WEBVTT - THE LEFT WINS. SOURCES: KIMMEL COULD BE BACK ON ABC THIS MONTH - 9.22.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.795 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 0:00:24.955 --> 0:00:29.635 man handling of Jimmy Kimmel and the blackmailing of ABC 0:00:29.915 --> 0:00:32.315 may turn out to be the biggest gift this year 0:00:33.115 --> 0:00:36.675 to the Democrats. And if that is not a big 0:00:36.795 --> 0:00:40.355 enough plot twist, I am hearing from multiple sources that, 0:00:40.395 --> 0:00:45.115 at least right now, ABC thinks Jimmy Kimmel will stay 0:00:45.155 --> 0:00:49.115 on the air and will return on the air in 0:00:49.195 --> 0:00:54.915 the same show as early as later this month, maybe 0:00:54.955 --> 0:01:00.875 even this week. Kirk the Trump self impeaching memo to 0:01:00.915 --> 0:01:04.395 BONDI he tweeted in a stupor a lot more momentarily. 0:01:04.435 --> 0:01:07.915 But is Kimmel news first and a caveat. I'll believe 0:01:07.955 --> 0:01:12.715 it when I see it. However, these are the landmarks 0:01:12.795 --> 0:01:15.435 my sources pointed at, and a couple I thought of 0:01:15.475 --> 0:01:21.155 my own self. First, they haven't fired him. Second, they 0:01:21.195 --> 0:01:25.675 actually haven't said anything about him. ABC has not said 0:01:25.795 --> 0:01:29.955 anything about Jimmy Kimmel since that one sentence announcement about 0:01:29.955 --> 0:01:33.515 taking him off the air. Third, he hasn't said anything 0:01:33.515 --> 0:01:37.275 about ABC good, bad, or indifferent. Can you imagine me 0:01:37.555 --> 0:01:37.755 in this? 0:01:38.515 --> 0:01:38.915 Fourth? 0:01:39.315 --> 0:01:43.155 Remember the Sinclair owned local stations that started all the 0:01:43.195 --> 0:01:46.955 trouble the next Star stations, the ones who were bribing 0:01:47.075 --> 0:01:51.075 Trump and the FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr by demanding kimmelby 0:01:51.275 --> 0:01:54.795 sidelined so Trump and Carr would waive the rules and 0:01:54.875 --> 0:01:58.355 let Sinclair buy more than the legal limit of local 0:01:58.395 --> 0:02:03.355 TV stations. Remember their plan after the Kimmel suspension to 0:02:03.555 --> 0:02:08.755 run a Arly Kirk tribute last Friday Night in Kimmel's timeslot. 0:02:10.035 --> 0:02:15.235 What happened to that? They didn't run it. They didn't 0:02:15.235 --> 0:02:20.435 put it on the Sinclair stations. They put it on YouTube, 0:02:20.475 --> 0:02:24.075 no other explanation, They just didn't run it. Why didn't 0:02:24.115 --> 0:02:27.395 they run it? They won? Fifth, what happened to the 0:02:27.475 --> 0:02:32.315 Sinclair demand that Kimmel apologizes and pays a bribe, I'm sorry, 0:02:32.475 --> 0:02:38.515 make a donation to Kirk's scam Turning Point Company Incorporated? Sixth, 0:02:39.075 --> 0:02:43.075 how much grief did ABC take and how much grief 0:02:43.115 --> 0:02:47.235 did Disney take for folding to Trump and for not 0:02:47.315 --> 0:02:53.315 defending Kimmel as the entire right wing misquoted him so 0:02:53.515 --> 0:02:58.075 much that no human mind can estimate it. And Seventh, 0:02:58.675 --> 0:03:01.995 how could you possibly put all the Kimmel and Kirk 0:03:02.075 --> 0:03:07.635 toothpaste back into the tube? As Eric Idle once sang, 0:03:08.635 --> 0:03:14.795 all you need is cash. The resurrection of Jimmy Kimmel. 0:03:15.595 --> 0:03:19.555 It has been rumored almost since ABC yanked him. Variety 0:03:19.595 --> 0:03:22.755 had a piece over the weekend about peace feelers. CNN 0:03:22.795 --> 0:03:25.395 had a story saying the outreach began the same day 0:03:25.435 --> 0:03:28.075 they took him off, led not by chairman Bob Iger, 0:03:28.115 --> 0:03:30.795 who really did destroy himself over this, no matter how 0:03:30.795 --> 0:03:35.315 it turns out, but by Disney Entertainment co chair Dana Walden, 0:03:35.915 --> 0:03:41.035 whom they report called Kimmel that day quote, everyone deeply 0:03:41.155 --> 0:03:44.075 values him and wants him to come back, but he 0:03:44.155 --> 0:03:48.035 has to take down the temperature. That was when the 0:03:48.075 --> 0:03:51.955 temperature was still warm, before the