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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. No.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what Pence told the grand jury either.

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Speaker 1: I hope he incriminated everybody, including mother. He did testify

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Speaker 1: for five hours. He had to have said something. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: I come not to praise Tucker Carlson but to bury him.

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Speaker 1: To start, let me point out that Rupert Murdoch is

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Speaker 1: currently paying this guy at least forty million dollars to

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Speaker 1: not be on his television network, and unless Murdoch and

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Speaker 1: Fox agree to some kind of buyout, Carlson cannot do

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Speaker 1: any form of political commentary from which he derives income, and,

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Speaker 1: depending on the exact wording of the language of his contract,

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Speaker 1: he also cannot make any appearances in any medium considered

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Speaker 1: competition to Fox with out Fox's consent, which obviously they

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Speaker 1: will not give. This explains a the Twitter video Wednesday

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Speaker 1: night and b the lack of a Twitter video Thursday Night,

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Speaker 2: It's Tucker Carlson. One of the first things you realize

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Speaker 2: when you step outside the noise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is how many Jim and people I'm unemployed On Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: lots of vague, veiled references to telling the truth and

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Speaker 1: repeated sour grapes about television and his own show, and

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Speaker 1: a couple of dog whistles to the Q and on

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Speaker 1: and four chan eight chan crab like demographic change, and

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Speaker 1: nothing else. Every platitude imaginable cram into two minutes and

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Speaker 1: fifteen seconds except employees must wash hands. The barking seals

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Speaker 1: who have long constitute Tucker Carlson's audience ate it up.

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Speaker 1: Life is either extremely simple for them or impossibly complicated.

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Speaker 1: The simple part. If his Twitter video got twenty million views,

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Speaker 1: Twitter video was five times more popular, and it proves

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Speaker 1: video is two minutes long, so an actual Apple to

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Speaker 1: Apple's comparison would be thirty Twitter views equals one TV show,

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Speaker 1: So Carlson's Twitter audience is actually about one sixth as

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Speaker 1: large as his TV audience was. Still, that Twitter video

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Speaker 1: was something of a shot across Murdoch's bow, and I

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Speaker 1: suspect Murdoch shot back. I think some legal type at

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Speaker 1: Fox had already been in touch with Carlson's representatives and

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Speaker 1: mentioned those three magic words forty and million and don't

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Speaker 1: and it will be interesting to see if there are

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Speaker 1: any more Twitter VIDs filled only with buzzwords. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Carlson had long since moved on from MAGA to QAnon.

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Speaker 1: And the great thing about servicing the cues is you

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Speaker 1: don't have to say anything. They'll find something like which

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Speaker 1: direction the grain in the wood paneling behind his head

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Speaker 1: was going in. That was his secret message to them,

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Speaker 1: like life is a decoder ring. The question is what

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Speaker 1: kind of shelf life as a story does the firing

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Speaker 1: of Tucker Carlson actually have? Politics and culture wars and

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Speaker 1: the rest of that has always brought with them an

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Speaker 1: incredible turnover in American media in American society. Let me

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Speaker 1: ask you a question. Who was Boke Carter? Boch Carter

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Speaker 1: began as a rugby announcer on radio in Philadelphia in

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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty. By nineteen thirty six, he was the top

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Speaker 1: rated national political commentator in this country. Same in nineteen

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Speaker 1: the top rate cable news show that was not on CNN.

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Speaker 1: I beat everything on Fox. I was invited to the

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Speaker 1: I couldn't stand doing that stupid story anymore, and I

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Speaker 1: more than four years previously. The turnover is unbelievable. Without

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Speaker 1: things like the Pence story. I think the Carlson story

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Speaker 1: could easily drop from front of mind by next week.

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Speaker 1: If there's a smart Mattic Fox trial, it could all resurface.

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Speaker 1: Then if they settle, Tucker Carlson may slide quickly into

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Speaker 1: that category of every other irreplaceable person. Fox replaced Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Reilly was that network. Tucker Carlson replaced him, and Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Reilly cannot even get a full time job now on

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Speaker 1: News Nation, Meghan Kelly. Have you seen the Megan Kelly

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Speaker 1: Katherine Cryer. It's another question who was Katherine Cryer. Catherine

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Speaker 1: which is that Tucker Carlson is a scumbag. But first,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to preface my remarks by

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Speaker 1: letting Pastor Shane Vaughan of the First Church of the

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Speaker 1: Gouy Death explain to you what's really been happening here.

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Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson is gone because of spiritual warfare. I want

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Speaker 2: you to listen closely to me. There is something much

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Speaker 2: bigger than the elites. There's something much bigger than Charles Schwab,

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Speaker 2: George Sorows or Rupert Murdoch, and we know how to

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Speaker 2: fight against it because we know that Tucker Carlson was

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Speaker 2: a victim of demonic power.

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Speaker 1: I can't place that accent is Pastor Vaughan from Boston.

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Speaker 1: Now let me confess something to you. My last vacation

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Speaker 1: I've done two podcasts in the same day. So as

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Speaker 1: we review the Tucker Carlson story here, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: bring you commentaries I have previously done. It's not quite

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Speaker 1: you don't want to hear these things again, I get it.

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Speaker 1: No harm, no foul, turn it off right here, back

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Speaker 1: with all new stuff Monday. But now, anybody remember when

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson tried to get all the trans people killed

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Speaker 1: countless LGBTQ issues, as sex crimes against children. Tucker Carlson

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Speaker 1: and he said, quote, violence and cruelty should always horrify us.

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Speaker 1: That is what Tucker Carlson said last night. On the

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Speaker 1: night of September nineteenth, however, Tucker Carlson told his viewers

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Speaker 1: of such slanderous commentaries, because he is trying to attract

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Speaker 1: an audience of conspiracy theorists whose bleak, distorted world leads

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Speaker 1: them to believe Fox News and to believe in cabals,

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Speaker 1: of cannibals and pedophiles, because if they watch his show,

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Speaker 1: he makes more money. And Tucker Carlson has never spent

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson identified the real victims of Colorado Springs, himself

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson who goes on national television and fixates at

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Speaker 1: like a disturbing admission and suggests the authority should be

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Speaker 1: investigating Tucker Carlson. The premise, of course, is that a

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Speaker 1: company called News Corp. As dangerous to this country's survival

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Speaker 1: be guilty of indoctrinating people to believe that every LGBTQ

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Speaker 1: Goddamn him to hell, and would that it were just

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, but it's not. Whenever there is a mass

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Speaker 1: Jesse Waters chase Immelt around. He mentioned Immelt by name

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Speaker 1: on his show. Immelt's mother was an O'Reilly viewer, and

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00:30:01,835 --> 00:30:06,595
Speaker 1: she called her son and yelled at him. Jeff Immelt

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00:30:06,675 --> 00:30:09,555
Speaker 1: naturally kept a calm head, befitting the man responsible for

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Speaker 1: the fifth, sixth, their seventh largest corporation in the world

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00:30:12,835 --> 00:30:16,675
Speaker 1: or whatever it was ranked then, and he immediately threatened

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Speaker 1: the president of NBC that if his name was mentioned

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Speaker 1: again on Fox News, he would immediately take MSNBC off

435
00:30:23,115 --> 00:30:26,715
Speaker 1: the air and fire everybody connected with it. Because these

436
00:30:26,755 --> 00:30:31,515
Speaker 1: are businessmen and businesses first, last, and everything in between

437
00:30:32,675 --> 00:30:39,515
Speaker 1: unless Mommy calls. The next thing I knew, Roger Ayles

438
00:30:39,595 --> 00:30:43,395
Speaker 1: was inside thirty Rock negotiating with Jeff Zooker over how

439
00:30:43,555 --> 00:30:47,395
Speaker 1: MSNBC should cover Fox and how Fox should cover MSNBC

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00:30:47,795 --> 00:30:51,515
Speaker 1: and mmelt and ge. And even when an NBC executive

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00:30:51,915 --> 00:30:54,995
Speaker 1: boasted about this to The New York Times, most of

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00:30:54,995 --> 00:30:58,875
Speaker 1: the American media did not notice the two out of

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00:30:58,915 --> 00:31:04,115
Speaker 1: the three cable news outlets were colluding over how and

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00:31:04,195 --> 00:31:08,635
Speaker 1: how not to cover the news. Most that did notice

