WEBVTT - You Can't Recover From a Pause 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:10.360 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:24.959 Armstrong and Getty, and now he Armstrong and Getty. And 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:26.560 this may seem a little bit right. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.000 I made us clear there's there's nothing out there that's 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:37.400 actually concerning. People will make everything seem very concerning, because 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.919 that's one people in politics. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:45.040 So rugged, so manly, so handsome. Graham Platner, who's running 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.800 was not was yet but it soon to be, was 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.239 running for Senate in Maine. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:51.720 This is a big deal. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.400 This is not just one of those pick a race 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.440 somewhere and because you're obsessed with politics, focus on it. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.320 This is a big deal because the US Senate is 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.320 basically a fifty to fifty tie and one Senate or 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.400 this way or that for the Republicans or Democrats could 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.720 control who's in charge of the US Senate, and that 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.280 makes all kinds of difference for all kinds of legislation and. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.480 This and that. I mean, it's a very very big deal. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:23.319 So Graham Platner, Democrat, he won the nomination up in 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.600 Maine and he was going to run against Susan Collins, 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:30.600 and he is in theory, although not in actuality, a 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.640 working class, regular guy who wants to fight the system. Well, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.440 theyre you know, he's got the Nazi tattoo. I'm going 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.720 to assume you've been following this story somewhat because we've 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.480 talked about it a lot. He's got the Nazi tattoo 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.120 that he's had his whole adult life, that he explained away, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.360 and the fact that he's never had a real job 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.600 that he's explained away. And then The New York Times 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.120 did a story several weeks back that had all kinds 0:01:56.200 --> 0:02:04.800 of ougie ish but not horrible stories about his dating life. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.919 For some reason, the New York Times did a softball 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:15.800 piece about Graham Platner not being a good guy to date, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:25.239 with nothing that was like over the top disqualifying. And 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.600 not only that, the story was written in such a way. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.040 I remember Joe counting the paragraphs they buried. The most 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.280 explosive thing about the guy, where he was twisting the 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.280 woman's arm behind her back. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:39.600 One woman that he was dating. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.000 They buried that in like paragraph twenty three, after doing 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.640 a puff piece around him. So the New York Times 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.880 several weeks ago had quotes from a bunch of different 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.720 women of stuff that's like, okay, that sounds kind of bad, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:55.280 but that's not I don't know, he said. She said, no, no, no, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.760 it just kind of went away. And so that clip 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:02.600 we just played a Graham Platner saying there's nothing out 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:06.560 that's actually concerning. That clip was him being interviewed on 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.079 MSNBC after that New York Times piece came out. Well, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.280 one of the women featured in that New York Times piece, 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:19.600 Jenny Rackacott, she had more to say. She did not 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.720 tell the New York Times that she had been raped 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:28.320 by Graham Plattner, but she did tell her some more 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.720 horrifying stuff that, for whatever reason, the New York Times 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.080 didn't put in the piece. The New York Times also 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.760 didn't contact any of her friends who were easily gotten 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:42.960 to well. Politico and CNN, among other news outlets, have 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.040 dug into this story more over the last couple of days, 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.640 and this Jenny Rackacott is now out on the record 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:54.240 talking about having been flat out no wishy washy this 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.880 or that, no kind of alluding to something bad but 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.400 not saying it out loud. She just flat out saying 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.360 she was raped. She told Jake Tapper on CNN the 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.160 other day, and Political is out with more details around that, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.200 which we can get into. We'll lay this out for 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.400 if you haven't heard it. What it's going to mean 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.160 is that this grand Platner guy is going to have 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:15.640 to get out of the race. I mean, I think 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.760 that's almost guaranteed, which means the Republicans most likely will 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.440 hold onto that seat, which means the Republicans have a 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.560 really good chance of holding onto the Senate even if 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.479 the Democrats take the House, which matters a lot for 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:35.000 legislation and for Donald Trump. Okay, let's start here. This 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.159 is Jenny Ractcott on CNN with Jake Tapper telling the 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.200 story just a couple of days ago. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:45.160 So he had kind of like jumped on top of 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.920 me and indicated that he had intentions that were sexual 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:53.200 in nature. And I remember just at first being like, hey, 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.440 I'm not into this, Like I'm not in the mood 0:04:55.520 --> 0:05:00.600 like don't what whatever. And it got to the point 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.880 where I was like, Okay, I feel like I've said 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.080 this enough times, like he's not listening to me or 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.440 he's not hearing me. And I looked at him and 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:13.200 I remember this very specific look in his eyes and 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.880 I could smell alcohol, and I was like, this. