Aug. 22, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| I'm just going in for a couple of interviews that I promised to do before I headed out of here. | ||
| But, you know, I hope we can have some interesting conversations. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| It'll be a short time here. | ||
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How are we doing? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Good seeing you guys. | ||
| Yeah, thank you. | ||
| Thank you guys. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Yeah, I hope it goes well. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And save the battery for like 10 minutes of Solid Live after this. | ||
| Is Benny with us? | ||
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Oh, there he is. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Hey. | ||
| Good to meet you. | ||
| I'm here to do a couple of interviews that I committed to do and then I'm headed down here. | ||
| Hey, that was rowdy out there. | ||
| Where are we headed? | ||
| How exciting. | ||
| Have you been inside here yet? | ||
| No. | ||
| No? | ||
| How is it? | ||
| Honestly, it's... | ||
| What? | ||
| I'm gonna go right back. | ||
| Huh? | ||
| He doesn't do it. | ||
| I'm gonna go right back. | ||
| Alright, ladies and gentlemen, we are on... | ||
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I'm going to take this to my interviews. | |
| Yeah, make sure I have it. | ||
| I'm going to sort something out with poor Eric, okay. | ||
| Well, the amazing part about being live is sometimes just got a lot of rift. | ||
| Cameraman Eric had a bit of an issue. | ||
| We're on our way to a... | ||
| News hit right now. | ||
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What up, team? | |
| What up, crew? | ||
| What's up, chat? | ||
| How we doing? | ||
| We are inside the DNC. | ||
| What will happen to us today? | ||
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We're rolling with the bake. | |
| And we'll be able to show you the whole setup here. | ||
| You can see the United Center. | ||
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Hey, Drew. | |
| One of the advantages of at least not doing it that way is you can work with... | ||
| We can clip some of the best stuff you've got afterwards. | ||
| Timely, though. | ||
| Timely. | ||
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Tomorrow. | |
| So think about what the best-looking stuff is and then grab that. | ||
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Okay. | |
| You've got to hop in and follow up with the crowd. | ||
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They were all... | |
| We've got 100,000 people watched you take on... | ||
| Oh, is that right now? | ||
| Are we live right now? | ||
| Yeah, we're live right now. | ||
| That was awesome. | ||
| So they watched you take on the mosque protesters. | ||
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What happened? | |
| I mean, it was pretty wild to be really honest with you. | ||
| I believe in practicing what I preach. | ||
| I believe in free speech. | ||
| And as long as it's peaceful, you get to say what you want in the country. | ||
| And so that's not... | ||
| You don't have to agree with me. | ||
| You don't have to like me. | ||
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So even if you don't like me, you're free to express yourself. | |
| And I wanted to show up and say that, you know what? | ||
| For any difference we might have, if we share that in common, we're at least good as Americans. | ||
| It got a little wild. | ||
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I mean, you saw some people who were like naked-naked, who were screaming. | |
| I got called a racist. | ||
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Hey! | |
| Good to see you, man. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Loving the DNC convention. | ||
| Yeah, you know, respect. | ||
| So I thought it was interesting. | ||
| I thought it was one of the more interesting things I've done. | ||
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And, you know, we've got to practice what we preach, you know? | |
| And a lot of these people saw us. | ||
| I bought the... | ||
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I bought the communist newspaper. | |
| But they charge five bucks for a piece, so I'm ten bucks out. | ||
| And they accept Venmo. | ||
| And they accept Venmo. | ||
| Dude! | ||
| Venmo is a... | ||
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They're a publicly traded capitalist company. | |
| They're on the side of the devil. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| And you want to walk around here after this interview a little bit? | ||
| Good luck in there. | ||
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Thanks. | |
| Hey, how are you guys? | ||
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Hey Fred, how are you? | |
| Good to see you. | ||
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Good to see you. | |
| So where are we going? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you guys. | |
| How are you guys doing? | ||
| Good to see you lately. | ||
| Let me just make sure I look at that. | ||
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Are you guys all looking at me? | |
| The protesters outside. | ||
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Security streaming, so, uh, and, uh, social media. | |
| You know, let's just put this on. | ||
| Yeah, usually brother. | ||
| What's up, people? | ||
| We're inside. | ||
| We told you we'd stream inside. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Why not? | ||
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So here we go. | |
| Is that okay here? | ||
| Let me see the mirror real quick. | ||
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This is the DNC. | |
| Everybody here to clap. | ||
| Like lobotomized seals for a lady who was in no way elected democratically. | ||
| I can report that people are boozing, though. | ||
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All right. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| All right, so you see the makeup there. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| He's going to do the news hit. | ||
| I'm not going to crowd in on the news hit. | ||
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I'm just turning off your mic. | |
| I can't even talk. | ||
| Oh, can you? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Got it. | ||
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There you go. | |
| You have to turn off his mic. | ||
| Did you turn off mine? | ||
| You got mine? | ||
| All good? | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Did you turn off his as well? | ||
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Okay. | |
| Hey, what's up, guys? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| We just said, what's the point here? | ||
| We're inside. | ||
| We said we'd just let her rip. | ||
| Like, I drink your milkshake, right? | ||
| They did everything they could to keep us out. | ||
| But we're in. | ||
| And we're going to have a great time. | ||
| We're going to have a great time. | ||
| We're going to do some trolling. | ||
| It's going to be fun. | ||
| So, this again, let me show you the convention floor here. | ||
| See there, DNC. | ||
| They got like a full band on stage, so I don't know what that's going to mean. | ||
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But, we out here. | |
| We got it. | ||
| We got in. | ||
| So, here's the funny little story on the way to getting into the DNC. | ||
| We applied for credentials. | ||
| They didn't give us credentials. | ||
| They initially credentialed us, and then they said, they looked at our channel, they looked at our channel, and they were like, no, we're not letting you into the DNC. | ||
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But, sucks to suck! | |
| And also, this is the United Center in Chicago. | ||
| Also, we're here with Vivek, which is fun. | ||
| We just went from a massive... | ||
| Protests at the DNC with Vivek, and it's very interesting times. | ||
| Can there be common cause? | ||
| I'm not exactly sure. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| Did I bring salt? | ||
| I'm reading comments, so drop comments. | ||
| I can see them on the screen. | ||
| Drop those comments. | ||
| Did I bring salt? | ||
| No. | ||
| Salt was on a list of banned things I was not allowed to bring. | ||
| Not allowed to bring any salt, sadly. | ||
| Although it would be very fun to salt all this. | ||
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Maybe we can digitally sprinkle some salt. | |
| There you go. | ||
| Debates were had at the protest. | ||
| It was pretty great. | ||
| Can you guys help me? | ||
| Hey, I can see the comments on screen. | ||
| Producers can put up the comments, I think. | ||
| Presumably. | ||
| You guys can see. | ||
| Help me sprinkle some salt. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| This will be a very legendary "salt that lid" moment. | ||
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Where we literally get all the libs together and salt all of them. | |
| There you go. | ||
| Simple ass. | ||
| Look at all the salt pouring in. | ||
| Thank you so much for all your salt. | ||
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I really appreciate it. | |
| I've been waiting for this moment. | ||
| It was actually one of the greatest moments of my life. | ||
| Getting the chance to salt all the libs at the same time. | ||
| So, again, live inside of the DNC convention, we have... | ||
| I hear you. | ||
| Oh, yeah, a lot. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| I mean, I bought communist literature. | ||
| Not empty. | ||
| Not totally full, but that's the way these things go. | ||
| You've got convention seats down on the floor there. | ||
| We've got, obviously, the news networks down here. | ||
| And you've got a big band that's like the... | ||
| The rumor is that, like, Beyonce or something is going to be on stage. | ||
| So you're going to get Beyonce. | ||
| This is, like, not... | ||
| This is not crazy. | ||
| This is to be expected. | ||
| Beyonce went and campaigned for Joe Biden, right? | ||
