migrants with
Speaker 8: criminal records.
Speaker 9: Miller reportedly asked ICE officials, Hey, why aren't you at home, depot.
Speaker 3: And don't say because they're not bothering anybody down there,
Speaker 3: because they're bothering me.
Speaker 4: Let's just say at home. I'm sure that's an exaggeration.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Stephen Miller understands overwhelmingly that these are people monsters.
Speaker 9: They released people into this nation, not people monsters.
Speaker 10: Duport, deport, duport.
Speaker 4: Duport, duport, duport.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess that's what Stephen Miller shouts when he comes.
Speaker 2: Duport, deport, deport.
Speaker 3: And then obviously, to be sensitive to his partner, he
Speaker 3: has to be like, you deported too, right, and then
Speaker 3: she probably goes, you know, yeah, and then goes into
Speaker 3: the shower and self deports.
Speaker 4: That's why that's that's yeah, you're very child.
Speaker 3: So now prettytively, these non targeted, much broader deportation efforts
Speaker 3: and cities that feel very connected to the immigrant population
Speaker 3: is a tinderbox, and Trump happily lights the fuse. Peaceful
Speaker 3: protesters mixed with anarchists and vandals, pushed back by horseback
Speaker 3: and tear gas. Nothing could survive the onslaught except the
Speaker 3: attitude of teenagers.
Speaker 1: You dad, I mean cops.
Speaker 3: Luckily, in the midst of all this chaos, there have
Speaker 3: been no fatalities, well, human fatalities.
Speaker 9: Self driving car company Weimo said it was suspending service
Speaker 9: after at least five of its cars were vandalized and
Speaker 9: set on fire.
Speaker 3: Took five of them before you were like, should we
Speaker 3: stop sending the Weimos to the center around you know?
Speaker 4: Four could be a coincidence, but it was no coincident.
Speaker 6: It is believed that those Waymos were summoned or booked
Speaker 6: by the protesters with the intention of then getting them
Speaker 6: to the location and torching them.
Speaker 1: My god, how dare you?
Speaker 3: How could you use Waimo's innocence and helpful spirit against
Speaker 3: the Weimo? Imagine for a moment Waimo's disappointment upon realizing
Speaker 3: it was, as Admiral Akbar might say, a trap you
Speaker 3: got Waimo going, Hello, it is my honor to take
Speaker 3: you to Hollywood.
Speaker 1: And what are you doing?
Speaker 4: My god? No, I'm giving you only one star.
Speaker 1: No tell my Ruma I love her. For more.
Speaker 3: On the immigration raids, we go out live to Los
Speaker 3: Angeles and our very own Jordan Plepper, Jordan.
Speaker 1: Are to join you. Where do we.
Speaker 3: Where do we stand right now? Where do we stand
Speaker 3: right now? With the immigration rates?
Speaker 9: Well, the Trump administration does not see these raids as
Speaker 9: an overreach. They see this as a necessary to confront
Speaker 9: what are the world's most notorious gangs.
Speaker 3: The gangs at home. Would I believe these people are
Speaker 3: what trendragua?
Speaker 10: Even worse? Casa del depot.
Speaker 3: That's his home depot in Spanish.
Speaker 9: Scior these are bad albraids, Jordan, they're just day laborer.
Speaker 9: Oh well, to the uninformed, perhaps, But I've seen some
Speaker 9: of the pictures of what these folks are capable of.
Speaker 9: Gruesome depravity. You know what, if if anyone at home
Speaker 9: is watching and there are children in the room, you
Speaker 9: might want to ask them to leave.
Speaker 10: But take a look at this.
Speaker 4: Disgusting What am I I mean? What am I looking?
Speaker 4: It's like a stone wall.
Speaker 9: You're looking at what was supposed to be a Tuscan
Speaker 9: inspired retaining wall.
Speaker 10: Does that look Tuscan inspired to you?
Speaker 1: John?
Speaker 4: I mean looks fine?
Speaker 1: John, I didn't.
Speaker 9: Pay these guys forty dollars each for fine.
Speaker 10: Look at my side, Patio.
Speaker 4: Oh all right, I mean.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, they're freaking impatience, John, I mean, are you
Speaker 3: kidding me?
Speaker 10: They can't handle full sun. Look look at these stairs.
Speaker 10: Does this buff sandstone look plumb to you?
Speaker 1: Jordan?
Speaker 4: I don't know what any of those words.
Speaker 9: Okay, tell me these guys aren't the worst of the
Speaker 9: worst Jordan.
Speaker 3: See, isn't this what the Trump administration wants for people
Speaker 3: to conflate violent gang members with innocent day labors who
Speaker 3: are already being exploited.
Speaker 4: I don't think anyone would be complaining.
