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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hello.
Jimmy, do you know who this is?
Yes, this is former President Barack Obama.
Screw that boys, dickhead.
I am now Barack's $60 million book deal.
Obama, put that in your box and mail it, podcast, boy.
All right, we get it.
You're rich now.
Congratulations.
What have you been up to lately?
I've been keeping politically active and relevant.
You chucklehead.
For instance, according to the New York Times, I am ruining the loss of American leadership on climate change.
And Newsweek says I'm touting the Paris Accord despite a temporary absence of American leadership.
So I've been touting and ruining.
What have you done lately?
Well, our show just topped a quarter million subscribers, 250,000 subscribers.
That's what I've been doing.
Sorry, Jimmy.
I couldn't hear you over the sound of the universe going like, who cares?
Anyway, I'm sorry.
What were you saying?
Nothing.
What's out in your mind, buddy?
I learned a new word yesterday.
Idiate.
ID8.
Idiate?
Is that how you?
Is that how you pronounce it?
Or is it ID8?
Or ID8?
I don't know.
Either way.
Ivanka came over once to borrow a cup of flour and used it to describe having a thought while being ultra-rich.
Ah!
I'm learning new things every day.
Wow.
ID8.
That's nice.
But what's really on your mind, buddy?
Well, let me answer your question with another question.
I hate when you do that.
What's really on your mind?
You need to apologize and apologize big for bad mouth CNN.
As your lobbyist for corporate media, I felt it was my duty to draft an agreement of apology and regrets for you to anonymously sign.
If you agree, we promise not to reveal your identity.
But people already know my identity.
I'm talking your real identity.
Do you own a refrigerator and a microwave?
Yes.
And what about a flat-screen TV?
Yep.
Then you're a fat cat burn, bro, you hypocrite.
Burning hell.
Stop badmouthing CNN.
Why?
Because we're with her.
I mean, CNN.
CNN's been suffering low ratings for years, Jimmy.
Now they have a chance.
It's her turn.
I mean, I mean, their turn.
You get me?
No.
By the way, should you revert to your old behavior of calling out CNN because they won't live up to your unrealistic expectations of basic journalism 101?
CNN reserves the right to publish your identity.
Phone numbers and any funny medical records.
Why?
I mean, CNN's just a corporate Democratic Party mouthpiece at this point.
Screw them for propping up a deservedly dead party.
Oh, come on, you Corbinated lefty.
The Democratic Party's doing great.
As long as we keep being centrist by moving to the extreme right, we'll keep pocketing a shitload of lobbyist money.
And besides, we got a new slogan.
Want to hear it?
Yeah.
And I mean, have you seen the other guys?
Pretty neat, right?
I mean, have you seen the other guys?
Are you kidding me?
That's pathetic.
That's because you're not doing it right.
You got to accentuate the word seen.
I mean, have you seen the other guys?
See, it's powerful.
And I like it because it perfectly describes what the party stands for.
Not a fucking thing.
Not a zilch.
Seriously, you people couldn't come up with a better slogan.
Well, sure, we're trying out a lot of new stuff.
Stuff like, huh?
And hey, Lady.
The one I particularly liked.
What the fuck you looking at, Dick Cheese?
Ha!
And then there was, I mean, have you seen the other slogans?
Well, we had to shit can that one because it was too meta.
Even though millennials went for it two to one.
But fuck the millennials, right?
Who needs them when we can always appeal to moderate centrist Republicans, right?
Oops.
Gotta go, Jimmy.
Pol Pot's wife is at the door.
I love this neighborhood.
What's that?
A tiki party?
Hell yeah, I'll get the plates.
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It's the Jimmy Door Show.
the show for the kind of people that are It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper save.
It's hard to talk to your T-Value.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Door.
Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Door Show.
How are you?
Are you up in San Francisco watching us do a live show right now?
Are you?
Because we are.
Okay, we're doing it at the Great Star Theater.
Hey, also, we're going to be back Monday, July 17th, doing a live show.
That's one sold out.
We're going to be doing August 16th as our next live Jimmy Door show.
It's going to be part of the Burbank Comedy Festival.
It's a 5 p.m. show.
So go to JimmyDoorComedy.com for, oh, by the way, our website is being revamped.
So if you go there, it might be under construction.
It might not be.
Hopefully, they'll be ready when you go there.
But we are switching our new website this week.
Okay, so check that out at JimmyDoorComedy.com.
And we'll see everybody August 16th.
That's a 5 p.m. show on a Wednesday.
Okay, that'll be fun drinking at 5 p.m.
Hey, what's coming up?
Donnie Trump Jr., a little bit of hot water.
I got to tell you, though, I can really relate to Donald Trump Jr.
Because just like him, Donald Trump has also never expressed his love to me.
Come on.
That's a good joke.
All right, so we're going to talk about that, but we're going to really focus on Donald Trump Jr., the way the press has been reporting this story of him meeting with the Russians to get some dirt on Hillary Clinton.
And of course, we have an alternative take.
That's why we're on the alternative radio.
We have an alternative take on the way the media has been reporting this Donald Trump Jr. story.
And so it's surprising, actually.
They're surprising.
