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	Bell rings
	Hey, this is Jimmy.
	Who's this?
	Jimmy Door, this Joe Biden.
	Mr. President, good to hear from you.
	What are you up to, buddy?
	Well, Jimmy, I'm glad you asked.
	I've been giving some of the most important speeches of my entire political career.
	Speeches that need to be spoken at this point in our history.
	And I'm glad to be the one speaking them.
	I got it.
	First, I addressed a graduating class at Howard University, where I boldly proclaimed that white supremacist extremist groups are the number one threat to our nation's security.
	Yeah.
	And then, then, I addressed visitors to the White House for Jewish Heritage Month, where I decried the shocking rise in anti-Semitic incidents in our country.
	Right.
	Now, not saying any statements have anything to do with you-know-who, or that I'm going to be tying them to him in any way, or that this timing coincides in any way with the run-up to the 2024 election.
	But, you know.
	But what?
	Well, let's be honest.
	There never really was a second part of that sentence.
	Okay.
	And, Jimmy, in both those speeches, I made a point.
	I made it clear that it was the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 that solidified my decision to run for president.
	Donald Trump looked at that situation and said, quote, there were good people on both sides.
	Well, I looked at that situation and said, quote, not on my watch, Jack.
	I'm going to stop that shit.
	Oh, I see you're contrasting yourself with Trump.
	You better believe it.
	And wouldn't you know it?
	Just the other day, we got another reminder of the specter of white supremacy.
	It was a terrifying sight, Jimmy.
	Jimmy, this group called the Patriot Front marched through the National Mall of Washington, D.C., escorted by police officers who escorted them down into the DC subway where they vanished.
	It was a stark reminder of the darkness that Donald Trump has allowed to linger in his wake.
	Is that so?
	Yes.
	And these groups are getting more cunning.
	They're hiding their faces.
	They don't allow beards anymore.
	And appear to all be in good physical shape.
	They are clearly learning from mistakes the white nationalists have made in the past when their slively disheveled appearance counters the argument of a master race.
	They even all, Jimmy, listen, they even all had matching khakis and polo shirts.
	It's scary.
	Yeah.
	The fact that these men look different than any other white nationalist group we've ever seen since the clear makeup call and message, vote for me.
	Yeah, the whole thing appears very suspicious.
	Yeah, I agree.
	There's nothing more suspicious than white nationalism.
	There's nothing more suspicious than white nationalism.
	And these high-profile racist incidents keep occurring.
	There's no doubt that there are many racist elements in this country, and racist threats and acts of violence are horrifying.
	I agree.
	I'm talking about this despicable paparazzi chase of Harry and Megan.
	What?
	The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
	Sussex.
	Truly a national treasure, that couple of two nations.
	The other night they were subjected to a quote near-catastrophic car chase through the streets of Manhattan by these vultures trying to take pictures of them.
	First of all, Mr. President, that has been shown to be a gross exaggeration for publicity's sake.
	They were followed by photographers, but also the New York Police Department police cars were there for security.
	And second of all, how is that a racist incident?
	Because Megan is famously a woman of color.
	That's like their whole thing, man.
	That's why the proparosity wanted pictures.
	Look, you can make anything about race if you try hard enough, Jimmy.
	Open your mind.
	These are scary times.
	I've also just learned that Jada Pinkett Smith's docket drama Cleopatra has received a measly 2% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the lowest-rated Netflix creation ever.
	Is that true?
	Yes.
	And Ms. Smith boldly called this out for what it was, quote, white supremacy.
	Yeah.
	I mean, my God, hasn't this poor woman been through enough already?
	I'll tell you what, Jimmy, I immediately watched that show so as not to be racist, and I gave it a good rating as an ally.
	Do you think Donald Trump watched Cleopatra?
	Hell no.
	Sir, I'm sorry, but what do you all these things really have to do with anything?
	Jimmy, wake up.
	Wake up.
	Our nation is in a racism crisis.
	It's all related.
	The suspiciously incident-free march through the DC Mall.
	Harry and Meghan almost being murdered.
	They weren't almost murdered.
	Murdered.
	The Cleopatra show, sucking ass.
	I mean, for real, it legitimately wasn't good.
	All of these point to the ever-present specter of hate in our country.
	And now we need to combat it by voting for me.
	Isn't this a cynical attempt to take what is a legitimate problem in our society and make it a political issue that goes in your favor?
	I mean, to smear all Donald Trump supporters as racists?
	Yes.
	Well, I appreciate your honesty then, I guess.
	Jimmy, the waters have been tested.
	There's little or no pushback when you say that all Donald Trump supporters are racist.
	And besides, it's been shown time and time again that shaming people for their political beliefs are the best way to get them to change those beliefs.
	Yep, never fails.
	Jimmy, racism isn't going away.
	He's going to just magically disappear into the subway like the Patriots.
	Ha ha ha ha!
	Ha ha ha ha!
	It's always going to be around.
	And if that is the case, we may as well use it to our advantage.
	Well, I can't see anything that could go wrong with that strategy.
	I agree.
	At least that's what I've been told by my strategists.
	I have to go now, but I want to make one thing absolutely clear to you and all your listeners.
	When this sketch comes out on YouTube, I will be publicly saying that this sketch is in itself racist.
	So put that in your pipe and smoke it, you far-right grifter.
	Establishment media sucks.
	All gaslighting, so good luck.
	Bullshit we can't afford.
	He's fomenting this.
	Whoa.
	Watch and see as the jack off the median speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on.
	It's the Chimitor Show.
	you you you Aaron Mate is here.
	He's the New York-based journalist who hosts the new show Pushback for the Gray Zone.