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.240 Is different, uh Rasicott, I guess is the way you 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.159 pronounce her name? Sorry about that. Jenny Rasicott goes on 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:22.960 with Jake Tapper. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.640 I remember specifically him like grabbing at my chest and 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.240 I like hit his hand and I said, don't touch me. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:35.599 And I remember that during the altercation specifically, he kept 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.120 going yeah, and it was this weird mix of like 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.760 coming in and out of I don't think consciousness is 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.120 the word, but like coming to and kind of falling 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.040 back into that drunken I don't know what I'm doing 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:54.400 state and yeah, and he just he would apologize in 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.400 those moments and then go back to doing what he 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:57.000 was doing. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:05:59.279 Again. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.840 Grand Platt rejects these claims. He released a video responding 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:04.799 on social media. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.760 She U By the way, so that clip where she's 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.760 talking to Jake Tapper, she's talking about him that wasn't 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.040 completely clear. She's talking about him coming in and out 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.400 of consciousness because he was so hammered drunk. She thinks 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:21.200 that he was like blacking out, which he very well 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:26.920 may have. Jake Tapper and Jenny Resact go on way 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:27.240 that he. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.839 Thought this was consensual or no, just because I don't. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.719 Believe that you can think that that scenario is consensual, 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.840 you have to understand that that wasn't when some of 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.440 these repeatedly, I mean, when somebody in the middle of 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:46.919 it says, don't touch me, like, that's obviously not consensual. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:48.119 Uh one. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.880 And this is no way to judge these sorts of things, really, 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:57.239 But sometimes these accusers sound like whack jobs. Whack Jobs 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.520 get raped also, so that's not proof of it, but 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.000 sometimes the whack jobs sound like whack jobs because they're 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.120 whack jobs. Like the accuser with Brett Kavanaugh, she was 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.120 all kinds of a whack job. I don't think what 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.840 she claimed happened. You know, she never told her friends 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:12.760 about it, blah blah blah, all the different sort of stuff. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.720 This woman, Jenny Rascott, clearly does not sound like a 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.360 whack job. And to the is there some sort of 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.160 political reason you've come forward? Jake Tapper gets into that. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.200 Just to underlin the point you're not coming forward. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.680 Because you have any political motivation. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:27.680 No, not at all. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.640 That was actually one of the huge reasons that I 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.960 didn't come forward and still struggled like that was a 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.800 huge moral conflict to feel like because. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.120 You'd like a Democrat to be in the Senate. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:40.520 Yeah. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.240 Yeah, I like the things that he speaks about. They're important, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.000 They're important to people. I'm one of those people. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.840 She didn't want to derail his candidacy because she believes 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.840 in the sorts of things that he does. She likes 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.120 his ads, she likes his policies, but she didn't like 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.240 the idea of a rapist becoming a US senator. One 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.200 more clip of her with Jake Tapper, and. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.120 The New York Times story came out. You were in it, 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:05.760 but you didn't. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.640 Go as far in that story as you are today. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:10.600 Yeah, why not. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.440 I didn't want to. I didn't want to have to 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.320 violate this huge level of privacy to my own life 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.960 to be able to infer that this person is not 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.600 honest and trustworthy. I felt really protective of my own 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.880 privacy throughout this whole process, and it got to a 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.480 point where my privacy was no longer going to happen. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.199 And that was when I kind of just made the 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.319 decision that, like, I'm going to say my piece and 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:39.160 get it out there. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.000 There are lots We got a text earlier saying If 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.240 he's guilty, then how come nobody's going to jail. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:44.679 She's not. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.200 She didn't go to the cops. She's not trying to 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:53.640 have him arrested for rape. And it's not well, it's 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.520 not uncommon, and it's not hard to imagine that there 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.640 are lots of women that just they want to try 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:00.800 to move on with their lives. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:01.680 They don't want. