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Hey, man, that's cool the president's saying, come on, man.
Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
And it's Thursday, November 3rd, 2016.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination, episode 874.
This is no agenda.
Predicting sports without any clue whatsoever.
And broadcasting live from the capital of the drone, Star State, Austin Tejas, FEMA Region 6, AM. In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where Plato say, man who shares sex with Senator's assistant gets on same page.
I'm John C. DuBois.
Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Who did you think you were?
I'm on the same page.
Page, yeah.
That was a good one.
Is that one from our guy?
This is Marty Higgins again.
Yeah, that's great.
He sends Tan in.
We're going to do a little...
I'm sorry, do a giblet.
A giblet?
He does about...
He first started out doing these, and then he got...
You know, he started getting tired, and they weren't as good, and then they were just kind of spotty.
Then they got to, like, 60% of them were great, and 40% were okay.
Yeah.
He nailed 10 gems, and I attribute this to the fact that he was kicked off Facebook.
Wait a minute.
Our guy, our Plato-Aristotle-Confucius-save guy was kicked off of Facebook?
Yeah, for apparently saying something about Trump.
Vote for Trump.
Boom, you're out.
30-day ban.
Really?
Surely there was more to it.
Surely.
I don't think there was that much more to it, but apparently it's been going on a little bit.
Just before the election, they want to get rid of all this.
If you want Hillary to get in for sure, you've got to do what you have to do.
These guys...
Social networks, Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, for sure.
I think it's worse than that, John.
I'm very worried right now about what's happening with Turkey, and I have a feeling that the Obama administration, I don't know if they run this guy at all, if they have anything to do with him, but holy crap, if Erdogan sends troops into Mosul, Iraq is going to fight, there's going to be a war, and then all of a sudden, we have a NATO country who's being attacked, and This is concerning to me.
Screw Hillary Clinton.
This is important.
State Department has called all of their employees in Turkey back home.
Erdogan has fired 10,000 employees of media outlets.
State-controlled, of course.
And, you know, the battle...
We're in Mosul.
I love getting pictures.
Every day I get pictures of our boots on the ground that aren't really there.
You know, these are just advisors.
And they're frontline.
Shooting advisors.
Frontline.
Canadian troops, too.
They're also frontline in Mosul.
I didn't realize they were there.
Yeah, everybody's there.
Well, Mosul's not in Turkey, so...
No.
But...
No, but if you look at the map, Mosul is the intersection of all the roads.
You know, the road that goes into Syria, the road that goes up to Turkey.
It's very strategic, very important.
And Iraq is being very clear about it.
Do not come in.
I think the Obama administration will do anything like that.
Maybe attacking Russia, maybe a little bit too much for everybody.
Let's blame Russia.
It's Russia's fault.
Of course it's right.
We know it's Russia's fault.
Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man.
Speaking of the face bags, I just need to point one little thing out that we haven't talked about, though it's been going on for a few weeks.
We've discussed moral self-licensing on this program several times, which is an actual...
It's one of our themes.
And it's a real term.
And I think we started looking into it when there was the ice bucket challenge.
And what we asserted, which is back...
Yeah, I think it was actually before that.
Was it?
I think it peaked there, yeah.
I think it came with the ice bucket challenge and then we started paying attention to all the icon changing because that's really when it went rampant.
And now the number one, it's a moral self-licensing, briefly, is where you do something that is really quite innocuous.
It's a small thing.
It makes you feel good.
It makes you feel like you did something for the cause, and therefore you justify, okay, I'm good.
I'm good to go.
I can step back.
And unfortunately, a lot of people who participate in moral self-licensing, and many people do, the next time something really important comes up, you feel like, oh, I already kind of did my bit.
You know, I changed my icon.
Yeah, change my icon.
And we have a new version of that.
Over a million people now have checked in on Facebook at Standing Rock, where we have the pipeline controversy, and people are fighting, and people are getting arrested, and dogs are biting them, and there's a big thing going on.
So now to...
Participate in the moral self-licensing exercise.
You use Facebag to check in and say, oh, I'm here at Standing Rock.
Which to me is the ultimate form of moral...
Not only am I doing something which is completely unimportant, I'm pretending I'm there!
I've been wanting to do the pretending I'm there bit for a while myself.
I've always wanted to do it by South by Southwest.
Just retweet some other people's photos.
I'm here at the party and so on, so I'll be here for the next 10 minutes.
Come by if you can.
I think you did that once.
No, no, you did that once with the Google I.O. thing, I believe.
I might have.
Yeah, I remember.
Because you're like, oh, wow, yeah, I got the new tablet that they were giving out for free.
It's great.
And you were just sitting at home.
Why not?
This is a classic example.
But at least I'm not doing it for some bogus cause.
Oh, man.
Okay.
I think I did say.
I stand with Iran.
That's where it all began, I think, with the pink revolution.
Oh, no, that was green.
That was a green revolution.
Everyone turned their icon green.
No, that was rose or pink or something.
No, Iran was green.
Green revolution.
Hmm.
I'll check for you.
Well, somebody will...
I don't read the chat room anymore, so I don't know.
Iran Green Movement.
There you go.
The Iranian Green Movement.
And that was 2008, 2009.
There was a blue one, too.
That's why my icon, by the way, is green and blue on Twitter.
Let me see.
Iran Blue Movement.
Let's see.
No?
Keeps coming back with green.
Google is saying, no!
Oh, wait.
Green Movement could go blue.
I don't know what the hell that is.
I think you're talking about being bummed out.
I do want to say that I predicted World Series, extra innings, Cubs would win.
Which was beautifully offset by the stupidest tweet I ever sent in my life.
I know you saw it.
You even told me to delete it.
I did.
I told you to delete it because it was embarrassing.
I had no idea.
See, in the top of the screen, I see Cleveland leads 3-1, and then I see the score is 1-3 for Chicago.
I don't understand what's going on.
And I only said, huh?
I just didn't understand it.
And a lot of people corrected me in many different ways.
I bet.
Ranging from, man!
Actually, from unfollow.
There's a lot of that.
Oh, I'm unfollowing you now, man.
You don't know what that means.
But I did pick it.
Yes, you did.
Whoever unfollowed you should go re-follow you because you nailed it.
And you were outrageous.
You're like a savant.
You're like an Sports idiot savant.
Yeah.
Yes.
It's like you not only picked the winner of the whole thing, which was fine with me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm sick of this Cubs jinx and the goat and all these stories.
You know that place you sent me to have a burger in Chicago?
That's the goat place.
That is this goat's curse is that burger place.
Yes, it is.
I didn't know that at the time.
You went to the one under the bridge?
Under the street?
Yeah.
Yeah, you know the one.
You have to go down below the street.
Yeah, that one, yeah, for the burger.
I know there's layers of streets in downtown Chicago.
It's very strange.
Anyway, did you get the burger?
Yeah, we talked about that.
But anyway, you were complimenting me.
So I'm sick of this bull crap.
But you not only nailed the winner, but you called extra innings.
When they went to extra innings, I went, oh my god, this is ridiculous.
Nobody does that.
Called it!
Nailed it!
Woo!
Yeah, something's wrong with you.
Not just that, my friend.
There's a lot wrong with me.
Now, I have...
Well, actually, let's get started with a clip.
I met with the former New York banker.
Remind me to tell you some things about him.
He gave me some interesting inside info.
Okay, good.
Well, let's get it started, because there's a lot...
Of course, we know now that pretty much...
And people were putting this in the Red Book, and we were laughing about it.
Like, really, they can't be that stupid.
But, oh, yes...
FBI is being controlled by Russia.
That is now the talking point.
Which is beautiful.
Well, can I start then with something you can cut off?
Because it's really long.
Is it James Carvel?
Is it the James Carvel?
Do you have it too?
I cut it down to two minutes.
How about I play mine?
Okay, yeah.
I just have the whole thing.
It's seven minutes long.
And before you play it, let's preface one thing.
The KGB was dissolved in 1991.
It's now FSA. Is it FSA or FSB? FSB. There's actually two or three agencies, but there is no such thing as the KGB. So this is James Carville.
James Carville married to Marilee Matten.
He's a huge robot.
Sorry?
I think they got divorced.
No!
No!
I think so.
You're kidding me!
Carville and what's her name?
Batlin.
No.
That would be weird.
Wow, you're right.
No, no, no, no.
Oh yeah, divorce.
I think that's why it's gone so nutty.
Huh.
Yeah, he's gone totally nuts.
He has no counterbalance.
The guy is off the hook.
I cut down seven minutes.
I took out a lot of the...
Was it CNN, I think?
Who was it?
I think it was CNN. Yeah, I think it was CNN. The interviewer was asking a million questions.