Speaker 3: About a rational system of due process getting rid of criminals,
Speaker 3: but this right now is needlessly provocative in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right.
Speaker 10: I'm sorry. I lost my head.
Speaker 9: You know, the the American guys quoted me a patio
Speaker 9: figure that just was.
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm on basic cable.
Speaker 1: John Uh, you're right.
Speaker 9: I can't get behind indiscriminately kicking out blameless workers, especially
Speaker 9: since I still want to put in a coy pond.
Speaker 9: But you know what, you can't expect a compassionate approach
Speaker 9: to deportation when you got a psycho like Stephen Miller
Speaker 9: in charge.
Speaker 10: I mean, that guy just gives me the willies, you.
Speaker 4: Know, Jordan, Jordan dolo. But Stephen Miller is is he clicking?
Speaker 4: Is it Stephen Nolan flicking? Yeah?
Speaker 10: Johnny's clicking. No, right, he uses echo location to hunt
Speaker 10: his prey. He phoned me, Okay, I shouldn't have said
Speaker 10: his name.
Speaker 9: I just can't say it again or another Stephen Miller
Speaker 9: will appear.
Speaker 10: It's to light for me. Just j John tell my
Speaker 10: wife I love her idea to build a gazebo next to.
Speaker 1: The coy bods look.
Speaker 10: Out, stay way.
Speaker 2: I was eerie, very eerie.
Speaker 3: No, moving back to the tension, turmoil and violence coming
Speaker 3: out of Los Angeles. It's hard to watch an American
Speaker 3: city torn apart like this, And quite honestly.
Speaker 4: I was a bit surprised.
Speaker 3: But even the magosphere is somber and reflective at what
Speaker 3: they're seeing in Los Angeles.
Speaker 10: It's deeply, deeply unfortunate. Look, I'll be honest, this like
Speaker 10: really hurts my soul.
Speaker 4: I think it's a sad thing to see.
Speaker 1: No one wants to see this. I hate to see it.
Speaker 1: I think America hates to see it. Most importantly, it
Speaker 1: is going to be bad for the country.
Speaker 2: I think it is important for us to pray, you know,
Speaker 2: for peace.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm being told that wasn't about Los Angeles. That
Speaker 3: was them heartbroken that Trump and Elon have gone no contact.
Speaker 4: That's a slightly different thing.
Speaker 3: That's true. See for the right right now. I guess
Speaker 3: that's the real national tragedy. Elon Musk has unfollowed cat turn.
Speaker 3: We must pray for peace. See the upset in LA
Speaker 3: is in a blue state, in a blue city with
Speaker 3: people that they don't give a fuck about.
Speaker 11: I'm incredibly happy with President Trump's decision.
Speaker 1: Trump is right on target with this.
Speaker 4: It's just screams common sense, an.
Speaker 11: Enormous positive for our country, certainly well deserved.
Speaker 12: There was never any consequences, and now the hammer is
Speaker 12: being dropped.
Speaker 8: Do you want to live in Los Angeles which is
Speaker 8: Mini Mexico.
Speaker 3: To be fair, they all have a fantastic kore account.
Speaker 3: But you know, why escalate this shit now? The unrest
Speaker 3: in LA's predictable outcome of these aggressive tactics. I believe
Speaker 3: the right refers to federal overreaches. Don't tread on me,
Speaker 3: We the people cald dead hands, something along those lines.
Speaker 3: So why is this happening now? What's it meant to
Speaker 3: distract from? I mean, I can't remember what were we
Speaker 3: even talking about right before the first weimo went up
Speaker 3: in Flames.
Speaker 9: Elon Musk is now accusing Trump of being in the
Speaker 9: Epstein files.
Speaker 3: Oh right, that's what we were talking about, which, now,
Speaker 3: to be fair to Trump, it is ridiculous. I mean,
Speaker 3: you can't just make wild accusations like that just because
Speaker 3: Trump and Epstein hung out once or twice, or Trump
Speaker 3: was in the flight logs, or Epstein called Trump as
Speaker 3: close as friend, or they went to parties and whispered.
Speaker 3: You know, I can only assume biblical passages in each other.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I'm telling you Epstein, two Corinthians.
Speaker 4: You got to check it out.
Speaker 1: It's awful.
Speaker 4: It's not a crime to be in each other's hearts.
Speaker 3: And what indication has Trump ever given that there may
Speaker 3: be things within those Epstein files that may be concerning
Speaker 3: to him?
Speaker 11: Would you declassify the nine to eleven files?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Would you do classified JFK files.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which I did a lot of it.
Speaker 11: Would you declassify the Epstein files?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would.
Speaker 5: I guess I would. I think that less so because
Speaker 5: you know, you don't know if you don't want to
Speaker 5: affect people's lives of its phony stuff in there, A.
