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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This

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Speaker 1: is a January sixth Weekend bullet an edition to the

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Speaker 1: Countdown podcast. And you already know that my default position

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Speaker 1: when it comes to President Biden is one of deep respect,

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Speaker 1: deep affection and love. And having said that, even I

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Speaker 1: was stunned by the virtuosity of his pitch perfect speech

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Speaker 1: about Trump and the threat to democracy he represents, which

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Speaker 1: the President gave at Valley Forge on the eve of

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Speaker 1: the third anniversary of Trump's insurrection, in which Biden hit

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Speaker 1: every note ranging from whispered warning to raging righteousness, in

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Speaker 1: which his emotional ebb and flow went from the astonishment

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Speaker 1: of the moment to anger on behalf of every past

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Speaker 1: president and every dead soldier and every loyal American ever,

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Speaker 1: in which he roared from clear and unvarnished statement of

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Speaker 1: the danger of Trump and the dictatorship with which he

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Speaker 1: would kill America, and the still clearer and more unvarnished

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Speaker 1: delineation of the path by which to defeat it and

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Speaker 1: Trump and the fascists for all time. It was unexpectedly breathtaking.

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Speaker 1: It was honest to god JFK FDR level oratory.

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Speaker 2: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all

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Speaker 2: men and women are created equal.

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Speaker 3: It's an idea, it's.

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Speaker 2: Declared in the Declaration, created in a way that we've

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Speaker 2: fused everybody's equal and should be treated throughout their lives.

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Speaker 2: We've never fully lived up to that. We have a

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Speaker 2: long way to go, but we've never walked away from

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Speaker 2: the idea. He's never walked away from it. And I

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Speaker 2: promise you I will not let Donald Trump are the

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Speaker 3: They offer own.

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Speaker 1: This speech was so extraordinary. It transported me to Roosevelt's

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Speaker 1: I welcome their hatred from the nineteen thirty six campaign,

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Speaker 1: and to Kennedy's ask not inaugural address, and forgive me

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Speaker 1: for getting this syrapy on you. It shocks even me

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Speaker 1: to do so, to something out of Jimmy Stewart and

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Speaker 1: mister Smith goes to Washington. The speech was so extraordinary

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Speaker 1: that I will devote the second block of this bulletin

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Speaker 1: to replaying it in full, because if you did not

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Speaker 1: hear it, it is worth your time to do so.

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Speaker 1: And even if you did hear it, it is worth

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Speaker 1: your time to hear it again. Hell, I think it

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Speaker 1: would be worth the President's time to give it again.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't have time, I want you to

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Speaker 1: hear these nine clips. And I'm bouncing all over the

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Speaker 1: place out of order, because all of it as a whole,

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Speaker 1: or just in standalone segments, was astonishing.

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Speaker 2: It's true, the pushing pool of American history is not

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Speaker 2: a fairy tale. Every stride forward in America is met

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Speaker 2: with ferocious backlash, many times from those who fear progress

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Speaker 2: and those who exploit that fear for their own personal gain,

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Speaker 2: From those who trafficking lines told for power and profit,

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Speaker 2: for those who are driven by grievance and grift, consumed

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Speaker 2: by conspiracy and victimhood, from those who seek to bury

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Speaker 2: history and ban books.

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Speaker 3: Everything can be in a political event.

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Speaker 2: Talked about book banning for presidential and the presidential election,

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Speaker 2: the choice and contest between those forces, those competing forces,

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Speaker 2: between solidarity and division as perennial, but this time is

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Speaker 2: so different. You can't have a contest. You can't have

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Speaker 3: All out wars what Trump wants.

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Speaker 1: You know what I think of Trump. You know what

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Speaker 1: I say about him every day, but all out war

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Speaker 1: is what Trump wants is simpler and truer than anything

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Speaker 1: I have ever said about him. The real genius of

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Speaker 1: this speech is something I alluded to at the start.

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Speaker 1: For literally fifty years, Joe Biden has been told to

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Speaker 1: stop wandering from tone to tone and from topic to topic,

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Speaker 1: has often been talked out of his greatest asset as

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Speaker 1: a speaker. Life is not one note. Being president is

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Speaker 1: not one topic. Defending democracy is not one sentence. The

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Speaker 1: interweaving of the deadly serious and the self deprecatingly comical,

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Speaker 1: and the simmering personal rage made this speech the epic

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Speaker 1: that it was, and never more so than when President

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Speaker 1: Biden talked about Trump's threats against General Mark Millie.

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Speaker 2: He's threatened the former chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff,

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Speaker 2: ahead of his personal loyalty to Trump. He's coming from

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Speaker 2: a president who called when he visited the cemetery, called

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Speaker 3: Suckers and losers. Remember that.

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Speaker 2: It was right around the time I was at Poe's grave. Tommy,

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Speaker 2: how dare he? Who in God's name do you think

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Speaker 1: As I have mentioned many times, okay, boasted many times.

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Speaker 1: The President once took me to lunch to ask how

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Speaker 1: to better calibrate anger and righteous indignation so he would

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Speaker 1: not think I had a damn thing to do with this,

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Speaker 1: but he has mastered that rage, laughter, personal pain. And

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Speaker 1: then who in God's name does he think he is?

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Speaker 1: In whispered fury exactly? And if that calibration was not

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Speaker 1: obvious enough to you in that clip, it will be

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Speaker 1: forced the speech to be rescheduled from Saturday afternoon, essentially

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Speaker 1: at the exact minute of the three year anniversary of

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Speaker 1: Trump's insurrection, to Friday afternoon, because the essence of Biden's

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Speaker 1: speech was January sixth, twenty twenty one, Trump's Day, Trump's

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Speaker 1: day that he attacked America. The first day he attacked America.

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Speaker 1: The other attack on America by Donald Trump is in

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Speaker 1: progress right now.

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Speaker 2: Jill and I attended to funeral police officers who died

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Speaker 2: as a result of the events of that day because

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Speaker 2: because of Donald Trump's lies. They died because these lies

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Speaker 2: brought a mom to Washington. He promised it would be wild,

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Speaker 2: and all hell was unleashed. He promised he would write them,

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Speaker 2: The entire nation watch in horror. The whole world watched

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Speaker 2: in disbelief, and Trump did nothing. Members of his staff,

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Speaker 2: for at that very.

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Speaker 3: Moment, pled with him act call off the mob.

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Speaker 2: Imagine how he gone out and said stop, and still

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Speaker 2: Trump did nothing. Was among the worst derelictions of duty

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Speaker 2: by a president in American history.

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Speaker 1: This speech will be taught in schools unless Trump regains power,

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Speaker 1: in which case nothing will be taught in schools. Just

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Speaker 1: represents and leads. Resident Biden did not try to pretend

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Speaker 1: this was not a campaign speech. Quite the opposite.

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Speaker 3: The choice is clear.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's campaign is about him, not America, not you.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future.

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Speaker 2: He's only to sacrifice our democracy put himself in power.

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Speaker 2: Our campaign is different for me and common. Our campaign

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Speaker 2: is about America. It's about you, It's about every age

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Speaker 2: We're going to continue to build together. And our campaign

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Speaker 2: is about preserving and strengthening our American democracts.