Watch who people reach for experts in this case.
That's the interesting thing.
Check that out.
Also, we talked to a fantastic progressive who's running for Congress in New Jersey's fighting 4th District.
His name is Jim Keated, and this guy is amazing.
I hope you enjoy his story about how we stood up to Nike and how he stood up to a Catholic institution.
That takes a lot of guts for a Catholic guy, and he did it, and he did it for the right reasons.
So listen to Jim Keated.
And if you're in New Jersey, I hope you pay special attention to Jim Keated's story in his life.
We got a whole interview with him.
We're going to play some of it right now on today's show.
Okay, plus, we got phone calls today from Franklin Graham.
That's right, the evangelical Franklin Graham's going to call in.
Plus, Sean Spicer, and a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, everybody.
I'm here with Steph and Ron.
I'm miserable.
Howdy, howdy.
So let's take a walk back Just real quickly.
Remember how we used to love Russia?
Remember, in fact, the Americans interceded in their election to help get a guy who was more friendly to the United States elected.
Remember when we did that to Russia?
Remember, we were Palsies?
Do you remember that?
I remember that.
So remember when we interfered in their elections?
That's its cover of Time magazine.
It says, Yanks to the Rescue, the secret story of how American advisors helped Yeltsin win.
So what is this all about?
Well, this guy, Don Trump Jr., is a kind of a knucklehead.
And he got an email from this guy.
He's the lynchpin.
This guy is the lynchpin in the Dodd Trump Jr. treason espionage story that's happening right now.
This guy's the lynchpin.
These are real.
This is a real big espionage thing that they were doing.
That looks like a guy who would leave no tracks behind.
Not that definitely.
And so he, what's that guy's name?
Rob Gladstone?
Rob Gladstone.
So he is in Britain.
He worked for Russian oligarchs.
He sends an email to Donnie Jr., says, I'm going to set up a meeting for you with some biggie shots from Russia.
Turns out it's a meeting with this woman who's an attorney from Russia, not a government official.
So I'm going to show you who all these people are.
So Trump has a business partner, this guy, Arias Aglarov.
And he has a kid.
This is his kid.
And he's a pop singer in Russia.
He's a superstar.
So this guy's a billionaire.
The American press calls them oligarchs.
It's amazing when they're Russian, they're oligarchs.
When they're Americans, they're just rich people.
Isn't that amazing?
Someone else said that.
I don't know who said that.
Somebody said that on Twitter.
I was like, that's a great point.
So now here's Donny Trump.
There's Rob Goldstone.
So he's a publicist.
So that's what his official title is, publicist for that guy.
And he arranged the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and this woman who's just a lawyer from Russia.
Her name is hard to pronounce, Natalia Vesenlinakshakaya.
And I know I'm not doing it right.
Paul Manafort is Trump's campaign.
He was his campaign manager for a little while.
And then there's Jared Kushner, who accompanied Donny Tanahans to the meeting with this woman.
Does that follow?
Do you follow who everybody is now?
So here's some of the emails.
Emin just called.
That's the young pop singer.
Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting.
The crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father, Aris, this morning.
So now you know who those people are.
And in their meeting, offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.
Now, see where he says the crown prosecutor of Russia?
There's no such person.
There's no such, that's not a real thing.
There's no such crown prosecutor of Russia.
So people are speculating who he meant by that.
We're going to get to who he meant by that in a minute.
So there's some documents that your father plus, he says this is obviously very high-level and sensitive information, but is part of Russia and its government support for Mr. Trump.
So Donna Tanahan's Tanahan son says, if it's what you say, I love it, especially later in the summer.
And that's what everyone's freaking out.
He says, Don, this is when he sets up the meeting.
Don, hope all is well.
Emin asked that I schedule a meeting with you and the Russian government attorney who was flying over from Moscow for this Thursday.
I believe you are aware of this meeting and so wondered if 3 p.m. or later.
So there you go.
So that's the whole story.
So he has a meeting with that woman.
She's not from the Russian government.
And the woman doesn't have any information.
So this is how it's being, this is how it's being reported, like everywhere.
But here's from the Huffington Post.
It says, Tuesday's revelation comes after an earlier New York Times story on Trump Jr.'s meeting with the Kremlin-linked lawyer.
So that's ubiquitous.
They just keep saying the Kremlin-linked lawyer.
That's everywhere.
News reports on TV, news reports in print.
It's everywhere.
So who is she Kremlin linked?
How is she linked to the Kremlin?
And they just say that.
So a news reporter will just say, or a host will just say, yeah, Donald Trump admitted to having a meeting with the Kremlin-linked lawyer.
But they'll never go, how is she linked?
So I was like, I was wondering, like, how is she linked?
Because that would be a big deal if she.
Sounds like you had a revelation too, Jimmy.
So I looked it up.
So it turns out, this is according to the HuffPo, her name, again, Natalia Vesaladniktakshika, whose clients have included Russian state-owned business and the son of a senior Russian government official.
Okay.
Okay, so you know, like if a senator's kid gets caught with Coke and someone gets hired to represent them, that's what that would be.
The son of a senior Russian government official, right?