Speaker 1: Lot of phony stuff in there.
Speaker 3: You know, they can put anything into files, anything about anybody.
Speaker 3: By the way, just for the record, asking a seventeen
Speaker 3: year old Massus if she's planning on staying the United States,
Speaker 3: that's a legitimate question, and The rest of the video
Speaker 3: is AI if there's a video.
Speaker 4: My favorite moment.
Speaker 3: Was when the head of the FBI cash hotel found
Speaker 3: out Elon accused Trump of being on the Epstein list
Speaker 3: live while podcasting.
Speaker 11: Does he know that Donald Trump is in the Epstein
Speaker 11: finals or does he have access to them?
Speaker 6: I don't know how he would, but I'm just staying
Speaker 6: out of the Trump Elon thing that's way outside.
Speaker 1: I know my lane in that. Ain't it.
Speaker 3: Not your lane? Aren't you literally in charge of the
Speaker 3: Epstein file?
Speaker 4: I know my lane.
Speaker 3: I'm just a guy in charge of law enforcement domestically,
Speaker 3: conspiracy's crimes, cover ups, hold depot parking over crowded, you know.
Speaker 3: But now, because of their personal issues, Musk has threatened
Speaker 3: to expose Trump, and Trump has threatened to cancel Musk's
Speaker 3: government contracts, and he's threatened serious consequences to Musk if
Speaker 3: Musk funds Democratic candidates. It must be hard for the
Speaker 3: right to see how petty and petulant these two man
Speaker 3: babies are, and how they wield their power in vindictive
Speaker 3: and capricious manners when they don't get exactly their way,
Speaker 3: and the damage that that behavior causes. And I guess
Speaker 3: what I would say to the right.
Speaker 13: Is welcome to our world every day now you know,
Speaker 13: Now you know Harvard won't ben the need.
Speaker 3: Attack a law firm representative democrat, Attack a long term
Speaker 3: ally that prefers to retain its sovereignty, Attacked a small
Speaker 3: mom and papa business just trying to complete an eight
Speaker 3: billion dollar merger. Attacked you on the right, didn't give
Speaker 3: a shit when Godzilla and Mathra teamed up to destroy
Speaker 3: the city. You're only mad that now they're fighting each
Speaker 3: other because you just got a taste of their paper
Speaker 3: thin over sensitive, fragile, ego driven nihilism, or as you call.
Speaker 10: It, It's like watching two giants fight.
Speaker 9: These are two titans, two very strong world heavyweights, two
Speaker 9: big dogs living in close quarters.
Speaker 1: Two grown men, two alpha males, duking it.
Speaker 3: Out alpha males. I don't think we're watching the same fight.
Speaker 3: You're you're seeing this. It's actually this. It's just a
Speaker 3: couple of pussies. If these were two alphas fighting, Ted
Speaker 3: Cruz's description of their fight wouldn't be this funny.
Speaker 9: These are two alpha males who are pissed off, and
Speaker 9: unfortunately they're unloading on each other.
Speaker 2: Depart depart departs.
Speaker 1: I'm coming up from me. I'm a citizen, I'm a sentizen.
Speaker 1: Leave me be.
Speaker 3: When we come back, I'll be swapping hot tapes with
Speaker 3: Stephen A.
Speaker 10: Smith.
Speaker 3: Don't go away, No, No, I'm Stephen, I said, don't
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 1: What about the drama show? I guess tonight?
Speaker 3: He is the host of ESPN's First Take and The
Speaker 3: Steven A. Smith Show on YouTube, where he discusses politics, culture, sports,
Speaker 3: whatever comes to his mind.
Speaker 4: Places working on the program. Stephen A. Smith, So, I.
Speaker 2: Will you you great?
Speaker 1: That's a great crowd.
Speaker 4: How you doing, man, lovely?
Speaker 3: It's so nice to see you Ellison in the NBA
Speaker 3: Basketball Final You, you and I are ride or Die
Speaker 3: New York Nickobocker fans.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's been a disappointing.
Speaker 3: And to have them just end the playoffs there and
Speaker 3: not continue I thought was the right move.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, you think after you blow a seventeen point
Speaker 6: lead with over six minutes left, fourteen, with two fifty
Speaker 6: one left, nine with fifty two seconds left, and you
Speaker 6: ended up losing gay one. I didn't want to admit
Speaker 6: it to the world at that time, but I knew
Speaker 6: they were done.
Speaker 3: You did know they were doing I kind of do
Speaker 3: k my Son was there in the rafters when Jalen
Speaker 3: Brunson hit There was a point, there was probably like
Speaker 3: a minute in some left. They had a nine point lead.
Speaker 3: They hit it, and he made the fatal mistake that
Speaker 3: the Knicks fan.