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Speaker 1: As I have gathered my thoughts about this speech, I

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Speaker 1: have kept starting to write. But the best part was

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Speaker 1: Maybe this was the best part because it wasn't just

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Speaker 1: one part of the speech. It was textured throughout the

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Speaker 1: entire address, just as Joe Biden textured the same thing

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Speaker 1: throughout his speech at Independence Hall in September of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. He did not do what he did in

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Speaker 1: a lot of his earliest speeches, avoid confronting Trump directly

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Speaker 1: and by name and by crime.

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Speaker 2: Trump won't do what an American president must do. She

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Speaker 2: refuses to denounce political violence.

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Speaker 3: So hear me clearly.

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Speaker 2: I'll say with Donald Tampont, political violence is never ever

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Speaker 2: acceptable in the United States.

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Speaker 3: Politicalsm never, never, never. It has no place in a democracy. None.

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Speaker 2: It can't be pro insurrectionist for American exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 1: The best part of the speak, sorry, the most useful

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Speaker 1: part of this speech is that almost any of its elements,

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Speaker 1: any of its dozen two dozen components, could be extracted

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Speaker 1: Because this was not just a speech, This was a schedule.

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Speaker 1: It was a calendar of what Joe Biden intends to

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Speaker 1: hit Donald Trump with every day for the next ten

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Speaker 1: months until election Day. And one of the underrated elements

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Speaker 1: not just of the speech, but of the dizzying, nauseating

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Speaker 1: all of our history, is gaslighting. It is the number

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Speaker 1: of Republican leaders and their prostitutes at Fox News and

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Speaker 1: Republican propaganda who decided that since the coup didn't work

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Speaker 1: to retain power by slowly and almost imperceptibly backing away

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Speaker 1: from what they said that day, what they said when

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Speaker 1: the horror of Trump's terrorist attack of January sixth was

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Speaker 1: and that valley forge Biden reminded us that in his

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Speaker 2: When the attack on January sixth happened, there was no

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Speaker 2: the attack, As one Republican senator said, Trump's behavior was

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Speaker 2: And now these maga voices who know the truth about

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Speaker 3: They made the choice.

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Speaker 2: Now the rest of US Democrats, independence mainstream Republicans, we

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Speaker 3: I know mine, and I believe.

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Speaker 2: I know Americas will defend the truth, not giving to

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Speaker 1: There is one other element that I hope the President

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Speaker 1: hits every time he opens his mouth between now and

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Speaker 1: November fifth. It is a point I hammer here daily again.

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Speaker 1: I am confident his use of it is coincidental. The

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Speaker 1: Biden has made me think of Teddy Roosevelt and are

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Speaker 1: met at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. The

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Speaker 1: field is littered with weapons to use against Trump, and

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Speaker 1: the weapons were left there by Trump himself. They are

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Speaker 1: his own, indefensible, irrational, Unamerican, subhuman words.

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Speaker 2: He calls those who are oppose him vermin. He talks

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Speaker 2: about the blood of America is being poisoned.

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Speaker 3: That going the same exact.

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Speaker 2: Language used in Nazi Germany. He probably posts on social

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Speaker 2: media the words that best described as twenty twenty four campaign,

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Speaker 2: quote revenge, quote power, and quote dictatorship. There's no confusion

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Speaker 1: And my final highlight, some pure red meat, some pure

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Speaker 1: joy for those of us who you know prefer democracy

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Speaker 1: to dictatorship. President Joseph Robinett Biden Junior called Trump the

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden should call him every day. It is something

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Speaker 5: And on June fourteenth, nineteen forty six, God looked down

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Speaker 2: And that's what the twenty twenty four election.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's campaign is about him, not America, not you.

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Speaker 2: Three years ago tomorrow, we saw their own eyes, the

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Speaker 2: Derelictions of duty by a president in American history. An

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty election. Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to

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Speaker 2: him to overturn the election. Everyone but the legal path

442
00:30:43,475 --> 00:30:44,875
Speaker 2: just took Trump.

443
00:30:44,635 --> 00:30:45,675
Speaker 3: Back to the truth.

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Speaker 2: That I had won the election and he was a loser. Well, so,

445
00:31:01,355 --> 00:31:03,475
Speaker 2: knowing how his mind works now, he had one He

446
00:31:03,515 --> 00:31:08,395
Speaker 2: had one knack left, one desperate act available to him,

447
00:31:08,715 --> 00:31:14,515
Speaker 2: the violence of January the sixth. Since that day, more

448
00:31:14,555 --> 00:31:17,715
Speaker 2: than one thy two hundred people have been.

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00:31:17,675 --> 00:31:19,195
Speaker 3: Charged for their soul in the Capitol.

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00:31:19,235 --> 00:31:24,155
Speaker 2: Only nine hundred of them have been convicted or pled guilty. Collectively,

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00:31:24,235 --> 00:31:27,475
Speaker 2: to date, they have been sentenced to more than eight

452
00:31:27,635 --> 00:31:29,155
Speaker 2: hundred and forty years in prison.

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00:31:36,515 --> 00:31:37,955
Speaker 3: What's Trump done?

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Speaker 2: Instead of calling him criminals, He's called these these insurrectionist patriots,

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Speaker 2: their patriots, and he promised to pardon them if he

456
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Speaker 2: returns to office. Trump said that there was a lot

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Speaker 2: of love on January the sixth. The rest of the nation,

458
00:32:00,835 --> 00:32:06,955
Speaker 2: including law enforcement, saw a lot of hatelence. One Capitol

459
00:32:06,995 --> 00:32:11,715
Speaker 2: police officer called it a medieval battle. That same officer

460
00:32:11,835 --> 00:32:15,835
Speaker 2: called vile rate was called vile racers names. He said

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Speaker 2: he was more afraid in the capital of the United

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Speaker 2: States of America, in the chambers than when he was

463
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Speaker 2: fighting as a soldier in the war in Iraq.

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Speaker 3: So it was more.

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Speaker 2: Afraid inside the halls of Congress than fighting in war

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Speaker 2: in Iraq. And trying to rewrite the facts of January sixth,

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Speaker 2: Trump was trying to steal history the same way he

468
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Speaker 2: tried to steal the election.

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Speaker 3: But we knew the.

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Speaker 2: Truth because we saw our own eyes. This wasn't like

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Speaker 2: something a story being told. It was on television repeatedly.

472
00:32:52,675 --> 00:32:57,075
Speaker 2: We saw it with our own eyes. Trump's mole wasn't

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Speaker 2: a peaceful protest. It was a violent assault. They were insurrectionists,

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Speaker 2: not patriots. They weren't there to uphold the Constitution. They

475
00:33:07,795 --> 00:33:13,075
Speaker 2: were there to destroy the Constitution. Trump won't do what

476
00:33:13,115 --> 00:33:18,555
Speaker 2: an American president must do. He refuses to denounce political violence.

477
00:33:20,195 --> 00:33:23,555
Speaker 2: So hear me clearly, I'll say what Donald Trump won't.

478
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Speaker 2: Political violence is never ever acceptable in the United States.

479
00:33:27,555 --> 00:33:33,275
Speaker 2: Politicals never never never, It has no price in a democracy, none.