Yeah, so she's probably a pretty good attorney.
So she's an attorney.
She's good at her job.
I don't know.
I mean, she's an attorney who works for high power.
So there you go.
So her clients have, so she doesn't work for the government.
She's a lawyer who's represented businesses owned by the government and she's represented children.
She rented out a kid of a guy who works for the government as a lawyer.
So that's what they call her Kremlin-linked.
I could say right now, Jenk Uger is a American government leaked lawyer because he's a lawyer and he has, he's running the Justice Democrats, which is working with people who are in Congress right now, like Rokana and all those other people.
When people say a Kremlin-linked, what the F?
What does that mean?
That's what it means.
She's a lawyer who represents, that's as far as I can tell.
There's one other thing.
This is from The Guardian I found.
A source who knows her also told The Guardian she has a long-standing personal connection with Yuri Chaka, Russia's powerful prosecutor general.
Now, this guy, Yuri Chaka, I don't know how, if that's how you pronounce it, that's the guy who people think he was referring to when he said the crown prosecutor.
Correct.
So he's the prosecutor general.
Okay, so just so you know.
So this is according to the Guardian, she is, that female lawyer is no Kremlin powerbroker, having spent most of her career working on business disputes in the courtrooms of the Moscow region, a province that surrounds, but does not include the city itself.
So she's, as far as I can tell, she's, I've looked around.
If you can find a better link with her to the Kremlin, I wish you would show me because every time I watch a news report, they just say it and they never show.
Again, there's never showing the link.
So I would like, I'm not saying it doesn't exist.
I'm saying I'd like to see it.
I looked.
I couldn't find it.
But, you know, I'm no NCIS.
Is that how you say it?
Yes.
So here's what people are saying, that it was illegal, that what Don Trump Jr. did was illegal and treasonous.
And so here's a guy who's a former ethics lawyer for George W. Bush.
Boy, an ethics lawyer for George W. Bush.
He was the ethics lawyer for the war criminal, kept him out of prison.
Throwing a lot of stones from that glasshouse.
No kidding, right?
I mean, geese.
You're the ethics.
That's just you're the, that's like being, you're, you're the, you're the trainer for Chris Christie.
I'm his personal trainer.
I'm really proud of myself.
You're the ethics lawyer for George W. Bush.
This is what the ethics lawyer for George W. That's just such a funny thing to say.
He says if he intended to get illegally stolen private information from the Russians, it was illegal for him to attempt to do so, just like buying stolen goods from a known fence.
I would probably agree, but again, there's not been one shred of evidence produced that shows that this was stolen evidence, or did someone say it was stolen?
No one said, hey, I have some illegally obtained information I'd like to share with you.
That's not what they said.
They said, we have some dirt on her that your father would, you saw what did they say.
The two big questions are, this is from a different, this is from Rick Hassan.
He's an election legal expert.
He says the two big questions are knowledge it was a foreign source, as well as if the information being provided counts as anything of value for purpose of the law.
We're going to get back to that little part in just a second.
Anything of value?
Because that's the way they're trying to go at him now.
So now this is that former ethics lawyer for George W. Bush.
And here he has more to say about this.
Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner were apparently both of them involved in this.
And this was an effort to get opposition research on an opponent in an American political campaign from the Russians who were known to be engaged in spying inside the United States.
We do not get our opposition research from spies.
We do not collaborate with Russian spies unless we want to be accused of treason.
And I can say, I worked for two and a half years as the chief ethics lawyer of the Bush administration.
The Bush administration never would have tolerated this.
And if this story is the George W. Bush administration, they would have never tolerated this while they were illegally invading other countries, ordering war crimes to cover it up and lying to their own country.
Wow.
This is your expert.
This is who they go to.
This is who you're going to to indict Donald Trump Jr.
This motherfucker.
That guy's got, I got to tell you, he almost didn't make it in for this segment because they couldn't, the doorway was not big enough for his balls.
Did you know that?
They had to widen the doorway.
Well, they had it in wheelbarrow.
He carries them in a wheelbarrow.
This guy, the fucking ethics lawyer for the Bush administration would have never put up with this.
What?
Scooter Libby, are you effing kidding me?
What about Dick Cheney?
What about ordering torture?
What about lying to the country into an illegal war?
The worst thing you could do.
What?
At least, you know, if you're ever in his neighborhood, you'll know which house is his.
It's the one that's made out of all glass with the mission accomplished banner.
It's easy to find his house.
Easy to find his house.
Let's see what else he has to say.
We'd have one of them at the both of them in custody by now, and we'd be asking them a lot of questions.
This is the guy who's going to arrest someone else for something illegal.
The guy from the Bush administration, they'd be in cops.
Yeah, and we have two war criminals, maybe four, right now walking around from your administration, bona fide war criminals.
Anyway, so that's what that guy says.
So he says, let's listen to it one more time because it's kind of important.
Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner were apparently both of them involved in this.
And this was an effort to get opposition research on an opponent.
Opposition research on an opponent.
On it in an American political campaign.
In an American political campaign.
From the Russians who are known to be a private sector.
Engaged in spying inside the United States.
We do not get our opposition research from spies.
