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Speaker 1: the Countdown Columbus day headlines and surprise new documentary analyzing
Speaker 1: his DNA shows it looks like Columbus was not from Italy,
Speaker 1: that he was a Sephardic Jew, probably from Spain. This
Speaker 1: actually matters today because if Columbus were here right now,
Speaker 1: Trump has just revealed he would send him to a
Speaker 1: concentration camp or deport him. Trump's anti immigrant, specifically anti
Speaker 1: Hispanic hate speech has now climaxed with a promise to
Speaker 1: invoke the same law that permits the president in wartime
Speaker 1: to arrest and detain or deport without a hearing and
Speaker 1: without evidence of crime American citizens and others at his
Speaker 1: personal whim based on their race, not where they were born,
Speaker 1: not whether they have committed or have been suspected of
Speaker 1: a crime, not whether they are here legally or not
Speaker 1: based on their race. The last time we did this,
Speaker 1: it was with Japanese Americans citizens. This time Trump is
Speaker 1: aiming to open concentration camps and fill them principally with Hispanics.
Speaker 1: Trump in California and then Trump in Colorado, I will.
Speaker 2: Invoke the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight to
Speaker 2: target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on Americans.
Speaker 2: Or but if they come back into our country, it's
Speaker 2: an automatic ten years in jail with no possibility of parole.
Speaker 2: Ten years. And if that doesn't work, it'll be twenty years.
Speaker 2: And if that doesn't work, I guess it's going to
Speaker 2: be the death penalty.
Speaker 3: Right. It's elite squads of Ice patrol and federal law
Speaker 3: enforcement officers to hunt down, arrest, and deport every last
Speaker 3: illegal alien gang member until there is not a single
Speaker 3: one left.
Speaker 1: Elite squads. Now where in history did he find that phrase? Oh,
Speaker 1: in the book of Hitler's speeches kept by his bedside.
Speaker 1: It will make no difference to Trump, newly self installed
Speaker 1: as dictator, that the Alien Enemies Act was designed and
Speaker 1: has only been used as a wartime measure. The last
Speaker 1: time this country did use it, in one of the
Speaker 1: most shameful episodes in our history, they rounded up the Japanese,
Speaker 1: nearly all that lived in the continental United States, nearly
Speaker 1: none of them accused of crimes, nearly all of whom
Speaker 1: had been born here. And you were Japanese. If you
Speaker 1: were one sixteenth Japanese now Trump has directed this weapon
Speaker 1: in peacetime against a population of people who are statistically
Speaker 1: more law by day than Republicans in elected office, more
Speaker 1: law abiding than any demographic of native born Americans. Others
Speaker 1: will be swept up later. The first time he ran,
Speaker 1: Trump's ire was directed principally at Muslims and those of
Speaker 1: Arabic descent. We have seen him attack quote the Blacks.
Speaker 1: He went after Jewish Americans again last week. His most
Speaker 1: recent targets were fully documented Haitian immigrants. But make no mistake,
Speaker 1: Trump went to California, where he stands no chance of
Speaker 1: winning the state's electoral College votes, in order to tell
Speaker 1: his fellow white supremacists there, who have for two hundred
Speaker 1: years or more harbored, bitter, irrational, inherited rage at people
Speaker 1: of Mexican and other Latin descent, to tell them to
Speaker 1: get their applause when he says that he will imprison
Speaker 1: and deport and intentionally or inadvertently or both kill the Hispanics.
Speaker 1: The latest New York Times Siena poll shows that among
Speaker 1: Hispanic voters, Harris leads Trump by only fifty four to
Speaker 1: thirty six. Mike Podhorser, the recently retired political director of
Speaker 1: the AFLCIO now an advisor there, explains that this poll number,
Speaker 1: this suicidal poll number, fifty four to thirty six, Harris,
Speaker 1: is just what you think it is, quoting Podhorzer. When
Speaker 1: we do focus groups with the segment of Latinos that
Speaker 1: are answering survey questions saying that they're comfortable with mass deportation,
Speaker 1: what comes out quickly is nobody's told them that things
Speaker 1: like the Alien Enemies Act gives Trump the personal right
Speaker 1: to send to concentration camps or expel from this country.