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Speaker 2: It can't be prove insurrectionist and for American Trump and

481
00:33:42,075 --> 00:33:44,795
Speaker 2: his MAGA supporters not only embrace political violence, but they

482
00:33:44,875 --> 00:33:48,275
Speaker 2: laugh about it. At is rally, he jokes about an

483
00:33:48,275 --> 00:33:52,115
Speaker 2: intruder whipped up by the big Trump lie, taking a

484
00:33:52,195 --> 00:33:57,555
Speaker 2: hammer to Paul Pelosi's skull and echoing the very same

485
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Speaker 2: words youth on January sixth, Where's Nancy?

486
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Speaker 3: And he thinks that's funny. He laughed about it. What

487
00:34:05,355 --> 00:34:17,795
Speaker 3: a sick My god. I think it's despicable.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, I was just for a present for any person

489
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Speaker 2: to say that, but to say it to the whole

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Speaker 2: world listening.

491
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Speaker 3: When I was overseas.

492
00:34:26,635 --> 00:34:33,275
Speaker 2: Anyway, Trump's assault democracy isn't just part of his past.

493
00:34:34,035 --> 00:34:37,435
Speaker 3: It's what he's promising for the future. He's been straightforward.

494
00:34:37,955 --> 00:34:41,595
Speaker 3: He's not hiding the ball. His first rally for.

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Speaker 2: The twenty twenty four campaign opened with a choir of

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Speaker 2: January sixth insurrectionists singing from prison on cell phone, while

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00:34:52,515 --> 00:34:55,635
Speaker 2: images of the January sixth ride played on a big

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00:34:55,675 --> 00:34:59,835
Speaker 2: screen behind him. At his rally, Can you believe that

499
00:35:00,875 --> 00:35:04,235
Speaker 2: this is like something out of a fairy tale? Bad

500
00:35:04,275 --> 00:35:08,435
Speaker 2: fairy t you. Trump began his twenty twenty four campaign

501
00:35:08,515 --> 00:35:14,155
Speaker 2: by glorifying the failed, violent insurrectionist insurrection at on our capitol.

502
00:35:14,955 --> 00:35:19,435
Speaker 3: A guy who claims law and order sow's lawlessness and disorder.

503
00:35:20,555 --> 00:35:25,195
Speaker 2: Trump's not concerned about your future, I promise you. Trump

504
00:35:25,235 --> 00:35:28,795
Speaker 2: is now promising a full scale campaign of revenge and

505
00:35:28,915 --> 00:35:33,755
Speaker 2: retribution his words for some years to come. They were

506
00:35:33,755 --> 00:35:38,435
Speaker 2: his words, not mine. He went on to say he'd

507
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Speaker 2: be a dictator on day one. I mean, if I

508
00:35:43,315 --> 00:35:47,275
Speaker 2: were writing a book of fiction, I said, an American

509
00:35:47,275 --> 00:35:53,715
Speaker 2: president said that, and not in jest. He called in

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00:35:53,835 --> 00:35:57,715
Speaker 2: I quote the termination quote this is quote, the termination

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Speaker 2: of all the rules, regulation and articles, even those found

512
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Speaker 2: in the US Constitution.

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Speaker 3: Should be terminated. Fitz's will.

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Speaker 2: It's really kind of hard to believe even found in

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Speaker 2: the Constitution he could terminate. He's threatened the former Chairman

516
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Speaker 2: of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, But the death penalty

517
00:36:24,475 --> 00:36:28,595
Speaker 2: says he should be put to death because the chairman

518
00:36:28,675 --> 00:36:32,275
Speaker 2: put his oath to the Constitution ahead of his personal

519
00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:38,115
Speaker 2: loyalty to Trump. This is coming from a president who

520
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Speaker 2: called when he visited the cemeteries, called dead soldiers suckers

521
00:36:46,235 --> 00:37:01,435
Speaker 2: and losers. Remember that sometimes I'm really happy the Irish

522
00:37:01,435 --> 00:37:06,955
Speaker 2: should be can't be seen. It was right around the

523
00:37:06,955 --> 00:37:13,395
Speaker 2: time I was at posegrave. Tommy, how dare he?

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Speaker 3: Who? In God's name do you think he is.

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00:37:18,235 --> 00:37:23,155
Speaker 2: With former age? Trump plans to invoke the Insurrections to

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00:37:23,195 --> 00:37:26,875
Speaker 2: Act Insurrection Act, but to allow him to deploy It's

527
00:37:26,875 --> 00:37:28,955
Speaker 2: not allowed to do an NOORI sections allow him to

528
00:37:28,995 --> 00:37:33,675
Speaker 2: deploy US military forces on the streets of America.

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Speaker 3: He said it.

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Speaker 2: He calls those who oppose him vermin. He talks about

531
00:37:44,475 --> 00:37:48,555
Speaker 2: the blood of America's being poisoned. That going the same

532
00:37:48,675 --> 00:37:53,915
Speaker 2: exact language used in Nazi Germany.

533
00:37:54,515 --> 00:37:56,275
Speaker 3: He probably posts on social.

534
00:37:55,955 --> 00:37:59,035
Speaker 2: Media the words that best described as twenty twenty four

535
00:37:59,075 --> 00:38:01,755
Speaker 2: campaign quote, revenge.

536
00:38:02,315 --> 00:38:05,195
Speaker 3: Quote, power quote, dictation, leadership.

537
00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:11,795
Speaker 2: There's no confusion about who Trump is what he intends

538
00:38:11,835 --> 00:38:16,275
Speaker 2: to do. I placed my hand on our family Bible

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00:38:17,795 --> 00:38:22,115
Speaker 2: and I swore an oath on the very same steps

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Speaker 2: of the Capitol just fourteen days after the attack on

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Speaker 2: January the sixth, as I looked out over the capital city,

542
00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:37,675
Speaker 2: whose streets were lined with National Guard to prevent another attack,

543
00:38:39,315 --> 00:38:42,755
Speaker 2: I saw an American that have been pushed to the brink,

544
00:38:43,075 --> 00:38:45,075
Speaker 2: America that had pushed to the brink.

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Speaker 3: But I felt enormous pride, not in winning.

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00:38:49,475 --> 00:38:53,955
Speaker 2: I felt enormous pride in America because American democracy had

547
00:38:53,995 --> 00:38:57,475
Speaker 2: been tested, American democracy.

548
00:38:56,875 --> 00:38:57,595
Speaker 3: Had held together.

549
00:38:59,315 --> 00:39:02,395
Speaker 2: When Trump had seen weakness in our democracy and continued

550
00:39:02,435 --> 00:39:03,395
Speaker 2: to talk about it.

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00:39:03,755 --> 00:39:04,555
Speaker 3: I saw strength.

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00:39:05,555 --> 00:39:11,355
Speaker 2: Your strength, it's not hyperble, your strength, your integrity, American

553
00:39:11,395 --> 00:39:18,635
Speaker 2: strength and integrity. Ordinary citizens, state election officials, the American

554
00:39:18,715 --> 00:39:24,355
Speaker 2: judicial system had put the constitution first, and sometimes.

555
00:39:23,875 --> 00:39:26,955
Speaker 3: At their peril, at their peril.