We do not get our opposition research from spies.
Collaborate with Russians.
We don't collaborate with Russians.
Well, that's weird because I don't know if you remember that dossier, that Steele dossier that was sent to John McCain that everybody talked about in October.
Do you remember that?
It's the one where it said the prostitute was doing the PP games with Donnie Tynahan.
Remember that?
That was everybody talked about that.
Right.
Right?
So Christopher Steele, he was an ex-spy for another country.
And he, when he, after he compiled the Trump dossier, he went underground.
Is that what that means?
Goes to ground?
Yeah.
So here's that guy.
That's him.
He's a spy.
Who is that guy?
Mr. Steele, 52, was a long-standing officer with MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA, serving in Paris and Moscow.
So this guy served in Moscow.
I wonder if he's a Kremlin puppet in the 1990s before retiring.
How do you know he's not a Kremlin puppet?
He worked in Moscow.
How do you know he's not working for the Russians, this guy?
That's as much evidence as anyone else needs.
In 2009, he started a private research firm, Orbis Business Intelligence Limited, with Christopher Burroughs, now 58.
Mr. Burroughs has refused to confirm or deny that Mr. Steele and Orbis wrote the memos that made up the dossier.
Initially under contract to a Washington firm paid to dig into harmful matters for Mr. Trump's past.
So that was people who were running against Trump were getting opposition research on Trump.
And they got this guy to do it, Mr. Steele.
And he was upset.
The Steele guy was that they weren't talking about it enough in the press.
So he sent the whole dossier to John McCain, who then started raising a stink about it.
So Mr. Steele is, as a known former MI6 agent, was thought not to have gone to Russia in his investigation, but to have used contacts inside and outside the country to prepare the dossier, which the United States intelligence agencies have said they cannot substantiate.
But the file was used to prepare a two-page appendix to the intelligence presentation American officials gave to Mr. Trump last Friday.
So I don't know.
Maybe I'm missing.
So again, I'm not a lawyer.
I'm a Jagoff nightclub comedian.
So Donald Trump Jr. has a meeting with a freaking lawyer from Russia who has no information and never said they had stolen information.
They never said they had stolen information.
They never said it was obtained illegally.
They said we have dirt on information that would be helpful to your father.
That didn't say we have stolen information.
We have illegally gotten information.
So we have information.
Where the fuck did that guy get his information from?
Where did Steele get his information from?
He got him from his contacts inside Russia.
Did they steal the information?
Does anybody ever, no one ever asked that question about that dossier, did they, Ron?
Did anybody say, hey, was that information stolen?
No one ever said that, right?
No, that was never a thing that came up.
So, again, maybe I'm missing something, but this is the story.
It's been reported, again, so shittily, like this whole – This is from Raw Story.
She says, I have conducted background investigations.
If you do not disclose meetings with foreign nationals, especially one promising dirt in exchange for something, that's a big deal.
But I don't, I read the emails, Ron.
Did you see them promise something in exchange for something?
No, it was just two people planning a meeting.
I mean, if there was anything that incriminating there, Donald Trump Jr. wouldn't have just released it on his own.
So this is implying a quid pro quo, which was not in those emails.
Yes, but I would clarify that really quickly, that I think Donald Trump Jr. knew that the emails were going to be published by the New York Times, so he wanted to go and pre-empt that.
But all along, when I look at those emails, I'm trying to figure out what's so horrible about them.
So again, Steph, what they're saying is that if you can't have a meeting with a foreign national.
Well, here, we're going to get to it.
But they're saying that what he did was treason and illegal because you can't get stolen.
Like all that stuff he just said.
Well, it wasn't stolen.
First of all, there was no information.
Second of all, none of the emails I read or that you guys read, both of you read, did they say this was stolen information or illegally gotten information.
But that's what they keep implying.
Everybody who says something about this with a legal opinion, they imply something that's not in evidence.
Meaning, Donald Trump Jr. knew he was getting illegally gotten evident.
No one, that's not in evidence.
This is from the same person.
That's not leaving out an address you had for two months in college.
It's raising a number of eyebrows and can result in the counterintelligence investigation.
It can get you locked up.
So now we go to the International Business Times.
Here's an article from the 10th of July from Alex Kochin, the International Business Times.
It says Donald Trump Jr.'s Russia meeting violated campaign finance laws, government watchdog alleges.
Okay.
So this is from that one day after offering a different explanation, Trump Jr. admitted to accepting a meeting facilitated by a contact he knew through the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow with Natalie Veselentin Kanya, believing that she would provide damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
Based on the legal definition of solicitation, it is likely Trump Jr. broke campaign finance law.
Yeah, they need to interpret it as he got a solicitation because like during a campaign season, if you solicit a solicitation or a contribution of value from a foreign entity, well, that's not legal.
Is it treason?
No, it is not.
That is not treason.
However, interpreting the law that way, his actions were illegal.
But I don't even see where he solicited it.
It was someone set up a meeting saying someone was offering something.
He didn't solicit it, right?
Am I misunderstanding the term solicit?
No, no, I mean, there's a lot of interpretation that has to like take place there.
That's why they're saying like, it's likely he broke this.