temperature turned ice cold 0:03:52.035 --> 0:03:54.995 for Disney and Bob Eiger. And that was also before 0:03:55.035 --> 0:03:58.875 anybody realized that any scenario in which Jimmy Kimmel returns 0:03:58.955 --> 0:04:03.275 to the air on ABC is a win for Jimmy 0:04:03.355 --> 0:04:08.675 Kimmel and for ABC and a defeat for Trump and 0:04:08.755 --> 0:04:12.795 a defeat for fascism, and especially a defeat for Brendan Carr, 0:04:12.835 --> 0:04:15.955 who could get fired over this. And one of the 0:04:15.995 --> 0:04:19.475 reasons they realized this was you gov hold on this 0:04:19.595 --> 0:04:26.315 whole story On Thursday, the margin of adults thinking Kimmel's 0:04:26.355 --> 0:04:31.475 monologue on Monday was acceptable was forty three to thirty 0:04:31.515 --> 0:04:36.155 six percent in favor, a lot of undecideds, but barely 0:04:36.235 --> 0:04:39.755 more than one third who were opposed to it. Half 0:04:39.875 --> 0:04:43.915 of adults disapproved of ABC taking Kimmel off the air, 0:04:43.955 --> 0:04:47.115 and forty two percent said they strongly disapproved of it, 0:04:48.515 --> 0:04:52.395 by our margin of forty three to twenty six. Responding 0:04:52.435 --> 0:04:55.795 to the threat by FCC Commissioner car we can do 0:04:55.835 --> 0:04:57.955 this the easy wayer, we can do it the hard 0:04:57.955 --> 0:05:01.475 way quote, forty three to twenty six adults thought that 0:05:01.555 --> 0:05:08.275 was unacceptable. Again, I believe it when I see Jimmy 0:05:08.355 --> 0:05:12.755 Kimmel on my TV on Channel seven. Still, that's what 0:05:12.915 --> 0:05:18.195 everybody is telling me. So why how well? Given that 0:05:18.315 --> 0:05:21.475 last week Trump boasted he had avenged Charlie Kirk by 0:05:21.515 --> 0:05:25.275 getting some guy's show canceled, even though the guy never 0:05:25.315 --> 0:05:28.275 disparaged Kirk, and then he said no, I had nothing 0:05:28.315 --> 0:05:30.835 to do with it, Given that there were still new 0:05:30.955 --> 0:05:34.555 articles saying that Jimmy Kimmel has been canceled that were 0:05:34.595 --> 0:05:38.315 published as late as Saturday night, the answer is the 0:05:38.435 --> 0:05:42.475 fccs Goebbels, Brendan Carr, May in fact, go into history 0:05:42.515 --> 0:05:46.315 as a hero of the left. Because it dawned on 0:05:46.355 --> 0:05:49.155 the right all of a sudden, like a bunch of 0:05:49.235 --> 0:05:53.675 flies deciding all of a sudden to move six feet 0:05:53.755 --> 0:05:55.915 to the left in a box in the middle of summer. 0:05:56.675 --> 0:05:59.235 It dawned on the right all of a sudden, late Thursday, 0:05:59.275 --> 0:06:02.555 early Friday. Maybe that they have not only authorized the 0:06:02.675 --> 0:06:05.315 left to the next time the left is in power, 0:06:05.555 --> 0:06:10.515 shut down Fox and Murdoch and Sinclair, take away all 0:06:10.555 --> 0:06:14.595 of Murdoch's waivers, take away all his stations, manage its 0:06:14.715 --> 0:06:19.595 news channels, destroy Murdoch's newspapers. But the right has now 0:06:19.595 --> 0:06:23.595 made this almost mandatory, and it has awakened in liberals 0:06:23.635 --> 0:06:32.515 something we always and sorely lack imagination. Remember, not every 0:06:32.595 --> 0:06:37.075 maga has a brain, but every other maga has a podcast. 0:06:37.915 --> 0:06:41.475 And as they were recording them and celebrating the downfall 0:06:41.515 --> 0:06:45.515 of Jimmy Kimmel, it hit them what government censorship could 0:06:45.555 --> 0:06:50.115 mean for them. These are the only circumstances in which 0:06:50.115 --> 0:06:52.515 anything will register with any of these people. It's not 0:06:52.715 --> 0:06:55.075 right or wrong, it's not even what they can get 0:06:55.075 --> 0:06:59.115 away with. It's just self interest. I mean, what would 0:06:59.155 --> 0:07:03.835 the world look like if Elon Musk's x was actually 0:07:03.995 --> 0:07:10.755 under true government supervision in a world where cut turn 0:07:11.035 --> 0:07:15.315 posts something that has to wait twenty four hours before 0:07:15.355 --> 0:07:22.675 it is approved or it isn't. At the same time, 0:07:22.715 --> 0:07:24.875 it's awakened the right and