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Speaker 4: On today is John Jordon Klepper.
Speaker 5: We got so much to talk about tonight, Biden.
Speaker 6: Says, by pundits have some explaining to do, and a
Speaker 6: war breaks out over who ended the war. So let's
Speaker 6: get into headlines. Let's kick things off with Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: Today was a big day for the once and future president.
Speaker 5: Picture Day.
Speaker 6: He took the official photo that will be hanging up
Speaker 6: in DMVs and airports all over the country. So let's
Speaker 6: see what sunny face will be staring at for the
Speaker 6: next four years.
Speaker 4: Oh man, man, you know what the wild thing is?
Speaker 5: This was the Now let's do a silly one.
Speaker 6: Whoa, there's also another person who's taking his photos down
Speaker 6: from the White House, Joe Biden. A lot of people
Speaker 6: are worried about a second Trump presidency, so last night's
Speaker 6: farewell address was a chance for the president to offer
Speaker 6: the nation some comfort.
Speaker 3: President Biden, in his final farewell address from the Oval Office,
Speaker 3: delivered a stunning warning to the nation on his way out.
Speaker 7: The potential rise of a tech industrial complex. I could
Speaker 7: pose real dangers an oligarchse taking shape in America of
Speaker 7: extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threads our entire democracy.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, thanks for the encouragement, mister President. I'm shitting
Speaker 4: my pants and comfort.
Speaker 6: Look, I know you've only got a few days left,
Speaker 6: but don't just give us problems.
Speaker 4: Maybe offer some solutions.
Speaker 6: You know, there's a dangerous threat of oligarchy from a
Speaker 6: rich elite, and that's why I'm partnering Luigi MANGIONI.
Speaker 4: Don't get a timer stick falling stick calling news.
Speaker 6: Yes, Biden used his last speech as president to warn
Speaker 6: us about a new American oligarchy, and you can tell
Speaker 6: the message hit home because of how many people, and
Speaker 6: this is true, how many people immediately went to Google
Speaker 6: to search what is oligarchy, and weirdly, Google responded, don't
Speaker 6: worry about it. It turns out you don't need to
Speaker 6: google oligarchy to understand what it actually looks like. Just
Speaker 6: tune into the inauguration this Monday.
Speaker 3: The NBC News is now reporting that Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,
Speaker 3: and Mark Zuckerberg will all three attend Donald trum Trump's
Speaker 3: inauguration next week.
Speaker 8: The CEOs of Apple and Google will be there.
Speaker 4: Sam Moltman from Open.
Speaker 1: Ai TikTok ceo show too.
Speaker 4: He was invited to sit on the day is where
Speaker 4: former presidents and family traditionally sit.
Speaker 9: OOO.
Speaker 5: That is right, Facebook's at the inauguration.
Speaker 6: Google, Amazon, the CEO of Zoom will be there wearing
Speaker 6: a suit top, short bottles.
Speaker 5: CEO of Uber will.
Speaker 6: Be there in two minutes, maybe five minutes, you know what.
Speaker 6: They're looking for a new CEO. Even the CEO of
Speaker 6: Vine will be there. I mean he'll be panhandling outside, but.
Speaker 3: He'll be near near there.
Speaker 6: The inauguration guests. This can't just be billionaires who get
Speaker 6: off reading your dms. There has to be more. I mean,
Speaker 6: who else is Trump inviting to watch him take the
Speaker 6: oath of office.
Speaker 1: Performing at Trump's inauguration will be familiar names from his campaign,
Speaker 1: including Kid Rock, Lee Greenwood, and the Village People.
Speaker 10: First responders from Butler County, pen Slovania, where Trump survived
Speaker 10: that first assassination attempt, will march in the parade, and
Speaker 10: the Maga garbage truck that went viral during the campaign
Speaker 10: will reportedly hit the streets of Washington, d C. During
Speaker 10: the Inauguration Day parade.
Speaker 6: Whoa Trumps bringing back all the characters from the campaign,
Speaker 6: Like it's the Seinfeld finale.
Speaker 5: We're gonna be watching from home.
Speaker 6: Like, look, it's the cats and dogs from spring Field
Speaker 6: and they're wearing Trump's heir bandage.
Speaker 5: I mean, they're even bringing the garbage truck.
Speaker 6: He used it as a prop in one campaign stunt,
Speaker 6: and now it's going to be in the parade. It's
Speaker 6: not even going to drive itself. It's going to ride
Speaker 6: in the back of a limmo. I mean now that
Speaker 6: this garbage truck is a maga celebrity, the sky is
Speaker 6: the limit. It's gonna get its own right wing podcast,
Speaker 6: join the White House staff and every Trump sickaphan is
Speaker 6: going to start sucking up to it. And finally reporters
Speaker 6: will catch the truck getting a hand job from Kimberly
Speaker 6: Gilfoyle and the Rose Garden.
