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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, so we haven't heard from friend of the show, Liam Neeson, in a while.
Let's see what's up to.
Hello, greetings.
Hey, Liam Neeson.
Who's calling, please?
Uh, Mr. Neeson, it's Jimmy Dore.
Jimmy!
Well, go fetch a Shalali and beat me about the arse till I haul her out for old naughty Margaret in a bowl of oats.
How are you, my old friend?
I'm doing well, Liam.
How are you?
Oh, I'm very busy.
I'm in your neck of the woods right now, America, filming my latest action thriller, The Minute Man.
Wow, sounds exciting.
I'll be sure to see it in theaters.
Please do.
I would appreciate that.
Need to keep up those box office numbers.
Speaking of, in the meantime, you can also see my upcoming release, Ordinary Love.
Oh, ordinary love?
That doesn't sound like an action movie, Liam.
Oh, far from it, Seamus.
Very moving drama, starring myself and Academy Award nominee Leslie Manville.
Leslie plays my wife, who is given a devastating cancer diagnosis.
And I must say, this was one of the most challenging acting roles of my career.
Oh, because of the portraying a man undergoing the emotional strain of simultaneously supporting his sick wife while also struggling to keep their marriage intact.
No.
Because of portraying a man married to someone around his own age.
What?
This actress, this Leslie, is a mere four years younger than I am.
That's the blink of an eye at my age.
For example, in the Taken films, my wife was played by Fampke Janssen, a Dutch model significantly younger than I am.
But in this movie, my wife is a frumpy old Englishwoman.
Liam, you can't say that.
Oh, yes, I can.
I'm Irish.
That's punching up.
The English oppress the Irish.
Power differential punching up.
I've studied your phony baloney comedy rules, Jimmy, and I believe I'm in the clear on this one.
Okay.
You got me there.
In my career, I have played a ghost haunting a castle.
I've played a scientist whose synthetic skin begins to deteriorate after a hundred minutes, and then I must repair to the shadows.
I have played the Greek god Zeus, but no role of mine has strange credulity, bent at the very fabric of reality, as this one has, where I am in a relationship with a non-young person.
Jimmy, it required every fiber of my thespian abilities.
I had to marshal every ounce of my actor's prowess to portray someone who would have carnal relations with a woman who, within my own lifetime, would reach the age of 45 years old.
Wow, I know.
And I must say, I am very proud of this performance.
Okay.
I've never said this about my own work before, but I could see getting the Academy Award.
LAUGHTER Is that so?
I remember watching the dailies after filming and the scene where I kiss my wife.
I remember thinking, wow, I really made it.
I really made it look like I wanted to do that.
You've done it again, Liam.
Hold in one.
Liam.
Of course, I'm envisioning.
Liam, this is really.
Of course, I am envisioning Leonardo DiGaprio presenting me with my Academy Award.
Leo hasn't dated a woman over 25 years old in his entire life.
He will hand me the statuette and he will call me brave.
Brave, Liam.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but this is gonna make a lot of our listeners really angry.
What in blazes for?
Well, a lot of people are put off by older men dating younger women.
Oh, what people?
Well, women, perhaps women around your age.
Oh, I don't know.
I see.
Very interesting.
I did not know that.
Where do you get all this fascinating information, Jimmy Dore?
I'm going to start calling you Fun Fact McGillicutty.
Liam, my actually, correction.
Fun fact McGillivary.
Fun fact McGillicuddy is already a real person who lives in County Donegal.
Liam, my point is, I don't think most people are going to find it brave that you played someone with an age-appropriate marriage.
Are you serious?
This must be this woke culture I've been hearing so much about.
No, Liam, it's not.
It's this type of foolishness that kills comedy Liam.
Nobody killed comedy.
Now you're just repeating nonsense that you've heard.
Listen to me, Jimmy, and listen carefully.
If we actors are not continuously showered with accolades for merely pretending to be like normal people, there is no point to what we do.
I see, I see.
And there is no greater normal person thing to do than date a woman your own age.
Call me brave, Jimmy.
Liam, I really don't think.
Call me brave, damn it.
You're very brave, Liam.
Why, that's so kind of you to say, Jimmy.
Much appreciated.
But honestly, I'd be nothing without normies such as yourself who go see my blockbuster movies.
Well.
Well, I'm afraid I have to run.
Forever 21 is having a massive Forever 21.
Is having a massive going out of business sale, and my girlfriend has been begging me all week to take her.
No rest for the wicked.
Establishment media sets of art and spiding.
So good luck the bullshit we can't afford.
Watch and see as a jackdoll comedian speeds and jumps the medium and hits him head-on.
it's the Jimmy Door show everybody welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show we'll see you November 17th in Philadelphia November 5th in Buffalo go to jimmydoorcomedy.com for a link for all our live shows hey let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes shall we hey you know what makes you chronically sick and makes you unfit for office do you know what does i'll tell you telling people you're native american for 10 years when you're not i think that's what does it come on
Let's see, one candidate needs two stents to continue campaigning for president.
The others need money from billionaires.
I'm going to go with the stent guy.
Let me just say, Joe Biden, the current Democratic frontrunner, has a bloated prostate, heart disease, no gallbladder, chronic asthma, and bad allergies.
Also, Donald Trump takes drugs to lower his cholesterol.
John McCain had a brain tumor, and Ronald Reagan had no brain at all.
They had three funerals for Ronald Reagan.
People forget this.
They had three funerals.
People loved him so much, they buried him three times.
And at none of those funerals did anybody remember to chop his head off and stick a steak through his heart.
As we contemplate the impeachment of a half-wit authoritarian in our White House, take note that Downton Abbey is now the number one film in America.
Hey, did you hear Hillary Clinton told women who are complaining about Joe Biden's creepiness with young girls to, quote, get over it?
