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Speaker 1: for you tonight, including a very special interview with President
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Here is a man who I know well
Speaker 1: from my time working for Barack Obama. But first let's
Speaker 1: get into the headlines. Of course, last night was the
Speaker 1: Academy Awards and hashtag oscars so Asian. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: It was an incredible night for the Asian American community.
Speaker 1: So many Asian artists won and thanked their parents, which
Speaker 1: was like, so nice, although honestly, if their parents or
Speaker 1: anything like mine, they were probably just like Okay. Let's
Speaker 1: move on from movies to music and some big news
Speaker 1: for a hot new artist. A new song credited to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the J six Choir is now topping
Speaker 1: the iTunes music chart. Justice for All features the phone
Speaker 1: President along with a group of men in prison for
Speaker 1: the January sixth attack on the Capitol. Are glad your
Speaker 1: allegiance to the flag of the United States of American? Wow?
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm saying this, But those guys should
Speaker 1: stick to insurrecting. This song is such a turd. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised it's on iTunes and not Nancy Pelosi's desk. This
Speaker 1: is so bad. Mike Pence heard it and he hanged himself.
Speaker 1: And why are they calling themselves? Donald Trump? In the
Speaker 1: January sixth choir Coo in the gang is right there. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Let's get to today's big news, the collapse of Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley Bank. I know it's impossible to believe that a
Speaker 1: town that could spend half a million dollars on this
Speaker 1: ape would have financial problems, but somehow it happened. SVB
Speaker 1: was the sixteenth largest bank in the country and the
Speaker 1: favorite bank of tech bros, disruptors and anyone who's ever
Speaker 1: invented uber but for weed. So here's what happened, Okay,
Speaker 1: SVB invested a lot of their clients money on a
Speaker 1: bet that interest rates wouldn't go up, and when interest
Speaker 1: rates did go up, they started losing their clients money.
Speaker 1: Then they told their clients, Hey, don't freak out, but
Speaker 1: we're losing your money. So of course everyone immediately freaked
Speaker 1: out and ran to the bank to take out all
Speaker 1: their money before it collapsed, which then caused the bank
Speaker 1: to collapse. It was like that bank run scene from
Speaker 1: It's a Wonderful Life. But if everyone was wearing Patagonia
Speaker 1: vests and look, people are legitimately scared. This could spread
Speaker 1: to banks across the country. So to stop the panic,
Speaker 1: the federal government took the bank over and promised everyone
Speaker 1: that they'd get their money back. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: funny because some of the companies who had money at
Speaker 1: the bank were screaming on social media that the government
Speaker 1: needed to come and save them. That's right, all those
Speaker 1: tech bros who complain about being under the government's yoke
Speaker 1: were suddenly like, oh no, my money's gone a yoke,
Speaker 1: mean Danny. So that's basically what happened. But if you're
Speaker 1: looking for an explanation of why SVB failed that doesn't
Speaker 1: require you to learn about interest rates, well Fox News
Speaker 1: got you covered. Part of the problem was is that
Speaker 1: this was one of those woke banks. They were one
Speaker 1: of the most woke banks in their quest for the
Speaker 1: ESG Top top policy. This bank, they're so concerned with
Speaker 1: d EI and politics and all kinds of stuff. This bank,
Speaker 1: Silicon Valley Bank, they've had been focused on a lot
Speaker 1: of these social issues in the in the last weeks
Speaker 1: and monthly and lgbtqum months of activities. Just before the
Speaker 1: bank collaps, I think the senior vice president of risk
Speaker 1: management at the bank was heavily focused on LGBTQ plus programs.