Speaker 4: Tail as old as time.
Speaker 6: But I will say this, an inauguration list must be
Speaker 6: so embarrassing for anyone who didn't get an invite. I mean,
Speaker 6: Sean Spicer is gonna be like, does anyone know if
Speaker 6: the garbage truck has a plus one. You know, let's
Speaker 6: move on, because while the new presidency is about to begin,
Speaker 6: there's a frenzy of activity happening at the end of
Speaker 6: the current presidency. Yesterday, President Biden announced a breakthrough in
Speaker 6: the war in the Middle East, phase one of a
Speaker 6: ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. And what I've found really
Speaker 6: uplifting is that we finally sealed the deal. New reporting
Speaker 6: this morning that there was extraordinary cooperation between the outgoing
Speaker 6: and incoming administrations.
Speaker 11: The New York Times reports there was coordination between both
Speaker 11: presidential teams and that each directed their advisors to work
Speaker 11: together to push Israel and Hamas over the finish line.
Speaker 5: Look at this, Look at this, you see this. This
Speaker 5: is truly inspiring.
Speaker 6: Two administrations, two rivals, working together to make the world
Speaker 6: a better place, focusing on what's important, creating peace in
Speaker 6: the world, not petty fights over who gets the credit?
Speaker 4: Does this deal belong to Biden or Trump?
Speaker 1: Who do you give credit to?
Speaker 4: It could not have.
Speaker 3: Happened without Trump.
Speaker 1: This is President Biden's negotiation.
Speaker 11: If Donald Trump wasn't elected in November, none of this
Speaker 11: would have been happening.
Speaker 5: This credit goes to Joe Biden. Joe Biden, not one
Speaker 5: hundred percent.
Speaker 1: That's not fair pay.
Speaker 4: Well, come on, what is all this arguing about.
Speaker 6: There's enough credit for everyone who deserves it, the presidents,
Speaker 6: the diplomats, and most importantly, everyone who changed their profile picks.
Speaker 5: You're welcome.
Speaker 6: Hey, what else do you expect from the media. Stirring
Speaker 6: up drama is their thing. I'm sure the two statesmen
Speaker 6: at the heart of the negotiations are content to share
Speaker 6: the credit.
Speaker 11: President Elect Trump wasted no time angling for credit on
Speaker 11: the ceasefire deal we've been talking about this morning, posting
Speaker 11: on his social media site that quote, this epic cease
Speaker 11: fire agreement could have only happened as a result of
Speaker 11: our historic victory in November.
Speaker 9: How much credit do.
Speaker 6: You give to the troph team for this deal?
Speaker 9: Troupe's have been taking credit for it?
Speaker 7: Well, you know, this is the exact framework of the
Speaker 7: deal I propose back in May.
Speaker 3: Exact.
Speaker 6: First off, Joe, I don't think that's the brag you
Speaker 6: think it is. Everyone's been ignoring this thing since May.
Speaker 6: Then something happened.
Speaker 3: I don't know. And Donald, can you just.
Speaker 5: Throw this man a bone?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 5: Haven't you done enough to poor Joe?
Speaker 6: You took his second term, you took his legacy, You
Speaker 6: took his wife to go see baby Girl together. Can
Speaker 6: you just share a little credit with him? But guys,
Speaker 6: a little perspective here. The important thing isn't who gets credit.
Speaker 6: The important thing is that after over a year of war,
Speaker 6: we finally have a ceasefire.
Speaker 5: A new wrinkle in the hostage ceasefire deal.
Speaker 6: Israel's war cabinet a short time ago to lay a
Speaker 6: vote to officially ratify the deal because they say Hamas
Speaker 6: has renegged on some parts of the agreement. Like I said,
Speaker 6: the important thing is we thought about having a ceasefire.
Speaker 4: And what a fun couple of hours it was.
Speaker 6: For more analysis on the ceasefire deal, we turned to
Speaker 6: Desi Lidek and Michael Costa, Like I want to start
Speaker 6: with you, Michael, Michael, isn't it a counterproductive to be
Speaker 6: debating credit and picking sides?
Speaker 12: It sure is, Jordan, because all the credit belongs to
Speaker 12: Donald Trump. He gets the credit, give him all the
Speaker 12: peace points. He's an unhinged madman who threatened to unleash hell.
Speaker 12: It goes to show completely, It goes to show that
Speaker 12: completely over the top threats work.
Speaker 1: You don't believe me, I'll annihilate you. I hate my
Speaker 1: life and I've got nothing to lose.
Speaker 13: Michael, You've got plenty to lose, including this argument, because
Speaker 13: this was all Biden. Trump's just a little kid thinking
Speaker 13: he opened the pickle jar when Joe Biden had been
Speaker 13: loosening it for months. Give him the peace points seven
Speaker 13: piece points for Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: Guys, what the hell are peace points?