While I respect her judgment on sexual harassment, I'm going to have to reserve my judgment on this until after I heard from Bill Clinton.
She also said, this is true, Hillary Clinton also said she didn't think what she calls the Twitterverse is the American electorate.
Hmm.
Is the Twitterverse located in the basket of deplorables, or is the basket of deplorables part of the Twitterverse?
I'm not familiar with Hillary's planetary theory of losing.
Hey, so far, more than 12 major publicists, this is true, that, you know, Elizabeth Warren, she's the darling of the media.
And so, so far, more than 12 major publications have praised Elizabeth Warren as folksy.
Can we just remind her, remind her who else they thought was folksy?
Sarah Palin was folksy.
George W. Bush was folksy.
Ronald Reagan was folksy.
Jethro Bodine was folksy.
Hey, can we go with the balding Jew with bad posture this time?
Hey, you know that Jeff Foxworthy, that comedian, he has those, you might be a redneck if.
I have a version of that.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
If you have two barely working branches of government sitting on top of another that's broken, you might be a nation that won't give healthcare to the poor.
Hey, what's coming up on this week's show?
Oh, there not more of those?
No, you would hope.
I needed at least two more of those.
We have an interview with an actual CIA whistleblower who calls BS on the current White House CIA whistleblower.
Our interview with John Kariaku, Elizabeth Warren face plants on the Joe Biden corruption question.
I guess she didn't have a plan for answering that.
Watch a Democrat get smacked down for calling Joe Biden's corruption in Ukraine a conspiracy theory.
Plus, Bernie explains why impeachment is a bad strategy for Democrats and the country.
We got phone calls today from Liam Neeson, Chuck Schumer, Mitt Romney, and maybe Al Pacino.
Hoo-ha!
Plus, a lot, lot more.
That's today on The Jimmy Dore Show.
So here, I also wanted to, this just happened, I wanted to show this to you.
Senator Elizabeth Warren appears uncharacteristically flustered when asked if her ethics plan would allow for her vice president's son to serve on the board of a foreign company.
So you know right now the impeachment thing is that Joe Biden's son Hunter, and we're not even going to talk about the creepy stuff he's into, I'm not even going to bring it up on the show, But Joe Biden's son Hunter had no experience in Ukraine or in energy companies.
He got a $50,000 a month job sitting on the board of a Ukraine energy company because his dad was vice president.
And then Joe Biden, he was being investigated.
Joe Biden used a billion-dollar bribe or to hold billion-dollar loan guarantee over the U.K. president's head to fire the guy who was investigating his son, Hunter Biden.
So you know the backstory.
So she has her ethics plan, right?
Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that.
So somebody says, well, in your ethics plan, would it be okay if your vice president's son then sat on a board at Ukraine for $50,000 a month?
And she answers it correctly at first, and then watch what happens.
Oh, my God.
Watch what happens.
For two ethics plans, could you say whether or not under a warrant administration, would your vice president's child be allowed to serve on a board of a foreign company?
No.
I don't.
Boom.
She got it right.
And then she realizes, uh-oh, wait a minute.
Hang on.
I don't know.
I mean, I have to go back and look at the details.
Do you think that could be a problem?
A detail?
I have to go back and look.
Sir?
I have to go back and look at my own plan to see if it's cool for the vice president's son to do something that's frickin'criminally corrupt.
I have to go back and look.
Would it be okay for your kid to get a bunch of money and a shady way for doing absolutely nothing?
I got to look at the details.
Stop it with the gotcha questions.
All right?
Well, at first she goes, no, that would be wrong.
Oh, wait a minute.
Hang on.
Am I going to offend the party?
Hang on.
So this guy nails it.
This guy says she needs to go back and look if the party allows her to say that or if her answers would be damning for Obama and Biden.
Her instinct was right.
Having your kid on that board stinks like corruption.
It reminds me of Russiagate where just like Russiagate sort of forced all Democrats into defending Hillary Clinton and her wing of the party, the people who lost to Donald Trump and enrolled them and making excuses for them and enrolled them in this blaming everything on Russia.
Right?
The same thing now where we're trying to make Trump's presidency now all about Ukraine gate.
And this is the thing that's going to get him.
It's forcing Democrats into this position where now they're going to feel worried about helping Trump if they do something like point out that, yeah, it's not cool if a vice president's kid gets a...
lucrative board seat on a gas company in a country where where the vice president also happens to be running u.s policy.
So it's like these gifts that we keep providing to Trump's reelection campaign never stop.
We're making this the issue now.
And because of that, it's forcing people like Warren into this box where now she has to worry about she doesn't want to come across as helping Trump.
So she has to sound so ridiculous like that, where she can't answer the question, you know?
And this is what you do when you censor, when you center your resistance in the preferences of the people who lost to Trump.
It underscores just what a disaster it was under Russia Gate and what it could be under UkraineGate.
And so here's another example.
I wonder, this happened.
This has happened today.
Let's check it out.
Here we go.
There's a ceiling.
There is nowhere to go, but there is no up to go.
And all of those important, I actually overheard someone saying that I thought was an interesting point: that basically at this point, if you are still supporting Sanders as opposed to Warren, it's kind of showing your sexism because she has more detailed plans and her plans have evolved.
I thought it was an interesting point, and I think there may be something to it.
Yeah, I agree with all that.
Of course, they agree with all that.
And it's a big giggly fest.
If you support Bernie Sanders, you're a sexist.
That's just a fact.
And we all agree here.
Semis NBC.
And who is that woman?
Who are they talking to?
She's the former VP of campaigns for the Center for American Progress.
They're a Tandon's VP, baby.
That's who that is saying that.
And everybody at MSWC just giggles.
