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Speaker 1: Minamme is down store. What what historic day in Washington, DC?
Speaker 1: It is, as many of you know, January six.
Speaker 2: It is January sixth, and as you see, once again
Speaker 2: a blanket of angry white just send me on the
Speaker 2: Capitol this white, oddly enough, not as disruptive it did
Speaker 2: stop traffic, but a lot less bear spray and Confederate flags.
Speaker 1: Of course, it is January sixth.
Speaker 2: It is the day that traditionally we now pretend that
Speaker 2: we knew was a big deal in terms of certifying
Speaker 2: the elections. Be honest, before that insurrection, you had no
Speaker 2: idea that was a January sixth ceremony or what it
Speaker 2: did or.
Speaker 1: Why it did. Now you just got to act.
Speaker 2: Like oh reni of the election so important.
Speaker 1: But let's get to it.
Speaker 2: It always begins with the traditional children's procession. They bring
Speaker 2: in boxes filled with the cremated remains of their dead pets,
Speaker 2: and then they dump them all the ashes on the
Speaker 2: speaker's desk, and then the speaker.
Speaker 1: Blows on the dust.
Speaker 2: Until the name of the president elect is conjured in
Speaker 2: the mist.
Speaker 1: America is a wondrous that, But.
Speaker 2: It's good to see them bringing in the boxes. They're
Speaker 2: nice to know that the democracy now has pallbearers.
Speaker 1: So trenchant.
Speaker 2: Of course, the ultimate indignity of this January sixth is
Speaker 2: that Donald Trump's opponent, Kamala Harris, because she is the
Speaker 2: Vice president, serves as the master of ceremonies to this Really,
Speaker 2: you are a very reactive and sad group. The empathy
Speaker 2: is off the.
Speaker 1: Charts with this group.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris has to be the master of semonies, but
Speaker 2: it does suck.
Speaker 6: The votes for President of the United States are as follows.
Speaker 6: Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has received
Speaker 6: three hundred and twelve votes.
Speaker 7: Kamala de Harris, that's got a sting.
Speaker 2: She's like, I can hear you, god Da, it's like
Speaker 2: attending your own funeral. And even the mourners are like, what,
Speaker 2: I can't imagine anything that would be more uncomfortable standing
Speaker 2: there while the crowd applauds.
Speaker 6: Your opponent, Kamala de Harris of the state of California,
Speaker 6: has received two hundred and twenty six votes.
Speaker 1: Wait, that sounded louder. There's a lot of joy in
Speaker 1: that room. I think she could still win this thing.
Speaker 2: She just needs to find like one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: thousand votes in Georgia and then, you know, tell me, Michigan,
Speaker 2: it put to Mina.
Speaker 1: Maybe Wisconsin, maybe that's a flip.
Speaker 2: But ultimately, the certification ceremony that we all look forward
Speaker 2: to every four years since I was little went off
Speaker 2: without a hitch. Because it's amazing how smoothly our democracy
Speaker 2: can work when you don't act like a little bitch
Speaker 2: when you lose. Not naming names, just saying, but it
Speaker 2: was lovely to begin this new political year on a
Speaker 2: peaceful and calm note, because the actual.
Speaker 1: New year was really quite rougher.
Speaker 2: You know, the hopeful dreams of a peaceful new year,
Speaker 2: filled with the love and camaraderie of people in Times
Speaker 2: Square holding in their pee for twelve hours shattered by
Speaker 2: a terrorist attack at three fifteen.
Speaker 1: Am in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: The attack was sudden and horrific and sent law enforcements
Speaker 2: scrambling to find the perpetrators, Viewers scrambling to find out
Speaker 2: if the perpetrators, once found, would validate or invalidate their
Speaker 2: previously held political viewpoints.
Speaker 8: And we are hearing a local reports that the suspect
Speaker 8: has been named as shamsud Din Jabbar, which would indicate
Speaker 8: Middle Eastern descent.
Speaker 1: Oh would it?
Speaker 9: You don't believe he's of the Mayflower Dingibbars, the Connecticut Dingibars.
Speaker 1: I'm going over to the country club today. We're going
Speaker 1: to play around with Dingibar. So point one.
Speaker 10: Maga the FBI confirming that an ISIS flag was located
Speaker 10: in that FOURD to f one to fifty pickup truck
Speaker 10: when the attack occurred.
Speaker 1: ISIS flag That to zero Maga, It's best of five.
Speaker 2: Papa needs a brand new reason to deport everybody.