Speaker 12: It's the points you get for peace and they go
Speaker 12: to Donald Trump. He's basically the president.
Speaker 13: Now the president now is Joe Biden? This was all
Speaker 13: Joe Biden.
Speaker 6: Hold on, I'm getting some breaking news. It sounds like
Speaker 6: the deal may be falling apart.
Speaker 13: Like I was saying, this was all Donald Trump. He's
Speaker 13: basically the president.
Speaker 1: Now you're you're flip flopping.
Speaker 5: So you maintained that this was Trump's deal? Costa Absolutely not.
Speaker 12: Donald Trump's not even close to being the president.
Speaker 1: He can't even win peace points.
Speaker 13: Yet, but he can lose peace points, and that means
Speaker 13: he's minus twenty.
Speaker 4: Six piece points.
Speaker 13: Think about him like a pickle jar.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, the entire deal is because of Joe Biden.
Speaker 6: Hold on, hold on, hold on, a good were the
Speaker 6: deal might be back on Joe Biden's replacement.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, You.
Speaker 4: Did it, big guy.
Speaker 1: Congrats.
Speaker 13: Oh my god, your pathetic costa. Joe Biden did this?
Speaker 13: Hold on, I'm just getting an alert. I just want
Speaker 13: to make sure it's not about the deal. Oh okay,
Speaker 13: it's fine. My kid's just missing anyway, Joe Biden.
Speaker 6: Middle its guys, Guys, can't there be a compromise here,
Speaker 6: like for the sake of unity, surely you can come
Speaker 6: to an agreement on sharing the credit.
Speaker 13: I guess we could split the credit in phase one,
Speaker 13: Biden gets the credit until Trump takes over.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Then in phase two, Trump takes the credit for six.
Speaker 13: Weeks, and then if the piece holds in phase three,
Speaker 13: both sides will coexist peacefully sharing the credit, each of them.
Speaker 4: Both getting for peace points. Wow.
Speaker 6: No, I mean I still have no idea what peace
Speaker 6: points are. But the fact you guys achieved this agreement
Speaker 6: is historic.
Speaker 4: Well done.
Speaker 3: Thank you. It was my idea.
Speaker 13: No, I get the credit. Remember the Pickle.
Speaker 3: Analogy, I lose the deal.
Speaker 4: It's my credit.
Speaker 1: If you talk about pickles one more time, I will
Speaker 1: kill you. I hate my life. I have nothing to hurt.
Speaker 6: All right, Well, we'll have to go back to the
Speaker 6: negotiating table, Deddie Leidik and Michael Kostela.
Speaker 13: We'll come back.
Speaker 5: We'll find out what cave luck didn't win the election.
Speaker 4: Don't go West, Welcome.
Speaker 1: Back to the Dalla Show.
Speaker 4: Before the election, and we.
Speaker 6: Sent Grace Coolan Schmid to ask election analysts who they
Speaker 6: predicted would win the presidential race. Now two months later,
Speaker 6: she followed up with some of those predictions.
Speaker 7: Last time I was in Washington, d C.
Speaker 14: Was just two months ago, which feels like a lifetime.
Speaker 14: I was so young and naive looking for answers, what is.
Speaker 8: Your prediction for this election?
Speaker 11: Twice before, and.
Speaker 14: Alan Lichtman gave them to me.
Speaker 15: Kamala Harris will become the first woman president.
Speaker 3: But Alan Litman was wrong.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump has been elected president.
Speaker 1: Can you just admit that you got it wrong with
Speaker 1: your foolish little equation. You got it wrong, Alan, to
Speaker 1: make denial, You've got it wrong. So you were monstrously
Speaker 1: and stupidly wrong.
Speaker 8: Al, I seriously trusted you.
Speaker 14: Well, no, no, it's not your time and talk yet.
Speaker 14: I seriously trusted you, and I thought that what you
Speaker 14: told me was the truth.
Speaker 4: I was being honest. There was a prediction, not a
Speaker 4: fact that I told you I'm a human being.
Speaker 8: Right, you didn't tell me that you were a human
Speaker 8: being and that.
Speaker 15: You might be I certainly didn't mean to hurt any
Speaker 15: I'm not psychic. My predictions are based on history, and
Speaker 15: this year, which you know is the craziest year ever,
Speaker 15: the pattern of history was broken.
Speaker 3: That can happen? Did you even notice? I got a haircut?
Speaker 5: Actually did, and it looks great.
Speaker 8: I agree, it really frames my face.
Speaker 14: If only Alan's political judgment was as good as his
Speaker 14: taste in haircuts.
Speaker 4: But it wasn't, and I needed to know why.
Speaker 8: What are some of your excuses?