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00:31:08,675 --> 00:31:11,595
Speaker 1: it simply wrote it off to me trying to get

446
00:31:11,715 --> 00:31:15,395
Speaker 1: ratings and dismissed what I did as the liberal version

447
00:31:15,395 --> 00:31:21,435
Speaker 1: of O'Reilly. I would hope that after this Kevin McCarthy

448
00:31:21,475 --> 00:31:24,475
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson pact about the January sixth video, and why

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00:31:24,515 --> 00:31:27,115
Speaker 1: am I reminded of the Hitler Stalin pact when I

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00:31:27,155 --> 00:31:30,595
Speaker 1: say the McCarthy Carlson pact, coming so fresh on the

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Speaker 1: heels of the Fox texts in the dominion case, that somebody,

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00:31:34,795 --> 00:31:39,715
Speaker 1: somebody with a large platform, somebody at CBS or ABC

453
00:31:41,035 --> 00:31:44,555
Speaker 1: or NBC or the New York Times or the Washington Post,

454
00:31:44,715 --> 00:31:51,035
Speaker 1: somebody would recognize what Fox News is right now and

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00:31:51,235 --> 00:31:54,115
Speaker 1: start a I don't know four hundred and fifty three

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00:31:54,195 --> 00:31:58,035
Speaker 1: part series on what they are right now. Even if

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00:31:58,075 --> 00:32:00,835
Speaker 1: they would like to pretend that Fox News just became

458
00:32:00,995 --> 00:32:06,475
Speaker 1: that last Tuesday, so be it. Because whether it was

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00:32:06,715 --> 00:32:10,115
Speaker 1: or it was not in twenty thirteen or two thousand

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00:32:10,155 --> 00:32:12,875
Speaker 1: and three or at its launch, Fox News is now

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00:32:13,235 --> 00:32:16,475
Speaker 1: a clear and present danger to the safety and security

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00:32:16,475 --> 00:32:19,995
Speaker 1: of the United States of America. It is, whether because

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00:32:20,035 --> 00:32:24,315
Speaker 1: of money or blackmail, or most likely just sheer fascistic

464
00:32:24,435 --> 00:32:28,955
Speaker 1: empathy and sheer spite, it is a propaganda arm both

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00:32:28,995 --> 00:32:32,955
Speaker 1: of the anti democratic conspiracies alive in this country and

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00:32:33,075 --> 00:32:36,435
Speaker 1: of the government of Russia. And the clarity of how

467
00:32:36,555 --> 00:32:39,595
Speaker 1: it at its faces, like Carlson and Hannity and Ingram,

468
00:32:39,635 --> 00:32:44,395
Speaker 1: acted in mercenary, financially driven defense of election denial and

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00:32:44,435 --> 00:32:47,675
Speaker 1: thus the violence and the coup attempts that followed and

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00:32:47,715 --> 00:32:50,875
Speaker 1: will follow again. The clarity of what Fox was behind

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00:32:50,955 --> 00:32:54,555
Speaker 1: the scenes between November twenty twenty and January twenty twenty one,

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00:32:54,715 --> 00:32:57,595
Speaker 1: and what it is today, with Tucker Carlson ready to

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00:32:57,715 --> 00:33:01,595
Speaker 1: issue a video gas lighting on behalf of Trump and sedition,

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00:33:02,355 --> 00:33:05,435
Speaker 1: and also to issue and illustrate guide on how to

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00:33:05,435 --> 00:33:09,795
Speaker 1: get past all those annoying Capitol Hills security cameras. Next time,

476
00:33:10,395 --> 00:33:14,235
Speaker 1: fox News has rendered our response as a nation to

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00:33:14,315 --> 00:33:20,075
Speaker 1: the peril of Fox News essential and urgent. We have

478
00:33:20,155 --> 00:33:25,355
Speaker 1: no choice. We must destroy Fox News, and if there

479
00:33:25,395 --> 00:33:28,835
Speaker 1: is some means to do so, prosecute it. It is

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00:33:28,995 --> 00:33:33,795
Speaker 1: essential and urgent. It is one thing to be the

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00:33:33,835 --> 00:33:39,475
Speaker 1: salesmen of madness and conspiracy and rage and paranoia. It

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00:33:39,595 --> 00:33:42,915
Speaker 1: is quite another, and somehow I think it's far worse,

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00:33:43,075 --> 00:33:47,515
Speaker 1: far more damaging, far more insidious, to be the salesman

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00:33:47,595 --> 00:33:51,635
Speaker 1: of madness and conspiracy and rage and paranoia without believing

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00:33:51,795 --> 00:33:58,395
Speaker 1: any of it. The real invested, insane, inconsolable election deniers

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00:33:58,435 --> 00:34:03,715
Speaker 1: and hate mongers are somehow slightly less despicable and certainly

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00:34:03,835 --> 00:34:08,715
Speaker 1: less threatening because they are zelots, and thus Zelots have

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00:34:08,875 --> 00:34:11,995
Speaker 1: left half of their plans for world domination undone, because

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00:34:11,995 --> 00:34:15,075
Speaker 1: they believe not only that God will do that part

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00:34:15,155 --> 00:34:18,755
Speaker 1: for them, but that God loves only them and nothing

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00:34:18,835 --> 00:34:22,595
Speaker 1: bad could happen to them. Fox News is far more

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00:34:22,715 --> 00:34:26,555
Speaker 1: dangerous because, in becoming completely devoid of true belief in

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00:34:26,675 --> 00:34:31,115
Speaker 1: anything but its ability to sell moronity to morons at

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00:34:31,155 --> 00:34:36,155
Speaker 1: great profit, Fox News has absolved itself of any responsibility

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00:34:36,195 --> 00:34:40,075
Speaker 1: for it. These people do not question their own ethics.

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00:34:40,955 --> 00:34:44,035
Speaker 1: They haven't seen ethics in themselves, their colleagues, their guests,

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00:34:44,115 --> 00:34:48,515
Speaker 1: their employers. In twenty five years, there isn't even moral

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00:34:48,595 --> 00:34:52,715
Speaker 1: relativism because morality, even a mistaken belief that they have

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00:34:52,795 --> 00:34:55,235
Speaker 1: morality and the rest of us don't. Morality is no

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00:34:55,355 --> 00:34:59,515
Speaker 1: longer part of the equation. At Fox News. In the past,

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00:35:00,195 --> 00:35:03,075
Speaker 1: they used to sell this country out because they believed

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00:35:03,115 --> 00:35:06,875
Speaker 1: in fascism. Now Carlson and Ingram and Hannity and all

503
00:35:06,875 --> 00:35:09,355
Speaker 1: the others are selling this country out because they believe

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00:35:10,275 --> 00:35:14,035
Speaker 1: in money. And we have handed them all the video

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00:35:14,155 --> 00:35:18,995
Speaker 1: from January sixth and a license to lie about everything

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00:35:19,475 --> 00:35:23,875
Speaker 1: without consequences, about this in particular, without consequences. And we

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00:35:23,995 --> 00:35:27,235
Speaker 1: might as well have given them guns and nukes and

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00:35:27,315 --> 00:35:31,435
Speaker 1: the security code to every home in this country. Hell,

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00:35:32,235 --> 00:35:34,755
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy just gave them the security code to every

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00:35:34,795 --> 00:35:40,595
Speaker 1: panic room in the Capitol. And our inaction, our disbelief

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00:35:41,235 --> 00:35:44,835
Speaker 1: that there could be anything so cynical as this is

512
00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:49,235
Speaker 1: how this country has been previously blighted by big tobacco

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00:35:49,435 --> 00:35:52,195
Speaker 1: and by big pharma. And with a historical nod to

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00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:57,235
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green by big slavery. We know it can

515
00:35:57,315 --> 00:36:00,435
Speaker 1: kill you. It's not our fault that you believe us,

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00:36:00,795 --> 00:36:06,675
Speaker 1: it's yours. We had big tobacco and big pharma. Fox

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00:36:07,875 --> 00:36:25,075
Speaker 1: Fox is just big bullshit. Turned out the January sixth

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00:36:25,195 --> 00:36:27,595
Speaker 1: video was less than met the eye, but it was

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00:36:27,635 --> 00:36:31,075
Speaker 1: still a breach of congressional and senatorial security, and it

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00:36:31,155 --> 00:36:33,795
Speaker 1: might have been could easily have been prosecuted as might

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00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:38,995
Speaker 1: still easily be prosecuted as conspiracy to commit rebellion or insurrection.