Speaker 4: And now he knows. I had to school on it.
Speaker 4: He did the bye bye. He did the bye bye
Speaker 4: on his self.
Speaker 1: Here's the crime. The crime.
Speaker 4: Can he be arrested for crime?
Speaker 11: He should?
Speaker 6: He should, And I'm gonna tell you why, all right?
Speaker 6: Because who does the bye bye? That's Steph Curry, the
Speaker 6: greatest shooter. Yes, God has ever creating. Yes, that guy
Speaker 6: in the two thousand and nine draft was drafted seventh overall.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know who had the eighth pick.
Speaker 1: It was the Knicks. Who So who do we take?
Speaker 4: Hill? Who we take? Somebody's not even in the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jordan Jordan Hill. Yes.
Speaker 6: So my point to you is that if you were
Speaker 6: that close, yet you're so far because you missed out
Speaker 6: on him, you would think you would know better than
Speaker 6: doing that. That doesn't belong to you. You're a nick,
Speaker 6: You're not a warrior.
Speaker 4: See, he's just a boy.
Speaker 2: He's just a boy.
Speaker 1: He's doing his best children learn at a very young age.
Speaker 1: You've got to know better. You've got to know better.
Speaker 1: We cannot we cannot.
Speaker 4: Have raised him poorly.
Speaker 1: I made him a Mets fan to make he's gotta
Speaker 1: have something. You did. You did it, You did a
Speaker 1: good job. It's just that when it comes to sports,
Speaker 1: none of us are perfect.
Speaker 3: No, well, I appreciate that. So you though, are into everything.
Speaker 4: Now. You've been doing a political commentary.
Speaker 3: You were on a sho show where you did a
Speaker 3: round table with the president.
Speaker 6: Uh doc Ris Trombo, The News Nation, Chris Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 6: President Trump came on because of Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 1: It was an interesting evening, to say the least.
Speaker 6: He called then for a half hour. He was rambling.
Speaker 6: I still don't know what he said. I mean, I
Speaker 6: mean he said a lot. He said, he said a lot.
Speaker 6: And I brought up HBCUs the Strokey Black colleges in university.
Speaker 6: He's asking him about his contribution and the contribution he
Speaker 6: was intending to make to them, and he says, I
Speaker 6: love the black people, the blacks, I love them, Stephen,
Speaker 6: something like that, something like that without the dreads.
Speaker 3: Crazy Stephen brought up Harvard and what was happening at.
Speaker 1: Harvard, and he brought up Haarlem and the.
Speaker 3: President goes, you know, Stephen, Harlem is it's coming? And
Speaker 3: I thought, I thought, does he think Harvard is in
Speaker 3: Harlem or does he just hear horror and just goes,
Speaker 3: I guess, so, I guess.
Speaker 1: So. I don't have the answer to that question.
Speaker 6: But it was an interesting is to say the least,
Speaker 6: sitting there talking to him about it.
Speaker 1: And you know what, and then they asked him.
Speaker 6: They asked him, They said, you know, if there's anything
Speaker 6: that you think he did wrong, anything that you think
Speaker 6: he would correct whatever? He said, Honestly, I can't think
Speaker 6: of anything. I think I've been pretty close to perfect.
Speaker 6: And I said, that's him. That's the Donald Trump I've
Speaker 6: always have you did you know him? I knew him
Speaker 6: prior to him running for the presidency. I've often told
Speaker 6: the story. In twenty fourteen, he wanted to purchase the
Speaker 6: NFL's Buffalo bills. The price tag was one point four billion,
Speaker 6: that's it. He had one at the time at the time. Yes,
Speaker 6: because it's over six billion now with the commanders and
Speaker 6: all that stuff, but at the time it was one
Speaker 6: point four billion.
Speaker 1: Dollars. My sources tell me he had one point one and.
Speaker 6: He said to me, and he said to me, he
Speaker 6: literally called me in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: And he says, Steven, I'm going to tell you this
Speaker 1: right now. And this is a quote.
Speaker 6: If the mother floked my way, I'm gonna get them
Speaker 6: all back. I'm gonna run for president. Those are his
Speaker 6: exact words. And so the NFL often jokes with me.
Speaker 6: So it's top fault when I tell him that story,
Speaker 6: and I said, yeah, story.
Speaker 3: Close, please, yes, people of Buffalo give him the game?
Speaker 4: How is that possible? Now?
Speaker 3: Why did he did he call you for the purpose
Speaker 3: of putting together?
Speaker 6: Essentially, he was just what he's putting the word out.
Speaker 6: He was putting the word out that this doesn't happen.
