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Speaker 4: Talk about tonight.
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Speaker 5: So let's get into Indecision twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: It's a new day in America.
Speaker 5: Can you feel the delights all sunshine and roses or
Speaker 5: whatever makes people happy?
Speaker 4: No? Okay, well maybe you're not looking hot enough.
Speaker 6: We're going to begin, though, with the start of the
Speaker 6: something that makes this country so great when it happens.
Speaker 7: We're talking about the promise of a peaceful transfer of power.
Speaker 5: Whoa peace for transfer power? Let's share it for the
Speaker 5: bad minimum of a democracy. The first step of this
Speaker 5: was Kamala Harris calling Donald Trump to promise that she
Speaker 5: wouldn't do what he tried to do.
Speaker 8: The Vice President called President elect Trump to congratulate him.
Speaker 9: According to Senior Harris aid, the vice president discussed the
Speaker 9: importance of a peaceful transfer of power.
Speaker 5: Yes, Scotlana called Trump considered the race and told him
Speaker 5: that should be a peaceful transfer of power. And you know,
Speaker 5: as soon as Trump hung up the phone, he was like, yeah, yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's greats. So I guess American democracy still works as
Speaker 5: long as the guy who likes overthrowing the government wins
Speaker 5: the election, because then he won't overthrow the government. So
Speaker 5: with the transfer happening, we're gonna be talking about Trump
Speaker 5: again every day for another four years.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 5: And I for one did not think that when I
Speaker 5: came out of the jungles of Malaysia to do comedy
Speaker 5: that I will be making jokes about Donald Trump every
Speaker 5: day for thirteen years straight.
Speaker 4: Thirteen years.
Speaker 5: I will talk about anybody as much as I will
Speaker 5: talk about my mom as much as I talk about
Speaker 5: this guy. I will talk about my wife as much
Speaker 5: as I talk about this guy. My wife thinks I'm
Speaker 5: having an emotional fair with him. I'm gonna talking about
Speaker 5: this guy on my deathbay, okay, which I assume will
Speaker 5: be in three years when he somehow brings back the
Speaker 5: bubonic plague, and you might be sitting at home saying, Oh, Ronnie,
Speaker 5: why don't you just shut the stop about Trump? Well,
Speaker 5: for the same reason CNN doesn't shut the flap about him.
Speaker 4: Money, lots and lots of money.
Speaker 5: So let's get these dollars right now and get back
Speaker 5: to Donald Trump. And you know what, attitude is everything.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be optimistic. If Donald Trump can get
Speaker 5: some good people around him this time.
Speaker 4: Maybe he'll do good for the country. I mean, who
Speaker 4: is he getting to help him for the transition?
Speaker 9: And I'm going to be heavily involved on the transition.
Speaker 5: Great, it's take your dumb ass to work day and
Speaker 5: what qualifications would don Jr?
Speaker 4: Be looking for?
Speaker 9: I want to make sure now that we know who
Speaker 9: the real players are, the people who will actually deliver
Speaker 9: on the president's message, the people who don't think that
Speaker 9: they know better than the duly elected president of the
Speaker 9: United States.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no more smart people, only people who look at
Speaker 5: my idiot dad and go what a genius? And where
Speaker 5: is Trump going to find people who will do whatever
Speaker 5: he says? I mean, then they all die when they
Speaker 5: injected themselves with bleach.
Speaker 4: So let's see who these people are.
Speaker 10: Seventy five days from now, Trump returns to the White House,
Speaker 10: and right now there is an intense focus on who
Speaker 10: he will surround himself with Florida Center, Marco Rubio, possibly
Speaker 10: former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, maybe Secretary of Defense,
Speaker 10: former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf perhaps reappointed.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, you know what, Actually not as bad as
Speaker 5: I expected. Michael Rubio, Mike Pompeo, they're basically professional political administrators,
Speaker 5: right at least they're wearing suits and ties.
