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And you know what happened to us?
Another goddamn thing.
No jail, no probation, no court-ordered rehab.
Just the respect and accolades of our peers.
The way it should be.
But nowadays, I can't even down a fifth of shivas and weave my link into oncoming traffic without getting busted by the fuzz, subjected to some nerve bird trial.
Let alone act like I used to in restaurants, i.e., throw salad plates at Chinamen while getting a hand job under the table from the lovely and talented Miss Mary Lou Henner.
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Now let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes, shall we?
Before I begin my observations on Wednesday night's Democratic debate, I'd like to congratulate CNN for building a stage that looks like Robbie the Robot jerked off onto a giant roulette wheel.
Did you see that set?
That was quite a set.
CNN they said it took over 100 people to build that stage.
Lucky for them, they had so many able-bodied journalists sitting around doing nothing.
Come on.
Easy joke.
Easy joke.
The debate was essentially between Democrats lying about Bernie Sanders' platform and Democrats stealing Bernie Sanders' platform.
So that was interesting.
And by the way, I still don't know who half the people were on stage, and I'm proud of it.
The high point of the debate had to be when Jake Tapper compared Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump.
Why did he do that?
Because they both said we can't be the police of the world.
Yeah, so they're just like each other, right?
I mean, that's like comparing our only hope to a racist maniac because you're a shitty journalist.
Hey, Don Lemon continually scolding everyone to, quote, please stick to the rules throughout the night, pretty much summed up why our country is so colossally fucked.
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post designated fact-checker, he made this important point.
He said that he had to turn down the TV volume because Bernie was too loud.
Snopes fact-checked it, and they found out that that sound was Jeff Bezos' balls dropping at the thought of having to pay taxes.
I gotta say, the takeaway from the Wednesday night debate, the takeaway phrase, was we have to work with the private sector.
They kept saying that.
You know what that means?
That means the world's gonna end five years faster than we thought it would.
Hey, what's coming up on today's show?
We're gonna tell you what the mainstream news media and MSNBC won't tell you about the debacle and dud that was the Mueller hearing.
We bring on award-winning reporter Aaron Matei to help break it down.
Plus, Jordan Sheridan has some on-the-ground evidence of CNN cheating Bernie Sanders.
No kidding.
Plus, a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Door Show.
So if you saw the debates last night, I did, or the debate.
I did.
Let me remember what I even have in here.
Oh, so my first question is, I was watching the debate and they introduced this guy.
I come from a state where a lot of people voted for Donald Trump.
Who the hell is that guy?
I never saw that guy before.
Never heard of that guy.
What the F. All of a sudden, he's running for president.
And by the way, he got a ton of time.
Him and John Delaney seemed to be the most important people in America last night.
This guy who no one knows and that other guy no one knows, John Delaney.
Who really comes across as an asswipe, John Delaney?
I mean, this guy came across good enough, whatever.
It just seemed like he, it seemed like they just grabbed the central casting, send me a politician.
That's what it seemed like.
I had no idea.
I didn't know this guy was going to be in the debate.
I just didn't know who he was.
You know, no one else in the world did.
Okay.
So I just thought it was funny all of a sudden they throw this guy.
All of a sudden, so you're telling me that Gravel, this guy's more popular than Gravelle?
You're telling me this guy polled higher than Gravelle, got more donations than Gravelle.
Some guy I don't never ever heard of?
More name recognition?
Certainly not.
Ever.
Come on.
So this is who the Democrats decided to put on the debate stage instead of Mike Gravelle, this guy.
Okay, so here is when Elizabeth Warren won the debate.
So if you want to see, so the whole night, it was CNN had set it up where you can't, it's the same thing they did in 2016.
You guys are fairy dust.
It's a fairy tale.
You guys can't have the things that the rest of the world has.
You can't possibly have the same things that France has.
In America, we're only the richest country in the world.
You can't have the same stuff that people have in France or Canada or Norway.
We don't have that kind of money.
That was the whole night.
The whole night was that way.
So that was CNN telling you a banana was an apple or an apple was a banana.
Whatever it is.
So here's how she wins the night.
I think Elizabeth Warren won it hands down and here's when she did it.
I remember when people said Barack Obama couldn't get elected.
Shoot, I remember when people said Donald Trump couldn't get elected.
But here's where we are.
I get it.
There is a lot at stake and people are scared.
But we can't choose a candidate we don't believe in just because we're too scared to do anything else.
And we can't ask other people to vote for a candidate we don't believe in.
Democrats win when we figure out what is right and we get out there and fight for it.
I am not afraid.
And for Democrats to win, you can't be afraid either.
Congressman Delaney, your response.
So I think Democrats.
First of all, she said, hey, we elected a black guy with a Muslim name after we elected George Bush.
Don't give me this stuff we can't elect a progressive.
We elected Donald Trump.
That's the perfect thing to say.
And so now what?
Again, it was as if this guy is the most important person in America, according to CNN, because the whole debate centered around this guy.
It was annoying.
And this guy, then this guy's annoying.
He's not even in politics.
He's not even.
Anyway, here we go.
When we run on real solutions, not impossible promises.
You know, impossible promises, like what the rest of the world figured out decades ago, Medicare for all.
You know, that thing that Canada's had since the 70s and the rest of the world has, the rest of the industrial.
You know, that thing?
That's impossible.
It's impossible.
It's just, it's that Nellie Mackay song.
You are naive to believe in a world that exists.
It actually exists.
Why do you, you think you could have that stuff that exists?
So watch this.
When we run on things that are workable, not fairy tale economics.
Look at the story of Detroit.
You know what's workable?
A healthcare plan that leaves out 30 million Americans.
I guess that's workable.
A healthcare plan that leaves out 30 million Americans and lets 600,000 of the rest of us go bankrupt every year just because we got sick and everyone else treading water and not even being able to access healthcare because they can't afford their co-payments or their deductibles.