It's funny to smear everybody who supports Bernie Sanders as a sexist.
Does that include the people who voted for him in Vermont?
Or is that just, I don't understand.
Well, turns out she's the heir to Lori Tish's $1.1 billion real estate fortune.
And she's not into Bernie Sanders.
Go figure.
Did you see this, Aaron?
I did.
And one of her parents, I think, gave millions of dollars to the Clinton campaign in 2016.
So here, Emily Tisch Sussman, her daddy, is Donald Sussman, founder and chief investment officer of the Paloma Funds.
Check the name of Hillary Clinton's top donor.
Also, this was kind of, I followed David Dole, and you get to learn stuff like this.
If you're wondering why she's using this smear and why this woman is even on television, this is her father's $30 million yacht, and Bernie Sanders has a superior wealth tax to Warren's.
That's why.
By the way, the name of his yacht is something called the Shecherzad or whatever.
And it turns out that that's funny because Sussman's father's yacht has the same name as the ship from Tintin that plays an active role in the illegal trading of slaves.
So that's kind of funny.
That's kind of funny.
Her father also, Donald Sussman, used front companies to offshore his wealth.
Offshore tax haven leak implicates seven-figure pro-Clinton donor, one of the Democratic Party's largest 2016 donors, directs an offshore entity named in a massive leak of information on foreign corporate.
That's who that woman is.
Also, media pundits are responsible for creating this kind of narrative.
I would appreciate Warren's campaign team to come out and denounce these narratives and accusations of sexism.
I'm Latin.
I'm indigenous.
I'm a woman supporting Sanders.
Run on policy, run on your own merits.
So that's kind of, that's the kind of thing that's she's brought on for her opinion, and they don't tell you who she is.
They don't tell you her connections.
And they all go, yep, we all agree.
Now let's go to a commercial for Pfizer.
You know, Jimmy, you know, there's another double standard here, which goes back to the whole Bernie bro thing, where like if a couple of random Twitter trolls say something nasty about Elizabeth Warren or Hillary Clinton, then like Bernie Sanders and his entire campaign have to like profusely apologize, spend days talking about it, saying, oh, we're so sorry.
We disavow it.
When someone like this, you know, says on MSNBC that you're sexist if you don't support Bernie Sanders, you know, where are the calls for Elizabeth Warren and her people to renounce all of this?
That just happened.
They literally, after the Working Family Parties endorsed Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders, they then came out with a strong worded, strongly worded statement saying that Bernie Sanders supporters are attacking them in sexist and racist ways.
And Bernie Sanders actually came out and like apologized for it or had to disavow it or whatever.
Sure.
But it was like, it was random Twitter users who no, otherwise nobody would have ever paid attention to.
This kind of stuff happens on cable television.
It's accepted as being serious.
The panel's like, yep, you're right.
And are we calling on Elizabeth Warren to renounce this?
I mean, to maybe acknowledge that people who might support Bernie are not sexist.
So you're pointing out that there's a jaw-dropping double standard happening?
I am pointing out there's a draw there's a jaw-dropping double standard.
Wow.
Well, I'm, you know, that's probably because you're a sexist.
So here's a Democratic congressman on the show with Crystal Ball at Rising.
And watch what happens here.
I do want to ask you, though, Congressman, about the underlying accusation.
Hunter Biden was paid $50,000 a month while his father was vice president of the United States to sit on the board of Ukrainian energy company, despite having no expertise in that whatsoever.
Do you think that that is evidence of corruption?
So all of this has been discussed in the press and Ukraine and said there was no substance to that.
The president has historically long been involved with conspiracy theories.
This is yet another conspiracy theory.
We can't lose sight of this simple fact.
We know that Hunter Biden did, in fact, earn $50,000 on this board.
That's not a conspiracy theory.
We know that he has little to no expertise in Ukrainian energy sector.
So is that unseemly?
Is that the type of thing that we should be accepting from a prominent Democrat?
So he does the knee jerk, which you're taught is you just call anything that's onto your corruption.
You call it a conspiracy theory.
He calls it a conspiracy theory that Hunter Biden had a $50,000 a month job.
That's a verifiable fact.
And she doesn't let him get away with it.
Crystal Ball nails him.
And I don't know why.
Who do they guys think they're talking?
They think they're on a regular news show.
I think that's what they think.
He thought he was on with Chuck Todd or Jake Tapper or Rachel Maddow or something.
And that he didn't expect them to go, you know, that's not how conspiracies work.
That's not, this is a fact that he had that.
So now he can't say that anymore.
And now let's see what he says.
Again, that's a separate issue.
There is no question that what the president is trying to do is to pressure an ally, a key strategic ally facing a dire threat from Russian troops, not just on their border, but in their territory, and putting U.S. interests at risk by withholding necessary military aid.
Again, this puts at risk our national security.
Yeah, I think we understand your position quite clearly.
Let's make it a future event.
If a Democrat wins the White House, should their vice president have a child who serves, should they be allowed to have a child who serves on a foreign energy company's board with interests in the United States?
We can talk about what people should be allowed to invest in.
Yeah, let's do it right now.
Yeah, that's what we're doing.
We're talking about it right now.
We're asking you, should that person, do you see?
And do you see how horrible this looks for the Democrats?
Do you see how easy this is to get them tied into knots over this?
Do you see how this is going to be a 100% failure to go after Trump on impeachment on this?
It's amazing.
That was like the ultimate deflection.
He's like, well, I mean, we can talk about that.
Well, we're doing it now in something called an interview.
We're doing an interview where we're talking about it.
So I want to play a little bit more because right at the end, I forget the mail guy's host, his name.
Could you look it up for me, please, so I don't keep saying the mail guy host.
Thank you.
Again, a different issue.