Who gives a crap?
I just strung all his crazy together.
Democrats, they've criticized Director Comey.
If he had sat on information until after this election, and there was something there, there was really there, there, wouldn't he be accused of a cover-up?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, did you hear it?
Did you hear it?
Oh yeah, I heard it.
Another great call from the Crackpot.
There was really there there.
Wouldn't he be accused of a cover-up?
Well, first of all, let's start again.
He was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans.
End of story.
He gave a letter to him.
They gave it to Fox News.
Also, we have the extraordinary case of the KGB being involved in this race and selectively leaking things from the Clinton campaign that they hacked.
So, the American democracy is really under attack here.
And the question is, how are we, and particularly how are Democrats, going to respond to this?
And people have to decide, do we want our country for ourselves, and the people in charge, or are we going to let the KGB and the House Republicans decide this election?
You know what John Mayden Cain said?
When the facts change, I change my mind.
What do you do?
I like that, how facts, you can't have your own facts, facts are facts, but when the facts change, oh, then you can change your mind.
This guy is crazy.
What do you do?
Somehow or another, that this is all, we said something nice in July, so you can't say, in spite of...
Justice Department policy, in spite of former people in the Bush administration, in spite of ethics people all over saying this is unprecedented, why are you defending this?
Why are you sitting here when our democracy is under salt, when the FBI is acting at the behest of Jason Chavez, and sitting here acting like this is something legit?
It's not.
It's an effort to effect this election.
And Democrats and people across this country have to know this.
When the facts change, you change your mind.
I know that's a hard concept for people to get sometimes.
It is unprecedented.
Look at the op-ed pieces.
Look at what's going on.
And you're sitting here defending an assault on American democracy against justice to follow the policy, against everything that we all know, getting involved in a presidential election.
If you want to defend that, you defend it, but I'm not.
I think this is an outrage, and I think the fact that the KGB is involved in this election is an outrage.
If the KGB was actually involved, that would be pretty historic.
If they resurrected themselves, that would be great.
If the KGB is involved in this election is an outrage.
Come on, tell us what there is.
And if there's not something substantial, and I mean really substantial, This is, in effect, an attempt to hijack an election.
You know, I can't think about the election right now.
What I can think about and what I can talk about is how unprecedented this is and how the House Republicans and the KGB are trying to affect our democracy.
And I think that's a very important issue.
I think it's probably the most important issue that anybody's faced in a presidential campaign in a long, long time.
Yo, yo, yo.
So how come no one corrects this crazy man?
How come no one says, uh, no?
No, KGB doesn't exist?
Hmm.
Well, the one thing...
I don't know.
They don't know it doesn't exist.
I have no idea.
They're just poor journalists.
No kidding.
You don't have to play my clip, but I left him the guy from CNN yakking.
As he talks...
You hear Carville in the background.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, I heard it too.
Like he wants it.
He's on something.
He's wired.
Yeah, he's wired.
I agree.
He's wired.
He's wired on something.
There's something illicits involved here.
Sticking on this FBI KGB thing, I have a couple of clips.
First, the I was watching CBS this morning.
You know, Nora, Charlie, Gail.
And first, Nora does the news.
The FBI reportedly spent several months investigating Russia's potential meddling in the U.S. election and found no direct link to Donald Trump.
According to The New York Times, law enforcement officials examined ties between Trump's business and a Russian bank.
They also looked at a former Trump campaign chairman's long relationship with pro-Russian officials in Ukraine.
Sources told The Times that apparent connections between some of Trump's aides and Moscow originally compelled them to open a broad investigation, but they uncovered no clear evidence.
So, then they go to a commercial break, which was one of those one-minute blocks.
They come back.
Now, she's just said that, you know, the FBI said, well, you know, there's really nothing there.
We investigated.
And here is the superstar of the morning, Gail.
Of course, the next 48 hours.
But does she have a point?
Do they have a point in saying there's a double standard, that no one is really investigating Russian claims against the Trump campaign?
Well, again, according to this reporting this morning, the FBI is going to read the news.
What?
Did she even listen to the recording?
No, of course not.
Of course not.
That's what's so beautiful.
Jeez.
Oh, but we can take this in all kinds of directions.
I got the lesbian from MSNBC, and of course I'm talking about Chris Hayes.
And he has on April Ryan, who was a news correspondent from the Urban Radio Networks, And she, and she's black, and she takes this to a whole nother level.
You know, after the July announcement from Comey, there were many people, Republicans, who were very upset, and there were leaks all over the place.
And I'm talking, this is pre-letter, pre, a couple days ago, pre-FBI letter to Congress, and there were a lot of people very upset.
And then once you get this letter, and you hear about this letter, rather, to Congress, it makes you wonder, I mean, we had been hearing a lot.
We were, again, going back to leaks, we were hearing a lot of that consternation in that building, in the inner circle of Comey.
And then all of a sudden this happens just days out.
This breaks tradition.
I mean, what does this do to an election a few days out?
And it sets a precedent.
It's a bad precedent.
We have never seen this before.
And I've just seen a criminal like her before.
I'm sorry?
So we've never seen a criminal like her before.
And here comes the last bit.
And I just tell you, the integrity of Comey as well as the FBI is in question.
It makes you wonder.
You go back in history and think about some of the things that we read in the history books about things that were happening to leaders like Dr.
King and others.
You know, you just wonder.
You just wonder.
You just wonder.
Wow.
That's really good.
This is not the MLK era FBI, young lady.
Pretty obnoxious.
I have a...
Here's one.
This is the one...
You may have this clip.
This is the one about how Lynch told Comey or is going to tell Comey not to release this stuff and then he threw it back at her.
This was on Mika and...
Yeah, the Morning Joes.
Mika and the Men.
Okay, it was about...
Lynch part one.
Yeah, oh.
Part one?
Yeah, part one.
Okay, it was a bombshell.
On Friday when James Comey released to Congress a letter saying, look, we found a whole bunch of email and we're looking into it.
Now Reuters is reporting that apparently on Thursday, the day before, Comey was actually briefed on the email situation by his top aides.
And then, over at the Department of Justice, Loretta Lynch found out about it, and she asked for a meeting, apparently.
And they sat together in a room, and she was explaining that if he were to release a letter, it would violate department policy.
It's just simply too close to an election.
If he released this letter to Congress and he's saying, wait a minute, are you trying to interfere?
Are you trying to tell me to stand down?
Right.
She backed off then, and he actually then went ahead and reached the letter.
The other thing is, when people bring up Loretta Lynch, this is just underlining the rivalry between the two.
And, of course, Loretta Lynch had to recuse herself because she was with the former president and the husband of the candidate.
So he goes, I'll recuse myself and give it to my deputy.
So then she put herself back in.
Then she backs out.
Now they're back in looking over the shoulders of the FBI to try to get this done by Election Day.
The question is, why would she say it's violating policy if you send this letter?
It could be the Hatch Act, but it's not.
Upon further review, it doesn't violate the Hatch Act.
Well, it's something completely...
Or is it because she didn't want the information out?
Those are two different things.
And so, longstanding tradition, apparently, at the Department of Justice, you don't release this if it could affect the outcome of an election.
Oh.
But he specifically said, are you ordering me not to do this?
You know, are you ordering me to keep this bombshell secret?
She did not say he could not send it out.
And the next day, he sent it out.
Yay!
Well, good try, Ms.
Lynch.
Of course, we now know that John Podesta's buddy there, what's his name?
His name is...
Here we go.
This is his buddy who is the deputy...
Is he the Deputy Director of the Department of Justice?
Oh, yes.
Here we are.
Attorney General Peter J. Kadzik.
There you go.
Peter J. Kadzik.
So he is the second in command of the Justice Department.
He is, according to the WikiLeaks emails, although you never know, Russia might have doctored those up just to make us think that they're friends.
So that is troubling.
KGB. That's troubling.
Now, this is the second part of this clip.
This is the wrap.
Now, this one discusses, this is interesting because I think it was on ABC, but all the networks, none of them discuss that, what you just heard from Fox and Friends or whatever that show's called.
Yeah, yeah.
Only Fox really talked about this pre-meeting that happened before the release.
But everybody else makes it sound like they never even talk to each other because it's couched in such a way.
When you hear this report, you're going to hear – because when I first heard it, I said, wait a minute, that contradicts the other report.
Then when I heard it again, it says, oh, it doesn't contradict it.
And next to the firestorm over the FBI and the newly discovered emails so close to the election, FBI Director James Comey, of course, revealing the new action against the advice of his boss, Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Tonight here, we have learned that the two of them have met since that announcement.
Let's get right to ABC senior justice correspondent Pierre Thomas.