That's doable.
A really shitty system that leaves millions, tens of millions of people out and everyone else treading water, that's super doable.
Oh, that also enriches the health insurance industry and big pharma.
That's doable.
You know what's not doable?
A sensible Medicare for all plan that the rest of the world does?
That's not doable.
What is doable is this crazy bubblegum and matchbook and popsicle sticks.
This is the system we have now.
Super doable.
The one that actually works everywhere else.
And this is the guy that, of course, this is the guy CNN wanted to have the debate be framed around.
This guy.
Of course.
Why?
Because they're funded by big pharma and health insurance companies.
That's why.
You know, Jimmy, I'm just curious why there's a Republican in the debate stage tonight.
Here we go.
Because most of them are.
This amazing city that we're in.
This city is turning around because the government and the private sector are working well together.
That has to be our model going forward.
You know, that thing that got us here, that thing that every politician has said for the last 50 years, the thing that right-wingers say, everything.
That's what you're saying.
We need more of the system.
So when people are, so the 100 million people who don't vote, you're saying we need more of what's making your life horrible.
More of the system.
We need to encourage collaboration between the government, the private sector, and the nonprofit sector and focus on those kitchen table pocketbook issues that matter to hardworking Americans.
Healthcare, education, and a living wage.
That's what you're talking about.
Why are you pretend?
Infrastructure, creating jobs, improving their pay, creating universal health care drug prices anywhere.
I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for.
Debate won.
John Delaney will forever be a footnote in history.
He is anyway.
That's it.
And the guy's such a weirdo, John Delaney.
He doesn't even know how to hold his face.
Like, watch all the goofy looks he gives after he just got smoked just now.
Watch all the goofy looks he gives.
Our biggest problem in Washington is corruption.
It is giant corporations that have taken our government and that are holding it by.
Are you watching?
Are you watching Delaney?
Watch Delaney on this.
Watch it.
His face.
He doesn't know what to do.
He looks like Barney Five when he's nervous.
He's like, I don't know if you know who Barney Five is.
But anyway, that's what he looks like.
He's like, should I smile?
Should I not?
Should I do this?
I'll back it up just a little.
Shout out to the lady's face.
Just watch his face.
New expression.
Whoa.
Smile.
He doesn't know when to smile.
And then when he smiles, it seems creepy.
Anyway, that's the moment she won the debate.
That was the moment she won the debate.
That was it.
There's no doubt in my mind.
Bernie had some great moments too.
Bernie did really well.
It was like everybody, CNN, all the moderators and all the other candidates were against Bernie and Elizabeth Warren.
And Elizabeth Warren really had.
I think that was the best.
I can't believe that no one has said that before.
And you know that she had that in her back pocket.
She had to have that in her back pocket.
So good for her for having that.
And good for her for smacking that guy down like that.
That was fantastic.
And here's the, so here's the other moment.
You know what I think is interesting?
That he wants to be able to counter his point.
That she just said, she just slammed him.
What else are you going to say?
I like to be humiliated more.
I'd like to say something else stupid.
Here's where Bernie had his best moment right here.
Watch this.
They will be better because Medicare for all is comprehensive.
It covers all health care needs for senior citizens.
It will finally include dental care, hearing aids, and eyeglasses.
But you don't know.
Second of all, you don't know.
Second of all, I'll come to you a second.
I do know when I wrote the damn bill.
So Tim Ryan's making the argument that, oh, if you take this health care away from union members, they're going to be worse off with Medicare for all than their private insurance right now.
Again, apparently he's never been sick.
I don't care what kind of, I have the best, I had the best private insurance you could get.
They don't pay for things.
Hey, I need an MRI.
Go pound sand.
Hey, I need to get a CT scan.
Go F yourself.
I don't care what kind of insurance.
And who do you think you're bullshitting?
Union people?
They've been sick.
They know how much they pay for health care.
They know what their deductible is, and they know what their copays are.
And they know what their pharmaceutical bills are.
Like, he's just bullshitting.
And Bernie knocks him down.
Watch this.
Second of all.
You don't know.
Second of all.
I'll come here in a second.
I do know when I wrote the damn bill.
So that's, I guess Tim Ryan, he just can't help but set up the progressives to slam him as hard as possible.
Because that's, remember, Tulsi Gabbard totally slammed him when he said we got to stay in Afghanistan.
And here he is saying we can't.
The union workers, they have great health care.
So we can't have Medicare for all because union workers have great health care that no one else has, apparently.
So we should get rid of Medicare for all because union workers have this great health care that doesn't exist.
Again, get sick.
Try to use that health care.
And so Bernie says that's not true.
And then he goes on to make the great point.
Here we go.
Second of all, many of our union brothers and sisters, nobody more pro-union than me up here, are now paying high deductibles and co-payments.
And when we do Medicare for all, instead of having the company putting money into health care, they can get decent wage increases, which they're not getting today.
So did you catch that?
What he told that knucklehead Tim Ryan was, yeah, so Tim Ryan's argument is that union workers have given up pay and so they could get better health care.
Now you're going to take their health care away.
That's like taking away the, he's saying, no, dummy.
When the car company doesn't have to pay for their health care anymore, they can then give that money to them in raises, in salary, in wages.
That's already included in their wages.
That they could, they will now, instead of getting health care as payment, they're going to get actual money as payment.
Dummy.
And then can I just point out that that money goes right back into the economy?
That's right.
So here's the point that Bernie really, the simple, so this is the thing.
Like all the other candidates who are against Medicare for all, they're all pretending like when you get sick, if you have health insurance, everything's okay.
We all know that that's not the case.
Anybody who's been sick or had a sick kid knows that's not what happens.
You want to know what happens when you get sick?
Bernie Sanders is going to tell you what happens in five seconds.
Watch this.
If people talk about having insurance, there are millions of people who have insurance.
