Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central yew.
Speaker 2: Even though the twenty twenty two election isn't over yet,
Speaker 2: it looks like the twenty twenty four campaign might already
Speaker 2: be underway. According to reports, Donald Trump is planning to
Speaker 2: announce another run for presidents as soon as the midterms
Speaker 2: are over. Yeah, but he's gonna wait for the midterms
Speaker 2: first because he wants to do the responsible thing and
Speaker 2: see if his election denies get into power so they
Speaker 2: can steal the election for him.
Speaker 3: He's waiting. It's good. And even though he hasn't officially.
Speaker 2: Announced that he's running a Trump is already taking shots
Speaker 2: at some of his rivals in the GOP.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump, meanwhile, and Florida Governor Rod DeSantis, held competing
Speaker 4: rallies in the state of Florida yesterday. While Trump urged
Speaker 4: Flurrians to vote for DeSantis in his race against Democrat
Speaker 4: Charlie crist the form president also took a swipe at
Speaker 4: the governor as a potential twenty twenty four opponent.
Speaker 5: We're winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for
Speaker 5: the nomination like nobody's ever seen before. Let's say there
Speaker 5: it is Trump at seventy one. Ron de Sanctimonius said
Speaker 5: ten per Mike pen said seven. Oh, Mike stayed better
Speaker 5: than I thought.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he'd be dead by now. I guess
Speaker 3: there's always next time. He's doing better.
Speaker 2: By the way, I love how Trump always gives speeches
Speaker 2: on the tarmac right in front of his plane.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed how he does like the door is opened,
Speaker 3: the stay.
Speaker 2: It's almost like he doesn't want to spend one second
Speaker 2: longer than needed with those people.
Speaker 3: He's just like, keep dangine running. I want to leave
Speaker 3: this shithole town as soon as I say good night.
Speaker 2: In fact, just dangle me from a helicopter and pull
Speaker 2: me up when I'm done.
Speaker 3: I want to get out of here before these rednecks
Speaker 3: can touch me. You saw what they did to Mike Pence.
Speaker 3: These people are dangerous.
Speaker 2: But the reason that speech is going viral is because
Speaker 2: of that bitchy little swipe at Rond Sanctimonious. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: saw that, breaking out a classic Trump nick. I mean,
Speaker 2: at least we think it was a nickname. It could
Speaker 2: have just been Trump trying to say De sanctis you
Speaker 2: know him, Sanconius. And what makes the story even better
Speaker 2: is that apparently Trump has been privately testing nicknames for
Speaker 2: Ronda Sanctis, Yeah, which is amazing to me.
Speaker 3: The man is at a meeting with his team of
Speaker 3: lawyers and he's like.
Speaker 6: All right, all right, enough of all the ways that
Speaker 6: I could go to jail, what do you guys like
Speaker 6: better Ran de sanctimonious rand shithead?
Speaker 3: Which are.
Speaker 7: Right now?
Speaker 2: Right now, it looks like a Trump versus de Sanctus
Speaker 2: feud is breaking out into the open. And you know,
Speaker 2: usually when two men fight in Florida, it's at a
Speaker 2: Margaritaville at one am. But this, this is a lot
Speaker 2: more high stakes, which is probably why a lot of
Speaker 2: Republicans are upset with Trump for going after the Sanctus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: We love Rond Sanctus, He's our guy, and Trump is like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, that's why I hate him, because you see,
Speaker 2: people don't realize that's the one thing Trump hates more
Speaker 2: than anything is anyone having what he thinks should be
Speaker 2: his spotlight. That might be the thing that destroys the
Speaker 2: Republican chances in twenty twenty four. Donald Trump cannot stand
Speaker 2: not being the center of attention. Yeah, I bet he
Speaker 2: got jealous when his kids were born.
Speaker 3: You know, there's like congratulations, it's a boy. He's like,
Speaker 3: I'm also a boy, and I've been a boy much longer,
Speaker 3: so long. Many people not well saying if that's for
Speaker 3: them all time?
Speaker 2: As you know, last week, the immigration debate in America
Speaker 2: was reignited once again by Ron Desanctus, Florida governor and
Speaker 2: the dad of your school bully. You see, for months now,
Speaker 2: Republican governors in Arizona and Texas have been trying to
Speaker 2: draw attention to border security by bussing migrants to places
Speaker 2: like New York and Chicago. But the Sanctists took things
Speaker 2: up a notch by hiring a plane to take forty
Speaker 2: eight Venezuelan migrants from Texas and drop them off in
Speaker 2: Martha's Vineyard. And if the Sanctus was looking for attention,
Speaker 2: well he definitely got it.