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So... | |
| Simple as. | ||
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Okay? | |
| Major news of the day. | ||
| Will RFK Jr. endorse Donald Trump tomorrow? | ||
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That would be a huge spoiler, obviously. | |
| For the DNC convention, there's now a big... | ||
| People have got to be out there praying, right? | ||
| There's now a big movement to not try and foil a RFK Trump endorsement unity ticket. | ||
| So, we'll see. | ||
| I guess we'll watch everything happen live tomorrow. | ||
| We are, again, live at the DNC, inside of the... | ||
| Belly of the Beast, as it were. | ||
| And I thank you all for helping me. | ||
| I thank you all for helping me, uh, salt the lid. | ||
| Why don't we take some questions? | ||
| I can see the chat. | ||
| Um, yeah, I don't have a disguise on like Matt Walsh. | ||
| Matt Walsh was here with a disguise. | ||
| I do not have any white dudes for Harris. | ||
| I have no white dudes for Harris, uh, swag, okay? | ||
| We'll take questions from the chat as again. | ||
| We await. | ||
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That's Vivek doing a news hit. | |
| So as we await, then we're going to walk around with Vivek. | ||
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So that's what we're going to do. | |
| So we'll take some questions from the chat. | ||
| Thank you for helping me with the salt. | ||
| Benny, was there a bigger crowd at the RNC or the DNC? | ||
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Well, I would say the RNC. | |
| And here's why. | ||
| I can show you, actually. | ||
| See, this entire area is all blacked out. | ||
| See that? | ||
| Entire area is all, you know, this is all blacked out, right? | ||
| So the RNC, the stage was in the middle. | ||
| The RNC, the stage was in the middle. | ||
| That I think provided for potentially more seating, right? | ||
| Will every seat in this, will every seat in the United Center be filled? | ||
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Well, I can tell you, I can show you, it's like pretty full, right? | |
| There are some delegates that look like they're not on the floor yet, but it's pretty full. | ||
| And it's Chicago, right? | ||
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People bust in here, right? | |
| Do they have any American flags? | ||
| That's a great question. | ||
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Let's go look. | |
| Let's look together, shall we? | ||
| I'm going to flip the camera around. | ||
| Tell me if you can spot, let's play, can you spot the American flag? | ||
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Delegates and guests, please take your seats. | |
| The program is about to begin. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Somebody says they're on stage. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Fact check true. | ||
| I see two flags. | ||
| Sorry for the shaky camera here. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, I am using my phone. | ||
| So I see two on stage. | ||
| I mean, we're trying to be fair here. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Here, I found one. | ||
| We're hunting for American flags. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Found one. | ||
| Lady wearing American flag stuff. | ||
| I'm sure where else we're going. | ||
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Where else are we going? | |
| Where's Waldo? | ||
| Where's the American flag? | ||
| Yeah, it's funny because there were a bunch of news clips out today. | ||
| And Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC was bragging about how many American flags there were, but I... | ||
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Guys, I don't really see any. | |
| I see some electronic hats. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| There's some ladies wearing electronic hats. | ||
| Three or four three-week stretches. | ||
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I mostly did it with him too, so we have a lot of good memories from that as well. | |
| That's about it. | ||
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Talk about your dog? | |
| My older one. | ||
| He has no clue, but my older one. | ||
| He's old enough to go. | ||
| Electronic cowboy hats, here we go. | ||
| Sorry for the shaky... | ||
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Sorry for the shaky cam. | |
| Again, we're just up on a cell phone here. | ||
| So, DNC... | ||
| Any social deficit? | ||
| That was your app. | ||
| We ended up making up for it. | ||
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Full 360, how about that? | |
| And dealing with people that were in the campaign. | ||
| That was cool. | ||
| And also with some victims from the campaign. | ||
| It's been, you know. | ||
| A lot. | ||
| A lot. | ||
| A million things. | ||
| Cool network there. | ||
| Thank you for the super chats. | ||
| I really appreciate that. | ||
| Thank you so much for the super chats. | ||
| We really appreciate our supporters. | ||
| We told you we'd come out here and make all the news. | ||
| I guess it's worth, you know, have you guys spotted any more? | ||
| Have you guys spotted any more American flags? | ||
| I have not. | ||
| There were announcers or commentators bragging about how many American flags there were here, but I don't see it. | ||
| I don't see it. | ||
| Maybe I'm blind. | ||
| We're just doing our best here. | ||
| Plenty of people whining. | ||
| Plenty of people whining and dining, though. | ||
| Ooh la la. | ||
| The oligarchs who kicked out Biden. | ||
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Who shiv their own president. | |
| The blackest of souls and the darkest of hearts. | ||
| Personal attacks. | ||
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So... | |
| In retrospect, it actually rattled me. | ||
| Very few American flags. | ||
| There's one. | ||
| This is how rare it was. | ||
| There were like American flags every like 10 seconds, 10 inches. | ||
| Ten centimeters. | ||
| There's a lady with an American scarf like Pashmina. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I think a lot of the people who I... | ||
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I told his team you gotta turn that off. | |
| Hot Mike Vivek. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| Might as well just show him. | ||
| These are good friends to tell you the truth. | ||
| This is Vivek doing his news hit. | ||
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I feel like people do not get to see the side of you that we know. | |
| Yeah, guys, I'm aware we got Vivek's mic on. | ||
| I just don't have... | ||
| Hey, how are you? | ||
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I don't have any way to turn it off from here. | |
| Are we going on pretty soon? | ||
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So maybe we just roll with Vivek's music. | |
| Yeah, I mean, I think the real me was maybe... | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I think the fighter's part of me too, but that's the side of the people side. | ||
| I'm a deeply competitive person. | ||
| And so when I got hit, it's like, and I didn't go after hitting any other people first, but when I rise, you know, it's politics. | ||
| It's predictable. | ||
| I think if I had been able to view the people who are hitting me as, you're still the citizens who I'm in this to lead, and treat them, I don't know the way a parent teaches a kid necessarily that has a condescending tone, but in the way that a leader treats somebody who they're trying to lead, the captain of the team leads his angry teammates, That I think would have been a path to actually probably winning the whole thing, actually. | ||
| And You think from long-term, It was like a shield that I created for myself. | ||
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I feel hit and this is a defense mechanism. | |
| And I think, very tactically, a mistake that I made was, I'm not sure I would have landed at the right conclusion, but possibly I would have. | ||
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I was going at such a speed, even before the first debate. | |
| This is idiotic. | ||
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I've been in nine states over the seven days ringing the debate. | |
| We're sure it's treated like a halftime show. | ||
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just like hang meditate you know. | |
| Anyway. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Hello fellow Democrats. | ||
| For the final season of the convention, I am more than pleased to pass the gap. | ||
| Co-chair, Representative Veronica Esquerra. | ||
| There we are. | ||
| They tried to stop us. | ||
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But we're in here. | |
| Oh boy. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| So. | ||
| Please stand if you are able for this evening's invitation offered by the American Federation of Government of Students. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Oh thank you. | ||
| Oh I really appreciate it. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Another spring. | ||
| Turn to God our Father, the creator of the universe. | ||
| Help us. | ||
| Help us to rise to heaven in unity and love. | ||
| The work of this land is monumental. | ||
| We must hear a call to feed the hungry, heal the sick, and comfort all who suffer. | ||
| We must comfort fear in justice and despair. | ||
| Our great democracy's foundation is our knowledge, That all are equal in God's eyes. | ||
| That righteous truth, your guilt of freedom and equality, are being questioned once again. | ||
| Yet what our poor fathers and mothers fought and died for? | ||
| They died on battlefields, in factories, on farms and cricket lines. | ||
| They died in chains. | ||
| They died for a better world. | ||
| Beloved Creator, all day, all this tonight. | ||
| Our democracy is now on the line. | ||
| In the months that remain, guide Vice President Harris and Governor Walz with your wisdom and your thoughts. | ||
| Eternal one, hear our prayer. | ||
| Set our hearts to fire that we may never weary in doing with your will. | ||