They can't go to the doctor.
And when they come out of the hospital, they go bankrupt.
All right?
There it is.
Millions of people with insurance, they can't afford to go to the doctor.
When they go to the hospital, they come out.
They're bankrupt.
There it is.
So John Delaney can't say that.
John Delaney can't say that, and he doesn't have a plan for it.
What I am talking about and others up here are talking about is no deductibles and no co-payments.
And Jake, your question to me is a Republican talking point.
At the end of the day, and by the way, and by the way, so the whole Jake Tapper, this whole thing was, hey, we could tell middle-class people they're going to have to pay higher taxes.
Are you going to pax people to tax them?
You're going to make taxes?
You're going to tax people more.
What about taxes?
Instead of framing the issue of, so how are you going to inform everyone that their actual out-of-pocket expenses will go down?
That they'll actually be paying less for health care.
How are you going to make that?
How are you going to inform people?
How are you going to get that message across that actually their medical bills will actually go down?
The news guy should be the one informing people.
Well, actually, with Bernie's plan, it actually costs less, saves us money, and everyone's out-of-pocket costs would go way down.
But of course, the person asking him that question is being paid by the pharmaceutical companies.
Jake Tapper is paid to lie to you that Bernie's plan costs more than the plan we have now, and somehow we can't afford it, even though it's the exact opposite.
It saves trillions of dollars.
Bernie's plan saves trillions of dollars.
Jake Tapper is never going to tell you that.
Why?
Because he's being paid to not tell you that by who?
The pharmaceutical industry.
They pay.
Again, what do we say at this show?
The reason why corporate news sucks and the reason why we have a show is because they are owned and funded by the people they're supposed to be investigating and exposing.
So here, and he watched, and this, it couldn't be more clearer than right at the end of this.
The healthcare industry will be advertising tonight on this program.
Thank you, Senator.
Senator Warren, it's your turn.
Could I complete that, please?
Your time is up.
30 seconds.
We'll be out of the closing tonight with that talking point.
And there you go.
Jake Tapper, the tool that he is, could not do that.
You could not have helped Bernie Sanders or the Progressive Cause more in that moment.
Your time is up.
I'm sorry.
Right when he's calling you out for being fake news.
That's what Bernie Sanders is saying to them.
By the way, you guys are fucking fake news.
Why?
Because you're funded by the people who are screwing America.
So that's Bernie Sanders' version of CNN's fake news.
So that's why when Jim Acosta tries to pretend that Trump is nuts when he says they suck, well, here is Bernie Sanders saying the same thing.
So guess what?
CNN fucking sucks.
And they ain't standing up for freedom of speech or journalism Or you or the American people, they're standing up for Pfizer.
They're standing up for Blue Cross.
They're standing up for Aetna.
That's who CNN and Jake Tapper stand up for.
And you know who Bernie stands up for?
You.
So I just wanted to show you.
So that was if that's the moment Jake Tapper lost a debate.
And that earlier moment was the moment that Elizabeth Warren won the debate.
And by the way, Bernie Sanders looked as spry as anybody's ever.
He certainly didn't look like Joe Biden.
My time is up.
Yes, it is.
There is a big difference between a Bernie Sanders 77 and a Joe Biden 70s, whatever he is.
Okay, so here, first of all, Robert Mueller, and I would talk to the, so they would just be like, you know, you turn on the news and the news, of course, is not telling you the truth.
And they've been pushing Russia Gate for three years.
And just like WMDs, just like the Libyan war, just like Syria, just like Venezuela, just like the Iraq war, just like Vietnam, you're not going to get the truth about the important stuff in your life or that's going on in the world from the TV news or the New York Times or the Washington Post.
You're just not going to get it.
They're going to misreport every goddamn story.
And they're doing it.
And so they're misreporting this story too.
And just to show you how bad it was for Mueller, this guy, this guy that they've, the, the Denver Trumpers have christened as a saint of integrity and the best FBI guy in Mueller's report.
And Mueller, here's a softball question.
This is a softball question.
They were trying to build him up.
They're trying to show that he's been appointed by this guy and that guy and he's got integrity and he's a rep. Watch this.
This is an easy question.
They're not meaning to screw him up, but they screwed him up.
Watch this.
The president appointed you to become the United States Attorney for Massachusetts.
Which senator?
Which president?
Oh, which president?
I think that was President Bush.
According to my notes, it was President Ronald Reagan had the honor to do so.
That was not a gotcha question.
That was not a gotcha question.
That's how bad.
Hey, could you tell us which president appointed you to be attorney general for Massachusetts?
Which senator?
No.
Which president?
Oh, oh, by Bush?
No, it was Reagan.
So this is the guy that's been leading this investigation for 22 months.
This was the guy that everybody's been.
This is that guy who couldn't answer who appointed you.
Couldn't even be.
You want to see it again?
Because it's kind of funny.
Which president appointed you to become the United States Attorney for Massachusetts?
Which senator?
Which president?
Oh, which president?
I think that was President Bush.
According to my notes, it was President Ronald Reagan had the honor to do so.
Under whose advancements?
I love the wink of the guy with the mustache behind him.
Oh, there you go.
Well, there you go.
Yeah, I was watching that guy to this guy.
Yeah, oh, well, you got that one wrong.
Like, that wasn't the gotcha question, Dave.
It was just a silly question.
Why even ask the question?
What difference does it make?
It's so stupid.
And I just want to show you.
Well, he was just, why did he ask that question?
Because he is an anti-Trumper.
Right.
And he wanted to bolster him up by going, now you were like, you've been appointed by this guy.
The gray hair doesn't show that he's been around a while.
Like, not everybody in the room knows his history.
So he couldn't even answer a softball question.
So now, now, this reminds me, no, he has a tell.
So when Robert Mueller's lying, his eyes drop and he can't make eye contact.
So watch this.
As Director Kennett has 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's his tell.