He's live at the FBI tonight, Pierre.
David, Jim Comey defiled his bosses at the Justice Department five days ago when he dropped the bombshell about the Clinton email investigation.
What ABC News has learned, FBI Director Comey and Lynch had a brief one-on-one yesterday after a national security meeting here at the FBI. We're told Lynch and Comey...
Talked about how he was doing, and she told him he would have all the necessary resources to make this work.
Today, we got a glimpse of Comey at a memorial service for a beloved former justice official, but on his way out, he would not answer any questions.
The Lynch-Comey meeting was described as cordial, and the first time the two had talked in person since this erupted.
David?
And Pierre, no new indication tonight as to whether or not we will hear from the FBI director before Election Day?
None tonight, David.
They say the investigation is proceeding.
No word on what's happening with the emails.
Pierre Thomas on his beat at the FBI. Pierre, thank you.
You know what's irritating, though?
And I only have to presume it's Clinton operatives.
There's a ton of fake emails coming out now.
I'm sure you saw the one about where they're saying, oh, she smells, she doesn't take a shower.
Yeah.
It's so easy to go and verify that, but I don't know.
I just send it around.
And I'm sure that's being done just to muddy the waters.
It makes nothing but sense.
Yeah, it's great.
I have, well, of course, everyone's head is exploding.
This is just great.
I love watching this.
Jeffrey Toobin, the lawyer, who's always on CNN. Oh, Toobin, the pro-Hillary apologist.
Yes, he weighed in.
Toobin's the guy that we had the clip of from C-SPAN, where they played the governor talking about how the, or no, how about the Miami Herald, went and actually did an actual recount of all the votes in Florida, and Bush won.
And Tubin's in denial about it.
If you remember, that's from about a month ago.
I don't remember that.
Yeah.
While you were saying it, I was looking, but I don't.
Was it Miami?
Was that what?
Two B12s.
I took my B12. It was the Miami Herald.
I don't think I have that.
Try Bush-Gore Law.
Look up Gore, Bush, Miami.
Okay, Bush-Gore.
Recount Story 1?
Let me see.
Remind us what the Miami Herald concluded about the Florida election.
Sure.
Well, I'll tell you what we did, first of all, is after the...
That's not tubing.
Who's that?
No, no.
This is presented to Toobin.
Oh!
Toobin's sitting there in an interview situation.
I'm sorry.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided that there would be no full-scale recount of the vote in Florida.
We decided that we should determine, for history's sake, what were the real results.
And so we did our own recount.
We went to every one of the 67 counties in Florida.
And obtained all the ballots.
And we were able to do that under the really expansive public records law of Florida, which is really wonderful.
And so we obtained all the ballots.
We went with an accounting firm, BDO Seedman, at the time.
And they did their count, and we did our count as journalists.
And we went through every single ballot and we had the supervisor of elections actually hold up the ballot and we recorded how that ballot was voted and whether that ballot could in fact be counted because in some instances the ballots were marked in a way that couldn't possibly be counted.
And as you may recall, there were different standards.
So the question is, how do you judge the so-called hanging chads?
So if you had ballots that were punctured in some way, if the little piece of paper was sort of hanging on, did you count that or did you not count that?
And so we looked at the vote under various standards, and we determined that George Bush actually won that election in Florida.
All right.
Yes, I do remember this now.
Now, the second, if you want to play part two, you get Tubin's response to that.
I don't know what part two was.
Oh.
You pretend like I have this.
I don't know.
I thought it said part one on that one, so it usually doesn't be a part two at the same time.
No, there's no.
Sorry.
Well, anyway, Tubin said, well, I'll do Tubin.
Well, yes, but we kind of looked at it again, just kind of casually, and it turned out Gore won.
Exactly.
So he's a bit slanted.
Oh, yes.
Well, here he is, and he'll take it one step further.
Jeff, first of all, on this whole Mark Ridge document done from the FBI, is it...
Oh, I must mention this.
On Friday...
No, on Friday.
Was it Friday?
No, it was Monday.
No, I think it was, like, Monday or Tuesday.
FBI all of a sudden releases, you know, a FOIA... Yeah, Mark Rich.
Everyone wondered why he got pardoned in the first place.
The guy was a horrible criminal.
Let's just explain.
Mark Rich is the guy who pretty much single-handedly developed the spot oil market for trading.
And very, very successful, sitting there in Zouk in Switzerland and big, big money.
But he was trading illegally with Iran.
And so he was indicted and he had to go to jail and then Bill Clinton pardoned him.
And now I guess we figured out that there was maybe some money involved in that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
A million dollars to the Clinton Foundation and a million dollars to the Democrat Party.
Hey, wait a minute.
I'm shocked.
I'm shocked you can buy a pardon with two million dollars.
Yeah.
Which for that guy...
Actually, nowadays, now that Clinton's got the hang of this...
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's not cutting it.
No way.
You got to step it up, boy.
I get a million dollars for my birthday party.
Really?
You want a pardon?
Ha, ha, ha.
Here's Tubin.
Back to Tubin.
Jeff, first of all, on this whole Mark Ridge document done from the FBI, is it just a coincidence that it happened now?
Well, perhaps.
It is certainly bizarre.
Listen to them laughing.
It's because it's idiotic to say it's a coincidence.
No, but they're...
Laughing, like, oh, you know, they're being screwed.
Hillary's being screwed.
Oh, yes, crazy.
It's just crazy.
Perhaps.
It is certainly bizarre.
As someone who has made FOIA requests to the FBI, they are notoriously terrible about responding to them.
They take years.
They don't release documents in any sort of worldly or consistent way.
I mean, it is conceivable that this was just a coincidence, but coming on top, Of the director Comey's, you know, very unusual and controversial release last week.
It just makes the FBI look like a wing of the Republican Party.
With coincidence?
I think not!
FBI is a wing of the Republican Party.
Yeah, they're working for the KGB. Yeah, of course.
Pelosi weighed in.
She always kind of says the same thing.
She almost used the same soundbite she used for...
Affordable Care Act, where she said, oh, we have to pass the act to know what's in it.
Although she's not using those words, just the way she always explains things away is kind of the same theme.
I am an admirer of Comey in terms of what he has done in the past.
I think he made a mistake on this.
And he clearly has a double standard when it comes to Donald Trump.
Keep him out of it.
Just when it came to the hacking by the Russians, that the highest confidence of our intelligence community says the Russians did this.
I know it privately because of being hacked by the Russians.
Because I work for them.
I was hacked by the Russians.
I know it privately because of being hacked by the Russians and he says was too close to the election to talk about that and yet it's not too close to the election to talk about the emails that he says may not be significant.
So I think he made a mistake.
And these jobs, if you're not in it for a while, you can't take the heat.
And I think he just couldn't take the heat from the Republicans.
Do you think he should resign?
No, I'm not going to that place.
I think that we have to just get through this election and just see what the casualties are along the way.
Oh, people are going to die.
Let's see what the casualties are.
Let's see who's going to die along the way.
Yeah, that woman is freaky scary.
I caught, I think it was Irish radio.
It was BBC.
Craig Murray is a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan.
And he was on.
And this guy, when you hear him, it's a very short clip.
He disputes the Russian hack and actually tells the interviewer where the WikiLeaks emails came from.
I'll start off by asking, do you think WikiLeaks received their emails from the Russian government?
Do you think the accusations regarding the Russian government involvement is accurate?
Absolutely untrue.
The source of these leaks, these emails, has nothing to do with Russia at all.
I discovered what the source was when I attended the Sam Adams Whistleblower Award in Washington, which I was chairing a couple of months ago.
And the source of these emails comes from within official circles in Washington, D.C. You should look to Washington and not to Moscow for the source of these emails.
Okay.
That kind of backs up our theory.
Hell yeah.
Now, it appears that Fox, Wall Street Journal, these are the guys that are getting the most leaked information.
Because, of course, obviously, the FBI is now an extreme right wing of the Republican Party.
KGB. KGB. And Brett Baer has five points that he came out with.
Now, this came out, I think, I saw it early this morning.
The news guy?
Brett Baer the news guy?
Brett Baer the news guy, yeah, from Fox.
And I think he was being interviewed, weirdly.
Well, we'll hear it in a minute.
And he, according to his sources, he has five points.
FBI is moving towards, quote, likely an indictment for Hillary Clinton.
And who knows?
Yeah.
I heard this indictment idea.
I mean, today's Thursday.
The election's on Tuesday, which is less than a week.
Right.
It just seems unlikely to me.
I think it'd be hilarious.
I mean, if anything would liven things up in this country...
An indictment of Hillary Clinton, like on Monday, would just be fantastic.
I mean, to me, wow, this is terrible.