| I certainly hope they have it under wraps, and I think every American, whether they're on the left or on the right, should pray for this. | ||
| The way we should actually settle this. | ||
| Disagreement in American politics is at the ballot box, peacefully, in the way that we do as Americans. | ||
| And so that's my hope. | ||
| And we came within an inch, within a centimeter, of a near-national tragedy earlier this summer. | ||
| If we can agree on one thing on the left or right, let that be the worst possible thing that happened. | ||
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I don't many want. | |
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| They can cry and turn for our common man. | ||
| That is great. | ||
| Great nation. | ||
| I'm a nation to advance. | ||
| Oh, God, make us among those who see justice for all. | ||
| Oh, God, help us. | ||
| With humanity against. | ||
| Oh, God, better. | ||
| Each day. | ||
| Fear of gratitude. | ||
| And remember. | ||
| That's our home. | ||
| And I'm still. | ||
| This is the never be. | ||
| Well, first of all, what I want to say is that is a policy focused critique. | ||
| And what I'd love to hear from Kamala Harris, she'll have an opportunity to do it tonight, is what does she actually stand for? | ||
| Does she still stand for a tax on unrealized capital gains, as she has favored for the last several years? | ||
| Does she still believe in abolishing private health insurance? | ||
| Her words, not mine, from when she was a U.S. presidential candidate. | ||
| Does she believe in eliminating the filibuster, to ram the Green New Deal through, to eliminate the coal industry, and to ban cracking and offshore drilling? | ||
| Here's the problem. | ||
| We don't have the answers to those questions. | ||
| So the reason I think Republicans need to focus on policy, and Donald Trump's doing a good job of that, he did a great job of it today, is that we're not going hard enough at Kamala Harris for her policy positions. | ||
| Well, look, I want to say a few things about this. | ||
| First of all, it's only been a month since Kamala Harris even became the putative nominee. | ||
| She's not even yet formally the actual nominee. | ||
| So in many senses, this race has not yet begun. | ||
| Were Republicans on their back feet for a couple of weeks after Kamala Harris was switched in to be the presumptive nominee? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But I think Republicans have found their footing. | ||
| We've found our footing. | ||
| I was here today at the DNC having real open conversations. | ||
| I was even outside talking to many of the protesters. | ||
| And what I want to see is a Republican Party, and I believe we are this, that stands for free speech and open debate. | ||
| That you don't have to agree with 100% of what Donald Trump says in order to vote for him. | ||
| But there's a few issues that do matter to us. | ||
| Seal the border, grow the economy, end rampant crime in this country, revive national pride, and keep us out of World War III. | ||
| If you agree on that, then I think Donald Trump is the candidate of this cycle around. | ||
| And that's what we should be debating, is that policy vision for the future. | ||
| I want to make one more point on this, though, because it relates to the media as well. | ||
| I think the media did cover for Joe Biden for three years about his cognitive deficits. | ||
| And many in the media, I think, have been honest and reckoning with that. | ||
| Well, I think in the same way they covered for Biden's cognitive deficits, they're now covering for Kamala's policy deficits. | ||
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And I think American voters are going to hold the bag unless they fix that. | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | ||
| Coach, coach. | ||
| Coach. | ||
| Coach. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| This is a big clap. | ||
| Donald Trump has offered his policy vision in Virginia from everything from digital assets policy to crypto policy to foreign policy. | ||
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Well, look, I think that... | |
| We've got, which is the Marxist newspaper outside of the DNC, that they're selling for $5 a piece and they accept Venmo. | ||
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Just because they're selling it outside the DNC, does that mean Kamala Harris believes in it? | |
| The reality is... | ||
| After Paris divorced, she and her sister were raised by her mother with the help of friends and neighbors. | ||
| The reality is they've turned Project 2025 into the equivalent of this boogeyman like they had of Russian interference in the 2016 election. | ||
| That's what they're trying to create. | ||
| There's his political director. | ||
| Well, he says he goes into the inner city and what people are worried about is Project 2025. | ||
| I don't hear a single person on the south side of Chicago raising on their own that I'm worried about. | ||
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Be a fighter for things that matter and don't be limited by what has always been. | |
| So first of all, to remind people, my background was not in politics. | ||
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We built multi-billion dollar companies that lit the fire within. | |
| When I was in high school, I had a best friend who I learned was being molested. | ||
| Where you have both a high quality of discourse, which I think is missing on social media and in most of digital media, but where also viewpoints are represented across the world. | ||
| I think many of you here may see a similar opportunity for what it's like. | ||
| But I think demanding discourse across standard cultural or partisan or other political lines. | ||
| And that's missing today. | ||
| So I see an opportunity for a brand there that has really built great pipes for each people to maybe have a different brand. | ||
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More so. | |
| We're waiting through the propaganda to be done with the pit. | ||
| It looks like we can finally move now. | ||
| In 15 years, and I'm here, Matt, on the travel program, I'm just waiting. | ||
| I'm just waiting. | ||
| I'm just waiting for the hit. | ||
| I don't want to see it anyway. | ||
| Don't worry about it. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Salty, salty, salty. | ||
| ...to 10%. | ||
| Giving people... | ||
| ...the final job. | ||
| ...iflex with some distance, you know? | ||
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...with all these arms, right? | |
| Yeah, yeah, exactly. | ||
| We could turn it on for a while too. | ||
| It's not a crazy idea. | ||
|
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It's not a crazy idea. | |
| How to stop that crime from happening again. | ||
| It's the joy of the party. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| People need to say in public what they say at the dinner table. | ||
|
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That's a good thing for the country, so I appreciate it, man. | |
| Good to see you. | ||
| We've been here about 10 minutes. | ||
|
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Are you ready? | |
| All right. | ||
| Bye, guys! | ||
| I'll miss you. | ||
| Hey, thanks again, guys. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| We're just going to go somewhere else. | ||
|
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So triggered. | |
| They're so triggered. | ||
| That's so funny. | ||
| Where's Fox? | ||
| Fox, you have my credential? | ||
| I do. | ||
|
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Also, they enjoyed the party. | |
| Appreciate it. | ||
| The party of joy. | ||
|
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Hey, how are you? | |
| I started this year. | ||
|
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Oh, we did. | |
| We saw you. | ||
| Chicago Network, right? | ||
|
unidentified
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We're done with the hitter. | |
| And now we roll. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Let's go along for the ride. | ||
|
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No wonder, no wonder. | |
| What's up? | ||
| How we doing, man? | ||
| How was that interview? | ||
|
unidentified
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That's great. | |
| We're streaming. | ||
|
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What's up? | |
| Say hi to the stream. | ||
|
unidentified
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Hello, stream. | |
| What's up, guys? | ||
| Okay, was that a good interview? | ||
|
unidentified
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It was with me. | |
| You and Vivek? | ||
|
unidentified
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No, it was Vivek on the hill. | |
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| All right. | ||
|
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Uh-oh. | |
| Mavec got a boo. | ||
| Oh, sorry. | ||
| I kicked a... | ||
| I literally kicked a bucket. | ||
| Mavec got booed. | ||
|
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Sure, sure. | |
| You're not too far ahead of us, right? | ||
|
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Thank you, man. | |
| What's your name? | ||
| Max. | ||
| Max, good to see you. | ||
| Where are we at? | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
|
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Here we go. | |
| Good seeing you. | ||
| Hey! | ||
| Dude, you're getting selfies around. | ||
| You've got some love. | ||
| You've got some love in the DNC that's going to ruin your rep, dude. | ||
| It's national unity, man. | ||
|
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You've got to ruin your rep. | |
| Young people who are just like, you know what? | ||
|
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Hey, good to see you. | |
| How are you? | ||
| We're making friends everywhere. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It's America. | ||
| That's the beauty of it. | ||
|
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That's the beauty of it. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Yeah, so I kind of like that. | ||