Speaker 1: The female head of risk management spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time spirit heeading what critics would call wook programs, such
Speaker 1: as a safe space for coming out stories. Oh right,
Speaker 1: the female head of risk management. That explains it. She'd
Speaker 1: probably spent the bank's money on shoes and abortions. For
Speaker 1: more on Silicon Valley Bank, we go to Michael Costa,
Speaker 1: Who Michael, where are you? Well? Where does it look
Speaker 1: like I am? I'm at Silicon Valley Bank's headquarters. Looks
Speaker 1: like you're at a gay nightclub. Man, This is just
Speaker 1: what a woke bank looks like. Cal The first floor
Speaker 1: is a gay nightclub, second floor is a gay bathhouse,
Speaker 1: and the third floor is gay accounting. Okay, well, what's
Speaker 1: your impression of svb's collapse. Seems clear to me that
Speaker 1: it's a result of rising interest rates forcing the bank
Speaker 1: to sell its bonds at a loss. That's so naive,
Speaker 1: col No, the reason the bank collapsed is because of woke.
Speaker 1: What do you mean woke? How did that collapse a bank?
Speaker 1: It just did cal woke, d EI ESG, poc aoc
Speaker 1: b ET. The list is endless, and the list is woke.
Speaker 1: I don't see what any of this has to do
Speaker 1: with a bank failing. Well that's because you're not a
Speaker 1: trained economist like I am. But once you learn the history,
Speaker 1: you discover that every bank crisis that has ever had
Speaker 1: this happened because of woke. There's no way that's true. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on. Women get the right to vote in nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty nine years later the Great Depression. Okay, how about
Speaker 1: this segregation ends in sixty four, seventeen years later, the
Speaker 1: recession of eighty one hits coincidence. Come on, mate, you
Speaker 1: can't connect These women and black people are not behind
Speaker 1: all bank collapse, of course, not cal. Sometimes it's gay
Speaker 1: people's fault. Okay, just look at the names behind the
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight financial crisis, Layman Brothers, gold Man Sacks,
Speaker 1: Bear Stern, Rusty Trombone Investments. It's all major gay financial
Speaker 1: institutions that lost money. I've never heard of Rusty Trombone Investment. Well,
Speaker 1: they lost a lot of my money. Look forget your
Speaker 1: theories for a minute. What can consumers do to keep
Speaker 1: their money safe. It's easy. Skip the banks and keep
Speaker 1: all your money in your wallet, like idea. That way
Speaker 1: when I need some money, that way when I need
Speaker 1: some Oh my god, someone stole my walk. I know
Speaker 1: who it was. Oh that's terrible. Who wasn't it was woke?
Speaker 1: All right, man, Okay, good luck with that, Michael cost
Speaker 1: to everybody. All right. When we come back, my interview
Speaker 1: with President Joe Body, don't go away. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. Last week I had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: interview the President of the United States at the White House.
Speaker 1: We talked about our divided country and how young people's
Speaker 1: advocacy can affect policy on climate drilling and human rights.
Speaker 1: Mister President, welcome to the Daily Show. Come back to
Speaker 1: the White House. Thank you. It's very nice to be back.
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out when the last time
Speaker 1: you and I had a conversation was, and I realized
Speaker 1: it was November twenty sixteen at a very diverse the
Speaker 1: Volley party that you hosted just a few weeks after
Speaker 1: Trump became the president elect. And I remember that you
Speaker 1: you described that night as an Irish Catholic vice president
Speaker 1: and a Muslim GoldStar family celebrating a reception observing a
Speaker 1: Hindu holiday. Well, exactly that's how I felt. I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember just feeling so positive and so much hope
Speaker 1: there and then as Khan, that was mister Khan, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Then I remember just four years of policy and vitriol
Speaker 1: under Trump, and now things feel more divided. So I
Speaker 1: was curious how you feel that we can stay hopeful
Speaker 1: and how can we get the country to unify truth
Speaker 1: of the matters? And every Moore optimistic of my entire
Speaker 1: life about no, I mean it now, I'll tell you what. Look,
Speaker 1: if you think about it. The reason I had not
Speaker 1: given my words the Biden. I hadn't planned on running again.
Speaker 1: I had lost my son Bo. It was a tough
Speaker 1: tough time and I wasn't gonna run at all for real.
Speaker 1: And then remember what happened in Charlottesville when those folks
Speaker 1: came out of the fields at night with torches and
Speaker 1: swastikas the white supremacist and a young woman was killed.