If that happens on Monday, you and I have to do an extra show.
Yeah, probably.
Probably.
A short show.
Well, I think...
Hello!
I heard you.
I think an indictment before the election is imminent, and I have some things to back that up.
You want to put five bucks on this one?
No, we're going to do the extra show.
Well, that's...
We both lose in that case.
Yes, never mind.
What was the previous five bucks?
We bet five bucks.
But did I bet you five bucks on the game?
I think I did.
Yes, I did.
Well, I would have picked a Cubs, so I don't think so.
Okay.
Well, you wrote it down, you said.
I guess I've got to go through the book to figure out what the bet was about.
All right.
Well, somebody out there will know.
Listen to Brett Baer.
Here's the deal.
We talked to two separate sources with intimate knowledge of what's going on with these FBI investigations.
A couple of things.
One, the Clinton Foundation investigation is far more expansive than anybody has reported, I think, so far.
Yeah, because remember, Comey last July basically wouldn't comment on it, and we kind of believed for a long time that there wasn't much of a Clinton.
Right, and that was basically about Washington's influence in that.
Several offices separately were doing their own investigations.
That's one.
Two, remember the immunity deal that supposedly Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, two top aides for Hillary Clinton, got from the Justice Department in which it was believed that the laptops that they had after a narrow review for classification emails were going to be destroyed by the FBI. We have been told that those definitively have not been destroyed.
They are at the FBI field office here in Washington and are being exploited.
Three, the Clinton Foundation investigation is so expansive, they have interviewed and re-interviewed many people.
They describe the evidence that they have as, quote, a lot of it, and there is an avalanche coming every day with WikiLeaks and the new emails.
They are, quote, actively and aggressively pursuing this case.
Remember, the Foundation case is about the pay-for-play, the allegations of Secretary People made contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and because of that, they were able to extract attention at least, if not more, from the State Department.
If I have that right?
Exactly.
So they are taking the new information, and some of them are going back to interview people for the third time.
I think he's correct.
I told Hillary not to run.
Yeah, that was in the emails, exactly.
So, FBI is...
And this makes total sense.
Also, what the director said previously to the Senate, to the Oversight Committee, he said, well, I'm not going to comment on any other investigation.
So, you know, for all the bitching we've been doing, I think I personally have been doing since...
I think since October 2013, a year after the Haiti earthquake, I was yelling about the Clinton Foundation financials.
I've always bitched about them, but I will give you credit for bitching the most.
And they have still not released 2015.
They are late again.
October 16th, you've got to have it in.
You can get an extra extension as a corporation or a non-profit if you're financially...
Sloppy.
Sloppy.
How can you have a five-star rating if you're consistently late?
They bought the five-star rating.
We talked about the million dollars that went to the operation that does the ratings.
It was two million dollars.
Two million dollars.
Holy mackerel.
Twice as much as I thought.
They love those two million dollar payments.
Now, there's a video that's been going around.
You may have seen it.
I'm going to play the video in its entirety from a guy named Steve Pisenich.
And he is...
Hold on.
No, you can laugh.
No, I mean, I've watched the guy's stuff.
He's new.
Where did he come from?
Out of the blue.
Well, he is a former State Department employee.
He's been around.
In fact, somewhere I put his...
Before you played, I'm glad you got it.
Because I looked at it.
I am just suspicious of its origin.
It just out of the blue came out.
It's very slick.
It's in black and white.
It's very stark.
It's very well produced.
It's just a little too slick for my taste.
And I think it's beyond Roger Stone's abilities to do this sort of thing.
I'd like to know who's really behind it.
Well, I think I have some answers for that.
Let me just give you his background.
Peas and egg born in Cuba.
Let's see.
He, MD, PhD, American psychiatrist, former United States Department of State official.
Let me just see exactly what he did there.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, so he's like the Victorian Newland, under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, and James Baker.
Cyrus Vance, of course, direct connection to James Comey.
Cyrus Vance, I think James Comey is Vance, Cyrus Vance's protege.
Let's see.
Expertise includes foreign policy, international crisis management, psychological warfare.
Whoa!
I served the presidential administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush in the capacity of Deputy Assistant Secretary.
So this is a guy who has some standing.
I'd say.
And here is his video, and I did some checking on him and what's going on.
On November 1, 2016, Hillary and Bill Clinton and their entourage of assistants affected a civilian coup.
In contrast to the usual concept of a coup where the military is involved and takes over the White House and communication centers, very much like the scenarios you see in a movie, this coup was done silently and very effectively through two methods, corruption and co-optation.
The Clintons have been involved in co-opting our White House, our judiciary, our CIA, our Federal Bureau of Investigation, our Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, and our Director of the FBI, James Comey, for some time now.
What they've done is to make sure that they were part and parcel of a group of people who were interrelated through political cronyism.
However, in order to stop this coup, We in the intelligence community and others involved have informally gotten together and with their permission I am beginning to announce that we've initiated a counter-coup through Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
What has happened in effect when Comey had to open up the case of Hillary Clinton and discuss the emails that were involved with the Anthony Weiner case, it was not the case itself that was as important as the fact that this was the entree for many of us in the countercoup to say to the administration, we have your number.
Not only do we have your number, we're going to stop you from making Hillary the President of the United States.
And at the same time, we will convict and indict the President of the United States, Loretta Lynch, and many others who were involved in the cover-up of the massive corruption that occurred under the Clinton Foundation.
Now, in both cases, their coup was silent, and our counter-coup was silent.
And it was all...
Transgressed or occurred on the internet and this is probably the first time in the history of any country where a coup was initiated on through the internet and a countercoup was initiated through the internet.
I am just a small part of something far bigger than myself.
It was the brave men and women who were in the FBI, the CIA, the Director of Intelligence, the military intelligence, and men and women in 15 other intelligence organizations who were sick and tired of seeing this corruption in the White House, in the Justice Department, and in the intelligence system.
And we decided that there was something we had to do in order to save the Republic.
So we initiated a counter coup through Julian Assange, who's been very brave and really quite formidable in his ability to come forth and provide all the necessary emails that we gave to him in order to undermine Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Again, America, we're going through a major, major transition, and quite frankly, a second American revolution.
We do not have guns.
We do not have weapons.
We do not intend to kill anybody.
We do not intend to harm anybody.
But we, the American public, and those of us who serve as veterans and in the intelligence service like myself, will stop the Clintons from assuming power that they don't deserve.
At the same time, we will make certain that Obama leaves without any trail of a pardon or any other act of treason.
In effect, we want a peaceful transition in this great American republic.
I bring you this news, and I want you to understand what has happened.
A moment of history is occurring right now in front of us, and I'm proud to explain it to you.
There you go.
So, this video, of course, you're right, it's slick.
Now, he's been doing a lot of media for a long time, but the fact that he has such standing as Deputy Secretary of State gives him some credo.
And so my military contacts, the one that I talked to the most, sent me a link.
They said, oh my god, have you seen this?
Of course I've seen this.
I said, I'll just read to you verbatim what we were sending back and forth.
And by the way, if you're in Washington, D.C., believe it or not, there's this thing called encryption, and you can encrypt your emails, and it's really simple, and you won't have this problem.
Idiots.
So no one talks about that.
So easy.
Okay, so I say, how about this video?
Do you take the Coop Idea series?
He says, it is legit.
Check this out.
Some of my high-ranking contacts have gone dark.
They normally only do that when they're in the field.
So I, of course, say, what?
You're telling me military operatives are in the field in the USA? He says, no, not like with guns, but it's very rare for them to go dark while in CONUS, continental United States.
And now this is what I did not expect from him.
But he says that the sources that have not gone dark confirm detailed information about a pedophile sex ring contained in the emails.
And he's been told to keep his eye on WikiLeaks.
That's where the information will come out.
The pedophile sex ring?
Yep.
Well, that was implied with the Wiener stuff.
Well, that's what we're talking about.
We're talking about the FBI, the emails from Wiener's laptop that the FBI has.
And what this guy is saying is that, hey...
Life insurance.
Yeah, we committed a coup, and we're going to bring her down.
So I believe indictment is imminent before the election.
I do trust my sources.
I think that's a good...
That's why you're not taking the $5 bet.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
I'll take the $5 bet.
Let's take the...
Let me just ask you one question.
Since the way it was presented, it seems like there's some necessary action that needed to be taken to stop Hillary.
You have a relative who's in the CIA. Yes, my uncle.
Major, major famous guy.
In fact, he's got a Wikipedia page.
Yes, he does.
Donald P. Gray.
So, who is he voting for?
He's voting for Obama.
No, Obama's not running.
No, I'm sorry.
He voted for Obama.
He's voting for Hillary.