Speaker 15: I definitely think I was thrown off by pushing by.
Speaker 15: Now you've never seen a sitting president the elected nominee
Speaker 15: forced out, So that leads me to perhaps reevaluate my
Speaker 15: call on the contest.
Speaker 3: Key See.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I knew that was stupid, and I was going
Speaker 14: to tell you, but I didn't want a woman's plain.
Speaker 15: The broader point is, I do think Harris's race and
Speaker 15: gender played a role here. There are deep strains within
Speaker 15: this country of misogyny, racism, xenophobia.
Speaker 14: I wish you had told me that the first time
Speaker 14: she could have maybe put found that in there. And
Speaker 14: to be fair, Alan was the only thought leader who
Speaker 14: got this prediction wrong. Have you talked to Charlie XCX
Speaker 14: about this or anything?
Speaker 3: Because talked to who Charlie XCX.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm not hearing you right, Charlie XCX.
Speaker 15: Charlie XCS. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 8: Yeah, she said that Kamala is brat, and it just
Speaker 8: at this point I'm kind of thinking perhaps Trump was
Speaker 8: more brat. Oh, okay, yeah, but you and her have
Speaker 8: not spoken.
Speaker 3: We have not spoken.
Speaker 8: I was secretly glad.
Speaker 14: They hadn't spoken, because that would make me crazy jealous,
Speaker 14: which is an issue I'd been working on with my therapist.
Speaker 8: But did Alan have any regrets of his own?
Speaker 14: Are you thinking, why did I ever get into politics?
Speaker 8: Why didn't I.
Speaker 14: Just stick to modeling or something?
Speaker 15: This is one prediction. In over forty years, I was
Speaker 15: listed as number eighty five of the world's one hundred
Speaker 15: leading geopolitical experts. But people think, oh, he made a
Speaker 15: wrong prediction that invalidates him as a person. It's crazy.
Speaker 14: I one time was in an uber and there was
Speaker 14: an iPad on the back of the seat and it said,
Speaker 14: what sound does a dog make and.
Speaker 8: Bark was right there.
Speaker 5: I clicked moo.
Speaker 14: But lucky for me, it's not my job, and so
Speaker 14: it really had no impact on my life.
Speaker 15: I'd like to say one more thing. Please, Yes, we
Speaker 15: shouldn't just write off an era. We can learn a
Speaker 15: lot about our politics and our society from analyzing the mistake.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 15: If you can't learn from your mistakes, then you're in
Speaker 15: big trouble, you know what.
Speaker 8: A and I forgive you, and I hope that we're
Speaker 8: back here in four years.
Speaker 5: I hope so, and I hope you're right that time.
Speaker 15: The Great Benjamin Disraeli, the former late Prime Minister of England,
Speaker 15: once said finality is not a word we use in politics.
Speaker 14: I think Charlie XCX said that.
Speaker 8: I think Charlie XCX.
Speaker 1: Every time you.
Speaker 15: Say that, I kind of go watch. It's not a
Speaker 15: name that rings buddy bells with legs.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Gray. Let me come back. Democratic Representative Tom Swazi,
Speaker 4: Will you joining me on the show? Don't go away?
Speaker 4: Well The Daily Show.
Speaker 6: My guest tonight is a Democrat who represents New York's
Speaker 6: third congressional district. Please welcome US Representative Tom Swazi A
Speaker 6: lot of Swazi heads here. Yeah, they're into it for Clipper,
Speaker 6: not for Swazi.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to say it. I think we share
Speaker 5: the love that is here.
Speaker 6: You got a lot on your plates, kygre lot going on.
Speaker 6: There's a lot going on right now. I want to
Speaker 6: talk to you about we Obviously, Monday is the inauguration.
Speaker 5: You wrote a book.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah, do you have any Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll be there.
Speaker 5: Ye you're not going to storm the capitol before that.
Speaker 4: The Democrats meet together.
Speaker 6: Did you guys meet together and discuss whether we're Yea
Speaker 6: and Nan trying to stop it.
Speaker 3: We'll be there, We'll be there. We can't stop it.
Speaker 6: You can't stop the proceedings now, Well, maybe if you
Speaker 6: worked a little harder during the election, you could have.
Speaker 4: I'm just spit, bully, the just rub it in.
Speaker 1: Jordan.
Speaker 4: Well here, I'm curious.
Speaker 6: You wrote an op ed a few weeks ago talking
Speaker 6: about how Democrats should move forward in this new era
Speaker 6: of Trump. Essentially, Democrats should meet Trump halfway rather than
Speaker 6: be a party of no. And for you, I'm curious,
Speaker 6: does that mean seven point five million deportations instead of
Speaker 6: how does one meet the Republicans halfway?