Speaker 1: I spoke to her mom. Then President Trump said there
Speaker 1: were very fine people on both sides, and I give
Speaker 1: my word. That's when I said I'm going to do this.
Speaker 1: But I was worried about doing it because I knew
Speaker 1: how bitter it would be. And so I got a
Speaker 1: phone call from my true story, from my eldest granddaughter saying,
Speaker 1: we have a family meeting. You probably are aware of.
Speaker 1: It's around here. We have a tradition to the Biden family.
Speaker 1: Any child can ask for a family meeting. I don't
Speaker 1: know even happen, but to take it seriously. So my grandchildren,
Speaker 1: my four granddaughters and grandson Bo's children and Hunters children
Speaker 1: came down on us Saturday, and we sat and talked
Speaker 1: and they said, trying to commit. They said, we know
Speaker 1: you're thinking a running pop, but you ought to do it.
Speaker 1: Daddy wants you to do it, talking about Bow and
Speaker 1: the rest. And I said, well, it's going to be
Speaker 1: pretty tough, and they said you got to do it.
Speaker 1: And we decided to do it. And I did it
Speaker 1: for three reasons. One to restore the soul of this country.
Speaker 1: That's not who we are. We're a decent, honorable country
Speaker 1: that cares. We really are we still are. Second one
Speaker 1: is to you know, begin to take care of the
Speaker 1: middle class, because the middle class does well, the poor
Speaker 1: have a real shot, and the wealthy do very well.
Speaker 1: And thirdly, to unite the country. And at the time
Speaker 1: thought people thought, well, maybe the first two, but you're
Speaker 1: never unite the country. But look what we did. We
Speaker 1: got a lot done. No one thought I could ever
Speaker 1: pass through the infrastructure bill. No one thought I could
Speaker 1: ever do anything about making sure that we took care
Speaker 1: of people with disabilities and drug prices and whole range.
Speaker 1: No one thought we could do anything on the environment.
Speaker 1: No one thought we could do anything about about same
Speaker 1: sex marriage. I mean we did. We did not all
Speaker 1: of it, but a significant portion was done in a
Speaker 1: bipartisan way. When I was a White House aid I
Speaker 1: remember having meetings in this room on climate. They didn't
Speaker 1: always go so well. And I never would have imagined
Speaker 1: twelve years ago that something as sweeping on climate as
Speaker 1: the Inflation Reduction Act would have happened. So my question really,
Speaker 1: and I was watching all of this unfold, is who
Speaker 1: or what created the political space for you to take
Speaker 1: that kind of action. Young people, young people generation, that
Speaker 1: generation between eighteen and thirty five. Now they're the ones
Speaker 1: that created a space. They enough of it, They had
Speaker 1: enough of it. And so what I did was when
Speaker 1: I trying to figure out whether I could put something together,
Speaker 1: I've met with them. We had rallies, we had I mean,
Speaker 1: they showed up in the twenty twenty election, they showed
Speaker 1: up in the twenty twenty two election, and we passed
Speaker 1: the largest environmental plan and all of history, over three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight billion dollars. We got it done.
Speaker 1: And and what happened was Mother Nature let her rasbie standing.
Speaker 1: For the last two years, for example, I have traveled
Speaker 1: on helicopter over more forest area burned to the ground
Speaker 1: than the entire state of Maryland. That's how much has
Speaker 1: burned to the ground, floods, droughts, all the things. And
Speaker 1: so people can't deny it anymore. They can't deny the fact.
Speaker 1: And I've traveled the world. I've gone to all the
Speaker 1: cop meetings around the world, meeting the meetings on climate.
Speaker 1: If we don't keep the temperature from going above one
Speaker 1: point five degrees celsius raised, then we're in real trouble.