It depends on how they're interpreted.
It's how they interpret it or how.
So Brendan Fisher, federal and FEC reform director at the Nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, tweeted Monday morning that such opposition research would constitute an in-kind donation, something of value.
Remember, I talked about that earlier, something of value given free of charge, and that arranging a meeting to receive that information qualifies as solicitation.
So that's, there you go.
So just arranging that meeting qualifies as solicitation.
So what they're saying is according to election law is that that information on Hillary Clinton was of value.
So now they're giving something.
So like just like if they gave the Donald Trump, say if someone conducted a poll, paid a polling organization to conduct their own poll, and that information was valuable to Donald Trump.
If you give it to them, that information has value because you just paid for it.
That's like you giving them a campaign donation.
So that's what they're talking about.
So this woman giving them information, if you can put a value on that information, that's like them getting a campaign donation.
That's what they're saying, right, Ron?
And I can totally understand that interpretation because it is incredibly difficult to find anything incriminating on Hillary Clinton.
So federal law prohibits any person from soliciting a campaign contribution, donation, or any other thing of value from a foreign national in connection with any U.S. election.
So how so that MI6 steel dossier, what the hell?
No person shall knowingly solicit, accept, or receive from a foreign national any contribution or donation prohibited by paragraphs B through D of this section.
The law reads, foreigners are even prohibited from expressly or impliedly promising to make such a contribution.
Okay.
If the Federal Election Commission takes up the matter, this is according to this person who's the FEC, it will conduct its own investigation, Ryan said.
Then if it concludes a law was broken, it will urge Trump Jr. and certain campaign officials to enter into a settlement agreement, which would likely involve a fine.
If Trump Jr. and the campaign refused to negotiate, the FEC would have to conduct a civil lawsuit against them.
So basically what this guy says is what Donald Trump Jr. did, if he's found guilty, this person says it only rises to the level of a campaign finance violation and that he would just have to pay a fine.
So that's far from treason.
In fact, here's from Vox.
What Donald Trump Jr. did was wrong and maybe illegal, but it wasn't treason.
Bingo.
This is by Dylan Matthews.
This is July 11th.
The U.S. has to be at war with the country for helping that country for it to be treason.
So we're not at war with Russia.
Despite some people's wishes, no, we're not.
And I really hope it stays that way.
Here's Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution lays out the definition of treason used in U.S. criminal prosecutions.
Quote, treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
This is nonsense.
Whatever Trump Jr. did, it definitely, it's definitely not treason.
Treason is a very specific crime with the definition set forth in the Constitution that Trump Jr.'s conduct doesn't come close to meeting for one simple reason.
The United States is not at war with Russia.
And in case if you weren't sure, if we were at war with Russia, here's Barack Obama.
Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that Al-Qaeda is a threat because a few months ago, when you were asked, what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.
Not Al-Qaeda.
You said Russia.
And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War has been over For 20 years.
But, Governor, when it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies in the 1980s.
Don't you remember when we saw that the first time and we were like all shocked?
Why is Mitt Romney talking about Russia?
It was so weird.
It was so off the chart.
And I was like, oh my God, am I supposed to be afraid of Russia?
Let's remember, I showed you that the Bushes, we used to go fishing on Kenny Bunkport for the weekend with that with Putin.
The Bushes, both of them.
They would go on fishing trips.
They would go fishing with Putin.
They're all palsy.
Remember, George Bush looked into his eyes.
He saw his soul.
Remember that?
George Bush saw into Putin's soul.
You remember that?
do.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Now let's get on to the second half.
Well, and what's the theme of all this?
Gore Vidal said it best.
We live in the United States of amnesia.
That's why this is a distant memory to so many people, what Obama said to Mitt Romney.
That's why we have an ethics lawyer for a war criminal wagging his finger at a current administration because people don't remember.
Holy shit.
So that's how I'm going to report this story.
You're going to listen to a fucking lawyer for George Bush.
Wag is exactly what Ron just said.
So according to what we, according to Vox, according to what we've seen in the International Business Times, according to what I've been able to ascertain, reading the emails and what have you, and nobody ever said it was stolen information.
The woman doesn't work for the government, even though every reporter who's talked about this that I've seen has said she's Kremlin-linked.
Who isn't?
Who is it?
That's like saying an American lawyer linked to the U.S. Washington, D.C. You could say that about any lawyer.
I know two lawyers off the top of my head who work at the Young Turks.
You could say that they're linked to the U.S. government in D.C. Because they work with politicians all the time.
So again, we're talking about this in the middle of the most corrupt government in history.
The government does not represent the people.
We live in an oligarchy.
And it's amazing how they know how to call Russian billionaires oligarchs, but the people in the United States, the billionaires here are just trying to help us.
Just like Jeff Bezos, he's trying to help us.
Now he's going to bring us good food through Whole Foods.
All these guys, they're the best, the billionaires.
They couldn't be nicer people.
They all want to help us.
So right now, our government is completely corrupted, completely.
The Democrats are killing single payer.
70% of the country wants single payer.
80% want a public option.
We ain't getting it because the Democrats are corrupted.
Everyone knows that.
So that's what's happening right now.