Speaker 11: We do know that the vehicle across through Eagle Past, Texas,
Speaker 11: across the border two days ago.
Speaker 2: A radical monthly Nan ding Jabbar illegally crossing the border
Speaker 2: to commit violence against Americans. Yet see and while normally
Speaker 2: the right in tragedy would caution us to take a
Speaker 2: moment for thoughts and prayers for the victims and not
Speaker 2: politicize it. That's only when they think they're on the
Speaker 2: wrong side of this shit. The Biden administration has created
Speaker 2: an environment that allows things like this to happen.
Speaker 11: Mister Trump is blaming the Biden administration's open border policies.
Speaker 7: We've been saying for over a year now that there's
Speaker 7: likely to be a terrorist attack on our home soil
Speaker 7: with an open southern border.
Speaker 2: No time for thoughts and prayers. Deploy the Continental forty eight.
Speaker 1: Close. That's the that's.
Speaker 2: That's that's called the klosh. It's you know that in
Speaker 2: the diner and you're like, I'll have that pie, and
Speaker 2: they act like someone's going to steal the pie, and
Speaker 2: they put it under that thing. That's good. That's called
Speaker 2: the closure. And and that's the basis of the joke.
Speaker 2: Of course, what I love most about this job is
Speaker 2: the ability to educate.
Speaker 1: On the various paraphernalia founded diners.
Speaker 2: Of Course, the judgment that the networks came to was
Speaker 2: of course rushed to.
Speaker 8: Now we're hearing from multiple reports that he was an
Speaker 8: American citizen, he was in the Army Reserve, that he
Speaker 8: wasn't some illegal immigrant that came across the border.
Speaker 2: Lift the close, the close shus been deployed.
Speaker 1: You mustn't lift the close or the thing, all right.
Speaker 2: So it didn't turn out to be the ironclad argument
Speaker 2: for sealed borders that the right was hoping for.
Speaker 1: But fear not more chaos.
Speaker 12: To come breaking news out of Las Vegas where a
Speaker 12: Tesla's cyber truck exploded outside the Trump Towers hotel.
Speaker 1: Cyber truck explode outside of Trump Hotel. So even terrorists
Speaker 1: are political cartoonists, now a little on the.
Speaker 2: Nose, don't you think? I mean, come on, I think
Speaker 2: it's pretty clear what's going on here.
Speaker 10: I've ad it, boys, John, I'm gonna put out the obvious.
Speaker 10: He goes to the Trump Resorts in Las Vegas. Donald Trump,
Speaker 10: He's in a Tesla cybertruck Elon Musk.
Speaker 4: This was a statement that was making a statement about
Speaker 4: Trump about Elon.
Speaker 8: Should the fbi'd be treating this as another attempt on
Speaker 8: Trump's life even though he wasn't at the hotel at
Speaker 8: the time.
Speaker 1: Why the.
Speaker 2: I've a car accident outside of hotel in New York.
Speaker 2: Let's make that number four or fine, who cares what's
Speaker 2: really happening? But unfortunately, even for that narrative, the statement
Speaker 2: by the bomber was actually, I think Trump is awesome.
Speaker 3: Office will say the man who blew up a Tesla
Speaker 3: cyber truck outside a Vegas Trump hotel would express support
Speaker 3: for President elect Donald Trump and Elon.
Speaker 12: Musk, saying Americans need to quote rally behind President elected
Speaker 12: Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Speaker 2: Far be it from me to tell someone how they
Speaker 2: should express their affection. I've worked for years to become
Speaker 2: more open, but even I know that blowing up someone's
Speaker 2: shit in front of more of their shit, it's what
Speaker 2: we in the therapy business all a mixed message, So
Speaker 2: weave their end of the illegal immigrant anti American parlay
Speaker 2: has hit.
Speaker 1: But don't let reality ruin a good narrative.
Speaker 11: The person who committed the attack was indeed an American citizen.
Speaker 11: But let's not take our eyes off the bigger picture here,
Speaker 11: which is that over the past four years, millions of
Speaker 11: people have come into the country.
Speaker 1: My goodness, what else don't we know?
Speaker 2: If these are a couple of people who are homegrown,
Speaker 2: what don't we know of all of these people who
Speaker 2: have come across the border. Yes, says clearly, we have
Speaker 2: a problem over here, so what about over there? It
Speaker 2: turns out that American born extremists not only show we
Speaker 2: have to close the border, they also take the wind
Speaker 2: out of the left's other favorite policy prescriptions.