That's what I mean.
He was Republican.
He worked for George H.W. Bush.
Oh, he's a Republican, and he's voting for Hillary in light of what you just said.
No, he's a Republican.
He was a Republican.
He switched to Democrat in 2008, voted for Obama once, voted for Obama the second time, because he really, really, really...
Well, first of all, he hates W. Bush.
I think that's been made clear.
And I guess in 2012...
He was all in.
I don't know.
I don't think he's really...
He goes against the agency.
So if the agency wants Hillary, he doesn't always go with the agency.
I just wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of this discrepancy, is what I'd call it.
Well, what does that have to...
He's not FBI. No, I know.
I'm just saying...
That he's like, you know, it would reflect at least some part of the agency, which is, according to that guy who just gave his long lecture, would be part of the coup, or the counter-coup, I guess, is what you want to call it.
No, it would be FBI, not CIA. Well, he mentioned CIA specifically in there.
Hmm.
Okay.
Lower level, then.
I don't know.
I don't know either.
Yeah.
We do know that Brennan is all in for Hillary.
Yeah, the pencil pusher.
I remember what our previous $5 bet was.
It was Anthony Weiner commits suicide.
I think that bet is still valid.
But here's another thought that crossed my mind.
You know, the October surprise, the concept of October surprise is really about...
And maybe this is far-fetched.
But Reagan had the October surprise, and what it was is he rescued the hostages from Iran.
Boom, super guy, you know, the greatest president in the world.
Do you think it's possible that Democrats...
Let's explain that super surprise again, because the way you described it was wrong.
Reagan was running against Jimmy Carter.
They...
A year before the election, the American embassy was taken, and Jimmy Carter could do nothing to get them out.
And there was even a helicopter crash, which embarrassed the United States even more because our equipment was crap.
And it turned out, in hindsight, when you started looking into it, Reagan had done some back-channeling.
Somehow making sure that the Iranians kept the hostages through the election so Carter would lose face during the election.
And then when Reagan got in, he got them out.
He didn't obviously do it before he got elected.
Right, right.
Well, that's what I meant.
Okay.
So this, of course, was a black mark for the Democrats, for Carter.
And if you take into account the botched Benghazi job, which we still assert was meant to invoke a hostage situation just before the election with President Obama then springing him out.
It was kind of a setup that went wrong.
Maybe we still have...
Where's Huma?
What if she would be kidnapped?
What if she got kidnapped?
She's not getting kidnapped.
Okay.
Taken hostage.
Where is she?
I will say, I know where you're headed, and let me just mention something that I heard on one of the right-wing Republican talk shows while driving.
Somebody came on and called in and said, this whole thing looks to me to be a setup to distract everybody and then pull the rug out from under Trump at the very last minute because it's all going to fall apart.
They're not going to do anything.
And Hillary's just going to do – unfortunately, I don't think Hillary's handling this properly because all she talks about is Trump and groping women.
Oh, my God.
Not just that.
They're bringing back racists.
They're bringing back Ku Klux Klan.
Whatever we can do.
It's the old memes, though.
There's nothing new in her arsenal.
She's just the same thing.
Oh, he's a horrible person.
He's unfit for office.
In fact, the ads, unfit for office, unfit for office, unfit.
She's got no positive message.
I mean, they always like to criticize the Republicans for never having a message at all.
There's no message in the Clinton campaign at all.
What does she say?
She doesn't have any plans to do anything except it's going to be whatever went on before is going to continue.
And that should be a recipe for disaster.
Every time somebody tries to do that, it always fails.
Just not enough people go, what does she offer besides Trump hate?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's gone awfully quiet on the face bags because I think most of the Hillary supporters don't know what to say anymore other than Comey, KGB. Did you see Time Magazine about the email gate?
Oh my god, this blew me away.
Robin Lakoff.
Do we know Robin Lakoff?
No.
Okay, professor of linguistics at Berkeley.
Here we go.
I am mad.
This is Time Magazine.
I am mad.
I am mad because I am scared.
And if you are a woman, you should be too.
Emailgate is a bitch hunt.
And the target is not Hillary Clinton.
It's us.
Referring to women.
The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female.
Can you imagine this happening to a man?
Clinton is guilty of speaking while female.
And email gate is just a reminder to us all that she has no business doing what she's doing and must be punished for the sake of all decent women anywhere.
There's so much of it going around.
This just goes on.
Wow, that's a good one.
Oh yeah.
You want to hear more?
Yo, this is great.
You know, I would like to see her go off against Wendy Brown, who's like the conservative female over there, who's a lesbian, outed, not outed, but out lesbian, who is a right-winger and a philosopher who is just outrageous.
You should try to track her articles down.
She's dynamite.
I like that she just said this is a bitch hunt.
I like that, yeah.
Yeah, because they kind of took the witch hunt.
The people are demanding Clinton act like moral exemplars, thundering from the pulpit.
FBI Chief James Comey has shown himself to be another bully of the same kind.
He has repeatedly talked down to Clinton, admonishing her as a bad parent would a five-year-old.
He's accused her of poor judgment and called her use of private email server extremely careless.
If Comey's a Boy Scout, there's one old lady who will never let him help her across the street.
If the candidate were male, there would be no scolding and no scandal.
Those very ideas would be absurd.
Men have a nearly absolute right to freedom of speech.
In theory, so do women.
But that, as the creationists like to say, is only theory.
Throw a little bit of God hate in there.
This is good.
God hate him.
Wow.
Clinton's use of a personal email server has not been found to be a crime.
Then how is it that so many have found the charge so easy to take and make stick?
How has her use of the server made plausible all the claims that she is deceptive and untrustworthy?
It's not about emails.
It's about public communication by a woman in general.
Of course, in the year 2016, no one, probably not even the Donald, could make this argument explicitly.
After all, he and his fellow Republicans are not waging war on women.
How do we know that?
They have said so, and they're men, so they must be telling the truth.
And it just goes on and on and on.
Wow, what a bigot this woman is.
This is a classic Cal professor.
I'll give you the last paragraph.
Clinton has repeatedly apologized, but apparently not enough for her accusers.
In fact, her apologies were her only mistake.
By apologizing, she acknowledged guilt.
But that's what women are supposed to do, because women are always guilty of something.
Several members of her own staff sent emails grumbling that she was a recalcitrant apologizer.
But her instinct was right.
Apologizing has only made her weaker.
Her opponent never apologizes.
Not really.
So accusations slide off his back like water off a duck.
Imagine the emails the Trump campaign must be exchanging.
Now those would be legitimately interesting!
And this fits right into...
Too bad you can't do that kind of British woman's voice that's done by the Monty Python crew.
I'm a lady!
I'm mad!
I'm mad because I'm scared!
Kind of.
I can do it.
I'm a lady, I tell you.
Yeah, actually you can't.
This came right, so this flowed right into the president.
Same talking point, same idea.
He did a huge speech in North Carolina.
This is a very important state, apparently, according to the polls and the news media whores.
I don't know.
Could be.
And he said this, and please listen at the end to the response from the prostitute who responds to this little clip.
I just want to say it to the guys out there.
He's talking to the guys out there, John.
Be quiet.
He's talking to the guys out there.
I just want to say to the guys out there, I want to be honest.
I want to be honest.
You know, there's a reason why we haven't had a woman president before.
We have to ask ourselves as men, because I hope my daughters are going to be able to achieve anything they want to achieve.
And I know that my wife is not just my equal, but my superior.
I want every man out there who's voting to kind of look inside yourself and ask yourself, If you're having problems with this stuff, how much of it is, you know, that we're just not used to it?
Well put.
Isn't that great line?
Powerful message.
When it comes to your wife, she's not just your equal, she's your superior.
Oh, what a great line.
Powerful message.
What a great line.
Like, you've never heard guys use that line there before.
My wife's my better half.
My wife's smarter than me.
If it wasn't for my wife, I'd be nothing.
My wife, my wife, my wife.
This is, I mean, this seems like a thing you hear a lot.
Not just, you know, that wasn't some unique concept.
What was unique about it?
He's saying men, shut up, women are better.
Yeah.
I've heard that, you hear that a lot from men, certain men.
Not from me!
Certain men say that a lot.
Who says that?
You hear it, you've heard it before.
Does that come with the vasectomy?
Thanks, Obama.
I think a lot of men get vasectomies because their women insist on it.
Oh, yeah.
Now you're scaring me.
You know, it would make our sex better.
It would make our sex better.
Just do it.
Just do it.
You want to hear a couple more before we take a break?
And then, of course, amongst themselves, women like to chat amongst themselves more than men do.
And amongst themselves, I got them to do it.
Exactly.
On the Thursday night conference call.
I got another one.
