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March 21, 2019 - Jimmy Dore Show
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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore show.
Haven't done this one in a while.
Hello.
Hello.
Who is this?
Oh, come on.
No, seriously, I'm waiting for a FedEx, so I don't have time for this.
What's this about?
You know who this is and what this is about.
I mean, it's, I mean, oh, come on.
You don't recognize me?
Is this a bit?
Is this where I say yes, and?
Is this Sean Spicer?
Yes, and well, I don't have time for this.
Time Warner cable is coming over between the hours of 8 a.m. and midnight.
I thought you said FedEx.
What happened to Yes and?
This is too hard.
Improv's hard.
Can I do something like, okay, but I thought you said FedEx?
Yes, you may, but it's may, not can.
But you can't be waiting for Time Warner right now.
They changed the spectrum, you fraud.
I mean, yes, and you're a fraud.
So what's the former spokesperson for the leader of the free world been up to?
Hello?
Oh, oh, is that for me?
Oh, yeah, I did do that, didn't I?
Wow, what a head trap.
Life is a carnival, right?
What's the question again?
I was just asking what the former White House senior official in charge of disseminating the message of the leader of the free world was up to lately.
Correspondent on Extra.
What was that?
Got a job on Extra.
What?
I'm a correspondent on Extra.
What's that?
You know what Extra is.
It's an award-winning American Syndicated Television News magazine.
Are you serious, Sean?
Okay, it hasn't won any awards and won't likely either, ever.
But a correspondent?
Special correspondent.
And shut up.
Isn't Extra one of those annoying entertainment news shows?
Yeah, I suppose it could be annoying to people who don't care about Ferrell Williams hat.
What about it?
Speak fucking hat.
Don't be a jerk.
Everybody loves that idiot's hat.
It's a trademark.
So it's a big deal.
It's important.
His stupid fucking hat is important.
But what is your assignment on the show?
My assignment is to offer insight into the personal lives of Washington, D.C. entitled.
I think if people see the way these people really live, they'll think twice before condemning them as evil tools of the establishment.
Great.
Who have you interviewed so far?
Mike Pompeo and his wife and Sarah Huckley and Kellyanne Conway.
The people really want to know who these people are behind the spotlight beyond the glow of adoration and celebrity.
So how long is your contract?
I was able to pin them down to about three weeks.
That's a pretty long term for me.
You lasted longer at the White House, right?
That was six months.
Well, actually, the president fired me after one day, but I stuck around for a while to help stack post-it notes and jump.
Do you need anybody to stack post-it office?
Hello?
Hello?
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 you, T-Value.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Door Show.
We're announcing June 5th live Jimmy Door Show in Hermosa Beach, California at the Hermosa Beach Comedy and Magic Club.
Go to JimmyDoorComedy.com for a link for tickets.
That's June 5th in Hermosa Beach.
Let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
Hey, did you know 16 years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq, but fortunately, as a nation, we've learned from our past mistakes.
It's something I wish I could say, not sarcastically.
Yeah, the Iraq war, it just turned 16, 16 years old.
What do you get for a kid who's had everything and destroyed it?
If there's one thing our leaders have learned after 16 years of war in the Middle East, it's that most Americans won't be able to spell Venezuela.
Hey, did you hear Bernie hired David Sirota for his campaign?
Did you hear about that?
David's going to be like a speechwriter advisor.
And I can understand why Hillary supporters are upset about it.
I mean, why hire an award-winning investigative journalist and progressive activist as your strategist when you can get someone like David Brock who wrote a book calling Anita Hill a slut?
I mean, why wouldn't...
So whoever said Bloody Mary into the mirror, not cool.
Did DNC pick Milwaukee, Wisconsin to host a Democratic National Convention?
I hope somebody gives Hillary a map so she can find it.
Hey, did you hear Lyft?
They announced that they won't be turning a profit until 2023.
Well, maybe the people at Lyft can make some extra money driving Uber in the meantime.
Hey, Credit Karma keeps sending me emails saying they're proud of me.
In your face, dead parents.
I don't know about you, but it's impossible to imagine how anyone connected with Fuller House could ever live down the shame of CollegeGate.
I don't know.
I don't know what's going on.
The wealthy parents are bribing to get their kids into colleges they don't need to get into to have a nice life.
They already have a nice life.
I mean, you know, back in my day, you had to walk seven miles in the snow just to write a joke about walking seven miles in the snow to bribe a school admissions officer.
You know, the great thing about accumulating bribe credits is you can always transfer them to a higher-tiered institution once you're ready to bribe upper division university officials.
In other news, the GOP says they found a solution to rising workplace suicide rate.
Fire more people.
Hey, the Robert Mueller investigation is winding up and it's turning out to be a big nothing burger.
But I just remember that two years ago, CNN said, quote, we don't know yet what we don't know yet about the Russia investigation.
Now that we know they didn't know anything, I want to know what they didn't know and when they knew they didn't know it.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
Bernie Sanders' campaign goes union and hires a new press secretary.
And who she voted for in 2016 may surprise you, or will it?
50% of the country says Russia Gate is a witch hunt, says USA Today poll.
Plus, Donny Tonahance Trump goes after a dead veteran and the world goes crazy.
Plus, we got phone calls today.
Sean Spicer calls in today.
We might have some greatest hits phone calls later on in the show.
All right.
Plus, if we have time, special interview with Eva Bartlett, another independent journalist, debunks the propaganda about Venezuela right here on the Jimmy Door show.
Hey, so Trump went off on John McCain today.
Let's just get right to it.
Because they love me.
They asked me about a man named John McCain.
And if you want to tell you about it, should I or not?
Yes?
Yes?
So I have to be honest, I've never liked him much.
Hasn't been for me.
I've really probably never will.