He can't barely make eye contact.
He's lying.
He looks down and he can't help himself.
Is he reading?
So now here's Nadler, and he's going to ask him a question that has no basis in law or legal books or any kind of nothing.
So watch this question he asks him.
Because in the United States, you're innocent until proven guilty.
Because.
And what about total exoneration?
Did you actually totally exonerate the president?
No.
Do you see him look down?
No.
What he should have said was that's not an actual legal thing.
There's no such thing as exonerate.
The prosecutors don't exonerate people.
Prosecutors decide whether there's enough evidence to prosecute someone.
If someone committed a crime, we don't say they're exonerated.
When someone is pronounced not guilty in court, they're not pronounced innocent.
They're pronounced not guilty.
They're not pronounced exonerated.
They're pronounced not guilty.
And he knows that that.
That's why he went, no, yeah, I didn't exonerate.
He knows that's not a legal standard, and he knows that that's a bullshit thing that they've been pushing.
And so now I'm going to play this for you, Dave.
Now, this is going to, I played this for Steph earlier today, Blue Remind.
And so, but that was the headline all over the place that he's not exonerated, right?
Sure.
Right.
And that's, if you're a casual viewer, most 99.9% of America is like, well, he wasn't exonerated.
They didn't exonerate him, right?
The Democratic pitch is that he wasn't, you know, by a criminal investigation.
Here we go.
Watch this.
Mr. Mueller, I want to talk about your powers and authorities.
Now, the Attorney General and the appointment order gave you powers and authorities that reside in the Attorney General.
Now, the Attorney General has no ability to give you powers and authority greater than the powers and authority of the Attorney General, correct?
No, I don't believe.
Yeah, I picked that up.
It's correct.
Mr. Mueller, I want to focus on one word in your report.
It's the second to the last word in the report.
It's exonerate.
The report states, accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it does not exonerate him.
Now, in the judiciary hearing in your prior testimony, you've already agreed with Mr. Radcliffe that exonerate is not a legal term, that there is not a legal test for this.
So I have a question for you, Mr. Mueller.
Mr. Mueller, does the Attorney General have the power or authority to exonerate?
What I'm putting up here is the United States Code.
This is where the Attorney General gets his power and the Constitution and the annotated cases of these.
We even went to your law school because I went to Case Western, but I thought maybe your law school teaches it differently.
And we got the criminal law textbook from your law school.
Mr. Mueller, nowhere in these, because we had them scanned, is there a process or description on exonerate?
There's no office of exoneration at the Attorney General's office.
There's no certificate at the bottom of his desk.
Mr. Mueller, would you agree with me that the Attorney General does not have power to exonerate?
I'm going to pass on that.
Two shouldn't be.
Ha ha ha ha!
When speaking of your report, the article said Trump could not be exonerated of trying to obstruct the investigation itself.
Trump could not be exonerated.
Now, that statement is correct, Mr. Mueller, isn't it?
In that no one can be exonerated.
The reporter wrote this.
This reporter can't be exonerated.
Mr. Mueller, you can't be exonerated.
In fact, in our criminal justice system, there is no power or authority to exonerate.
Now, this is my concern, Mr. Mueller.
This is the headline on all of the news channels while you were testifying today.
Mueller, Trump was not exonerated.
Now, Mr. Mueller, what you know is that this can't say Mueller exonerated Trump because you don't have the power or authority to exonerate Trump.
You have no more power to declare him exonerated than you have the power to declare him Anderson Cooper.
So, the problem that I have here is that since there's no one in the criminal justice system that has that power, the president pardons exonerate courts and juries don't declare innocent, they declare not guilty, they don't even declare exoneration.
The statement about exoneration is misleading and it's meaningless, and it colors this investigation one word out of the entire portion of your report.
And it's a meaningless word that has no legal meaning, and it has colored your entire it has no legal meaning, yet that's the word that everyone's using to describe your report.
He didn't exonerate him.
It appears in no legal books, no legal textbooks.
That's not what you're supposed to be doing.
You're supposed to be deciding if he's guilty or if he should be prosecuted.
Instead, he invents a whole new genre of law for prosecutors that's of exoneration.
Just made it up.
Which I wouldn't be surprised came from a Washington think tank.
I wouldn't be surprised if it came from some Washington think tank that said, hey, make him say that he wasn't exonerated.
Okay, so we'll let him not find him guilty because he didn't do anything.
But let's make him say he's not exonerated, so we'll still have some red meat.
And that's exactly what's happening.
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Yeah.
Who is this?
This is Jimmy Doerr.
Harrison, is this Harrison Ford?
Before I answer that question, who are you?
As you know, I, Harrison Ford, take my privacy very seriously.
And before I, Harrison Ford, reveal who I am, I want to know with whom Harrison Ford is speaking.
I just told you, Jimmy Doerr.
Okay, here's a security question.
In 1998, I was ranked the sexiest man alive.
What were you ranked in 1998?
I wasn't ranked anything in 1998.
Correct.
Next security question: There is a species of ant named after myself, Harrison Ford, in recognition of some kind of work I've carried out over the years.
And I can't remember now.
What is the name of this ant?
You have 10 minutes.
The Harrison Ford ant.
Very good.
But how do I know someone wasn't coaching you?
You'll just have to believe me, I guess.
Sure.
Next security question.
Before I became an actor, I was a carpenter.
But what was I before I became an actor?
A carpenter.
You always seem to have the right answers.
It's very suspicious.
I still don't feel I can trust you.
Well, maybe if you ask me another security question.
Good idea.
What actor is rarely seen by the press unless he absolutely has to be?
Harrison Ford.
Whose Star Wars jacket is expected to fetch up to $1.3 million in an auction next month?
Harrison Ford.
What name does Harrison Ford usually go by in professional circles?
Harrison Ford.
Okay.
Who built his own ranch house and smokes a lot of pot?