I have a couple more clips from this Obama thing, just because it was funny.
I want to play them before we take a break.
This was an interesting one.
Listen to this.
The president makes an interesting assertion here.
If you disrespect the Constitution before you're elected president, and you threaten to shut down the press when it writes stories about you you don't like, or you threaten to throw your opponent in jail without any due process...
Or you discriminate against people of different faiths.
Then imagine what you'll do when you actually have the power to violate the Constitution along those lines.
When you're president, apparently you have the power to violate the Constitution.
Well, he should know.
And then, this just shows you the character of this man.
I'm sorry.
This shows you a character of someone who, oh my god, I really despise this when I saw this.
This is the White House.
For trick-or-treat.
And the Obamas, of course, open up the White House, and they've decorated it, and kids, of course, these are all kids of staffers and political operatives, and they can come by and trick-or-treat, and so the president addresses the crowd of kids.
Well, it is great to see all of you guys.
Your costumes are outstanding.
Young man, no selfies in the middle of me talking.
Oh, really?
Really?
Shut up, slave!
Young man, I'm talking.
The president is talking.
No selfies.
Wow.
That's not cool, man.
Who talks?
Maybe he's just joking.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
In fact, there's a couple more seconds on the clip.
He realizes he was just a dick and then he tries to play it off with a joke.
Standing.
Young man, no selfies in the middle of me talking.
Oops.
And Darth Vader, back up a little bit.
I'm getting spooked.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so he tries to play it off, but he was a dick to a kid.
It's obvious.
You know, I've heard stories about him being a dick to, like, waiters at restaurants before he got president.
Oh, really?
I didn't know this.
Yeah.
He's apparently, like, just an embarrassing dick.
And his wife's pretty much similar.
Yeah.
And then we'll wrap it up with his final argument, why you should not vote for Donald Trump, because of course he's not out there saying, hey, here's why you should vote for Hillary.
Sorry, Freudian slip.
Freudian slip.
I did say it.
He says, no, no, no.
It's because, you know, you don't want a rich guy to be your president.
That makes no sense.
Obama is a millionaire.
I think 75% of Congress and Senate are millionaires.
People vote for millionaires all the time.
Millionaires and billionaires.
But no, please, please, you cannot vote for this guy because he doesn't understand you.
If you are out there every day working hard, punching a clock, the notion that this guy...
Who punches a clock anymore?
Well, he's so removed from society, he still thinks that people walk in, get their car.
Yeah.
I'm sure there's a factory somewhere in the country where that's true, but it's like the number of people that are in the working class and lower middle class and middle class, the likelihood of them punching a clock is pretty low.
Well, since there's no jobs, yes, I agree.
There's no clock to punch.
No clock to punch.
There's just no jobs.
You can't punch the clock.
Clocks have been moved to Mexico.
The notion that this guy is your champion...
The notion that this guy's gonna fight for working people when his entire life he did not have time for anybody who wasn't rich or a celebrity.
His entire life, by the way.
His entire life.
Who wouldn't let you...
Into one of his hotels?
Unless you were cleaning the room?
Oh, there you go.
You can't go into one of his hotels unless you're cleaning the room because, you know, he's a racist.
His hotels?
This is great.
It gets better.
Unless you were cleaning the room?
Yeah, yeah.
Wouldn't let you onto one of his golf courses?
Unless you were mowing the fairway?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's bigoted also in just saying that apparently only brown and black people do housework and mowing the grass.
It's incredible.
Just mind-boggling.
This is a president who's saying this shit.
It's mind-boggling.
Unless you were mowing the fairway?
Come on!
Come on!
This guy is going to be...
Come on, man!
Come on!
Come on!
By the way, that comes from a popular sports trope.
Oh!
I didn't realize.
Yeah, he did it a couple of times, and he'll take it to the whole...
The trope is...
It goes like this.
They show somebody doing something stupid in a sports show, and it's so stupid that the guys that are doing the, there's like four guys at a table, they all go, come on, man!
Come on!
And then they have a big logo that says, come on, man.
Oh, really?
Oh, I didn't realize.
Yes, that's where he stole it from.
Oh, well, he keeps doing it.
Come on!
Come on!
I guess he didn't, did anyone write this for him?
This is this, he's got it in his head that this trope, it's a trope, not a meme.
What is a trope?
What's a trope versus a meme?
A trope is kind of like a meme, only it's like, it's almost, it's got a cliche aspect to it.
It's used, look it up, let's go, let's define trope.
Well, we might as well, and we shall do that with...
Consultant!
A trope, T-R-O-P-E, and the results are in a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.
Right.
Yeah, it's different than a meme.
Yeah, it is.
But this is what he does, and he's doing it because he thinks it's a sport.
Hey, man, that's cool.
The president's saying, come on, man.
No, he's saying, come!
Come on!
Come on!
No, he has said, come on, man.
You need the man at the end.
The come on part when he does come on is kind of hinting at it.
But he has said, come on, man.
I'm surprised he doesn't just sit there and go, alley-oop!
Why would he do that?
Because he's a sports guy.
It's all he can do.
He doesn't know anything else.
Like, out of vogue.
Here we go.
This guy is gonna be your champion?
Come on!
You know, because there are a lot of working folks in Ohio, proud people.
What he's saying, working folks means dumb workers, bees.
Folks means idiots.
Dumb people who are workers.
There are a lot of working folks in Ohio, proud people.
Proud dummies.
Who make an honest living.
Oh, an honest living.
And I hear them say, well, I don't know, Trump, maybe.
You know, maybe not so bad.
Come on.
Come on.
This guy...
I mean, it'd be one thing if you were thinking about voting for somebody who had been in the trenches.
Who knew what it was like.
In the trenches.
Maybe not have enough money at the end of the month.
I guess he's referring to Hillary that she didn't have enough money at the end of the month.
Baffling.
At the end of the month.
Who's maybe seen their parents working in a coal mine or on an assembly line.
Knew what it was like to not be able to afford college and have done his best.
Maybe you'd think about some of the stuff he's saying.
But this guy?
This guy?
Don't be bamboozled.
Bamboozled.
Don't let it go.
Don't run for that okey-doke.
He said the okey-doke.
I didn't even hear that the first time.
He threw an okey-doke.
Don't go for the okey-dokey.
Be bamboozled.
Come on.
This guy is just one big cliche.
Don't let it.
Don't run for that okey-doke.
Come on.
Come on.
Wrap it up.
Come on.
That guy had never worn a baseball hat or a seed hat until he started selling them to make some money.
To make some money.
Come on.
Come on, man.
Take that off.
I want to just do a little side thing real quick.
When he's talking about these poor people can't get the kids in college, they get into college if they have qualifications and they can get a student loan.
I was just listening to somebody bitching about the 1.4, some amount of trillion dollars in student loan debt that these kids are carrying around.
And somebody brought up the fact that I did not know this.
If you take out a...
You cannot be counseled against taking out a student loan.
It's against the law.
I'm sorry, you cannot be counseled?
You cannot be counseled against...
In other words, if you go into a counselor at a college and they say, you know, this student loan is going to ruin your life.
You can't do that by law.
It's illegal.
I didn't realize this.
And the reason, that's why so many kids are all tangled up.
They're 18 years old.
They don't know what they're doing and they don't get counseled correctly because you cannot discourage the student loan because it would be discouraging them going to school.
It's considered the same thing.
You're discouraging them from going to school if you discourage the loan.
Huh.
And so it's literally against the law.
Huh.
I've never heard of this law.
I'm going to look it up for sure.
I think you should look it up.
It'll make you mad.
Huh.
I'm just looking at it if I see anything.
I don't see anything off the bat.
Yeah, you'll have to do a little work if you want to really do it.
Wow.
But isn't that an encroachment of freedom of speech?
Hmm.
Maybe.
Come on!
Sounds like it.
Come on, man!
Well, I will look that up for sure.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C! Where the C stands for!
Come on!
Come on, man!
Dvorak!
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
Yes.
And all the dames and knights out there.
In the morning to everybody in the chat room, noagendastream.com.
And in the morning to Sir Slough.
Sir Slough brought us the artwork for episode 873, The Poster Boys of Evil.
And this was a little esoteric, a little out there with the votes.
We had two flags, 191 to nil for Cuba.
Cuba.
That was a good one.
Yeah, I liked it a lot.
It was esoteric, but it was nice.
And we appreciate the art that's being put up on the No Agenda Art Generator.
You can find it at noagendaartgenerator.com.
And I think we should thank some people.
Do we have any execs and associate executive producers for this particular program?
Well, we have one executive producer and two associates.
That's all we got today.
And the one executive producer requires, I guess, some noise.
Okay.