There's lead still in Flint.
By the way, all over the country, there's lead in our water.
We still have the biggest income disparity since before the Gilded Age.
Half of all wage earners in America earn less than $30,000, and it's only getting worse.
We got 45,000 people a year die in America because of lack of health insurance.
So we have big problems.
And Donald Trump Jr. meeting with some freaking lawyer from Russia isn't one of them.
Do you think it is?
Well, you know, when I started to read all about this, I kept thinking to myself, okay, I think there are a list of 20 people that could go for and try to defend themselves because of their war crimes that they committed.
President Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld.
There's a list of people that they could be shouting at the top of their lungs that should be brought to justice.
Donald Trump Jr., Steph, it would seem, wouldn't it seem weird that after a decade of not prosecuting war criminals and after a decade of not prosecuting the people who literally filled their pockets with taxpayer cash as they crashed our economy, not one prosecution, not one hearing that after all this banks laundering hundreds of millions in drug money, hundreds of millions in drug money.
We know they're doing it.
Not one prosecution.
Not one.
So after that, now we're going to prosecute Donnie Trump's kid for having a meeting with a freaking lawyer who offered them nothing and never said anything was illegal.
It's amazing what the fuck is going on in this country.
We could not keep our eye off the ball more.
This is what's wrong with having millionaires bring you the news.
This is what's wrong with having millionaires.
If you see Keith Doberman, he doesn't know there's another story in the world besides Donald Trump and Russia because that guy's been a millionaire for 30 years.
And the rest of he's, I'm just, I'm just pointing out because he used to be my favorite, you know, guy, Keith Doberman.
And this story has lots of people who I respect have lost their minds on this story.
And they don't adhere to any level of standard that they would for any other story.
Any other story, you're shamed.
You're called a conspiracy theorist immediately.
Any other story with no proof, you're called a conspiracy theorist immediately.
People, but not, that's why they say colluded when they say Trump.
They didn't say, oh, Trump conspired because people go, oh, is that a conspiracy theory?
By the way, conspiracy theory is a term invented by the CIA to shut people up.
Did you know that?
So there you go.
Okay.
Woo.
Woo.
Donald Trump Jr. might have to pay a fine.
That's what it looks like.
Because all those people saying that, oh, he did this.
He didn't do that stuff.
Yeah, it's just unbelievable.
Because, I mean, like we've been saying, if you really focused on, because somebody the other day said to me, like, oh, are you sympathetic to Trump?
And I said, no, absolutely not.
This administration is absolutely despicable because look at what they're doing.
They're trying to put forth an anti-health care bill that has about a 12% approval rating.
They tried to rush through two pipelines that the public despises.
They're trying to end the separation of church and state, gut unions forever.
If you really tell them what they're doing in net neutrality, if you really highlighted on what this administration is doing and how far they are from any public support, how far this guy is from all the broken promises he has thus far, his approval rating would probably be in single digits.
Instead, we're supposed to do this mental gymnastics to pin something on his son and put all of our eggs in the red scare basket.
How delusional can you get?
Well, additionally, like, what difference is there really between this administration and what Democrats are working towards?
Well, you know, Steph, we just did a story that all the top donor, a lot of the top donors to Hillary Clinton's campaign are now working to make sure Trump's agenda gets passed.
Net neutrality, get rid of.
They want that.
Again, we need a revolution.
And this is why.
So instead of still, after losing to Trump, instead of still talking about what's the problems of the country, they won't.
Our ruling class, the media elite, they will not talk about the problems in the country.
And the only reason they're going to talk about Trump, A, because it's ratings, and B, because it's all about them gaining power.
It's got nothing to do about serving you.
Because if they cared about you, they'd all be screaming at the top of their lungs for single payer.
But they're not.
The Democrats are killing it.
They're installing pharmaceutical lobbyists as the chair of their party.
Well, complete corruption.
Go ahead.
I was just going to say the corporate media maximizes profit when they have a scapegoat.
Yes.
So again, I would urge the media to get back to covering what's messed up with this country that we can fix.
Hey, look who's calling.
It's Sean Spicer.
I haven't heard from Sean Spicer in quite a while.
Hello.
Who is this?
It's me, Sean.
Talking about me, so I thought I'd call up.
That is, if you're really interested in stuff, is that okay?
I know.
I don't want to be in trouble.
People, people still remember me, right?
Sure, sure.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Oh, good.
Okay.
So where have you been?
What's up?
That's not much.
Hey, you know that guy who woke up and it was to crunch and sounds and discovered a big bear was biting his head.
Yeah?
That wasn't me.
But what if it had been?
That would have been something, right?
So someone else is going.
Yeah, that's what I was asking you.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
Say, how about that?
It's Sarah Hockey Sanders, huh?
Jimmy, still there?
Yes.
You still there, man?
Hello?
I'm still here.
Yeah, well, Sarah's really getting put through the ringer on Saturday Night Live, isn't she?
You know, I really don't watch SNL anymore, so I can't really answer that question.
Yeah.
But you got to have a sense of humor about these things.
You can't let good satire get the better of you.
Roll with the punches, say.
But seriously, she sucks pretty bad, right?