556
00:39:28,875 --> 00:39:33,835
Speaker 2: Because of them, Because of you, the will of the

557
00:39:33,875 --> 00:39:37,315
Speaker 2: people prevailed, not the anger of the mob or the

558
00:39:37,355 --> 00:39:42,715
Speaker 2: appetites of one man. When the attack on January sixth happened, there.

559
00:39:42,635 --> 00:39:44,515
Speaker 3: Was no doubt about the truth.

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00:39:45,435 --> 00:39:50,435
Speaker 2: At the time, even Republican members of Congress and Fox

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00:39:50,515 --> 00:39:56,515
Speaker 2: News commentators publicly and privately condemned the attack, As one

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00:39:56,595 --> 00:40:01,275
Speaker 2: Republican senator said, Trump's behavior was embarrassing and humiliating for

563
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Speaker 2: the country. But now that same senator and those same

564
00:40:05,475 --> 00:40:12,915
Speaker 2: people have changed their tomb. As time has gone gone on, politics, fear,

565
00:40:13,115 --> 00:40:18,795
Speaker 2: money all have intervened, And now these maga voices who

566
00:40:18,875 --> 00:40:22,275
Speaker 2: know the truth about Trump on January sixth, have abandoned

567
00:40:22,275 --> 00:40:25,155
Speaker 2: the truth of the abandoned the democracy.

568
00:40:25,995 --> 00:40:28,635
Speaker 3: They made their choice.

569
00:40:28,875 --> 00:40:34,115
Speaker 2: Now the rest of us Democrats, independents, mainstream Republicans, we

570
00:40:34,235 --> 00:40:38,875
Speaker 2: have to make our choice. I know mine, and I

571
00:40:38,995 --> 00:40:44,195
Speaker 2: believe I know Americas. We'll defend the truth, not giving

572
00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:48,155
Speaker 2: to the big lie. We'll embrace the constitution of the Declaration,

573
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Speaker 2: not abandoned it will honor the sacred cause of democracy,

574
00:40:52,955 --> 00:40:58,675
Speaker 2: not walk away from it. Today I make this sacred

575
00:40:58,675 --> 00:41:05,515
Speaker 2: pledge to you, the defense, protection, and preservation democracy would

576
00:41:05,515 --> 00:41:08,675
Speaker 2: remain as it has been the central cause of my

577
00:41:08,755 --> 00:41:24,475
Speaker 2: presidency America. As we begin the selection year, we must

578
00:41:24,555 --> 00:41:29,395
Speaker 2: be clear. Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is

579
00:41:29,435 --> 00:41:36,235
Speaker 2: on the ballot. Yes, we'll be voting on many issues.

580
00:41:36,755 --> 00:41:40,315
Speaker 2: I'm the freedom to vote and have you vote counted,

581
00:41:41,515 --> 00:41:45,275
Speaker 2: the freedom of choice, the freedom of a fair shot,

582
00:41:46,435 --> 00:41:47,675
Speaker 2: the freedom from fear.

583
00:41:49,635 --> 00:41:54,835
Speaker 3: And will debate and disagree. Without democracy, no progress is

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Speaker 3: it possible.

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00:41:56,035 --> 00:42:00,715
Speaker 2: Think about it. The al ternaive democracy is dictatorship, the.

586
00:42:00,755 --> 00:42:03,275
Speaker 3: Rule of one, not the rule of we. The people.

587
00:42:04,715 --> 00:42:09,235
Speaker 2: Of the soldiers of Valley Fours understood, so's me what

588
00:42:09,715 --> 00:42:12,995
Speaker 2: we have to understand as well. We've been blessed so

589
00:42:13,195 --> 00:42:16,275
Speaker 2: long with a strong, stable democracy.

590
00:42:17,075 --> 00:42:19,995
Speaker 3: It's easy to forget why.

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00:42:19,875 --> 00:42:24,835
Speaker 2: So many before us missed their lives and strengthen democracy

592
00:42:25,875 --> 00:42:29,675
Speaker 2: what our lives would be without it. Democracy means having

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00:42:29,715 --> 00:42:33,115
Speaker 2: the freedom to speak your mind, to be who you are,

594
00:42:35,035 --> 00:42:39,595
Speaker 2: to be, who you want to be. Democracy is about

595
00:42:39,635 --> 00:42:44,955
Speaker 2: being able to bring about peaceful change. Democracy. Democracy is

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00:42:44,995 --> 00:42:48,035
Speaker 2: how we've opened the doors of opportunity wider and wider

597
00:42:48,035 --> 00:42:55,715
Speaker 2: with these successive generations, notwithstanding our mistakes. But if democracy falls,

598
00:42:57,075 --> 00:43:00,195
Speaker 2: we'll lose that freedom, will lose the power of we

599
00:43:00,435 --> 00:43:01,875
Speaker 2: the people to shape our destiny.

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00:43:02,795 --> 00:43:05,835
Speaker 3: If you doubt me, look around the world.

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00:43:06,515 --> 00:43:08,595
Speaker 2: Travel with me as I meet with other heads of

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00:43:08,635 --> 00:43:10,195
Speaker 2: state throughout the world.

603
00:43:11,235 --> 00:43:13,475
Speaker 3: Look at the authoritarian leaders and dictators.

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00:43:13,675 --> 00:43:16,795
Speaker 2: Trump says, he admires, He out loud says he admires

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00:43:18,115 --> 00:43:18,435
Speaker 2: the monk.

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00:43:18,475 --> 00:43:22,395
Speaker 3: Go through them all will take too long. Look remember how.

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00:43:22,275 --> 00:43:24,555
Speaker 2: He first where you have referred to what he calls

608
00:43:25,395 --> 00:43:29,155
Speaker 2: love letter exchanges between he and the dictator of North Korea.

609
00:43:31,475 --> 00:43:33,635
Speaker 2: Those women and men out there in the audience ever

610
00:43:33,915 --> 00:43:38,075
Speaker 2: fought for the American military? Would you ever believe you

611
00:43:38,195 --> 00:43:45,475
Speaker 2: hear a president says something like that, his admiration for Putent.

612
00:43:46,435 --> 00:43:47,395
Speaker 2: I can go on.

613
00:43:50,075 --> 00:43:51,835
Speaker 3: And look at what these autocrats are.

614
00:43:51,715 --> 00:43:56,235
Speaker 2: Doing to limit freedom in their countries, the eliminate freedom

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00:43:56,275 --> 00:43:58,875
Speaker 2: of speed, treated the press, freedom to assemble, women's rights

616
00:43:58,995 --> 00:44:00,035
Speaker 2: LGPQW rights.

617
00:44:00,115 --> 00:44:01,835
Speaker 3: People are going to jail so much more.

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Speaker 2: It's true, the pushing pull of Themerican history is not

619
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Speaker 2: a fairy tale. Every stride forward in America is met

620
00:44:09,635 --> 00:44:13,715
Speaker 2: with ferocious backlash, many times from those who fear progress

621
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Speaker 2: and those who exploit that fear for their own personal gain,

622
00:44:17,955 --> 00:44:22,475
Speaker 2: From those who traffic and lies told for power and profit,

623
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Speaker 2: for those who are driven by grievance and grift, consumed

624
00:44:26,915 --> 00:44:32,035
Speaker 2: by conspiracy and victimhood. From those who seek to vary

625
00:44:32,195 --> 00:44:37,355
Speaker 2: history and ban books. Everything can be in a political

626
00:44:37,395 --> 00:44:43,115
Speaker 2: event talked about book banning for presidential and the presidential election.