Speaker 1: That whole generation is damned. I mean, that's not I proably,
Speaker 1: really truly trouble. And that's why the first meeting I
Speaker 1: had with the so called you know, G seven the
Speaker 1: largest economies in the world, democracies in the world, the
Speaker 1: first thing we talked about was they want to talk
Speaker 1: about was my initiative on energy, on dealing with moving
Speaker 1: toward For example, I called all them automakers and truck
Speaker 1: makers and I asked them to come to the South
Speaker 1: long the first year and to try to talk him
Speaker 1: into doing something more than going electric. And within five
Speaker 1: weeks all of them agreed They're going to go electric
Speaker 1: fifty percent by twenty thirty and by twenty fifty all electric,
Speaker 1: and I think we can do it. You're also responsible
Speaker 1: for reviewing drilling and oil production. Yes, what would you
Speaker 1: say to those young people who want you to continue
Speaker 1: to be the the champion but might not think that
Speaker 1: you're going far enough or fast enough on climate, Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, we're gonna fashion anyone's ever gone. We're
Speaker 1: going to need fossil fuels for at least the next
Speaker 1: ten years. It's not like tomorrow we can turn it
Speaker 1: all off, number one. And so in addition to that,
Speaker 1: we've things got really complicated when putin put one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty five thousand forces into Ukraine, having a profound
Speaker 1: impact on their energy ability to be able to keep
Speaker 1: the heat on in the winner and keep things moving.
Speaker 1: And so we're going to need fossil fuel. But we
Speaker 1: have to do is we have to I've said no
Speaker 1: more drilling off our ocean, I mean the whole range.
Speaker 1: But there still has to be there has to be
Speaker 1: the ability to generate some energy. But we can get
Speaker 1: rid of coal much more rapidly. And by the way,
Speaker 1: for example, I was up in Massachusetts on the largest
Speaker 1: goal producing electric facilities in the nation. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: we hooked it up the wind technolology, and so now
Speaker 1: and it's cheaper. We can do solar. We can do
Speaker 1: wind cheaper than we can do fossil fuels. So it's
Speaker 1: a matter of transitioning. But it's not like you can
Speaker 1: cut everything off immediately. You obviously understand the existential threat
Speaker 1: that young people feel when it comes to climate. Sure,
Speaker 1: how do you balance that with the immediate concerns of
Speaker 1: babysitting Congress or getting getting getting fifty one or sixty
Speaker 1: votes on some of this. Well, look, I've been relatively
Speaker 1: careful here. Sure it's relatively successful, right and working across
Speaker 1: the aisle. There is a magar Republican portion of the party.
Speaker 1: It makes up about a third of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: I've had more than a half a dozen Republican senators
Speaker 1: I've known for years over the last two years come
Speaker 1: to me individually, and I promise I've never mentioned her names,
Speaker 1: and I'll go to my grave never mentioned. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not telling I'm seriously, I've never broken my word and
Speaker 1: saying Joe, I agree with you. But if I if
Speaker 1: I do anything publicly, they're going to primary in me,
Speaker 1: I'll lose. The Republican Party's going through a significant transition,
Speaker 1: and we're going to see in the next two years
Speaker 1: how they end up, whether the maga Republicans control the
Speaker 1: party or we get back to conservative like for example,
Speaker 1: a guy as tough as can be is the majority
Speaker 1: leader of the United States the minority the United States
Speaker 1: Senate McConnell. But he's straight, he's a traditional conservative he's straight.
Speaker 1: What he says, he does. He probably doesn't even want
Speaker 1: me saying this. I probably hurt his reputation. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the Republican Party who are
Speaker 1: traditional republic conservative Republicans that you can deal with. But
Speaker 1: you know these you know, the gentlewoman from the state
Speaker 1: of George and the mountains up there, and others, Gates
Speaker 1: and anyway, that's very diplomatic. I would have used different language.
Speaker 1: But but no, But but it's there's an existential question
Speaker 1: that the Republican Party is going to have to face,
Speaker 1: and it's going to determine what happens in the next
Speaker 1: couple of years. But my focus is just stay focused,
Speaker 1: focused on the things that matter. We've got to deal
Speaker 1: with the climate. We've got to deal with civil liberties
Speaker 1: and voting rights. We've got to deal with issues relating
Speaker 1: to economic growth. Look, in this period I inherited, I
Speaker 1: think it's fair to say, a gigantic mess economically and politically.