	And he has his own substack at mate.substack.com, right?
	Is that it?
	I got it right.
	Correct.
	And he's an award-winning journalist.
	He got the Izzy Award for his meticulous debunking of RussiaGate.
	And that's what he's here to talk about today because the report on matters related to intelligence activities and investigations arising out of the 2016 presidential campaigns, better known as the Durham report, was filed.
	And this is what it says.
	It was an investigation into RussiaGate.
	And so what Durham was doing, who, by the way, is very respected and considered non-political in a lot of circles, he was going to see if there was any malfeasance inside the investigation into Trump and if the FBI was out to get him.
	And it turns out all that stuff was true and that Trump actually was right when he said that they were tapping his phone and they were spying on him and all that stuff.
	And even Jake Tapper had to say this.
	Regardless, the report is now here.
	It has dropped.
	And it might not have produced everything of what some Republicans hoped for.
	It is regardless devastating to the FBI.
	And to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump.
	So it exonerates Donald Trump and it indicts the FBI.
	And it was devastating to the FBI to the degree that it actually does exonerate Trump.
	But he says it's not everything that GOP was hoping for.
	What else could they be hoping for?
	That the report was going to help them grow their penises bigger?
	Are you kidding?
	It did every okay.
	So here's so here's the USA today's coverage.
	Trump is vindicated on Russian collusion.
	FBI deserves its shame.
	That's from the USA Today.
	Here's another headline from USA Today.
	Trump was right.
	Russian collusion was a hoax.
	Good luck regaining public trust.
	You know, when the USA Today says it, you know it's over.
	Okay.
	That's the official newspaper of Free Continental Breakfast at mid-price hotels.
	And if they're saying it, you know it's true.
	Here's, but here's how the New York Times reports it.
	John Durham's report on the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaign's work with Russia, which produced no startling revelations.
	That's just how the New York Times says it.
	Is being viewed by some conservatives as lending credence to their conspiracy theories about well, Jake Tapper, the host on CNN of the lead?
	Some conservatives.
	So he's considered now conservative.
	That's good to know.
	Also, and by the way, look, New York Times has a gold check mark.
	Isn't that nice?
	It produced no startling revelations to the New York Times because they knew that Russia Gate was bullshit all along and that the FBI was lying.
	That's why it's not a startling revelation to them.
	But personally, I am startled at the revelation of how far the New York Times will go to protect a debunked conspiracy theory, even after the rest of the corporate news has given up.
	It's a collusion theory, Jimmy.
	Yeah.
	And here's what Aaron Mate says.
	He says the Durham Report newly debunks the conspiracy theory that the New York Times and other blue-in-on outlets promoted, that Trump and his campaign conspired with Russia.
	It also shows that the top U.S. officials ignored credible intelligence that this conspiracy theory was a Clinton campaign plot.
	Let's remember, they won the Pulitzer Prize for lying about this.
	They won a Pulitzer Prize for repeating an easily debunked conspiracy theory.
	It's so easily debunked that I did it.
	I did it.
	Immediately I did it.
	And Aaron Mate won an award doing it.
	So here they are.
	They're bragging about their Pulitzer Prize for pushing a conspiracy theory cooked up by the Clinton campaign and the FBI.
	They're supposed to be debunking that stuff.
	And they're the ones actually pushed.
	So again, the biggest sources of misinformation and lies is the government.
	The next is the corporate media.
	After that, it's politicians.
	And then after that, it's then you get to your randos on YouTube.
	Let me bring in Aaron Mate.
	Aaron, I want to, so let me just show you what directly what Durham said about this.
	Okay.
	So Durham said the FBI should have never launched an investigation into alleged Russian collusion with Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, given the slim evidence.
	Indeed, based on the evidence gathered in multiple exhaustive and costly federal investigations of these matters, including the instant investigation, neither U.S. law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
	So what that means is they had zero evidence that Trump and Russia were conspiring together.
	They had none, zero evidence when they started the Crossfire Hurricane, which was the Russiagate investigation.
	And of course, we should have never, you know, when he says we should have never launched this investigation.
	Hey, look, this is America.
	We should have never launched an invasion into Iraq or tortured some folks or done a lot of things.
	This is just what we do.
	Let's move on.
	Okay.
	So he says the speed and manner, the speed and by the way, you don't need evidence when you have strong institutional biases, right?
	Do you know?
	So the speed and manner in which the FBI opened the investigated crossfire hurricane During the presidential election season, based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign.
	So the FBI totally turned their playbook on their head to do what they did to Trump.
	This is like Whitey Bolger again.
	Yes.
	Knew the agent.
	He's doing it good.
	Getting rid of the Italian mafia and he's the biggest like killer who's being protected by the FBI.
	So not only did they have no evidence and they turned their own practices on their head.
	But not only that, but based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activity, we conclude that the Department and the Department of Justice and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law.
	So another way to say that is they broke the law.
	So say they failed to do that.
	That's a really long way of saying, that's a real extremely soft way of saying they broke the law.
	He says they failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report.
	So he's saying that actually the criminals in this Russia gate wasn't Trump, wasn't Russia.
	It was the FBI and the Department of Justice, which were breaking laws, spreading disinformation, conspiracy theories, lies in order to swing an election.
	Aaron, let me bring you in.
	What would you take it wherever you'd like?
	So, look, this is all stuff that we've been saying from the start, Jimmy, that this investigation was baseless.
	There was no evidence for any collusion, and that it was a scam.
	It was a Clinton campaign scam from the start.
	And we didn't need John Durham to confirm that because we've been saying this for years.
	And it's great that Jake Tapper could acknowledge this, what, six years too late?
	But we were doing this from the start.