627
00:44:44,475 --> 00:44:48,635
Speaker 2: The choice and contest between those forces, those competing forces,

628
00:44:49,115 --> 00:44:54,115
Speaker 2: between solidarity and division is perennial, But this time is

629
00:44:54,155 --> 00:44:59,915
Speaker 2: so different. You can't have a contest. You can't have

630
00:44:59,955 --> 00:45:04,395
Speaker 2: a contest if you see politics as an all out

631
00:45:04,395 --> 00:45:07,955
Speaker 2: war instead of a peaceful way to resolve our differences.

632
00:45:08,595 --> 00:45:10,475
Speaker 3: All out wars with Trump.

633
00:45:10,155 --> 00:45:14,515
Speaker 2: Wants, that's why he doesn't understand the most fundamental truth

634
00:45:14,635 --> 00:45:20,035
Speaker 2: about this country. Unlike other nations on Earth, America is

635
00:45:20,075 --> 00:45:26,075
Speaker 2: not built on ethnicity, religion, geography. We're the only nation

636
00:45:26,195 --> 00:45:29,395
Speaker 2: in the history of the world built on an idea,

637
00:45:30,595 --> 00:45:32,275
Speaker 2: not hyperbly built on an idea.

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00:45:34,035 --> 00:45:36,435
Speaker 3: We hold these truths to be self evident.

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00:45:36,835 --> 00:45:39,275
Speaker 2: That all men and women are created equal. It's an

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00:45:39,275 --> 00:45:46,915
Speaker 2: idea declared and the declaration created in a way that

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00:45:47,275 --> 00:45:50,355
Speaker 2: we've viewed everybody's equal and should be treated ecals throughout

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00:45:50,355 --> 00:45:50,875
Speaker 2: their lives.

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00:45:51,435 --> 00:45:53,195
Speaker 3: We've never fully lived up to that. We have a

644
00:45:53,195 --> 00:45:56,395
Speaker 3: long way to go, but we've never walked away from

645
00:45:56,435 --> 00:45:59,355
Speaker 3: the idea. We've never walked away from me.

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Speaker 2: And I promise you I will not let Donald Trump

647
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Speaker 2: in the maga of republic can force us to walk alone.

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00:46:07,075 --> 00:46:17,715
Speaker 7: Non We're living in an era where.

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00:46:17,355 --> 00:46:22,115
Speaker 2: A determined minority is doing everything that his power to

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Speaker 2: try to destroy our democracy for their own agenda. The

651
00:46:26,555 --> 00:46:30,795
Speaker 2: American people know it, and they're standing bravely in the breach.

652
00:46:31,635 --> 00:46:35,915
Speaker 2: Remember after twenty twenty January sixth Insurrection, don't do the

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00:46:35,955 --> 00:46:39,195
Speaker 2: election in which more Americans had voted than any other

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Speaker 2: in American history. Americas saw the threat posed book to

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Speaker 2: the country. They voted them out in twenty twenty two

656
00:46:47,075 --> 00:46:50,995
Speaker 2: historic midterm election and state after state election after election,

657
00:46:51,395 --> 00:46:56,035
Speaker 2: the election deniers were defeated. Now in twenty twenty four,

658
00:46:57,035 --> 00:47:01,515
Speaker 2: Trump is wanting as the denier in chief, the election

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00:47:01,675 --> 00:47:05,675
Speaker 2: denier in chief once again, He's saying, and he won't honor.

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Speaker 3: The results of the election if he loses.

661
00:47:09,275 --> 00:47:13,275
Speaker 2: Trump says he doesn't understand well, he still doesn't understand

662
00:47:13,275 --> 00:47:18,115
Speaker 2: the basic truth that is, you can't love your country only.

663
00:47:17,995 --> 00:47:21,675
Speaker 3: When you win. You can't love your country only when

664
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Speaker 3: you're known.

665
00:47:28,435 --> 00:47:31,395
Speaker 2: I'll keep my commitment to be president for all of America,

666
00:47:32,155 --> 00:47:34,915
Speaker 2: whether you're voted for me or not. I've done it

667
00:47:34,915 --> 00:47:38,355
Speaker 2: for the last three years, and I'll continue to do it. Together,

668
00:47:38,515 --> 00:47:40,835
Speaker 2: we can keep proving that America is still a country

669
00:47:41,395 --> 00:47:49,235
Speaker 2: that believes in decency, dignity, honesty, honor, truth. We still

670
00:47:49,275 --> 00:47:53,035
Speaker 2: believe that no one, not even the presidents, above the law.

671
00:47:53,595 --> 00:47:54,915
Speaker 3: We still believe.

672
00:48:00,595 --> 00:48:03,075
Speaker 2: The vast majority of us still believe that everyone deserves

673
00:48:03,075 --> 00:48:04,395
Speaker 2: a fair shot at making it.

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00:48:05,755 --> 00:48:08,635
Speaker 3: We're still a nation that gives hate no safe harbor.

675
00:48:10,235 --> 00:48:12,715
Speaker 2: I tell you from my experience working with leaders around

676
00:48:12,715 --> 00:48:16,115
Speaker 2: the world, and I mean it's sincerely not a joke

677
00:48:17,075 --> 00:48:19,835
Speaker 2: that America is still viewed as the beacon of democracy

678
00:48:19,835 --> 00:48:23,915
Speaker 2: for the world. I can't tell you how many how

679
00:48:23,955 --> 00:48:27,995
Speaker 2: many world leaders and I know all of them, virtually

680
00:48:28,035 --> 00:48:31,155
Speaker 2: all of them. Grab my arm in private, say you

681
00:48:31,235 --> 00:48:35,915
Speaker 2: can't win. Tell me no, my country will be at risk.

682
00:48:37,155 --> 00:48:39,715
Speaker 2: Think of how many countries, Tommy, you know that are

683
00:48:40,315 --> 00:48:48,195
Speaker 2: on the edge. Imagine we still believe in we the people.

684
00:48:48,675 --> 00:48:52,355
Speaker 2: That includes all of us, not some of us. Let

685
00:48:52,435 --> 00:48:57,235
Speaker 2: me close this. I'm a cole winner of seventeen seventy

686
00:48:57,275 --> 00:49:02,555
Speaker 2: seven George Washington and his American troops a valley for

687
00:49:02,715 --> 00:49:05,235
Speaker 2: his wags, the battle on behalf of a reel lutionary

688
00:49:05,275 --> 00:49:09,195
Speaker 2: idea that everyday people like where I come from him,

689
00:49:09,235 --> 00:49:13,075
Speaker 2: the vast majority of you, not a king or a dictator,

690
00:49:13,635 --> 00:49:16,155
Speaker 2: that everyday people can govern themselves.

691
00:49:15,755 --> 00:49:18,155
Speaker 3: Without a king or a dictator.