Speaker 4: It could be worse.
Speaker 10: And then there's some some shall we say, more unusual
Speaker 10: names Steve Bannon, Conspiracy Not Laura Lumer, Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
Speaker 10: and Elon Musk.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, it's worse.
Speaker 5: This cabinet looks like the division of the X Men
Speaker 5: for the mutants who had too much mutation, Like, hey,
Speaker 5: what's your mutant power? I'll just talk like us, capel Trustmer. Okay,
Speaker 5: So this is the A team and other names floated
Speaker 5: for his cabinet include a Hannibal Lector, the Menendez Brothers,
Speaker 5: the Poliovirus, and for Secretary of Transportation, a cyber trunk
Speaker 5: of a Hitler mustache. Now, Don Junior isn't the only
Speaker 5: one think about the transition. So is the guy who
Speaker 5: has spent the last two years trying to transition Trump
Speaker 5: into a prison zone. Tonight, Special Council Jack Smith is
Speaker 5: now signaling he'll wind down.
Speaker 11: His two federal cases against President elect Trump.
Speaker 1: The January sixth criminal case and the classified document's case
Speaker 1: are effectively over. DLJ guidelines are clear you cannot prosecute
Speaker 1: a sitting president.
Speaker 4: Great Trump gets off with no punishment.
Speaker 5: It still says the famous quote says, the oc of
Speaker 5: the moral universe is long, but it bends towards.
Speaker 4: Sorry, run out of time. He's president now.
Speaker 5: Apparently you can just get away with your crimes if
Speaker 5: you win the presidency. And that sound you just heard
Speaker 5: is Diddy forming an exploratory committee for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5: I mean, he doesn't even need any policies. He just
Speaker 5: hands out behind other people's policies, going uh uh huh yeah. So,
Speaker 5: not only does he get off on January sixth, Trump
Speaker 5: boso gets off on stolen documents. In fact, not only
Speaker 5: are they not going to prosecute him, they have to
Speaker 5: put the documents back where they found them scattered around
Speaker 5: his toilet in ma A Lago.
Speaker 4: Trump gets to be president.
Speaker 5: He doesn't have to go to prison, which means he
Speaker 5: doesn't have to sneak in a tanning bed up his rectum.
Speaker 5: And probably the best part for him is having the
Speaker 5: guy who kicked him out of the White House come
Speaker 5: him back.
Speaker 7: Yesterday, I spoke with President elect Trump to congratulate him
Speaker 7: on his victory, and I assured him I direct my
Speaker 7: entire administration to work with his team to ensure a
Speaker 7: peaceful and orderly transition.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, we get it. Okay. People love transferring
Speaker 4: power peacefully. It's on and on about it.
Speaker 5: Hey, maybe if Democrats tried an insurrection once in a while,
Speaker 5: they can actually start winning something wet. Apparently there's no
Speaker 5: punishment for it anyway. It's just a free shot. I mean,
Speaker 5: if it works, you stay in office, and if it doesn't,
Speaker 5: no harm, no foul. But of course, Joe Biden couldn't
Speaker 5: call it quits without reminding people that his administration was
Speaker 5: about more than just you paying fifty dollars for eggs.
Speaker 7: Much of the work we've done is already being felt
Speaker 7: by the American people, with the vast majority of it
Speaker 7: will not be felt we felt over the next ten years.
Speaker 7: We have legislation we passed. It's just only now just
Speaker 7: really kicking in.
Speaker 5: Cool all his good decisions are kicking in just in
Speaker 5: time for Donald Trump to take credit for them. Perfect
Speaker 5: execution as usual Democrats. But as you heard, Joe Biden
Speaker 5: called Donald Trump to personally congratulate him and welcome him
Speaker 5: to the White House. And luckily we at the Daily
Speaker 5: Show managed to get the audio of that call.
Speaker 12: Hello Donald, Joe Brandon, gratatous man, he'd be calama.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you did it. Oh, I like
Speaker 1: a lot and I was super racist.