Speaker 12: This also should lay bare the idea that gun control
Speaker 12: is going.
Speaker 1: To make a safer You know, we're using what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do?
Speaker 4: Start?
Speaker 12: Uh, pre registering people for cars, are giving background checks
Speaker 12: for people to get cars.
Speaker 5: You got halfway through that point and you're like, oh,
Speaker 5: I do I can help see it when your brain,
Speaker 5: I don't want to move down that road.
Speaker 1: No, what are we gonna have to do now? Register
Speaker 1: or abort? No, don't say abort. D I don't know
Speaker 1: what's happening.
Speaker 2: But not a one man show or there or there?
Speaker 2: But what are we gonna make people get licenses for
Speaker 2: their da? What it seems to show is that people
Speaker 2: have a tremendous ability to fit whatever happens into their predetermined,
Speaker 2: dogmatic worldview. It's not a rush to judgment as much
Speaker 2: as like a gag reflex, which is why, in the
Speaker 2: immediate aftermath of these terrible events, we all wait to
Speaker 2: see whose worldview.
Speaker 1: Will be validated.
Speaker 2: And it makes it doubly frustrating that the FBI feels
Speaker 2: the need to play into the demand for immediate answers
Speaker 2: when they couldn't possibly know them yet. I give you
Speaker 2: the FBI four hours after the.
Speaker 1: Attack, this is not a terrorist event. Just say you.
Speaker 2: Don't know yet, because a couple of hours later, when
Speaker 2: you find out what's really going on, you're just.
Speaker 1: Gonna look doll.
Speaker 6: The FBI, we are working with our partners to investigate
Speaker 6: this as an act of terrorism.
Speaker 1: Okay, no harm, no foul.
Speaker 2: It's not like you played into the fears of co
Speaker 2: conspirators out there lining the streets with explosives.
Speaker 1: We do not believe that Jabar was solely responsible.
Speaker 9: The FBI has recovered video surveillance video that appears to show.
Speaker 1: Three men and one woman appearing.
Speaker 2: To help put IEDs what are believed to be IEDs
Speaker 2: at locations in the French Quarter.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, IEDs in the French Quarter.
Speaker 2: I guess I have no option but to violently confront
Speaker 2: anyone in the vicinity that I believe is operating as
Speaker 2: sleeper cell.
Speaker 12: Police interviewed those four individuals and now believe that they
Speaker 12: just were bystanders who happened to look suspicious.
Speaker 2: But I already killed them. Look, did they happen to
Speaker 2: look suspicious in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Oh what would they wearing beads in the winter, little
Speaker 1: sparkling glitter?
Speaker 2: What were they carrying around musical instruments and seemingly two
Speaker 2: upbeat for a funeral?
Speaker 3: It turns out those are just patrons on the street
Speaker 3: that were looking inside the coolers.
Speaker 2: Yes, nothing more suspicious than people on Bourbon Street at
Speaker 2: three in the morning looking inside coolers. I also arrested
Speaker 2: some ladies who were lifting up their shirts, clearly signaling
Speaker 2: to the other jadis. These attacks are really frightening and
Speaker 2: add to this feeling of societal tenuousness that we've all
Speaker 2: been ingesting since I'm gonna go with the creation of Facebook.
Speaker 2: Almost more frightening is that we can't place these attackers
Speaker 2: into the normal neat boxes of disturbed bullied loaners. Not
Speaker 2: only do they not fit into neat ideological packages, they
Speaker 2: almost seem uncomfortably normal. The isis supporting Jabbar. This is
Speaker 2: him from a while back.
Speaker 13: I'm Sampson Dan Jabor, property manager with Loue Metal Properties
Speaker 13: and team lead at the Midas Group at Core Realty.
Speaker 13: I just want to say hello and let you know
Speaker 13: a little bit about me. So I'm born and raised
Speaker 13: in Beaumont, Texas and now live in Houston.
Speaker 2: Here's the crazy thing. He's the terrorist. I'd have bought
Speaker 2: real estate from this guy. He seems totally run of
Speaker 2: the mill, guy who's been life coached up. He's even
Speaker 2: got the if you notice there in the background, the
Speaker 2: basic bitch motivational discipline posters go all in.
Speaker 1: And take responsibility, be disciplined. Terrorists generally don't have those posters.
Speaker 2: I don't remember Ben Laden having to remind himself to
Speaker 2: hang in there.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is true.
Speaker 2: Just as a side note, that is the original hang
Speaker 2: in there baby poster.