	But let me start with what I think is positive about this report is that it does provide more evidence that U.S. officials going right up to President Obama knew from the start of this investigation.
	In fact, even days before this investigation formally began in July 2016, that the Clinton campaign was concocting a plot to falsely tie Trump to Russia.
	The CIA got intelligence that Russia had actually picked up word of a Clinton campaign plot to smear Trump with Russia ties.
	And John Brennan, who was then the head of the CIA, thought that this was so important that he briefed Obama about this.
	And he also soon submitted an investigative referral to the FBI about this intelligence, that the Clinton campaign was basically concocting a scam to falsely link Trump to Russia.
	What did the FBI do?
	They pretty much ignored that.
	They didn't investigate Clinton for that.
	Instead, they used Clinton-funded material like the Steele dossier to investigate Trump.
	And they opened up an investigation of Trump and his campaign based on some hearsay about what a low-level campaign aide, George Paparopoulos, said about possible Russian help to his campaign.
	But even that tip right there was totally embellished.
	And John Durham confirms that that tip was not sufficient grounds to open up an investigation.
	He also confirms that meanwhile, the FBI, with the full knowledge of Obama and everybody else at the top of his administration, ignored the fact that the Clinton campaign was coming up with this scam.
	And that's why the Clinton campaign funded the Steele dossier.
	That's why they came up with that Alpha Bank scam.
	If you remember that, that was this conspiracy theory that Trump and Russia were secretly in cahoots and communicating via a bank server.
	And so that's what the Durham report newly underscores.
	Now, the problem is Durham says there's more evidence of this, but he doesn't reveal it publicly.
	He says that's in a classified appendix, more evidence of that Clinton campaign plot.
	And I think the public should get that because this was a monumental scam.
	This was a hugely damaging scam.
	It undermined a presidency.
	However you feel about Trump, he was elected by a, in a fair election, and this was used to undermine him.
	This was used to smear any dissent as being backed by Russia.
	This worsened relations with Russia because it made diplomacy with Russia impossible.
	This had all kinds of horrible consequences.
	It dominated the news media for more than two years.
	And so we should learn how it came about and how specifically the Clinton campaign was involved in perpetuating and causing this scam.
	Can I let me just show you?
	This is right from the Durham report.
	He said the office also considered as part of its investigation the government's handling of certain intelligence that it received during the summer of 2016.
	This is what you were just talking about.
	The intelligence concerned the purported approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.
	Now, so they knew that Hillary Clinton was doing this, that she was stirring, going to concoct.
	That's what stirring up a scandal means.
	They're going to make up a scandal saying that Donald Trump is working with the Russian security services.
	And then in the intelligence community, the FBI, they referred to the intelligence hereafter as the Clinton plan intelligence.
	That's what, I'm sorry, that's what Durham refers to it as, the Clinton plan, the Clinton plan.
	DNI John Radcliffe declassified the following information about the Clinton plan intelligence in September 2020 and conveyed it to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
	What was that?
	That in late 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysts alleging that the U.S. had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against Donald Trump, the U.S. presidential candidate, Donald Trump, by tying him to Putin and the Russians, hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
	So they knew this.
	So they knew this was all a story made up by Hillary Clinton.
	They, meaning the FBI.
	The intelligence community does not know the accuracy of this.
	So that's blah, blah.
	According to his handwritten notes, CIA Director Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the alleged approval by Hillary Clinton of the proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security service.
	So even Obama knew this was garbage.
	Yeah, they all knew it.
	Okay, so go ahead.
	Let me bring in Aaron.
	So that's what you were just talking about, that they knew that Hillary Clinton concocted this story, this conspiracy theory, to damage your political opponent.
	And instead of, so what the FBI did was then go along with that lie.
	Go ahead.
	What they should have done is investigated Clinton for this because you shouldn't be coming up with scams to smear your political opponent.
	That's worthy of investigation.
	Instead, they use the scam material that the Clinton campaign funded, like the Steele dossier, and they relied on that for surveillance applications on people like Carter Page, who was a volunteer for the Trump campaign.
	So Durham newly confirms that, and there's more information on that that's currently classified in a classified appendix.
	And I hope that gets released because the public should know about that.
	There needs to be accountability for this scam.
	Now, John Durham does not deliver accountability at all.
	No.
	He delivers some facts, but most of them we already knew.
	And meanwhile, there's a whole list of people.
	He wasn't even allowed to interview, right?
	Well, he tried to interview.
	He tried to interview Peter Strzok.
	He tried to interview Peter Strzoks, the FBI agent who opened up the Trump-Russia probe and was caught sending text messages, mocking Trump and his supporters, and Bernie Sanders, too.
	They tried to interview Bill Preestap, who was a senior FBI official, approved the opening of the Russia investigation.
	James Comey, director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the FBI, Rodney Jaffe, who was the tech executive enlisted by the Clinton campaign to come up with that Alphabank scam.
	Mark Elias, who was an attorney for Clinton at Fusion GPS, they hired Christopher Steele to do the Steele dossier.
	They also hired CrowdStrike to investigate the alleged hack of the DNC server and blame Russia, and Glenn Simpson, who also was the partner in Fusion GPS.
	So Durham tried to interview all these people.
	They all said no, and Durham just took it.
	He didn't subpoena them.
	He had the power of subpoena, but he let all these key figures involved in this scam not talk to him.
	And I don't understand how possibly he could have let that happen unless he was intimidated.
	And hopefully when he testifies, he'll be questioned about it.
	But meanwhile, compare that to Mueller and the Mueller team, because Mueller actually was just a nominal figurehead, as we saw from his testimony in the end.
	He didn't really know what his investigation was about.