Speaker 12: Oh good. That might have worked on Calamario in the semifinals.
Speaker 1: They got to be me final boss. No, Joe, that's
Speaker 1: not how it works. I won the whole thing. Oh God,
Speaker 1: love you. Hey, who is this? It's Donald Trump?
Speaker 4: You called me?
Speaker 12: Well, good luck to you, guy. I promise me you
Speaker 12: take care of my precious dog, Commander.
Speaker 1: I'll do my best show. But christinom called dibbs.
Speaker 12: I understand. I'll be honestan all sad, being usual, hold
Speaker 12: on the legacy now, I guys high scoring a White
Speaker 12: House pac Man machine. Well, yeall guy, eat thoughts all
Speaker 12: day sometimes fruit Cherry and Charlie.
Speaker 1: Joe, I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest I'm also kind of sad. Running for
Speaker 1: president is my passion, but being president is a terrible
Speaker 1: price I have to pay for being so good at racism.
Speaker 12: What do you mean, Joe?
Speaker 1: Your Joe? I'm Donald. Look what I mean is now
Speaker 1: I have to spend all my time with Rfk and
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and they're weird. And this is Donald Trump
Speaker 1: saying that. Oh I just wish I could keep the
Speaker 1: campaign going forever. Well, i'll tell you why.
Speaker 12: In four years, if new of Us is married, we
Speaker 12: both run for president.
Speaker 1: I can't see other four years. You really think you'll
Speaker 1: make it that long?
Speaker 12: Hey, I might be jad if I'm not old, pretty sick?
Speaker 12: You know, few me again twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Best You're free, you beautiful son of a bitch. I'm in.
Speaker 1: I just have to ignore the part of the constitution
Speaker 1: that stabs me from running again.
Speaker 12: You can just spect constitution like that. Hey, who is this?
Speaker 12: When we come back?
Speaker 5: We found out a whole time because I'm gonna save
Speaker 5: I'm soon goware.
Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to Dami Show.
Speaker 5: If you're worried right now that Don Trump is going
Speaker 5: to ruin America, I think your feels are misplaced because
Speaker 5: he actually might ruin the entire planet.
Speaker 13: President elect Donald Trump's return to the White House could
Speaker 13: slow global climate action.
Speaker 11: Trump dowling to pull the US out of the Paris
Speaker 11: Climate Accord a second ton.
Speaker 10: Trump is called climate change a hoax and is promising
Speaker 10: to boost oil drilling and production.
Speaker 13: Repealing parts of the IRA this massive one point two
Speaker 13: trillion dollar investment package in clean technology, including electric vehicles,
Speaker 13: wind turbine, solar panels.
Speaker 4: I expect them to try to undo as much as
Speaker 4: he can.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess destroying the planet is one way to
Speaker 5: advance your policy agenda.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't be trans if there's no planets.
Speaker 5: Trump has really tried to kill this planet hotther than
Speaker 5: he tried to kill Mike Pence. But hey, Mike Pence survives,
Speaker 5: so maybe the off will be fine.
Speaker 11: New data suggests twenty twenty four will be the hottest
Speaker 11: year on record. According to experts, it is virtually certain
Speaker 11: that global temperatures will be more than one point five
Speaker 11: degrees above pre industrial levels.
Speaker 3: At that level of climate crisis begins to exceed the
Speaker 3: ability of humans and nature to adapt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this sounds kind of bad.
Speaker 5: I only wish someone could have warned us about this
Speaker 5: apart from every scientist for the last fifty years. The
Speaker 5: good news is the scientists are my enough to know
Speaker 5: that we weren't going to listen, and they have a
Speaker 5: backup plan.
Speaker 8: Since the nineteen seventies, scientists have been warning humanity that
Speaker 8: carbon pollution could destroy all life on Earth, and during
Speaker 8: that time, humanity increased carbon pollution by ninety percent.
