Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Tonight was the season finale
Speaker 1: of the January six Hearings, the TV event that investigates
Speaker 1: the day a mob of mega maniacs tried to help
Speaker 1: Mike Pants meet his hero. So phase one of the
Speaker 1: hearings coming to a close, let's catch up on the
Speaker 1: latest developments in our ongoing coverage of January six. After
Speaker 1: weeks of televised hearings, we're learning a lot about what
Speaker 1: happened on January six and the days that led up
Speaker 1: to it. We learned that Donald Trump was told by
Speaker 1: his closest advisors that the election wasn't stolen. We also
Speaker 1: learned that he set up a fake election defense fund
Speaker 1: that took millions of dollars from his supporters. We also
Speaker 1: learned that he knew his crowd was on that day
Speaker 1: and still sent them to the capital anyway, and after
Speaker 1: all of this guy's I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: I'm starting to think this Donald Trump guy might be
Speaker 1: bad news. I'm seeing like one or two red flags
Speaker 1: here and I'm the only one. Because remember how we
Speaker 1: learned in those hearings about how Trump tried to get
Speaker 1: Mike Penn's to single handedly toss out the election results.
Speaker 1: You remember that part. Yeah, Well, a bipartism group of
Speaker 1: senators has decided that ship should never happen again. You're
Speaker 1: in Washington. A bipartisan group of senators have cut a
Speaker 1: deal that would make it much tougher to pull off
Speaker 1: a repeat of what former President Trump tried to do
Speaker 1: that effort to pressure his vice president into overturning the election.
Speaker 1: One measure would reform the Electoral Count Act to make
Speaker 1: it clear that the VP's job is quote solely ministerial,
Speaker 1: and that he or she does not have any power
Speaker 1: solely to determine, except reject, or otherwise adjudicate disputes over electors. Wow,
Speaker 1: this is big, This is big. Senators from both parties
Speaker 1: have agreed to amend the Electoral Count Act of eight
Speaker 1: seven to make it clear once and for all that
Speaker 1: the VP cannot just toss out the election results, which, yes,
Speaker 1: is something everyone in America already knew except for one guy.
Speaker 1: You know. It's kind of like when in kindergarten the
Speaker 1: teacher makes an announcement to the whole class, but it
Speaker 1: was clearly directed at one kid. You know, It's like, okay, class, Remember,
Speaker 1: we don't poop on the toilet. We poop in the toilet.
Speaker 1: That that's for everyone to understand. Okay, Donald, that's it was.
Speaker 1: It was obviously to everyone else. But the vice president
Speaker 1: can just throw out the election results. That would make
Speaker 1: no sense. Why would you give so much power to
Speaker 1: someone who's otherwise totally powerless. Would like handing over control
Speaker 1: of America's drones to whichever kid wins the National Spelling
Speaker 1: b It's what the founders wanted. But either way, this
Speaker 1: is a big deal, and it's also a good reminder
Speaker 1: for America that if an old ass lord doesn't make
Speaker 1: sense anymore, you can just change that ship, all right.
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, going wrong, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's because people in the day were stupid. No, people
Speaker 1: back in the day were smart as hell, all right.
Speaker 1: They studied the classics, they knew how to write in cursive,
Speaker 1: they wore top hats, all the signs of an intelligent person.
Speaker 1: But they wrote the laws that made sense for their time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't need to spell this out because they didn't
Speaker 1: have a Donald Trump. So that law has changed. The
Speaker 1: vice president conscious overturned the election and knowing America and
Speaker 1: whoever writes the story. What's gonna happen is Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: gonna get all these people to become the electors in
Speaker 1: each state. They're gonna ignore the voters, right, so they're
Speaker 1: gonna go, these are the votes, and then it's gonna
Speaker 1: come to Kamala Harris will be like Kamala flip the things.
Speaker 1: She's like. Man, But it looks like overturning the next
Speaker 1: election might be the least of Donald Trump's worries, because
Speaker 1: after all the facts that the Committee has exposed about
Speaker 1: his lost overturning, the Justice Department might be paying Donald
Speaker 1: the visits. The spot line on the Justice Department's investigation
Speaker 1: is grow Attorney General Mary Garland making it clear he
Speaker 1: will hold accountable every person who is criminally responsible. No person.