Some noise?
Oh!
Oh, I didn't realize.
Yes.
There you go.
I have that.
Yeah, I have it.
I think it's here.
Noose Bomb!
Noose Bomb!
Noose Bomb.
Noose Bomb.
Yeah, Duke Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, came in with 10-10-10, which is actually quite interesting because 10-10 day is a famous...
It's the Chinese holiday called Ten Ten Day.
Oh, I didn't realize.
And it's very famous, and he's nailed it.
Nobody else has noticed.
Anyway, he did a bag of dimes.
It's a dime bag.
It's a dime bag.
That's even better.
Let's fix that shit.
Ten more.
I just do...
Anyway, hold on a second.
Let me get this thing.
What is he by now?
He's headed to Grand Dukedom.
Yeah, he's got to be very close.
And he's in Sweden right now.
Yes, he says, read the top of that note for me.
He says, Dukness Nussbaum here currently in Lulea, Sweden.
And I'm shocked, shocked that no one did a bag of dimes.
Let's fix that shit.
Ten more.
Just do Fletcher screaming Nussbaum and we.
And he says, kisses.
Wow, man, this is so nice.
And of course, when he becomes Grand Duke, then he has to have a whole song and stuff.
Yeah, he needs a song.
He's dead, doesn't he?
Song, jingles, you know, the whole nine.
That's how we roll here.
Your own song.
Well, he's already got the scream.
Let me give him his jingles and his karma.
Well-deserved.
Careful there in Switzerland.
You've got karma.
You've got karma.
Thank you so much, Sir Nussbaum.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Dropping down to Associate Executive Producer, we have Jasper Holmberg245.45, and he...
Okay, let me see what we got here for a problem.
Hold on a second.
I can read it while you're fixing that.
Oh, I got it, I got it.
My buddy Peter Wiseman of Issaquah, Washington...
Is a long-time listener who has never donated to the show.
By the way, this is a birthday call-out, too.
Yeah, I got it.
Rather than calling him out as a douchebag, I'll make this donation in his name.
That'll probably annoy him more than a call-out would.
Can you please give him a heaping of general purpose karma and also add him to the birthday list?
He's turning 45 today on November 3rd.
Jasper Holmberg.
Now, the question is, seems to me, do we put Peter Wiseman as associate executive producer?
Yeah, I think so.
Well, donation in his name, no.
No.
Okay.
No, I think we keep it to Jesper.
And what we will do is, since he was a douchebag, we'll give him his birthday call.
And I'll do a de-douching.
If he thinks the donation is bad, he'll hate the de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Enjoy!
Here's some karma for you.
You've got karma.
All the douche is gone.
Maybe if I try this, slamming the keyboard.
See, the problem is it won't do selections on any of the boxes.
So, you know, there's always, like, some lock key.
You ever run into that?
You know, the keyboard has, like, the escape.
Oh, there it is.
It came up.
It worked.
Jiggle the handle.
Ah, yeah.
Love it.
That's the only way.
Joe Saigon, $202.02, comes in with name.
Joe Saigon.
Here's a palindrome donation, $202.02.
Can I get a job karma for my wife, son, and daughter?
All are in an employment status of flux, state of flux.
Thanks for all the great work in keeping me sane this election season.
Love you, mean it.
Love you, mean it, no homo.
Love your hair.
Jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Alrighty, that's it?
Yeah, that's all.
Short list.
Very short list today.
We got very little support.
I think it's because of the election.
The market's also getting skittish.
The market is very skittish, yes.
It's the election.
People have been calling it.
I want to talk about that, but I do have to finish it up.
We always have to close off the segment, do it properly.
So for the three people who helped us, one executive producer, two associates, thank you very, very much.
These, of course, are actual credits you can put anywhere.
You can say you are the executive or associate executive producer of the No Agenda Show, best podcast in the universe, in its 10th year.
Now, if that doesn't get you laid, I don't know what will.
You think that's going to get him laid?
No, I'm skeptical myself, actually.
And remember, we have another show coming up on Sunday.
Dvorak.org slash N-A. Well, since you're not going to get laid, you can always go out there and, I don't know, spread the formula.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Boy, hey, citizens.
Shut up, slave.
Yo!
How about a little quickie here that I think...
Well, you were going to tell us about...
You were just mentioning something.
Yeah, we already forgot, didn't we?
B12. No, it was about the market and the election.
Oh, no, I'm just saying, I think the skittish market is the result of people thinking that Trump might win.
Well, in fact, when the latest emails came out, didn't the market, the S&P, take a huge dip?
Yeah, everything's been skittish.
Which is fine, it's just uncertainty.
I don't know what the guy's going to do if he gets in, and I still have problems imagining it.
But Hillary could be arrested.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I want you to get to that, but I just have to tie into that because I had lunch with the former New York banker yesterday.
Ah, let's go there first.
Yes, and he confirmed he's worried.
About Trump winning.
Yeah, all the bankers are.
Well, he's an ex-banker.
But he's very worried.
It's like CIA. Well, and so I'm talking to him.
I say, you know, this Comey thing.
Comey, I want to think he's a good guy, but the whole HSBC thing.
And the banker looks at me, and he gives me this look.
I said, tell me about Comey.
He says, I know him.
He's a fixer.
His words, he's a fixer.
Oh, that's interesting.
But then came, now we're done with the lunch.
We're getting up.
He said, oh yeah, by the way, do you know who else I know who I went to school with and was very, very close with, almost dated?
You'll never guess.
Hillary.
Close.
Uma.
Close?
Madeline Albright.
Ha!
I'd have to ask for pictures if you did that.
No, Cheryl Mills.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
What did you say about her?
Well, he said, I really liked it.
We almost dated.
Now, we're done with the lunch, so now it's like, oh my god, I gotta have another lunch to pull the information out.
But he did give me this.
He said...
I wrote it down verbatim.
Hold on a second.
What did he say?
He said, very fun, very nice, very nice.
I think he probably did her, but I know his wife, so he doesn't want me to know.
Yeah, good job there.
And they don't listen.
And very, very, very argumentative.
Always arguing for argument's sake.
And he believes she is probably in big trouble.
And I'll get more from him, hopefully, after the weekend.
Argue for arguments.
Fixer.
Now, he was put in by Obama.
Yep.
Why would Obama put a fixer in?
Now, fixers are a very interesting personality type.
There's a movie that George Clooney did about a fixer that I thought was one of the best movies he's ever done.
It was called The Fixer.
No, no, no.
It's a guy's name.
It wasn't called The Fixer.
There was a movie called The Fixer, but this was a really good movie.
It got Tilda Swindon the Academy Award for Best Actress.
She played a creepy lawyer and corrupt.
You sure that was Clooney?
Yes, it was Clooney.
Look up Tilda Swindon and then you'll find where she got the Academy Award.
That's the movie that Clooney played The Fixer.
You know, the funny thing is, I have so much to do here during the show.
Okay, well let me do it.
But you always make me look it up.
Before you grouse at me, I only say these things because I figure the chat room will do it.
I don't look at the chat room anymore.
I don't really expect...
No, I don't look at the chat room.
They're not helpful.
So no, the chat room is dead to me.
You gave up on the chat room?
The chat room is dead to me.
Yeah, they're dead.
By the way, that was my imitation of Tilda Swinton.
You don't listen to the chat room and anyone who saw this movie...
Michael Clayton.
What?
Michael Clayton.
Yeah, Michael Clayton.
The movie's called Michael Clayton.
I highly recommend it.
It comes on Netflix once in a while.
Just a great, great, great movie.
And you can put it on the movie list.
A law firm brings in its fixer to remedy the situation.
I think Obama probably...
When did he bring him in?
He's only been there two years now, I think, right?
I don't know.
No, I think it's longer.
Mueller finally ran out after getting an extension.
Yeah, which was crazy that he got an extension.
That was insane.
Yeah, that was crazy.
And so they bring in this guy...
I have no idea.
I have no idea where they brought him in.
September 4th, 2013.
September 4th, 2013.
Which was after his tenure on the HSBC board.
I think Obama wanted him in because he's a fixer.
You need a fixer.
Certainly an FBI. And the way that Obama is saying, well, you know, I trust him on his judgment.
I trust him for his integrity.
I think that, you know, Obama's like, screw that woman.
I want to get my foundation together.
I want to have all the Clinton donors get them out of the way.
Let me see.
Where's the best place for them to be?
Oh, I know!
Let's throw them in jail.
Do you think he seriously cares about Hillary Clinton?
Absolutely not.
No, he doesn't like Hillary.
And he's one of those guys who's smart enough to have a long memory.
And she slammed him.
She butt-slammed him in 2008 in all kinds of nasty ways.