Speaker 1: I don't remember.
Speaker 2: I had one that was like a super cute orange kiddy,
Speaker 2: but this one, it really seems more of a like
Speaker 2: demanding you hang in there, like like like it's in black,
Speaker 2: like like it doesn't really look like a kiddie trying
Speaker 2: to like give you.
Speaker 1: It looks more like de Niro and Cape Fear doing
Speaker 1: pull ups in a cell and being like, I will
Speaker 1: suck you up. Like that is not that cat.
Speaker 2: That cat if you died, that cat would eat you
Speaker 2: and crawl inside and go to something.
Speaker 1: Although I guess most cats all right.
Speaker 2: Look, I don't like these terrorists and killers having such
Speaker 2: vibrant digital trails. I don't want them to be relatable.
Speaker 2: The cyber truck bomber guy.
Speaker 13: Do you see some of the photos on Facebook.
Speaker 4: He did a lot of traveling.
Speaker 11: There's a one photo of him that was actually taken
Speaker 11: in Thailand.
Speaker 1: I napped and look at Luigi Manngioni. This guy was
Speaker 1: a hooded.
Speaker 2: Profession assassin with a silencer, and now we got to
Speaker 2: watch him deliver the valedictory speech at his high school.
Speaker 11: As I conclude my speech, I have to remember that
Speaker 11: a valedictory, by definition, is a farewell.
Speaker 2: By the way, where did that kid go to high school?
Speaker 2: They all looked like extras in a consent video. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to be a dick, but it looks like everybody
Speaker 2: in the background looks like they're about to go, like
Speaker 2: all right, girls, who wants some grain alcohol? And now
Speaker 2: we all got to wait around on pins and needles
Speaker 2: for their motive.
Speaker 1: Have to know why? What's the road from real estate?
Speaker 1: Want to be to the Wester's decadent and they have.
Speaker 2: Left manifestos, but their manifestos suck. Luigi Mangioni who was
Speaker 2: allegedly so obsessed with healthcare costs.
Speaker 1: That it drove him to murder. Here's what he wrote
Speaker 1: in his manifesto.
Speaker 2: Frankly, I do not pretend to be the most qualified
Speaker 2: person to lay out the full argument.
Speaker 1: I'm just the muscle. I'm not the idea. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 2: I just know, you know, finally someone willing to stand
Speaker 2: up for what he isn't really sure he believes in.
Speaker 2: To be quite honest, I urge the news media don't
Speaker 2: even call these manifestos. These are an insult to manifestos.
Speaker 2: Throwing something down on your notes app is not a
Speaker 2: manifest you know, Say what you want about Ted Kaczinski,
Speaker 2: the man put in the work tapping with no plumbing,
Speaker 2: thirty five thousand words, old school typewriter, double space, bibliography,
Speaker 2: table of contents. I think it had been blurbed by
Speaker 2: other crazy people.
Speaker 1: If you have to read one.
Speaker 2: Manifesto this year, Charles Manson, these other guys are out there, Hey, chat, GPT,
Speaker 2: write me a concise screen.
Speaker 1: Okay, healthcare in the.
Speaker 2: Street as though it were a drake wrap Like this
Speaker 2: is the point is, I don't know.
Speaker 1: What's going on.
Speaker 2: Here where normal seeming people have a set back in
Speaker 2: their life, end up online, down some rabbit hole. The
Speaker 2: algorithm amplifies their anger and fears, and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden you're releasing a half assed manifesto and shooting the
Speaker 2: place up.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be this way. So a plea
Speaker 1: to all that would be terrorists that are out there.
Speaker 2: Hey, girl, down on your luck, girlfriend left, your job's
Speaker 2: a dead end, spending a lot of time watching whatever
Speaker 2: YouTube atto play.
Speaker 1: Is showing you. And now you've got some ideas.
Speaker 2: How about you don't kill everybody, just do what everybody
Speaker 2: else does in that situation.
Speaker 1: Get a podcast.
Speaker 2: That way, nobody dies. You get a podcast, nobody dies.
Speaker 2: You can still terrorize people. And no, I do not
Speaker 2: want to be on it. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 2: be talking to Congressman Jamie Raskin.
Speaker 1: They'll go away. Hey, what about the tally show my
Speaker 1: death tonight?
Speaker 2: He represents Maryland's eighth congressional district and the House of Representatives.
Speaker 2: He was elected ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and
Speaker 2: he joins me now from.