Speaker 1: Not criminals, not suspects, not undocumented immigrants, not gang members,
Speaker 1: not rapists, not murderers, but them you personally. Then, says Podhowzer,
Speaker 1: you explain Trump will have the right to expel your wife,
Speaker 1: your kids, you, and no lawyer or court can stop him.
Speaker 1: You will not even get a hearing what happens. Then, again,
Speaker 1: quoting Podhorzer, that focus group flips. You bet your asset does.
Speaker 1: And how did they not know this going in? How
Speaker 1: do the thirty six percent of Hispanic voters supporting Trump
Speaker 1: and his plans to expel in turn or kill them?
Speaker 1: How do they not know they are voting for their own, expulsion, imprisonment,
Speaker 1: even death. Podhworzer says the media has utterly failed to
Speaker 1: explain how dictatorially Trump plans to use things like the
Speaker 1: Alien Enemies Act. They don't, as he notes, work it
Speaker 1: into daily coverage of the campaign. Even though Trump does
Speaker 1: work it into daily coverage. He said it twice and
Speaker 1: posted it once just this past weekend. But it's not
Speaker 1: just the media, how Podhorzer wanted to know. Could Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris have done a town hall on the Unevision
Speaker 1: network last Thursday and never brought this up? The good
Speaker 1: news is all pulling indicates that Hispanic support for Trump
Speaker 1: is not that firm and appears to have reached its peak.
Speaker 1: It is not growing, and the Vice President needs to
Speaker 1: have a campaign add up as soon as possible in
Speaker 1: which she speaks directly to camera and lays this out,
Speaker 1: and she must say are you Hispanic? Did you know
Speaker 1: Donald Trump will invocal law that allows him to put
Speaker 1: you in a concentration camp because you are Hispanic, or
Speaker 1: to deport you, or to deport your wife or your
Speaker 1: children without a trial, without a hearing. Is not about
Speaker 1: the border or criminals. We can fix those things. What
Speaker 1: we cannot fix is Donald Trump is a racist who
Speaker 1: wants to imprison you for being Hispanic. And by the way,
Speaker 1: the definition of Hispanic is whatever Donald Trump says. It
Speaker 1: is a reminder that Pastor Nie Muller was as ever correct.
Speaker 1: First they came for the Hispanics. Who knows who will
Speaker 1: be next for Trump, but he has now turned this
Speaker 1: election into a referendum simply put on whether or not
Speaker 1: only white people will be living here period.
Speaker 4: I don't think the other problem in terms of election.
Speaker 4: I think the bigger problem are the people from within.
Speaker 4: We have some very bad people, We have some sick people,
Speaker 4: radical left lunatics, and I think the O the bay
Speaker 4: and it should be very easily handled by if necessary,
Speaker 4: by national God or if really necessary, by the military.
Speaker 1: And if you are still harboring suspicions that Trump is
Speaker 1: just talking about elite squads and indemnifying the police and
Speaker 1: using the military domestically, here's a quick reading from the
Speaker 1: new Bob Woodward book confirming something long reported, rumored presumed
Speaker 1: quote Trump would not or could not let his stolen
Speaker 1: election mantra go. In June twenty twenty one, the former
Speaker 1: president pushed Republicans to support reinstating him as president. He
Speaker 1: told his aides he would move back into the White
Speaker 1: House by August, a date QAnon conspiracy theorists had latched
Speaker 1: onto in online forums. Quote he had an army, an
Speaker 1: army for Trump. He wants that back, Brad Parscale, Trump's
Speaker 1: former campaign manager, said privately in July, I don't think
Speaker 1: he sees it as a comeback. He sees it as vengeance.
Speaker 1: Trump phoned Republican Representative for Alabama Mo Brooks, a staunch
Speaker 1: Trump supporter, and asked him to publicly call for a
Speaker 1: special election to reinstate him as president. Brooks, who had
Speaker 1: supported the plan by Trump and conservative lawyer John Eastman
Speaker 1: to challenge the certification of Biden's win, pointed out that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden was president. Brooks said Biden's victory had been
Speaker 1: certified and there was no legal pathway for Trump to
Speaker 1: rescind it. The Constitution provided no mechanism to reinstate a president. Trump,
Speaker 1: Woodward Writes, was enraged. He later withdrew his endorsement of
Speaker 1: Brooks in the Alabama Senate race. Brooks lost in the
Speaker 1: Republican primary. This is who we are dealing with. Are
Speaker 1: you hispanic? Are you one sixteenth Hispanic. Do you know
Speaker 1: anyone who has won sixteenth Hispanic? If so, this advice
Speaker 1: pack or help them pack. This is what is planned.