Speaker 3: Well, you you've got to resist when it's appropriate, you know,
Speaker 3: like when he was a president before, we resisted. I
Speaker 3: resisted when he wanted to get rid of the Affordable
Speaker 3: Care Act. You have to resist when he wants to
Speaker 3: deport the Dreamers. Now if he wants to weaponize the
Speaker 3: DOJ you have to resist. If you want to get
Speaker 3: rid of the climate stuff we've done, you got to resist.
Speaker 3: So there's things you have to resist on. But the
Speaker 3: people want us to work together to try and solve problems.
Speaker 3: And we've tried all the stuff of just tearing him
Speaker 3: down as much as we can and did work. He won,
Speaker 3: And now people want us to work together to address
Speaker 3: the border, to address cost of living and inflation, to
Speaker 3: address the things that really happened in their lives.
Speaker 6: I mean, people do want things to get done right.
Speaker 6: But in twenty sixteen, it felt like the Democrats angle
Speaker 6: was to be a party of note, to be obstructionist,
Speaker 6: and they won the mid terms. There was success after that.
Speaker 6: Joe Biden was the next president. Is that a winning strategy?
Speaker 6: It felt like being obstructionist, being resisty if not, if
Speaker 6: not leading.
Speaker 5: To electoral victory.
Speaker 6: This past election had some successes in twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: Well, let me just first make a prediction. Okay, the
Speaker 3: Democrats are going to win in twenty twenty four, but
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four, twenty twenty what year would I say?
Speaker 5: You said twenty twenty four? What ye are we in now?
Speaker 5: Already in twenty twenty five, Why.
Speaker 3: Did you guys clap for that? Yeah? Well, makers just
Speaker 3: test you guys failed completely twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Let's start with math and then work towards
Speaker 6: twenty twenty seventh.
Speaker 4: The math major. I was a math major to say,
Speaker 4: I know what is in the past and what.
Speaker 3: Is the right? Okay, do you think twenty twenty six,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six we're going to win? Okay? And I
Speaker 3: think that people, let's try again in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 3: we're going to win.
Speaker 5: So we are not editing around.
Speaker 6: This is that we are leaving that in our politicians
Speaker 6: are fallible. This is aslasi, I'm human, you're human.
Speaker 3: So the bottom line is is that people are really sick.
Speaker 3: And I talk to people all the time. I mean
Speaker 3: that's what you do if you do a good job
Speaker 3: in elected office, is you talk to people. And people
Speaker 3: are sick and tired of it. We're just fighting with
Speaker 3: each other all the time. And in this year, let
Speaker 3: me the years now. In twenty twenty four, in February,
Speaker 3: I ran a special election to replace George Santos after
Speaker 3: you got kicked out, and you guys remember George Santos.
Speaker 5: Right, America's greatest volleyball.
Speaker 3: So in that race I talked about the need to
Speaker 3: secure the border, and a lot of experts came to
Speaker 3: me and said, Tom, what are you doing. Why are
Speaker 3: you talking about the border. That's a Republican issue. I
Speaker 3: was like, this is what the people are talking about.
Speaker 3: They want us to address the border. So we can't
Speaker 3: say we're against deporting criminals. We have to work to
Speaker 3: try and secure the border. We need to fix the
Speaker 3: broken asylum system. We need to also treat people like
Speaker 3: human beings. We need to give the dreamers a path
Speaker 3: to legalization. We need to do something about the people
Speaker 3: you invited here twenty and thirty years ago. What to
Speaker 3: call the TPS recipient's temporary protective status. You had an earthquake,
Speaker 3: you had a flood, you had a civil war. We said,
Speaker 3: come to America, where it's safe. We invited them here
Speaker 3: Let's give them some sort of permanent status.
Speaker 4: Let's do something. Let's do something.
Speaker 3: Fifty percent of the farm workers in the United States
Speaker 3: of America are undocumented. Let's there have been bipartisan deals
Speaker 3: over the years to try and do border security, fix
Speaker 3: the asylum system, deal with the dreamers, tps, and farm workers,
Speaker 3: Afghan readjustment, healthcare workers. There have been deals, but we
Speaker 3: couldn't get enough support to get it over the finish line.
Speaker 3: Let's figure out how to build the consensus of people
Speaker 3: throughout the nation, business badges, and the Bible to try
Speaker 3: and say what can we do to get people to
Speaker 3: work together to actually get these things done to make
Speaker 3: our country better.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think trying to build consensus.
Speaker 7: Sure.
Speaker 4: I mean today you had to vote.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 6: You voted for the Preventing Violence Against Women by a
Speaker 6: Legal Aliens Act. This is a bill that was introduced
Speaker 6: by representing Nancy Mace right, and you and what one
Speaker 6: hundred and forty Dems voted against this, but you and
Speaker 6: sixty other Dems voted for this.