But there are certain reasons for it, and I'll tell you.
And I do this to save a little time with the press later on.
John McCain received the fake and phony dossier.
Do you hear about the dossier?
It was paid for by crooked Hillary Clinton, right?
And John McCain got it.
He got it.
And what did he do?
He didn't call me.
He turned it over to the FBI hoping to put me in jeopardy.
And that's not the nicest thing to do.
You know, when those people say, because I'm a very loyal person, John McCain campaigned for years to repeal and replace Obamacare for years in Arizona.
Great state.
I love the people of Arizona.
But he campaigned for years for repeal and replace.
So did Rob.
So did a lot of senators.
When he finally had the chance to do it, he voted against repeal and replace.
He voted against at two o'clock in the morning.
Remember, thumbs down.
We said, what the hell happened?
He said two hours before he was voting to repeal and replace.
And he went thumbs down.
Badly hurting the Republican Party, badly hurting our nation, and hurting many sick people who desperately wanted good, affordable health care.
We would have had it.
This would have saved our country over a trillion dollars in entitlements, and we would have ended up making a great health care plan, frankly, with the Democrats, because they would have had no choice.
McCain didn't get the job done for our great vets and the VA.
He's got a list of stuff.
It's not just one thing.
He starts with the dossier, goes to the repealed place.
Now he's on to how McCain failed at helping the vets get the health care.
He's got a list of stuff.
I love how he opened.
He was like, I don't like the guy.
I probably never will.
Well, yeah, you for sure never will.
He's dead.
You're not going to.
What do you think?
His ghost is going to send you an apology card?
Like, what the hell are you doing?
I don't know.
Maybe if dead John McCain comes around and starts apologizing or John McCain died seven months ago.
See, it doesn't seem that long, does it?
It feels like five minutes ago he died.
Wow.
Maybe it's because his daughter won't shut up.
Maybe that's what it is.
And they knew it.
That's why when I had my dispute with him, I had such incredible support from the vets and from the military.
The vets were on my side because I got the job done.
I got choice and I got accountability.
Accountability meaning somebody mistreats our vets.
For 45 years, they were trying.
They mistreat our vets.
And we say, hey, you're fired.
Get out.
Can't mistreat our vets.
They never got it done.
And choice for years and years, decades, they wanted to get choice.
You know what?
People don't care that he's ripping John McCain.
They don't care.
They couldn't care less.
He's been ripping John McCain, by the way, his entire political life, Donald Trump, which is about three years, his entire political life.
He's been ripping him.
He ripped his service.
Not only ripped John McCain, ripped his service.
Said, I like pilots who don't get captured.
Didn't hurt him a bit.
Came after a gold star family.
Didn't hurt him a bit.
So all that stuff about, you know, take care of our vets.
Right.
So, I mean, but all this stuff about how you have to give respect and how dare, and I don't like Obama didn't give, they don't care.
You could disparage the, you could disparage the military if you they agree with your politics, I guess.
Isn't that wild, kind of?
I wrote a news and poem for the occasion, actually.
Oh, really?
What is it?
Yeah.
I'm indifferent that Trump said something rude about McCain.
I think highly of neither and won't fall for the game.
The news cycle of distraction is more of the same.
The nation's economy of war is the real cause of pain.
Oh, I usually try to make him funnier.
Rob.
That's not that funny.
Rob.
We do the snappies.
Boy, the snappies, the snappies drive some people crazy.
Oh, snappy.
Tired.
Oh, you guys lost it when you snapped.
Really?
I was looking until you started snapping, and now you're just as bad as anybody.
Snapping?
It's cool, Danio.
Yeah, snapping goes back to beat poets, right?
So that started with the, it was all, it was, you were the anti-establishment people did this.
That was where that comes from, right?
And so people then that that woman did it with Chelsea Clinton.
You're like, what are you doing stamping?
I love it.
I love the snapping.
Anyway, so I just think it's, it's, well, there's a little bit more to this.
So it just goes to show you that it's just crap.
You know, we give lip service to our veterans.
We don't actually take care of them.
I mean, the VA actually, when veterans are polled, they're positive about it.
And so what Trump is talking about here, choice, is, correct me if I'm wrong, what choices is if you have to wait at the VA for your treatment in a certain amount of time and you can't get, you then can go to another hospital that's not the VA and the government, that's what he means by choice, right?
I'm assuming that's what he's getting again.
Yeah.
And he apparently he got that done.
That's what he's saying.
Okay.
You're a military person.
You're one of our great people.
To me, one of the great people.
For many decades, they couldn't get it done.
It was never done.
I got it.
I like how he says, but military, you're all great people.
One of the great people.
If you're in the military, to me, I think you're great.
And that's why I didn't want to become one of you because I didn't think I deserved to be great.
And I had a bone spur.
See, you understand?
I'm great, and you're great, but I just couldn't be as great as you.
Five months ago, I got it done.
Choice.
Instead of waiting in line, a vet fought for us, fought in these tanks, fought for us.
Instead of waiting in line for two days, two weeks, two months, people waiting online, they're not very sick by the time they see a doctor.
They're terminally ill.
We gave them choice.
If you have to wait for any extended period of time, you go outside, you go to a local doctor, we paid the bill, you get yourself better, go home to your family, and we got it passed.
We got it done.
What?
And the other thing is we're in a war in the Middle East that McCain pushed so hard.
He's got another thing.
He's at the bottom.
He was calling Bush President Bush all the time.
Get into the Middle East.
Get into the Middle East.
He's attacking Republicans.
He's attacking Bush and McCain at the same time and their war.
Which I find refreshing, actually.
I don't know about you.
Am I the only one who finds that refreshing?
I find it, yeah, I find it interesting.
Well, I read these comments all the time that says, oh, I'm so entertained by the left eating the left.