Speaker 1: Washington, DC. Please, what went in the program?
Speaker 2: Congressman Jamie Raskin, sir, Hello, how are you, sir, thank
Speaker 2: you for joining us. I imagine, sir, a very hectic day.
Speaker 2: Did they do the traditional chasing of the Congress people
Speaker 2: the bowels of the building.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, luckily it was snowing outside, so all the
Speaker 3: insurrections were slipping and falling on the road and everything.
Speaker 3: So but no, we today was actually a totally uneventful
Speaker 3: and peaceful and nonviolent day. It's what January sixth should be,
Speaker 3: and it's what it used to be.
Speaker 2: Like I suppose, congressman, is it hard on a day
Speaker 2: like today seeing the way that it went not to
Speaker 2: be passive aggressive in to the Republican colleagues, to not
Speaker 2: be like, oh hey, look at this done by one Hey,
Speaker 2: oh my god, we can go out to Fridays and
Speaker 2: eat apps because there was no rioting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the whole thing took like maybe twenty
Speaker 3: five minutes. It should have taken fifteen minute. But some
Speaker 3: of our Republican colleagues confused it with the Republican National
Speaker 3: Convention and they were cheering and applauding and yelling.
Speaker 4: We were just there.
Speaker 3: To count the votes and we were not there to
Speaker 3: you know, continue the campaign. But yeah, I mean I
Speaker 3: talked to my friend Lauren Bobert, and I asked her
Speaker 3: how she enjoyed it, and she said it was great
Speaker 3: because no Democrats had made any objections. And I said
Speaker 3: it was terrific because nobody tried to assassinate the vice president,
Speaker 3: and so, you know, we were.
Speaker 4: All happy with how it went.
Speaker 1: A good point.
Speaker 2: Now, at any point with Lauren Bolbert when you say
Speaker 2: something like that, and I'm assuming that this doesn't happen,
Speaker 2: but does she ever say to.
Speaker 3: Shay, Lauren's actually very funny, you know, like it's sort
Speaker 3: of like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. You're either
Speaker 3: a Marjorie Taylor Green person or you're a Lauren Bobert person.
Speaker 3: And I'm a Lauren Bobert person myself, although they call
Speaker 3: her Lauren Groepert, which really isn't fair.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of passive aggression down there. There
Speaker 2: is what is now, Things aren't going to change much
Speaker 2: in the House because Johnson was the speaker before the
Speaker 2: Republicans controlled the House, So generally, other than some changing
Speaker 2: of committee chairmanships and you're being elevated to ranking, what's
Speaker 2: going to be different for Democrats in the House in
Speaker 2: this new session.
Speaker 3: They've got a much narrower margin now, So I think
Speaker 3: we're down to two nineteen to two fifteen because Matt
Speaker 3: Gates left and then at leased dephonics on her way
Speaker 3: out and Mike Laws, oh, I appreciate that chear, and
Speaker 3: so it'll be two seventeen to two fifteen, which means
Speaker 3: they cannot afford to lose a single vote. And they've
Speaker 3: already suffered the defection of Congresswomen's Sparks from Indiana, who
Speaker 3: got so mad about the fact that she wasn't put
Speaker 3: on the committee she wanted that she has left the
Speaker 3: Republican Conference and is an independent now, and we haven't
Speaker 3: even started deliberations yet, so I think we're going to
Speaker 3: be in good shape to exploit some of the conflicts
Speaker 3: and contradictions going on within the Republican Conference. I think
Speaker 3: you probably saw John that the enraged nativist racist megabase
Speaker 3: is upset with Elon Musk and the Brologarks who want
Speaker 3: to bring in tens of thousands more cheap foreign laborers,
Speaker 3: and so that's something that's already starting to explode in
Speaker 3: terms of the Republican politics. But there's a bunch of
Speaker 3: issues like that, including abortion, where there's still some libertarians
Speaker 3: who don't want to go near it. But the theocratic
Speaker 3: majority within Mega, led by Mike Johnson, say that life
Speaker 3: begins a conception, and so they've been trying to ban
Speaker 3: it nationally, and we expect that to come back and
Speaker 3: hopefully we'll be able to pull over some of the
Speaker 3: lingering pro choice Republicans.
Speaker 2: Right, is that more a question of, you know, in
Speaker 2: terms of because when you don't control in the House, especially,
Speaker 2: the House especially is kind of a zero sum game.