Speaker 8: Some Democratic lawmakers want the Justice Department to open an
Speaker 8: investigation after fifty Venezuelan migrants were flown to Martha's Vineyard
Speaker 8: last week. This morning, at Texas sheriff launching a criminal
Speaker 8: investigation against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Speaker 2: Massachusetts authorities won a federal human trafficking probe into what
Speaker 2: it calls inhumane acts by DeSantis and others.
Speaker 9: They were told there was a surprise present for them
Speaker 9: and that there would be jobs and housing waiting for
Speaker 9: them when they arrived.
Speaker 3: This was obviously a sadistic lie.
Speaker 10: They were lord by false pretenses and then transported across
Speaker 10: state lines. That is enough evidence to open a criminal
Speaker 10: investigation for the federal crime of kidnapping by enveiglement.
Speaker 3: Kidnapping by Veigel Mint.
Speaker 2: I swear to god, Republicans are gonna give me a
Speaker 2: law degree by the time this shit is over, because
Speaker 2: we keep learning about new things in Veigel Mint. But yeah,
Speaker 2: basically the Sanxis tried to pull his stunts that may
Speaker 2: have turned into an actual crime.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't surprise me. It doesn't sprive you that
Speaker 3: run de Sanxus is doing this. He looks kind of
Speaker 3: like a human trafficker. No, no, for real, look at him,
Speaker 3: just look at him. Look at him.
Speaker 2: Tell me, tell me that's not the pose of a
Speaker 2: man who's smuggling a group of Venezuelan's up his butt.
Speaker 3: Look at that guy, but explode.
Speaker 2: So many To many Democrats, especially Dasanxus is basically just
Speaker 2: a kidnapper in a frumpy suit. But what's interesting is
Speaker 2: over in Maga world, Desanctus has been getting a hero's welcome.
Speaker 2: This weekend in Kansas, Florida, Governor Ryan DeSantis received a
Speaker 2: standing ovation.
Speaker 1: From Republican voters when he talked about the southern border.
Speaker 3: As stunts go, this has been an incredibly brilliant.
Speaker 6: On obviously a boss move by DeSantis.
Speaker 3: I think this is brilliant.
Speaker 11: They need to do more. Tomorrow Martha's Vineyard needs one hundred.
Speaker 11: The next day they need two hundred. The next day
Speaker 11: they need a thousand. Martha's Vineyard lost their mind.
Speaker 3: Ron DeSantis, He's playing chess here.
Speaker 4: Democrats in our allies in the media, they're playing checkers.
Speaker 4: The hipocrisy is now out in the open.
Speaker 3: This is amazing. This is checkmate. Oh check mate. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like how Republicans are like, no, no, we're not
Speaker 2: using immigrants as pawns. But also check mate. As you
Speaker 2: can see, Conservatives, they're just juzzing their pants over this thing.
Speaker 3: It was brilliant, a boss move. Yes, Queen Martha's Vineyard
Speaker 3: lost their mind. And by the way, did it really
Speaker 3: did it? Did Martha's Vineyard lose its mind.
Speaker 2: Fifty migrants showed up out of nowhere, and the people
Speaker 2: of Martha's Vineyard gave them food and shelter, and then
Speaker 2: exchanged hugs with them as they boarded buses to leave. Now,
Speaker 2: I know Ted Cruz has never been hug before, so
Speaker 2: he may have thought that they were trying to strangle
Speaker 2: each other. But that doesn't look like people losing their
Speaker 2: minds to me. And this really shows you how America
Speaker 2: is living in two completely separate realities right now. In
Speaker 2: the democratic world, this was a heartless and illegal stunt.
Speaker 2: In Magaworld, this is the most brilliant thing anyone's done
Speaker 2: since Jesus invented the.
Speaker 3: Era of fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Democrats say Marthas Vineyard proved the Sanctus wrong by
Speaker 2: welcoming the migrants with open arms. Magaworld says they proved
Speaker 2: the Sanctus right by shipping the migrants off to a
Speaker 2: military base after two days.
Speaker 3: It's pretty wild.
Speaker 2: I mean, at this point, America is basically the multiverse.