I find this super entertaining.
No, I'm enjoying this because I find it refreshing when someone tells the truth about the Iraq war and how horrible the idiots who were pushed, who pushed for it.
And that's what I mean.
And he said that during a debate, too, to Jeb Bush.
Your brother lied us into a war.
It was a big mistake.
And people were cheering for it.
I mean, people, that's what I'm talking about.
I find that.
I don't find his as much as John McCain deserves our ridicule.
This is certainly horrible form to ridicule a guy who's been dead for seven months.
This is so horrible.
I gave him a nice funeral.
The guy's a shithead.
What are you doing?
How is this at all gaining further support of anybody?
It's just him.
It's just him stroking himself off in public, man.
He likes doing that.
In front of tanks.
In front of tanks.
It's not going to, again, I predict it will not hurt him, that this will not hurt him one bit.
And well, let's listen to the rest of this.
Now we're into that war for $7 trillion.
Thousands and thousands of our people have been killed, millions of people overall.
And frankly, we're straightening it out now, but it's been a disaster for our country.
We've spent tremendous wealth.
Remember that George Bush and John McKay, the Republicans, their big war, Dick Cheney?
It's been a disaster.
Well, that's what I find peculiar.
I mean, you know, and I think you've said this in the past.
It's like, well, Trump's going to criticize these wars because, you know, he wants his own.
He wants his own wars.
So he makes, he ridicules Iraq and he ridicules Afghanistan.
And he wants to pull out of Afghanistan and he doesn't want to do Syria.
But that's not because it's because he wants his own wars.
He wants to go into Iran and he wants to do Venezuela.
So I love John Fuglesing says, now whenever McCain is trending, we know the president's playing roast battle with a dead guy again.
Roast battle.
That's like a new thing, right?
I thought that would be able to roast the dead.
Fantastic.
That's very funny.
Sidney McCain shares threatening message she received amid Trump's renewed attacks on her husband.
Well, I hope that she has the resources to protect herself.
I hope she lives.
I hope she gets herself into a gated community, ASAP.
Senator Lindsey Graham, well, we're going to play you a video of it.
I love this.
Trump is actually attacking Sydney McCain now for not thanking him for her husband's funeral, just so you have a proper reading on the GOP's cowardice level today.
Because the GOP, they're all putting their tail between their legs.
No one's really criticizing Trump for doing this because they're cowards.
I mean, if you're a Republican and you think John McCain's a war hero, would you really let Trump do this if you had integrity?
No, but they don't, so they will.
Here's Lindsey Graham.
I love John McCain.
I traveled the world with him.
I learned a lot from him.
He's an American hero, and nothing will ever diminish that.
I bet you learned a lot from him when you saw him hugging and kissing George Bush because he wanted to be president and George Bush who had smeared him.
You mean that's what you learned?
You learned how to act to submit to power?
Is that what you learned from John McCain?
Because that's what you're doing right now.
Watch this.
I always thought that John McCain was Lindsey Graham's best friend, certainly the best friend in the Senate.
I don't know if best friend in the world, but certainly best friend of the Senate, John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
And after the president just ripped your friend who's been dead for seven months, ripping him, ripping him about war.
Anyway, here we go.
I think the president's comments about Senator McCain hurt him more than they hurt the legacy of Senator McCain.
I'm going to try to continue to help the president.
Those two sentences are so funny.
He says him ripping John McCain hurts the president more than it hurts the legacy of John McCain.
But I'm going to continue to help the president.
That's the next sentence.
I'm going to continue to help the president.
What?
That's the new neck.
But believe me, I'm in good with the powerful and I ain't letting go.
And by the way, I'm going to get reelected because my base likes Trump too.
So I'm not going to ever.
This is about my political future, Lindsey Graham.
It's not about John McCain or having integrity.
This is about this guy rolling over to Donald Trump.
He might have consequences for what he hit.
I mean, not with me.
Like, we're cool.
Yeah, we're cool.
But there might be consequences somewhere.
I don't know.
There might be this guy also a veteran.
And a lot of people are coming to John's defense now that called him crazy and a warmonger.
So it's kind of interesting to see the politics of how this dispute is being used to bash Trump by people who are against both Trump and McCain.
Really?
That's the story?
That's the story here?
Isn't it amazing how he pretends that that's the story?
He tries, he tries, kudos to Lindsey Graham.
He found an angle that he doesn't have to offend anybody who's a Republican.
I find it ironic that people who hate John McCain and Trump are using this now to bash the president.
I'm going to use a diversion and I'm going to be really good at it by looking away from the camera and doing that now and not looking at the camera.
And are we done yet?
Lindsey Graham.
Yeah, so I'm just, I just think that's interesting about the politics of it.
What's interesting about the politics of it is you won't stand up for your friend.
This, I don't know.
My job is to represent them.
Imagine if Barack Obama did that to John McCain.
Imagine what that guy would be saying today.
If Barack Obama or anybody, the Democrats said that about John McCain, do you imagine what he would, you know what he would be saying?
And he's not saying that now.
Why?
Because it would hurt him politically to say it.
That's why.
Because it would hurt him politically to say it.
People of South Carolina, they want me to work with the president where I can.
I've got to know the president.
We have a good working relationship.
I like him.
I don't like it when he says things about my friend John McCain.
And the best thing that can happen, I think, for all of us is to move forward and focus on the challenges.
So am I making too much out of that?
I mean, this guy was so full of vitriol.
Remember when he was screaming at the Supreme Court hearings?
Remember his big display?
And this is humble, Lindsay.
This is, you know, I like the president.
I like my friend John.
I like my friend.
People of South Carolina want me to be that guy.
So I'll just be that guy.
It's just, that's what they want.
And that's my job, I think.
That's what I read.