Speaker 4: But hey, we're not mad. We get it. You don't
Speaker 4: want to take the bus to work, and now that
Speaker 4: the Earth is dying, you want us to find a solution.
Speaker 4: So we did.
Speaker 8: We scientists have invented this, a super advanced self sustaining
Speaker 8: spaceship that will escape this planet and give humanity a
Speaker 8: fresh start.
Speaker 4: And you're not coming. Oh you thought we were going
Speaker 4: to bail you out.
Speaker 6: You can come and pick up Mars too.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 8: No, Plus, you're gonna bring your lifted f one fifties
Speaker 8: and aliens will think we're the kind of people that
Speaker 8: don't wash our buttholes.
Speaker 4: It's too bad for you, because we've decked this ship out.
Speaker 8: We've got movie theaters, theme part and bar trivia that's
Speaker 8: actually hard because we're smart.
Speaker 4: None of this general knowledge bullshit.
Speaker 8: This now extinct historical figure ignored science and died horrifically.
Speaker 4: Hey, that's you.
Speaker 8: We also gathered two of each animal so Gordon Ramsay
Speaker 8: can cook them for us.
Speaker 1: M kangaroo.
Speaker 8: Oh and if you're a liberal who thinks I deserve
Speaker 8: a spot I recycle, you're definitely out. Recycling doesn't matter
Speaker 8: if your closet is full of plastic clothing from Shean
Speaker 8: ruining the environment and you look like shit. Now I
Speaker 8: know what you're thinking. You'll just stop the ship before
Speaker 8: we leave. Well, guess what assholes we took off while
Speaker 8: you were watching this video? Ah from all us scientists
Speaker 8: and Gordon Ramsay, you're at the USS told you so,
Speaker 8: we're out and we're corolling your asses on our way.
Speaker 4: Also, we're keeping This method has been brought to.
Speaker 8: You by Amazon, Apple and Exxon. It definitely wasn't our fault.
Speaker 4: Thanks scientists.
Speaker 3: Let me come back, and we know we'll be joining
Speaker 3: you on the show, so don't go away. Welcome back
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Speaker 5: I guess tonight is a political reporter and co author
Speaker 5: of the New York playbook at Political Please welcome Emily.
Speaker 4: No oh Net will come down show. Beginning of Standing Out.
Speaker 5: Emily next for coming on the show. These all huge
Speaker 5: fans of you. They give you a standing ovation. The
Speaker 5: New York playbook at Political is like a must read
Speaker 5: for all politicians and people who follow politics. And I
Speaker 5: guess the journalists there are kind of like the best
Speaker 5: political journalists in the country and disputed. Yeah, and you
Speaker 5: guys kind of take pride in having your finger on
Speaker 5: the pulse and knowing the people and the and the
Speaker 5: and the politicians.
Speaker 4: What happened on Tuesday, I.
Speaker 6: Wish I could redirect and ask you because we're still
Speaker 6: processing it all. But the fact of the matter is
Speaker 6: Donald Trump and Magra Public grew their electric, grew their
Speaker 6: support right under Democrats' noses. They made gains and all
Speaker 6: these key demographics. Did you know that nearly one half
Speaker 6: of Latino men and one fifth of black men voted
Speaker 6: for Donald Trump. He made gains in all these racial
Speaker 6: minority communities. He grew his support among working class Americans,
Speaker 6: so not just disaffected, rural of white voters, but a
Speaker 6: lot of people of racial minorities as well.
Speaker 5: Right, So, as someone whose ear was on the ground
Speaker 5: in New York City, I mean, did you see this happen?
Speaker 4: Is this a surprise to you.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say it's a surprise. I traveled with Donald Trump,
Speaker 6: covered his campaign.
Speaker 4: Do you put money on his campaign?
Speaker 5: You had the insight, you go Polymoket and some French
Speaker 5: guys just won fifty million dollars betting on Trump. So
Speaker 5: I don't know if you had somebody would I be
Speaker 5: here if I had me use that inside knowledge?