I know here in Congress, we are required to file full disclosures of our financial positions, of any other positions we've had.
I believe in transparency.
I believe the American people have a right to understand that.
But don't get lost in the discussion, the fact that the president of the United States has abused the power of his office and put national interests ahead of our personal interests, ahead of our national interests.
Oh, really?
Almost got that wrong.
That's my focus.
That's what I want to hold this president to account.
And that's what I believe this impeachment inquiry should focus upon.
Yeah, and Congressman, I think that's all fair.
I think that this is an abuse of the office, no doubt.
We can debate over whether it's impeachment worthy.
But there's a political question here, too.
Don't Democrats look hypocritical if they want to impeach the president for corruption while turning a blind eye to what may be lesser corruption on the Democratic side, but to say that it's fine for a child to basically cash in on their parents' public service.
Again, I'm going to focus on the current office holder, the president of the United States, misusing his office, abusing his power, and putting his interests ahead of the national.
We've memorized his scripture.
That is my focus.
We can have conversations about the other issues.
We are.
Again, we need to have transparency from our elected officials.
We need to get big corporate money out of our elections.
All of those are things that we need to do to restore people's faith in our government.
We have to do that.
But at this moment, at this time, the issue is: did the president of the United States abuse his office, put national interests subordinate to personal interests, and put our country at risk?
Boy, this thing seeks to dance with the people.
We appreciate it.
We appreciate your time.
So I don't know if you heard what he said.
He said, well, you're really good at staying on message, but we appreciate your time.
It was like a tomato-tomato situation.
Can you rewind?
Put our country at risk.
Boy, you're very good.
This thing seems to have a Pennsylvania people.
We appreciate it.
Well, you're very good at saying on message, sir.
I think they think that's a reason because the guy's wearing a suit, right?
And it looks like it's a TV set, right?
Obviously, somebody invested money.
So, but I think that's why he was like, what the?
Where am I on?
What are you guys doing?
I said Trump's bad several times, and you're still asking me real questions.
That's not part of the rules.
I even said conspiracy theory.
What do you guys want from me?
Okay, so Aaron, just let me get what would be your sum up on the impeachment effort.
My sum up of the impeachment effort is I think that from what we know so far, it looks like Trump did something that I personally think is unethical.
That I don't think he should be bringing up Joe Biden with a foreign leader and trying to enroll a foreign leader into investigating corruption allegations against Joe Biden, whether those allegations have merit or not.
But I don't think this is worth, I don't think this is worthy of an impeachment investigation and certainly not worthy of all the hype and hoopla that this story has gotten.
Given what we know so far, the transcript is ambiguous.
Trump's top priority in talking to Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, is not even Joe Biden, which only comes up later on.
His top priority is enrolling the Ukrainian president in an investigation of the origins of Russia Gate, which I think is fair because Ukraine did have some involvement.
Although whether Trump gets the details right on that or not, I don't think so.
But he still has the right, I think, to ask Ukraine to be involved.
And I think it stands to do exactly what RussiaGate did, which was distract everyone from the actual harm that Trump is doing to the country and the world.
And also, at a time when right now, there is a Democratic primary, when there's a real opportunity to present to voters the alternative that Democrats can provide.
What Democrats are doing here is guaranteeing that that will be sidelined in favor of this another intra-elite drama that will consume Washington that will bring up opportunities to highlight Joe Biden's corruption.
Because, you know, whether or not Biden fired this prosecutor to help his son, you know, I heard conflicting things about that.
I don't think it will be easy to establish that.
But just the fact that we've been talking about Hunter Biden got a $50,000 a month gig at a Ukrainian gas company.
Trump will be given ample opportunities to keep highlighting that and to keep exposing Democrats' hypocrisy.
And, you know, what's been said, and it's obvious that if one of Trump's kids got that gig, got a similar gig, like a lucrative gas board, that that would be worthy of impeachment right there.
People would be drawing up articles of impeachment based on that.
So Democrats are going to try to go after Trump for seeking an investigation into that.
It just, I think it's like Russia Gate, another suicide mission.
So just imagine if Trump was able to overthrow Maduro in Venezuela.
They instituted Guaido.
And then Trump's kid, Don Jr., sat on the board of the energy company in Venezuela and got 50 grand a month.
Doesn't know anything about energy, doesn't know anything about Venezuela, but he is connected to the president.
And we overthrew their government, so he gets to be on their board and get 50 grand a month.
People would be going crazy.
And so you have to remember that impeachment is a political process.
People like to pretend it's about the rule of law.
If it was about the rule of law, then George Bush wouldn't be able to do a dance routine with Ellen on daytime TV if it was about the rule of law, because he's a war criminal and he would be in jail.
The head of our CAA is a bona fide torturer right now, not in jail.
So this idea that somehow half the country is going to let you impeach a guy over some kind of bullshit technicality, which actually exposes the corruption in Joe Biden and the Obama administration, it ain't ever going to happen.
In fact, it's going to boost him again.
It's going to boost him again.
And just like we were right about Russia Gate, I know about this.
I'm going to, again, Trump will be reelected in 2020 if this is what the Democrats run on.
And I will come back and run this tape.
And we will, again, take no pleasure in being right about it again.
But we Will be right about it again.
And Jim, you know, if you read some leftist commentators and the intercept and the nation, there's this idea that, okay, fine.
Yeah.
Ukraine gate, it's narrow.
Okay.
It's not exactly what we want, but this will be an opportunity, they say, to highlight Trump's more serious crimes.
No, it won't.
What was Russia Gate?
Russia Gate was all about the narrow concerns of national security state officials.
And this is what Ukraine Gate is now.
Again, no one's going to be talking about genocide in Yemen or Trump's tax cuts benefiting the wealthy or attacks on health care, attacks on workers, attacks on immigrants.