the realization that they just 0:07:24.915 --> 0:07:28.275 handed out rocks and said, please, please, everybody hit conservative 0:07:28.315 --> 0:07:35.115 media in the groin with your rocks. The Trump FCC 0:07:35.235 --> 0:07:38.035 blackmailing of ABC and the bullying of Jimmy Kimmel maybe 0:07:38.075 --> 0:07:40.035 a worse cell phone even than Trump's cover up of 0:07:40.155 --> 0:07:43.715 the Epstein fliles. Just the immediate blowback against Trump and 0:07:43.835 --> 0:07:50.835 Carr and for Kimmel from the right has been, I'm sorry, shocking, refreshing. Yesterday, 0:07:50.915 --> 0:07:53.235 Rand Paul went on this Week on ABC instead of 0:07:53.235 --> 0:07:57.755 the Kimmel disaster quote absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got 0:07:57.795 --> 0:08:00.955 no business weighing in on this. The FCC should have 0:08:01.035 --> 0:08:03.435 nothing to do with it. Sinclair pulled out. They were 0:08:03.475 --> 0:08:06.675 disgusted by the comment. That's their rights, but the government's 0:08:06.715 --> 0:08:09.435 got no business in it, and the FCC was wrong 0:08:09.595 --> 0:08:13.915 to weigh in. No, the same, Ran Paul, and I'll 0:08:13.915 --> 0:08:17.075 fight any attempt by the government to get involved with speech. 0:08:18.995 --> 0:08:22.875 And I played these clips from Ted Cruz on his podcast, 0:08:23.075 --> 0:08:25.115 which he knows would be one of the first ones 0:08:25.595 --> 0:08:29.395 we would censor. I played these clips from Ted Cruz 0:08:29.595 --> 0:08:32.915 in the Friday Night bulletin I did on this. They're 0:08:32.955 --> 0:08:37.115 worth hearing again, as tin ear as him suddenly breaking 0:08:37.115 --> 0:08:42.355 into a bad dialect is my god. Otherwise Ted Cruz 0:08:42.395 --> 0:08:44.435 could be reading one of my scripts here. 0:08:45.075 --> 0:08:49.995 I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put 0:08:50.035 --> 0:08:53.275 itself in the position of saying, we're going to decide 0:08:53.275 --> 0:08:55.395 what speech we like and what we don't, and we're 0:08:55.395 --> 0:08:57.555 going to threaten to take you off air if we 0:08:57.635 --> 0:09:00.675 don't like what you're saying. And it might feel good 0:09:00.795 --> 0:09:04.035 right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, Yeah, but when it 0:09:04.195 --> 0:09:08.035 is you to silence every conservative in America, we will 0:09:08.075 --> 0:09:10.995 regret it. And and and so again. I like Brendan Carr, 0:09:11.635 --> 0:09:14.275 but we should not be in this business. We should 0:09:14.275 --> 0:09:17.635 denounce it. It's fine to say what Jimmy Kimmel said 0:09:17.795 --> 0:09:21.955 was deplorable, it was disgraceful, and he should be off air, 0:09:22.395 --> 0:09:25.595 but we shouldn't be threatening government power to force him 0:09:25.595 --> 0:09:30.475 off air. That's a real mistake. He threatens explicitly, we're 0:09:30.475 --> 0:09:33.035 going to cancel ABC's license. We're gonna take him off 0:09:33.075 --> 0:09:36.915 the air, so ABC cannot broadcast anymore. And I gotta 0:09:36.955 --> 0:09:41.635 say he threatens it. He says, we can do this 0:09:41.835 --> 0:09:44.475 the easy way, but we can do this the hard way. 0:09:44.995 --> 0:09:45.275 Yeah. 0:09:45.475 --> 0:09:47.595 And I got to say, that's right out of goodfellows. 0:09:47.595 --> 0:09:49.475 That that that that that that's right out of a 0:09:49.515 --> 0:09:53.435 mafioso coming into a bar going nice by you have here, 0:09:53.675 --> 0:09:55.715 it'd be a shame of something happened to it. 0:09:56.035 --> 0:10:00.835 And that was Ted Cruz and not me. Scott Adams 0:10:01.275 --> 0:10:09.955 Gilbert podcast quote I'm on Jimmy Kimmel's side. Unquote Ben Shpiro. 0:10:10.795 --> 0:10:12.995 I do not want the FCC in the business of 0:10:13.035 --> 0:10:15.955 telling local affiliates that their licenses will be removed if 0:10:15.955 --> 0:10:19.875 they broadcast material that the FCC deems to be informationally false. 