	But Mueller's team used every authority they could to bully people and indicting people for offenses that had nothing to do with Trump-Russia collusion, like tax fraud or lobbying issues, like with the case of Paul Metafort, and did everything they could to make this investigation look credible and subpoenaed everyone they possibly could.
	So the comparison between Durham, who is investigating a scam and how just lenient he was and how powerless he was and using his own authority compared to Mueller, who's using their authority to perpetuate the scam, is pretty striking.
	And I don't understand why Durham was so soft.
	And on that note.
	He's going against the entire United States empire.
	Yeah, for sure.
	And so you don't think he was intimidated?
	Of course he was intimidated.
	Yes, of course.
	I think you're exactly.
	I think he was intimidated.
	I do.
	Unless he has some other crazy reason, I'm not getting it.
	I do think he was intimidated because you're right.
	He is going up against the national security state and a vital scam that they played on the world.
	Now, on that note, speaking of not getting to the truth, he tells us nothing, zilch, about the thing that started this whole Russia Gate affair, which is a Clinton campaign contractor crowd strike saying that Russia did it, only to later admit under oath that they had no evidence that Russia hacked the DNC.
	So Durham tells us nothing about that.
	He's completely silent on it, even though he acknowledges how improper it was for the FBI to rely on all of this information that was generated by Clinton campaign contractors.
	So for example, he points out how ridiculous it was that the FBI was relying on material that was generated by people working for Clinton, like Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier, and also the Alphabank scam.
	For some reason, he doesn't apply that same observation to CrowdStrike, whose allegation of Russian hacking of the DNC kicked off the entire thing.
	That's where all this began.
	And he tells us nothing about that.
	And that to me is also inexplicable because now we know from testimony, we've covered this a lot, that CrowdStrike under oath privately told Congress that, oh, yeah, when we said that Russia hacked the DNC, actually, we had no evidence of that.
	So the whole thing, the whole thing that Russia hacked the DNC's server and they got these emails and they gave it to WikiLeaks and they were all working together and they released them and that threw the election.
	That was always, always a lie.
	And I was able to debunk that at this show with Bill Binney here.
	I'm going to guess in 2016, maybe I did it.
	I don't know.
	But there was always a lie.
	It was easily debunkable.
	And that's what this was all based on.
	And the FBI never even looked at the server.
	The FBI never looked at the server, but they did conclude Russia hacked it based on a private company called CrowdStrike that the Clinton campaign hired or the DNC hired to look at the server.
	And the FBI never did their own investigation of it.
	That's not how you don't do investigations like that.
	You don't go, oh, there's a murder scene here.
	Don't worry.
	I'll do the investigation and I'll hand it over to the FBI.
	And then you, that's not how things work, right?
	So that's how you knew it was garbage to begin with.
	But on top of it, what you just said, that in 2017, the head of the CrowdStrike admitted in testimony to Congress, I think closed testimony, secret testimony, that they had zero evidence that Russia did this.
	They had no evidence.
	So they, meaning another way of saying that, we made it up out of thin air.
	We made it up.
	And so that's what this is all revealing.
	But again, this is not going to be reported like this.
	Jake Tapper kind of admitted it there.
	That was wild.
	I want to read you three more paragraphs from the Durham report.
	The matter was open, meaning the investigation into Trump Russia was open as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the person who provided the information.
	Further, the FBI did so without any intelligent, significant review of its own intelligence database to collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S. intelligence.
	And it is, and number three, it's interviews of witnesses, none.
	Essential to understand the raw information that had received or for using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence.
	Had it done so, had it done anything it normally does, the FBI would have learned that their own experience to Russia analysts had no information about the Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others.
	So they would have known that because their own experts in their intelligence community, the United States, had no knowledge of Trump and Russia collusion.
	That's what Durham is saying.
	And they didn't do the basic investigative steps that the FBI normally does.
	So what this tells you is that this was made up by the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton campaign, and the FBI, just made up and then repeated uncritically by corporate news media and YouTubers, like all of them, except for this show and Gray Zone and Aaron Matze.
	All of them, all the rest of them repeated it uncritically.
	You want to say something?
	Can I quote the great Bill Maher back when there was any?
	Yeah, I don't need evidence to know Trump is a traitor.
	Anyway, we got a big cheer.
	Yeah, he was because Trump said, hey, Russia, if you're listening, please, please hack it.
	What did he say?
	Please hacker on TV?
	Yes.
	And it's based on that alone.
	Durham was talking about.
	Go ahead, Jimmy.
	Everybody who stayed, everybody who either bought into this, which was so many people, including on the left, or who stayed silent, they abetted a really, really dangerous scam that's made the world a lot more dangerous and the country a lot more dangerous.
	It was a scam that criminalized diplomacy with Russia.
	It was a scam that helped preserve the power of the neoliberal wing of the party that lost to Trump in 2016, who should have been completely discredited and humiliated for good.
	And the Bernie Sanders wing of the party should have taken over.
	Instead, the Clinton wing used this to basically deflect blame for losing.
	And people like Bernie Sanders went along with it.
	And their media followers took the cue as well.
	I wouldn't stand up to this.
	And now we see how baseless it was.
	And they should do some self-reflection on what they enabled because staying silent on something like this has been very, very consequential and bad for everybody.
	And I don't think we'd be in a war proxy war right now at this level with Russia if not for Russia.
	Because Russia Gate made diplomacy with Russia impossible.
	The only reason people are okay with going to war with Russia over Ukraine is because they've been led to believe that all our problems have been caused by Vladimir Putin and Russia and that we got to go get him.
	He's a bad guy that's been hurting us.
	And so that's what the, and so that's how you manufacture consent for war.