Speaker 1: Of course, we've created twelve million new jobs since I've
Speaker 1: been president, more than any presidents created in four years.
Speaker 1: We've generated so much growth. We've we've created eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand manufacturing jobs, with the bill that became a bipartisan
Speaker 1: bill with no one thought could happen. The the Chips
Speaker 1: and Science Bill. We used to invest two percent of
Speaker 1: our GDP in research and development. That's why we're the
Speaker 1: nation we were. Well, guess what we decided to start
Speaker 1: We ended up being number eight or ten instead of
Speaker 1: number one. Well, now we're doing it again through the
Speaker 1: Chips and Science Bill. Guess what commitments for three hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollars in investments over the next ten years to
Speaker 1: build these chips. We invented the chips, we made them,
Speaker 1: We made them more sophisticated we used to be anyway.
Speaker 1: So there's so much going on that the country's hungry
Speaker 1: to move, I think, and I'm confident we can do it.
Speaker 1: It's reassuring to hear you talk about the ways young
Speaker 1: people can continue to get involved in it. You feel
Speaker 1: like they're still by partisan hope there if it's oh
Speaker 1: there is, by the way, I mean, look again, if
Speaker 1: I if we had had this conversation immediately after Trump lost,
Speaker 1: although he's not sure he did, but I told you
Speaker 1: we were going to get more done in two years,
Speaker 1: and almost any president has done period, and much of
Speaker 1: it in a bipartisan way. I think everybody would have
Speaker 1: looked at me, like, what's this guy been drinking? What's
Speaker 1: going on here? But we have, we have and I've
Speaker 1: been We've been able to the leadership of the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party's maybe ahold of Democratic Congress together, and we've picked
Speaker 1: up a few Republicans along the way, and I think
Speaker 1: it's beginning to bear fruit that it's hard to deny
Speaker 1: that it works. Speaking of young people, the Supreme Courts
Speaker 1: is considering striking down your student debt relief decision. What's
Speaker 1: the plan if that happens. Well, first of all, the
Speaker 1: concerts and scholars I've spoken to say the people challenged
Speaker 1: have no standing. Mean the court is ultimately as much
Speaker 1: as they want to rule, they're gonna, I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to rule that it was appropriate for what
Speaker 1: I did. Number one. Number two, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: we had this PPP program, that is the program during
Speaker 1: the pandemic. People lost their businesses because that has shut down.
Speaker 1: Restaurants closed with Bob and so we provided billions of
Speaker 1: dollars significantly more than helping students with their debt. And
Speaker 1: a number of the very people will criticize me in
Speaker 1: Congress actually got benefits in the program. You don't hear
Speaker 1: them talking about it. Right, The average student who will
Speaker 1: benefit from my student loan forgiveness program as somebody making
Speaker 1: less than seventy is seventy nine make seventy thousand dollars
Speaker 1: or less. They're just trying to get out of the hole.
Speaker 1: They're just trying to get started. They're just trying to
Speaker 1: get up and running, and so it is overwhelming the
Speaker 1: interests of the economy. It's a fair thing to do,
Speaker 1: and it's going to generate economic growth is significant. I
Speaker 1: understand them worrying. I understand. I don't know whether people
Speaker 1: realize A lot of parents realize how much of a
Speaker 1: burden is. Yeah, you get out of school, there were
Speaker 1: no jobs that you graduated because initially because of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: you got a debt that is most cases exceeding ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Loan you got, or grant you got, um
Speaker 1: and uh, and it's really a gigantic burden. You want
Speaker 1: to grow the economy. You want these people being able
Speaker 1: to go out and make a down payment on a home,
Speaker 1: be able to go out and start a business, be
Speaker 1: able to go out and get be free to the
Speaker 1: debt so they can invest in things they care about.