Speaker 2: There's one universe where the Sanctus is a god, and
Speaker 2: simultaneously another universe where he's headed to prison, and that
Speaker 2: has those hot dogs for fingers.
Speaker 3: But believe it or not.
Speaker 2: Believe it or not, there is actually one conservative who
Speaker 2: is upset with the scientists, and you'll never guess who
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 8: Rolling Stone reports that truck Biz upset about DeSantis's decision
Speaker 8: to fly nearly fifty migrants from Texas to Martha's vineyard
Speaker 8: last week, not because he thinks it was a depraved
Speaker 8: and irresponsible and inhumane practice to target asylum seekers. No,
Speaker 8: Trump is angry because it was his idea. First.
Speaker 9: According to the story, the former president quote vented that
Speaker 9: DeSantis's latest stunt was yet another one of my ideas
Speaker 9: that the governor allegedly stole from Trump.
Speaker 3: Oh man, poor Donald Trump. He is sitting at home
Speaker 3: like you stole my idea. And by the way, stealing
Speaker 3: stuff is also my idea. Read the news, read it.
Speaker 2: In my dear. But you know what's really telling is
Speaker 2: that in a way, Trump has a point, all right.
Speaker 2: He is the guy who came up with the idea
Speaker 2: of turning all politics into a series of stunts.
Speaker 3: That is what he did.
Speaker 2: The Muslim band built the wall. That shit didn't solve anything,
Speaker 2: but got the people going. And now pulling stunts has
Speaker 2: become the driving force of the Republican partsy but Trump
Speaker 2: he's stuck watching it on the sidelines. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: feel bad for you, mister Trump. But the fact is
Speaker 2: Ron de Sanctus. You see what he's doing. He's slowly
Speaker 2: becoming the Republican Party now, stealing your tricks, making it
Speaker 2: his own. And so you got you gotta get used
Speaker 2: to this. I'm gonna get used to being smuggled in
Speaker 2: his butthole for the ride.
Speaker 6: Let's kick things off with Donald Trump, the former president
Speaker 6: of the United States, I feel you, and future president of.
Speaker 3: Cell Block, d.
Speaker 7: Yo.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, Trump sat down for an interview on Fox News
Speaker 6: with Sean Man Titties that's his real name, and it
Speaker 6: sounds like Trump isn't happy that Ron de Sante might
Speaker 6: run against him after all the help he gave Ron
Speaker 6: when he was running for governor.
Speaker 12: Ron came to see me tears in his eyes. He said,
Speaker 12: I need you to do me a big favor. Would
Speaker 12: you endorse me? I fought for you, so I said,
Speaker 12: let's give it a shot. Run okay, And he was desperate.
Speaker 12: I said, okay. I gave him a nice endorsement. I
Speaker 12: got him the nomination. By the way, couldn't have never
Speaker 12: gotten the nomination, he would be working in either a
Speaker 12: pizza parler place or a law office right now, okay,
Speaker 12: and he wouldn't be very hassh.
Speaker 6: Wow, Ron Dessantis would be working in a pizza parlor.
Speaker 6: I guess in Trump's mind, every Italian is working in
Speaker 6: a pizza place or a law office, or even better,
Speaker 6: a pizza place that's also.
Speaker 3: A la office. I put on backwards ha ha hey he.
Speaker 6: You you come here, you move? Have you been injured
Speaker 6: on the job and you're hungry, then come on into
Speaker 6: this Tepano and sons. And if we can't win your case,
Speaker 6: the garlic knots at.
Speaker 3: The dive for.
Speaker 6: Hed stones up.
Speaker 3: I'm the gods.
Speaker 7: I got your yeah right here.
Speaker 11: By.
Speaker 13: If you've been following Florida politics, you're weird. And also
Speaker 13: you know that Ron de Santis has been attacking the
Speaker 13: Disney Corporation for a year now, ever since Disney criticized
Speaker 13: his anti gay bill and also because they used his
Speaker 13: image for Quasimoto.
Speaker 3: Den Ringer.
Speaker 13: Well, now the fight has reached the courts. This morning,
Speaker 13: Disney sued Rond de Santis, accusing him of political retaliation.
Speaker 13: Good news, which sounds bad. But if they really wanted
Speaker 13: Tom up. They'd slip his kidney and Kanto soundtrack. As
Speaker 13: a parent, Trust me, that can ruin your life. We
Speaker 13: don't talk about Bruno. How about we don't talk about
Speaker 13: giving you up for adoption?