Speaker 1: If there is good news on this Trump campaign of
Speaker 1: hate and death and racism and vengeance, it's that even
Speaker 1: the New York Times has noticed. It reports that two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, last night, Trump railed at his own donors
Speaker 1: for not giving him enough money to help him turn
Speaker 1: this country into his personal property. Quoting The New York Times,
Speaker 1: he disparaged Vice President Kamala Harris as quote retarded unquote.
Speaker 1: He complained about the number of Jews still backing Miss Harris,
Speaker 1: saying they needed their heads examined for not supporting him
Speaker 1: despite everything he had done for the state of Israel unquote.
Speaker 1: If there is more good news on the Trump campaign
Speaker 1: of hate and death, it's that even Politico noticed, quote
Speaker 1: we watched twenty Trump rallies. His racist, anti immigrant messaging
Speaker 1: is getting darker. They wimp out because, of course, because
Speaker 1: American news has lost the plot. American news has lost
Speaker 1: the realization that it is a reporter's job to stick
Speaker 1: his head out the window and say it's raining. Not
Speaker 1: to call around until you find somebody else to say
Speaker 1: it for you who you can quote, just in case
Speaker 1: Politico again quote It's a stark escalation over the last
Speaker 1: month of what some experts in political rhetoric, fascism, and
Speaker 1: immigration say is a strong echo of authoritarians and Nazi ideology.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that, I'm just quoting. I called a guy.
Speaker 1: He told me that, my God, stand for something. Stand
Speaker 1: for something before you are prevented from doing so. Stand
Speaker 1: for something before Trump cuts your legs off, or before
Speaker 1: Trump decides the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight
Speaker 1: can be applied not just to ethnicities but to industries.
Speaker 1: And he decides his next target with the Alien Enemies
Speaker 1: Act is journalist Americans. Even those who get this don't
Speaker 1: really get it. Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC literally said
Speaker 1: he prayed that the impact of the election on the
Speaker 1: news industry as a financial matter would be taken out
Speaker 1: of the equation of how the media should cover the election.
Speaker 1: Even he said that, and even he still got the
Speaker 1: basic part of this wrong. This is from a media
Speaker 1: height podcast called Press Club.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be excoriated for this answer.
Speaker 1: Keep it rolling, I would.
Speaker 5: Bet from a pure just media eyeballs readership way measure.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 5: And this is what I think Jeff Zucker might have said.
Speaker 1: Or a certain CBS News chief who will not be
Speaker 1: named might have said.
Speaker 5: Was a lesson who said this it was less just okay, that's.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Where I'm going is not forod CBS News. Where I'm
Speaker 5: going is not good. My point is, yes, I think
Speaker 5: people are fascinated by former President Trump, and so if
Speaker 5: you're asking me strictly on that basis what it portends
Speaker 5: for the next four years of the media business.
Speaker 1: It's a boon.
Speaker 5: It might be, It might be I pray that I
Speaker 5: think we should take that equation out of how anybody's
Speaker 5: supposed to think about this stuff.
Speaker 1: Though, Right Andrew, thanks so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 5: I really appreciate it having me have I got fired
Speaker 5: for doing this.
Speaker 1: All of the coverage of those comments by Sorkin make
Speaker 1: them sound simultaneously more nightmarish than they are and less
Speaker 1: nightmarish because he didn't say he was in favor of
Speaker 1: Trump being elected because it would be good for business.
Speaker 1: But he also doesn't realize he's wrong on that point.
Speaker 1: He's wrong, He's wrong on it being good for anybody's business.
Speaker 1: He's wrong on the economics, and he's an economics guy.
Speaker 1: He doesn't see it. The networks don't see it. The
Speaker 1: corporations that own the networks don't see it. Reporters don't
Speaker 1: see it. A Trump victory would not be some kind
Speaker 1: of boon to the media industry. It would be the
Speaker 1: end of the media industry. There is a false assumption,
Speaker 1: even in somebody like Sorkin of CNBC, that somehow the
Speaker 1: cataclysm Trump would inflict on groups he does not like Hispanics, Jews, Blacks,
Speaker 1: critics that would never touch the media industry. Okay, there'd
Speaker 1: be dark, frightening changes, but they'd never ever touch the
Speaker 1: profits at CBS. Why they might be a boon. Trump
Speaker 1: says he wants to cancel CBS's license to do news.