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Speaker 1: As I said on March thirteenth, Arrest Tucker Carlson. That's next.

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Speaker 1: This is countdown. Free the Q Shaman. Jacob Chansley, No

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00:37:08,195 --> 00:37:14,035
Speaker 1: arrest Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson is lying about the January

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Speaker 1: sixth video, and a new government document, sworn under oath

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Speaker 1: and under penalty of perjury and submitted yesterday to a

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00:37:21,195 --> 00:37:25,515
Speaker 1: district court in Washington, confirms that Tucker Carlson could be

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00:37:25,555 --> 00:37:29,955
Speaker 1: prosecuted as part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice, or

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Speaker 1: even prosecuted on much more serious and ominous charges under

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Speaker 1: eighteen USC. Two three eighty three rebellion or insurrection. All

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Speaker 1: that footage that Carlson said had been quote withheld from

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Speaker 1: the Q Shaman Chansley. All that footage that Carlson said

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00:37:46,715 --> 00:37:50,715
Speaker 1: showed Chansley being escorted by Capitol police. All that footage

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Speaker 1: that Carlson said proved a government conspiracy to frame Chansley.

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00:37:55,195 --> 00:37:58,635
Speaker 1: All that footage that Carlson said proved January sixth was

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Speaker 1: just sightseers framed by Pelosi and Cheney and Biden and

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00:38:03,955 --> 00:38:07,795
Speaker 1: the media. All that footage that Kevin McCarthy sold his

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Speaker 1: soul over All that footage that Elon Musk was dumb

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00:38:12,315 --> 00:38:15,315
Speaker 1: enough to fall for and promulgates. All that footage that

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00:38:15,395 --> 00:38:19,795
Speaker 1: every Trump apologist and every pro seditionist congressman is pushing

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Speaker 1: like his life depended on it. Because maybe it is

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00:38:22,835 --> 00:38:28,835
Speaker 1: all that footage at the center of the international Communist

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Speaker 1: liberal democratic woke crt LGBTQ George Sorows conspiracy that Tucker

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00:38:37,235 --> 00:38:41,355
Speaker 1: Carlson and Tucker Carlson alone valiantly outed and will avenge

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00:38:41,595 --> 00:38:46,955
Speaker 1: all that footage. Jacob Chanceley's lawyer was given all but

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Speaker 1: ten seconds of that footage on or before September twenty fourth,

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Speaker 1: two THOY twenty one, five hundred and thirty five days ago,

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Speaker 1: and Chansley's lawyer was given the remaining missing ten seconds

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Speaker 1: forty nine days ago. Tucker Carlson is lying. Kevin McCarthy

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00:39:12,275 --> 00:39:17,555
Speaker 1: is lying. Jacob Chansley's first lawyer is lying. Jacob Chansley's

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00:39:17,755 --> 00:39:23,275
Speaker 1: second lawyer is lying. Fox Quote News unquote is lying.

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00:39:25,115 --> 00:39:28,955
Speaker 1: One of the members of the terrorist group the Proud Boys,

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00:39:29,435 --> 00:39:34,155
Speaker 1: himself on trial for January sixth. Dominic Pizzola moved to

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Speaker 1: dismiss his case or have a mistrial called quote due

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00:39:38,675 --> 00:39:42,515
Speaker 1: to recent revelations on the Tucker Carlson Show. On quote,

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Speaker 1: there are no revelations, there is no new footage. There

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00:39:46,035 --> 00:39:48,235
Speaker 1: was no truth to a single word out of Tucker

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Speaker 1: Carlson's fascist, racist, anti democracy horror mouth. Yesterday afternoon, the

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Speaker 1: government responded to the Pizzola motion to dismiss by issuing

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Speaker 1: Memorandum number six eight nine and giving it to the

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Speaker 1: Court Memorandum six ' eight nine in the United States

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Speaker 1: of America versus Ethan Nordian at al. And while the

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Speaker 1: memorandum is ostensibly about that case and this gang member Pizzola,

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Speaker 1: it is in fact directed at the lies of the

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Speaker 1: lawyers of the Q Shaman and more importantly and absolutely

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Speaker 1: lowers the boom on Tucker, Carlson and Fox quote news unquote,

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Speaker 1: and this entire, enraging, embarrassing, illegal scam that Carlson and

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy are running. And it is thus now utterly

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Speaker 1: essential to the future of this nation for Senate Majority

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Speaker 1: Leader Chuck Schumer to convene a Senate investigation of Carlson

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Speaker 1: and Fox and whatever is behind Rupert Murdoch's effort to

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Speaker 1: destabilize the elected government of the United States and imperil

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Speaker 1: our country. Let me read from document six eighty nine

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Speaker 1: Case one twenty one CR zero zero one seven five

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Speaker 1: t JK quote. The CCTV footage is core evidence in

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Speaker 1: nearly every January sixth case, and it was produced en Moss,

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Speaker 1: labeled by camera number and by time to all Defense Council.

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Speaker 1: In all cases, with the exception of one CCTV camera

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Speaker 1: where said footage totaled approximately ten seconds and implicated an

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Speaker 1: evacuation route, all of the footage played on television was

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Speaker 1: disclosed to defend it Pizzola and defended Chansley. By September

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Speaker 1: twenty fourth, twenty twenty one, the final ten seconds of

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Speaker 1: footage was produced in Global Discovery to All Defense Council

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Speaker 1: on January twenty three, twenty twenty three, end quote knowing

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Speaker 1: already what he did and what he did not do.

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Speaker 1: On January sixth, Jacob Chansley and his attorney at the time,

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Speaker 1: Albert Watkins, agreed to a plea deal on September third,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, one charge a felony obstruction of a

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00:42:16,835 --> 00:42:21,475
Speaker 1: proceeding of Congress, and Chansley signed a seven page document

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Speaker 1: giving a minute by minute timeline of his crime, and

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Speaker 1: not once in it did he claim he had been escorted,

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Speaker 1: but in the document he confessed to repeatedly refusing to

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Speaker 1: do what those officers shown on that video told him

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Speaker 1: to do, which was leave. His attorney Watkins got any

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Speaker 1: video from the insurrection he had not already been given

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Speaker 1: except the ten seconds that showed a secret escape route

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Speaker 1: by September twenty fourth, twenty twenty one. Chansley was sentenced

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Speaker 1: on November seventeenth, twenty twenty one, meaning his attorney had

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Speaker 1: at least fifty four days to review the video that

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Speaker 1: the liar Tucker Carlson showed last week and claimed was

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Speaker 1: knew if any of it actually did anything like the

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00:43:09,435 --> 00:43:12,995
Speaker 1: liar Tucker Carlson claimed the attorney would have showed it

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00:43:13,035 --> 00:43:16,235
Speaker 1: to the judge it's sentencing and he and Chanceley could

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Speaker 1: have backed out of the plea deal, or the judge

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00:43:18,955 --> 00:43:22,155
Speaker 1: would have thrown out the plea deal. But it didn't

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Speaker 1: show anything. Because Tucker Carlson is lying, he is obstructing justice.

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Speaker 1: And when the attorney Watkins told the liar Tucker Carlson

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Speaker 1: that he had never seen the video before, if Watkins

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00:43:36,395 --> 00:43:39,955
Speaker 1: himself was not lying, it means Watkins was too lazy

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Speaker 1: or too incompetent, or both to review the video he

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Speaker 1: had had access to five hundred and thirty five days ago.

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Speaker 1: The Q Shaman Chansley officially changed attorneys on November twenty ninth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, meaning his new lawyer, John Pierce, has

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Speaker 1: had four hundred and seventy days to look at that

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Speaker 1: video that the liar, Tucker Carlson lied had been withheld

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Speaker 1: from the lawyers and from the nation. And when the

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Speaker 1: attorney Pierce told the liar Tucker Carlson that he'd never

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Speaker 1: seen that video before, if Pierce wasn't lying, it meant

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Speaker 1: Pierce was too lazy or too incompetent or both to

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Speaker 1: review the video he had access to four hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy days ago and every day since. But wait, what

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Speaker 1: about that last ten seconds that the government didn't turn

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Speaker 1: over until just under two months ago? What about that?