Speaker 6: So you felt that you failed the growth just knowing
Speaker 6: the country, having traveled with his campaign in twenty sixteen
Speaker 6: and been to parts of Pennsylvania and the West that
Speaker 6: were stricken by economic flight, and talked with people who
Speaker 6: get their news from different sources than political and the
Speaker 6: Daily Show, and you.
Speaker 4: Should get we should be getting their news from here.
Speaker 10: This is.
Speaker 5: We just we just made a bunch of dig jokes
Speaker 5: in the first So if you're watching this for news,
Speaker 5: don't watch.
Speaker 4: This for here.
Speaker 6: But but I mean you it's fell like they were
Speaker 6: left behind.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, one thing is that you're you're not just going
Speaker 5: to these cities. You're you're going to cities and you're
Speaker 5: with the candidates and you're actually with the voting population,
Speaker 5: so you get a really good sense of yes, so
Speaker 5: not even.
Speaker 6: Cities villages like unincorporated parts of the country, people who
Speaker 6: are sharing to vote or voting for the first time
Speaker 6: and really found in Donald Trump. I mean, they're not
Speaker 6: seeing everything that people metropolis is necessarily see. They just
Speaker 6: see someone who cares, according to them, about inflation, someone
Speaker 6: who's worried about border security, worried about migrants, and people
Speaker 6: who arrive here and stay illegally.
Speaker 5: How much of it is that they didn't see the
Speaker 5: news and how much of it is that they just
Speaker 5: kind of hurt what they wanted to hear, or they
Speaker 5: didn't hear what they didn't want to hear.
Speaker 6: I mean that's a little bit of both. Right that
Speaker 6: we have this fun phenomenon called confirmation bias, where you're
Speaker 6: only going to read and watch and listen to what
Speaker 6: confirms your pre existing beliefs. And so the more diversify
Speaker 6: the news media becomes, the more you're finding sources of information,
Speaker 6: including on social media, that are just fitting what you
Speaker 6: want and believe and want to hear. It's not like
Speaker 6: five television stations and these anchors giving everyone the same
Speaker 6: kind of news. It's your social media algorithm.
Speaker 5: Being changed to Diversifying news media is very generous to
Speaker 5: these thing TikTok idiots. You know, so you're a professional journalist,
Speaker 5: you went to school for this, You've been doing a
Speaker 5: long time. You know, how do you feel when these
Speaker 5: you know, podcasts whatever come in and they you know,
Speaker 5: they just put the news for everybody, and then and
Speaker 5: then you try to clean it up, but then you
Speaker 5: know it's already.
Speaker 4: Kind of lost. Cause I mean how I feel you
Speaker 4: can't say a few to them. This is basically you
Speaker 4: can tell.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I will note that they get their information from
Speaker 6: journalists and reporters like the ones that political people who
Speaker 6: are on the ground, who are talking directly to the
Speaker 6: politicians to the vote.
Speaker 4: Sorry, who is they? What do you mean they get
Speaker 4: the TikTokers people they gave from you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, they wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Know the half of the way it comes out the
Speaker 4: other end of the.
Speaker 6: It's strained, there's a filter.
Speaker 4: It's digested and turned into.
Speaker 6: They're taking they're taking news from an original source.
Speaker 5: Well, well maybe you can talk a little bit about that,
Speaker 5: because you know, you're like a you couldn't be more
Speaker 5: of an insider in terms of not just covering politics,
Speaker 5: but journalism, and so sometimes I think the lay person
Speaker 5: you know, like myself included. We hear things like the
Speaker 5: unnamed sources or uh, this was off the record, or
Speaker 5: you know, you hear about you watch enough Aaron Sarkin,
Speaker 5: and you're like, oh, they need the news editor needs
Speaker 5: two confirms sources before we can publish this. And you
Speaker 5: know all this because you're in. It's almost like the
Speaker 5: etiquette of news. But the general public just reads the
Speaker 5: final article and they don't know what went into that.