Speaker 6: He wanted to do it, and this should happen. I'm
Speaker 6: Donald Trump, I'm very popular and well known or worth
Speaker 6: over a billion dollars. I should be able to purchase
Speaker 6: an NFL team if I want it. And if I
Speaker 6: can't get it, it's because they're getting in my way.
Speaker 1: That was his position. Their position was you didn't have
Speaker 1: enough money.
Speaker 4: You didn't have enough money.
Speaker 1: That was that position.
Speaker 4: He was already in what the usf lery right.
Speaker 1: That was years ago, that was in the eighties, but
Speaker 1: he was looking.
Speaker 6: This is twenty and fourteen, and that was the last
Speaker 6: time that I had spoken to him until that town
Speaker 6: hall meeting on News Nation.
Speaker 3: And as you watch all these things unfold, do you
Speaker 3: think yourself?
Speaker 4: Yep, he got us all back.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, hell yeah yeah. How could you
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 6: I mean, because listen, listen, there are things I don't
Speaker 6: think anybody. I'm a centrist at hart. I always vote
Speaker 6: I usually vote Democrat. The only Republican I've ever voted
Speaker 6: for was Chris Christie's former governor of New Jersey. Outside
Speaker 6: of that, I've always voted Democrat. But there's a lot
Speaker 6: of things that I think can be done differently. I
Speaker 6: thought the left blew this election more so than him
Speaker 6: winning it. Really, Oh yeah, the left definitely blew it.
Speaker 1: I thought that.
Speaker 6: I thought that the progressive left, the extreme left, really
Speaker 6: really ruined the election for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: And that's that's how I view it.
Speaker 6: It's the truth, and I think that I think that
Speaker 6: because that happened, it positioned him to get away with
Speaker 6: a lot of things. His position on immigration has been
Speaker 6: well known. He lets you know what he was going
Speaker 6: to do. A lot of times.
Speaker 4: He did it on an escalator.
Speaker 3: Yeah, about the most powerful mode of transportation that he
Speaker 3: doesn't care.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing about it is, listen.
Speaker 6: Don't be surprised when you see him and you're thinking
Speaker 6: about in this or you're thinking about.
Speaker 1: Vengeance or whatever.
Speaker 6: He's viewing it as they try to put me in prison,
Speaker 6: they try to put me behind balls for the rest
Speaker 6: of my life.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get them all. And he won't just openly
Speaker 1: admit it.
Speaker 6: He'll say stuff like I wouldn't do that, but I'd
Speaker 6: have the right to if I wanted to.
Speaker 1: He's letting you know and.
Speaker 6: The people that he's also doing it to a degree, Yes,
Speaker 6: he is, no question.
Speaker 3: Don't you think you know it would be reasonable to
Speaker 3: say that January sixth was a moment that you should
Speaker 3: have maybe gotten him some legal You know.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a happenstance. I am one of those who
Speaker 1: family believes it was in this direction. There's no question
Speaker 1: about it. I'm not backing up from that.
Speaker 6: But the reality is that I pay attention to seventy
Speaker 6: plus million people who felt otherwise or did not give
Speaker 6: a damn because what they did.
Speaker 1: What they said was.
Speaker 6: We're looking at this country, the state of affairs that
Speaker 6: exists within this station, and we're concerned about ourselves. We
Speaker 6: ain't got time for that. We don't care whether he's
Speaker 6: in jail or not. We might care if he's in
Speaker 6: a White House or not, but we don't care whether
Speaker 6: he's in jail or not. If you're the left and
Speaker 6: you engaged in what the right would say is law fear,
Speaker 6: trying to use the courts to keep from having to
Speaker 6: compete with him, and then you're putting forth some of
Speaker 6: these policies, whether it's transgender issues of other stuff that
Speaker 6: they would bring up. You had a lot of people
Speaker 6: to say, that's not where I focus should lie.
Speaker 3: Don't you think that's their focus?
Speaker 4: The right?
Speaker 3: I feel like the right is far more focused on
Speaker 3: where you go to the bathroom than the left. I
Speaker 3: feel like the left is a more less a fair
Speaker 3: like you know, Look, I think the left is it's
Speaker 3: easy to paint the extreme and to create a hyperbolic
Speaker 3: vision the left as uh, this woke army. I think
Speaker 3: it's uh, I think it's exaggerated.
Speaker 6: Yes, but here's the problem, John, You can be on
Speaker 6: national TV every single week doing the phenomenal job that
Speaker 6: you one day every week. I just say I know
Speaker 6: this once I said what I said every week one day,
Speaker 6: I said every week on this every day.
Speaker 1: The point is.
Speaker 6: The point is is that even though you're pointing that out,
Speaker 6: when you're running for an election, it's about what's.
Speaker 1: Going to win.