Speaker 2: The Senate rules are sort of so antiquated and bizarre,
Speaker 2: and you need sixty for this, and culture for this,
Speaker 2: and three quarters for this. The House really is even
Speaker 2: if you have one other member, you control all of
Speaker 2: who gets called before Congress. You get to control the witnesses,
Speaker 2: you get to control the legislation. Does that make it
Speaker 2: harder for Democrats, even on a purely logistical mechanical way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does, because over on the Senate side, they've
Speaker 3: got the filibusters, so each senator theoretically can throw a
Speaker 3: monkey wrench into the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Whereas you know, we've got.
Speaker 3: Our rules committeed, we adopt the rule, and the rules
Speaker 3: usually whatever the majority wants. In fact, they wrote the
Speaker 3: first partisan discrimination into House Rules and History, saying that
Speaker 3: they're going from one person to move to vacate to
Speaker 3: seven members moving to vacate.
Speaker 4: But they've got to be from the majority.
Speaker 3: Party, so it would be like saying, you know, only
Speaker 3: Republicans can move to adjourn or moved to reconsider a vote.
Speaker 3: But they voted for that. And one of my new
Speaker 3: colleagues actually from Rhode Island, said, this is outrageous, this
Speaker 3: violates equal production. Let's go to the Supreme Court. And
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, we've been there, We've done that.
Speaker 3: The Roberts Court is not exactly all.
Speaker 4: Over these unconstitutional right, you.
Speaker 2: Got to tell the new kids, like, oh, I've got
Speaker 2: some bad news for you about that Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: They're gonna do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Are there things though, like can the can the Republicans
Speaker 2: do that with like the debt ceiling? Like I know
Speaker 2: there are a lot of Democrats who thought that the
Speaker 2: debt ceiling fights were ridiculous and really limited their ability
Speaker 2: to get anything done.
Speaker 1: Are there any sort of can.
Speaker 2: The Republicans say We're going to remove the debt ceiling
Speaker 2: but only for four years and basically force for whatever
Speaker 2: they want to do and spend on they can do,
Speaker 2: and if Democrats regain control that all goes away again.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, fortunately, they're more divided than they are even
Speaker 3: hateful of us, so they can't get together to get
Speaker 3: anything done. If you look at the last Congress, the
Speaker 3: only way that we kept the government afloat and going
Speaker 3: was Democrats coming in to bail out Mike Johnson, and
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be the same thing. I
Speaker 3: do think there could be some issues where we get together.
Speaker 3: For example, Donald Trump is very proud of the fact
Speaker 3: that he beat Kamala by three million votes, and we're
Speaker 3: proud of the fact that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump
Speaker 3: by seven million votes in twenty twenty. But if they're
Speaker 3: proud of the popular vote, why don't we get rid
Speaker 3: of the electoral college and start electing the president the
Speaker 3: way we elect everybody else, like representatives and senators and
Speaker 3: mayors and governors. Why don't we actually come together and
Speaker 3: step forward. I mean, the electoral college can get you
Speaker 3: killed these days, as we saw in twenty and it's
Speaker 3: given us five popular vote losers in our history twice
Speaker 3: in this century, Donald Trump in George W.
Speaker 4: Bush. So let's move forward on that. Why don't we
Speaker 4: get together on that?
Speaker 2: Is that before or after they add the Conservative provinces
Speaker 2: of Canada to the popular vote total, Like I just
Speaker 2: get the sense that there are always one step ahead there,
Speaker 2: like sure, let's do that, Oh, welcome Alberta, Like they'll
Speaker 2: do something that just screws it?
Speaker 1: And is there something in here to Congress might want
Speaker 1: to ask you.
Speaker 2: Isn't there a certain something freeing for the Democrats right
Speaker 2: now having nothing to do with the Republicans and they're
Speaker 2: infighting and all that. I follow this relatively closely enough
Speaker 2: to look like this now I'm twenty seven.
Speaker 1: I follow it relatively closely.
Speaker 2: I don't know who's in charge of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: I don't know the direction you're going. Isn't there something.
Speaker 2: Enlivening about the opportunity before Democrats right now to rethink
Speaker 2: to have that opportunity almost a rum springer if you will.
Speaker 2: You don't control the judicial, the Congress, the executive, you
Speaker 2: have the opportunity to recreate what this party will be
Speaker 2: going forward.
Speaker 1: Is there a process for that? Is there a desire
Speaker 1: for that?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: And being in the minority definitely is a lot more
Speaker 3: fun and it invites a lot of creativity, and it's
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's a riot in the pre January
Speaker 3: sixth sense of the words.