It's going to be all about Ukraine.
It's going to be all about Ukraine and the fact that right now there's this new scandal about the classification system for the records of the calls between Trump and foreign leaders.
As if anybody cares about that.
As if average people, especially in the swing states, are going to look at that and say, oh, my God, this guy's got to go.
I've had enough.
It's Democrats are basically doing everything they can to avoid talking about the issues that impact people's lives.
It's just bizarre to witness.
And what's annoying is that we thought we were over that at least.
Like, fine, Russia Gate was torture.
It was so stupid, but it was done.
Now, at least we had a primary and we could deal with all the bullshit that comes with the primary, but at least there was some space within that for some real ideas to be debated.
That's what was happening.
But all this is going to silence all that, or at least sideline it for a considerable period of time.
And again, it was these whistleblower was a CIA guy who now went back to the CIA and he's gone.
So that's, by the way, that's not a whistleblower.
A whistleblower is someone in the CIA who blows the whistle on the CIA.
It's not a CIA guy inside the White House who does a politically motivated hit job on the president.
That's not a whistleblower.
That's a spook doing what spooks do.
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Hi, Sola.
We have El Pacinos on the line.
Hi, Al.
How you doing?
Whoa, whoa, who's this?
It's Jimmy Door, buddy.
How you doing?
Hey, how are you?
I'm doing good.
Listen.
What are you calling me for?
It's nap time.
Oh, well, I just wanted to get your reaction to Bernie Sanders.
He had a little heart trouble.
He had to get two stents put in.
Why are you calling Al Pacino to ask about Bernie Sanders?
Because I know you were, you know, you were trying to learn more about politics.
I thought you were into it.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
What happened to him?
No, he had he was feeling chest pains.
So they took him to the doctor.
He's in Nevada or Nevada.
I don't know how you say it.
I think it's Nevada.
And they found out he had a clogged artery.
And what did they give him?
Two stents.
So he's going to be like the tall guy at the circus?
No.
Al, those are stilts.
Oh!
Right, right.
Oh, stints.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got a couple of stints.
Yeah, yeah.
No, you do?
Seems like I should have known what you were talking about.
Yeah.
Oh, okay, yeah.
So how do you feel?
Oh, they fixed me right up.
You know, I got that put in a couple of years ago.
And so, hey.
In the 70s, they stop putting little fucking things in your chest.
Yeah, I know.
So now you've been looking more into politics.
Yeah.
What?
You've been getting more into politics.
I say you've been trying to, you've been getting more into politics.
Steph is wondering, you know, what you've been learning.
Oh, well, there's two sides.
Right.
There's two sides.
There's more than that, but there's main two sides.
You've got Medicare for all.
Right.
Do you know what that is?
And the other side, they come up to that and they say no.
And then they go on and on and on and yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.
And what do you think about Medicare for all?
Well, I guess I feel yes.
Also, who's going to pay for it?
Well, we already pay for healthcare, and it's actually going to be cheaper than the system we have now.
It's actually going to cost less.
Right, but I mean, who?
I want a list of names.
Who are they?
Well, listen, you're actually, do you use Medicare or do you use the SAG?
I mean, I know you're in the Screen Actors Guild.
Oh, I guarantee I don't know the answer to that question.
I got a little army of guys with glasses who take care of all that fucking shit.
Okay.
All right.
Well, listen, Al.
I appreciate that.
You calling it anything you're working on?
Yeah.
Well, you know, we got the movie coming out I was telling you about coming out on Netflix.
Oh, what is that movie again?
The Irishman.
So I played Jimmy Hoffa.
Oh, right, right.
Okay.
All right.
You don't listen to nothing I say to you.
No, no, I do.
I learned.
I learned from you.
I actually learned from you.
Well, listen, we're going to be in Hawaii on December 27th.
Mutual situation.
Yeah.
I learned from you.
You learned from me.
Yes.
Listen, Al, we're going to be in Hawaii December.
That's what we call, that's what we call symbiosis.
Well, maybe you could symbiosis over to Honolulu on December 27th, Al.
We're going to be doing a live Jimmy Door show there.
Whoa!
What?
Honolulu!
Yes.
That's right by White King.
That's nice.
I got to be out there for that.
Yeah, yeah.
So I don't know what you do for Christmas, but you should come out.
I don't know.
See my family and stuff.
Okay.
All right, Al.
I'll talk to you later.
It's like two days after Christmas.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
This better not end up at premium.
You understand me?
Yeah.
I will fucking find you.
All right, Al.
It's good talk, but maybe we'll cut it down.
We'll edit it down.
Just keep the good stuff.
All right.
Bye-bye.
All right.
So Rachel Maddow did another clip on Russia Gate.
She just did it.
And I got to tell you from start to finish, even though she's done it for three years straight, this is still kind of jaw-dropping how she is pushing straight up propaganda as fact.
I say that only because Rachel Maddow is repeating almost verbatim CIA and DNC talking points on Russia and CrowdStrike, repeating them as news instead of easily debunked bullshit.
Now, you remember who CrowdStrike is.
CrowdStrike was the outside firm the DNC hired to investigate their server that they say was hacked by Russia.
People like me say CrowdStrike is a compromised private organization that was being paid directly by the DNC and the FBI should have investigated that server.
So you can't take anything CrowdStrike says as fact.
Well, she refers to people who reject the conclusion of CrowdStrike's investigation of the DNC server, which their conclusion was that the Russians hacked the DNC server.
She refers to people who are skeptical of that as conspiracy theorists pushing a conspiracy.
I'm not kidding.
Of course, rejecting CrowdStrike's investigation of the DNC server is not a conspiracy theory at all.
Rejecting that Russia hacked the DNC server is also not a conspiracy theory.