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Speaker 1: Well from the same memo in this Pizzola case filed yesterday,

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Speaker 1: quote the final ten seconds of footage. Similarly, as with

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Speaker 1: other CCTV depicts defendant Chancelly outside of the Senate Chamber

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Speaker 1: with law enforcement after his initial breach of the chamber unquote.

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Speaker 1: And remember, anything the government puts into the record in

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Speaker 1: its prosecution of anybody must be utterly verifiable to the letter.

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Speaker 1: If there is not a signed receipt from every attorney,

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Speaker 1: including Chansley's apparently useless mouthpiece Albert Watkins, the one who

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Speaker 1: said Chansley and the others were from quote the short bus.

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Speaker 1: If there isn't an impeccable sworn under oath record of

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Speaker 1: everything the government asserts in something like this memorandum six't

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Speaker 1: eighty nine, not only does the prosecution go out the window,

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Speaker 1: but the prosecutors can go to jail. This isn't the

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson Liar show. You can't just lie and get

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Speaker 1: away with it like you're Tucker Carlson. If Fox Quote

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Speaker 1: News were held to the same standard, to one tenth

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Speaker 1: of the same standard as federal prosecutors, Tucker Carlson would

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Speaker 1: not only be in jail right now, he would have

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00:45:53,355 --> 00:45:58,795
Speaker 1: already lost his appeal to get out on bail. But wait,

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Speaker 1: there's more later in Government Memorandum six point eighty nine quote.

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Speaker 1: The televised footage shows Chansley's movements only from approximately two

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Speaker 1: fifty six pm to three PM. Prior to that time,

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Speaker 1: Chansley had, amongst other acts, breached a police line at

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Speaker 1: two nine pm with the mob entered the Capitol less

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Speaker 1: than one minute behind Dominic Pizzola during the initial breach

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Speaker 1: of the building, and faced off with members of the

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Speaker 1: US Capitol Police for more than thirty minutes in front

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Speaker 1: of the Senate Chamber doors, while elected officials, including the

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Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States, were fleeing from the chamber.

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Speaker 1: Chansley then entered the Senate gallery, where he proceeded to

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Speaker 1: scream obscenities while other rioters rifled through the desks of

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Speaker 1: US senators on the floor below. All these actions were

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Speaker 1: captured by Senate floor and or CCTV cameras. In some

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Speaker 1: Chansley was not some passive, chaperoned observer of events. For

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Speaker 1: the roughly hour that he was unlawfully inside the Capitol.

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Speaker 1: He was part of the initial breach of the building.

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Speaker 1: He confronted law enforcement for roughly thirty minutes just outside

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Speaker 1: the Senate chamber he gained access to and later left

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Speaker 1: the Senate floor only after law enforcement was able to

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Speaker 1: arrive on Moss to remove him. It is at this

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Speaker 1: point that the authors of Memorandum six point eighty nine

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Speaker 1: nail the lar Tucker Carlson to the metaphorical wall quote.

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Speaker 1: It is true that a sole officer who was trying

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Speaker 1: to de escalate the situation was with Chansley as he

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Speaker 1: made his way to the Senate floor after initially breaching

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Speaker 1: the chamber, as the televised footage reflects, But the televised

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Speaker 1: footage fails to show that Chansley subsequently refused to be

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Speaker 1: escorted out by this loan officer and instead left the

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Speaker 1: capital only after additional officers arrived and forcibly scared him out.

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Speaker 1: Free Jacob Chansley arrest Tucker Carlson. What the liar Tucker

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Speaker 1: Carlson and the liar Maria Bartiromo as recently as yesterday,

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00:48:19,595 --> 00:48:23,755
Speaker 1: still pushing Fox's January sixth video Lie, still trying to

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Speaker 1: spit out the words watching them walk and being escutted

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Speaker 1: by police. What they are doing is obstructing justice, and

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Speaker 1: for that matter, so is what Speaker of the House

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is doing. He, without any consultation, arbitrarily released

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Speaker 1: all this video to the liar Tucker Carlson for the

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00:48:45,155 --> 00:48:50,035
Speaker 1: express purpose of producing the kind of gaslighting, obstructionist, false

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Speaker 1: narrative that Carlson and his producers and his employers and

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00:48:52,715 --> 00:48:58,715
Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch promptly and efficiently did produce. McCarthy handed Carlson

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00:48:58,955 --> 00:49:04,475
Speaker 1: access to materials with which to lie. Carlson then lied

685
00:49:05,075 --> 00:49:10,155
Speaker 1: night after night, and yesterday, interviewed by the liar Bartiromo,

686
00:49:10,475 --> 00:49:15,435
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy completed the self fulfilling prophecy. Quote, what have

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00:49:15,555 --> 00:49:17,795
Speaker 1: we learned from these tapes that have been on Tucker

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00:49:17,835 --> 00:49:21,715
Speaker 1: Carlson tonight? Said Bartiromo, who is the liar who has

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Speaker 1: promised support for a Senate run by Steve Bannon. In

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00:49:26,675 --> 00:49:29,835
Speaker 1: answering her, McCarthy as evil but not nearly as interesting

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00:49:29,875 --> 00:49:33,315
Speaker 1: as his nineteen fifties namesake, answered quote, The first thing

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Speaker 1: I found is that the January sixth Committee was not

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Speaker 1: honest with us. He then strung together his standard cliches

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Speaker 1: about transparency and how many hours of tape there was

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00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:45,675
Speaker 1: and burning cities and everybody can make their own judgment

696
00:49:45,715 --> 00:49:49,475
Speaker 1: and equal justice, equal justice, equal equal justice. Arrest Kevin

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Speaker 1: McCarthy for obstruction of justice. What, after all has this

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00:49:55,035 --> 00:49:59,515
Speaker 1: all been about. This has been to try to whitewash

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Speaker 1: and to gaslight, not just in the arena of public opinion,

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00:50:04,195 --> 00:50:08,475
Speaker 1: not just to fool the Marx who watch Fox, but

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Speaker 1: in the courts. This is to try to whitewash and

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00:50:12,875 --> 00:50:18,555
Speaker 1: gaslight an insurrection, a coup, a bloody attack on the

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Speaker 1: Capitol during the official transfer of power. It is a

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Speaker 1: conspiracy to turn the guilty perpetrators into victims and the

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Speaker 1: victims into defendants. And that is called obstruction of justice.

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Speaker 1: And you go to jail for that, And Kevin McCarthy

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00:50:36,835 --> 00:50:44,395
Speaker 1: and Tucker Carlson should go to jail for that. On Saturday,

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Speaker 1: the former White House Communications director under Trump, Stephanie Grisham,

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Speaker 1: underscored what we've all known all along that Fox quote

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Speaker 1: news unquote served as the main propaganda outlet for Trump

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Speaker 1: with specific hands on direction by Trump. In an interview

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Speaker 1: with CNN, Rusham emphasized that people like Sean Hannity and

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Speaker 1: Janine Piro and Laura Ingram and Fox Quote News unquote

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00:51:12,595 --> 00:51:17,395
Speaker 1: CEO Suzanne Scott all called her office constantly, and if

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00:51:17,475 --> 00:51:19,395
Speaker 1: she did not get back to them fast enough, they

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00:51:19,395 --> 00:51:23,275
Speaker 1: would call Trump and whine about that, quoting her, We

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00:51:23,355 --> 00:51:26,115
Speaker 1: did work hand in hand with them, and that came

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Speaker 1: at the President's direction. If he didn't like something, we

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00:51:28,915 --> 00:51:32,555
Speaker 1: were to immediately, you know, call Fox and have them

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Speaker 1: fix it or try to make a new story out

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Speaker 1: of it, et cetera un quote. So the question must

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Speaker 1: now be raised, is this exact construction happening again? We

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Speaker 1: heard Kevin McCarthy humiliate himself the night he was finally

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Speaker 1: elected speaker, fulsomely thanking Trump. Is this whole conspiracy to

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00:51:55,755 --> 00:52:02,795
Speaker 1: obstruct justice originating with Trump? Did he tell McCarthy to

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00:52:02,835 --> 00:52:08,955
Speaker 1: give the January sixth video acts to Tucker Carlson. We

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00:52:09,035 --> 00:52:12,075
Speaker 1: need not only the full resources of the Department of