Speaker 1: Slogan that's gonna fly with most minorities. I think most
Speaker 1: minorities would be.
Speaker 3: Like, oooh, but look, we now have the opportunity to
Speaker 3: organize for massive democratic victory in twenty twenty six. And
Speaker 3: that's exactly what we're doing because we think that everywhere
Speaker 3: they're headed is so extreme that the vast majority of
Speaker 3: the American people are going to reject it. Most Americans
Speaker 3: do not want to ban abortion across the country. Most
Speaker 3: Americans do not want to deport twelve million people. Most
Speaker 3: Americans don't want to turn the Department of Justice into
Speaker 3: an instrument of.
Speaker 4: Revenge and retaliation.
Speaker 3: And we're going to be standing up every single day, John,
Speaker 3: for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the freedoms
Speaker 3: and rights of the people.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's gonna be a lot of work?
Speaker 1: But I love goad to Stan now.
Speaker 2: Earth do you think you know with this election being
Speaker 2: sort of a repudiation, Boy, there's nothing worse in politics
Speaker 2: than having to govern. It seems like it just when
Speaker 2: everybody gets mad at the status quo. Do you think
Speaker 2: the leadership from the Democratic Party, the future of it
Speaker 2: is going to come from Washington, which is so the
Speaker 2: brand is so diluted at this point for the American people,
Speaker 2: Or do you think it's going to be more from
Speaker 2: the state houses and the governors. Where do you think
Speaker 2: that energy is going to come from in your mind?
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I think it's going to come from
Speaker 3: all over the country. I think it's going to come
Speaker 3: from Democracy Summer, the project we've got for young people
Speaker 3: all over America to learn about the history of social
Speaker 3: change in the country and to get involved in digital
Speaker 3: organizing and canvassing and organizing. And you know, it might
Speaker 3: come from our two new states. And I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about Panama and Greenland. I'm talking about Washington, d c.
Speaker 3: And Puerto Rico, which we are fighting.
Speaker 4: To admit as new states.
Speaker 2: For you, if you don't control anything, you can't get
Speaker 2: these things done. By the way, Congressman, let me just
Speaker 2: say this Democracy Summer sounds like really the worst camp
Speaker 2: anybody's ever been to.
Speaker 3: That is that does not sound well? You out, well,
Speaker 3: I invite you to come and a peer. I think
Speaker 3: you'll find something very different.
Speaker 4: I mean, these young people.
Speaker 2: Oh congressmen, would you invite if you guys listen to me,
Speaker 2: if you have.
Speaker 1: A retreat, Oh what I love to come down there.
Speaker 1: And all right, and you you will.
Speaker 3: Be our guest comedic speaker Democracy Summer.
Speaker 1: I'm taking over this bitch, all right.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I got to tell you what we've got.
Speaker 4: I should have brought it with me.
Speaker 3: But we've got the most beautiful poster in the world
Speaker 3: that Shepherd Fairy made for us. He's the guy who
Speaker 3: did the Obama Hope poster. He made a Democracy Summer
Speaker 3: poster for us.
Speaker 4: The future really is with the young people, and we
Speaker 4: need them.
Speaker 3: And there's a major battle going on for young America
Speaker 3: right now and we need hardest I think people get
Speaker 3: in the Democratic lose.
Speaker 2: What was the hardest part so many constituencies moved to
Speaker 2: the right, was what was the one that stung the most?
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 2: Latino voters made a big move men and women, but
Speaker 2: young people surprisingly were the ones that really, uh made
Speaker 2: a move. And until you sort of get together and
Speaker 2: decide what that more value is of the party, isn't
Speaker 2: it hard to have a plan to gain those demographics back?
Speaker 3: Well, there's no doubt that the right wing social media
Speaker 3: outlets and the talk shows in the podcast have been
Speaker 3: targeting young men especially, and so that's why. Look, I'm
Speaker 3: a sixty two year old grandfather now, which means I'm
Speaker 3: in the younger part of the party in Congress. But
Speaker 3: my kids, but my kids are in their twenties, okay,
Speaker 3: And I know what's going on with young people in
Speaker 3: their twenties, and they're being targeted.
Speaker 4: And we need to organize.