It's the exact opposite of a conspiracy.
People who reject CrowdStrike's conclusion that Russia hacked the DNC server are people who are rejecting a conspiracy theory.
And Rhodes Scholar Rachel knows this, yet she purposely misappropriates that term to intentionally mislead her own audience once again.
After she does that, she then launches an entirely new conspiracy theory as to why Donald Trump asked the Ukain president to investigate Hunter Biden.
And just why did Trump ask the UK president to investigate Hunter Biden, according to Rachel Maddow?
You guessed it, because Russia wanted him to.
I shit you not.
She's really an illegal veron.
I'm here with Ron Placone and Steph Zamarano.
And hi, where I'm going to play the video, and we're going to stop and start it as I like to do, and we'll come back.
Here we go.
So here's how it starts.
She's talking about the Ukraine phone call that Trump had.
And we'll take it from there.
Call you and your people, and I would like you to get to the bottom of it.
As you saw yesterday, this is the day after Robert Mueller testified in Congress about the Mueller report.
That whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance.
But they say a lot of it started with Ukraine.
Whatever you can do, it's very important that you do it, if that's possible.
Now, she's quoting the phone call from Trump talking to the Ukraine president.
That's what she's quoting there.
And they, okay, so you got it.
Okay.
That's President Trump's response to Ukraine asking to buy anti-tank missiles to protect themselves from the Russian military.
And while the president's words don't always hang together as English, what he appears to be talking about there is a conspiracy theory regarding the Russian attack on our election in 2016.
Right?
The conspiracy theory is that Russia colluded with WikiLeaks and Donald Trump to hack the DNC server.
That's the conspiracy theory.
People who don't believe in that theory are debunking a conspiracy theory.
She's saying the exact opposite.
Okay.
Remember that in the summer of 2016, before the election, the Democratic Party was hacked.
All its documents and emails were stolen.
Democratic Party hired a cybersecurity firm to come in and assess what happened.
CrowdStrike, the DNC hired a cybersecurity firm to do the investigation the FBI should have been doing.
That's called a broken chain of evidence, ladies and gentlemen.
And that's why you will never be able to prove the Russians hacked the DNC server because they broke the chain of evidence of custody.
The FBI never investigated the DNC server.
They gave it to a CrowdStrike, which has been revealed, and I don't have time to go into it, to be a completely compromised company that's A, being paid for by the DNC to do their own investigation.
I hope when I, anyway, so that's what she's talking about.
That firm was called CrowdStrike.
The report from CrowdStrike on that attack was the first public assertion that the attack on the Democratic Party appeared to have originated from Russia.
Oh my God.
The company hired by the DNC concluded that it was Russia that hacked the DNC.
Isn't that something somebody being paid finds a result that you actually want them to find?
It's almost like when the scientists work for the Exxon and say there's no global warming.
Russian government.
What the president appears to be suggesting here in this call to Ukraine is that somehow the hacked Democratic Party servers ended up in Ukraine and CrowdStrike has some Ukrainian connections, which is why he wants the Ukrainian president to get involved with this.
I mean, the whole point of this particular conspiracy theory is that Russia didn't really Yet she's misappropriating that word to mislead who?
Not Fox News viewers, not Republicans, not Russians, but people who turn to MSNBC for the news.
That's who she's intentionally misleading right now on purpose at 100 miles an hour at the top of her lungs.
They carry out the hack of the Democratic Party.
Russia didn't really mess with our election in 2016.
This is a conspiracy theory that has been pushed by Russia, by Russian bots.
Isn't that kind of amazing the way she calls people not buying into a conspiracy?
I mean, it is jaw-dropping how she does it over and over again.
It's not a conspiracy theory to not buy into a conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy theories are real.
That's why people are charged with conspiracy to commit a crime all the time in court in the legal system in the United States.
The Russians hacking into the DNC along with Wikileaks and Trump, that is a conspiracy theory that she's pretending isn't.
It could also be conspiracy theories could also be true.
It's a hell of a journalistic license.
I mean, it really is.
Like, where do you get one of those?
Hey, I have this perspective in this thing here.
Do you have like a body of evidence to back it up?
No.
Kind of sort of not really.
I don't know if I buy it then.
You're the conspiracy theorist.
You lose.
I win.
Yes.
I noticed people would say this in the comments under some of our videos.
They would say, oh, Jimmy is a conspiracy theorist because he doesn't believe Russia hacked into our DNC.
That's the opposite of what a conspiracy theory is.
And that's How warped people's brains are that they listen to people like Rachel Maddow, who is intentionally misusing that word, and then they repeat it, and she doesn't give a shit because Rachel Maddow, in case you haven't noticed, has zero integrity.
Absolutely zero.
And here's another case of her doing it.
This is this is what she's doing here is Alex Jones.
Whatever people, I don't watch Alex Jones, but whatever people think he does, that's what she's doing.
Far-right sources by one of the president's key political advisors.
We'll get to that in a second.
She's saying the people who don't buy into the Russia gate are just far-right, far-right crazies.
And they're also award-winning journalists like Aaron Matei from The Nation magazine, who worked at Democracy Now for a decade.
People like that.
People like Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Edward Snowden story.
Those are the, she doesn't mention those people.
Oh, wait, there is that right-wing academic Noam Chomsky.
Oh, Noam Chomsky.
Big right-winger, that Noam Chomsky.
Big right-winger.
But the theory goes that this attribution that Russia is the entity that attacked the Democratic Party.
The theory goes that that attribution of responsibility for the attack to Russia is something that was ginned up by this company, CrowdStrike, just as a way to make Russia look bad.
That was what happened, which is why the FBI never investigated the server.
They never got their hands on it or a look at it.
CrowdStrike did it, breaks the custody of the chain of custody.