| You know, people who like to spar a little bit, but also can be friends about it. | ||
|
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That's good. | |
| Uh-oh. | ||
| See? | ||
| You're getting a good... | ||
| Is it right here? | ||
|
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No. | |
| We've got to take the stairs. | ||
| Oh, we've got to? | ||
|
unidentified
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Okay. | |
| We're going to take the stairs. | ||
| We're going to take the stairs. | ||
|
unidentified
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Yeah, thanks. | |
| Actually getting, like, a good reception. | ||
| You're getting a good reception. | ||
|
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I'm actually pleasantly surprised. | |
| It's actually better than at the protest. | ||
| Although some of that was interesting, too, actually. | ||
| It's been a fascinating day. | ||
| Again, what is a good-faith argument? | ||
| Like, are people having a good-faith argument? | ||
| Are they trying to hurt you? | ||
| Or are they just, like, kind of curious? | ||
| I think there's all of the above, right? | ||
| So you see all the above there. | ||
| Hey. | ||
|
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So let's, so, so, So I'm going to do this one more interview because I've committed to it. | |
| So we'll do this one more and then maybe we'll walk around a little bit. | ||
| Just talk to people. | ||
|
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Why not? | |
| I actually think we'll have some good faith conversation and then I'm going to get on my plane and get home. | ||
| People are rolling. | ||
|
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They love this. | |
| That's good. | ||
| They love this. | ||
| What are we on? | ||
|
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You two? | |
| Yeah, we're across everything. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| And I think on your channel too. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Oh, excellent. | ||
| Good. | ||
|
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All right. | |
| So the reception walking into the DNC, I saw a group of like... | ||
| Very low testosterone dudes boo you. | ||
| I saw that too. | ||
| They're very salty. | ||
| Some salty people were hissing at me when I was live streaming. | ||
| But otherwise... | ||
| Yeah, but it's a mix. | ||
| You got a couple selfies? | ||
| Yeah, mostly people don't love me, but some who are actually outright hostile, but most who are pretty decent, and a couple are like, "I love you, dude." I'm like, "Oh, really?" "Really?" "That sounds great." Were they delegates? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| They tend to be young. | ||
| Seems like... | ||
| Younger guys. | ||
| A couple of them were, at least. | ||
| It seemed like it. | ||
| There is a... | ||
| There are more people here than I thought there were going to be. | ||
| I think it was last night, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is the signature night. | ||
| Apparently, Beyonce's going to be here. | ||
|
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Where are we going? | |
| We're going to roll, man. | ||
| We're rolling. | ||
| Through the DNC with Vivek. | ||
|
unidentified
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Let's go. | |
| Let me flip you around. | ||
| You guys can watch. | ||
| Point of view. | ||
|
unidentified
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Here we go. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Where are we going? | ||
| Is it another? | ||
|
unidentified
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Okay. | |
| Through the what? | ||
|
unidentified
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Thank you, sorry. | |
| We're speeding. | ||
| What are we doing against that? | ||
| Just interviews I committed to. | ||
|
unidentified
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Go ahead. | |
| Don't be there coming to wait. | ||
| No. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Right here? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Hey! | ||
| How are you, man? | ||
|
unidentified
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Nice to see you. | |
| How you been? | ||
| It's kind of an interesting setting here. | ||
|
unidentified
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Cool. | |
| Where we headed? | ||
|
unidentified
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Cool. | |
| Perfect. | ||
| All right, you got it. | ||
| Cool, thank you. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| thank you all thank you yes happy thursday thank you How are you? | ||
| I'm running in for an interview. | ||
| Well, quick one, quick one. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
|
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Yep. | |
| Thank you. | ||
|
unidentified
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What are you doing here? | |
| Well, we do. | ||
|
unidentified
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And then I'm heading out. | |
| Why don't you look for... | ||
|
unidentified
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So we're going to chill. | |
| Hi. | ||
| I hope it's a policy. | ||
| I don't think we're going to find it. | ||
|
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But I do think that it would be good for the country if we actually have two different policy visions for the country. | |
| She hasn't offered any policies. | ||
| If she does, it's going to be good for the country. | ||
| If not, I think the country's worse off for it. | ||
| Which is always a fascinating thing. | ||
| Because you know you can pay as much tax as you want. | ||
| The federal government won't stop you from paying extra tax. | ||
| Take actual accountability. | ||
| So why we need to make that a thing, you know, it's like... | ||
| Your responsibility. | ||
| That's not what a true leader does. | ||
| Let's check. | ||
| What up, guys? | ||
| We're live. | ||
| If you're just joining us, we're inside the DNC. | ||
| We're rolling with the Vague. | ||
|
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We're having a talk. | |
| We've been yelled at, booed at, spit on a little bit. | ||
| But otherwise, there's been some very nice people. | ||
| Is he doing a hit in there? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| Okay, so we are not allowed to go back there. | ||
|
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But let's get the stream rolling and see what's up. | |
| I'll show you guys what's going on. | ||
| So, I was just told by his team. | ||
| He's going on Laura Ingram? | ||
| Laura Ingram? | ||
| Do you know when the hit is? | ||
|
unidentified
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Six o 'clock. | |
| Six o 'clock? | ||
| What time is it? | ||
| Okay, what time is it now? | ||
| It's 5:29? | ||
|
unidentified
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Cool. | |
| I mean, I'm a helpless millennial, right? | ||
| I'm using my phone. | ||
| So, what can you do? | ||
| We are locked in here and alive. | ||
| We can just walk around. | ||
| We can walk around and see people. | ||
| I can show you guys where we're at right now. | ||
| But they're doing a Laura Ingraham hit. | ||
| He has a Laurie Ingram hit in eight minutes. | ||
| So if you're watching Fox, you can go ahead and, well, I guess see him over on Fox. | ||
| I have a feeling that Laurie Ingram is not, uh, Laurie Ingram is not, um, greeted kindly around here. | ||
| But nonetheless, here we are. | ||
|
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They tried to keep us out, but we in here. | |
| So, we're waiting. | ||
| Maybe we should just wander around a little bit, right? | ||
| I'm going to sit here and read the chat, okay? | ||
|
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So, here's where we are. | |
| We're inside a little bunker area. | ||
| Back there is the Fox Studios, not allowed to go in there. | ||
| Nobody's allowed to go in there, so they take them back and that's it, right? | ||
| So, this is now where we are. | ||
| Let's read the chat. | ||
| We've promised you guys that we would go live inside the DNC, walk around, and get rowdy. | ||
| So let's do that. | ||
| What do we want to do? | ||
| I know I'm not hiding my identity. | ||
| I've got a little jacket on, but I kind of look the way I always look. | ||
|
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Some people got very, very salty at me earlier when we were streaming. | |
| But we're good now. | ||
| So what are we going to do? | ||
| You want to walk around? | ||
| I love you back. | ||
| Badass, here we are. | ||
|
unidentified
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I like it because they told us... | |
| I like it because they told us no. | ||
| Right? | ||
|
unidentified
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Yeah. | |
| So I drink your milkshake. | ||
| It's like, hey, I drink your milkshake. | ||
|
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Vivek. | |
| Okay, so how's the reception for Vivek meant? | ||
| Vivek's been good, actually. | ||
| The reception for Vivek's been good. | ||
| So we did a lap, you know, we did a lap through the arena, and we'll do another one. | ||
| He's going to be done with his hit. | ||
| Fox hits are normally around, you know, three, four minutes, where he's going to be done with his hit, and then we're going to, you know, walk around a little bit. | ||
| We'll walk around a little bit, and you'll be able to see sort of how he's treated around here and how we're treated around here. | ||
| The worst I saw... | ||
| Some guy got up in his face and started yelling at him, and a group of young dudes started booing him. | ||
| Just low-T activities. | ||
| But let's walk. | ||
| The thing is, I don't want to get separated from the group, but I think we have time to walk. | ||
| I think we have time to walk around a little bit. | ||
| You guys want to see some stuff? | ||
| You guys want to see some stuff? | ||
| Yeah, what's up, chat? | ||
| I'm trying to read the comments right now. | ||
| I'm seeing them. | ||
| What's up, veterans? | ||
| We love you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We love you back. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| We're out here. | ||