Speaker 1: And he said all the others licenses. All the others
Speaker 1: means all the others NBC, CNN, the New York Times,
Speaker 1: the Daily Beast, Fox, iHeart podcasts. All means all that
Speaker 1: none of them have licenses. Means nothing to Trump, as
Speaker 1: reality means nothing to Trump. There aren't really news licenses. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm creating news licenses, mister Sorkin and guess what you're
Speaker 1: not getting one go look up what happened to broadcasting
Speaker 1: and newspapers when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Always a
Speaker 1: much more interesting character for us to cover. Oh, our
Speaker 1: industry is just nationalized. A boon, you say. Still, if
Speaker 1: you are panicking, stop deep breathe, and get to work.
Speaker 1: The five thirty eight average of polls is Harris two
Speaker 1: point four. On September twenty fourth, the five thirty eight
Speaker 1: average of polls was Harris two point four. On September eleventh,
Speaker 1: it was Harris two point four. On August twelfth, it
Speaker 1: was Harris two point three. Pennsylvania, per the New York
Speaker 1: Times poll, Harris fifty Trump forty seven, Harris by three,
Speaker 1: or with the third parties in Pennsylvania, Harris by four, or,
Speaker 1: as longtime Republican strategist Matt Dowd noted yesterday, NBC has
Speaker 1: the race tide right now. NBC also had the race
Speaker 1: tide at this point in twenty twelve, Romney tied with Obama.
Speaker 1: Right now, ABC has Harris by two and CBS has
Speaker 1: Harris by three. In twenty twelve, CBS had Obama by
Speaker 1: two and ABC had Obama by three. You want to
Speaker 1: worry about something, worry about somebody in Harris's campaign letting
Speaker 1: up on the gas of we're not going back. And
Speaker 1: I know Donald Trump's type. You want to do ads
Speaker 1: on the economy, go for it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's going to work or not, but go for it.
Speaker 1: In addition to not in lieu of the apocalyptic anti
Speaker 1: Trump ads, he just says he wants to invoke the
Speaker 1: law that let them put the Japanese in internment camps,
Speaker 1: only he's going to use it on Hispanics. Madam Vice President,
Speaker 1: if your advisors won't wake up every voter in every
Speaker 1: minority demographic with that, if they won't let you to
Speaker 1: ask voters, are you next? Does Trump want to put
Speaker 1: your family in a constant dration camp fire? All of
Speaker 1: your advisors right now? Also? JD. Vance is a fountain
Speaker 1: of anti Trump ads. Use him. Of course. Vance is
Speaker 1: going to refuse to say he'd have certified the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election. That's how he got this job. Of course
Speaker 1: he's going to refuse to say Trump lost. But in
Speaker 1: his rush to do that, he said January sixth was
Speaker 1: just quote. A few knuckleheads went off and did something.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't do. That's not on Trump, that's on them. Unquote.
Speaker 1: Vance just contradicted a cardinal tenet of the Trump Nazi
Speaker 1: Party that the January sixth insurrectionists were patriots and martyrs
Speaker 1: and heroes acting for America and Trump will pardon them all.
Speaker 1: Vance just called them knuckleheads who had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with Trump. Smother Vance with this SoundBite, and to close
Speaker 1: on a lighter note, every Vance condescending racist dunning Krueger
Speaker 1: effect wise crack about Kamala Harris, blows up in his face,
Speaker 1: wipes the eyeliner off his eyes every single time. But
Speaker 1: some are so spectacular that they require that some kind
Speaker 1: of hall of fame be built to house Vance's vast, undulating,
Speaker 1: radiant ability to find every rake on every lawn in
Speaker 1: America and step on it. We didn't tell him beforehand.
Speaker 4: There's nobody is zeer.
Speaker 1: No cute earrings, There's nothing like that.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just reminding everybody that this is all organic.
Speaker 1: Okay, I left my bluetooth ear rings at home, so
Speaker 1: can't find your ear rings. JD. Did you did you look?
Speaker 1: Did you look in the couch? Did you look? Did
Speaker 1: you look between the couch cushions back with a full
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