Harrison Ford.
Okay.
Who built his own ranch house and smokes a lot of pot?
Um, um.
Just yanking your chain.
The answer is Harrison Ford and Harrison Ford.
Both of those men built their own ranch house and smoke a lot of pot.
No value judgments here.
There's nothing wrong with building your own ranch house.
But it's only a slippery slope to selling your own pasta sauce.
Pilot the tower.
Having difficulty relating to person on the other end of the line.
Request alternate route over.
Relate to him on his level.
Over.
Roger.
So, Jimmy, is it Han Solo or Hans Solo?
Just me.
Mayday, Mayday.
I'm getting too old and we're going to need a bigger boat for this shit.
Jordan Sheridan is here.
Now, Jordan Sheridan is from the status coup.
You know, he's a friend of the show.
He's got a great show called The Status Coup.
And he's here with us right now.
Hey, Jordan, how are you?
Hey, Jimmy, thanks for having me.
So now you're in Detroit, and you noticed.
Tell me what you noticed, and then I'll show the video.
Sure.
So CNN, to continue the CNN suck theme, they denied me credentials to get into the debate, to go into the spin room and interview people after and all that business.
So we had access to the parking lot, which was delightful.
So essentially, they allowed, they allowed us into the parking lot.
So we had basically access to where the candidate supporters were.
They called the visibility zone.
And it's basically when CNN cuts to commercial, goes out of commercial, they hold, they zoom in on the candidate's supporters, waving signs and all that.
So if you watch CNN yesterday, it looked like Elizabeth Warren has this force, all Warren signs, and you barely saw any Bernie Sanders supporters.
And what I learned later, when multiple Bernie Sanders supporters approached me, was the police were literally blocking Bernie Sanders supporters from entering this area where candidate supporters wave their signs.
Police were allowing Elizabeth Warren supporters to freely enter, Joe Biden supporters to freely enter, Marion Williamson supporters to freely enter.
And when Bernie Sanders supporters tried to come in wearing their Bernie shirts with signs, they were told they can't enter.
In many cases, I was told they were sent on wild goose chases, you know, go to that corner, which was barricaded.
Several people were told you can't bring in signs that large, but they allowed Elizabeth Warren's supporters to bring in mega signs.
So in addition to blocking Bernie Sanders supporters from coming in, the Bernie Sanders supporters that were there, if you look at the footage, which we went through, CNN's camera was very obviously panning.
They're showing, they're zooming in on Warren supporters with the big signs that they allowed Warren supporters to come in with.
Then they're showing the three Biden supporters because there were literally like three or four Biden supporters.
And then in the corner, you see like one or two Bernie signs and they zoom out right away and show this Mega CNN logo.
They basically parked the Bernie supporters behind a CNN logo so you couldn't see them.
So the footage clearly shows it.
So you watch the footage here.
I'll show the people at home so they can watch this footage.
In America, for Americans, yesterday she came out with a trick.
So there's the big Warren signs.
There's another Big Warren sign, Warren, Warren, Warren.
All I see is Warren signs.
Now it starts to pull out.
It starts to pull out.
And so the Bernie people would be over here.
But how come I don't see any Bernie?
Wow, that's amazing.
That is kind of stunning.
Oh, the Bernie people are behind the CNN thing.
So the Bernie people are back there.
Ah, that's what they really did.
That's kind of amazing.
That's kind of what's incredible about it, there were actually like there was a Green New Deal march with a lot of these Sunrise Movement people, Ocasio-Cortez supporters, but the majority of them were Bernie supporters.
Ty, my cameraman and producer, covered it.
And they were marching down to try and get into this zone.
So the Bernie supporters out far outweighed the Warren supporters.
But literally the police were letting in every supporters of every other candidate but Bernie.
And when Bernie supporters that I spoke to told me that when they pushed back against police saying, no, we were told by the campaign to come.
Look, I have the email.
They were told, take it up with CNN, meaning the cops were following what CNN was telling them.
And this isn't surprising to me because in Miami for the first Democratic debate, I was down there.
Again, they didn't approve us for credentials, but a security guard came up to me because they weren't letting me go in and interview any of these supporters.
And he thought I was mad at him.
So he came up to me off camera and said, he was very apologetic.
He said, hey, sorry, I'm just following what the party told me, the DNC, not to let.
I don't know if it was just me or other journalists in.
So basically they have these human beings, Biden supporters, Buddha Judge supporters.
This was in Miami, as standing props and mannequins, but they won't let you go interview them.
In 2016, I was able to interview them.
So the security guard was telling me it was the network and the DNC instructing them, don't let any journalists in to talk to these people.
And yesterday, the Bernie supporters, when they asked the police, why are all these other people allowed in with their huge signs and their shirts and where not, they said, follow, you know, take it up with CNN.
And this is not surprising because if you watch CNN yesterday, it was an alternative, alternate reality.
They kept saying that Warren has surpassed Bernie in the polls, which is not factually.
What?
It's not factual.
They were saying that on CNN?
Yes, they took one poll that shows Warren has been rising among very liberal voters and showed Bernie has been kind of flat, not telling the audience that very liberal voters are generally speaking traditional Democratic Party voters, specifically older voters.
That's how those kinds of voters are classified in these polls.
But they use that one poll to basically make it seem like Bernie's lost his mojo.
Bernie has fallen behind Warren.
And I tweeted this out literally yesterday, three polls came out, three different polls with Bernie in a very solid second place.
And CNN is putting this stuff out there that Warren has surpassed Bernie.
And I think if you look at the footage, it goes a little bit beyond just kind of like CNN PR.
What they're doing is kind of what political campaigns do, you know, showing what you want to do, showing what you want to accentuate, blocking out what you don't.
I mean, when they're CNN, we were there in the parking lot because they gave us credentials to Media Row in the parking lot, which was useless for us.
But it's like an occupying force.
