WEBVTT - Adam Carolla - January 10th, Hour 2 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.920 All right, thanks Scott Shan an hour two Sean Hannedy's 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.080 show Toll Free, It is eight hundred and nine to 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.000 four one, Shawn, if you want to be a part 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.040 of the program. A couple of nights ago, when I 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:14.760 had comedian Adam Carolla on my TV show, it was 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.880 up in the air. He didn't know whether his house 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:22.360 would survive the wildfires. Thank God, for his sake, he 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.239 was not one of the thousands and thousands of victims 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.120 that lost their homes that have had their entire lives 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:30.360 not a pun. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:31.960 Intend to go up and smoke. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.840 A lot of this, if not most of it completely preventable, 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:40.080 and anyway, he talked at it on his own show 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.800 at length about you know, there will be more people 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.360 in winne Bagos that will be on the Pacific Coast 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.560 Highway before Hollywood elites ever returned to their homes because 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.560 of the permitting process, which is formidable. Jillian Michaels brought 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.400 this up on TV and on radio yesterday in California. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.040 Listen already on. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:05.280 A happy note, I guess all the win of bagos 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.160 that were parked up and down pch where they're cooking 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.280 out of those things surely are gone. They'll be the 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.640 first ones back. The comedy is the guys who lost 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.800 their twenty million dollar homes on the ocean side of 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:25.520 PCH will be knee deep in the permit process. They 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.760 will be trying to pull permits when the guys in 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.040 the Winnebagos will have been back for months, months before 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.720 those guys ever get a permit. As a matter of fact, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.080 Alan Hamill and Suzanne Summers moved because they could not 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.080 get a permit to rebuild their home of forty years 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.000 on the ocean on PCH. You know how Bill Maher 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.320 seems real conservative now when he's like arguing with Jane 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:55.360 Fonda about regulations, too many regulations, like strangling everything. Because 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.880 remember when Bill Maher tried to put solar in his 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.480 house in Beverly Hills. That's when he turned against the 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.840 government because he saw what the government and the overreach 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.200 of government and overregulation does. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.000 Now he's not wrong. 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:12.920 By the way, if you don't live in California, you 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.040 may not know PCH is the Pacific Coast Highway if 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.320 you've never driven it from northern California all the way 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:24.239 down to southern California. It is one of the most spectacular, picturesque, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.760 beautiful drives you'll ever go on in your life. It's 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:32.680 unbelievably stunning. Then he predicted that these wildfires will convert Democrats, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.680 and he's going to join us in a minute after 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.000 evacuating their homes. I'm not sure I agree with them 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:37.520 on this part. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.760 But listen, you guys all voted for Karen Bass, the 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:42.680 mayor of Los Angeles. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.600 You all voted for Gavenusom, and. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.519 Now you get what you get. Oh, now that your 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.160 house is on fire, well, now you're thinking about something else. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.840 Now you want to know what's going on, what's going 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.079 on around here. You didn't give a shit about what 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.919 was going on when other people's houses were on fire, 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.320 but now you can. So here's what's gonna happen. All 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:07.880 these people who were deep blue Democrats are now going 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.240 to have to pull a permit to rebuild, and they're 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.000 gonna get the twenty eight year old from the Coastal 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:18.320 Commission telling them to go fifth off, and then they're 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.920 going to vote for Trump or whoever's Trump being next. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.000 You see, they're gonna. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.480 Get turned all right. So Adam Carroll joins us. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.959 Now when I last spoke to you, you aren't sure 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.040 if your house is gonna survive. I mean, I assume 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.760 a lot of homes around where you live burned to 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.720 the ground like so many others. And what you were saying, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.320 by the way, about the permit process is dead on accurate. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.840 Jillian Michaels, I think it was. Back in twenty eighteen, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.840 lost a home and it took well over a year 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:51.080 to begin to get the permits needed to rebuild. It's insane. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.840 Yeah, like I said, Alan ham On Suzanne Summer's Alan 0:03:55.920 --> 0:04:01.200 and Suzanne Summer's husband, a good friends loved Alan told 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.560 me at dinner, took him seven years. It was a 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.240 seven year process. They finally they finally popped it in 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.320 and they moved to Palm Springs because the Coastal Commission 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.760 would not let them rebuild where their home formally stood. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.520 So it's a big deal. I was a builder, Sean, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.839 you know, a contractor. I've been dealing with these people 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.600 since my early twenties, so I've been screaming about this 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.960 for a million years. But these folks, like Jane Konda especially, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.520 they have no idea. They've never pulled a permit, they've 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.960 never dealt with this city. They've never dealt with the 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:41.719 Coastal Commission. So when they do, that's when they start 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.480 turning the corner and they start thinking like us. Now, 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:50.320 obviously they're not all going to vote Republican the next 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:54.000 time around, which you can bet that they're going to 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.760 take a real good look at the next Gavin Newsome 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.559 character who comes down the pike. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.039 Well, we already know who that is. That's going to 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.679 be Kamala Harris, right right, Yes. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.039 That's true, that's true. And and look, this is no 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:13.720 different than a sanctuary city. Remember all the blue cities 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.320 New York City, they all loved the sanctuary city that 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.600 patted themselves on the back and they celebrated the fact 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.760 that they were heroes because they were sanctuary city. But 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.919 when the first bustloads of migrants started getting dropped off 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.800 in their slanky neighborhoods, what did they do? They started screaming, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.160 where's the government? What's going on? We didn't sign up 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.480 for this. That's what's going to happen with the rebuilding process. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.599 I really have got a wonder And if you look 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.800 at everything that we've learned since you know this, this 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.400 tragedy happened and it is a tragedy. And I honestly, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.040 with all my heart, and I don't care what your 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:56.480 politics are, I really feel awful for the people of 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.560 la I mean, they're now going to have to try 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.159 and rebuild their lives. But when you learn that the 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:06.560 science of forestry and you can get degrees from big universities. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.920 I've actually listed them on this program. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:14.039 Auburn, University of Florida, NC State University at Georgia. I 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.160 can go on for you know, twenty minutes here and 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.320 talk about it. You can get it out at the 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.400 University of California. I think Davis has a forestry program 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.039 and you can get a degree in that. And there 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.920 are legitimate criticisms here. You know, why weren't the hydrants working? 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.000 Let's start with that. You know, we learned also this 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.880 morning that in fact, in the Pacific Palisades that the 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.680 reservoir was freaking empty. I mean, how is that possible? 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.520 Avin Newsom doesn't like criticism, but his answer that this 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.000 is a local issue. Why these hydrants weren't designed for 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.120 wildfires in a state that's known for wildfires and Santa 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.599 Ana wins. How does that make any sense to you? 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.480 Well, first, just the notion. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.120 By the way, he's just sipping on Vodkas. Not a 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.680 big deal of It's a little early in California, but 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:05.080 it's fine. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.520 I'm kidding anything to take the ad job. Sehan come on, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:09.479 by the. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.360 Way, at this point in dime, I think anybody in 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.520 LA has every right to do whatever they want. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.640 Oh my god, well I'm in Vegas, so I just 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.200 took off. I can't get back to my place in Malibu. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.480 I just found out it was at a one piece. The 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.120 restaurant in front of it is gone. In the entire 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.200 Pacific Coast Highway, every house on it in front of 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:37.120 me is gone, and I mean for a mile. The 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:43.239 devastation is beyond the script. We're talking about multimillion dollar 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.400 homes and not three million dollar homes. Twenty five million 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.800 dollar homes all gone for far. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:50.920 Why do you think your house survived? 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.600 We had Caitlin Jenner call on the other day and 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.640 Caitlin fireproof the outside of her home, which I thought 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.360 was brilliant on her part. And when Malibu burn the 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.160 last time, her house didn't burn. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.800 You know, the only theme, as an X contractor I 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.560 can see is the more modern homes with the stucco 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:17.400 and the cement facades with the steel and aluminum windows 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:22.240 and steel roofs, those fared much better than anything traditional 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.560 with wood eves, you know, shake roof, you know, wood 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.720 trim and molding. All the traditional type homes, the ranch 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:36.480 style homes one up immediately. The more contemporary modern homes 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.360 stood a much better chance. But still we're going to 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.679 burn to the ground if everything was on file. So 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.560 you will see weird pockets just like you do in 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.560 every fire, just like you do in tornadoes, where you 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.760 see the house to the right is gone, the house 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.520 to the left is gone, and the one in the 0:08:54.520 --> 0:09:00.400 middle seems completely untouched. That's what just happened to my home. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:05.760 And I'm happy. But I have obviously survivor's guilt now 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.319 because of so many friends, and I know a. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.240 Guy who had I don't think you need to have 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.880 survivor Why would you have survivors guilt? I mean, if 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.119 you know it gives you an opportunity with your platform, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.360 I mean, if you want to help people out that 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:23.880 are really desperate and maybe fight for regulations and Sacramento 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.760 to move the process so these people can rebuild their 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.160 lives in a reasonable period of time, by the way, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.000 if they even have insurance, and a lot of the 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.840 insurance companies pulled out because they knew that this was 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.040 a likely a likelihood. State Farm pulled out. They pulled 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.240 out big time in the last year and a half. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.280 And they did so because they knew that this would happen. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.480 They knew that California wasn't prepared and that should have 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.959 been the Canary and the coal mine. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.040 Yeah, I mean, look, I would liken it to this. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.200 You know, Gavin knew some once to talk about, you know, 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.840 climate change and all that lefs and all the Blues 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:06.720 want to blame climate change. Okay, it's here. We're not 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.640 going to get rid of it by having electric leaf 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.920 blowers and converting to electric cars by two thousand and thirty. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.120 As long as China is, as long as India is 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.080 crapping out coal mines, then we're not going to be 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.120 able to move the needle on this. But what are 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.600 you going to do about it? Remember? New Orleans is 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.640 under sea level, so you have to build sea walls. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.719 And if the Army Corp of Engineers builds a good seawall, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.719 then the people in New Orleans will not flood. So 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.760 we need to take our technology and steer it toward 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.320 these problems. Instead of sit around and point fingers and 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.960 complain about climate change, how about you do something. Let's 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.959 just say it is climate change. Good. Now, what are 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:51.439 we going to do? 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:52.200 All right? 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.600 Quick break, We'll have more with Adam Corolo than your 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.719 calls on the other side. Eight hundred and nine to 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:03.559 four one sewn our number as we continue this Friday, Right, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.800 we continue now with Adam Corolla. His house did survive, 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.320 pretty much every house around him did not survive. You know, 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.880 the LAFD Fire Apartment, their budget is slashed, but they 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.360 have six hundred and fifty million allocated for the LA 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.400 port to Go green federal state dollars, eight hundred thousand 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.319 dollars green street sweepers. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.480 Whatever the hell that is. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.160 Why would you pay that amount of money for that 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.840 but not pay firefighters. Then they have, you know, billions 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.200 of dollars allocated for wind turbines. And meanwhile, I bet 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.880 how much do you pay for a gallon of gasoline 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.240 where you are? Because I guarantee you I pay. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.360 About half fifty five to seventy five. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:41.439 I mean I pay. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.040 About three dollars a gallon now in the free state 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.720 of Florida three dollars a gallon. Can you explain that 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.240 there's no income tax in my state? 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:48.600 None? 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.880 Well, according to Gavin Newsome, all the major oil companies 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:58.680 only gouge California. They don't gouge any other state. So 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.680 this is all because of greed oil companies who. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.000 Just they're suing the oil companies and guess what they're 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.839 going to hire very expensive attorneys and guess what these 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.240 companies will do. They'll raise the price of a gallon 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.000 of gasoline to offset that. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.120 Well, there's another price height coming soon because he already 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.560 agreed to that a couple of months ago. So we're 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.520 going to get above six dollars a gallon. Yes, it's 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.000 gross and confidence. I mean, of course you know it, Sean, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.760 and you brought it up. But we have our bullet 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:33.839 train to nowhere. That's eighty billion dollars over budget. That's 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:38.800 from Bakersfield to mercet Your audience doesn't know where Bakersfield 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.000 and Mercet is. I live in California. I don't know 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.599 where Bakersfield in Mercet is. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.880 I've been to Bakersfield in the business conference I used 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.320 to have out there. I spoke there many times, but 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.280 I do know where Bakersfield is. But you're right, what's 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:54.000 the point. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.439 Said from Bakersfield? 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.319 Not really? No, I mean you could drive. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.720 What's the point pointed toward mercaid? 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.800 Yeah, to get an auto drive and you're on your way. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.160 Look, I don't mean to laugh at all about this, 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.439 because there's nothing funny about it. But you know, if 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.440 you look at it and you stand back big picture, 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:19.800 there is this sort of intersection between environmental radicalism and 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.800 radical socialism, status and Marxism, whatever you want to call it. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.439 And it's kind of summed up in the Green New Deal, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.800 and it's kind of being implemented and test run out 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.120 where you live in California. And while you stay out there, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.400 I don't know. And this is exactly what was on 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.720 the line I think in this past election, and America 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.120 thankfully rejected it. But you know, there's still a fairly 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.160 healthy percentage of the American people that bought into this crop. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.400 Well, I don't think what they don't know what the 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.480 people that bought into it, They bought into windmills and 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.800 solar and clean renewables and blue skies and clean water. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.840 People are nielis I think they want it all to go. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.240 I don't think, you know, it's not that they want 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.520 clean air. They don't want you to have a car. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.560 It's not that you need to have an electric car. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.360 They don't want you to have any car. Like, what 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.080 they don't realize is the endgame. The Coastal Commission is 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.720 not interested in protecting the coast. They're interested in getting 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.040 human beings off the coade. What is the endgame? Like, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.080 we have road dives in Los Angeles, right. They take 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.400 two highway lanes and they shrink them down to one 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.840 and they make the other one for cyclists, for bicycles. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.520 But nobody has a bicycle. You can't use a bicycle 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.000 to get anywhere. You can't cycle to work in Los Angeles. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.800 So what are they doing? Do they love the environment, 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.080 do they love cyclists? Or are they trying to get 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.360 you out of your car. They won't say what they're 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.560 trying to do, but that's what they're trying to do. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.640 That's what the endgame is. And I think the Green 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.480 New Deal people the endgame is to get rid of you, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.320 not to clean up the environm. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.160 But of course we're the ones, you know, we're pillaging 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.800 the Earth for profit and they do want you know, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.320 equality as kammalis as an equal justice and diversity, equity 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.520 and inclusion. Anyway, my prayers do go out to the 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.640 people of California. I don't know why you stay out there. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.680 I would imagine that you're going to make the move 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.000 within the next five years. There's my prediction. 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.880 I mean know, if I'm right, I got laying in Nevada. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.200 I'm looking at it right now. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.320 I don't blame you anyway, Adam Corolla. Prayers for your 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.320 friends don't have survivors guilt. You can help people out 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.480 in ways that you can't imagine. Do a big comedy show. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.600 I'll come out there and say Hi, thank you, my friend. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.160 Hi twenty five now to the top of the hour. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.600 Toll free are number if you want to be a 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.880 part of the program. Eight hundred ninety four one, Shawn 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:51.800 on this Friday. So, I mean sort of anti climatic. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.720 I believe that with all my heart. I think it's 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:59.400 a certainty I'm ninety nine point nine percent that this 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:04.400 case will be overthrown on appeal. But regardless, I mean 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.080 to get there the little pound of flesh and to 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.400 be able to you know, tattoo the name convicted Felon 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.280 onto Donald Trump's forehead, which it has no impact on people. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:15.640 If it was going to have an impact, it would 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.400 have had an impact on the election. So it's somewhat 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.640 meaningless anti climatic in so many ways. And as Judge 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.720 Juan Mershawn sentenced President elect Donald Trump to this unconditional 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:32.920 discharge for his conviction for the quote falsification of business records. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:39.040 And you know, it really is remarkable that, you know, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.240 as Donald Trump said, he actually said, I'm being I'm 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:46.520 getting indicted for calling a legal expense illegal expense. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:48.320 And that's what it was. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:53.440 An NDA is a perfectly legal maneuver that happens all 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.200 the time. I'd bet everything I had that the DA's 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.480 office of Alvin Bragg probably if you went through the records, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:06.000 has hundreds of them over the years, even before his tenure. Anyway, 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:07.480 here's what Donald Trump said about it. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.439 They're saying, I just noticed where he said I was 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:16.240 falsifying business records. Well, the falsification of business records, as 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.879 they said, was calling a legal expense in the books 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.679 where everybody could see them, a legal expense, in other words, 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.640 a legal fees or a legal expense. Were put down 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.600 as legal expense by accountants, and they weren't put down 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.639 by me. They were put down by accountants. I didn't 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:35.600 call them construction, concrete work. I didn't call them electrical work. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.200 I didn't call them any They called a legal fee 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.560 or a legal expense, a legal expense. And for this 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:42.440 I got indicting. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.720 It's incredible, and he's absolutely right. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.680 I mean, in the saddest part of all of this, 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.840 it was a novel legal theory. The statute of limitations 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.000 had run out in this case. They did, you know, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.840 they stacked the charges to make it in one charge, 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:01.560 basically thirty four charges. 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.240 You know, claim this to be justice. 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.439 It really was a federal matter, and I think at 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.639 the end of the day that they never got to 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.080 the issue at hand in terms of the appeal. We'll 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.520 ask our attorneys on our legal panel in just a 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.160 second here, But I think it was very very obvious 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.520 that they in my view, that they could have argued 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.920 something very differently when they went to the Supreme Court. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.480 But that's a different issue for a different day. But 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.760 you know, I think the supremacy clause would have been 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.880 more applicable myself rather than the process that they went through. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.480 Here's Donald Trump saying that this was a political witch hunt. 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.400 This was to damage his reputation so he wouldn't run 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.440 for president. They didn't do this until after he announced 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.840 he was running for president and then claimed his innocence. 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:50.800 Here's what he said. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.000 It's been a political witch hunt. It was done to 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.800 damage my reputation so that I'd lose the election. And 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.320 obviously that didn't work. People of our country got to 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.520 see this firsthand because they watched the case in your courtroom. 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.119 They got to see this firsthand. And then they voted, 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.119 and I won and got the largest number of votes 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:14.960 by far, of any Republican candidate in history, and one, 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:20.440 as you know, all seven swing states, one conclusively, all 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:25.119 seven swing states, and one the popularity the popular vote 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.399 by millions and millions of votes. And they've been watching 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.800 you trial, so they understood it. But the fact is 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:37.680 that I'm totally innocent. I did nothing wrong. They talked 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:42.639 about business records, and the business records were extremely accurately counted. 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:44.240 I had nothing to do with them. Any of that 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.639 was done by an accountant or a bookkeeper who I 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:52.399 think a very credible testimony, and was corroborated by everybody 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.959 that was asked. And with all that's happening in our 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.320 country today, with a city that's burning to the around 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:04.040 one of our largest, most important cities burning to the ground, 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.959 with wars that are uncontrollably going on, with all of 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:14.200 the problems of inflation and attacks on countries, and all 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.880 of the horrible things that are going on. I got 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.480 indicted over calling a legal expense. I llegal expense. It 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.080 was called a legal expense. I just want to say, 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.959 I think it's an embarrassment to New York, and New 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:28.919 York has a lot of problems, but this is a 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.240 great embarrassment. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.080 And the president is one thousand percent right. Here's Jan 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:38.280 Mershawn talking about the hush money case. Both extraordinary and ordinary. 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:41.600 Never before has this court been presented with such a 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:47.000 unique and remarkable set of circumstances. Indeed, it could be 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:51.399 viewed fairly that this has been a truly extraordinary case. 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:58.480 There was unprecedented media attention, public interest, and heightened security 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:03.440 involving various agencies. And yet the trial was a bit 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.440 of a paradox because once the courtroom doors were closed, 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:12.320 the trial itself was no more special unique or extraordinary 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.840 than the other thirty two criminal trials that took place 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:20.399 in this courthouse at the same exact time. Jury selection 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:25.560 was conducted. The same rules of evidence were followed, opening 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:31.360 statements were made, witnesses called and cross examined, evidence presented, 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.080 some nations delivered, the same burden of proof was applied, 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.679 and the jury made up of ordinary citizens delivered a verdict. 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.600 And it was all conducted pursuant to the rules of 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:44.560 procedure and guided. 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:45.080 By the law. 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:52.920 Ordinary citizens in a part of the country where Democrats 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:57.040 outnumber Republicans and Trump hatred is that the probably the 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:01.200 pinnacle in the entire country anyway. To analyze all of this, 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:04.240 our legal panel, Greg Jarrett, Fox News Legal analyst, best 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:08.320 selling author, David Shoon, civil rights attorney. Welcome both of 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:10.879 you back to the program, and Greg start with you. 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:14.199 This is a case that never should have been tried 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.679 before a very biased jury with a novel legal theory, 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.000 after the statute of limitations had run out. 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.600 And then you have the added burden of. 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.679 An immunity decision by the US Supreme Court that just 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:30.440 didn't move, a judge that was abusively biased towards Trump. 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:31.000