No more jokes about me hiding behind stuff since she's been in the spotlight, right?
She's got big eyebrows.
That's funny.
Yeah, I suppose so, Sean.
Oh, and guess what?
She's from Hope, Arkansas.
Strike two, Dungaroo.
It's like two degrees of separation from a Clinton.
Don't look that up at my White House press secretary manual rules and definitions of terms.
But I'm pretty sure that makes her a Clinton, basically.
Sorry, Sarah.
That's a nice slogan for something.
I just want a good pension when this is all over.
Jimmy, I've done what I was told, like a good boy.
Buff those shoes to a high mirror shine every day.
That's right, Jimmy.
I crawled through 500 yards of shit-smelling foulness.
You can't even imagine to get to my retirement.
That's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.
I'm going to crawl through a river of shit.
Come out clean on the other side.
You watch me.
Okay.
Hey, ask me what my wife does.
What does your wife do?
Hey, thanks for asking, Jimmy.
My wife is the senior vice president of communications at the National Beer Wholesalers Association.
Wow.
It must feel great to be that close to beer.
Jeez, Jimmy, you could really dial back the comedy a little bit.
Wow, what do you mean?
That was way out of line.
I'm normally a fan of alternative comedy, but you're way over the top over here.
Sometimes we can disagree with the facts, but a joke is either funny or it isn't.
Even Hitler didn't think you're writing to jokes like that.
You know, thanks.
I've never been compared to Hitler before.
I wasn't comparing you to Hitler per se.
I was just noting how he'd never tell a bad joke, okay?
That aside guy, now there's a guy who would tell a lot of bad jokes, all right?
Don't need a mansplain comedy to you.
I think you're funny, but you should talk about stuff people care about.
Like how dogs look funny when they eat lemons.
Ever noticed that?
Of course not, because you're an elite.
I guess you never saw my comedy central special.
Look, I don't need any of this shit, is all I'm saying.
I could always go work for my wife and compare foreign beers to Nazi death camps or something.
In fact, I will.
Besides, Mike Brabru is so bad, even Hitler wouldn't serve it at Pittburg.
There.
Happy?
I'm going to have to apologize again for something I don't think I should have to apologize for.
All because I was lonely and wanted to hear your voice.
I think we need to rethink this relationship, Jimmy.
We're growing apart.
We used to be inseparable.
Like Sarah Huckabee's eyebrows.
Bang, pow!
I'm a gunslinger.
Sean Spicer.
This is Jim Keated.
He's running for Congress in New Jersey's 4th District.
He's got a great story to tell you.
He's the real deal.
Listen to this story about how he stood up against Nike and a Catholic university.
This guy's got guts, and this is a great story.
I used to be a soccer coach at St. John's University in New York City back in the late 90s.
And at the time, I was also doing a graduate degree in theology.
And in my first class, I started writing a paper about Nike and their labor practices in light of what's called Catholic social teaching.
This is a great story.
Please tell the story.
It's a great story.
So what I found was if you wanted to pick a company that violated everything we claimed to stand for as the largest Catholic university in the world, Nike was the perfect case study.
And at the same time, I'm learning these horrible things about Nike.
St. John's University Athletic Department starts to negotiate a multi-million dollar endorsement contract with them.
And part of that deal, I would have to wear and promote Nike's products.
I tried for a year to negotiate myself out of the deal behind the scenes.
Eventually, I took a public stand.
I said, I cannot and will not be a walking advertisement for a company that is completely exploiting workers and is violating everything we stand for.
And I was given an ultimatum by my head coach, wear Nike and drop this or get out.
I held my ground.
I was forced to resign.
I became the first athlete in the world to say no to Nike because of the sweatshop issue.
That was big news.
I then filed a lawsuit against St. John's and Nike.
I came out of the courthouse, and there's ABC, NBC, Fox.
I'm on HBO Sports, ESPN.
I started getting invited around the country to universities to talk about this issue.
I mean, this is the late 90s, and that issue was first bubbling up in the consciousness of the American people.
And I was now this instant expert.
And in those early lectures that I was doing, I would have critics in the audience, the market fundamentalists, some of them like my Wall Street buddies that I went to high school with, saying to me, you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Those are great jobs for those poor people.
What else would they be doing if Nike wasn't there?
And I knew from my research that they were wrong.
The competitive athlete in me wanted to prove them wrong.
So in the summer of 2000, I moved to Indonesia and I went to go live in a factory worker slum in Tangerang, Indonesia, and tried to survive on a Nike sweatshop wage.
At the time, it was $1.25 a day.
And I lost 25 pounds in a month living on that Nike wage, sleeping on a cement floor with the rats and the cockroaches, surrounded by open sewers around the home, and met the mostly young women who made this stuff that is an athlete I wore my entire life.
And I never thought twice about who they were and what their lives were like.
And I promised them, I will go home.
I will tell your stories.
I'll advocate for you.
And I thought I was going to do that for like six or seven weeks speaking to her.
And I ended up doing it full-time for 15 years.
I brought those stories to more than 500 campuses around the country.
I've been invited down to Capitol Hill to brief members of Congress on the issue.