They've taken control of this whole area outside of Detroit's Chamerica Park.
And they intentionally, they said, this is where the Warren supporters go.
This is where Williamson's people.
This is where Biden's two people go.
And Bernie people, as you saw, were behind the CNN logo.
So I don't know how any objective person, whether you're Bernie supporter, Warren supporter, neither, can look at that and think this network is giving Bernie Sanders a fair shot.
And you already covered.
I mean, Jake Tapper was literally doing talking points where he's put, you know, it's this narrative, and MSNBC did it in the first question to Bernie too.
You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.
Of course, there's zero context that overall costs will go down.
So to me, CNN revealed itself as, you know, the corporate public relations propaganda stooge that they are.
But these are the kind of stories that happen at the Philadelphia DNC where Bernie Sanders delegates were kicked out and basically treated like the scum at the bottom of your shoe.
And these are the kinds of things happening that aren't getting any news coverage, the subtle and not so subtle blocking of Bernie Sanders supporters that the DNC and the news networks, they're going to come later if Biden is the nominee and say, well, why won't those Bernie people come home to the Democratic Party?
Maybe because of shit like this.
I have one more video to show you.
Here's one more example of what we're talking about.
So now there's people with Biden signs.
So you can see them and you can see Warren.
But you see that little Bernie sign all the way in the back here?
So they weren't even, Jordan, they weren't allowing Bernie's supporters to have bigger signs.
Is that correct?
Yeah, the Warren supporters, as you saw, were allowed, like, I think five by four posters.
And Bernie's supporters weren't allowed to bring in their own signs.
I guess they were provided signs.
Really?
And Biden supporters had bigger signs.
Bernie's supporters were not allowed to come in with Bernie's shirts.
I mean, this is, it's kind of, it's so transparently corrupt that, you know, you almost want to throw up your hands and laugh because we're not surprised, but they're not even hiding it at this point.
And I will tell you, Bernie Sanders' campaign didn't respond to be on the record.
I think they were busy today, obviously.
Somebody said, we took notice of this.
So Bernie's campaign was seeing it too.
Somebody on Bernie's campaign said that to me, that we noticed.
But I mean, we've seen this for weeks, that they're propping up Warren.
They're making it seem like, you know, Warren has a plan for everything where, you know, I like some of her plans, but in reality, a lot of her plans are recycled plans by Bernie Sanders that he's had for 20 years with a couple more paragraphs.
So she's not reinventing the wheel, but that is the narrative that you have seen from CNN, definitely MSNBC.
But in this case, why this is so dangerous, not just because you're not a news outlet at this point, you're a propaganda arm.
This is no different than what you'd expect from Fox News.
But why this is dangerous is this is what is called an information war.
It's no different than 2016, them throwing up the super delegates on screen along with the pledge delegates to make it seem like Bernie's just totally, totally behind.
He has no shot.
Well, when you're showing this and it looks like Elizabeth Warren has all the momentum and all the mojo and Bernie, look at that one sign in the corner.
It has the potential of steeping in to some persuadable voters that are watching CNN to be like, oh, well, Bernie has no chance.
So that's what CNN is pushing.
And I spoke with at least five or six Bernie supporters today.
And they're saying basically like, this is 2016 all over again.
It's no different.
And we know how this ends.
I would say that is, I would say that is dramatic, but I can't because I was in Miami and I saw what they were doing where they were not letting journalists speak to Bernie Sanders supporters or any of the supporters.
And frankly, I mean, listen, Jimmy, I'm all for young journalists, they gave media credentials to a 10-year-old last night to interview Mary Ann Williamson and denied us credentials.
No, they don't have to give it a 10-year-old, very cute, but give me a fucking break.
And they don't have to give you a real reason, right?
Space constraints.
Space constraints, right?
So they can't let everybody in.
We have to just let in some people who we think are important.
And so they do not let you in.
10-year-olds to ask Mary Ann Williamson about her favorite pet.
No offense to Mary Ann Williamson.
I think she did a great job.
But, you know, I'm not going to knock anyone, but there are journalists that have far less of a following than Status Coup.
They're being accepted in.
You said in Miami, you know, there was enough space you could go golfing and it wouldn't hit anyone in that building.
So it's all BS.
I take it as a badge of honor because obviously that means that they know who we are and don't want adversarial journalists in there.
But it's unfortunate.
You know, status coup, and I know Jimmy Dorse's show is not built on like access to the powerful.
That's not why people watch us.
That would be the opposite.
No, that would be the last thing this show is about access to the powerful.
Right.
But, you know, at a certain point, isn't it good for the Democratic Party to have journalists challenge these politicians?
Because if they do become the nominee, you don't think the Republicans are waiting with a two by four to ask Joe Biden, what did you mean when you told Wall Street, I'll fluff your pillows for eight years?
What did you mean when you called black people, called those people in the 1990s, I don't want them near my mother with the crime bill.
I mean, the ads right themselves.
So, yes, totally shield all your corporate candidates, including for the people, Kamala Harris.
No questioning.
Ask them fluffy questions.
I'm sure we'll get more of that tonight.
And when you have Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on stage, go after Bernie hard.
And then every other question you ask the corporate candidates is basically to have them attack Bernie.
Yes.
I mean, this is, you know, yes, Fox News is more racist and all that, but there's no difference right now when you're watching CNN MSNBC from what Fox News did in the Obama years.
I mean, it's very obvious.
It's very deliberate.
And it's unethical.
And it's not surprising to your audience or my audience, but somebody's got to call it out.
And that's why we're on the ground.
I mean, you know, these trips are expensive.
We're grassroots.
We're growing from the ground up, status coup.
But I want to show what's being done because honestly, if progressives expect a different result, if they're not going to stand up, and I'm not calling for anything violent, but I think some people need to start knocking on CNN's door in New York and D.C. or MSNBC because the media, we could talk about voter purges.