Speaker 1: And it's just so shortsighted if you don't. I wanted to.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you a slightly different questions. So, um,
Speaker 1: my partner Josh and I have been engaged for the
Speaker 1: last five years, which really only means that every auntie
Speaker 1: and uncle that I have is beyond disappointed that there
Speaker 1: hasn't been a wedding yet. But but Cardi b is
Speaker 1: going to marry us apparently officiate our wedding, which would
Speaker 1: which would be nice. But my question for you, mister president,
Speaker 1: is you codified support for same sex marriage and interracial
Speaker 1: marriages like ours. I'm curious what your evolution was like
Speaker 1: on marriage equality and what the federal government might be
Speaker 1: able to do to protect LGBTQ Americans, especially trans kids
Speaker 1: who are dealing with all these regressive state laws that
Speaker 1: are popping up right now. I can remember exactly where
Speaker 1: my epiphany was. Okay, I hadn't thought much about it,
Speaker 1: tell you truth, and I was a senior in high
Speaker 1: school and I wanted to get a job being turned out.
Speaker 1: The only turned out it is only Caucasian lifeguard and
Speaker 1: the projects in the City of Wilmington, the big swimming pools,
Speaker 1: and my dad was dropping me off to go in
Speaker 1: and get an application to the city Hall and Womington
Speaker 1: the Rodney Square it's called. I remember about to get
Speaker 1: out of the car and I looked to my right
Speaker 1: and two well dressed men in suits kissed each other.
Speaker 1: I mean, they give each other a kiss, and then
Speaker 1: one went looked like it was headed to the Pump building.
Speaker 1: One looked like the head of the Hercules Corporation building.
Speaker 1: And I never forgot to turn a look to my dad.
Speaker 1: He said, Joey, it's simple. They love each other. It's simple. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not joking. It's simple. They love each other. And
Speaker 1: it's never been, it has never been. It's just that simple.
Speaker 1: And I remember, you may remember because you may have
Speaker 1: been here when I and they are last administration with Barack.
Speaker 1: I went to meet the press and they asked me
Speaker 1: about the show. I was telling them I visited the
Speaker 1: family and another state and I watched these two, this
Speaker 1: gay couple, raising two kids, and watching them running and
Speaker 1: throw their arms around daddy and so on so and
Speaker 1: I and I told I said, they said, well, what
Speaker 1: do you think Russia had asked me. I said, I
Speaker 1: think people should be able to get married married. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter whether it's whether it's same sex or a
Speaker 1: heterosexual couple. You should be able to be married. What
Speaker 1: is the problem. So listen to your auntie and your
Speaker 1: uncle get married. Do it now, don't wait. Transgender kids
Speaker 1: is a really harder day thing. What's going on in
Speaker 1: Florida is my mother would say, close to sinful. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just terrible what they're doing. It's not like you know,
Speaker 1: a kid wakes up one morning and says, you know,
Speaker 1: I decided I want to become a man, or I
Speaker 1: want to become a woman, or I want to change.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are they thinking about here? They're human beings,
Speaker 1: they love, they have feelings, they have inclinations that are
Speaker 1: I mean it just to me is I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's cruel. And the way we do it is we
Speaker 1: make sure we pass legislation like we passed on same
Speaker 1: sex marriage. You best with that. You're breaking the law
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be home accountable. Thank you, sir. I
Speaker 1: also can tell that like some auntie or my mom
Speaker 1: probably texted you beforehand. If no, no, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: pressure me too. No, nobody get moving, man, I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I know we're unlimited time, So I just
Speaker 1: want to ask you looking ahead, Um, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of names floated. Uh, it's a crowded, crowded field. Um,
Speaker 1: who should be the next permanent host of the Daily Show?
Speaker 1: Depending how you edit this program? You? Yes, okay, that's
Speaker 1: a good answer, solid answer, solid answer. I don't think
Speaker 1: we need to edit anything. Then, thank you, mister President.
Speaker 1: Thank you for a time, and I thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, stay tuned because when we come back, President
Speaker 1: Biden takes us inside the Oval Office. Don't go away,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. Let's take it back
Speaker 1: to the White House, or as my college buddies called
Speaker 1: it when I worked there, the Side House. Now I've
Speaker 1: been fortunate enough to be in the Oval Office a
Speaker 1: few times, but today I get to bring you with me.