Speaker 3: If you don't turn that off.
Speaker 1: Governor Ron de Santis is making news for his approach
Speaker 1: to teaching black history, or should I say less of it?
Speaker 1: So I made a quick trip down to Florida to
Speaker 1: find out more. Last April, rond de Santis signed the Stopwoke,
Speaker 1: which prohibits education that makes people feel anguish on the
Speaker 1: account of race, color, sex, or national orgin. In other words,
Speaker 1: it's basically illegal down Florida to make white people feel
Speaker 1: bad about sleeping, and some people love it.
Speaker 7: Keith Flaw is an.
Speaker 1: Education advisor to Rhonda Santis and a supporter of the
Speaker 1: Stop Woke.
Speaker 14: At we get teachers who are coming out of these
Speaker 14: liberal colleges, they believe our country is evil. They're teaching
Speaker 14: young children that it's about the color of your skin,
Speaker 14: not your character.
Speaker 1: Okay, but how do we talk about race in this
Speaker 1: country in a way that keeps people from being so
Speaker 1: damned sensitive?
Speaker 15: I don't know that.
Speaker 7: I haven't answer to that because that's the issue.
Speaker 1: The proponency t you're trying to say, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the race part of it. Just a look, people go
Speaker 1: race real bad. Coughing your ass up.
Speaker 14: Do you think that you change that by teaching young
Speaker 14: kids in kindergarten.
Speaker 15: That because they're white, they're they're they're they're benefited from
Speaker 15: white supremacy.
Speaker 7: I wasn't yelling at you, by the way, I.
Speaker 1: Get it, okay, So that you believe that there is
Speaker 1: institutional racism in this country.
Speaker 7: I don't know that.
Speaker 14: I don't know that.
Speaker 15: I you just said, do I believe?
Speaker 7: And I don't know that.
Speaker 15: I don't know that my opinion matters in that situation.
Speaker 15: I think they have to look at the facts, and
Speaker 15: I don't know that. I'm but I guess pared to
Speaker 15: state an opinion on that.
Speaker 1: So maybe the real question should be whose feelings are
Speaker 1: we really worried about hurting?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 1: Should do we talk about all the deep you knows racism,
Speaker 1: systemic equality, and then we have another class that's just
Speaker 1: called the good white folk. You have seen twelve years
Speaker 1: this late, you've probably seen a free black man got kidnapped,
Speaker 1: and then Brad Pitt help him get free, so we
Speaker 1: have like you learn, you learn about Brad Pitt, you
Speaker 1: learn about some of doctor King's.
Speaker 7: White friends.
Speaker 1: With That helped me because I know, I think I'm
Speaker 1: giving what you're saying now, but.
Speaker 15: I don't think that helps it all.
Speaker 14: Because what you're doing is you're teaching.
Speaker 7: You didn't know about Brad Pitt. I just educated you.
Speaker 1: The idea of doing a class on good white people
Speaker 1: in history is just too good to resist. Hi, I'm
Speaker 1: really Wood Jr. Become to the only history class dedicated
Speaker 1: to the many great contributions of white folks, and therefore
Speaker 1: the only class sanctioned by the State of Florida because
Speaker 1: it makes white people feel good. Welcome to the great Whites.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the greatest white of all. George Washington.
Speaker 1: Born in seventeen thirty two, George Washington led the American
Speaker 1: Revolution against the British Empire, secured the country's freedom, and
Speaker 1: then served as the nation's first president. Washington then retired
Speaker 1: to his beautiful plantation in Virginia with his wife and
Speaker 1: over three hundred slaves. As part of an economic system
Speaker 1: built on the subjugation of black people, George Washington also
Speaker 1: helped create the tradition of presidential term limits.
Speaker 7: Good work, George Washington.
Speaker 1: One of the other great whites in history that we
Speaker 1: often don't talk about is a brilliant white man named
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison, working out of his lab in Menlo Park,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Edison is credited with over a thousand patents
Speaker 1: in his lifetime. Among those patents Edison was credited for
Speaker 1: is the motion picture camera. Without his work, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: have movies, TV shows, or footage of black people getting
Speaker 1: beat up by the police like Rodney King.
Speaker 7: What's your favorite movie? Minus Shrek?