0:10:19.915 --> 0:10:22.275 Why because one day the shoe will be on the 0:10:22.315 --> 0:10:25.875 other foot. If Democrats win the presidency and you got 0:10:25.875 --> 0:10:28.355 a Democrat in charge of the FCC, you got Adam 0:10:28.435 --> 0:10:31.195 Schiff in charge of the FCC. Please God, Please God, 0:10:31.195 --> 0:10:33.835 Please God. You know which affiliates are going to get threatened, 0:10:33.875 --> 0:10:36.115 all of the Fox affiliates. You know what's gonna happen, 0:10:38.035 --> 0:10:43.595 Ben Shapiro, you have unsuspected depth. With the perspective of 0:10:43.795 --> 0:10:46.755 just a few days, this became such an obvious own 0:10:46.955 --> 0:10:51.235 goal that not only is Trump denying Brendan Carr did this, 0:10:51.755 --> 0:10:55.915 but Ewick Twump called into the mud Travis Bunk Sex 0:10:55.995 --> 0:11:00.155 Bump Show to deny that Dadams had anything to do 0:11:00.195 --> 0:11:03.115 with it. Quote, Listen, the guy has been a jerk. No, 0:11:03.195 --> 0:11:05.475 he's talking about Kimmel, not his father. Listen, the guy 0:11:05.515 --> 0:11:07.875 has been a jerk. He hasn't been funny. But honestly, 0:11:07.915 --> 0:11:09.515 I think the network used this as a way to 0:11:09.515 --> 0:11:14.075 get him out based on, you know, bad ratings. Eeriic 0:11:14.115 --> 0:11:18.155 had to say that because Dadams promised the exact opposite 0:11:18.195 --> 0:11:21.515 of what he and Carr just did to Jimmy Kimmel 0:11:21.675 --> 0:11:26.155 and ABC, and he promised it during his inaugural address. 0:11:26.715 --> 0:11:31.155 After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts 0:11:31.195 --> 0:11:35.395 to restrict free expression, I will also sign an executive 0:11:35.515 --> 0:11:40.075 order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back 0:11:40.395 --> 0:11:42.075 free speech to America. 0:11:42.435 --> 0:11:46.875 Oops. Just say oops and get out now. Just roll 0:11:46.995 --> 0:11:50.955 through the list of the great intellects of MAGA and 0:11:50.995 --> 0:11:53.475 they are one hundred percent on this issue, and they're 0:11:53.515 --> 0:11:57.115 not on Brendan Carr side. Quote. If the idea of 0:11:57.195 --> 0:12:01.515 free speech enrages you, the cornerstone of democratic self government, 0:12:01.835 --> 0:12:05.475 then I regret to inform you that you are a fascist. 0:12:05.875 --> 0:12:13.155 Unquote Stephen Miller, April fifteenth, twenty twenty two. Congratulations, Brendan Carr. 0:12:13.835 --> 0:12:18.875 Stephen Miller just called you a fascist. This is even 0:12:18.955 --> 0:12:22.035 worse than that. The Attorney General of Missouri sued the 0:12:22.035 --> 0:12:25.715 then surgeon general for alleged government suppression of the anti 0:12:25.795 --> 0:12:31.235 vaccine bullshit online Murphy versus Missouri went to the Supreme 0:12:31.275 --> 0:12:35.035 Court listened to this from an amicus brief challenging any 0:12:35.075 --> 0:12:36.795 government censorship or pressure. 0:12:37.395 --> 0:12:37.675 Quote. 0:12:37.715 --> 0:12:40.315 Perhaps most disconcerting of all is the pressure applied to 0:12:40.355 --> 0:12:43.555 the platforms to enforce the government's new role as arbiter 0:12:43.675 --> 0:12:49.195 of truth, imposing a new federal orthodoxy, and that's in 0:12:49.235 --> 0:12:54.795 italics upon citizens speech. That plan clashes with the Court's 0:12:54.835 --> 0:12:58.355 clear declaration that government may not quote prescribe what shall 0:12:58.395 --> 0:13:02.995 be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion. 0:13:04.755 --> 0:13:09.555 Amicus brief was filed by H. Turning Point USA and 0:13:09.675 --> 0:13:16.715 Charlie Kirk. The Claremont Institute filed a similar brief in 0:13:16.795 --> 0:13:20.675 that case, and it has the name on it John Eastman. 