Speaker 5: So they see a quote and they go, well, this
Speaker 5: could be fake. And by the same token, someone else
Speaker 5: can go, oh, all I need to do to do
Speaker 5: news is put things in quotes. And then so I mean,
Speaker 5: how what can you just lead us through what goes
Speaker 5: into a news story?
Speaker 6: Sources are first person sources. Sometimes the sources are the
Speaker 6: politicians themselves. There is I'll let you figure. Sometimes I
Speaker 6: haven't done this myself, but you will have quoted someone
Speaker 6: who is familiar with the principles, thinking that could be
Speaker 6: a politician. They're familiar with thrown thinking that blind.
Speaker 5: Quote is a politician rights in they are giving you
Speaker 5: anonymous quote but is themselves.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so I do that all the time. I
Speaker 4: always say, Ryan Chang is.
Speaker 6: But you would be a person familiar with Ronnie Chang
Speaker 6: think you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a pleasant familla.
Speaker 5: Ryan Chang's thinking things that he's the best holes on
Speaker 5: a daily show, and I'd do.
Speaker 1: Every single day.
Speaker 4: People got out anonymous sources.
Speaker 6: So that's rare what I just described. But the more
Speaker 6: direct and close you get to the story, the more
Speaker 6: accurate it is. And yeah, trust in journalism and institution
Speaker 6: is that an all time low. It's pretty devastating for
Speaker 6: someone like me who's worked so hard and works so
Speaker 6: hard in each story to make sure that I talk
Speaker 6: to as many people as possible, verify it with as
Speaker 6: many people as possible. And it's not even just both sides.
Speaker 6: You're talking to as many sides as possible, because there's
Speaker 6: not a two side situation actually in most news stories.
Speaker 5: Sure, I mean not to put you on the spot,
Speaker 5: but can you give an example of a story that
Speaker 5: you worked super hot on that something on Twitter was
Speaker 5: like dude, this is fake or whatever.
Speaker 6: I think that's happened, like every hour to be hover.
Speaker 4: Everything you report is just mute them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but so can you just again just take us
Speaker 5: through kind of what we'll go into a reporting for you,
Speaker 5: Like if you know I don't know what's a new
Speaker 5: story that you had to like actually investigation.
Speaker 6: I might try to think of a good example, but
Speaker 6: I just don't say that it's such a privilege to
Speaker 6: do what I do because every day is different. So
Speaker 6: I don't even have a proper example for you because
Speaker 6: every story is different. But you can get a tip.
Speaker 6: It'll be via text. If you've worked in journalism, political
Speaker 6: journalism for as long as me. People are just they'll
Speaker 6: go directly to you before they go to any other
Speaker 6: news outlet or a reporter or anything like that. They
Speaker 6: don't want to tell you on the record, but they'll
Speaker 6: tell you on background. You got to get confirmed by
Speaker 6: other people who might know, and you're just jumping through
Speaker 6: all these hoops but making sure that every detail is
Speaker 6: as accurate as possible. And the way to make it
Speaker 6: accurate and have people trust what you do is to
Speaker 6: get it right, and it's got to be accuracy over speed.
Speaker 6: It is a very competitive business, and you do want
Speaker 6: to be first, and there is a thrill and there's
Speaker 6: a necessity of breaking the story, but you've got to get.
Speaker 4: It right sure, And how do you like navigate that?
Speaker 5: Like, like what you just said, you're you putting all
Speaker 5: this work into into kind of checking your sources and
Speaker 5: backgrounding for making sure what.
Speaker 4: You put out is correct, Like like, how do you.
Speaker 5: How do you let people know that that's how much
Speaker 5: work you put into it, you know, how do you
Speaker 5: show the the work that you've done.