Speaker 6: And they knew that that was a strategy that was
Speaker 6: going to be a winning strategy for them. But then,
Speaker 6: so is it the left's fault if it's not really
Speaker 6: because you got to know what works and what doesn't
Speaker 6: and fight fire with fire.
Speaker 1: You got to know how to try to win it,
Speaker 1: how to win they call them hitlers. Did that work? No,
Speaker 1: did that work exactly?
Speaker 6: A matter of fact, a lot of people dismissed that
Speaker 6: argument because they accused the left of engaging in the
Speaker 6: extreme because you didn't want to compete against them. Think
Speaker 6: about this, The man rolled down the stret roll down
Speaker 6: to escalators in twenty fifteen. Okay, he's dominated the GOP
Speaker 6: and the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: Since that moment of time. Who the hell has done
Speaker 1: that for the left?
Speaker 6: It was Hillary's turn in twenty sixteen, even though Bernie
Speaker 6: was gaining traction in twenty twenty, Representative Clodburn had to
Speaker 6: come to the rescue in South Carolina in order for
Speaker 6: Joe Biden to even be relevant. And then obviously with
Speaker 6: COVID and everything that had transpired and how Trump handled
Speaker 6: that particular situation, it favored the Democrats. Then you get
Speaker 6: into office, Biden promised to be a transitional president, a
Speaker 6: one term president. I'm just here to be as a
Speaker 6: stop gap to make sure that we can return the normalcy.
Speaker 6: And then the second he got in and there was
Speaker 6: no red wave in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Two, he said, hell, we that I ain't leaving it.
Speaker 1: I ain't leaving And then what happened.
Speaker 4: Touch the ring.
Speaker 1: If you touch the ring, there you go. It's an addiction.
Speaker 1: It's an addiction, right.
Speaker 6: And then, sure enough, when the red Wave didn't happen
Speaker 6: and the Democrats won more than anybody expected them to
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty two, they let them get away with it.
Speaker 6: And think about it. You call yourself the left, you
Speaker 6: call yourself a progressive party, and you are standing up
Speaker 6: at the State of the Union clamping, clapping and chanting
Speaker 6: four more years for a man that was going to
Speaker 6: be eighty two once the election, once in the inorguration,
Speaker 6: they took place with four more years, and the America
Speaker 6: looked at yourself, have you lost your ever love in mind?
Speaker 1: That's what the hell happened. It's very sep when ain't
Speaker 1: that damn complicated? There really isn't.
Speaker 3: But that seems to be a cross purposes. Stephen Ah
Speaker 3: Schmith's Okay, let me let's first take this.
Speaker 1: Okay, please let me take And you are doing it.
Speaker 1: You're doing a very good.
Speaker 4: Because you are saying you're gonna have me on that show.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, you welcome, come home.
Speaker 4: What time does it take?
Speaker 6: It is it only say am ten am, five days
Speaker 6: a week, ten am to you.
Speaker 1: Come one day.
Speaker 3: Don't grind me down the week you come one day.
Speaker 4: When you talk about So that's two separate things.
Speaker 3: One is they allowed a what people would consider to
Speaker 3: be a centrist old guard Democrat to run again for president.
Speaker 4: And then you say, the progressive left wing.
Speaker 3: Is the one that didn't. They didn't choose Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: They don't have the power in that party. Chuck Schumer
Speaker 3: is out there, you know, writing eight strongly worded questions
Speaker 3: to Donald Trump about getting the progressives are the one
Speaker 3: going people in this country want medicare for all, do something.
Speaker 3: They're the ones that have a principal agenda that they
Speaker 3: are going to put forth that all the Democrats have
Speaker 3: run from in under the guise of we have to
Speaker 3: be moderate and we have to be centrist. But that
Speaker 3: doesn't appeal to changing the culture and dynamic of how
Speaker 3: this government should work by.
Speaker 4: The people, for the people of the people.
Speaker 1: That's a great argument, and I don't disagree. What I'm
Speaker 1: saying to you is that.
Speaker 4: They're done here.
Speaker 1: What I am saying to you.
Speaker 6: What I am saying to you, however, is that the
Speaker 6: messenger matters. And when you have somebody in their seventies
Speaker 6: like Bernie at the time, when you have somebody in
Speaker 6: their late seventies approaching their eighties like Joe Body, but
Speaker 6: the GOP is the one that lives on their tradition,
Speaker 6: old school ways not necessarily want things to change. We
Speaker 6: want free market capitalism, we want closed borders, we want
Speaker 6: strong national cure. This is what they say, and that
Speaker 6: message is resolute and the same and the same and
Speaker 6: the same.
Speaker 1: Even though their tactics obviously vary.