0:13:23.035 --> 0:13:26.555 In a separate Supreme Court case last year NRA versus 0:13:26.715 --> 0:13:30.795 Vullo about pressuring groups to cut off the NRA, the 0:13:30.875 --> 0:13:34.435 National Rifle Association, in business dealings and the like. The 0:13:34.475 --> 0:13:40.355 Court ruled nine nothing against government infringement of opinion nothing 0:13:41.035 --> 0:13:44.235 a shutout the forfeit score. The unanimous opinion was written 0:13:44.275 --> 0:13:48.995 by Sonya Soda Mayor. Quote, Government officials cannot attempt to 0:13:49.035 --> 0:13:53.435 coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views 0:13:53.635 --> 0:14:00.035 that the government disfavors. You want more. What Brendan Carr 0:14:00.035 --> 0:14:02.715 did was not only self harm, it may have been 0:14:02.835 --> 0:14:06.875 illegal when the New Republic, quoting Ana Gomez, one of 0:14:06.915 --> 0:14:10.115 the three FCC commissioners, the only one appointed by a 0:14:10.155 --> 0:14:13.955 democratic president, quote, what the administration is doing violates the 0:14:13.955 --> 0:14:18.315 First Amendment and the Communication Acts. This administration is increasingly 0:14:18.395 --> 0:14:23.195 using the weight of government to suppress lawful expression. Gomez 0:14:23.235 --> 0:14:27.955 also decried Trump's campaign of censorship and control to quote 0:14:28.035 --> 0:14:36.755 silence dissent. Brendan Carr may want to relocate. We can 0:14:36.795 --> 0:14:38.675 do this the hard way, Brendan, or we can do 0:14:38.715 --> 0:14:45.395 it the easy way. So now, obviously ABC has to 0:14:45.435 --> 0:14:49.115 get Kimmel back on the air. In the worst case scenario, 0:14:49.155 --> 0:14:54.475 they don't and he sues. He sues the federal government 0:14:54.715 --> 0:14:59.755 and Donald Trump and Brendan Carr personally. The Trump part 0:14:59.795 --> 0:15:03.475 gets thrown out, but not until after the headlines. Jimmy 0:15:03.555 --> 0:15:06.635 Kimmel right now has a lawsuit against Brendan Carr and 0:15:06.675 --> 0:15:10.155 the FCC, to say nothing of enough lawsuits to potentially 0:15:10.195 --> 0:15:13.995 own Disney. I don't know why you'd want to own Disney, 0:15:13.995 --> 0:15:17.755 but there it is. To get him back on They 0:15:17.795 --> 0:15:20.195 will not give him full ownership of Disney, but they 0:15:20.235 --> 0:15:22.555 will have to throw some sop to the right to 0:15:22.595 --> 0:15:25.755 give them a climb down. Though, why let them fall 0:15:25.795 --> 0:15:29.115 off the cliff. They so carefully built this cliff. But 0:15:29.195 --> 0:15:31.755 they certainly will have to assuage Jimmy Kimmel's fears of 0:15:31.795 --> 0:15:35.475 going through this again. And that's always one of two things. 0:15:35.835 --> 0:15:40.355 A new longer contract his runs out next spring, or 0:15:40.435 --> 0:15:46.835 more money. They're both. I flashed back to my one 0:15:46.915 --> 0:15:50.155 thing that touched on something like this when the Republicans 0:15:50.195 --> 0:15:52.675 came in in two thousand and eight, after I said 0:15:52.675 --> 0:15:55.875 something they didn't like. During the Republican convention when they 0:15:55.875 --> 0:15:58.315 showed a snuff film and claimed it was a nine 0:15:58.355 --> 0:16:00.955 to eleven tribute, and I said, if we had shown 0:16:00.955 --> 0:16:03.555 you that video, I'd be here apologizing for showing you 0:16:03.595 --> 0:16:06.075 the video of the people from the World Trade Center. 0:16:06.315 --> 0:16:09.635 When the Republicans went in and blackmailed Tom Brokaw and said, 0:16:09.675 --> 0:16:12.195 our guy won't show up to your debate, and Brokaw 0:16:12.235 --> 0:16:15.355 went in and blackmailed NBC management into taking me and 0:16:15.435 --> 0:16:18.275 Chris Matthews off the air. They called and told me. 0:16:18.355 --> 0:16:20.555 My agent called and told me while I was at 0:16:20.555 --> 0:16:23.195 a ballgame in the press box, and I told her, 0:16:23.315 --> 0:16:25.875 you called them back and tell them I quit and 0:16:25.915 --> 0:16:28.035 they can deal with the aftermath of this. I got 0:16:28.075 --> 0:16:29.955 in the subway and went home, and by the time 0:16:29.955 --> 0:16:32.035 I got out of the subway twenty five minutes later, 0:16:32.075 --> 0:16:33.995 it had dawned on me that not only was I 0:16:34.075 --> 0:16:36.595 not going to quit, but I was going to say 0:16:36.595 --> 0:16:39.195 to them, I'll make you a deal if I quit, 0:16:39.715 --> 0:16:41.675 or if this just goes out and I don't quit, 0:16:41.995 --> 0:16:45.555 you guys will lose the entire MSNBC audience. They will 0:16:45.635 --> 0:16:49.395 literally walk away. This is either just days before we 0:16:49.395 --> 0:16:52.915 were to premiere