Speaker 1: Another great white who doesn't get the credit he deserves
Speaker 1: his politician Jack Ryan. Jack was a successful investment banker
Speaker 1: who ran for Senate in Illinois in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: During his campaign, it came out that Ryan had bravely
Speaker 1: asked his wife to perform sexual acts on him in public.
Speaker 7: If this grace, Jack was forced to step down.
Speaker 1: From the two thousand and four race, leading to an
Speaker 1: easy victory for his opponent, Barack Obama, who would go
Speaker 1: on to become president. And now then Ladin is dead
Speaker 1: and millions of people have health care all because of the.
Speaker 7: Great Jack Ryan. Where would this country be without his
Speaker 7: unquenchable horniness. Thank you, Javi.
Speaker 1: And finally, the world of sports, which is littered with
Speaker 1: great whites, including the greatest coach who ever.
Speaker 7: Lived, Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1: With the Chicago Bulls in the nineties, Jackson employed a
Speaker 1: groundbreaking offensive scheme called passed the Ball to the ball
Speaker 1: headed Black Dude. Jackson would later find championship success with
Speaker 1: other ball headed black dudes like Shaq and Covid, but
Speaker 1: this ingenious strategy with the Bulls led to six championships.
Speaker 1: Jordan let the league in scoring ten times, mainly thanks
Speaker 1: to great whites who passed him the ball. They could
Speaker 1: have easily let the league in scoring themselves, but out
Speaker 1: of sheer selflessness, those great whites let Michael do it instead.
Speaker 1: Here's to you Bill One in Team. Well, I'm afraid
Speaker 1: that's all the time we have for today. Join me
Speaker 1: next week when we talk about the brilliant Wright brothers
Speaker 1: and how their innovations and air travel led to the
Speaker 1: firebomb and the Black Wall Street and a top Gun movie.
Speaker 7: I love Top Gland, not as much as I love Shrek,
Speaker 7: they both fun.
Speaker 2: My guest tonight is NFNBC host Alex Wagner, her new
Speaker 2: prime time show Alex Wagner. Tonight premiere is August sixteenth,
Speaker 2: and we'll air Tuesday through Friday at nine pm.
Speaker 3: Please welcome Alex Wagner. Welcome back to The Daily Show. Alex.
Speaker 8: It's a thrilling and honor is an honor for me.
Speaker 3: This is your sixth time you might hold the record. Congratulations.
Speaker 8: I feel very positive about that.
Speaker 3: Actually got you a monkey pox vaccine as a gift.
Speaker 8: I want my photo in the hallway. I'll keep saying it.
Speaker 3: I'm over and over again, and I will make sure
Speaker 3: that I have one.
Speaker 8: I see two chains, I see Oprah. I need to
Speaker 8: see Alex Wagner in the hallway and then I can
Speaker 8: stop coming on the show.
Speaker 3: I mean, you put me on the spot now. Fine.
Speaker 3: I do have the photo of us in my office.
Speaker 2: It's like a like a beautiful frame that's in the
Speaker 2: Tiffany frame, perfect and no one walks past it.
Speaker 3: But it's fine. That's fine.
Speaker 8: That's for you and me, Trevor.
Speaker 2: This is a really exciting time for everybody because your
Speaker 2: show kicks off tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yes right, I love you.
Speaker 2: Your Instagram bio reads anchor at MSNBC plus.
Speaker 3: Person worried about the future. But don't think that sound
Speaker 3: a little midal dramatic. What do you have to worry
Speaker 3: about the future?
Speaker 8: Like a drawer wrong with the climate, artic ice caps
Speaker 8: melting faster than expected, President shuffling off classified nuclear secrets
Speaker 8: to Palm Beach Resort. You know, Republican election deniers being
Speaker 8: elected across go wrong?
Speaker 2: What do you but you you know, because you travel
Speaker 2: so much and because you've talked so many people on
Speaker 2: the ground, I've always felt like I should listen to
Speaker 2: you when you're worried, because you talked to like America.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, And I will say on this show, I'm
Speaker 8: going to keep talking to America. I just went down
Speaker 8: to Florida, which is a place I vow never to
Speaker 8: return to each time I go, and yet I keep
Speaker 8: going down to Florida.
Speaker 3: That's what makes it great, Exactly.
Speaker 8: It was one hundred and seven degrees one hundred and
Speaker 8: seven degrees down there, and what Governor DeSantis is doing
Speaker 8: in that state is worthy of a very close examination.