We could talk about sending out dishonest mailers.
We could talk about closing down polling stations.
All of this is part of the equation with election fraud and voter suppression.
But at the end of the day, there's a 24-7 media rigging going on.
And if that continues, I mean, forget Bernie, forget Tulsi.
You know, I don't personally support Warren, but even her, I mean, trust me, they're going to prop up Warren just to knock Bernie out, and then they'll turn on Warren.
I mean, this is an obvious playbook.
So you think that's what's happening with Warren right now?
You think that they're propping her up to undercut Bernie's support?
And then once they sufficiently screw Bernie in that way, they'll turn on her.
You think they'll turn on her?
I think they'll turn on her if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris is still viable.
Absolutely.
I think that Elizabeth Warren is very flexible is a generous way of saying it on policy.
She's already shown that she is very, very happy to make deals with the establishment.
She was already in 2015 angling to become Hillary Clinton's vice president.
We saw that in the WikiLeaks emails.
They were trying to set up meetings and this and that.
So I don't trust Elizabeth Warren to fight for the things she's proposing as much as Bernie Sanders.
I also think she's got a little Obama in her that right out of the gate, she'll be compromising halfway, you know, 75% to the Republicans.
However, I do think if once they neutralize Bernie between Harris and Biden, I mean, who are basically, I mean, do you know Kamala Harris did a fundraiser at a Citigroup executive's penthouse in Fifth Avenue and took paw prints with her with her dog?
Talk about for the people.
So yeah, I don't think they're, I think they're intentionally propping up Warren.
If they're successful in knocking Bernie out, I think they're going to go.
I think, honestly, if Biden has a bad performance tonight, all that Wall Street money, all that special interest money is going to funnel funnel very fast to Kamala Harris because that's what they want.
And they also, if we're being honest, Kamala Harris is the safest candidate for the corporate Democratic establishment because any criticism of her, journalistically, politically, whatever, sexism, racism, all that jazz.
So that's what I think is happening.
But I got to tell you, I mean, I feel it as a journalist when I see that, you know, they're intentionally both MSNBC, CNN, creating a dynamic at these debates where it's all corporate journalists.
There's some independent outlets allowed in that, you know, aren't exactly challenging anyone the way we would.
They're basically setting up a cocoon around the corporate candidates to make sure there is no adversarial journalism.
And it was almost like they were laughing at us.
They gave us a media credential to go stand in the parking lot.
So whatever.
I mean, we go forward.
But what is going on is, you know, the bottom line is this is not democracy.
Let's not pretend that the DNC doesn't play an invisible hand in this.
I don't think the networks are just doing this without any communication with the DNC.
The DNC just had a meeting here in the hotel I'm in the other day.
So the DNC is very active here.
I saw, you know, Mr. Lead with your values, Tom Perez, this morning.
I tried to get an interview.
He sprinted as fast as possible to his car.
So, but yeah, I think progressives need to stand up, whether you're a Bernie supporter, Tulsi, Warren, whoever you support, because they are manufacturing not just consent, but they're manufacturing discontent against Bernie, even though every single one of his policies not only has majority support among Democrats, independents, a lot of policies he has has majority support among Republicans, which Jake Tapper failed to mention, surprisingly.
Yeah, I mean, it was kind of shocking to watch how they just kept saying over and over that, you know, this isn't popular with the country.
The country doesn't want this stuff.
It's like everything they're talking.
Trump voters are for single-payer healthcare.
Trump voters are for taxing millionaires and billionaires.
What are you talking about?
This is the country's for it.
Of course, Jake Tapper and the rest of the crew are all millionaires.
They're all in the 1%, and they don't go outside of the bubble.
So the beltway.
So all they know is that.
That's what they think.
They think that everybody in the Midwest is a knucklehead who doesn't want to vote for single-payer health care and taxing millionaires.
They do.
Milwaukee elected a socialist mayor three times.
So this idea that somehow the Midwest are a bunch of lunkheads who are afraid of progressive ideas is a bunch of bull.
Well, it's also, I mean, I asked some supporters of Bernie this tonight.
And by the way, I'm going to a Joe Biden debate watch party.
That's going to be brutal.
That's going to be brutal.
That should be exciting.
I'm bringing my bingo card.
You should bring some crying towels because there are going to be some disappointed people.
Yes.
But what I find so amazing about this whole thing is, you know, if the Midwest, Rust Belt, wanted moderate candidates so badly, why is Hillary Clinton not the president?
That's exactly.
Every time they said that, we can't go too far.
We did this already.
We did a centrist.
We did a centrist who wasn't promising them Medicare for all.
And she got her ass kicked.
She lost.
That's why we have Donald Trump.
Why do they keep pretending like we didn't already throw a centrist at Donald Trump?
We already did that.
Right.
And also, by the way, I mean, they're talking about it like Trump is to get those Trump conservative voters.
Trump ran on a progressive platform.
That's right.
He was full of shit.
I was at the rallies.
We're going to end the wars.
I'm not a bad thing to say as a Republican, but everybody's going to be covered.
Universal health care.
We're repealing NAFTA.
I'm taking it to Goldman Sachs and all of them.
They loved it.
They loved it.
They want to vote for that.
They loved it.
Even though the media tried to paint Tulsi Gabbard as like a MAGA beloved by MAGA after her breakout performance in the first debate, yeah, a lot of MAGA supporters liked her because they liked when Trump was saying I'm going to end the wars.
The media won't tell you that Trump has sent 2,000 troops to the Middle East in the last two months to fight Iran.
They're leaving that out when they asked Bernie yesterday, how are you different than what Trump's saying?
Trump hasn't ended the wars.
He's just doing it where you don't see it.
He's doubled, tripled down on Obama's drone war.
He's bombing the eight or nine countries we're still bombing.
Venezuela, you know, Iran, they're obviously trying to topple.