You know, Jimmy, I just saw this quick blurb that Lindsey Graham says about Trump.
This is about a year ago.
He commands the room.
He's funny.
He's engaging.
He's the guy that I like playing golf with.
See, so that's this is exactly what I'm saying.
Like when they go, no, you got to get, you can't, you can't vote Jill Stein because Trump.
Well, he's just like all of them.
That's the whole thing.
They all look like boogeymen.
They're all horrible.
And the Democrats won't get any better.
They just won't.
Anyway, there's Lindsey Graham.
There's Trump going off like a maniac.
It's certainly poor form.
I mean, we're no fans of John McCain, but that certainly is poor form.
Even though I think everything he said was probably accurate, right?
John McCain did get a hold of the dossier.
John McCain did give it to the FBI.
John McCain did encourage.
He was a warmonger.
He did push for the Iraq war.
He pushed for war everywhere he could find.
That's why we don't like John McCain.
Yeah.
But, you know, if you can't give a rebuttal because you're dead.
Because you're dead.
Pretty lame.
No, no, it is pretty lame of Trump to be doing.
I mean, it's just the lame.
But again, it won't hurt him.
It's supposed to.
This kind of stuff is supposed to hurt you.
It's not going to hurt you.
Dude, going after a guy who's dead.
I mean, now you sound like a nightclub comedian.
That's what I'm supposed to do.
I'm supposed to go.
I'm supposed to take the low road.
Not the president.
You're supposed to take the high road and leave that for nightclub comedians.
That's what I'm supposed to be doing.
Donald Trump.
He's a comedian-esque opening.
He's like, you want me to talk about McCain?
You want me to talk about him?
Well, all I'm saying is John McCain, you know, Donald Trump tells us to worry about immigrants taking our jobs.
And here he is taking my job.
Okay, I got a phone call, but I don't recognize this number.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Hello.
Hello, who is this?
This is Al Pacino.
Al Pacino, the Al Pacino.
How are you?
I'm good, Al.
Thanks for asking.
I can't believe you called the Jimmy Door show.
I know.
I mean, what possible reason could you have for calling in?
You're a very knowledgeable man about politics.
I want to be knowledgeable about politics.
You and I team up, work together, figure things out.
A symbiotic relationship.
Yeah, I'm not sure I understand.
Look, you got George Clooney calling into your show.
You got Finch Fawn calling in.
Al Schwartzeneg.
Yeah, yeah.
I want to be one of these guys.
How do I get to be one of these guys?
You mean you want to call into the show occasionally and discuss current events?
Yeah.
Well, of course.
And with a word and a will, it has transpired.
I am on the phone with Jimmy Dory.
Can you feel it?
It is hot outside.
Ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha.
Uh.
All right, Welda.
What do you want to talk about?
I have to admit, I'm a little behind.
I hadn't noticed that Richard Nixon wasn't president anymore until I was done filming the HBO Joe Paterno movie.
How is that possible?
What?
I've been researching roles for 45 years.
Intensely.
I've been preoccupied with art.
And politics is the enemy of art.
Okay.
But things are dire.
I need to start paying attention and formulating opinions and stating said opinions in a public forum.
The progressive movement could sure use an El Pacino.
Oh, I haven't made up my mind yet here.
Progressive.
Maybe regressive.
Maybe progresso.
Maybe left.
Maybe left.
Maybe right.
Maybe in the middle.
Maybe on top above.
Why does it gotta be a line?
If I am informed, I refuse to be confined.
All right, then.
But I'm learning, right?
Jimmy, listen.
For the first time in my life, I own a computer.
I'm learning to use it.
It was a gift from my daughter.
So, in order to learn about politics, I turned on my laptop computer.
Okay.
Then I accessed the mainframe.
Yeah, I don't think that's how it works, Al.
And this computer told me that Russia decided our election in the United States.
That's not fucking Russia.
No, Al.
A lot of people say this, but that's not actually.
And that's why this clown, this buffoon, is president.
Instead of that Hillary kid, who I thought was a wonderkind, came out of nowhere, this kid.
What?
Out of the blue.
Al, Hillary Clinton has been part of the American political landscape for well over a quarter century.
It's true.
Oh, hold on.
Wait a minute.
Is she the young lady who performed Fallatio on Bill Clinton?
No, no, she was.
Because I thought maybe they hit it off because they have the same last name.
Like, you're a Clinton.
I'm a Clinton.
And then Shatty, Chatty, Chatty.
And Flirty, Flirty, Flirty.
And the next thing you know.
I've seen this happen before.
Okay, well, to fill you in, Al, no, Russia did not steal our election.
That's just a distraction to make us forget what a horrible candidate Hillary Clinton was.
Oh, so she's bad.
Yeah, in my opinion, and the opinion of many others, yes.
So then, maybe there is something to this rumor that she has a pizza restaurant and she's turning little kids into pizza toppings and then serving that pizza to other children or something.
No, that's called Pizzagate.
That's bogus.
But you said she's bad.
Yeah, but that.
But Pizzagate is bogus.
I'm so confused.
Did my computer lie to me?
Probably.
I want to kill this fucking thing.
Look, Al, just check in with us occasionally and we'll set you straight, okay?
All right, Betty.
I appreciate it.
Truly.
From the heart.
But I'm still going to bash this fucking machine apart.
Raphael!
Bring me my vengeance cloak!
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So now the Mueller investigation is just about over, and everybody's upset.
I mean, everybody who hates Donald Trump is upset because everybody knows that there was no collusion or now that Mueller's not going to have a charge of collusion that Trump colluded, conspired illegally with a foreign government to somehow overturn the election results.
That didn't happen.
And so, but consequently, since we've been doing Russia Gate for two years, we never took a look at the rigging in the Democratic primary like we were supposed to.