Speaker 4: Just right in the end, you just go, what this
Speaker 4: is correct?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, because what you what you said, what you've
Speaker 6: reported was about to happen eventually happened.
Speaker 4: Oh okay. Yeah.
Speaker 6: A lot of political news journalism, especially with outlets like
Speaker 6: political is being able to not just predict but say
Speaker 6: that something is to come, say a major Supreme Court
Speaker 6: decision on abortion access on Row and on Dobbs. We
Speaker 6: had that story first and it came to be. And
Speaker 6: so I think that's how you build up the reputation.
Speaker 4: Sure that you have broken correct news before.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and off the record means, you know, it's like
Speaker 6: a conversation you've never had, but it helps inform your knowledge.
Speaker 6: And I think the key is just to be talking
Speaker 6: to people all the time, mornings, nights, weekends, you're just
Speaker 6: like in it is that what you call like like
Speaker 6: cultivating sources, cultivating sources, But it's also I mean it
Speaker 6: becomes a way of life because you love what you do,
Speaker 6: they love what they do. And you're never friends necessarily
Speaker 6: with people in politics, but you build a trust and
Speaker 6: it becomes a give and take over time.
Speaker 5: Sure, and as an insider in this, like do you
Speaker 5: have you can you confirm that these people are.
Speaker 4: Scumbags? Are they nice people?
Speaker 6: These? It's like, I mean, like I used, so these
Speaker 6: folks are scumbags. Like I might be one too because
Speaker 6: I'm like that into it. Okay, so it did Ronnie
Speaker 6: just call me a scumbag.
Speaker 4: That's okay, right, I'm also a scumbag and all this.
Speaker 4: So but like, yah, scumback tonight. But no, don't clap that.
Speaker 4: It's awful, you know.
Speaker 5: But what I meant is that is that is that
Speaker 5: difference like you are with them every day? Yeah, so
Speaker 5: I guess is there actual who they are as a
Speaker 5: person different to who they put on? Like we see
Speaker 5: all this chaos and extreme rhetoric. Yeah, then behind the
Speaker 5: scenes they're like, man, that's crazy. I can't believe I
Speaker 5: said that's you know, oh they do that? Yes, okay,
Speaker 5: well that's awful.
Speaker 6: Then there was a performers element to everything there is
Speaker 6: to television, there is politics and yeah, when you get
Speaker 6: to know someone, you can be, you know, a different
Speaker 6: version of yourself, or at least a more laid back version.
Speaker 5: Okay, so is who can you tell me who's not
Speaker 5: as crazy as there is MTG?
Speaker 4: And she?
Speaker 6: Oh she's a great interview.
Speaker 4: Oh she's a great interview. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Okay, Wait, am I hamming your sources right now by
Speaker 5: trying to no? Okay, is Donald Trump? Have you you
Speaker 5: followed Trump? You've interviewed him?
Speaker 10: Is he?
Speaker 6: So? I Donald Trump served on jury duty in Manhattan
Speaker 6: several years ago when he was running for president the
Speaker 6: first time.
Speaker 4: But he was on jury duty.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I was with him. This was years ago.
Speaker 6: This was what men and he was just sitting he
Speaker 6: was sitting there reading newspaper clips about himself. I don't
Speaker 6: remember the case. He didn't get picked.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry Wait, hang on in twenty sixteen, don't twenty
Speaker 5: fifteen Donald Trump was on jury duty in Manhattan?
Speaker 6: Yeah, whish for day? I mean, this is listen when
Speaker 6: people are still getting him and I'll just say what
Speaker 6: he who was like that? I mean he was like
Speaker 6: chilling in the room with other potential jurors and talking
Speaker 6: with them. And I mean everyone who's in politics has
Speaker 6: some level of charisma to them.
Speaker 4: Sure arsthma.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you're just confirming he's a charismatic figure. I
Speaker 5: mean yeah, yeah, okay, okay, But I mean, tell something
Speaker 5: we don't know, is he is a good person.