Speaker 3: And part of it is, you know, I actually don't
Speaker 3: think that's going to get through the Senate, but I
Speaker 3: think that it's part of sending this message that hey,
Speaker 3: we're willing to meet you halfway to try and get.
Speaker 5: That message getting across.
Speaker 3: They're not going to get done. It just happened, you
Speaker 3: know today. I mean right, But but you're.
Speaker 6: Saying this act of goodwill by the Democrats towards the Republicans,
Speaker 6: that this message will get across that.
Speaker 3: You're not going to hear it.
Speaker 4: This was he's a good guy.
Speaker 3: Come on. Yeah. So the bottom line is the natural
Speaker 3: inclination of human beings is is you take a shot
Speaker 3: at me, I'm going to give you a shot back.
Speaker 3: That's normal human behavior. And like the Republicans obstructed Biden
Speaker 3: every single which way, and that's natural human behavior. The
Speaker 3: problem is we're not getting stuff done to fix the problems.
Speaker 3: So it's like when Michelle Obama said, when they go low,
Speaker 3: we go high, and a lot of people give a
Speaker 3: grief for that for saying that, but in reality, we
Speaker 3: need to try and reach our hand out and say
Speaker 3: let's work together, let's get some stuff done. If they
Speaker 3: swat our hands away and say, you know, a sucker,
Speaker 3: you know like that, then the people will see that
Speaker 3: they but haven't they been doing that for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all they're sucker. They're the party of this.
Speaker 3: As your mom said, two wrongs don't make it right.
Speaker 3: And the reality is is we have serious problems that
Speaker 3: exist in our country and we have to figure out
Speaker 3: how can we get stuff done at least That's why
Speaker 3: I'm in public life. That's the reason I do this job.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is an unusual lifestyle and it's only
Speaker 3: worth it if you actually get stuff done to make
Speaker 3: people's lives better. And I think that right now. I
Speaker 3: think that, right now, that's what the American people really want.
Speaker 3: So you know, we all know all the bad stuff
Speaker 3: about Donald Trump. Okay, we know about you know, inappropriate grabbing,
Speaker 3: and we know about you know, January sixth, We know
Speaker 3: about Stormy Daniels, we know about selling Bibles, and we
Speaker 3: know about all the different you know anyone. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: so now he's the president of the United States of
Speaker 3: America come Monday. So we have got to figure out
Speaker 3: how do we resist when essential, but how do we
Speaker 3: try to work together to get stuff done when we can.
Speaker 6: I think that, I mean, that is a fine line
Speaker 6: that people are asking. I know there are people who
Speaker 6: are more progressive who see this in fear that we're
Speaker 6: sleep walking towards utocracy, that suddenly this resist energy is gone,
Speaker 6: and that if I suddenly we normalize this or don't
Speaker 6: bring it up enough, then we've sort of lost the
Speaker 6: plots and the goalpost get moved yet another field over.
Speaker 5: Do you worry about that, or.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do worry about it. I'm like every other
Speaker 3: human being. When you give it to me, I'm going
Speaker 3: to want to give it back to you. But the
Speaker 3: reality is we've got to get stuff done to make
Speaker 3: our country better. We're facing serious threats from China, We're
Speaker 3: facing serious threats all over the world. Quite frankly, we're
Speaker 3: facing threats here in America, and people want their lives art.
Speaker 3: We've lost our middle class in our country. The minimum
Speaker 3: wage is still seven to twenty five an hour in
Speaker 3: twenty states in the United States of America. People are
Speaker 3: pissed off. They lost their jobs, they don't have their
Speaker 3: health insurance, they don't have pensions anymore. They're not making
Speaker 3: enough money. They go to work every day. If you
Speaker 3: make ten dollars an hour and you work forty hours
Speaker 3: a week, and you work fifty weeks a year math major,
Speaker 3: that's that's twenty thousand dollars a year. Okay, if you
Speaker 3: make fifteen dollars an hour, you work forty hours a week,
Speaker 3: you work fifty weeks year, that's thirty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4: Now, is that right that that don't work out?
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean about seven minutes ago you thought the
Speaker 6: year was twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Check that. The bottom line is everybody in America, whether
Speaker 3: you're a progressive or a conservative or anybody between, everybody
Speaker 3: in America should believe that if I work hard, in
Speaker 3: return for working hard, I make enough money so I
Speaker 3: can live a decent life. I can get a house,
Speaker 3: I can I can have health insurance, I can educate
Speaker 3: my children, and I can retire a day without being scared.
Speaker 3: The problem is that's not happening in our country for
Speaker 3: too many people. That's why everybody's so pissed off. And
Speaker 3: that's why Trump found an opening because he says, oh,
Speaker 3: I hear you. I reallyize how bad things are for you.