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00:52:12,235 --> 00:52:14,635
Speaker 1: Justice directed towards these evil men and the people who

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00:52:14,795 --> 00:52:18,475
Speaker 1: enabled them, like Rupert Murdoch, We need a Senate Select

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Speaker 1: committee and hearings into what is more than just Fox's

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00:52:22,155 --> 00:52:25,795
Speaker 1: typical lying to and manipulation of its moronic audience, but

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Speaker 1: which is a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the prosecution

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Speaker 1: of the January sixth insurrection. Free the Q Shaman, Arrest

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, arrest Kevin McCarthy, and arrest the ringleader of

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Speaker 1: this conspiracy to obstruct Donald Trump March thirteen. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know I get a little loose with my arrest

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Speaker 1: fill in the blank, because by the next day it

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Speaker 1: was pretty clear that video couldn't get Tucker Carlson arrested

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00:53:17,435 --> 00:53:35,395
Speaker 1: from countdown the next day, March fourteenth. Today in January sixth,

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Speaker 1: conspiracy Land, it's quiet, It's too quiet. No, the DOJ

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00:53:44,355 --> 00:53:47,475
Speaker 1: has not arrested Tucker Carlson for obstruction of justice, nor

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00:53:47,555 --> 00:53:50,755
Speaker 1: is it likely to. But it is clear somebody in

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00:53:50,795 --> 00:53:53,955
Speaker 1: there is out to contradict him, humiliate him, and get

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00:53:53,995 --> 00:53:58,835
Speaker 1: him fired by Fox. And whatever the plan is, it

745
00:53:58,955 --> 00:54:03,955
Speaker 1: may be working. Something certainly has worked. Tucker Carlson has

746
00:54:04,035 --> 00:54:09,635
Speaker 1: completely punted on the January sixth story, did not mention

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00:54:09,755 --> 00:54:14,115
Speaker 1: it once last night. No Q Shaman, no conspiracy, no withheld,

748
00:54:14,155 --> 00:54:17,395
Speaker 1: no fire, Liz Cheney, no, we demand immediate action like

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00:54:17,475 --> 00:54:22,515
Speaker 1: it never happened. Tucker Carlson offered no explanation as he

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Speaker 1: ran away as to why he ran away. The Department

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00:54:27,195 --> 00:54:31,075
Speaker 1: of Justice it offered lots of explanations. Sunday it was

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00:54:31,075 --> 00:54:33,955
Speaker 1: the release of Memorandum six Po't eighty nine confirming that

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00:54:33,995 --> 00:54:37,315
Speaker 1: Carlson was lying on television that the Q Shaman had

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00:54:37,355 --> 00:54:40,755
Speaker 1: access to all the video Carlson showed and all the

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00:54:40,835 --> 00:54:43,995
Speaker 1: video Carlson did not show because it would have destroyed

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00:54:44,035 --> 00:54:48,315
Speaker 1: his lie while he was lying it. Yesterday the release

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00:54:48,475 --> 00:54:52,555
Speaker 1: came of some of that video. Carlson is hiding again.

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00:54:53,355 --> 00:54:56,835
Speaker 1: This release was in answer to Dominic Pizzola's motion to

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00:54:56,915 --> 00:55:00,355
Speaker 1: dismiss the January sixth charges against him quote due to

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00:55:00,515 --> 00:55:05,355
Speaker 1: recent revelations on the Tucker Carlson Show. This is the

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00:55:05,435 --> 00:55:08,355
Speaker 1: audio track from the body cam of one of dozens

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00:55:08,395 --> 00:55:11,835
Speaker 1: of officers summoned to the Senate Chamber when Jacob Chansley

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00:55:11,955 --> 00:55:14,395
Speaker 1: was told to leave and he refused and he and

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00:55:14,435 --> 00:55:17,995
Speaker 1: the other insurrectionists had to be boxed out by Capitol police.

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Speaker 1: And the voice you will hear is that of Tucker

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Speaker 1: Carlson's mild mannered railroaded sightseer Chansley screaming as police adroitly

767
00:55:27,355 --> 00:55:30,755
Speaker 1: force him and the other terrorists out of the Capitol

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Speaker 1: without somehow shooting any of them. Let's go, Let's go,

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Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go.

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Speaker 3: Let's let's go.

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Speaker 1: Another video, one of three the Department of Justice released yesterday,

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00:56:03,355 --> 00:56:07,475
Speaker 1: is less audibly gaudy, to use that word, but it

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00:56:07,555 --> 00:56:10,795
Speaker 1: is far more harrowing. This is from the exact moment

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00:56:10,915 --> 00:56:15,435
Speaker 1: Jacob Chansley, aka the real victim here Shaman and the

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00:56:15,475 --> 00:56:18,315
Speaker 1: rest of the mob came within perhaps thirty feet of

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Speaker 1: a senator being evacuated. We think it's Chuck Grassley, nobody

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00:56:22,315 --> 00:56:24,955
Speaker 1: can be certain, and in the video there is only

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Speaker 1: one officer standing in an open vestibule blocking them from

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Speaker 1: attacking that senator. The Department of Justice is going to

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00:56:41,275 --> 00:56:44,475
Speaker 1: prove that Jacob Chansley, the Q Shaman, was as guilty

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00:56:44,555 --> 00:56:47,115
Speaker 1: as he said he was in the plea bargain he

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00:56:47,315 --> 00:56:51,835
Speaker 1: signed and the sentence he accepted fifty five days after

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Speaker 1: his lawyer received the last of all of the January

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Speaker 1: sixth video. And while it is not doing as good

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00:56:57,955 --> 00:57:01,195
Speaker 1: a job as say, dominion voting systems is at destroying

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00:57:01,275 --> 00:57:06,035
Speaker 1: Fox quote news unquote and destroying Ert Murdoch, destroying Sean Hannity,

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00:57:06,035 --> 00:57:09,635
Speaker 1: and destroying Laura Ingram, and destroying Suzanne Scott, and destroying

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00:57:09,675 --> 00:57:14,195
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. The DOJ certainly is doing the best that

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00:57:14,235 --> 00:57:18,755
Speaker 1: it can, considering it's a government bureaucracy. So far, it

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00:57:18,795 --> 00:57:22,915
Speaker 1: has proved Tucker Carlson lied about Chanceley, lied about Chansley's

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Speaker 1: access to exculpatory video that wasn't the least bit exculpatory,

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00:57:27,755 --> 00:57:31,555
Speaker 1: lied about January sixth in Toto, and committed with Speaker

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00:57:31,635 --> 00:57:35,955
Speaker 1: McCarthy obstruction of justice, if not legally, then certainly ethically.

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00:57:36,475 --> 00:57:38,955
Speaker 1: And now with the release of these videos, the DOJ

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00:57:39,195 --> 00:57:43,995
Speaker 1: is clearly bolstering that latest question, why is Tucker Carlson

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00:57:44,075 --> 00:57:47,555
Speaker 1: hiding the January sixth video that implicates Jacob Chansley and

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00:57:47,555 --> 00:57:56,435
Speaker 1: by extension, implicates Tucker Carlson and Speaker McCarthy. Carlson's silence

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00:57:56,515 --> 00:57:59,915
Speaker 1: on this subject last night underscores the bizarre reality that

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Speaker 1: Fox is getting hammered on its January sixth video coverage

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00:58:04,675 --> 00:58:09,595
Speaker 1: i the right wing. It was calculated that the Newsmax

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00:58:09,715 --> 00:58:13,995
Speaker 1: channel has covered Fox's coverage at seven times the frequency

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00:58:14,115 --> 00:58:19,075
Speaker 1: Fox has. Newsmax has accused Fox of a cover up.