Rachel Meadows Show, or days after we did. 0:16:53.035 --> 0:16:55.315 There was no other presence on that network but me. 0:16:55.475 --> 0:16:58.995 I was the network and they were silencing me. And 0:16:59.075 --> 0:17:01.115 if they wanted to throw away what we just built, 0:17:01.115 --> 0:17:04.435 they could do that, or I would say it was 0:17:04.515 --> 0:17:09.395 my idea to stop doing the part that the GOP wanted, 0:17:09.395 --> 0:17:13.475 which was me and Matthew's off the debates. I said, 0:17:13.635 --> 0:17:16.515 I'll take myself off that and I'll claim it's my 0:17:16.635 --> 0:17:18.915 idea and I'll sell it as best I can, and 0:17:18.995 --> 0:17:24.835 you give me, let's see, twelve million dollars three million 0:17:24.875 --> 0:17:29.155 dollars a year over four years. They gave me the 0:17:29.195 --> 0:17:34.595 twelve million. So an end result of this might be 0:17:34.755 --> 0:17:37.395 Jimmy Kimmel gets a raise and a contract when his 0:17:38.355 --> 0:17:41.235 contract and presumably his show was supposed to end next spring. 0:17:42.875 --> 0:17:48.755 But our purposes, we're not all Jimmy Kimmel. Our purposes. 0:17:49.035 --> 0:17:53.195 Given how much Trump fouled this up with his own people, 0:17:53.235 --> 0:17:55.875 with the right wing, how much they are opposed to this, 0:17:56.195 --> 0:18:00.595 Democrats need to hit the gas while it is still 0:18:00.635 --> 0:18:05.475 sitting there. Push on this. We need House and or 0:18:05.555 --> 0:18:09.715 Senate resolutions condemning car that the Republicans have to vote 0:18:09.795 --> 0:18:13.595 for or against. We need Rand Paul co signing something 0:18:14.875 --> 0:18:20.235 with AOC. We need something House and or Senate resolutions, 0:18:20.915 --> 0:18:25.355 something reaffirming the First Amendment. Just something like it is 0:18:25.395 --> 0:18:28.035 the sense of this House that we reaffirm the First Amendment. 0:18:28.075 --> 0:18:30.795 See how many Republicans are willing to sign off against 0:18:30.795 --> 0:18:35.955 that something? I mean just Democrats who go on ABC 0:18:36.075 --> 0:18:39.875 News or ABC shows. They need to hit ABC for 0:18:39.955 --> 0:18:44.155 doing this to Kimmel on ABC until they put Kimmel 0:18:44.195 --> 0:18:48.195 back on the air. The Democrats can do all the 0:18:48.195 --> 0:18:52.195 public investigation they want of this man car and especially 0:18:52.675 --> 0:18:55.915 what is clearly a quid pro quo about Sinclair Next 0:18:55.955 --> 0:18:58.955 Star and approving those stations. They can tie up those 0:18:58.995 --> 0:19:05.475 approval and in court for years. Mister Jeffries, mister Schumer, 0:19:05.835 --> 0:19:11.395 this is something so obvious, so obvious, so easy, so 0:19:11.715 --> 0:19:18.115 win win, win, win win. Even your strategists and consultants 0:19:18.675 --> 0:19:45.955 have probably heard about it by now. Still, maybe the 0:19:45.995 --> 0:19:48.435 best part of the Kimmel Kirk saga is that, of 0:19:48.435 --> 0:19:51.915 course they wind up giving Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon and 0:19:51.955 --> 0:19:57.115 Seth Myers, maybe even Colbert in a different venue, Extra Life. 0:19:57.635 --> 0:20:03.995 Those franchises were are winding down. Myers was down to 0:20:04.035 --> 0:20:09.235 three workdays week. Now, if Kimmel goes back on the air, 0:20:09.715 --> 0:20:13.595 it'll have to be with something providing security for both parties, 0:20:14.275 --> 0:20:16.195 and it will be with the wind at his back. 0:20:16.475 --> 0:20:18.835 Suddenly people will want to see what Jimmy Kimmel has 0:20:18.875 --> 0:20:26.955 to say, and Myers and Fallon and even FN Colbert. 0:20:28.195 --> 0:20:30.675 The second best part of the Kimmel Kirk saga is 0:20:30.795 --> 0:20:34.155 it took the Kirk shooting and it transformed it politically 0:20:34.275 --> 0:20:38.595 into the Kimmel Kirk saga until the weekend began and 0:20:38.675 --> 0:20:43.155 the canonization of Saint Charlie of Kirk in Phoenix yesterday loomed. 