So it's all inadmissible.
She doesn't tell you any of this.
She doesn't tell you.
She doesn't tell that CrowdStrike also got caught making up bullshit about Russia that they had to retract in another incident.
She doesn't tell you any of this.
She doesn't tell you it's highly abnormal for a private cyber firm to do the FBI's job.
She doesn't tell you that.
She doesn't tell you that James Comey, the head of the FBI, said he wanted to investigate those servers.
He wanted to get his hands on it, but they couldn't.
Why?
Nobody ever says why.
So this is, come on, is this jaw-dropping or not?
Absolutely.
In the establishment media and even amidst establishment politicians, now the word conspiracy theory just refers to information we don't like.
Yes.
I mean, there was that example that we highlighted on this show where Crystal Ball, where that person was like, oh, yeah, Joe Biden's son thing.
That's just a conspiracy theory.
No, no, no.
That's what happened.
That's not a conspiracy theory.
What are you talking about?
Is it ethical or not?
That's the question.
It's not a conspiracy theory.
Just because you don't like that part.
Yes, you're talking about the Democratic congressman on with Crystal Ball when they asked him about the $50,000 a month that Hunter Biden was getting from the Ukrainian energy company.
And he says, oh, that's a conspiracy theory.
And she says, that's not a conspiracy theory.
Hunter Biden had a job on the energy company for 50.
That's a fact.
Yes, a job.
Exactly.
You know, it almost makes me want each time that a politician, you know, congressman or senator comes on camera on Rachel Maddow.
I think we first have to clear the playing field and say, were there weapons of mass destruction?
Okay, so there's more to this.
There's more to this.
Watch this.
Because CrowdStrike has some connection to Ukraine.
We're not sure what it is.
Ukraine hates Russia.
Russia didn't really do it.
They're being falsely blamed.
And maybe Ukraine can get to the bottom of it.
And I know that sounds nuts.
And I know it seems You know what sounds nuts is you think that our elections are being run by Russia.
You know what sounds nuts?
Is that you scare people into thinking that Russia can turn off their heat in the middle of a polar vortex?
That's what sounds nuts.
You know what sounds nuts is you say that Russia is hiring and firing people inside Trump's administration at will.
That's what sounds nuts.
Like, oh, Maddo, maybe it's hard for you to be parsing that out of these incoherent sentences from the notes from the president's call.
Honestly, the reason we can spell out more clearly what this theory is all about is because this is, in real life, the legal defense that's being mounted in federal court by the president's longtime political advisor, Roger Stone.
The way that Roger Stone is trying to defend himself on multiple felony counts in court is by claiming that this company, CrowdStrike, is secretly Ukrainian.
And Russia didn't really attack the U.S. election.
And Russia didn't really hack the Democratic Party's emails.
It's all a false claim by CrowdStrike because they have some sort of Ukrainian connection.
The Ukrainians wanted to.
Again, she has as much evidence that Russia hacked the DNC server as George Bush had that there were WMDs in Iraq.
You know what the evidence is?
The intelligence community told us.
That's Rachel.
That's everybody's proof is that the intelligence community, first it was 21 intelligence agencies, then it was 17 intelligence agencies.
Turns out it was just three.
Then it was just a bunch of guys who were handpicked by the head spook at the CIA.
And so I had Bill Beanie on here, the top code breaker at the NSA.
He debunked what she's saying about the NSA, about the DNC server.
He debunked it, said it couldn't have been done by Russia.
It had to be a local guy downloading it to a thumb drive.
That's what Bill Benny, the top code breaker for the NFL.
She has no evidence for saying what she's saying.
No one does.
No one had any evidence for saying WMDs, but they talked a whole country into going to war.
And that's how this works.
And she's still doing it.
Even after Mueller took that huge diet turd dump of a testimony, she's still doing this.
Even after two years of investigating Donald Trump over this, and they didn't find a shred of evidence, she's still doing this.
And she's misappropriating the term conspiracy theory.
It's exactly what Ron says.
Now it's just anything I don't agree with.
And the Russians to make Russia look bad.
Russia's actually innocent.
The Democratic Party hacked itself.
That is how Roger Stone is trying to beat his felony charges in court.
Just this past week, the judge in his case threw out an effort to suppress all the fruits of the search warrants in his case because of Roger Stone's claim that all those search warrants were based on false allegations against Russia and Russia's innocent and crowded.
Roger Stone has nothing to do with this.
Roger Stone is a self-promoter who had nothing to do with this, has nothing.
He wanted people to think he had something to do with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
He has nothing to do with anyone.
Strike's lost servers in Ukraine might explain all of it.
I mean, this is an off-the-deep end claim.
It really is not working for Roger Stone in court.
And it's not working in the court of public opinion either.
Russia really did attack our election.
She just says it as a fact now.
They just, this is just a fact at MSNBC and CNN and the Washington Post and the New York Times.
It's just a fact.
So again, they just say these things, but they don't ever say what they mean.
So they don't mean anything.
Are they continuing to attack our election, running Joe Biden?
Right, right.
Is that it?
What kind of what?
Hey, I know somebody that could lose to Trump again.
Joe Biden.
And everybody on corporate television is surrounding Joe Biden in support.
That's right.
Let's watch the rest of this.
This is, to me, this is fascinating.
CrowdStrike did find that Russia attacked the DNC servers.
CrowdStrike found.
You mean that private company that was being paid by the DNC to find that thing?
Not the FBI, but a private service.
And she says it like that's normal.
That's not normal.
You don't let a private company do an investigation of election tampering by a foreign entity.
CrowdStrike found that.
Then all U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies found that too.
They didn't find that.
They asserted that.
There's no proof.
Just like WMDs.
They all said it was there.
It was real.