Speaker 8: So we went down there and looked specifically at the
Speaker 8: ways in which Christian nationalism has worked its way into
Speaker 8: Florida public schools. And we're gonna be talking about that
Speaker 8: this week and some of the very alarming things that
Speaker 8: teachers are being trained to teach public school students on.
Speaker 8: You know, I will say you should be worried, Trevor,
Speaker 8: because not just this is happening in Florida, but this
Speaker 8: is very much seen as a model for what's happening
Speaker 8: across the rest of the country. Ronda Santis may be
Speaker 8: the Republican nominee for president in twenty twenty, which people.
Speaker 2: Think of as like a good thing because they go like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's calm. You know, he has a demeanor about him.
Speaker 2: Trump is crazy, but it seems like Trump's crazy was
Speaker 2: also the reason he couldn't get things done. Yes, Ronda Sanctus,
Speaker 2: everyone says is like, oh, he's got all his cards,
Speaker 2: he's ready to play them.
Speaker 8: And he has a network of conservative activists and donors
Speaker 8: and power players in his corner. I mean, this is
Speaker 8: the result. This is a harvest of multiple years of
Speaker 8: trying to figure out how to reindoctrinate students into a
Speaker 8: certain line of conservative ideaology and DeSantis has made it happen.
Speaker 8: But he has a lot of people behind him, and
Speaker 8: there are other governors. Carrie Lake in Arizona is the
Speaker 8: Republican nominee in Arizona. And she was on the stump,
Speaker 8: I think it was yesterday, praising DeSantis and saying, am
Speaker 8: I allowed to say this on this family program?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: That he had big dick energy just like Donald Trump.
Speaker 8: Like not even kidding, she said, bde if you know,
Speaker 8: you know, big DeSantis energy, but really saying that what
Speaker 8: we needed was more big dick energy, the kind that
Speaker 8: Ron de Santis and Donald Trump have. So that's where
Speaker 8: we are as a country, Trevor, and I'm here to
Speaker 8: tell you, I'm alarmed.
Speaker 2: You are going to be the person who is informing
Speaker 2: so many people about what's going on in the country.
Speaker 2: You know, as an anchor on a show like yours,
Speaker 2: you're in an interesting position because on the one hand,
Speaker 2: you want people to understand the states of the country.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, you don't want people to exist.
Speaker 2: In a perpetual state of panic, because then what happens
Speaker 2: is people start getting tired and they're like, I don't
Speaker 2: care anymore, nothing is actually happening.
Speaker 3: How do you find that battle?
Speaker 8: Well, I think you know, I don't want to be
Speaker 8: pollyannaish about things. Right when things are bad, I'm going
Speaker 8: to tell you they're bad. But I also think we
Speaker 8: haven't given up on democracy. And the reality is, if
Speaker 8: you don't like what Governor Ron DeSantis is doing, I mean,
Speaker 8: I spent ten hours in a Brevard County school Board meeting.
Speaker 8: You can run for school board and stop some of
Speaker 8: this stuff from happening. You can participate in midterm elections.
Speaker 8: You can call your senators in congressmen.
Speaker 3: I mean that stuff.
Speaker 8: As cliche as it sounds, as small ball as it sounds,
Speaker 8: it matters because the decision that the Brevard County school
Speaker 8: Board makes about whether or not kids can have book
Speaker 8: fairs again and read certain books and talk about being
Speaker 8: homosexual or transgender, that means something. And those decisions are discreet,
Speaker 8: but they are part of our larger system of governance.
Speaker 8: And I don't want people to ever lose the hope
Speaker 8: that the project of America is a fetocomplete and it's
Speaker 8: a wrap, because it's not. I mean, and you can
Speaker 8: swing the pendulum back. I still believe that we generally
Speaker 8: take two steps forward and may be one in three
Speaker 8: quarter steps back.
Speaker 3: Well that's a lot of one and that's a lot
Speaker 3: of steps back.
Speaker 8: I'm I mean, I hope look at look at you
Speaker 8: and me, Trevor. You know, I'm hosting the nine pm
Speaker 8: hour of a very important cable network. You are the
Speaker 8: voice of a generation. Our stories are unlikely. We're two
Speaker 8: brown people that weren't ever supposed to be in these
Speaker 8: positions of power, and look at us.
Speaker 3: You know that's true, and that's true, but it's true
Speaker 3: sometimes I go.