	And they did it and they've been doing it for the last seven years.
	Go ahead, Kirk.
	Remember how Obama wasn't born here and he's a Muslim?
	It's probably a pretty good motivation to take a hard stand on your drone warfare.
	Like people think I'm a Muslim.
	I got to go bomb.
	There's always a motivator of like, you're maybe with this enemy.
	And they're, no, I'm not.
	And they got to go to the bottom.
	So he had to overreact.
	It's part of it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So I like he says this.
	Well, of course he calls this the stasier unvetted unverified.
	But he also said, in particular, he singled out a provision that described a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation that Durham said became the basis for four surveillance applications targeting Carter Page.
	So there's a conspiracy of cooperation between the FBI, the FISA court, the Clinton campaign.
	That's what he's talking about.
	Sounds like a collusion theory.
	And then Durham said the FBI opened crossfire hurricane based on unevaluated evidence at the direction of former director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by the FBI for lying to the FBI, not once, not twice, but three times.
	And formerly Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligent Peter Strzok, who his emails and texts have revealed had vowed to stop Trump from becoming president.
	He talked about it the way Biden talked about that pipeline, the Nord Stream.
	We'll stop it.
	Yeah, he said just like the way Biden talked about, we're going to stop Nord Stream 2.
	That's how this guy talked about.
	We're going to stop him.
	Stopping President.
	We'll do it.
	That's right.
	So anyway, so they knew that the Hillary Clinton campaign, Barack Obama knew, the head of the FBI knew.
	Everybody knew that Hillary Clinton had ginned up this story to smear Donald Trump by tying him with Russia.
	And they just went along with it.
	Because as I've heard Glenn Greenwald talk about it, and it is true that the liberal class, the Democrats in this country, just like Sam Harris revealed, that they think it's okay to drop all of your values and to get rid of Donald Trump because he is some kind of existential threat.
	He isn't an existential threat.
	He's a con man, a game show host who never wanted to be president in the first place.
	But Hillary Clinton is so repulsive and the Democrats are so corrupt and the Republicans are so corrupt that people were willing to take a chance on him.
	And let's remember, and I don't know if you would agree with this, Aaron, but this is 100% fact that if Donald Trump didn't win and Bernie Sanders did, they would be doing the exact same thing to Bernie Sanders.
	Everything that they've done to Trump, they would be doing to Bernie Sanders.
	In fact, they already started doing it to him and Bernie went along with it.
	They already started saying he was working with the Russians, that his followers were violent and misogynistic and racist.
	They already did all that stuff to Bernie Sanders and his followers.
	And Bernie went along with it because he is a servant to power.
	Yeah, they were able to do that to Bernie because Bernie propped up Russia Gate.
	Instead of saying, this is a scam that my opponent is using to deflect blame for being such a horrible candidate, he went along with it.
	He got up on the Senate floor and introduced a measure to stop Russian interference.
	right?
	He enabled a...
	And so are his supporters who went along with it or who didn't have the courage to speak out against it.
	And then he votes for the war.
	And then he votes for the war that this made possible.
	So we've talked about how RussiaGate was manufacturing consent for a war with Russia.
	They had been planning this war with Russia since at least 2014.
	And so that's what Russia get.
	And we warned.
	I warned when I was at the Young Turks, I couldn't stop warning them.
	You know, this is going to lead to a war with Russia, a nuclear war, and World War III, and this is bad.
	And they don't care.
	Of course, they don't care.
	And, you know, they all Russia gated.
	When I say YouTube, I mean, all the Crystal Ball Russia gated.
	They all did it.
	You got to pick your spot to tell the truth.
	And you're not going to waste your capital telling the truth about Trump, that piece of shit.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	That's the hill you want to dial out the truth about Trump.
	So it is.
	It is true that the people who watch The View or Bill Maher or Rachel Maddow think it's or CNN think it's okay to lie and use the FBI, the intelligence community, the media to distort, manipulate, lie so we can stop this existential.
	It's obligatory.
	Yes, it is.
	So you have a moral.
	And if you have a truth that they, that goes against their narrative, they say you're helping Trump.
	So you can't, you can't tell the truth.
	So journalists have not told the truth since Trump got elected and before that.
	They haven't told the truth at all, except for Aaron Mate, who won an award for it.
	But again, the Pulitzer Prize goes to the guys lying about it.
	And again, look, and Jimmy, and just from like a partisan point of view, they were helping Trump because when Trump was doing things like the tax heist, you know, cutting taxes for the wealthy, liberals were not focused on that because they were obsessed with Robert Mueller and having like Robert Mueller dolls and t-shirts and doing like oaths to him on Saturday Night Live.
	All they cared about was the Mueller probe.
	And I've said this a lot.
	There were bigger protests to save Robert Mueller's job from liberals than there were to oppose Trump's tax heist favoring the wealthy or his cuts to Obamacare or anything else he did that was actually bad.
	This completely sidelined any effective opposition to Trump.
	So I think it was ultimately a big gift to him and his party, at least to their agenda.
	100%.
	And this wasn't, and this wasn't just about Trump, too, because again, this also was about criminalizing what Trump was saying back in 2016, which appealed to a lot of voters.
	And I don't think Trump was very sincere, but what he was saying appealed to people.
	And that was he was critical of foreign wars.
	And he talked about getting along with Russia.
	And people inside the national security state, they lost their minds at that.
	They couldn't handle that.
	And that helped motivate them to undermine his presidency.
	And they were successful at that.
	He came in talking about getting along with Russia and they boxed him in.
	And by accusing him of being a traitor constantly, made it impossible for anything constructive to get done.