I've been invited into corporate boardrooms to talk about it, including Nike's global headquarters in Portland, Oregon, Beaverton, Oregon.
And so when you went into Nike's corporate headquarters, who did you meet with?
I met with probably four different vice presidents, a couple directors.
I mean, it was all high-level people.
The CEO, Mark Parker, who's the current CEO, at the time, I was at the shareholder meeting.
He came down off the stage and he said, look, I've got to go to something else after this.
You're meeting with my top people.
We're interested in what you have to say.
And I knew it was something for them just to check off their list.
Hey, we met with the guy, right?
We heard what he had to say.
But they weren't going to fundamentally transform their business model on their own.
These are, I know these guys.
I grew up with this mentality, right?
I'm an athlete.
I'm as competitive as they get, but they are cutthroat.
And they will do things that completely decimate human beings and the environment to maximize returns for themselves and their shareholders.
And that kind of power needs to be checked.
It needs to be checked on Wall Street, and it needs to be checked in Washington, D.C. And unfortunately, those two have become one and the same over the course of the last 25 years.
And so did you see, by the way, that's an amazing thing that you stood up to Nike and you actually went to India.
You lived.
I mean, that's just BI, I can't even imagine doing something like that.
So that's just all kudos to you for doing that.
And have you seen any progress from all your meeting with Nike or from all your speaking out?
Tell me about that.
Yeah, so we've made some points of progress, and I lay them out.
When I speak with college students, I kind of lay out, hey, here are some victories that we had, but this is some of the stuff that we still got to work on.
One of the things, a really awful human rights violation.
So Indonesian law allows women to get two unpaid or two paid days off rather every month when they're menstruating.
And the reason they put this into place is you've got maybe 20 women on a production line.
Product starts at one end, it ends at the other.
Everybody does their little part.
If a woman in the middle of the line happens to have her period, she's going to need to go to the bathroom a number of times during her shift.
Well, when she go to the bathroom, those products don't stop moving.
They start to pile up.
Efficiency isn't being maximized.
Bad for business.
In theory, better she stay home and then come back when she's ready to work.
In practice, what was happening in order for these young women to get the legally guaranteed menstrual leave break they had, they had to go to the factory clinic, pull their pants down, show blood in their underwear to prove they were menstruating so they could get the days off.
And because of us exposing this fact, that has stopped.
And for the tens and tens of thousands of women who went through that humiliating process who no longer have to go through it to get one of their legally guaranteed rights protected and respected, that's progress.
I think that that's fantastic.
Great work.
Everybody, so I don't know if you heard about what happened at the Oval Office with Trump praying and what have you, but I'm going to call Franklin Graham.
You know who this guy is.
He's Mr. Christian.
We're going to get him on the phone right now and figure out what's up.
Hello.
Hi, is this Reverend Franklin Graham?
Oh, yes, it most certainly is.
Verily and truly.
Wow.
Well, hello, Reverend Graham.
This is Jimmy Dore.
Oh, Jimmy Dore, what a blessing and a pleasure it is to finally speak to you.
Praise be.
Praise be.
Jimmy, can I ask you a question?
Um, sure.
Are you a Christian?
No, I'm a Nate.
Wow, I'm going to have to use some different tacts there.
Let me try it again.
Get him on the horn.
Hello.
Hello, Reverend Graham.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Oh, hello, Jimmy.
How are you?
I'm good.
Are you a Christian man?
Yes, I am.
Wonderful.
What kind?
Well, I was raised Catholic, but I. God damn it.
Try it again.
Call him again.
Hello.
Reverend Graham, it's me, Southern Baptist Jimmy Dore.
Oh, Jimmy, blessings of manna and heaven and ambrosia salad.
What a truly wonderful thing it is to hear from you.
How are you doing, blessed Jimmy?
Who are you?
I host a political show online called the Jimmy Dore Show.
It's on YouTube and it's available as a podcast.
Oh, yes, I'm familiar with podcasts.
A large part of our online ministries involved podcasting.
You have to keep up with new media if you want to be able to spread the message of the Lord Jesus Christ to young people.
I suppose so.
Plus, the revenue from our Patreon page pays for the fuel for my private jet.
That's great.
We're doing all right, but we're no come town.
What can I do for you, Jimmy?
Are you feeling spiritually untethered?
Do you need the guidance of the Lord, my son?
No.
Because I'll happily transfer you to one of our pray-for-pay agents.
Our rates are quite reasonable, as I'm sure you'll agree.
No, Reverend Graham, I was hoping I could ask you a few questions about President Trump.
Oh, absolutely.
President Trump is a good man, a good man of faith.
I love talking about dear Donald.
So you believe Donald Trump is a Christian?
Oh, absolutely.
Although he has never attended church and displays a shocking ignorance of even the most basic tenets of the faith, I have seen inside this man's soul, and I know him to be a Christian man.
Wait, wait, he himself actually said that he's a Christian?
You know, I'm not really sure, but I honestly don't think that matters.
Hey, there's a lot more to that phone call.
You know it and I know it.
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That's right.
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That's it for this week.
Until next week, this is Jimmy Dore saying you be the best you can be, and I'll keep being me.
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