|
unidentified
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No one will work harder to tell the truth. | |
| No one will work harder. | ||
| Yo, yo, yo. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
|
unidentified
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Here we go. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Read in the comments. | ||
|
unidentified
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Here we go. | |
| All right. | ||
| Shall we just go around? | ||
| Why don't we just go around and I'll show you guys the faces of the DNC. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| I'm gonna... | ||
| I'm gonna walk around and... | ||
|
unidentified
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I'm gonna walk around. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| How long do you think it's gonna be? | ||
| 6:10. | ||
| 6:10. | ||
|
unidentified
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Okay. | |
| I'm gonna do a lap. | ||
| I'm gonna do a lap. | ||
|
unidentified
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You guys got like 10 minutes? | |
| Yeah? | ||
| Okay, cool. | ||
| And then he can tell you when he's done. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| We're gonna go people watching. | ||
| Who wants to go people watching? | ||
| Who wants to go people watching? | ||
|
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It's dimmit Axle Rod! | |
| It was David Axelrod, I think. | ||
| He just didn't have the mustache, so it caught me on guard. | ||
| I thought he had the mustache. | ||
|
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Wait, it's one of them. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| People watching at the DNC, let's do it. | ||
| What should we ask people? | ||
| This is a choose your own adventure. | ||
| What should we ask people? | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| That was a good reception, actually. | ||
|
unidentified
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Yeah. | |
| A couple selfies. | ||
| A couple hisses. | ||
| No big deal. | ||
|
unidentified
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No big deal. | |
| What should we ask? | ||
| The faces of the DNC. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Live walking around. | ||
| Maybe we'll do a lap. | ||
| Oh god, it's Randy Weingarten. | ||
| Oh no! | ||
| My, oh man, my nightmare. | ||
| If Randy Weingarten was the last woman in the world, I would be running to the moving vasectomy bus. | ||
| Running, sprinting, jumping, diving. | ||
| Onto that bus. | ||
| Alright, here we go. | ||
|
unidentified
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We're walking. | |
| I appreciate what you're doing. | ||
| Yo, what's going on, man? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, of course. | ||
|
unidentified
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you, homie. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| It's so cool. | ||
|
unidentified
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It's so cool. | |
| I'm not going to put the guy on blast. | ||
| This has happened all week. | ||
| Cops, firefighters here in Chicago coming up being like, yo, what's up, man? | ||
| Fist bump. | ||
| Being like, hey, love you. | ||
|
unidentified
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We love what you guys do. | |
| So can I get it in the chat? | ||
| Can the chat say, can the chat shout out to, like, the cops and firefighters? | ||
|
unidentified
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Get some love for the cops and firefighters. | |
| That's right. | ||
|
unidentified
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Oh, sweet. | |
| Look at that. | ||
| No. | ||
|
unidentified
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Badass. | |
| Task Force. | ||
| DEA Orlando. | ||
|
unidentified
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Sweet. | |
| Put this on. | ||
| Oh, we can wear this. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Now they can't remove me. | ||
|
unidentified
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Sweet. | |
| All right. | ||
| All right. | ||
|
unidentified
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We're dancing. | |
| Got like private parties over here. | ||
| The mayor's pubs. | ||
| It's got to be like a mayor of Chicago pub situation. | ||
| Snacks. | ||
| Southern style chicken tender basket. | ||
|
unidentified
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Crinkle cut fries and some sodas. | |
| So we got southern style tenders basket. | ||
|
unidentified
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That's what's being sold here. | |
| All right. | ||
| $16 for fried chicken. | ||
| $16. | ||
|
unidentified
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Here we go. | |
| The faces of the DNC. | ||
| The faces of the DNC. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| The memes are correct. | ||
| The faces of the DNC. | ||
| Shout it out. | ||
| Faces of the DNC. | ||
| We're doing a lap. | ||
| We'll see if we get kicked out. | ||
| Oh, is there a gender neutral? | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
|
unidentified
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Ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| The gender neutral... | ||
|
unidentified
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Can you be a producer on my team, actually? | |
| My producer got bounced, actually. | ||
| My producer got bounced. | ||
| My camera got bounced. | ||
|
unidentified
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The gender neutral prayer room. | |
| Right where... | ||
| This is where, historically, gender-neutral prayer rooms are inside of pizza places. | ||
| So, we have a deep-dish pizza place that doubles as the gender-neutral prayer room. | ||
|
unidentified
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Okay? | |
| Are you serious? | ||
|
unidentified
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Like a thing of Lysol? | |
| Like a thing of Lysol and then two carpets. | ||
| Alright, the gender-neutral prayer room. | ||
| So, here's what gender-neutral prayer rooms are at the DNC. | ||
|
unidentified
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We have Lysol, rugs, deep-dish pizza. | |
| Okay? | ||
| You can have it all. | ||
| You can have it all. | ||
|
unidentified
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This is unbelievable. | |
| Whoa. | ||
| Okay, alright. | ||
| Well, they have gendered prayer rooms, men and women, and then they have gender neutral. | ||
| And again, like all holy sites, they must be under the glow of deep dish pizza. | ||
|
unidentified
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Alright. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| Whoa, mama. | ||
| The faces of the DNC. | ||
| Let's go people watching. | ||
| People watching with your boy Benny. | ||
| Shout it out. | ||
| I'm reading the comments. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Here we go. | |
| And for anyone who's just joining, we're inside of the DNC. | ||
| We are live. | ||
| We're giving you a tour of the human beings that are here. | ||
| How many of them are delegates? | ||
| I would say the most of them. | ||
| There's going to be some media sprinkled in here. | ||
| But most of them are delegates or like actual, you know, Democrats, like real-life Democrats. | ||
| Okay? | ||
|
unidentified
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What do you think? | |
| What do you think? | ||
| I would say probably rolling on an average of like a three. | ||
|
unidentified
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Okay? | |
| Rolling average of a three in the attractiveness scale. | ||
| Whereas the RNC was probably a rolling average of a seven. | ||
| If I'm being... | ||
| Perfectly honest and general. | ||
| Look at that beautiful, beautiful boa. | ||
| Look at you. | ||
|
unidentified
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Wow. | |
| But she's wearing a mask. | ||
|
unidentified
|
So deduct all the boa points. | |
| But she's wearing a mask. | ||
| So we deduct points. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yep. | |
| Got to turn back? | ||
| Should we just continue our lap around? | ||
| Or should we go... | ||
| 610? | ||
| Why don't we just power walk? | ||
| I'm a fast walker. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Want to power walk? | |
| All right. | ||
| So if you're just joining us, we are live at the DNC. | ||
| Vivek is finishing his Fox News hit. | ||
| And so we're going to power walk back to Vivek. | ||
| We are showing you the sights and sounds of inside of the DNC convention. | ||
| Not a single person bothered by the fact that they took their... | ||
| Their president and threw them into the trash compactor. | ||
| No one's bothered. | ||
| No one's even crying. | ||
| There's a very, very rare American flag. | ||
| So Joe Biden down bad. | ||
| I see no Biden swag at all here. | ||
| But we are rolling. | ||
|
unidentified
|
We are rolling. | |
| There we go. | ||
| And we're going back to meet up with Levesque right now. | ||
| He's done with his fox hit. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
|
unidentified
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Oh, man. | |
| So many interesting human beings. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| They're real life. | ||
| Again, I'm not saying every one of these people. | ||
|
unidentified
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Sorry about that. | |
| I'm not saying it. | ||
| Sorry about that. | ||
| I'm not saying every one of these people are DNC delegates. | ||
| I think the vast majority don't know. | ||
| There are some reporters and some media types sprinkled in here. | ||
| But I think the vast majority are Democrat, Democrat donors. | ||
|
unidentified
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So this is what you see. | |
| What you see is what you get. | ||
| I recognize that. | ||
| We walk right past that. | ||
|
unidentified
|
A little glow wall there. | |
| Alright, how are we doing, guys? | ||
| What do you think? | ||
|
unidentified
|
What do we got here? | |
| Okay. | ||