	And that's why when his administration, people like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, carried out policies that increased confrontations with Russia, the whole media looked away because it didn't fit with their dumb conspiracy theory that Trump was really a Russian asset.
	So this was a disaster for so many reasons.
	And, you know, except for Jake Tapper, it's like 13 seconds there of, yeah, this does exonerate Trump.
	We're not going to see any, we're not going to see any accountability whatsoever.
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	So there's more fallout from Donald Trump going on CNN.
	Everyone's pretending like it was bad for CNN to do that, even though they all gave CNN, they all gave Donald Trump $3 billion of free media when he ran for president.
	Now they're upset that CNN got ratings.
	Okay, here we go.
	Now, that is what you call a straw man argument, especially that the only two options available to you are listening to a former president mock a woman a jury found that he sexually abused while the audience laughs and applauds or.
	The worst part about that is now I'm not going to mock both these women while my audience laughs.
	OK, I think 74 million Americans who voted for Trump don't exist.
	But that has become a familiar to mainly from billionaire libertarians like Elon Musk.
	And so she was I should have played the Anderson Cooper came out and did a mea culpa about why they had to play that before.
	Right.
	I played it before, but not in this segment.
	And and what he said was that you can't you have to hear everybody, which is true.
	Ignoring Donald Trump doesn't make him go away.
	Oh, and she's saying that's a straw man.
	She's saying that's a straw man argument.
	And because and then I had a scoop and also said we can't live in our own silos.
	Well, he's right about that.
	But, you know, he didn't want to tell you that he really didn't want to tell you that.
	But he was forced to tell you that because the network he's on did like every network does and brings on someone that gets them ratings.
	That's all they do.
	They talk about Trump constantly for readings.
	And that's why they did it.
	And so he had to tell you that you can't be silent.
	So now she's reacting to Anderson Cooper saying that.
	Let's watch.
	Yeah, that is what you call a straw man argument, especially that the only two options available to you.
	Isn't it nice to see MSNBC and CNN turn on each other over Trump?
	MSNBC, which used to show his empty podium, Donald Trump's empty podium, rather than cover the progressive in the race.
	They're now upset that someone else is giving Trump attention.
	It's amazing.
	It's like on Jerry Springer.
	We can see these like two fat chicks fighting over a skinny guy.
	But why are you fighting?
	Are listening to a former president mock a woman?
	A jury found that he sexually abused while the audience laughs and applauds or pretending 74 million Americans who voted for Trump don't exist.
	But that has become a familiar tune, mainly from billionaire libertarians like Elon Musk and billionaire media moguls like Fox's Rupert Murdoch.
	So she's saying that Anderson Cooper is giving us a false choice, saying that either you watch Donald Trump go on CNN or and have him do all this horrible lying or you're ignoring the 74 million people who voted for him.
	Oh, OK.
	I didn't understand.
	I was like, well, how is it?
	That you have to let him on CNN.
	And if you don't, that means you're ignoring 70 more.
	She doesn't buy that argument.
	Well, that is that's actually true.
	She said we should ignore 74 million.
	She's saying we should.
	Yeah.
	That free speech doesn't just mean what the First Amendment says it means, that the government cannot restrict or require certain speech, but rather that unless you are willing to subject yourself personally to the farthest right, most virulently racist, misogynistic and offensive viewpoint.
	But but enough about Joe Biden.
	They couldn't have a worse person.
	And as president right now to try to make these arguments about Trump, there is no bigger political race.
	The reason why black and brown people are locked up in this country at unbelievable rates, is it because of Donald Trump?
	It's because of Joe Biden.
	I don't want my kids growing up in a racial jungle.
	Joe Biden.
	That's why.
	He probably doesn't even remember saying that.
	Fill your psyche with it online in the university lecture hall or on CNN.
	You're against free speech.
	I think that you don't give a big.
	Yeah.
	If you're against if you're for censoring the speech of people you don't like because you call them a bunch of names.
	You're against free speech.
	You just said if you don't subject yourself, you don't subject yourself.
	That's what's called a strong woman argument.
	Yeah.
	You don't have to subject yourself to anything.
	You didn't have to watch CNN.
	They changed the channel.
	You don't have to go to a to a speech that they're giving on a college campus.
	You don't have to subject yourself to anything.
	But you want to stop other people from some actually listening to speech they want to listen to.
	That's because you're anti free speech.
	And you can use all the words you want.
	They sound stupid.
	Potheads like me can pick them apart like that.
	And Joanne Reed, I think she is.
	Isn't she college graduate or something?
	Yeah.
	None of them are like smarter witty enough to actually like the arguments they're afraid of are not good arguments that anyone with an ounce of sense could argue with.
	But they suck at it.
	So they're like, you just can't talk.
	Yeah.
	She went to our Joy Reed went to Harvard.
	I'm pretty sure something like that.
	Well, I think a lot less of Harvard now.
	Anyway.
	So and here's now here comes the view.
	So let me get this straight.
	You don't give.
	You don't give a racist and a misogynist and a liar and a duty head a platform of three million people.
	you do give sunny hoston a job telling us her thoughts that's what you do that's what tnn did did you see that that that was quite a list she does let me back it up Okay, here we go.
	Think that you don't give a bigot and a racist and a misogynist and a liar and a tutor and a sexual abuser.
	Are we still talking about Don Lemon?
	Maybe it was Chris Kwumu.
	By the way, okay, let's go.
	And a defamer, a platform of 3 million people.
	And I'm saddened.
	I used to work for CNN for quite some time.
	Anderson Cooper has been my friend for over 20 years.
	And I'm saddened that he tried to gaslight me.
	Did you see how she jutted out her bottom teeth?
	Yeah, she said it.
	She tried to gaslight me.