Speaker 1: Well welcome and place you spend some time. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: I have the fireplace. Never been on what I've been
Speaker 1: in here. I tell you what I have it on
Speaker 1: all the time. It's kind of humbly walking in here.
Speaker 1: I mean for real, I had my brother Jimmy come
Speaker 1: in and you know, picked the rug in the desk
Speaker 1: and all that stuff and make a long story short.
Speaker 1: And I come walking in like five o'clock on inauguration day,
Speaker 1: and I walked in. I said, geez, I said, I've
Speaker 1: never seen Frank, I'm Roosevelt, I'm admirer, but it's always
Speaker 1: George Washington. So all portrait there and Abraham Lincoln and
Speaker 1: John Meecham, the presidential historian. Jimmy had called him for
Speaker 1: some help. And he looked and he said, because no
Speaker 1: one's ever inherited a world economy and as much disarray
Speaker 1: as he had. And I said, oh, that's wonderful. And
Speaker 1: I said, well why Lincoln is said the country has
Speaker 1: never been as divided since Lincoln was president. But what
Speaker 1: I did was I wanted to be able to sit
Speaker 1: here at my desk and look out. And I only
Speaker 1: had two political heroes when I was getting involved and
Speaker 1: fell over there, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennon. I
Speaker 1: was very moron John Kenny, but I could never picture
Speaker 1: John Kenny at my kitchen table. I could kind of
Speaker 1: picture maybe. And then the two people who I were
Speaker 1: got involved engaged with us, says that our shove is
Speaker 1: because I got not involved, but I supported verbally the
Speaker 1: farm workers union they were trying to organize in Delaware
Speaker 1: when I was running as a twenty nine year old kid,
Speaker 1: and his granddaughter works for me. And then Rosa Parks,
Speaker 1: who's over here, and well, so I tried to I
Speaker 1: tried to make a kind of warm like I thought about.
Speaker 1: The other guy never showed up on an auguration day,
Speaker 1: so I didn't have to worry about it. But it's
Speaker 1: kind of neat. And the things I've done in here, like,
Speaker 1: for example, the moon rock over here. All right, I'm
Speaker 1: a huge NASA fan, a big astronomy fans. This is
Speaker 1: very cool. Well, this is cool. That's an actual moonrock
Speaker 1: and one of the you know that rover they have
Speaker 1: up there. My name is on the back with other presidents.
Speaker 1: It's really cool. But I want to show you something
Speaker 1: really cool. Come on back here. Not many people come
Speaker 1: back this way, but come on it. I think, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: not only are we seeing the Oval Office, We're also
Speaker 1: getting a rare tour of the president's private study. This
Speaker 1: is like the world's most dignified episode of MTV Cribs.
Speaker 1: By the way, does a Wyath painting by Jamie Wyath?
Speaker 1: The son, and he told me that Kennedy family didn't
Speaker 1: like him. He's made him look too contemplative, but not
Speaker 1: a smile. I know. I think it's great, but anyway,
Speaker 1: and that's the house I was raised in. His scram
Speaker 1: that's awesome, wow or as they say, scram. So I
Speaker 1: went and spoke at the Kennedy Library a couple of times.
Speaker 1: The last time I spoke there, I get handed this
Speaker 1: by Caroline Kennedy and it's that famous letter he wrote,
Speaker 1: and this is the actual copy, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: why am I going? We chose to go to the
Speaker 1: moon in this decade because that goal will serve the
Speaker 1: origins of measuring by the best of us and it
Speaker 1: goes on or not. Well, that's I mean, the just
Speaker 1: even that top line, no prejudice, no hate in outer
Speaker 1: space and go. I don't know if you have any tattoos.
Speaker 1: I've got some from the Nassa Voyager, which was launched
Speaker 1: in seventy seven, the Golden Record, which had you know, science, music, art,
Speaker 1: but no politics, no war, no religion, none of the
Speaker 1: things that divide us. And so it's just the idea
Speaker 1: of hope through exploration. Unfortunately, before the President showed me
Speaker 1: all of his tattoos, it was time to go. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time and thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the stories and the Oval tour. Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a quick break, but we'll be right back after this.
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