| We got the stream rolling. | ||
| We got the chat rolling. | ||
|
unidentified
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Can't believe we have not been kicked out yet. | |
| I'm trying to be polite, though. | ||
| I don't know if the chat's being polite. | ||
| I doubt it, actually. | ||
| But we are rolling. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Here we go. | |
| Holy moly. | ||
|
unidentified
|
Oh, no. | |
| It's the TikTok one. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Oh wow. | ||
| So sad. | ||
| I think that was David Hogg. | ||
| Can we be mean to David Hogg again? | ||
|
unidentified
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Is that allowed? | |
| There's your guy. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| And we're back. | ||
| We did our lap. | ||
| Use the restroom? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yep, sure. | |
| Use the restroom. | ||
| Are you guys coming back down here? | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| What's that? | ||
|
unidentified
|
I think we'll pop the smoke after this. | |
| We're out of here? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, okay. | ||
| Or do you want to smoke? | ||
|
unidentified
|
No, no. | |
| You want to smoke? | ||
|
unidentified
|
Yeah. | |
| We're out of here. | ||
| I'm from Tampa. | ||
| I have a weakness for cigars. | ||
|
unidentified
|
That sounds so bad right now. | |
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| Are you good? | ||
| I'm good. | ||
| Our car's around here somewhere. | ||
| Our car's somewhere around here, so. | ||
|
unidentified
|
here we go all right Live from the DNC. | |
| So Vivek told me... | ||
|
unidentified
|
Here we go. | |
| We're just... | ||
| People watching. | ||
| You know, I like... | ||
| This is obviously really popular. | ||
| I just... | ||
| We just set this up next time. | ||
| Just set up a people-watching camera. | ||
| And everyone can just roast... | ||
| Everyone can just roast everybody else. | ||
| Run away, Benny. | ||
| Oh, did we get Vivek again? | ||
| Is Vivek here? | ||
| We're picking up his microphone again, I'm hearing? | ||
| So is he here? | ||
|
unidentified
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Let's go find out All right All | |
| right Here we are | ||
| Buzz Buzz, your girlfriend. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| People watching. | ||
| People watching at DNC. | ||
| So, here's what they've told me is that the Vague's done with his hit. | ||
| That he's coming here, and we're going to walk around. | ||
| What will happen? | ||
| Well, we were at a protest just moments ago, and the guy was nearly eaten alive. | ||
| So, there's that. | ||
| I think it'll be more civilized here. | ||
| But you never know. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You never know. | ||
| So, there were some people that got really angry at us while we were sitting there streaming, just chilling. | ||
| They were all going to... | ||
| Call security, but we had every right to be there, and you could film because this is America. | ||
| So those people didn't like us at all, but the cops loved us. | ||
| So, you know, they're like, we're going to call the cops, but the cops are running around giving us patches, like stopping us as we walk. | ||
| Now, we can't put them on film because they're in uniform, so you'll have to trust me, but I've never lied to you. | ||
| The cops, like, it's like probably the 50th time that we've been stopped by a firefighter. | ||
| This last time was a firefighter or a cop. | ||
| And just told thank you for what we do. | ||
| So, a light in the darkness. | ||
| Isn't that the goal? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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That's the goal. | |
| So, ladies and gentlemen, that's where we are right now. | ||
| And that is what we are doing currently. | ||
| We're in a holding pattern. | ||
| I'm not sure if you guys can still hear the mic. | ||
| We are mic'd up. | ||
| These are my microphones. | ||
| We're mic'd up because you wouldn't be able to hear anything. | ||
| Otherwise, there's a low din in here. | ||
| So, did we all like people watching at the DNC? | ||
| Did we like that? | ||
| Does it smell like cat piss? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| Christ is king, that's right. | ||
| Christ is king. | ||
| Some people can hear Vivek, maybe some can't. | ||
| We're just going to let it roll, you know? | ||
| Like we've come this far? | ||
| Might as well. | ||
| Just going to let it roll. | ||
| Hey, I really want to say thank you. | ||
| There's Alex. | ||
| Alex left a $99 super chat. | ||
| Farmers for Trump. | ||
| God bless you, Alex. | ||
| His name's Alex Proctor. | ||
| Thank you, Alex. | ||
| We appreciate you. | ||
| Super chats. | ||
| Memberships. | ||
| Signing up for the Bang Brigade. | ||
| Little ways. | ||
| That costs less than a value meal at Chick-fil-A. | ||
| Keep us going. | ||
| So we just say thank you. | ||
| We love all y 'all. | ||
| So yeah, we're here. | ||
| They told us we couldn't come, but here we are. | ||
| Special time. | ||
| Here, here's some interesting stuff. | ||
| I don't know what... | ||
| This is how they get the bags. | ||
| This is how they get the bags with the placards in. | ||
| You remember, like, the little placards that they hold up? | ||
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This is how they get those in there. | |
| Oh, but Vague's on TV right now. | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
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All right. | |
| We are staying safe. | ||
| We appreciate that. | ||
| We do have a wonderful security team here with us in case somebody decides to get a little too rowdy. | ||
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It was hot outside of the protest. | |
| I can tell you that for sure. | ||
| Hot outside of the protest. | ||
| Everyone wants me to give people MAGA hats, but I do not have a MAGA hat with me. | ||
| Now that would have been exciting. | ||
| What was I thinking? | ||
| That would have been great content. | ||
| That would have been great content. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Well, what can you do, you know? | ||
| What can you do? | ||
| I wore a MAGA hat to the DNC. | ||
| What's happened? | ||
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Alright. | |
| So... | ||
| I mean, listen. | ||
| What's as good, if not bad, from wearing a MAGA hat to the DNC is just wandering around with a Vakron swimming. | ||
| So, there you go. | ||
| Can you guys check? | ||
| I'm just going to keep the stream up and I'm using my phone, so I actually don't have a secondary device. | ||
| Sadly, my producer was at the door. | ||
| They told him his credential was no good, so they turned him away. | ||
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So there you go. | |
| So anyway, I'm without a phone. | ||
| Is Vivek on TV right now? | ||
| He would be on Laura Ingraham's show on Fox. | ||
| Let me know. | ||
|
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Laura Ingraham's show on Fox. | |
| A lot of people asking how it smells. | ||
| Not great, honestly. | ||
| Not good. | ||
| Somebody just commented, Charlie Kirk made Kamala tremble with desire. | ||
|
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I don't even know what that means. | |
| White girls for Trump. | ||
|
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there you go What's up, guys? | |
| What's up? | ||
| Well, you'll be able to see here, you know, sort of on TV, off TV. | ||
| You know, just be able to vibe with it. | ||
| And I don't know, I mean, we could do other content, you know, we could, like, film Man on the Street stuff here, but that's kind of, like, technically what we're doing. | ||
| And it's fun to do it while live. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It's more fun to just do it while you're live, right? | ||
| So, just let her rip. | ||
| We're standing over here in a little corner, right, waiting outside of the Fox Studios. | ||
| There's a man carrying the sandbags. | ||
| He just saluted me, so I don't know what that means. | ||
| Maybe he's a fan. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| All the working-class people, so we've been hissed at, some people yelled at us. | ||
| All the working-class people that are here, the cops, firefighters, the guy carrying the sandbag right there that I just filmed, and I'm deigned to, like, put the guys in uniform on. | ||
| The feed, because they're not supposed to do that, right? | ||
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You know, when you're in uniform. | |
| Oh, are you guys wrong? | ||
| They're not going to walk at all? | ||
| Not going to walk around anymore? | ||
| Go for it. | ||
| Go for it. | ||
| Take yours. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, I mean, it makes no difference to me. | |
| Okay. | ||
| This is the cameraman for VIX team. | ||
| Who seems like a nice guy. | ||
| Haven't worked with them before. | ||
| The faces of the Democrat Party. | ||
|
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There we go. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Hey, guys. | ||
| Sound? | ||
| Can we get any audio? | ||
| Sound? | ||
| Yeah? | ||
|
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Got it? | |
| Yes? | ||
| Yay. | ||
| Okay, got it. | ||
| Well, got it. | ||
| Ready to rock. | ||
|
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Yep. | |
| And it ends back. | ||
| Now it's back. | ||
| Hey, guys. | ||
| Sorry about that. | ||
| Let me explain to you what happened. | ||
| It's not a... | ||
| Everyone's calling me a boomer. | ||
| I see the chat. | ||
| I see that there's no audio. | ||
| I got a face... | ||
|
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A call, phone call, FaceTime call. | |
| What that does is it glitches. | ||
| It glitches the feed. | ||
|
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So you need to hop in, stop the call, jump back in, toddle, and now we're back. | |
| So here we go. | ||
|
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Hey, can they hear me? | |
| How'd that go? | ||
|
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How are you? | |
| Good, good, good. | ||