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00:58:19,795 --> 00:58:23,435
Speaker 1: Twitter was full last night with confused Tucker Carlson viewers

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00:58:23,475 --> 00:58:26,915
Speaker 1: who do not understand they are Tucker's suckers in the

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00:58:26,995 --> 00:58:31,595
Speaker 1: manipulation game that is Fox quote news unquote. They wrote

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00:58:31,675 --> 00:58:35,435
Speaker 1: with almost pitiable confusion to him, asking where the rest

807
00:58:35,435 --> 00:58:38,915
Speaker 1: of the video is. These are the people, after all,

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00:58:38,955 --> 00:58:42,515
Speaker 1: whom a former Tucker Carlson producer named Alex Sfeiffer compared

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Speaker 1: dealing with to quote like negotiating with terrorists, but especially

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00:58:47,435 --> 00:58:54,795
Speaker 1: dumb ones, cousin effing types unquote absent a reliable source

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Speaker 1: inside an organization that always fires reliable sources. To say

812
00:58:59,275 --> 00:59:02,995
Speaker 1: what has happened inside Fox is speculative at best. You

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00:59:03,115 --> 00:59:06,795
Speaker 1: and I probably look at the new videos released by

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00:59:06,795 --> 00:59:10,515
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice and flinch and maybe hope, oh,

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00:59:10,595 --> 00:59:13,555
Speaker 1: never mentioning any of it ever again might make the

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00:59:13,635 --> 00:59:18,115
Speaker 1: DOJ also stop mentioning how dishonest we were ever again.

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson could be showing self restraint, I suppose, but

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Speaker 1: that would be a first. This is a guy who,

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Speaker 1: as late as twenty ten, opened a website using my

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Speaker 1: name and personally took my name as his email address

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Speaker 1: at that website, and when a not too bright columnist

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Speaker 1: from the Philadelphia Daily News sent an email full of

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Speaker 1: questions to me to that address, Carlson posed as me,

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Speaker 1: answered the questions in a way designed to get my

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Speaker 1: boss to fire me and insult my boss, whom he

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Speaker 1: did not like, and the Philadelphia guy printed the answers

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Speaker 1: as if they had been for me. Tucker Carlson congratulated

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Speaker 1: himself on the identity theft, never one stopping to think

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Speaker 1: that to do so, he had to admit that he

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Speaker 1: went to the trouble well of setting up an entire

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Speaker 1: website so he could pretend for just a few fleeting

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Speaker 1: minutes but he was not merely Tucker Carlson, but that

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Speaker 1: he was me. I mean, I wouldn't even do that anyway.

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Speaker 1: Other factors could have caused Carlson to turn tail and

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Speaker 1: run about January sixth, as clearly he has. The non

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01:00:26,515 --> 01:00:29,475
Speaker 1: Fox reaction to his video gaslighting is the last thing

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Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch needs. With the dominion lawsuits still in full flower,

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Speaker 1: we do not know if there is a fourth tranch

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Speaker 1: of Fox texts and emails and other self owns being

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Speaker 1: sorted right now by the best damned defamation attorneys in

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Speaker 1: the world. But even if there isn't, there is an

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Speaker 1: ongoing legal fight over the Fox redactions from the first

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Speaker 1: three tranches. If Dominion gets a judge to order all

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Speaker 1: of those transcripts released again without those black boxes, it'll

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01:01:00,515 --> 01:01:04,515
Speaker 1: be like having three Christmases in two weeks and then surprise,

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01:01:04,875 --> 01:01:07,395
Speaker 1: you give back all the gifts and SATA hands you

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01:01:07,555 --> 01:01:13,035
Speaker 1: upgrades on every single one of them. The answer may

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01:01:13,075 --> 01:01:17,235
Speaker 1: actually be legal action, but not directed against Carlson for

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01:01:17,315 --> 01:01:21,715
Speaker 1: obstruction of justice dammit, nor Murdoch for defaming Dominion. But

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Speaker 1: late last week, to little fanfare, the New York State

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court refused to throw out the second defamation suit

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Speaker 1: against Fox by a voting machine company, and believe it

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Speaker 1: or not, the one by Dominion was considered the lesser

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Speaker 1: of the two. It merely asked for a billion six

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Speaker 1: in damages. Smartmatic Sgo Group is suing for two point seven,

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Speaker 1: and it is suing Fox and Maria Bartiromo by name,

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Speaker 1: and lou Dobbs by name and Rudy Giuliani by name,

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Speaker 1: because not only did they accuse Smartmatic of altering votes

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, but Fox regularly said smart Mattic was

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Speaker 1: a Venezuelan company in Cootes with various foreign governments, when

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Speaker 1: in fact Smart Mattic was created in that far off

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Speaker 1: exotic land Boca Raton, Florida. As with any sudden dead

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Speaker 1: stop like this, Carlson and Hannity and Ingram and who knows,

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Speaker 1: maybe the Department of Justice may have seen it coming

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Speaker 1: and buckled up, but lots of other people didn't, and

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Speaker 1: there is windshield trinkle all over the country. There are

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Speaker 1: still some people fully invested in the Carlson McCarthy video scam,

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Speaker 1: and the next question needs to be what, if anything,

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Speaker 1: can be done about those outside of Fox who were

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Speaker 1: or are still promulgating and spreading Tucker Carlson's attempt to

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Speaker 1: interfere with the prosecution of insurrectionists and terrorists, Those who

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Speaker 1: informally or otherwise joined Tucker Carlson's obstruction of justice brigade.

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Speaker 1: After four days of non stop bleeding about this, virtually

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Speaker 1: every Republican Congressman who had picked up the Carlson videos

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Speaker 1: and ran with them punted on it faster than he did.

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy said on Fox Sunday morning that the January

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Speaker 1: sixth committee was not truthful. That was it. He has

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Speaker 1: said nothing since. You may have seen that. After a

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Speaker 1: series of Elon Musk tweets reading free Jacob Chansley and

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Speaker 1: insisting January sixth was just a guided tour, I retweeted

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Speaker 1: him and asked readers to report one of those tweets

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Speaker 1: as the denial of a violent act. Musk escalated by

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Speaker 1: replying to me, have you considered a career in comedy?

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Speaker 1: I escalated again by answering, have you ever considered a

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Speaker 1: career in business? Saturday night came Musk's reply on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: I do hope to succeed in business, where the fingers

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Speaker 1: crossed emoji, which was not only not about Jacob Chansley

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Speaker 1: or January sixth in the slightest, but was definitely a

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Speaker 1: de escalation, was almost endearing and was kind of funny.

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Speaker 1: And Musk hasn't tweeted a thing about January sixth since

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Speaker 1: only doctor Paul Gozar, the Arizona congressman, vibrating with who

892
01:04:14,635 --> 01:04:19,275
Speaker 1: knows what neurological disease delirium tremens too much? Meth who knows?

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Speaker 1: Only doctor Paul Gozar is still carrying this banner. He

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Speaker 1: got up in front of some kid's microphone and said

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Speaker 1: he expects the House will make criminal referrals for the

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Speaker 1: prosecution of Liz Cheney, other members of the January sixth Committee,

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Speaker 1: some members of the military about the investigation. Doctor Gozar's

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Speaker 1: gelatinous stance reminded me again of my friend George Carlin's

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Speaker 1: greatest simple joke that mathematically, somebody on this planet is

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Speaker 1: the world's worst. Doctor George would pause and then add,

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Speaker 1: and somebody has an appointment to see him tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Gozar will see you soon. It could very well

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Speaker 1: be that tonight at eight o'clock, Tucker Carlson goes back

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Speaker 1: to the January sixth tapes and has all three of

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Speaker 1: Jacob Chansley's lawyers on, along with Jacob Zuma, Jacob de Gram,

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Speaker 1: and the ghost of Jacob Marley. But barring that, I

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Speaker 1: had two more flashbacks. Yeah, I have a lot of flashbacks.

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Speaker 1: I've told you, add nauseum here about the day the

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Speaker 1: chairman of General Electric threatened to shut down MSNBC if

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Speaker 1: we mentioned Fox again, and Fox mentioned him again, So

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Speaker 1: we simply didn't mention Fox again four weeks in hopes

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Speaker 1: that nobody would notice, and largely nobody noticed until I

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Speaker 1: wrote the truth Sorry, and even more relevantly this popped

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Speaker 1: into my head. I happened to be at the nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, at the height of

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Speaker 1: the Cold War with the Soviet Union, at perhaps the

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Speaker 1: hour where it seemed the most like we were not

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Speaker 1: winning the Cold War, the world's media had been housed

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Speaker 1: rather well thought in Lake Placid High School. My employer's

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Speaker 1: United Press International took over the chemistry lab, which was

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Speaker 1: great because if you opened the window of our little

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Speaker 1: sub office for the radio network, you were literally leaning

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Speaker 1: over the Olympic skating oval, on which Eric Heiden won

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Speaker 1: his five gold medals in nine days. The Soviet news

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Speaker 1: agency TASS had perhaps a better location in the media center. Still,

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Speaker 1: TASS was next to the school lunch room. The cafeteria

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Speaker 1: turned into the media dining room, with some of the

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Speaker 1: best food I have had in my life. If you

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Speaker 1: were hungry, and we were all hungry because the food

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Speaker 1: was that good, you necessarily had to walk right past

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Speaker 1: the Task Bureau, a beehive of dozens of journalists. I guess.