The Democratic Party never did an autopsy about how they could lose to the most beatable candidate in the history of the world and who was a political novice game show host.
They never did that.
So this has been a lot.
And so now Mueller, he's been investigating them for forever and he's got nothing on him.
And let's remind you who Mueller is.
I want to remind you.
As Director Kennedys pointed out, Secretary Powell presented evidence last week that Baghdad has failed to disarm its weapons of mass destruction, willfully attempting to evade and deceive the international community.
Our particular concern is that Saddam Hussein may supply terrorists with biological, chemical, or radiological material.
So that guy's a liar and led us into a war.
And you can tell he's got a million tells.
He can't even look the guy in the eye he's talking to.
He knows he's lying.
And now that's the people that the left have put all their this guy's supposed to have integrity or whatever.
This guy's a spook liar, right?
Who doesn't care, who's been undermining progressive organizations the entire time he was at the FBI because that's what the FBI does.
Okay, so if you're a lefty and you hate Trump and you like him because you hate Trump, you're a chump.
That's what you are.
And guess what?
And now that at two and a half years of ubiquitous coverage, Trump's a Russian, Trump's a Russian, half of Americans say Trump is a victim of a witch hunt, as trust in Mueller erodes.
Should have never had trust in Mueller in the first place.
We didn't at this show.
Isn't it amazing that somehow at this show, a dumb Jagoff nightclub comedian can see through this bullshit from day one, from day one.
And there's nobody who's less of a fan of Trump than me, of his policies.
And we saw it from day one, which just goes to show you.
I don't know what it goes to show you, but it goes to show you that maybe that's why the country's in the state it's in because the information, you know, an uninformed electorate, an informed electorate is necessary for a functioning democracy.
We don't have an informed electorate.
We have a propagandized, lied-to-and BS gaslitten, gaslitten, gaslighted electorate.
That's what we have.
And that's what that, and now they see through.
They don't trust the media.
And now they see it.
That's a lot of independence, too, by the way.
That's not just Republicans.
That's Democrats and Independents.
And by the way, we warned you at the beginning of this in January 2017.
We warned you that the big danger of the mainstream news media pushing this Russia gate without any evidence is that it's going to erode people's confidence in journalism and the news.
And then when Trump actually is doing stuff, they won't believe you.
We were right.
We were right.
And guess who was wrong?
Fucking everybody else.
Everybody, except for a handful of people, and you know who those are.
Everybody.
Everybody at the newspapers, everybody on TV, everybody in the magazines, everybody online, everybody on YouTube, except for a handful of people, and you know who they are.
And everybody else got it wrong.
Isn't that amazing?
50% say they agree with Trump's assertion that the special counsel's investigation is a witch hunt.
And let me just say this.
That's fine.
Everybody else got it wrong.
What's not okay is that they shamed and smeared people who were getting it right, like us, like Aaron Mate, secular talk.
That's what's not okay.
It's okay that you, it's not okay that you all got it wrong.
And you pushed a conspiracy theory for fricking two years.
And so all the other issues didn't get covered.
You know, if you're doing a news show and your whole hour is devoted to hating Trump, you're not an alternative news show.
You're MSNBC.
And so let's get back to this.
50% say they agree with Trump's assertion that the special counsel's investigation is a witch hunt and that he has been subjected to more investigations than previous presidents because of politics.
Now, I'm going to say there is a problem with the way they ask this question because they put two questions in one.
They asked the question, do you think Trump is a victim of a witch hunt and subjected to more investigations than previous presidents because of politics?
That's two questions.
So you don't know if those people agree with the witch hunt part or if they agree with this part.
So either way, you're screwed.
I mean, you're screwed if you're, if you oppose Trump.
There is unsurprisingly, by the way, 50%.
Do you know that, you know what percentage of Americans are registered Democrats?
Like 26%.
So if this poll is accurate, even close, 50%, that's a lot of people who aren't registered Democrats.
That's what I'm saying.
There is unsurprisingly a stark partisan.
By the way, let me throw it to our panel.
Are you guys surprised at that?
I'm not surprised at all.
I'm not.
I'm surprised the number isn't higher.
Right.
Right.
I think that's what we are all expecting, a higher number.
Yeah.
Well, I think it's one of those things.
This whole thing.
A lot of people have a hard time grasping a scenario where there aren't any good guys.
Where there's not a good guy in a bad guy.
a bad guy and well here you don't have any good guys Trump's not a good guy and the intelligence agencies they're not good guys either people have a hard time grasping that so now I'm surprised it's not higher because I think for a lot of people as trust in Mueller and stuff like that erodes there's a good chance this is going to have a cyclical effect where some people especially maybe i.e.
undecided voters are going to go well maybe Trump's a good guy I know and that's another just dangerous effect of business Yes.
There is unsurprisingly a stark partisan divide on that question.
86% of Republicans think that Trump is a victim of a witch hunt, but just 14% of Democrats say Trump is the victim of a witch hunt.
To me, that's a high number for Democrats.
26% of the country considers themselves Democrat, and 1.5% of those people think Trump is a victim of a witch hunt.
Especially with they've heard nothing but the opposite from their own party and every newspaper.
Wow.
Among independents, over half say he's the victim of a witch hunt.
Over half of independents, 54% say so.
42% of independents say he isn't.
Well done, Democrats and corporate news media.
Well done.
You've got people thinking Trump is a victim.
Way to go.
You've got independents thinking Trump is a victim.
These are the people Hillary Clinton was trying to reach out to.
These are the people who aren't decided who they're going to vote for.
Those are the people.
In many cases.
Right.
You are correct, Ron.
That's why they're called independents.
28% say they have a lot of trust in former FBI director Mueller's investigation.
So 28% of these people polled in this poll say they have a lot of trust in former FBI Director Mueller's investigation to be fair and accurate.