0:20:43.675 --> 0:20:47.595 Google searches for Jimmy Kimmel were greater than or equal 0:20:47.675 --> 0:20:52.235 to those of Google searches for Charlie Kirk. And of course, 0:20:52.275 --> 0:20:54.755 as I suggested last week, it is increasingly evident the 0:20:54.835 --> 0:20:57.795 right canon will continue to insist otherwise. But the killing 0:20:57.795 --> 0:21:02.315 of Charlie Kirk was a personal act, maybe with political undertones, 0:21:03.115 --> 0:21:06.915 and BC reported quote one person familiar with the federal 0:21:06.915 --> 0:21:09.715 investigation said that quote. Thus far, there is no evidence 0:21:09.715 --> 0:21:14.555 connecting the suspect with any left wing groups. Every indication 0:21:14.675 --> 0:21:17.595 so far is that this was one guy who did 0:21:17.595 --> 0:21:23.195 one really bad thing because he found Kirk's ideology personally offensive. Unquote. 0:21:24.875 --> 0:21:27.875 I had suggested last week that he saw and again 0:21:27.915 --> 0:21:31.355 I condemned shooting anybody, but I especially condemned shooting political 0:21:31.395 --> 0:21:35.995 commentators because g guess what, I'm a political commentator. I 0:21:36.075 --> 0:21:39.275 condemned shooting anybody, but I suggested the alleged shooter saw 0:21:39.555 --> 0:21:43.635 Kirk's demonizing of transgendered people as a direct threat to 0:21:43.675 --> 0:21:49.635 someone he loved who is transgendered. End of story, not 0:21:49.715 --> 0:21:53.355 that it will end the story. If you heard our 0:21:53.435 --> 0:21:56.555 bulletin Friday night, you know Trump declared criticism of himself 0:21:56.555 --> 0:21:59.715 on television is illegal. He made up statistics that it's 0:21:59.795 --> 0:22:02.755 ninety seven percent bad that coverage is, or maybe he 0:22:02.795 --> 0:22:05.115 didn't make it up. Hell, his presidency is eighty seven 0:22:05.115 --> 0:22:09.875 percent bad. Maybe the coverage is completely accurate. But clearly, 0:22:11.395 --> 0:22:14.715 between that and the whole Kirk mess and everything else 0:22:14.755 --> 0:22:20.235 he did over the weekend, the last remaining fraid damaged, diaphanous, 0:22:20.435 --> 0:22:27.715 decaying line tethering the good blimp Trump to reality has snapped, 0:22:30.035 --> 0:22:33.875 and it's snapped on this subject. Prosecute them anyway, I 0:22:33.875 --> 0:22:36.955 don't care if there's no crime, and convict them anyway. 0:22:37.155 --> 0:22:40.195 I don't care if there's no evidence and jail them anyway. 0:22:40.435 --> 0:22:42.635 I don't care if the jury found them not guilty. 0:22:43.795 --> 0:22:48.475 I'm paraphrasing, of course. That is the memo or text 0:22:48.635 --> 0:22:52.275 or whatever that was he composed Saturday night that began 0:22:52.595 --> 0:22:56.755 perm semi colon that he somehow wound up posting on 0:22:56.875 --> 0:23:00.955 truth Social instead of sending it to somebody to send 0:23:00.995 --> 0:23:03.915 a Pam Bondy or whatever he was trying to do, 0:23:04.035 --> 0:23:08.155 text it to her, email it because Grandpa Shardy really 0:23:08.275 --> 0:23:11.395 is losing it. It was full of stuff that had 0:23:11.395 --> 0:23:14.795 nothing to do with Eric Sebret prosecutor resigning rather than 0:23:14.835 --> 0:23:20.075 prosecuting Letitia James over mortgage paperwork. It was full of 0:23:20.075 --> 0:23:22.835 the lies Trump tells himself He's always done this. There's 0:23:22.875 --> 0:23:25.035 one way to never be wrong. When you are wrong, 0:23:25.275 --> 0:23:28.995 just lie to yourself. Is it me or is it them? Oh? 0:23:29.075 --> 0:23:33.475 It's them, Pam. I have reviewed over thirty statements in 0:23:33.555 --> 0:23:36.315 posts saying that essentially same old story as last time. 0:23:36.395 --> 0:23:39.635 All talked, no action, nothing is being done. What about Komy, Adam, 0:23:39.675 --> 0:23:42.555 Shifty Shift, Letitia, They're all guilty as hell, but nothing 0:23:42.635 --> 0:23:44.315 is going to be done. Then we almost put a 0:23:44.355 --> 0:23:47.275 Democrat supported US attorney in Virginia with a really bad 0:23:47.275 --> 0:23:50.275 Republican past, awoke Rhino is never going to do his job. 0:23:50.435 --> 0:23:52.595 That's why two of the worst DEM senators pushed him 0:23:52.635 --> 0:23:54.875 so hard, even lied to the media and said he quit. 0:23:54.955 --> 0:23:56.835 We had no case, No I fired him. There's a 0:23:56.835 --> 0:23:59.995 great case of many layers legal pundency. So Lindsay's a 0:24:00.035 --> 0:24:02.955 really good lawyer, likes you a lot. We can't delay 0:24:02.995 --> 0:24:06.315 any longer. It's killing a ripping and credibility. They impeach 0:24:06.435 --> 0:24:10.315 me twice and knighted me five times exclamation point over nothing. 