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00:49:19,395 --> 00:49:22,435
Speaker 2: In fact, in the rotunda the capital, there was a

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Speaker 2: giant painting a General George Washington, not President Washington, and

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00:49:27,675 --> 00:49:32,635
Speaker 2: he is resigning his commission as commander in chief the

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00:49:32,715 --> 00:49:37,235
Speaker 2: Continent Army. A European king at the time said, after

696
00:49:37,235 --> 00:49:40,435
Speaker 2: they won the revolution, now's the time for to declare

697
00:49:40,475 --> 00:49:41,115
Speaker 2: his kingship.

698
00:49:42,995 --> 00:49:46,075
Speaker 3: But instead the mobs.

699
00:49:45,715 --> 00:49:50,875
Speaker 2: That attack the Capitol, waving Trump flags and Confederate flags,

700
00:49:51,475 --> 00:49:55,435
Speaker 2: storm right past that portrait that image of George Washington

701
00:49:55,475 --> 00:49:58,235
Speaker 2: gave him no pause, but it should have. The artist

702
00:49:58,315 --> 00:50:01,715
Speaker 2: to paint that portrait will moralize that moment, because he

703
00:50:01,755 --> 00:50:04,595
Speaker 2: said it was quote one of the highest moral.

704
00:50:04,435 --> 00:50:09,035
Speaker 3: Less has ever given to the world. End of quote.

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00:50:09,395 --> 00:50:12,995
Speaker 2: George Washington was the height of his power, having just

706
00:50:13,075 --> 00:50:15,795
Speaker 2: defeated the most powerful empire on Earth.

707
00:50:17,595 --> 00:50:19,755
Speaker 3: Could have held on the power as long as he wanted.

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00:50:21,355 --> 00:50:25,955
Speaker 2: He could have made himself not a future president but

709
00:50:26,075 --> 00:50:33,395
Speaker 2: a future monarch in effect. And by the way, when

710
00:50:33,395 --> 00:50:36,235
Speaker 2: he got elected president, he could have stayed.

711
00:50:35,915 --> 00:50:38,595
Speaker 3: For two, three, four or five terms till he died.

712
00:50:40,635 --> 00:50:43,355
Speaker 2: But that wasn't the American He and the American troops

713
00:50:43,355 --> 00:50:49,675
Speaker 2: of Valley forge and fought, and America Genuine leaders, democratic

714
00:50:49,755 --> 00:50:52,995
Speaker 2: leaders with a small d don't hold.

715
00:50:52,675 --> 00:50:54,075
Speaker 3: On to power relentlessly.

716
00:50:55,555 --> 00:50:58,995
Speaker 2: Our leaders returned power to the people, and they do

717
00:50:59,075 --> 00:51:01,715
Speaker 2: it willingly, because that's the Dealal.

718
00:51:03,555 --> 00:51:06,315
Speaker 3: You do your duty, you serve.

719
00:51:06,155 --> 00:51:10,635
Speaker 2: Your country, and ours is the country worthy of service.

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Speaker 2: As many Republican presidents and Democratic presidents have shown over

721
00:51:16,515 --> 00:51:20,435
Speaker 2: the years, We're not perfect, but at our.

722
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Speaker 3: Best we face on.

723
00:51:22,315 --> 00:51:25,675
Speaker 2: We face head on the good, the bad, the truth

724
00:51:26,915 --> 00:51:27,835
Speaker 2: of who we are.

725
00:51:28,955 --> 00:51:33,875
Speaker 3: We look in the mirror and ultimately never from den

726
00:51:33,995 --> 00:51:38,595
Speaker 3: we're something we're not. That's what great nations do, and

727
00:51:38,635 --> 00:51:40,915
Speaker 3: we're a great nation. We're the greatest nation on the

728
00:51:40,955 --> 00:51:52,235
Speaker 3: face of the earth. We really are. That's the America

729
00:51:52,275 --> 00:51:53,515
Speaker 3: I see in our future.

730
00:51:54,315 --> 00:51:59,155
Speaker 2: We get up, we carry on. We never bow, we

731
00:51:59,275 --> 00:52:05,795
Speaker 2: never been. We speak of possibilities, not carnate. We're not

732
00:52:05,915 --> 00:52:11,315
Speaker 2: weighed down by grievances. We don't foster fear. We don't

733
00:52:11,355 --> 00:52:15,475
Speaker 2: walk around as victims. We take charge of our destiny.

734
00:52:16,275 --> 00:52:18,395
Speaker 2: We get our job done with the people, to help

735
00:52:18,435 --> 00:52:23,475
Speaker 2: with the people we find in America who find their

736
00:52:23,515 --> 00:52:27,835
Speaker 2: place in the changing world and dream and build a

737
00:52:27,915 --> 00:52:31,155
Speaker 2: future that not only they, but all people deserve a

738
00:52:31,195 --> 00:52:35,555
Speaker 2: shot at. We don't believe, none of you believe America

739
00:52:35,675 --> 00:52:46,595
Speaker 2: is failing. We know America is winning. That's American patriotism.

740
00:52:46,755 --> 00:52:49,835
Speaker 3: It's not winning because of Joe Biden. It's winning.

741
00:52:50,995 --> 00:52:54,835
Speaker 2: This is the first national election since January sixth insurrection

742
00:52:54,995 --> 00:52:57,555
Speaker 2: place to dagger at the throat of American democracy. Since

743
00:52:57,595 --> 00:53:01,795
Speaker 2: that moment, we all know who Donald Trump is. A

744
00:53:01,915 --> 00:53:05,675
Speaker 2: question we have to answer is who are we? That's

745
00:53:05,715 --> 00:53:06,395
Speaker 2: what's at state.

746
00:53:07,355 --> 00:53:08,035
Speaker 7: Who are we?

747
00:53:11,155 --> 00:53:13,635
Speaker 2: In your head as you talk to your family, and friends,

748
00:53:13,715 --> 00:53:18,235
Speaker 2: cast your balance the powers in your hands. After all

749
00:53:18,275 --> 00:53:20,955
Speaker 2: we've been through in our history, from independence to civil war,

750
00:53:21,155 --> 00:53:25,235
Speaker 2: to two World wars, to a pandemic to insurrection, I

751
00:53:25,355 --> 00:53:29,195
Speaker 2: refuse to believe than in twenty twenty four are we

752
00:53:29,355 --> 00:53:33,115
Speaker 2: Americans will choose to walk away from what's made us

753
00:53:33,155 --> 00:53:37,515
Speaker 2: the greatest nation in the history of the world. Freedom, liberty,

754
00:53:38,755 --> 00:53:43,555
Speaker 2: democracy is still a sacred cause. And there's no country

755
00:53:43,555 --> 00:53:46,515
Speaker 2: in the world better position to lead the world than America.

756
00:53:47,555 --> 00:53:52,515
Speaker 3: That's why I've said it many times.

757
00:53:52,515 --> 00:53:55,075
Speaker 2: That's why I've never been more optimistic about our future.

758
00:53:55,115 --> 00:53:57,315
Speaker 2: And I've been doing this a hell of a long time.

759
00:53:58,795 --> 00:54:00,035
Speaker 3: Just to remember who we are.

760
00:54:01,995 --> 00:54:06,155
Speaker 2: With patience and fortitude, with one heart, we are the

761
00:54:06,315 --> 00:54:08,755
Speaker 2: United States of America, for God's sake.