Speaker 1: It's about the law in this country. Nothing stops us.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to maybe say that again. No
Speaker 1: a person. It's about the longest country. I can't say
Speaker 1: any damn. I've never seen that side of Mary Garland
Speaker 1: looked like he was about to cut a bit. Did
Speaker 1: you see any did that? Yeah? He like he turned
Speaker 1: into Samuel L. Jackson for a second. He's like, no
Speaker 1: person is above what about the Americans like, what part
Speaker 1: of no person? Don't you understand? Mother? I said, no person. Now,
Speaker 1: what's interesting about the story is that some Democrats are
Speaker 1: actually mad at Mary Garland because they think he doesn't
Speaker 1: really want to prosecute Trump. All right. They say he's
Speaker 1: slow rolling, he's trying to hide behind things. But I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I get it. I think the man is
Speaker 1: in a tough spot here. Think about it. Even if
Speaker 1: Trump is definitely guilty, can you imagine what would happen
Speaker 1: if he gets sent to prison? The country would explode.
Speaker 1: You thought January six was bad, Trump supporters will be
Speaker 1: storming everything. If you got arrest of the capital, the
Speaker 1: White House to Supreme Court. The only place that will
Speaker 1: be safe from them is libraries, like, don't go in there.
Speaker 1: They got history books. But it turns out, it turns
Speaker 1: out Meryl And isn't even Trump's only problem, because right
Speaker 1: now he's being investigated by everyone, right Congress, the States
Speaker 1: of New York, a district attorney in Georgia, the men
Speaker 1: in black, and I get it. I get it. No
Speaker 1: human beings don't just look like this. It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: That's not a human thing. So Trump looks like he's
Speaker 1: in a tough spot right now. But if there's one
Speaker 1: thing we know about Donald Trump is that getting out
Speaker 1: of tough spots is his speciality. He can get out
Speaker 1: of anything, criminal cases, lawsuits, marriages, marriages are the marriages.
Speaker 1: And apparently, apparently Trump thinks he's found an ingenious way
Speaker 1: to get out of his current troubles. It is sounding
Speaker 1: more likely than an announcement from for President Trump about
Speaker 1: election bid is more of a matter of when and
Speaker 1: not an if. But it's not just about avenging a
Speaker 1: loss for people with knowledge of the situation tell Rolling
Speaker 1: Stone Magazine that mounting legal issues are a motivating factor
Speaker 1: for Trump's desire to retake the Oval office. According to
Speaker 1: the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, a sitting president
Speaker 1: cannot be charged with a federal crime. Yeah, so it
Speaker 1: turns out some people are above the law. And it's
Speaker 1: crazy that Trump might run for president so that he
Speaker 1: doesn't go to jail. Yeah, you know, it's almost wild
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is the only person who runs for
Speaker 1: president but has no interesting being president. You know, the
Speaker 1: first time he did it to try and drum up
Speaker 1: ratings for The Apprentice, and now he's going to run
Speaker 1: just to stay out of the out of jail, like
Speaker 1: his campaign slogan is probably gonna Trump twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: I can't do time. I actually think it would make
Speaker 1: the campaign more fun. Yeah. Can you imagine if Trump's
Speaker 1: running for president while he's running from the law every ready,
Speaker 1: just like no child should ever learn pronouns or I'll
Speaker 1: ship the cops are here, Rudy over the sewer gate.
Speaker 1: You'll never get me. Pepp out, Peppy, how pep down.
Speaker 1: So that's the end of the first season of the
Speaker 1: January six Committee, and it ends with the possibility of
Speaker 1: Trump going to prison. And I'm sure right now wherever
Speaker 1: he is, the man is probably terrified. He's just like,
Speaker 1: what do I do, Milania? I can't go to prison.
Speaker 1: How am I gonna survive? Don't worry, Donald, I'll give
Speaker 1: you teeps. I've been a prisoner for twenty years. Wat's
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