But guess what?
28% is pretty low.
And that's the lowest level to date, down five points, points since December.
So less than three out of 10 people in America trust Robert Mueller's investigation to be fair.
Isn't that amazing?
Seven out of 10 Americans don't trust him.
And it's not like this is his first blemish.
Yeah, I know.
Like, well, he's never gotten anything wrong before.
This is a disaster for Democrats.
This is a disaster for Democrats.
If they actually wanted to oppose Trump, but they don't.
They really don't.
Trump is great for Democrats.
They never fundraise bigger against Donald Trump.
And then they don't have to actually come up with policies.
They don't actually have to serve the people who are asking to vote for them.
They could just say Trump.
Well, same with the media.
I mean, the corporate media, this should be taught in journalism classes years down the road as what not to do.
Right.
But they're laughing all the way to the bank.
They are, CNN.
But Brian Stelter told me that it doesn't matter if the ratings at CNN.
That's what the guy who's the media watchdog said on an open microphone looking into a camera that ratings don't matter at CNN.
Let me tell you something.
That's all that matters at CNN.
Jimmy, in fairness to him, that joke killed.
They did laugh in his face when he said it.
Ted Coppel did.
They did.
The whole room full of people laughed at his face when he said it.
That's hilarious.
28%, the lowest level today, trust Robert Mueller.
In comparison, 38% express a lot of trust in Trump's denials.
More people believe Trump than believe Robert Mueller.
You happy now, you stupid lefties trying to prop up the FBI as our savior and hero?
The FBI is the enemy of progressives.
They infiltrate your organizations and they subvert them.
You knuckleheads.
They'll kill you.
They'll go that far.
They'll certainly plant false stories and false evidence on you to keep you out of government.
That's what the FBI does to progressives.
They're there to derail progressives and keep them out of government.
That's not me saying that.
That's a former director of the FBI admitted that.
And the left embraces the FBI because they hate Trump so much.
Support for the House of Representatives to seriously consider impeaching the president has dropped since last October by 10 percentage points to 28 percent.
So no independence.
It seems like if 20 can if 26 percent of Americans are registered Democrats and 28 percent support impeachment, you almost have no support for this outside the Democratic Party.
Support for impeaching Trump has cooled the poll show in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's declaration that she opposed the idea unless there was bipartisan support for it.
So now let me show you what this means, what this actually means that Nancy Pelosi opposes impeachment.
It tells you that Nancy Pelosi is a sociopathic liar of the highest order.
What do you mean, Jimmy?
It probably would be.
It probably is a smart political thing not to impeach Trump.
She's been telling me and the rest of the country for two and a half years that Donald Trump is a traitor to our country working for another country that's our enemy.
That's what she's been saying, that the guy who's running our government at the tippy top of our government, the most powerful guy in the world, is being played and it is a servant of a hostile enemy.
And you don't want to impeach that guy?
Well, maybe all that stuff you said about Trump being in the pocket of a hostile enemy is bullshit.
Because if he is and you didn't want to impeach him, you're derelict at your job.
You're going to leave a traitor as the president?
You should be screaming every day and trying to whip up support for getting rid of.
There's a traitor in the White House.
So that's how you know Nancy Pelosi is a liar.
And that's how you know Nancy Pelosi doesn't have any integrity because she just lied to you for two and a half years straight for political purposes and red baited the president of the United States for doing it.
And what does that do?
Again, I told you all the bad effects of Russia Gate, how it hurts the left, how it hurts our country.
So did you think about that when Nancy Pelosi said she's against impeachment?
That means she's lying or you're okay with having a traitor be our president.
Yeah, well, and that makes a lot of sense too, because, you know, and she's not the only, you know, person committing this infraction.
But yeah, if people were sincere about those claims, they would do what Dennis Kucinich did when it came to George W. Bush.
Right.
And they would bring those causes for impeachment to the table and they would say it in the square.
And maybe only a couple people are going to watch it on C-SPAN, but you're still bringing it to the table because you know that this man, you know, bring it back to Kucinich on Bush.
You know that this man committed war crimes.
Right.
So, yeah, that's what they would be doing.
But they're not.
If you thought that the president was actually working against our country and for a foreign hostile enemy, you would do everything you could to get rid of that guy, including impeachment and screaming about it every day.
Well, they scream about it every day, except they don't want to do anything about it, Which means they're full of shit.
Among Democrats, 41% say Pelosi's comments had some or a lot of impact on their opinion about impeachment.
That means 41%, she's swinging opinion.
So they wanted to impeach Trump until Nancy Pelosi said she didn't.
And then they took, they were like, oh, I guess we don't either now because our leader said we shouldn't.
So she actually could swing public opinion.
That's what leaders do.
That's what they're supposed to do.
You're supposed to move people's hearts and minds.
And she could have, and she did just now.
She moved it the other way away from impeachment.
Wasn't it interesting, though, that in the party that she's supposed to be leading, half the people, they don't care about her opinion.
And then the other thing.
And that's interesting, too.
The other thing is 42% say that what she said about impeachment had no impact on them.
So it's bad both ways.
Half the party actually does listen to her, and she swayed them away from getting rid of a traitor.
And half the party doesn't give a crap what she says.
That's pretty interesting.
Despite that, the survey shows a nation that remains skeptical of Trump's honesty and deeply divided by his leadership.
A 52% majority say they have little or no trust in the president's denials that his 2016 campaign colluded with Moscow in the election.
That put him in the Oval Office.
So those two numbers don't jive.
So 50% can't think he's a witch hunt and 52% think that he did collude with those two numbers don't go together.
Well, that could speak back to the confusion about the question.
Right.
Yeah.
Because like that is, yeah, that is a very oddly worded question and it is two definitely two parts.