Speaker 3: And as the GOP turns itself into a cult with
Speaker 3: authoritarian habits of submission and obedience to authority, we have
Speaker 3: got to be a lot more like an open school
Speaker 3: for America to come in and to get educated about
Speaker 3: what's really going on and to feed people not live
Speaker 3: in conspiracy theories, but facts in the truth. So I
Speaker 3: invite you very much, John Stewart to come out. You'll
Speaker 3: be our tickoff speaker for Democracy Summer twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: In your heart, do you feel like Democrats are being
Speaker 2: honest with themselves about what happened? Or I'm hearing a
Speaker 2: lot of quite frankly excuses that feel like, oh, we
Speaker 2: just didn't message well, or if I had only knocked
Speaker 2: on that door four times are Are they being honest
Speaker 2: enough with what their actual ideas are in terms of
Speaker 2: popularity within the American people and all those things, or
Speaker 2: do you feel like it's still about oh, geez, if
Speaker 2: we just had better podcasting weird one.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a process for trying to figure
Speaker 3: it out. It's not like the election's over on number
Speaker 3: five and November six, you know exactly what happened.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a complicated situation.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'll tell you that everybody is very
Speaker 3: serious about trying to figure out so substantively what went wrong,
Speaker 3: but also what went wrong in terms of not connecting
Speaker 3: with different communications audiences out there. And as you know,
Speaker 3: it's not like the mainstream media is the mainstream media anymore.
Speaker 3: Everybody's getting their news and their ideas in different places,
Speaker 3: and we do have to be a lot better about
Speaker 3: getting in front of the different audiences that have grown
Speaker 3: up in this new system.
Speaker 1: Well, sir, we really appreciate.
Speaker 2: There's very few people I like to listen to more
Speaker 2: than you, and especially on that Judiciary committee. Boy, I look,
Speaker 2: your work in those committees is really Sometimes I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm watching like Matt Locke, like the way you
Speaker 2: walk up there and you just slowly disassemble the logic
Speaker 2: and all those different things. It's really something to watch, man,
Speaker 2: and I think we all look forward to seeing those
Speaker 2: hearings soon, and we really appreciate you taking the time
Speaker 2: with us this evening. And is January seventh another milestone
Speaker 2: for democracy?
Speaker 1: None of us actually no civics. So I'll tell you.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one funny story about January seventh, because
Speaker 3: my kids always say that I get really depressing when
Speaker 3: I talk about the sixth. And I've got one really
Speaker 3: funny story, which is the next day, I was down
Speaker 3: in Nancy Pelosi's office and I was waiting in the
Speaker 3: little receptionist area and the receptionist picks up the phone
Speaker 3: and people are calling in saying, you know, I was
Speaker 3: in your office yesterday. Do you guys have a lost
Speaker 3: and found because I think I forgot my phone there.
Speaker 3: I think I forgot my purse there, And so she
Speaker 3: didn't know what to do, and I said, yeah, let's
Speaker 3: get in touch with the Capitol Police. So they came
Speaker 3: over and they started writing everything down. Yeah, just give
Speaker 3: us your name, your social Security number, your address, and
Speaker 3: we'll get you your property.
Speaker 2: Vat Thomas and Jamie Ruskin. Oh, then, thank you for
Speaker 2: joining us. You gotta take quick break.
Speaker 1: Let me right back after this. He let go sh
Speaker 1: up for tonight.
Speaker 2: Before we go, we're gonna check in with your host
Speaker 2: for the rest of the week, Desili, What are you covering?
Speaker 7: You?
Speaker 1: Does? He does? He does?
Speaker 12: He?
Speaker 1: Huh? Oh?
Speaker 2: What what do you got this week?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 14: Sorry, John, I'm just following my New year's resolution to
Speaker 14: make sure I get more screen time.
Speaker 1: You say more. Don't people usually try and get less
Speaker 1: screen time?
Speaker 6: Isn't that?
Speaker 14: Oh no, no, that's a big mistake. See, if you
Speaker 14: set goals that you can't reach, you're just going to
Speaker 14: get depressed when you fail. So my resolution is to
Speaker 14: do all the stuff I'm going to do anyway, so
Speaker 14: I complete my resolutions and become a better person.
Speaker 2: Doesn't more screen time make you a worse and less
Speaker 2: attentive person?
Speaker 1: That does? He light it? Everybody does? He lightens.
Speaker 4: The moment is out. There is no reason for us
Speaker 4: to do that. We understand that these individuals need to
Speaker 4: be put in place. We don't have a hearing less
Speaker 4: way forward.
Speaker 2: And I apologize about all the news, but I'm at
Speaker 2: a rest one time with my daughter, and I'm actually
Speaker 2: trying to quote, so I'm going back and forth here.
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