	Oh, my God.
	You know what I would.
	What is that?
	What is that body language?
	That indicates.
	Oh, my God.
	I'll call Scott Rouse because he actually.
	I'm not making that.
	I'll bet you what he'd say.
	It's disgust.
	Indignancy.
	I'll tell you one thing I can tell from this is I would put money on it that like providing service to honey Sonny Haustin in like a retail capacity is probably a delight.
	Like, hey, Sonny Hawstin came in today.
	What was she like?
	Oh, she was awesome.
	And by the way, Joyanne Reed, the shitbag who owns your news channel, never had a falling out with Jeffrey Epstein.
	Just so you know.
	That's the main difference between him and Trump.
	Yeah.
	Trump had a falling out with Jeffrey Epstein and stopped hanging out with him.
	Stopped hanging out with him.
	Guy who runs MSNBC never did.
	Who was that guy?
	Bill Gates?
	Bill Gates.
	Oh.
	Microsoft NBC?
	That's right.
	Microsoft.
	Who names a company after their own penis.
	my question Look, Sonny Hawson looks disgusted with what I saw.
	By the way, CNN didn't give Trump a platform.
	Do you know who gave Trump a platform?
	The advertisers who advertised on CNN's Trump Town Hall.
	And I'm going to guarantee you, I'll eat my hat if one of them wasn't Pfizer.
	And so that's why they're all upset at CNN instead of the real people who platform Donald Trump, which is the advertisers, because they paid for it.
	And so that's who they should be upset at.
	But of course, they're not going to be upset at them because they're the same advertisers that pay their salary.
	It's weird.
	It's like it's just some nonsense with CNN or they don't, because they're all about, yeah, go after the advertisers.
	That's why we have AdSense.
	So that advertisers can decide.
	Like Joanne Reed, when she goes, oh, it just means the government can't stop you.
	Does it say advertisers can't control your life?
	Isn't that great?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So I just want to remind people that this is what they used to do.
	This is MSNBC, CNN.
	They all used to do this, standing by waiting for Trump to speak.
	They would just show his podium for hours.
	I watched Chris Hayes one time.
	He showed Trump's podium for 45 minutes.
	45 minutes.
	And Trump didn't come out.
	He had to hand the show off to someone else.
	What did Chris Hayes do for that amount of time?
	They just talked.
	Oh, I thought he had to excuse himself for a tubing.
	So one time in 2018, Chris Hayes tweeted out, the Cubs game is sapping my life force.
	And I said, hey, try doing an entire show on Trump's empty podium again while voter shaming and wagging your finger at a 70-year-old actress while you institute the Pied Piper strategy to prop up Trump.
	Then never mention why Ed Schultz was fired.
	That usually recharges your batteries.
	I feel like I had a nap.
	And of course, the best tweets never do well.
	That's probably the best.
	Because nobody watches Chris Hayes enough to know what or can or any of that, what any of that stuff means.
	None of us.
	But that's what's controlling your whole society, your whole culture.
	They're right there.
	They're showing Trump's empty podium, and then they make out the bad guy to be Susan Sarandon.
	While they actually are doing the Pied Piper strategy, the people who are wagging their finger at Susan Sarandon are doing the Pied Piper strategy by showing his empty podium, giving him $3 billion in free media.
	And then they never mentioned why Ed Schultz was fired because he covered Bernie Sanders.
	Oh, is that why?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	He was called by the head of Phil Griffith called him and said, you're fired.
	You're done.
	I still love the big idea with Donny Deutsch getting chewed out for saying I would vote for him.
	For Trump if it was Bernie Sanders.
	Bought versus earned media.
	So Bush got $82, earned $240.
	So these are all the money that people got free media, right?
	So you pay for your commercials.
	This is when they cover you for free.
	So Bernie Sanders got that much.
	Look at Hillary Clinton got more than double what Bernie Sanders had.
	Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Kasitz, Trump.
	That's quite a platform there.
	Look at them all platforming Donald Trump because they could make money off it.
	Look at that.
	All Republican candidates combined got almost three times as much free media as the Democratic candidates.
	$3 billion versus $1.1 billion.
	Combined, there's just one that really matters in that combination.
	He's the only one that really matters.
	His, um, Thank you.
	While MSNBC failed to give equal time to progressive candidates, it found inordinate bandwidth to devote to presidential candidate Donald Trump, contributing to the $2 billion in earned media Trump received during his 2016 campaign.
	During the 2016 election cycle, MSNBC mentioned him more than all other presidential candidates, Republican or Democrat, combined.
	How could you?
	When Phil Donahue was brought on in 2002, MSNBC was excited for the ratings that he was expected to bring.
	However, the network quickly began to worry that Donahue would be a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war, especially considering that NBC was owned by General Electric, which was a weapons manufacturer.
	Apparently, to compensate for his position, Donahue was told to balance every anti-war guest with two pro-war guests.
	That was back when it was less captured, by the way.
	Yes.
	Except in the case of filmmaker activist Michael Moore, for whom three poor pro-war voices would be required.
	Were they going by weight?
	I don't know.
	Donahue was canceled soon before the invasion of Iraq.
	Its lead-in show, Countdown, Iraq, hosted by Keith Oberman, was expanded to fill the time.
	Well, at least they found a good man.
	And here, I just want to show you one more time.
	Ed Schultz got fired when he was about to cover Bernie Sanders' 2015 presidential primary launch.
	At the launch event, Schultz was contacted by network president Phil Griffin, who told him to pack up and leave.
	Leave the event.
	The network was not interested in covering the Sanders campaign launch.
	Schultz was gone from the network soon after.
	And so when you see these pieces of garbage, like her and Sonny trying to shame anybody else for covering a presidential candidate.