Like, how do you just say yes or no to that?
But what's interesting is that even though there's been absolutely no evidence, the news media has tried to pretend like there is evidence all the time.
And here's Aaron Matei.
He's quoting a Wall Street Journal.
He tweets out a Wall Street Journal article and he says, can we agree that Putin is an awful puppeteer?
Among many things, Putin's puppet, meaning Trump, has bombed his Syrian ally twice, has tried to overthrow his Venezuelan ally.
So Trump is doing all these things that Putin doesn't want him to do.
Putin doesn't want him to bomb Syria.
He did.
Putin doesn't want him to try to overthrow Maduro and Venezuela.
He's trying to.
And also, he ripped up the INF treaty, which Russia didn't want to have happen.
So he says now Putin's puppet is preparing sanctions against a vital German-Russia pipeline.
And that's what this is about.
So Trump is going against Russia's interest in a fossil fuel pipeline.
So for people who say that Trump is a Manchurian candidate and being puppeteered by Putin, you go, well, what's the evidence for it?
And their evidence could be used the other way.
They don't ever have this evidence.
It's called 12-dimensional chist.
Right?
Like, this is all the evidence actually goes the other way.
Like this right here, all these things go the other way.
It shows that Trump isn't doing anything that Putin wants.
In fact, Chomsky said, they asked Chomsky the same question.
Here's his answer.
But with a quid pro quo of the Russians.
So they say, oh, there's got to be a quid pro quo, which means the Russians said, I'll give you this.
I'll help you in the election.
And Trump, you give us that.
That's quid pro quo.
That's what that means.
This for that.
So the Russians gave Trump something, and now Trump's got to give the Russians something.
And they asked Chomsky, well, what is the quid pro quo?
What did Trump give the Russians if the Russians actually did hack the election for him?
What is he giving back to them?
And this is what he says.
Of what?
The quid pro quo is that he's increased military action on the Russian border.
He's created a huge military expansion of the military budget and Russia.
He's pulled out of the INF treaty, which is a major threat to Russia.
What's the quid pro quo?
There is none.
So that's why it's just a crazy theory that people have now because they hate Donald Trump.
Just like this is the long-form birth certificate of the left.
They just make up a conspiracy.
They just keep repeating it over and over.
And people believe it without any evidence.
And here's Chomsky saying, where is the evidence for this?
There isn't any.
In fact, the evidence actually goes the other way.
So again, if you're still pushing this Russian narrative, you are Sean Hannity pushing long-form birth certificate.
That's a fair comparison.
Okay.
All right.
We've talked enough about this.
The way to go, news media and left, you've got people thinking that Trump is a victim.
Fantastic.
Guess what?
Bernie Sanders campaign, they hired a new press secretary, which is good news.
Her name is Brianna Joy Gray.
Now, I'm a fan of hers.
Breonna Joy Gray.
I'm a fan of hers.
I saw her interviewed a year ago by Katie Helper, and she was very compelling.
She's smart, and she's on it.
I like everything she said.
I thought she was great.
She wrote rights for the intercept or did.
And so now they've hired her.
But another thing I like about her is that she and I are very simpatico.
Now, you remember, Ron, my voting strategy was I'm not going to vote for Hillary Clinton.
I can't vote for someone who did Libya, Iraq, called black kids super predators.
Anyway, I just wasn't going to do it.
It was obvious to me we needed a third-party voice because after Hillary Clinton cheated Bernie Sanders, the progressive, out of the primary, she didn't reach out to progressives.
They stuck their thumb in the eyes of progressives and said, go pound sand.
Where else are you going to go?
She moved to her right and tried to get Republican votes.
She put Tim Kaine as her vice president.
She didn't pick Bernie.
She didn't pick a progressive.
Well, in fairness, she did reach out to progressives.
It was just to slap them in the face.
It was.
She did reach out and slap them.
There was a reach there.
There was definitely a reach, but it was not around.
So my whole strategy was that we got to get the third party polling above 5% so they can get matching funds so they can get into debates.
And so that then when the Democrats win the primary, they can't turn their backs on the progressives.
They need them.
So then if that third party was polling at a little, you know, a decent rate, then they would have to negotiate with them instead of going, screw you, go pound sand, which is what the Democrats do now.
Remember, the Democrats, the Democrats' first priority is to defeat the progressive, not the Republican.
Defeat the progressive, not the Republican.
And we showed you that with Donny Deutsch.
We showed you that with the MSNBC host, Donny Deutsch, right?
He had his own show on CNBC for a while even.
And he said that he would vote for Donald Trump if Bernie Sanders wins the nomination for the Democrats.
He said he would vote.
That guy who's the racist, who's not, all that stuff.
Yeah, but it turns out they hate progressives more.
And so that's why that was another reason why.
And so, but we don't.
So we don't have a viable third party in the United States.
We have the Green Party.
They have everybody likes their platform.
Ocasio-Cortez, it's the Green New Deal.
But anyway, get this.
She said, I actually did not vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election.
Oops.
What?
I was told every day, 24 hours a day, that I was a petulant child, that I was a purist, that I didn't understand politics, that I was toxic to the left because I was voting for Jill Stein and I lived in California.
Bernie, Bernie's new press secretary, didn't take Bernie's advice in the 2016 election.
Isn't that something?
I like her even more.
Bernie's own press secretary didn't take his advice and vote for Hillary Clinton.
Neither did I. I don't mean to throw it to our panel, our panel.
What do you think, our panel?
Well, let me just, can I just read the rest of her tweet?
She said, I actually did not vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election.
I do understand, unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, that there is an electoral college and that my third party vote in New York City made zero difference to the outcome of the election.
But yes, the vast majority of Bernie voters did vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
We already told you that.
So again, up is down, black is white.