Speaker 6: When you look at the left, there's always there always
Speaker 6: seems to be something new, at least in the odds
Speaker 6: of a lot of people. The Democratic Party looks very,
Speaker 6: very fragmented. You look at them and you're saying, okay,
Speaker 6: is it the progressive left is the centrist?
Speaker 1: Who are we viobbing with, who are we flowing with?
Speaker 1: Who's going to get it done? Who can beat Trump?
Speaker 6: Because we got to think about the competition if Trump.
Speaker 6: And I've often said this too, they said why is
Speaker 6: Trump so popular?
Speaker 1: Somebody asked me this a few months ago, and I said,
Speaker 1: let me tell y'all something.
Speaker 6: You have certain voters out there and they're looking at you,
Speaker 6: and they say, okay, you know John Stewart's voter. Well,
Speaker 6: John Stewart's looking at you, and he hears you say, Look,
Speaker 6: we got to fix our economy.
Speaker 1: We've got to patrol our borders.
Speaker 6: We've got to do a better job of making sure
Speaker 6: we take care of the desolate and the disenfranchised.
Speaker 1: Think about them, think about small businesses throughout the country,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. And then you have.
Speaker 6: Another candidate that comes along and they say, the hell
Speaker 6: with them. They ain't worth the damn. They're crooks, they're
Speaker 6: no good bastards. I can't stand them, and you shouldn't either.
Speaker 6: The American people who voted for Trump are like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we loved it.
Speaker 6: That's what we're talking about, because that's how they feel
Speaker 6: about our elected officials. So they think they have somebody
Speaker 6: speaking their language that has enough venom, there, enough hostilities,
Speaker 6: enough discussed with the nation's capital, and they're saying, he's
Speaker 6: not one of them. He's one of us. That's why
Speaker 6: he's popular. But Jade Vance might not be.
Speaker 1: That's why he's popular. But Marco Rubio wants it, that's
Speaker 1: why he's popular.
Speaker 3: But guy, he's got the touch, He's got the tough
Speaker 3: demagogue that can do that.
Speaker 1: So in the demagogue again, this may be a one off.
Speaker 3: So who inherits because he can't constitutionally run again?
Speaker 4: Or do you think in the same way that he went?
Speaker 3: And by the way, I don't know if this happens
Speaker 3: to people when they're talking to you, But all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, I'm talking much fatter than I've ever talked
Speaker 3: in my entire.
Speaker 4: Life, and I'm fligging around and I'm moving my hands
Speaker 4: and I'm doing this, and.
Speaker 2: I've never spoken like this in my entire life.
Speaker 3: And I am scared because I don't know how I'm
Speaker 3: gonna stop.
Speaker 4: And I keep wanting to say, stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith, I want to say.
Speaker 4: Your own name.
Speaker 1: That's right, Well, Steven, what's happening to me? Stephen stephen
Speaker 1: A works? You spoken to me enough? Because if you
Speaker 1: spoke to me, be enough to be Stephen they not Steven Smith. Really,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 4: Do you think I could ever get to the point
Speaker 4: where it's just stephen A?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think after today you'd like that very much.
Speaker 1: I think after day you will get that. I'd like that.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm saying because I'm because I'm your brother,
Speaker 6: You'll do that.
Speaker 2: Listen to it.
Speaker 3: I do want to ask you that because as you
Speaker 3: so your name now, because as you're observing this, you're
Speaker 3: pushing those buttons, you're the one saying, as Trump had said, yes,
Speaker 3: it is corrupt, it is uh.
Speaker 4: These people are bumps.
Speaker 3: They don't have your best And now that has thrust
Speaker 3: you into that conversation.
Speaker 4: Yes, And the question is.
Speaker 3: That something that appeals to the vanity, is it's something
Speaker 3: that appeals to your principle, to your morality? Where do
Speaker 3: you take that interest and how do you and how
Speaker 3: do you.
Speaker 6: People think people think I'm interested in being an elected official.
Speaker 6: I have no desire to be that. I'd have to
Speaker 6: give up a lot of money to do that. First
Speaker 6: of all, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know what.
Speaker 3: But the rules have changed, and then you don't a
Speaker 3: lot of my money, only a lot of my money.
Speaker 1: They say I earned my money.
Speaker 4: We've been a mean coin. Would be rolling billions with that.
Speaker 2: But check this out.
Speaker 1: If you were the president, I feel you. I feel
Speaker 1: you on that.
Speaker 6: But the way I look at it, at the money
Speaker 6: that I have earned working my ass off all of
Speaker 6: these years.
Speaker 1: Now, I would have.
Speaker 6: The Curry favor, which means I would be owned, and
Speaker 6: I ain't having that. So I'm not interested in that
Speaker 6: at all. But having said that, like I consider you
Speaker 6: to be in various others, I want to be a
Speaker 6: major player in terms of a voice and a conduit
Speaker 6: for change.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that people know that the
Speaker 1: BS has got to stop.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I don't mind doing that. I don't mind
Speaker 6: doing that at all. You want to be a hell raiser.