	Know that when they point the finger, they have three fingers pointing back at them.
	There's no bigger garbage news organization than MSNBC, and there's no bigger garbage person on cable news than Joy Ann Reed.
	I think she's more of a knowing liar, and I think Sonny Austin's genuinely stupid.
	Sonny's death, deaf, she's genuinely stupid.
	Joanne Reed knows what she's doing.
	Yeah, she's an intentional.
	They're both horrible people.
	Yeah.
	Hey, this is Jimmy.
	Who's this?
	Hi, Jimmy.
	This is former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
	Oh, boy.
	This might be my new favorite caller.
	So, hi, Mr. Governor.
	Mr. Former Governor.
	Jimmy, it's good to hear your voice.
	We don't talk like we used to.
	Well, you are a disgraced and out-of-the-public spotlight, so I don't really see the need.
	Well, now that's not a very nice thing to say.
	Besides, I may not be out of the spotlight for too much longer.
	I mean, let's be honest.
	I'm doing everything in my power to get back in the spotlight.
	Is that so?
	Yes.
	I recently made public comments on the radio about how Biden's border situation is a disaster.
	Now, if I were to mount a political comeback, which I'm not saying I am, but if I were, criticisms of a Democratic president along conservative lines would do well in reminding the people of the great state of New York that I am a right-wing Democrat, which New Yorkers love as much as they love Pizza Pie.
	I see.
	I think you do.
	Also, another thing that would play in my favor, considering I have been smeared with a scandal not rooted in anything other than misunderstanding, would be for another New York politician to have an even bigger scandal than mine.
	Okay, bigger, worse, grosser.
	And if he is also an Italian-American, so much the better.
	Are you talking about Rody Giuliani?
	Rodolfo.
	Aga scene.
	Along comes America's mayor and grossers.
	Everybody the fuck out.
	Just in time for little old me.
	Did you see that lawsuit filing?
	Yeah, I did.
	Oh, what a disaster.
	Look, Jimmy, whatever inappropriate contact I've ever had with women is because I'm a passionate Italian-American.
	We hug, we kiss, we caress.
	All right, okay, I get it.
	Right.
	But this Juliani shit, it has nothing to do with being Italian.
	It's about being a weird old freak.
	He hired this poor woman, promising her a million-dollar salary, never paid her, coerced her into sex with this obvious non-bull of a man, forced her to give him a blowy while he was doing business on the phone because, quote, he wanted to feel like Bill Clinton.
	Disgusting.
	Disgusting and absurd.
	Well, absurd.
	Thinking he could ever be Bill Clinton.
	Clinton is a bull.
	A metagon, but a bull nonetheless.
	A bull doesn't need to coerce women into blowjobs.
	A bull just has to show up.
	All right, Governor.
	I know, I know.
	I don't need to tell you any of this.
	I can see that shiny ring in between your nostrils, Jimmy Dore.
	What's your point, Mr. Cuomo?
	My point is, this shit is so heinous, they're going to forget all about what I did.
	Yeah.
	Did Cuomo slightly rub a buttock, or did he run in and save a bunch of children from a burning orphanage?
	I can't remember.
	One of the two.
	Whatever it was, he certainly didn't make an unsuspecting woman his illegal sex slave while working for the Trump administration.
	That was Rudy Giuliani.
	He's not a bull.
	That's what people will say.
	Well, first of all, people don't talk like this.
	All this bull stuff you say all the time.
	People don't speak like that.
	Oh, the hell they don't, fucking bull.
	Also, are you deluding yourself here?
	I mean, come on.
	Just because someone has a worse scandal than yours.
	So you admit it's worse.
	Well, yeah, yeah, it is worse.
	Small victories.
	But that doesn't mean that people are going to forget about everything you did.
	Well, okay, maybe not just because of that, but it will help.
	Every little bit helps in my plan.
	My brother, Chris Cuomo, is so much.
	I know.
	Is reinstating himself in the news industry.
	That will help normalize the Cuomo name.
	Media outlets are becoming comfortable talking to me again.
	Granted, they are AM radio stations in Albany, but still, small victories.
	Before you know it, boom!
	Cuomo defeats Gillibrand in the Senate race.
	Hi there, Chucky.
	Where's my office?
	I hope it's next to yours.
	We're going to be working very closely together.
	Dream on, Mr. Governor.
	Yeah, maybe that's all this is.
	I admit I've always been a dreamer.
	Ever since growing up, a poor child in hell's kitchen.
	I dreamt that maybe someday a kicked-around, scrappy Italian kid like me could be governor of the Empire State, just like my father was.
	Oh, brother.
	I don't know what Giuliani dreamt about as a kid.
	I'm guessing one or another pornhop category.
	All right.
	Well, it's been nice talking to you, Governor.
	Jimmy, it's been a delight, as always.
	Now, I hope you don't mind if I call in and gloat to you personally with every tiny little step along my road to victory.
	How does that sound?
	Um, please don't.
	Well, from what I can tell, you can't really control who calls your show.
	No, I can't.
	The phone rings, and you just answer it, and you have to talk to whoever has called you.
	That appears to be the comedic framing of these sketches.
	Yeah, I guess so.
	Maybe we'll have to incorporate some caller ID bit into the show or something.
	You wouldn't dare.
	Yeah.
	Who's not going to take a phone call from a fellow bull?
	Jesus with the bull.
	I didn't think so.
	Well, I must be going.
	Chrissy's coming over, and we're going to manja, listen to some moscogni, and plot revenge against our enemies.
	Life can be so delicious, Jimmy.
	Well, I'll be talking to you.
	Okay, bye-bye.
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