762
00:54:10,395 --> 00:54:16,435
Speaker 3: I mean it. There's nothing I believe, very frivor there's

763
00:54:16,475 --> 00:54:17,915
Speaker 3: nothing beyond our capacity.

764
00:54:17,955 --> 00:54:21,635
Speaker 2: If we act together and decently, we want another nothing, nothing, nothing,

765
00:54:22,915 --> 00:54:25,475
Speaker 2: I mean it, with the only nation of the world's

766
00:54:25,475 --> 00:54:28,155
Speaker 2: come out a very crisis stronger than we went into

767
00:54:28,155 --> 00:54:35,315
Speaker 2: that crisis. That was true yesterday, it is true today,

768
00:54:35,995 --> 00:54:40,555
Speaker 2: and I guarantee you will be true tomorrow. God bless

769
00:54:40,555 --> 00:54:42,475
Speaker 2: you all to make God protect our truths.

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00:54:58,635 --> 00:55:00,475
Speaker 1: Last week while we are here on a bullet and

771
00:55:00,515 --> 00:55:03,195
Speaker 1: basis developments in that sports story I mentioned during the

772
00:55:03,235 --> 00:55:05,675
Speaker 1: week in which Aaron Rodgers wants to popular quarterback of

773
00:55:05,675 --> 00:55:07,635
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, and more recently, a man who

774
00:55:07,635 --> 00:55:09,635
Speaker 1: has talked his way out of the most loyal to

775
00:55:09,675 --> 00:55:13,195
Speaker 1: its player's community in all of sports, and who lied

776
00:55:13,235 --> 00:55:16,035
Speaker 1: to the National Football League and its fans about whether

777
00:55:16,115 --> 00:55:18,795
Speaker 1: or not he got vaccinated, and who admitted to using

778
00:55:18,795 --> 00:55:22,835
Speaker 1: a tee laced with a profound hallucinogenic drug, and who

779
00:55:22,875 --> 00:55:27,395
Speaker 1: has gradually revealed himself as a seriously stupid sucker for

780
00:55:27,595 --> 00:55:32,875
Speaker 1: whichever conspiracy theory is coming down the pike next. Rogers

781
00:55:32,955 --> 00:55:36,955
Speaker 1: crossed a line this week, passed on the Pat McAfee Show,

782
00:55:37,395 --> 00:55:40,515
Speaker 1: a new program for which ESPN just paid its namesake

783
00:55:40,555 --> 00:55:43,755
Speaker 1: host eighty five million dollars to run on its platforms.

784
00:55:44,115 --> 00:55:47,835
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers implied that when the Jeffrey Epstein lists were published,

785
00:55:48,355 --> 00:55:53,275
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel of ABC would be mentioned. Rogers said that

786
00:55:53,355 --> 00:55:55,915
Speaker 1: when that happened, he would pop open a bottle of

787
00:55:55,955 --> 00:56:00,955
Speaker 1: something he did not rule out hallucinogenic. Ta Kimmel, who

788
00:56:01,075 --> 00:56:04,075
Speaker 1: liked McAfee and like Rogers, who is under contract to

789
00:56:04,235 --> 00:56:07,635
Speaker 1: McAfee to appear on his shows. They are all employed

790
00:56:07,755 --> 00:56:11,435
Speaker 1: by the same company, Disney, and within hours of the

791
00:56:11,475 --> 00:56:14,675
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers statement, Jimmy Kimmel tweeted that if Rodgers did

792
00:56:14,675 --> 00:56:19,475
Speaker 1: not stop this, he would sue Rogers for defamation. The

793
00:56:19,515 --> 00:56:23,395
Speaker 1: next day, McAfee pleaded ignorance. It did not take much effort.

794
00:56:23,515 --> 00:56:26,795
Speaker 1: He's pretty ignorant. McAfee said he believed there was no

795
00:56:26,915 --> 00:56:30,115
Speaker 1: cause for any problem here because Rogers was just quote

796
00:56:30,155 --> 00:56:34,755
Speaker 1: talking shit unquote. In fact, lawyers say that's not really

797
00:56:34,835 --> 00:56:37,795
Speaker 1: a defense that many courts will accept in a defamation suit.

798
00:56:38,155 --> 00:56:42,595
Speaker 1: A defamation suit by one Disney employee against two other

799
00:56:42,715 --> 00:56:47,555
Speaker 1: Disney employees McAfee and Rogers. Rodgers has not again appeared

800
00:56:47,595 --> 00:56:50,995
Speaker 1: on that show, nor did McAfee issue any kind of retraction.

801
00:56:51,995 --> 00:56:55,075
Speaker 1: What McAfee did do Friday, though, was to declare war

802
00:56:55,275 --> 00:56:59,875
Speaker 1: on ESPN. He accused executives of the company of leaking

803
00:56:59,955 --> 00:57:04,355
Speaker 1: inaccurate ratings about his program, since there had not been

804
00:57:04,395 --> 00:57:07,795
Speaker 1: any recent articles about those ratings, and since in fact,

805
00:57:08,035 --> 00:57:11,235
Speaker 1: ESPN PR put out a tweet Friday afternoon celebrating the

806
00:57:11,355 --> 00:57:14,515
Speaker 1: quote two hundred and ninety eight million views across all

807
00:57:14,755 --> 00:57:19,555
Speaker 1: ESPN platforms in December for McAfee's show. McAfee's claim seems

808
00:57:19,595 --> 00:57:26,075
Speaker 1: at best paranoid. Actually, what it is professionally is suicidal,

809
00:57:26,595 --> 00:57:30,635
Speaker 1: because McAfee named names, and he named the one ESPN

810
00:57:30,715 --> 00:57:36,195
Speaker 1: executive who has outlasted everybody who has ever worked there,

811
00:57:36,715 --> 00:57:41,675
Speaker 1: including me, including me the second time, including me the

812
00:57:41,755 --> 00:57:45,595
Speaker 1: third time when he personally got me rehired, including me

813
00:57:45,755 --> 00:57:49,835
Speaker 1: as he supervised the unlikeliest of ultimate outcomes to my

814
00:57:50,275 --> 00:57:54,875
Speaker 1: ESPN career, in which of all people who ever worked there,

815
00:57:55,035 --> 00:58:00,915
Speaker 1: I wound up retiring from ESPN, I got everything but

816
00:58:01,035 --> 00:58:07,355
Speaker 1: the gold Watch. The executive's name is Norby Williamson. This

817
00:58:07,395 --> 00:58:09,155
Speaker 1: is from the Pat McAfee show.

818
00:58:09,515 --> 00:58:12,315
Speaker 8: There are some people actively trying to sabotage us from

819
00:58:12,315 --> 00:58:16,675
Speaker 8: within ESPN. More specifically, I believe Norby Williamson is the

820
00:58:16,715 --> 00:58:20,715
Speaker 8: guy who is attempting to sabotage our program.

821
00:58:20,875 --> 00:58:22,235
Speaker 3: I'm not our hofsent sure.

822
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Speaker 8: That is just seemingly the only human that has information,

823
00:58:26,075 --> 00:58:28,995
Speaker 8: and then somehow that information gets leaked and it's wrong,

824
00:58:29,475 --> 00:58:31,955
Speaker 8: and then it sets a narrative of what our show is.