There's no proof.
Do you see how she says that?
Do you see how she's just misleading people?
She doesn't say, no, of course there's no proof.
But they all asserted that.
All our intelligence agents asserted it, just like they asserted WMDs.
The attribution that Russia was responsible for the attack was the basis for a 12-person indictment against Russian military intelligence officers for Robert Mueller.
I mean, in the real world, there is no question that Russia attacked the 2016 election to benefit Donald Trump.
In the real world, she just gets to get made up.
You make up your own reality as she spins a conspiracy theory that is evidence-free and is a hoax.
It's been proven to be a hoax.
This is all true, yet somehow they just couldn't nail Trump on it.
But in the world that just unfolded to us today in the middle of this impeachment scandal, President Trump not only admits to doing what the presidents are now going to impeach him for, he not only concedes that he went to the government of Ukraine to try to get dirt on Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election.
We also learned that he is trying to enlist Ukraine to help him in this effort to exonerate Russia for their attack on us in 2016, to get what Russia did wiped off the ledger somehow.
Why are they going back to this?
So this is what makes what Rachel's saying even dumber.
Why would Trump, if what she says is true, that Russia hacked the DNC server in collusion with Trump to aid his election, Trump would know that.
So then why would Trump pressure the Ukraine government to investigate something?
If he knows, if they do investigate it, they'll reveal that Russia did it.
Do you see what I'm saying?
If Trump knew Russia did it, why would he be if Russia did do it, and what Rachel's saying is true, Trump would know that Russia did it and he was in collusion with them.
So why would he be pressuring a foreign government to investigate it?
He wouldn't.
But he actually knows he didn't do it and he knows Russia didn't do it, which is why he's pressuring a foreign government to get a hold of CrowdStrike and find out the corruption inside CrowdStrike because it's corrupt.
That's what was happening.
Am I being clear?
I think at the end of the day, I mean, watching this supposed news report.
This is not Go ahead.
Well, what this really is, is she has, because there's people who watch this every night militantly.
And this is, and a lot of them probably have the right intentions.
They think this is how you oppose Trump.
Yes.
You know, and what this is at the end of the day, though, this is a three-year oligarch soap opera that she made for the sake of ratings.
Yep.
And it's because, you know, faith in cable news is, you know, continues to get lower by the year because of nonsense like this.
That's how bad of a conspiracy theorist you are, Rachel.
You can't even keep it straight.
It doesn't make sense that Trump would do that.
But here's why he's doing it.
Why is he doing it?
A few rationales that you might game out.
I mean, I guess they could be trying to help Roger Stone's defense.
The president could also just be trying to create a new revisionist history where his election in 2016 doesn't have an asterisk on it because of known Russian interference to try to help him win.
But I would remiss if I'd be remiss if I did not also note that there is one other party that benefits is Trump if Trump is able to get this done.
And that's Russia.
I mean, Russia still denies having anything to do with the 2016 election interference.
Part of the reason they still deny it and they can't admit to it.
They can't even brag about it as much as I'm sure they'd love to is because their 2016 election interference led to a whole bunch of quite serious sanctions against them that are really bad for their economy and that they really, really want lifted.
There's no way they can get those sanctions lifted as long as the U.S. government still officially blames Russia for having interfered in Trump's election.
Ah, here it comes.
This is it.
And Trump apparently is trying to enlist Ukraine in trying to disprove that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
And that is just what we learned today.
So she ties it up with a new conspiracy theory.
The reason why Trump is doing this is not to get back at Joe Biden, not to do, but Russia.
So in the middle of pointing a finger at everybody else who she disagrees with, calling them all conspiracy theorists, she launches another unbelievably evidence-free conspiracy theory about the president of the United States doing the bidding of a foreign government and being a traitor to our country.
That's how she ends this with an unbelievable conspiracy theory.
But because she's on MSNBC, no one's going to call her a conspiracy theorist except people like me and Aaron Matte.
Because that's what she is.
She is Alex Jones right there.
That's your mainstream news, Alex Jones.
She just invented a new conspiracy theory of why Trump's doing that.
Everyone thinks Trump's doing that because of the obvious reason he wanted to get this scandal out about Joe Biden.
She's saying he's doing this because Putin.
That's literally, so no matter what happens in the world, no matter what happens, it's Putin pulling the strings, no matter what happens.
It's amazing.
She has attempted to draw a connection to Russia pretty much every news report she's given the past three years.
And we've not heard anything about Kevin Bacon yet.
She hasn't tried to connect those degrees.
Yeah.
I mean, you think it'd be easy to connect him.
Putin doesn't like dancing.
Kevin Bacon wasn't foot loose.
So there you go.
That's what people are watching at MSNBC.
Can you believe that?
That's what people are watching at MSNBC.
And now you know why people are so fucking crazy.
Now you know why you can't talk to a Hillary voter.
It takes 80% of the time just to unwind.
They're crazy.
As Ben Makawitz used to say about their right wing, you can't have a conversation with these people.
Could you have a conversation with someone who can watch her show credulously?
How could you?
Where do you even start there?
How do you even start to unwind the crazy there?
You could Start with an intervention.
From start to finish, it was one big fantasy.
It was one big fairy tale.
From start to finish, it was all made up.
Everything she said from start to finish was made up, including the end, which was her rationale, her big theory, which is a conspiracy theory of why Trump is doing this.
It's amazing.
And I'm supposed to ever give a shit about criticism from fucking pukes like this?
I'm supposed to ever care about criticism from pukes who work for the Washington Post or the New York Times or people who have contracts with MSNBC and they go on here and they don't expose this shit?
No, no, no, no, no, no, thank you.
Any final words?
No.
Okay, we got it.
There you go.
MSNBC wrecking America worse than Fox News ever could.
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