Speaker 3: Now you're not going to do anything about it. He
Speaker 3: does the support increasing in the minimum wage. He doesn't
Speaker 3: support what's called the Proact to try and have more
Speaker 3: unions in the United States of America. Child tax credit.
Speaker 3: We've got to do things. Democrats have to make it
Speaker 3: clear to people we're the party for working people. If
Speaker 3: you work hard, we want you to have a decent
Speaker 3: life so you can live the American dream. That's what
Speaker 3: the Americans should what the Democrats should be talking about
Speaker 3: to the American people, not all this other stuff about
Speaker 3: somebody's personality where it's wrong with them. Talk about issues
Speaker 3: that will make their lives better.
Speaker 4: But even you, well you can.
Speaker 3: But how do you.
Speaker 1: I hear you.
Speaker 6: I feel like you go out here and you the
Speaker 6: American public when I go and talk to people out
Speaker 6: in America, Yes, they talk about the pocket book, they
Speaker 6: care about money, they care about buying houses. But the
Speaker 6: Republicans are also dictating these conversations. And I know sometimes
Speaker 6: from a political standpoint, you're getting pulled in these culture wars.
Speaker 6: But the Democrats aren't necessarily bringing those culture wars up,
Speaker 6: and they want to stand up.
Speaker 5: Here's where I'm curious about.
Speaker 6: You've been faced with very real bills to pass and
Speaker 6: what to support, where to throw your your name behind.
Speaker 6: You just voted for stronger regulations at the border. But
Speaker 6: there was recently, like a week ago, this what was it,
Speaker 6: the National Ban on transgender girls and women's sports.
Speaker 5: You voted against that ban. How do you how do
Speaker 5: you walk this line here?
Speaker 3: It's not easy, It's very tough. But the bottom line
Speaker 3: is is that Donald Trump and the Republicans have been
Speaker 3: master pickpockets. So what a pickpockets do? They work in teams.
Speaker 3: One person comes up to you and they bump into you.
Speaker 3: And when you're jostled and you're because you get bumped into,
Speaker 3: the other person picts your pocket. So they use it
Speaker 3: issues like transgender. They spend two hundred million dollars on
Speaker 3: transgender commercials, and the Democrats never responded when while the
Speaker 3: people all excited, we got to worry about protecting social
Speaker 3: security and protecting Medicare, so we can't let ourselves be
Speaker 3: distracted by even the border to some extent was an
Speaker 3: effort to get people all pumped up while they were
Speaker 3: doing other stuff. And for the best example is Trump
Speaker 3: just came out a week ago and he said, Panama
Speaker 3: canal Greenland and change the Gulf of Mexico to the
Speaker 3: Gulf of America. Okay, what happened to reducing the price
Speaker 3: of eggs and gasoline that you said is so easy
Speaker 3: to do? What happened to endy of the Ukrainian War
Speaker 3: in one day. So he's a master of distraction. And
Speaker 3: so I recognize that, and I think that the people
Speaker 3: need to recognize that we can't allow ourselves to be
Speaker 3: distracted by some of these issues. Now, the Republicans have
Speaker 3: done a better job. Okay, we've got people that are
Speaker 3: far left on our side, they've got people that are
Speaker 3: far way right over there, like you said before, Marjorie
Speaker 3: Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert, Matt Gates. They did a better
Speaker 3: job weaponizing our left to say how the Democrats are
Speaker 3: like that. We didn't do a very effective job saying
Speaker 3: the Republicans are like that. So you've got to try
Speaker 3: and navigate.
Speaker 6: This like what like I feel, like so like people
Speaker 6: know who I feel. When people know who Matt Gates is,
Speaker 6: they don't care. And I mean half the people care,
Speaker 6: but the other half don't. See the whole Republican Party
Speaker 6: didn't get painted with Matt Gates. And so so for example,
Speaker 6: in my race, okay, Donald Trump won my district by
Speaker 6: nineteen thousand votes, Joe Biden had won back in to
Speaker 6: get my dates right back in twenty twenty, sure, okay,
Speaker 6: he won by eleven points. Okay, Trump just won my
Speaker 6: district by five points. That's a sixteen point swing for
Speaker 6: me to win by eleven thousand votes, considering that everybody,
Speaker 6: not everybody who votes for president necessarily votes for the
Speaker 6: congress member. For me to win by eleven thousand votes,
Speaker 6: I had to get twenty thousand people that vote for
Speaker 6: Donald Trump to actually vote for me.
Speaker 3: Now that's not an easy thing to do. But because
Speaker 3: people know me and because they know that I'm going
Speaker 3: to fight for them, not just for the party. I'm
Speaker 3: going to fight for the people. And I talked about
Speaker 3: issues like the border. I got endorsed by the Nasau
Speaker 3: County PBA. A Democrat hasn't been endorsed by the NASA,
Speaker 3: including me, hasn't been endorsed by the Nasau County PBA
Speaker 3: for a long time. So you've got to be able
Speaker 3: to talk to the people about the issues they're concerned
Speaker 3: out about and not let yourself be painted with this
Speaker 3: brush when they try to distract people.