825
00:58:32,515 --> 00:58:34,755
Speaker 8: And then are we just going to combat that from

826
00:58:34,795 --> 00:58:38,155
Speaker 8: a rat every single time I don't know, but like

827
00:58:38,315 --> 00:58:40,915
Speaker 8: somebody tried to get ahead of our actual ratings release

828
00:58:41,235 --> 00:58:45,835
Speaker 8: with wrong numbers twelve hours beforehand. That's a sabotage attempt.

829
00:58:45,995 --> 00:58:49,075
Speaker 8: And it's been happening basically this entire season, from some

830
00:58:49,235 --> 00:58:53,035
Speaker 8: people who didn't necessarily love the old edition of the

831
00:58:53,075 --> 00:58:55,075
Speaker 8: Pat McFee Show to the ESPN family.

832
00:58:55,235 --> 00:58:56,755
Speaker 3: Sure, there's a lot of those.

833
00:58:57,435 --> 00:59:00,715
Speaker 8: We've heard them anonymously quoted in the Washington Post, in

834
00:59:00,755 --> 00:59:03,595
Speaker 8: the New York Post, in the New York Times, in

835
00:59:03,635 --> 00:59:07,675
Speaker 8: the La Times, in Wall Street Journal, and they're never like, yeah,

836
00:59:07,675 --> 00:59:10,195
Speaker 8: I love the show. This is all always like little

837
00:59:10,235 --> 00:59:13,155
Speaker 8: things to try to tear us down. So even with

838
00:59:13,395 --> 00:59:16,155
Speaker 8: the enemy within our own camp, somebody that we don't

839
00:59:16,235 --> 00:59:18,755
Speaker 8: I don't like that guy. That guy left me in

840
00:59:18,795 --> 00:59:21,195
Speaker 8: his office for forty five minutes. No showed me in

841
00:59:21,235 --> 00:59:23,955
Speaker 8: twenty eighteen. So this guy has had zero respect for me,

842
00:59:24,395 --> 00:59:26,555
Speaker 8: and in return, same thing back to him.

843
00:59:26,915 --> 00:59:30,275
Speaker 1: I have known Norby Williamson since January nineteen ninety two.

844
00:59:30,875 --> 00:59:33,475
Speaker 1: He was the original line producer of the eleven PM

845
00:59:33,635 --> 00:59:37,195
Speaker 1: edition of SportsCenter, the one Dan Patrick and I co hosted.

846
00:59:38,235 --> 00:59:41,355
Speaker 1: You may have heard about it. Norby was the original

847
00:59:41,395 --> 00:59:44,555
Speaker 1: line producer of the ESPN two Sports Night Disaster, which

848
00:59:44,555 --> 00:59:47,555
Speaker 1: I hosted. You may have also heard about that he

849
00:59:47,635 --> 00:59:50,675
Speaker 1: was the head of ESPN Talent when I quit as

850
00:59:50,875 --> 00:59:54,315
Speaker 1: an ESPN talent. He was the lynchpin in discussions to

851
00:59:54,355 --> 00:59:57,115
Speaker 1: get me back to ESPN in two thousand and two,

852
00:59:57,555 --> 01:00:01,515
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, two thousand and seven, twenty twelve,

853
01:00:01,555 --> 01:00:05,355
Speaker 1: and finally when it actually happened in twenty thirteen, and

854
01:00:05,475 --> 01:00:10,075
Speaker 1: he personally brought me back again in twenty eighteen, personally

855
01:00:10,275 --> 01:00:13,395
Speaker 1: during a time of chaos at the company. I do

856
01:00:13,515 --> 01:00:16,555
Speaker 1: not know how many arguments Norby Williamson and I have

857
01:00:16,635 --> 01:00:19,235
Speaker 1: had over the decades, but the number may be in

858
01:00:19,315 --> 01:00:22,955
Speaker 1: the thousands. The number of meals we have shared together

859
01:00:23,475 --> 01:00:28,915
Speaker 1: is two. Sometimes those arguments came with laughter. Sometimes those

860
01:00:28,995 --> 01:00:32,435
Speaker 1: arguments came with screaming and bright red faces and bald

861
01:00:32,635 --> 01:00:36,515
Speaker 1: up fists. And yet we still text once a week

862
01:00:36,595 --> 01:00:40,475
Speaker 1: or so, usually about the New York Mets. And this

863
01:00:40,755 --> 01:00:43,715
Speaker 1: is the sum of all of the things I have

864
01:00:43,875 --> 01:00:47,275
Speaker 1: learned about Norby Williamson, all of the knowledge I have

865
01:00:47,355 --> 01:00:51,595
Speaker 1: gained about him in exactly thirty two years. Here it comes.

866
01:00:52,795 --> 01:01:01,955
Speaker 1: Norby Williamson always survives. The others they perish. He does

867
01:01:01,955 --> 01:01:05,395
Speaker 1: not perish. Also, something I have learned since the day

868
01:01:05,395 --> 01:01:09,155
Speaker 1: I brought into broadcasting in the first place, Management protect management.

869
01:01:11,475 --> 01:01:14,995
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee, who is a shirtless hobo, went on the

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01:01:15,035 --> 01:01:18,075
Speaker 1: air Friday and gave ESPN all it legally needs to

871
01:01:18,155 --> 01:01:21,155
Speaker 1: fire him for cause and owe him out of his

872
01:01:21,355 --> 01:01:26,155
Speaker 1: eighty five million dollar deal exactly nothing, or it could

873
01:01:26,315 --> 01:01:28,555
Speaker 1: take him off the air, pay him the eighty five

874
01:01:28,595 --> 01:01:32,115
Speaker 1: million dollars, and prevent him from doing any show anywhere

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Speaker 1: for roughly the next four and a half years. That's impossible,

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Speaker 1: you say, And I have two words to answer that,

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Speaker 1: Tucker Karlson. ESPN also Friday issued an apology to and

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Speaker 1: about Jimmy Kimmel. It was quote a dumb and factually

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Speaker 1: inaccurate joke, said another vice president named Mike Foss, who

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Speaker 1: I do not know. It should never have happened. We

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Speaker 1: all realize that in the moment. Well, if that's true,

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Speaker 1: it's funny that it took McAfee's friends four days to

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Speaker 1: even offer an apology for something they realized in the moment,

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Speaker 1: let alone a retract. The retraction it still has not made.

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Speaker 1: All McAfee's people have done is given ESPN and acts

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Speaker 1: with which to at minimum make sure Aaron Rodgers never

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Speaker 1: appears on that show again, and more likely to end

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Speaker 1: McAfee's tenure there outright. To paraphrase the great Burt Lancaster

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Speaker 1: Tony Curtis film The Sweet Smell of Success, which is

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Speaker 1: also about media bullies. Your career's dead son, get yourself buried.

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Speaker 1: That's the special bullet and edition of Countdown. I'll be

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Speaker 1: back Tuesday as planned, barring more all time great speeches

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Speaker 1: by the President or or something else from this guy McAfee. Hello,

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Speaker 1: I'm Norby Williamson. Welcome to The Norby Williamson Show, replacing

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Speaker 1: the Pat McAfee Show. I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight,

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Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production

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Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

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