Speaker 2: The fact that it is the exception is what makes
Speaker 2: it scary a little bit sometimes. And so what's interesting
Speaker 2: about America when when you look at it as a whole,
Speaker 2: is it feels like sometimes like in the run up
Speaker 2: to Donald Trump, it feels like the country knew this
Speaker 2: was happening, and then people on the coasts were like, oh,
Speaker 2: that will never happen. Tramp could never have. It feels
Speaker 2: like there's a certain complacency now. Is people relax, you know,
Speaker 2: they want to watch succession, they want to read what's happening.
Speaker 3: You know, people enjoy themselves.
Speaker 2: But it seems like conservatives are being told constantly that
Speaker 2: they're under assault, that this is the end of the world,
Speaker 2: they need to run for boards, and so they believe
Speaker 2: it and they do it. And so I'd love to know,
Speaker 2: as somebody who's gonna be on MSNBC. You're in a
Speaker 2: position where you have part of your audience, which is
Speaker 2: in a bubble many of us. Do you know, how
Speaker 2: do you or do you even think it's possible at
Speaker 2: the stage to just pop out of that bubble?
Speaker 3: Is there a way you can see?
Speaker 2: As Alex Wagner, as the journalist who's gone around the
Speaker 2: country talking to Trump supporters and you know, Biden supporters
Speaker 2: are like, do you.
Speaker 3: Think there's a way you can get through to people
Speaker 3: who maybe don't agree with you.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna damn well try. I mean, you can't just
Speaker 8: say we're only We're only gonna talk to like liberals
Speaker 8: and this is for the sell A corridor, you know,
Speaker 8: Like this is I'm a journalist and you are gonna
Speaker 8: hear from some Republicans sometimes sometimes they may be critical
Speaker 8: of Donald Trumps. Sometimes they may not be. But I
Speaker 8: think it is my job to show people what's happening
Speaker 8: in the world and not just what they want to see.
Speaker 8: I mean, listen, the future of the Republican Party matters
Speaker 8: not just to Republicans but to Democrats and independents too.
Speaker 8: One of the two parties in this country is forever
Speaker 8: broken or populated by clowns or worse like, we're not
Speaker 8: gonna get anything done done as a country. We are
Speaker 8: for better or worse in a marriage, and we got
Speaker 8: to figure out a way to make it work because
Speaker 8: we know what divorce kind of looks like. We tried
Speaker 8: it in eighteen sixty and like we can't.
Speaker 9: It didn't go so well.
Speaker 3: So your first episode of tomorrow, it is tomorrow. If
Speaker 3: you were on the show today, don't don't give anything
Speaker 3: away because you obviously will tease anything. But if you
Speaker 3: wire on the show today, what would you what will
Speaker 3: be the number one story You'll be told?
Speaker 8: Well, listen, I think for sure we're gonna be talking
Speaker 8: about Trump and mar A Lago and what exactly he
Speaker 8: was doing with those papers and the degree to which
Speaker 8: this is part of a very serious investigation of the DOJ.
Speaker 8: But I don't think.
Speaker 12: I mean.
Speaker 8: The other thing that I want everyone to focus on
Speaker 8: is the fact that we have a two significant primaries
Speaker 8: tomorrow happening, Liz Cheney and Sarah Palin. And what we
Speaker 8: very well could see this week is the exit of
Speaker 8: Liz Cheney, probably the standard bearer for integrity inside the GOP,
Speaker 8: be escorted off the stage stage right. And for Sarah,
Speaker 8: who in many ways is the proto Trump re entering
Speaker 8: American politics as a Republican congresswoman from Alaska. And I
Speaker 8: think as we take stock of where the country is at,
Speaker 8: we need to take stock of where the Republican Party
Speaker 8: is at. And those two entrances, and that entrance and
Speaker 8: exit tell us a lot about where we're headed in
Speaker 8: the GOP. And I think it's deeply problematic, and I
Speaker 8: think it warrants further investigation and analysis.
Speaker 2: This is why you're the best person to host the show,
Speaker 2: because you know a lot, you travel a lot, you
Speaker 2: meet the people and.
Speaker 3: Hang out with you. You don't get overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: No, you don't get Thanks for that, I'll take it,
Speaker 2: but no, you don't get overwhelmed. Really, one thing I've
Speaker 2: always admired about you is the fact that you don't
Speaker 2: get overwhelmed by the delusion of information that's coming at you. Rather,
Speaker 2: you find a way to process all of it in
Speaker 2: one of the most fantastic ways that I've ever seen.
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