Speaker 5: Now you're watching these confirmation hearings.
Speaker 3: I haven't really been watching them that much, but I
Speaker 3: you know a little Oh.
Speaker 5: What do you oh, you don't have the time to
Speaker 5: what do you do what's your job.
Speaker 4: Well, they're doing their hearings.
Speaker 3: I'm doing a ways and means hearing about the budget.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying check in maybe no, no, no, yes, okay.
Speaker 3: But I don't sit there watch three hour hearing about
Speaker 3: what's going on.
Speaker 5: But you use it for me.
Speaker 4: I gotta wize these things. But I don't vote.
Speaker 3: I don't vote on the confirmation.
Speaker 5: You don't vote on any confirmation.
Speaker 3: That's only the only the Senate does that. But you, yes,
Speaker 3: I follow.
Speaker 5: Is there anybody who worries you the most?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: Do you have somebody who keeps you up at nights?
Speaker 3: I'm concerned about some of the national security issues that
Speaker 3: the people that are going there that don't have the property.
Speaker 3: Like when HeiG Seth was being grilled the other day,
Speaker 3: I was concerned that a lot of the focus was
Speaker 3: on his personal problems, which obviously there are personal problems
Speaker 3: that he has, but I wish they had focused more
Speaker 3: on the fact that he's never really managed more than
Speaker 3: two hundred people, and there are three million people that
Speaker 3: work for the Pentagon. It's the most lethal weaponry force
Speaker 3: in the history of the world, and it's really something
Speaker 3: we rely on so much. And I wish they had
Speaker 3: talked more about his management skills versus his personal problem.
Speaker 6: And I know what a shit talk your fellow Democrats there,
Speaker 6: But I know that is a critique right now. David
Speaker 6: Brooks had an article about that that looked at this
Speaker 6: hearing and everybody's going for the viral moments and Heikseth
Speaker 6: definitely has some holes in his background, some character flaws
Speaker 6: that they're piecing apart. But should they have aggressively gone
Speaker 6: after perhaps some of those holes in experience and or
Speaker 6: knowledge with the organization he's going to run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they should have. I mean, this is
Speaker 3: kind of like what I was saying before about Trump.
Speaker 3: You know, we know about all of his issues, okay,
Speaker 3: and we just focused on that over and over again
Speaker 3: when we should have been talking about No, we have
Speaker 3: a better plan to rebuild the middle class in the
Speaker 3: United States of America. Joe Biden always said we want
Speaker 3: to build from the bottom up and the middle out.
Speaker 3: Now people don't really know what that means. That means
Speaker 3: we need to create more jobs in America. When you
Speaker 3: go to work every day, you make enough money so
Speaker 3: you have a good life. We need to focus. Democrats
Speaker 3: need to be getting back to that basic, simple message
Speaker 3: of what happened in our country when we lost our
Speaker 3: manufacturing base, when we saw globalization, when Milton Friedman wrote
Speaker 3: a paper that said, don't worry about the employees, don't
Speaker 3: worry about the community you're in. Only worry about the shareholders.
Speaker 3: And that's what we did starting in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3: We only worried about the shareholders. It worked, we made
Speaker 3: a lot of money. The problem is the Dow Jones
Speaker 3: went up twenty five hundred percent, the GDP went up
Speaker 3: fifteen hundred percent, but workers' wages went up only thirty percent.
Speaker 3: We've got to start. We've got to get back to
Speaker 3: the basic messages, the basic messages that affect people's lives.
Speaker 3: And how much money you make and what your health
Speaker 3: insurance and pension plan is is the most basic thing
Speaker 3: for so many people in our country. And if we
Speaker 3: can get back to those basic messages, the Democrats will
Speaker 3: win over and over and over again. We can't let
Speaker 3: ourselves be distracted.
Speaker 6: You're here, you're taking the seat once held by George Santos.
Speaker 6: Do you do you follow his career closely and everything
Speaker 6: that after you get out of doing your time here
Speaker 6: and when you're finished with your term in.
Speaker 5: At twenty sixty two, or.
Speaker 6: Do you ever wish that you could kind of follow
Speaker 6: his trajectory and get on cameo.
Speaker 3: No, I've had a history in politics of you know,
Speaker 3: winning and losing, and everybody I get involved with ends
Speaker 3: up getting in trouble. So don't mess with me. You can,
Speaker 3: you can run against me, but if you beat me,
Speaker 3: your life's over after that.
Speaker 6: So lovely well, Congressman dom Swasi. Everyone you want to
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