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Speaker 1: Then the United States Olympic hockey team beat the Russians

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Speaker 1: on Friday February twenty second. When we all got back

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Speaker 1: to the media center for the great dining room breakfast

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Speaker 1: of Saturday February twenty third, there was a crowd outside

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Speaker 1: the now locked door of the now unlit Task newsroom.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was reading this sign, handmade and taped on the

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Speaker 1: door by the handle. It read, closed are We. Witnesses

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Speaker 1: reported that the Task Team, every last one of them,

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Speaker 1: and every Soviet athlete not competing in the last two

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Speaker 1: days of the Olympics, had been trundled away in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the night, back to Russia, Russia where today

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Speaker 1: they happened to love Tucker Carlson, and where today it

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Speaker 1: may be the case that as far as anymore January

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Speaker 1: sixth gas lighting, or January sixth dire threats, or just

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Speaker 1: January sixth box coverage, that may all be summed up

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Speaker 1: by those same three words, closed are We. We could

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Speaker 1: go on like this forever, and in fact we might have.

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Speaker 1: But then came dominion and the texts of Carlson insulting

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Speaker 1: Trump and insulting all the Fox reporters and all the executives,

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Speaker 1: And what we didn't know, what was behind the black

952
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Speaker 1: lines of redaction was far far worse and led to

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Speaker 1: where we are today. The day Tucker Carlson stopped spouting

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories and became the victim of an actual conspiracy

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01:08:35,155 --> 01:08:40,435
Speaker 1: VT day victory over Tucker on April twenty fourth, I

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01:08:40,555 --> 01:08:52,795
Speaker 1: was so happy I sang about it the Tuckering and next,

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01:09:01,395 --> 01:09:05,915
Speaker 1: make no mistake, Tucker Carlson was just fired personally by

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Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch. The phrase breaking news has been overused beyond

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Speaker 1: all recognition, but this defines it breaking news and news broken.

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson has been fired by Fox and Rupert Murdoch

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Speaker 1: and the news site semaphores as his executive producer. Justin

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Speaker 1: Wells has also been fired by Fox, and Don Lemon

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Speaker 1: has been fired by CNN. And as to Carlson, Hallelujah, hallelujah,

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Speaker 1: Free at last. And Carlson was fired for two reasons,

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Speaker 1: one larger than the other because of what the Abbey

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Speaker 1: Grosberg misogyny and abuse lawsuit would reveal, and because of

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Speaker 1: what the dominion lawsuit proved. Tucker Carlson had already said

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Speaker 1: about Fox management, including Rupert Murdoch, who just personally fired

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson was fired because he somehow found

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Speaker 1: the line at an endemically sexist, abusive place like News

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Speaker 1: Corp and still managed somehow to cross that line. There

972
01:10:06,755 --> 01:10:10,755
Speaker 1: are tipping points for crap like this, even at Fox.

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Speaker 1: Ask Bill O'Reilly, ask Roger Ales, and I think ask

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. And he trashed his bosses in black and white.

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Speaker 1: He may have trash Murdoch. He certainly trash Murdoch's most

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Speaker 1: devoted aids. And you do not cross Rupert Murdoch within

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Speaker 1: News Corp and long survive, and you can be certain

978
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Speaker 1: he was fired because the Murdoch statement does not say

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Speaker 1: he was fired. It reads only Fox News Media and

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him

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Speaker 1: for his service. He agreed to part ways in exactly

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Speaker 1: the manner CEO Jeff Schell agreed to depart and BC

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01:10:49,915 --> 01:10:55,635
Speaker 1: yesterday they said you're leaving, and the other guy said, okay.

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Speaker 1: I mean when Fox fired me from its sports department

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01:10:59,795 --> 01:11:01,475
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, it gave me a more

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Speaker 1: fulsome farewell statement than Carlson just got. Included quotes from

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Speaker 1: me thanking my staff, and they gave me all the

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01:11:09,355 --> 01:11:12,355
Speaker 1: money they owed me. And there are clear indications Rupert

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01:11:12,435 --> 01:11:17,115
Speaker 1: does not intend to pay Tucker Carlson. The part about

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Speaker 1: firing his executive producer also gives more juice to the

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Speaker 1: explanation that this is mostly about that Abby Grosberg suit.

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Speaker 1: And while on Twitter this morning, I joked about Carlson's

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Speaker 1: firing and said that I did not see this coming.

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Speaker 1: Kind of did when the opening of the Dominion trial

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Speaker 1: was postponed by a day last week. I guessed here

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Speaker 1: that Dominion had even more eye popping evidenced against Fox,

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Speaker 1: and that could very well have been about Carlson, and

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Speaker 1: it could very well have been the result of the

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Speaker 1: more recent Grosberg suit. And now we are over the target.

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Speaker 1: To quote what I said on this podcast, somewhere there

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Speaker 1: was something else in the pile of items produced in Discovery,

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Speaker 1: something Dominion new it had, or something Dominion did not

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Speaker 1: know it had, that Fox suddenly knew Dominion had something

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Speaker 1: worse than Carlson saying he hated Trump, something worse than

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Speaker 1: all the executives threatening all the reporters who tried to

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Speaker 1: tell the truth, something that might have destroyed, if not

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Speaker 1: Fox itself, then a significant chunk of its franchise in

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Speaker 1: one fell swoop anyway, I still think there is still

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Speaker 1: some fatal there there. I'm actually not fond of quoting myself,

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Speaker 1: but a week ago tomorrow I kind of predicted which

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Speaker 1: part of the Fox franchise a dominion trial might have jeopardized.

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Speaker 1: Quote Hannity is hateful, garbage, and Ingram hasn't been all

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Speaker 1: there since nine to eleven. But I can't imagine there's

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Speaker 1: anything by them or about them that could sink Fox,

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Speaker 1: Quote News, or Murdoch or just their own shows. But

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson every night that eight o'clock comes around and

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Speaker 1: we do not hear a voiceover announcer say, Tucker Carlson

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Speaker 1: tonight won't be seen ever again because of the you

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Speaker 1: know we now welcome back Bill oh Riley. I'm surprised

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Speaker 1: any of us who ever worked with Tucker Carlson believed

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Speaker 1: he did not have skeletons in his closet. He had

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Speaker 1: a whole house made of nothing but closets. End Quote

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson Tonight won't be seen ever again because of

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Speaker 1: the you know lost in the understandable focus on the

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Speaker 1: parts of ex Carlson producer Grosberg's lawsuit that implicated Fox

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Speaker 1: in the dominion scandal was the second part of her

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Speaker 1: complaint that got Tucker Carlson fired Today that as a

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Speaker 1: woman at Fox, she was subjected to quote vile sexist stereotypes,

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Speaker 1: especially after she was moved from the Maria Bartiromo Show

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Speaker 1: to the Tucker Carlson Show. In her suit, she says

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Speaker 1: that the day she started on Carlson's show, her office

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Speaker 1: was plastered with images of Nancy Pelosi quote in a

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Speaker 1: plunging bathing suit revealing her cleavage. Grosberg also claimed that

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Speaker 1: before Michigan's Republican candidate for governor, Tudor Dixon, appeared on

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Speaker 1: their show in October last year, Carlson participated in a

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Speaker 1: mock debate in his office with his staff over whether

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Speaker 1: Dixon or the incumbent governor Greton Gretchen Whitmer was quote

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Speaker 1: hotter and more effable. This debate was moderated by Carlson's

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Speaker 1: editorial producer, Andrew Carmichael, who made several sexist remarks about

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Speaker 1: the two women's appearance and even polled the office on

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Speaker 1: their views. The same offensive discussion resurfaced when Ms Dixon

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Speaker 1: joined the show again weeks later. End quote in these discussions.