When it comes to progressive politics, they'll lie about it, right?
And so now everyone thinks that Bernie bros, people who supported Bernie didn't vote for Hillary Clinton.
The exact opposite.
The people who supported Hillary Clinton didn't vote for Barack Obama.
The people who supported Bernie Sanders voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton at higher numbers than the Hillary Clinton voters voted for Barack Obama.
Now, I don't have to break that down for you.
That's not a Rubik's Cube.
It's easy to understand.
And so, again, they're just lying smith.
Corporate Democrats are Republicans.
They're horrible, as far as I'm concerned.
I respect a Republican more than a corporate Democrat because a Republican isn't trying to gaslight me.
You know who is?
A fucking corporate Democrat.
So there she goes by the vast majority.
So there we have it.
Let me throw it over to our panel for real.
I mean, if I had a dime for every time in 2016, I had that conversation with somebody in California when I said, I'm going to vote for Jill Stein.
And they said, now's not the time.
And I'd be like, what are you talking about?
First of all, we live in a safe state.
Second of all, look at how awful these two choices are.
When is there a better time to say we need a better tomorrow and need to get another, you know, need to get the Green Party up to 5% so they can be more competitive?
I can't think of a better time.
So I don't understand what you're saying there.
I had that conversation with so many people.
If I got a dime every time, I'd have at least $5 or $6.
And, you know.
But they would say to you, in any other circumstance, Ron, I would say, okay, but Trump, but Trump, Trump.
Well, Kyle Kalinske just did a video about Jeb Bush.
He did an interview with CNN, and he points out that Jeb Bush agrees with Donald Trump's policies.
He just doesn't like the manner in which he tweets.
And so that whole thing about that Trump is a special kind of crazy of Republicans turns out not to be true.
Turns out not to be true.
And that the entire Republican Party is supporting Donald Trump.
No matter what he says or not.
No matter what he says or does.
So that idea, so that's also BS because that idea of you can't do it this time because they'll just they just come up with a bigger boogeyman every time, which in fact is what the Pied Piper theory was.
They tried to come up with a boogeyman so bad that you couldn't help but vote for Hillary Clinton.
They were wrong.
They were wrong.
Well, what I would say to those people too, if you're going to give me an option of a fringe Republican, which I consider Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, or a moderate Republican, I'm going to say we deserve better choices.
Yeah.
Wow.
You know, and I think when I look at this new, Brianna's in a new position for her, it just shows me that actually the Bernie Sanders campaign for 2020, they're moving forward.
They're being very progressive in the membership of the team that is supporting him in this next campaign.
He's not sticking with the same crew as before.
He's getting rid of the old white guys that were surrounding him, giving him bad advice about putting, I mean, look how long it took Bernie to even recognize that he should go on the Young Turks.
It took way, way too long because those people around him, Tad Devine, which they're gone now, they're just old school.
They run a consulting firm that makes money off of advertising.
So that's why they took Bernie's money and put it on TV because they made more money personally from it.
Those guys are gone now.
I mean, look how out of touch they were.
Look how long it took Bernie to get on the Young Turks.
I mean, and the Young Turks isn't fringe.
They're not out there on the left.
The Young Turks, they support every Democratic primary winner there is.
So, I mean, it's not like, I mean, I understand that they'd be afraid to come on this show because we're going to ask them hard questions.
Like, hey, why did you run as an independent for 35 fucking years?
Tell everybody that we have to have a rainbow coalition and it has to happen outside the Democratic Party.
And then when you're in a position to make that actually happen, you don't do it.
That would be the one question.
That's the only question we actually want to ask Bernie.
I just want to go back to the last election when, you know, I'm sitting here.
I'm kind of, I'm looking forward to what's going to happen in 2020.
I am actually hopeful.
And I'm wondering, like, I'm very curious, like, who would Bernie choose as his running mate?
But when Hillary Clinton chose Tim Kaine, it was almost a done deal for me that I was like, why would I want to give Tim Kaine my support?
What was it about Tim Kaine?
It was like, oh, was it his turn?
Is that why we got Tim Kane?
And then you're an accomplish.
Then you're an accomplice when Tim Kaine goes in and crushes unions even harder and makes even more states right to work and makes life worse for people.
Now you're an accomplice when you come.
Why am I having a hard time saying that word?
You're an accomplice.
Not an accomplish.
You're an accomplished accomplice.
Yes, there you go.
But you guys knew Tim Kaine spoke Spanish, right?
No, no say.
So I think Brianna Joy Gray is a great choice.
I think she's a great choice.
Yeah, everything I've ever seen from her, I've liked.
I mean, I've not read any of her stuff on the internet, but I've followed her on Twitter for a while and everything I've ever seen from her on Twitter, I liked.
And I applaud the Sanders campaign, too, for saying, you know, Bernie did want people to vote for Hillary, but he said, don't follow me, do you?
Well, she did, you know, follow her conscience.
And he's still like, yeah, cool.
So I'm happy to see it.
In fact, Hillary Clinton herself tweeted out, vote your conscience.
And of course, she didn't mean that.
That's the ironic thing.
Hello, this is Jimmy.
Hello, Jimmy.
This is Christian.
I'm a fool from CNA.
Oh, hi, Christian.
Hello.
Do you have a few moments to chat?
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do.
Brilliant.
Splendid.
let's get started.
Didn't you used to be a war correspondent?
Yes, I did for many years.
Now, you're paid well for that, right?
Oh, are you kidding?
In the mid-2000s, I was rolling in it.
Iraq, Afghanistan, then London and Paris to the best restaurants and hotels imaginable for little RR.
It was the high point of my career.
So you personally would profit from a war?
Oh, absolutely.
And with the ratings, CNN makes money off war, right?
Oh, handover fist.
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