Speaker 6: You want to make sure you make people uncomfortable and
Speaker 6: that they're not going to get away with the bs
Speaker 6: that they've been getting away with, because I believe white, black,
Speaker 6: and everything in between. Society as a whole, by and large,
Speaker 6: are a lot of great, godfirit individuals that can get
Speaker 6: along just find I think the politicians in this country
Speaker 6: have served to divide us and paint us against one
Speaker 6: another for their own selfish deeds, and I think that
Speaker 6: they have contributed to the demise of this country. So
Speaker 6: I don't mind calling them out at all. I don't
Speaker 6: give a damn who it is. It could be a councilman,
Speaker 6: it could be a mayor, it could be a governor,
Speaker 6: it could be a senator or a representative, the president themselves.
Speaker 1: I could care less. Whoever needs to go needs to go.
Speaker 1: And I'm about.
Speaker 3: It's been a pleasure. I do have to say, if
Speaker 3: you had run for president. Yes, three years ago, when
Speaker 3: the New York Knickerbockers signed a young point guard named
Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson, Stephen A.
Speaker 4: Smith went on television might have been an ESPN.
Speaker 3: Yes, sat there and he looked dead in the camera, Yes,
Speaker 3: right in the eyes, and he said to the people
Speaker 3: of America, white, black and everything in between, Jalen Brunson
Speaker 3: ain't the guy. Okay, Yes, to me, that's an impeachable offense,
Speaker 3: and I would not.
Speaker 1: Have Can I respond? Can I respond?
Speaker 6: Who may first of all, let me say something. Let
Speaker 6: me say something the president would never say.
Speaker 4: I may never stop talking like this.
Speaker 1: I was wrong.
Speaker 6: I was wrong, which Jayleen Brunton reminds me of, and
Speaker 6: he reminded me of that night gave six when they
Speaker 6: beat Boston.
Speaker 1: He always reminds do it every time he says that.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing.
Speaker 6: At that time, Kevin Durant with Kyrie Irvin was supposed
Speaker 6: to be arriving in New York. They had missed out
Speaker 6: on getting those guys, and they gave us Jaylen Brunson.
Speaker 1: Now, I ask you respect.
Speaker 6: Especially at that particular moment in time, k D as
Speaker 6: in Kevin Durant with Kyrie Irvin, and we are all
Speaker 6: anticipating them coming to the guarden, okay, and then we
Speaker 6: find out they.
Speaker 1: Going to Brooklyn.
Speaker 6: They changed their mind at the eleventh hour with Kyrie
Speaker 6: got Kvie and changing.
Speaker 1: Subject and we got Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry the what a crime that I felt that way.
Speaker 6: Now I don't feel that way now, but at the time.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry I felt that way.
Speaker 1: I stayed by heart in the contexts.
Speaker 4: And I just want to say to the people when
Speaker 4: you turned and you.
Speaker 3: Said, and I We'll tell you I saw the soul
Speaker 3: of Stephen A.
Speaker 4: Smith after dark and I liked what I saw.
Speaker 2: Stephen.
Speaker 3: I say, Turner series for the end of September, and
Speaker 3: Stephen I said, without YouTube.
Speaker 1: Craig Great, got me right back after day.
Speaker 4: Hey, everybody goes chuping tonight before we go.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take him with your os for the rest
Speaker 3: of the week. Doesie, Bob does what are we going
Speaker 3: to look at.
Speaker 4: At this week? Oh?
Speaker 12: Huge week coming up, John, I'll be covering all the
Speaker 12: preparations for this Saturday's epic Pride parade down in d C.
Speaker 12: Trump cannot stop talking about it. Who knew he was
Speaker 12: such an ally?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the military parade, Donald Trump shone,
Speaker 3: that's not that's not Pride related.
Speaker 4: That's our military.
Speaker 12: No, I don't think so, John. It's the middle of June.
Speaker 12: The flags, the flare, the jacked men in uniform who are.
Speaker 2: Serving no.
Speaker 12: Mark my words, those streets will be flooded with seamen.
Speaker 4: You're talking about men who serve in the Navy.
Speaker 11: No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Doesn't hid it?
Speaker 4: Call this week, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Here it is the.
Speaker 14: Moment of this Now, the threat of active military raises
Speaker 14: a certain question about whether the White House is in
Speaker 14: the job of de escalation or escalation. And I think
Speaker 14: that's a fair question to ask, given what we've seen
Speaker 14: over the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 11: And we are now seen on our screen right now
Speaker 11: what appears to be a dumpster fire.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah.
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