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.679 To go through the incredible hassle that it would be 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:10.120 to actually confront somebody charge them with rape, all the 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.080 different things, the trial, reliving it, the pushback you're going 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.040 to get in the courtroom. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:15.440 Not everybody wants to deal with that. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.920 And I can understand why now filling in some of 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.520 the gaps from Politico. Oh, by the way, Graham Platner 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.320 swears up and down that this didn't happen. He didn't 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.040 do it. He's innocent and now be proved. Although he 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.640 has suspended his campaign, Chuck Schumer, the leader of the 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.480 Democrats in the Senate, has come out and said Platner 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.520 needs to get out of the race. So I have 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.800 a whole bunch of other prominent Democrats who had stood 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:45.800 by him through all these other kind of whispers and accusations, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.920 light that have been going on for several weeks. A 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.800 bunch of politicians, including most importantly Chuck Schumer, had stood 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.719 by him. Now they're calling for him to get out, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.839 which means it's over. It's just a matter of time 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.680 before he gets out of the race. But filling in 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.520 some more of the details from Politico because I think 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.240 this is important to the whole thing. That night in 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.280 late twenty twenty one, she said she had exchanged text 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.760 messages with him and told him not to come over. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.000 So he did the classic booty call or booty text. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.360 He's drunk and here's somebody that he had dated for 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.720 a while and they'd had con sexual sex in the past, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.360 and he texts her late at night because he's hoping 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.360 to have sex again. I mean, that's you know, it's 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.080 in all kinds of sitcoms, TV shows, everything. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:28.160 It's a thing. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.240 She said, do not come over. I'm not in the 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.600 mood for company. Later that evening, she realized when she 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.240 heard a sound on the stairs that he had come 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.079 into her house. She didn't have her door locked. Common thing, 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.040 if you live in certain kinds of neighborhoods, you don't 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.400 lock your door. If you live in big cities, maybe 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.200 you can't imagine that, But in lots of the world, 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.320 maybe most of the country, it's perfectly normal to have 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:55.080 your house unlocked. He just came in. She told him specifically, 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.000 don't come over, and he came into his house. Now 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.760 I've seen it as force his way into his house. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.680 I'm perfectly fine with that language. That's what he did. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.720 She said, don't come in, and he came out without 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.679 came into her house without her approval. Then he sits 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.000 down on the couch. Platner comes up the stairs, Rasacot said, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.720 to where she was on the couch. He got on 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.120 top of her and kept grabbing her, she said, while 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.840 she repeatedly told him to stop and that she wasn't interested. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.480 She said that he smelled out. She smelled alcohol in 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.600 his breath and believed he was almost blackout drunk because 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.160 he ignored her protests and continued to grab after knocked 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.800 over some stuff in the in the room, spilling things everywhere, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.120 making a big mess. I had been telling him these 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.000 words like no, don't, she recalled, and the look on 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.760 his face and realizing what was happening. I just realized, 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.120 like that, I'm in a situation where there is no 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:53.120 consent here, she said. She tried to separate herself from 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.720 Platner by telling him she couldn't be in that room anymore, 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.640 after which he followed her to her bedroom and had 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:03.000 sex with her against her will. Uh he completed the act. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.160 I won't go into the details, but she was not 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.680 using birth controls, so she was worried that she was 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.839 going to be pregnant when she returned to the room. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.320 She left the room. After that he was done because 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.280 he fell asleep. She came back, he was completely passed out. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.280 She contemplated waking up to kick him out, but worried 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.280 he could hurt someone driving in the state. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:23.480 He was in. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.400 All right, I don't know if I would do that, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.440 but she gets to make these decisions. The following morning, 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.840 Platner tried to put his arm around her. She pushed 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:32.360 him away. 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:33.880 She said. She asked him. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.120 Whether he remembered what had happened the previous night. Platner 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.760 said he didn't remember. She said she told him to 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.200 leave and never contact her again. She waited several weeks 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.640 until she got her period to ensure she wasn't pregnant, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.000 then sent Platner a private message on Instagram saying that 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.199 the encounter was not consensual and she did not want 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.760 to hear from him ever. Again, she had no further 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:58.280 contact with him after that. Now, she deleted all her 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.840 texts in her social media correspondence with Platner, so she 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.640 can't prove bring back that Instagram post where she told 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:05.040 him that. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.800 But and I think this is key stuff. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.160 She told friends, including her best friend at the time, 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.400 about the sexual assault, who have testified too well, testified 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.040 is not the right term because that's a legal term. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:25.680 But they have told Politico and CNN and other outlets 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.320 that yes, these friends said, yes, she did tell us 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.200 about this five years ago, right after it happened. And 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.520 the next guy that she dated in a serious relationship, 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.640 she told all about this incident, and he passed that 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.960 fact along to Politico. That's the sort of evidence they 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.880 use in rape cases like this, when you've got, you know, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.400 happened at the time, testimony from people who say, yeah, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.120 this is the story she told me. That's the sort 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.040 of thing that, for instance, didn't exist with that crackpot 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:59.920 woman in the Kavanaugh case. But yeah, I think it, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.920 I think this happened. She's a very credible witness. Those 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.200 are very credible pieces of information for our friends and 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:08.640 her ex boyfriend and et cetera. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.280 And he's going to have to get out of the race. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.160 It's over for him. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.880 The fact that the New York Times soft pedal this story, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.760 didn't dig into it more that they're not the ones 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.640 that broke the story. What the hell is going on there? 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.640 That's a question that still needs to be answered. But 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.040 wonder what you think about all this text line four 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:31.120 one five two nine five k FTC more on the way. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.200 I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious and false 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:46.200 allegations against me. Any accusation of non consensual behavior is 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.240 categorically false, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.600 mindful of political reality it will inflect, we are taking 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.040 the time to reflect on the best path forward for 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.920 the state that I love, the people that I love, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.120 the I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:08.360 Has anybody ever paused their campaign during a controversy and 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.120 then restarted it in one? I don't even know if 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.040 I can remember anybody ever pausing their campaign and not 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:18.400 dropping out. That's Graham Plattner, the guy it's running for 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:24.120 the Senate in main woman came forward quite credibly accusing 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:28.200 him of rape, as being reported lots of different places, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.840 and now he's starting to lose support among Democrats who 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.440 had previously supported him through other bad news. There's an 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:34.720 example of the reporting on. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:40.160 That Democratic California Congressman Rocanna, who campaigned with Platner for 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.440 a while. Among those telling him to drop out, he 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.520 posted this Brett. I've been very clear that sexual assault 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.720 or violence against women is a red line. These allegations 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.160 are very serious and credible. Grand Platner should drop out 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.560 from the race. I'm with drawing my endorsement. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.120 Yeah, the fact that Rocana is out and Chuck Schumer's 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.680 out and so he's done, Grand Platner will get out 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.360 of the race. We just wanted to tell you the 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.000 story in case she didn't catch it over the long 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:12.680 holiday weekend. Oh Rasacotter. We've heard her name pronounce three 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.160 different ways. We're not sure which is correct, But she 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.560 showed political emails with her therapist in which she explained 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.640 she was talking to the media about her relationship. So 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:27.560 she's been dealing with this with her therapist, and she 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.440 had been emailing her therapist before, long before Plattner ever 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.040 got into politics about this. In fact, she reached out 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.080 to a friend who was thinking about dating the guy 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.840 and she said, don't date a me'se bad news. And 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.000 again this is before any of the political stuff came out. 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.800 And to repeat again, she likes his politics. She just 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.960 doesn't like him as a guy because he's a rapist allegedly, 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:55.560 and factually she likes his politics. She hates to derail 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.840 his candidacy. She doesn't want a Republican to win the Senate, 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.200 but she decided that she needed to come for So 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:01.840 I just want to get that out there because it's 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.320 going to be worthless news by tomorrow when he has 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:05.879 gotten out of the race, which I think will be 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:10.240 the case, and we don't need rapists or perhaps more 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.960 rapists in the Senate. More stuff on the way. If 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.160 you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:24.280 Demand Armstrong and Getty, beg of bge Bego, Tear rever 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:30.240 tear what oh lord ow loud? 