| It was pretty good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The cops are our friends. | ||
| The cops are our friends. | ||
| We were stopped like four times. | ||
|
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Please, also. | |
| Hey! | ||
| I just want to tell you one thing. | ||
| We need to have a bathroom. | ||
| I'm just walking right. | ||
| Can I tell you a story? | ||
| Ben, I need to go down here. | ||
| So we got death threats. | ||
| We got death threats after the thing you said. | ||
| So that's Van Jones for you. | ||
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He's somebody who said that this guy's got your ass 50 years. | |
| We get death threats. | ||
|
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And you know what? | |
| It pains us sort of sympathetic exterior. | ||
|
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But he's really a vengeful, superficial. | |
| It's too bad. | ||
|
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He's not really representing a lot of people here. | |
| What most people are at this point is... | ||
| Can you remind me what was it that he said? | ||
|
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What was the comment? | |
| Yeah, so he says this guy, Yachtra's gonna be long gone, this guy's gonna be here for 50 years in the Gemagon, he's fighting, after that, he can get a witness in that place. | ||
| It's almost as though it sort of works in concert with their side of the Lord, obviously. | ||
| He gets exactly what he's doing. | ||
| Is the audio better? | ||
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Talk off record for a second. | |
| Leave us for a second. | ||
|
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On air. | |
| I actually don't swear. | ||
| I did it very intentionally that one time. | ||
| And I want you to just know about it because I think it's important. | ||
| So you were on air and you said that he's a demagogue, he's dangerous, he's going to be out for 50 years long after Donald Trump's gone. | ||
| So the first time in the campaign we get a death threat of a man who wants to show up in New Hampshire. | ||
| Thankfully the police intervene got it the next day. | ||
| The next day. | ||
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Back to back. | |
| This is my wife. | ||
| Scared enough. | ||
| The next day we wake up, it's 3 a.m., and we get a call from him. | ||
| He's my security guard saying, thank God you picked up because we just got a call and somebody showed up at your house and has four dead bodies. | ||
| So that's within 48 hours, and I'm not going to attribute that to your comment because whatever it is, but for our family, you know what? | ||
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Publicly I didn't do it, but for our family, yeah, it pissed us the heck off, actually. | |
| And so the reality is I don't try to engage in rhetoric that gets other people. | ||
| In danger of bodily harm. | ||
| But I do think that if somebody's gonna... | ||
| Even if you didn't intend to provoke that kind of ire on my family, yeah, in that week it landed with me. | ||
| Now, at the same time, am I gonna... | ||
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Test, test. | |
| Do I want to set a good example for people in this country of what discourse looks like? | ||
| I do. | ||
| In the heat of a presidential campaign, and I've been open about it since I left the campaign as well. | ||
| My competitive spirits, you know, sometimes stop us from being able to have the level of discourse we want. | ||
|
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And I think you were wrongfully pushed out of the White House for your comments around 9 /11, way back when as well. | |
| They were misconstrued. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
|
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So what I will tell you is this. | |
| Call yourself. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So I just wanted you to know that backdrop. | ||
| That's my personal song. | ||
| Don't get to anybody else. | ||
|
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I will call you in a couple days. | |
| Okay. | ||
| We don't need to do any of this on air. | ||
|
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And you know what we can do? | |
| You can turn the page and maybe have a chapter to demonstrate what actual good discourse looks like in this country. | ||
|
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And that's not just on you. | |
| That's on me as well. | ||
| Okay? | ||
|
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That's on two of us. | |
| Hey, it's classy to say so. | ||
|
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And I hope we can build a friendship. | |
| I really mean that. | ||
|
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Please do. | |
| Okay? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Take care. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you guys. | ||
|
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Thank you. | |
| We just had a chat at some unfinished conversation. | ||
| I did a press conference this morning at the request of the Trump team, which I agreed to be a surrogate for the campaign. | ||
| I want to provide our policy vision at a place where the policy vision of the Democrats, particularly Kamala Harris, is lacking. | ||
| So I think we need to have a good policy discourse in the country. | ||
| I did a couple of interviews. | ||
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I'll be on my way home to see my boys in about 15 minutes. | |
| So who are you with? | ||
| Hey, Vivek, I wanna ask you about Colombia. | ||
| Who are you with? | ||
| I'm from Colombia. | ||
| Okay, thank you. | ||
| I don't know him personally. | ||
| I think the reality is a lot of the Democrats are enthusiastic to have anyone other than Joe Biden. | ||
| And the reality is they weren't honest about it with their own voters. | ||
| I think honesty is important in politics. | ||
| We've been missing it for a long time. | ||
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But the truth of the matter is, we need openness. | |
| We need open discourse in American politics. | ||
| And I don't think that we're getting that when you hide from policy. | ||
| So my one ask of Kamala Harris is, you may not agree with Donald Trump's policies, but he's at least told you what they are. | ||
| Tell us what your policies are. | ||
| Do you actually believe? | ||
| I believe she has them. | ||
| And in absence of her talking about actual policy, the best assumption that we can make is that she believes the same things that she... | ||
| When she ran for U.S. president the last time around, which is abolishing private health insurance, which is ramming through the Green New Deal using the ending of the Senate filibuster, which is a tax on unrealized capital gains. | ||
| Her advisers are whispering to the general that, no, she doesn't believe in this anymore. | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| Tell us what your actual policies are. | ||
| And in absence of that, I think it's fair game for Americans to assume that she believes everything that she stood by four years ago. | ||
| I want to have that debate in the open, and we're not having it. | ||
| Well, look, so you know what? | ||
| I think that would be a fair question for Donald Trump to answer after we've seen any realm of Kamala Harris's policies. | ||
| Because Donald Trump, if I may, if I may, if I may, he has said he would repeal and replace Obamacare. | ||
| He's offered digital assets and cryptocurrency policies. | ||
| He said we're going to have the largest mass deportation in American history, would complete building the southern border wall, would favor offshore and onshore drilling, would favor increased fracking, would favor a negotiated peace settlement in Ukraine. | ||
| My view is you may agree with these policies. | ||
| You may not agree with these policies. | ||
| But at least he's told you what those policies are. | ||
| He opposes a central bank digital currency. | ||
| Well, what I want is actually Kamala Harris to tell us what she actually stands for. | ||
| And the reality is it's the same dishonesty of the media. | ||
| I'm not blaming the people who are here. | ||
| But the media that covered for Joe Biden for his cognitive deficits for three years is now covering for Kamala Harris' policy deficits. | ||
| And it's the voters who are holding the bag. | ||
| I'm not going to go with everything Kamala Harris says, and we're probably not going to go with everything Donald Trump says. | ||
| But our country is better off if we have candidates who tell us what they actually believe. | ||
| I think it will be a loss for American democracy if we get through this entire election without knowing what Kamala Harris' stated economic plans are, stated plans are for border policy, stated plans are for foreign policy, and yet that's exactly where we are now. | ||
| So I have a challenge tonight. | ||
| I made it this morning. | ||
| I said it at my press conference at the hotel this morning. | ||
| I challenge Kamala Harris tonight. | ||
| To at least tell the American people where she is on each of those issues. | ||
| I challenge her tonight to at least apologize to the families, like the families of Lake and Riley, like the families of countless other Americas, Rachel Marin, who have had people who have died at the hands of the consequences of the southern border crisis. | ||
| If she does that, you know what, I'm not going to vote for her because of it, but I will applaud her as a leader. | ||
| But she has an opportunity to do that tonight. | ||
| Let's see if she steps up to the plate and does it. | ||
| And if not, I think voters should see through this charade for what it is. | ||
| I think Trump has offered specifics at a scale that Kamala Harris hasn't that is beyond dispute. | ||
| You may disagree with the specifics. | ||
| Look, he's pledged to offer a digital assets policy that allows for self-custody of assets. | ||
| He has pledged to actually move troops to the southern border and also to enact the largest mass deportation in American history. | ||
| He's pledged to improve the permitting process for fracking and drilling, increasing American energy production. | ||