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Speaker 1: No woman, whether she was a Republican politician or a

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Speaker 1: female staffer at Fox News, was safe from suddenly becoming

1045
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Speaker 1: the target of sexist, demeaning comments, such as being called

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Speaker 1: a C word. Fox has had to pay and pay

1047
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Speaker 1: and pay for what O'Reilly did, what Ales did to

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Speaker 1: Gretchen Carlson, to Andrea Macris, to dozens of other women.

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Speaker 1: And you will recall Carlson's comments on a shock jock

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Speaker 1: radio show from two thousand and six through twenty eleven,

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Speaker 1: full of misogyny and underaged sex jokes and tinged with

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Speaker 1: racism and the not so funny frat boy humor that

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Speaker 1: has defined his fifty three years on this earth as

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Speaker 1: the kind of immature predator you often read about in

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Speaker 1: the newspapers under the heading will he be tried as

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Speaker 1: a child or as an adult? And let me quote

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Speaker 1: also from something buried deep in a New York Times

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Speaker 1: report after the settlement about how Dominion's attorney had planned

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Speaker 1: to begin his opening statement a week ago tomorrow. Quote,

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Speaker 1: a presentation of roughly sixty slides had been loaded into

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Speaker 1: the courtroom's audio visual system, some containing new damning revelations

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Speaker 1: from the private communications inside Fox New damning inside, more sexism,

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Speaker 1: more misogyny, an assault. Who knows. Maybe that's why Rupert

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Speaker 1: paid it off. Maybe that's why Rupert fired Tucker, and

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Speaker 1: ultimately Tucker Carlson's firing is actually about the dominion suit,

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Speaker 1: but not in the way one might first assume. The

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Speaker 1: texts and emails in the dominion suit discovery that we

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Speaker 1: saw also revealed a world in which Flatley Tucker Carlson

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Speaker 1: believed he ran Fox News and everybody else, including management,

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Speaker 1: including Murdoch, was there to do his bidding. There is

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Speaker 1: a very powerful News Corp. Executive vice president named Arena Braganti.

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Speaker 1: She has been there forever she used to do pr

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Speaker 1: for Fox News. She is as foul a human being

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Speaker 1: as I have ever encountered in this business. And Dominion

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Speaker 1: revealed an exchange between Carlson and Laura Ingram about the

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Speaker 1: debunking of the Trump lies about the twenty twenty election,

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Speaker 1: the debunkings they were so offended by. She is coordinating this.

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Speaker 1: Ingram texted Carlson about Briganti. Carlson replied, quote without question,

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Speaker 1: Irena hates Prime Time. Trust me, that's not speculation. End quote.

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Speaker 1: That tension between the executives and the quote unquote real

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Speaker 1: newspeople on the one hand and the primetime opinion hosts

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Speaker 1: on the other is constant and wearying and eternal in

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Speaker 1: cable news, no matter the decade, no matter the venue,

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Speaker 1: and it always ends the same way, with the opinion

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Speaker 1: host losing because they may make more money for management,

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Speaker 1: but they also produce more headaches, and they produce all

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Speaker 1: the lawsuits and all the in person complaints. Presumably there

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Speaker 1: was more evidence of Carlson slamming his bosses, maybe even

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Speaker 1: Murdoch himself in print or just in conversation, to say

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Speaker 1: nothing of the misogyny and the Grosberg issues. And remember

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Speaker 1: this management in television will always protect management.

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Speaker 3: Then.

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Speaker 1: I've often told the story of when I worked at

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Speaker 1: Fox and developed a sourced story that Rupert Murdoch was

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Speaker 1: going to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, and

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Speaker 1: nobody knew this. I did not know if I could

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Speaker 1: report it. It was Fox's candy store. It was their

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Speaker 1: right to tell me I could not report it on

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Speaker 1: their network. So I called Murdoch's personal PR unit and

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Speaker 1: those guys said, yes, you can report it. We don't

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Speaker 1: interfere if you think it's the real story as long

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Speaker 1: as you run our denial and as long as you

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Speaker 1: make it clear the story is not coming from inside

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Speaker 1: the company or the corporation. And I did all that,

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Speaker 1: and the denial and the disclaimer was twice as long

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Speaker 1: as the story, and two weeks later I was fired.

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Speaker 1: And ten years later Rupert Murdoch confirmed he had fired

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Speaker 1: me personally because he was so angry that I had

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Speaker 1: revealed his secrets, even though I had followed his rules

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Speaker 1: and asked before every step I took. And Tucker Carlson

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Speaker 1: has not followed Rupert Murdoch's rules. I am not defending Murdoch.

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Speaker 1: I am just here to explain him. In addition to that,

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Speaker 1: a month ago yesterday, the attorney for Ray Epps, the

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Speaker 1: man the right wing has universally speared as some kind

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Speaker 1: of FBI plant slash provocateur, on January sixth, wrote to

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Speaker 1: Carlson demanding a retraction. The lawyer asked for a retraction

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Speaker 1: for his quote false and defamatory statements, insisted on a

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Speaker 1: quote formal on air apology for the lies spread about

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Speaker 1: mister Epps by others and Carlson on Fox quote the

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Speaker 1: fanciful notions that mister Carlson advances on his show regarding

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Speaker 1: mister EPP's involvement in the January sixth insurrection are demonstrably

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Speaker 1: and already proven to be false, and yet mister Carlson

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Speaker 1: persists with his assault on the truth and if there

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Speaker 1: are any other minor components to this necessary. It's noteworthy

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Speaker 1: too that Carlson's January six video blockbuster charade with Kevin

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Speaker 1: McCarthy blew up, but it blew up mostly in his

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Speaker 1: own face. In addition to producing so little actual video

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Speaker 1: of any interest to anybody whatsoever that he had to

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Speaker 1: reuse most of it on two or three different shows.

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Speaker 1: Carlson used some of it to smear this EPs. As

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Speaker 1: late as last week, Carlson also made reference on air

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Speaker 1: to how many people did not believe that the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty election was legitimate, exactly the kind of playing with

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Speaker 1: fire that got Fox sued by Dominion Smartmatic, probably by

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Speaker 1: Ray Epps, and definitely by Abbi Grosberg. Last part, No,

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Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson was not fired as part of the Dominion settlement.

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Speaker 1: Dominion didn't even get a retraction, let alone an apology

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Speaker 1: or firings. What occurred in discovery for the dominion lawsuit

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Speaker 1: is a big part of this, But do not fall

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Speaker 1: for that logical fallacy B followed A, therefore a cause B.

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Speaker 1: Whatever the ultimate nuances proved to be. Tucker Carlson has

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Speaker 1: now completed an epic hat trick. Fired by CNN after

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Speaker 1: John Stewart humiliated him during a two thousand and four

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Speaker 1: episode of Crossfire, fired by MSNBC in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: eight after his audience shrank to a number smaller than

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Speaker 1: his staff, and fired by Fox in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: by Rupert Murdoch. Personally, I'll put my early money on

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Speaker 1: the Grosberg suit and women and misogyny and the insults

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Speaker 1: to Murdoch and his favorites. And then also that Fox

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Speaker 1: eternal question, why are we paying this guy thirty million

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Speaker 1: a year when we can get Pete Hegseth or Jesse

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Speaker 1: Waters or Deucey Junior to be just as stupid and

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Speaker 1: just as racist for a tenth of that. But lastly,

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Speaker 1: the big picture of today's shocking developments, Tucker Carlson is

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Speaker 1: off our televisions now at least. Fox may find somebody

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Speaker 1: worse they always have, but for now, at least for today,

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Speaker 1: for this week, for this month, Fox has toppled one

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Speaker 1: of the heroes of the fascist, racist right wing as

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Speaker 1: surely as they pulled down the statue of Sadam Hussein

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Speaker 1: in Iraq. It is useful to try to understand why

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Speaker 1: this happened, and I hope I've helped to explain it.

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Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch fired him any other questions, because really this

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Speaker 1: is a time to celebrate, to dance, to sing, to

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Speaker 1: exult in our Shotenfreud, so Oh, Nancy.

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Speaker 3: Rightime for Talk on Our Start, turn Fier, Jumcons, Dino Dinozoa,

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Speaker 3: bendun Feed, Bast Mood, Chick, got Man and Fell, dyn Froyde,

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Speaker 3: Sunt Free, Duncan and Faust.

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