0:24:10.515 --> 0:24:18.515 Justice must be served now, President dj TA. Oddly enough, 0:24:18.555 --> 0:24:22.395 Trump deleted that rather than lying and pretending he did 0:24:22.395 --> 0:24:27.955 not mean to do that, or lying and pretending he 0:24:27.995 --> 0:24:31.635 did mean to do that. Lindsey, by the way, is 0:24:31.675 --> 0:24:35.035 not Lindsey Graham as you might have thought. It's Lindsey Halligan, 0:24:35.395 --> 0:24:40.875 an insurance attorney who Trump sicked on the Smithsonian, who 0:24:40.955 --> 0:24:45.435 has never prosecuted a case, but has really great TV hair, 0:24:46.835 --> 0:24:54.355 And we'll do whatever Trump wants in exchange for free perms. Next, 0:24:54.435 --> 0:24:57.315 Trump is going after the US attorney in Maryland, Kelly Hayes. 0:24:57.355 --> 0:25:02.315 Trump wants her to prosecute Adam Schiff for I don't know, 0:25:02.595 --> 0:25:08.155 illegal possession of soup spoons. This is different than the 0:25:08.195 --> 0:25:12.355 Siebert case with Letitia James. Trump can tell himself that 0:25:12.395 --> 0:25:17.395 Sebert was a Democratic plant. Hayes is the same prosecutor 0:25:17.435 --> 0:25:19.635 who approved the crack of Dawn's search of the home 0:25:19.635 --> 0:25:24.275 of John Bolton, which turned up found a spoon. Sir, 0:25:26.315 --> 0:25:31.395 she is a loyalist and Trump offing a Trump loyalist 0:25:31.595 --> 0:25:33.955 is a different thin tight rope for the fat man 0:25:33.995 --> 0:25:38.355 to try to walk across his man Poulty over to 0:25:38.435 --> 0:25:41.835 finance the Renfield who dug up the mortgage info, most 0:25:41.835 --> 0:25:45.715 of which appears to be wrong and totally legal, and 0:25:46.195 --> 0:25:49.755 the same thing that Paulty's father did. He's still at it. 0:25:50.315 --> 0:25:55.035 He still doesn't get it. Look up Brendan Carr online, 0:25:55.035 --> 0:25:58.115 mister Poulty. He's still insisting the Fed governor Lisa Cook 0:25:58.195 --> 0:26:00.475 must be prosecuted. He tweeted. Would a doc be allowed 0:26:00.475 --> 0:26:02.515 to see patients if he was accused of a crime 0:26:02.555 --> 0:26:06.395 punishable by jail? No, I don't know, mister pault Is 0:26:06.395 --> 0:26:13.035 this a Trump doctor? Also, this is all incredibly impeachable. 0:26:13.875 --> 0:26:19.035 Pressuring prosecutors to prosecute your political enemies, or not to 0:26:19.115 --> 0:26:24.035 prosecute your friends while you our president. Well, Hillary Clinton 0:26:24.075 --> 0:26:26.635 got it right yesterday writing of the posted memo to 0:26:26.675 --> 0:26:30.115 Pam Bondy. Quote, imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted 0:26:30.155 --> 0:26:34.995 out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tape. 0:26:35.635 --> 0:26:38.875 This is not having the impact it should because he 0:26:38.955 --> 0:26:43.315 did it in front of everybody. Another secret to Trump's success. 0:26:43.915 --> 0:26:48.195 Why waste all that time trying to be secretive when 0:26:48.195 --> 0:26:51.395 most people don't know what they're seeing anyway, And of 0:26:51.435 --> 0:26:54.075 course he can now claim maybe he wasn't writing to 0:26:54.195 --> 0:27:00.275 Pam Bondy, maybe he was writing to Pam Anderson. I 0:27:00.395 --> 0:27:05.355 think you could make a really good attorney general. The 0:27:05.395 --> 0:27:08.595 other thing is you don't do this as high profile, 0:27:08.795 --> 0:27:12.275 front facing goons from your own dictatorship turn out to 0:27:12.315 --> 0:27:16.795 be digging their own professional grapes. You've heard about Tom Homan, 0:27:17.675 --> 0:27:21.075 the bully from Ice, and the recording of him taking 0:27:21.155 --> 0:27:24.915 fifty thousand dollars from two FBI agents he thought were 0:27:24.955 --> 0:27:30.675