| He's pledged to repeal and replace Obamacare, which is a clear stand in favor of a market-based approach to bringing down health care. | ||
| I'm answering the question right here. | ||
| So you may not agree with those policies, but he's offered them. | ||
| And I suspect I wouldn't disagree with Kamala Harris's policies, but she deserves to actually answer for it. | ||
| So he's been clear. | ||
| He's been clear that he wants to repeal and replace Obamacare. | ||
| Kamala Harris claimed, back in 2020, she was the only candidate on the Democratic debate stage. | ||
| It was a raise-your-hand question. | ||
| They said, their words not mine, do you favor abolishing private health insurance? | ||
| She raised her hand. | ||
| She said it numerous times, her words not mine. | ||
| I would abolish private health insurance. | ||
| Now you don't hear a peep about it. | ||
| Just tell us what you believe. | ||
| I respect, I've said this today, I said it earlier to the protesters outside. | ||
| I don't agree with Bernie Sanders on most things. | ||
| But at least I respect him more than Kamala Harris because he can take a stand and stand by it. | ||
| But what I don't respect is somebody who hides from the policy debate. | ||
| You can hide behind... | ||
| John Legend or Oprah Winfrey or Beyonce or whoever it's going to be. | ||
| But that's not a substitute policy. | ||
| So I think we need to actually have that policy debate. | ||
| And if we do, I think the country's better off. | ||
| If not, I think voters are going to be worse off for it. | ||
| And that's what I'm calling on Kamala Harris to do today. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| What's the name of the whole country? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What's the name of the country? | ||
| So I'm here for a few hours today. | ||
| My goal was to, first I held a conference open to the public, open to the press earlier today. | ||
| Where I laid out an alternative vision. | ||
| The vision that not only our party, but the America First movement and Donald Trump stands for. | ||
| To give voters that choice. | ||
| And it was to call on Kamala Harris to offer her own vision. | ||
| Let's see if she does it tonight. | ||
| I committed to do some interviews as well. | ||
| I believe in open debate. | ||
| I actually enjoyed hanging out with the protesters outside, if I may grab my... | ||
| I spent five dollars of my hard-earned money on buying some literature outside of the protest. | ||
| And it was interesting. | ||
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The beauty of this country is you get to express your opinion. | |
| Whether or not I agree with it, you get to express your opinion. | ||
| That's a lot of the protesters outside we're doing. | ||
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And you know what? | |
| We're not in this just to lead the people who agree with us. | ||
| We're in this to lead an entire country. | ||
| And that's what I wanted to show by being here is that we believe in open debate. | ||
| We can do it respectfully. | ||
| We can do it peacefully. | ||
| It's something that we sometimes miss. | ||
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And if we do, our country is going to be stronger for us. | |
| The reason I'm not going to be willing to vote for Harris is that she has a three-year record that I believe has been destructive for this country. | ||
| But I think it will still be a service to the voters to tell them what you actually stand for. | ||
| She's been able to do that so far. | ||
| So, pretty good stuff. | ||
|
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| It's good to see you, man. | ||
|
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Hi. | |
| So, I am kind of undecided. | ||
| I know I'm on the button. | ||
| Then take off the button if you're undecided. | ||
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You can take a picture. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| You're actually undecided, though? | ||
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Yes. | |
| If we could have an earnest, like a good faith conversation, I would love to. | ||
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Yes, it's the Israel-Palestine for me. | |
| I know that Vice President Harris has hard for some fire. | ||
| However, I think with the Biden administration, she has kind of stood by. | ||
| And unfortunately, I don't think that the Biden administration and the United States should be selling peaceful arms to Israel. | ||
| It's funding the Netanyahu government against Tamar. | ||
| I'll grant you that foreign policy, let's just say, how old are you? | ||
| 20. 20. You're in college. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Foreign policy, complicated terrain. | ||
|
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Yes. | |
| Let's just start with right here at home. | ||
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Yes. | |
| What's important to you at home? | ||
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Important to me at home? | |
| Michigan is our infrastructure, our economy. | ||
| You live in Michigan. | ||
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I do. | |
| Are you in college? | ||
| One big thing for me is the environment. | ||
| You're in college? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Okay, where at? | ||
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The University of Michigan, Flint. | |
| Got it. | ||
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Yes. | |
| So the environment's important to you? | ||
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It is, yes. | |
| Clean air, clean water, national parks. | ||
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Our great lakes. | |
| The Great Lakes, keeping the lakes clean. | ||
| So I actually visited Flint, Michigan during my presidential campaign. | ||
| I live in Ohio. | ||
| East Palestine was a disaster for the home state that I live in as well. | ||
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It truly was. | |
| And I think that falls at the feet of a Department of Transportation that was led by a former McKinsey consultant by the name of Pete Buttigieg, who I think has been disastrous for leading this particular agency that was responsible for that crisis. | ||
| I think it's shameful that leaders of both parties, the Democratic Party included, have forgotten the forgotten cities like Flint, Michigan. | ||
| That's what the America First movement is actually about. | ||
| The America First movement is about putting the citizens of this country and their interests above everything else. | ||
| And some people find that controversial. | ||
| But I actually think that's a message that spans not just Republicans but Democrats as well. | ||
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So the question I have for you is if you believe in merit, do you believe the best person to get the job? | |
| Do you believe in free speech and open debate? | ||
| Do you believe in growing the economy and making sure you're able to get ahead? | ||
| To your president, who do you think is going to best deliver that for the country? | ||
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For me, I personally, in our primary, I voted for Nicky Hay because... | |
| So you voted in the Republican primary, but then now you're... | ||
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Well, I voted in the... | |
| Because I knew that President Biden would get the nomination. | ||
| So I wanted to try... | ||
| Make your voice up. | ||
| Because for me, another big thing was the insurrection. | ||
| That was a very terrifying day for me. | ||
| What I will tell you about that is a lot... | ||
| Can I understand this? | ||
| What you see in the media on the first day, Relative to the truth that accidentally came out over a longer period of time, revealed that the same media that lied about the Russia collusion, the same media that lied about the origin of COVID, about the Hunter Biden laptop, unsurprisingly, has not been forthright on a lot else that the American public has been served needed. | ||
| So all I'd encourage you to do is I'm not going to tell you who to vote for. | ||
| That's your decision. | ||
| But vote for the person who you think is going to make your life better economically, give you the opportunities you deserve after college. | ||
| Vote for merit and free speech. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| The values this country was founded on, the reality is, vote for whoever you think is going to better do that. | ||
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So you figure out who that is. | |
| And who's going to provide national pride and keep us out of World War III? | ||
| Figure out who you think is going to be the best person to do that. | ||
| And whoever that is, that's going to be the right vote for the country. | ||
| You are a strong! | ||
| Telling the folks that we can't vote. | ||
| You offered to debate us a couple years ago. | ||
| You are suppressing young people, and I am deeply disappointed in you. | ||
| And for you to say that we should have a bold task. | ||
| I'll address yours, but then you're going to let me have this conversation. | ||
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You said I don't have the right to vote. | |
| Young people are powerful. | ||
| And we're going to show you no kind of effect. | ||
| Absolutely, you have the right to vote. | ||
| And I encourage everybody to vote. | ||
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The only thing that I ask for is, they came on the stage to stomp their feet rather than having a conversation. | |
| And the thing I would love is to have an open debate. | ||
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What that is, no it is discrimination. | |
| You know, oh God, you know. | ||
| He's from climate defiance. | ||
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Yeah, why don't we schedule a debate? | |
| I'll leave you one idea. | ||
| I'll leave you one idea to just think about, all right? | ||
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Just so you understand my position. | |
| I'm in for debate. |
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