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:34.400 What do what you doing? 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:50.560 Tear boy? And so what was that, Michael? What did 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:51.080 we just hear? 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.840 Hey, gentleman who is in a wheelchair, He goes and 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.639 lights a firework. Okay, but instead of backing up, he 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.280 just lets the same go off, and so he just 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.040 basically stands around it and they're telling him back up, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:04.760 back up, back up. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.560 Well he's in a wheelchair. Is he sitting around it? 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.560 Yeah, he's just kind of sitting around it, but he's 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.719 enjoying it. But the sparks are going around. Luckily he's 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.040 not getting burned or anything. They're yelling the guys, I'll Terry, 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:15.399 back up, Terry back up. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:17.840 Now. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.480 Did he end up in a wheelchair because of that 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:27.720 level of decision making? I have no idea, but it's 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.800 a funny video. Yeah, that's pretty funny. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:32.800 Yeah. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.360 I would like to know the background on whie he's 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.640 a wheelchair? There might be a backstory there that would 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:43.440 you know, be self explanatory there. So we're back after 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.080 a vacation. Joe's not back yet. He's still doing his 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.520 fortieth wedding anniversary, longest vacation of his life thing, and 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:50.720 he'll be back in a couple of days. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.520 I am back and happy to be back into my 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:54.480 regular routine. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:19:00.760 I my youngest, my fourteen year old, is doing three 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.960 boy Scout camps in a row. He's doing three weeks 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.760 with boy Scout camps in like twenty four days. He's 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.560 only going to be home like long enough to do 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.520 some laundry and repack and then had to head out 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:15.160 on another trip. So good for him, and he's having 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.760 a really good time so far, and that's awesome. It's 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:19.920 been very, very weird not having him around because he's 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.840 been around because he's homeschool practically every minute of his life, 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.679 my last fourteen years of my life. So it's very 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.399 weird having him gone. But so it leaves me and 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.440 my sixteen year old. I've had time to do some 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.600 stuff and we did a vacation kind of just the 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.080 two of us, which was really fun. We loaded our 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:40.960 dirt butt bikes in the back of my truck and 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.040 we went over to Nevada and we got a place 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.320 we ride south of Carson City that's really fun, and 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.560 then we drove down to just north of Vegas is 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.080 a really cool off road place to ride motorcycles, and 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.400 we were in Vegas. We used Vegas as our home 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.959 base for about three days and stayed in a hotel 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.359 and ran around there, eating and looking at the sights 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.480 and seeing street performers and all that sort of stuff. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.040 But one of the things I did in Las Vegas 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:09.040 was rent a car. Now, I had decided to rent 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.240 some sort of cool car. That's a popular thing to 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.520 do in Vegas, and you can rent Lamborghinis and Ferraris 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.080 and classic cars and all kinds of different stuff. And 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:19.719 I didn't know what I was gonna rent. I went 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.000 to this place and I was thinking about maybe getting 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.120 a Lamborghini because my son's really into him, just from 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.320 videos he watches and stuff like that, and all of 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.760 his favorite rappers drive Lamborghinis. Have you ever sat in 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.399 a Lamborghini if you're over five ten, I don't know 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.320 how you could possibly drive a Lamborghini and not be miserable. 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.639 There is no back seat, the seats up against the wall, 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:42.639 and with the seat as far back as it go. 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.560 I'm a little over six foot tall. My knees were 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:49.440 in my neck, and just plus getting out of there. 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.320 At my age, I kind of had to roll out 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.440 onto the pavement and crawl out of the car, and 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.240 I thought, I don't want to do this for several days, 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.240 so the Lamborghini thing was off, and I ended up 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:03.240 renting a nineteen sixty six Mustang GT three fifty, which 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.359 is a very very cool car. It's got the Cobra 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.800 symbol on the back, and the place that rents them 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:12.280 out they try all kinds of different exhaust systems on 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.920 them to find the one that sounds the coolest. And 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.399 so not only does it look super badass, but it 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.719 sounded just amazing when you romped on it. I mean 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.600 it had the throat of just I mean, it was fantastic. 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.320 So we drove around Vegas in that for every place 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:31.760 we're going, and we drug the strip at night. We'd 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.119 drive up and down Las Vegas Boulevard where all the 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.280