Speaker 4: What did he vote for the jury? What was the
Speaker 4: case was he he didn't get picked for the jury? Yeah? No, ship,
Speaker 4: I mean, how how are you gonna pick Donald Trump
Speaker 4: for the jury? It doesn't was he doing there?
Speaker 1: What was he?
Speaker 6: He is? Just he is a civil dude, duty duty
Speaker 6: Donald Donald Trump with people with voters is very not
Speaker 6: just charismatic, but he connects with some people and they
Speaker 6: feel like they've been seen by him.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So he came when he was on trial, a criminal trial,
Speaker 6: convicted for falsifying business records. He did this stop at
Speaker 6: a bodega in Harlem and they kind of loved him there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding, I can believe that, Like that's why
Speaker 5: he got elected by overwhelming Yeah.
Speaker 4: You and I mean you've seen you've seen kind of New.
Speaker 5: York kind of become a bit more kind of heading
Speaker 5: a bit more conservative in the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is something you foresaw is that, I mean,
Speaker 5: can you explain this?
Speaker 6: So the selection of Trump to return to the White
Speaker 6: House shows that it's not an aberration, right, that this
Speaker 6: might be where the country actually is heading.
Speaker 4: And there's.
Speaker 6: Voters, there's an electorate that needs to be heard, especially
Speaker 6: on economic issues. And as far as New York, he
Speaker 6: made some serious gains this year, gained over twenty twenty
Speaker 6: gains over twenty sixteen, and that again had to do
Speaker 6: with a lot of voters of color, Latinos in the
Speaker 6: Bronx where he had a rally, a lot of Asian
Speaker 6: voters as well a lot of people who turned out
Speaker 6: to vote for him. That maybe Democrats are alleged to
Speaker 6: have taken advantage of or you wouldn't think necessarily would
Speaker 6: I taken for granted? Have taken for granted? And then
Speaker 6: you wouldn't expect to necessarily vote for for Trump, right,
Speaker 6: And maybe maybe they maybe they're a political or or
Speaker 6: not necessarily identifying with one party another.
Speaker 5: And what do you think like appeal to them more
Speaker 5: the incoherence in policy or the or just the out
Speaker 5: right racism or was it the I mean, and.
Speaker 6: Potic's bluster goes a long way, A really really long way.
Speaker 6: So there's messaging is a huge part of running for
Speaker 6: office of your party doing well, you know in the
Speaker 6: White House and the Senate, in Congress, and in the end,
Speaker 6: the Democrats just did not have as strong a message
Speaker 6: as the Republicans. And it's not necessarily just about Republicans.
Speaker 6: It's about Donald Trump. He is this brand. It wasn't maga,
Speaker 6: you know back when he was running in twenty fifteen
Speaker 6: and twenty sixteen. And now he's built out this brand.
Speaker 6: He's built a name for himself, and he stands for
Speaker 6: something that people think resonates with them.
Speaker 5: Sure, okay, well on that, I mean what, I really
Speaker 5: appreciate you, you know, giving an air of professionalism and
Speaker 5: maintaining your standards and giving us some insight onto the politic. No,
Speaker 5: it's okay, you called yourself a s comeback as well,
Speaker 5: so I guess well even But yeah, thanks for coming
Speaker 5: on the show, and thanks.
Speaker 4: For continuing the great journalism and professional.
Speaker 5: Standards and trying to tell us exactly what's going on
Speaker 5: objectively with no emotion whatsoever.
Speaker 4: So let's all report and know everybody O ill thoughts
Speaker 4: off with tonight about here. It is your moment of that.
Speaker 10: Some of the president's alex advisors have suggested that you
Speaker 10: should resign.
Speaker 4: If he asked you to.
Speaker 12: Leave, would you go No?
Speaker 10: Can you follow up on do you think that legally
Speaker 10: you're not required to leave?
Speaker 5: No?
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