So, you know, Trump's not a pacifist or a dove, but that's how they're trying to make it seem.
But what's amazing to me is all these people in the Midwest voted for Trump, A, because they were in an anti-establishment mood.
That hasn't changed.
B, because he was giving them a lot of phony baloney, but it was progressive phony baloney.
And C, if you look at the exit polls, which I actually read them, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, it wasn't Putin.
It wasn't Comey.
Top issues in the 2016 debate in these states.
Trade, NAFTA, immigration.
Do you know who pushed NAFTA?
Joe Biden.
But do you know who, as recently in 2016, was writing op-eds, how we have to push the TPP?
Joe Biden.
Do you know who has not given an answer yet?
If as president he will push through the TPP, which will be the final nail in the deindustrialized Midwest's coffin?
Joe Biden.
So this is the guy who's going to take back Michigan.
I know what the polls say now, but a lot of those polls, if you actually read them, which none of these, you know, this idiot, Harry Enton, the forecaster, they don't read the polls.
The majority polled.
Over half say they're not familiar with Joe Biden's Senate record.
You wait.
You know, obviously this will be up on the internet.
Wait till Donald Trump starts calling him NAFTA Joe.
Wait till Donald Trump starts calling him TPP Joe.
I mean, and by the way, I mean, I got to be honest with you.
I'm saying this not as a journalist, but just watching.
Joe Biden looks unwell.
I mean, if you watch him, and I watched him, I covered his foreign policy speech two weeks ago in New York.
He doesn't look well.
I'm not saying there's something medically wrong, but he looks tired.
I mean, we get alerts.
My partner, Jen, and I get alerts every day, what the Biden campaign is doing.
Almost every day, Joe Biden is meeting with his advisors.
He's barely on the campaign trail.
So I think.
Well, I think that they figured out, just like Hillary Clinton figured out, that the more Hillary Clinton campaigned, the more her numbers go down.
That was a fact.
And every time she ran for office, she started off high.
And no matter how much more she campaigned, her numbers always went down.
She was never able to get her numbers up, which is why people are like, why is she campaigning in Texas?
Why is she campaigning in Arizona?
Why isn't she careful?
Because they said, oh, she wants to really run up the numbers.
They knew that if she campaigned in Wisconsin, that actually her numbers would go down.
They knew she was in trouble in Wisconsin, but they knew if she went through the campaign, it would make it worse because she was that repulsive to the average voter.
And the same thing with Joe Biden.
The more he campaigns, the more his numbers go down.
And so they're just trying to run the clock out.
That's why he's not doing campaign events.
When he does a campaign event, he opens his mouth and sticks his foot right in it every goddamn time.
He cannot help himself.
So, and he and he looks not all there.
So whatever that means, he looks not all there.
I completely agree.
And I think that, you know, another thing the corporate media, CNN, leaves out, Bernie won the Michigan primary.
Bernie won the Wisconsin primary.
So he won two out of three.
You need Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to win back the White House.
Honestly, I think Bernie Sanders possibly could win Iowa in a general election.
I agree.
Bernie Sanders possibly, possibly, could compete in Kentucky.
Bernie Sanders can compete in the red states.
So, you know, this is basically, call it what you want.
I think it's beyond manufacturing consent.
I think CNN is trying to, you want to talk about Kelly and Conway and alternative facts.
This is an alternate reality.
As our story, by the way, the story is on statusco.com if you want to read it about them blocking Bernie supporters from coming in and basically turning the camera away from them.
But what's really going on is they're trying to shut out numbers.
I mean, there were 200 Bernie Sanders supporters last night that could not get into this section that were trying to get in to hold up signs.
And, you know, we'll see on, you know, six, seven months from now.
I think Bernie has the advantage.
He's got over a million volunteers.
But unfortunately, television news, the print media is still influential.
And if they keep getting away with just, it's one thing if you're going to just, you know, have more Biden people on your air, have more Harris people on your air.
But if you're essentially going to put out lies, I mean, I saw MSNBC last week show a poll that showed Warren and Bernie tied, I think it was in New Hampshire, and they just said, oh, Elizabeth Warren has taken the lead with the poll right in front of them.
So I think people, you know, I'm not telling people what to do, but the DNC is not your only enemy.
CNN, I don't mean enemy like be like Trump.
And, you know, we're not talking about violence or anything.
But what I am saying is, in terms of getting the progressive message out there, in terms of getting the context, the facts, the fact that Bernie has won in every poll head to head against Trump, the fact that Bernie Sanders has, by the way, Bernie Sanders has had a record 2 million donations so far in just five months, never discussed on CNN.
So I think if 2016 was the opening, I think that was child's play compared to what they're all doing now.
And people need to be organizing not just to canvass, but to kind of nonviolently fight back against CNN and MSNBC, because if they're allowed to keep doing this, today yesterday it was Warren.
The next debate, maybe they'll be propping up, you know, Pete and shutting out Bernie voters.
But they're just going to change.
First it was Harris, then they moved to Betto.
Betto didn't catch on.
Then they moved to Biden.
Then they moved back to Harris.
Now they're trying to move back to Biden.
It's anybody but Bernie.
And this is kind of, to me, that's why status coup exists.
I know that's why Jimmy Doerr exists, because people need to know the truth.
You can't make informed decisions if you don't have the numbers, if you don't have the facts, if you don't have the real context.
Like, I'm telling you, if we weren't here, nobody else is going to report what was going on there.
Nobody else is going to talk to the Bernie supporters to see that they're being shut out.
The fact that they're being sent on wild goose chase to three corners in boiling hot Detroit, the fact that when they asked police, why are you letting in Warren supporters?
No problem.
The police are saying, take it up with CNN.
The police are basically saying we're doing what CNN told us to do.
This is scandalous in a healthy news environment.
But unfortunately, a healthy news environment means a YouTube comedian is a premier journalist.
That's exactly what it means.
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