Butt-slam!
And Michelle Obama.
There's lots of butt-slamming.
I think they're pretending, these two.
Well, we'll see.
Oh, you mean the Obamas?
Yeah.
Totally!
Totally.
You can hear it just by the way he's going all out.
No, no, no.
This is...
I'm telling you.
He's the fixer.
Okay, so here's the thing.
This is...
Here, play the Hillary electioneering clip.
Okay.
Hillary Clinton mobbed today in Florida.
She cheered on early voters during an unannounced stop at a polling place.
Can't do that.
Wait a minute.
Let me hear that again.
Hold on.
Hillary Clinton mobbed today in Florida.
She cheered on early voters during an unannounced stop at a polling place.
No, you have to be at least, what, 500 feet away or something?
Yeah, it's electioneering.
Wow.
That's not cool.
You can't go to a polling place and there's a candidate like that.
That's not cool.
Unless it's yours and you're voting.
That's not cool.
No, they should bust her for that.
You know that's not going to happen.
Well, while we're there, I need to ask you a question.
This is from our favorite category.
My hands are going slow today.
Let me see.
Is this the one?
No.
Why can't I find my drunk or not drunk jingle?
Darn it!
Ha ha ha!
Darn it, darn it, darn it.
I got like a million things labeled drunk or not drunk.
I don't know why I can't.
Oh, here it is.
Okay, hello.
I can find something from five years ago, but not this.
Wow, what a long way to go for the three-second soundbite.
Here's Hillary Clinton last night in Florida.
I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive, dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.
It is time for us to say no!
We are not going backwards!
We're going forward!
Damn, did you hear her voice crack?
She's completely pushed it.
Us to say no!
We are not going backwards!
We're going forward into a brighter future!
Drunk, I think.
It could be.
She could be a mean drunk that yells.
That's what it sounds like.
Sauced.
Sauced.
Sauced, man.
Sauced.
There is a bunch of, you know, rumors.
I think the Inquirer had one that she's an alcoholic.
Yeah, the Inquirer has a lot.
In fact, you know what I'd like to play for you?
They haven't hit any home runs yet.
So the Inquirer?
Yeah.
Nah.
I have a backgrounder on...
Let me see.
I have a good backgrounder on...
Backbrounder.
I have a good backgrounder on...
Blah, blah, blah.
Backbrounder on Huma Abedin because some of the emails are starting to show, you know, some of the things that we've talked about in the past regarding Hillary and her relationship with Huma.
For the last two decades...
More confirmations of the no agenda thesis.
For the last two decades, it has been Hillary and Huma, one of Clinton's longest-serving and most loyal aides, a permanent fixture in Clinton's daily orbit.
It was 1996 when the two first met, Clinton, then First Lady, Abedin, a White House intern.
Abedin was born in Michigan but raised in Saudi Arabia.
She came back to the U.S. to attend college in Washington, accepting a prestigious White House internship assigned to work with the First Lady's Chief of Staff.
Their bond and trust forged during that time turned into a partnership that would outlast many of Clinton's other relationships.
Huma has remained by her side ever since.
Working on Clinton's Senate run, her 2008 presidential bid as the candidate's essential right hand woman on the campaign trail in the State Department.
And with that, I'll be making no further comments.
Traveling the world alongside Clinton as her deputy chief of staff.
Unconfirmed.
And rising now to Vice Chairwoman of the Clinton campaign.
She's on the road a lot, and I just, you know, I'm there to help keep it all together and help people be at their best, including my boss.
Their connection goes beyond work.
They are friends.
Emails released by the State Department show a flood of correspondence between the two, highlighting their closeness.
One in 2009 shows Clinton emailing Huma to come over to her house in D.C. for a chat.
Quote, I'm up now, so come when you are able.
Just knock on the door to the bedroom if it's closed.
Oh, jeez.
Wait.
I love that.
Just knock on the bedroom, baby.
I like the way they read it straight.
No, no.
They know exactly what they're reading here.
It's very funny.
And more.
And other casual exchanges, the two checking in on each other in the middle of the night.
You still awake?
Who my email?
Are you?
Nightcap.
*laughter* Just woke up and saw this, Clinton responds.
Come on over, baby.
And others almost read like gossipy girlfriends.
Huma once writing in the subject line, all good here have lots of stories.
Clinton has been known to refer to Huma as a second daughter.
And it was Clinton who first introduced Huma to former Congressman Anthony Weiner.
When the two wed in 2010, their wedding officiated by Bill Clinton.
Later, it was Hillary Clinton who helped Huma through the public fall of her now estranged husband over his sexting scandals.
Our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and its downs.
It took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy.
To get to a place where I could forgive Anthony.
Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
Now, I think you may have mentioned in the newsletter, but I was going to mention to you, after the show on Sunday, I watched the Wiener documentary.
Yes.
Have you seen this thing?
Not yet.
I've been meaning.
It is a must-watch.
It is...
It's...
First of all...
Poor guy.
I mean, he got in really young, really early, and took all the opportunities to be a part of the Clinton machine, which is also part of the Chuck Schumer machine.
You know that Uma Abedin, Hillary said, oh, you go out on a date with this guy, and it's what you need.
It's great.
And she walked out on the first date.
She thought the guy was such a douchebag.
She walked out.
First date.
And then, well, I'm almost fine.
I want to have a kid.
I'm 38.
And that's when the whole getting married idea came about.
So this seems like a real marriage of convenience and power.
You know, the Lionel guy, that guy's on RT, used to be on that New York station.
Yeah, with the bow tie.
And he's got a little channel on YouTube called Lionel something.
And he does these half hour rants.
And he did one, which I think I sent to you.
I don't know if you saw it.
But he went on and on about how this guy, he felt sorry for Wiener.
He says that this guy was part of just a scale of humiliation that is unparalleled.
He said he had to be his stay-at-home dad.
He had to do what he was told.
Uma's outraged.
Traveling the world, especially during the State Department era when Hillary was racking up more miles than any place else, going to giant state dinners and having the time of her life while he's at home in New York doing what he's told and being ridiculed.
And nobody respected him, especially Uma.
Nobody likes the guy.
And he says, what do you expect him to do?
Well, in the documentary, which, again, I encourage everybody to watch this, it's about his failed run for mayor of New York City.
And a lot of it is behind the scenes.
A lot of it in the house.
And Uma, oh my god.
Poor girl.
You can tell that she hates him.
There's zero love in that relationship.
You don't see a single moment of affection ever.
And her face, as she's seeing this guy just, you know, go down in flames, and I said, well, I guess there was more after, you know, after I admitted it all, and there's another one, and so this was the second time that he got caught.
It is really, you're left after this documentary going, holy crap, the Clintons really ruin lives.
Well, he probably, you know, I said this on the other show that somebody's quoted on the No Agenda Quotes Twitter feed.
Where three times it represents a call for help.
And it's almost as if He did the sexting and flirting.
I think a lot of this was subconscious.
But he did it with the 15-year-old because maybe he'd get caught if he went to underage.
And then they might find something out because they'd have to investigate him.
Before that, it was just public humiliation.
And that was that.
It was over.
It was done.
But now, what do I have to do to get attention?
And so he hits on the 15-year-old.
I don't know what he does, but he doesn't really see her.
I don't think he knew she was 15, actually.
Well, okay, there's that possibility.
But whatever it was, it was pushing the envelope to get attention.
Got his attention.
Now they got their laptop.
And by the way, that folder that you talked about, which I think you're the first one I talked about it publicly, there has been talked about since, which is the insurance, life insurance folder that this was in.
A lot of people believe it was Uma's folder.
Oh, wow.
I hadn't heard that one.
That's good.
Yeah, I heard it from two sources, that it was Uma's folder, and she was getting to the point, because she was so close to Hillary, and she knew about these mysterious deaths, that she had to put that folder together, the life insurance folder, keep her from getting killed.
Could be.
Could totally be.
Well, she would know.
I want to talk about Donna Brazile for a moment because this is so poorly covered when you have...
So Donna Brazile, who is CNN correspondent, DNC insider, and then after the first WikiLeaks emails came out, she became interim chief of the DNC, of the party, and we know that she leaked at least one question.
To the Hillary campaign.
And now from a second email, we know that there was a second email that she leaked to the campaign about questions that would come up.
In the email, she leaked a question that would come up that she was concerned about it.
Now, so the first time she did this was for the Commander-in-Chief Forum.
And she gave her the question.
Which question was it?
Was that about the water, maybe?
About the Flint water.
But Matt Lauer, remember everyone was bitching and so mad at him.
He was horrible.
He asked her unfair questions.
Matt Lauer was persona non grata.
Remember that lasted about a week.
Everyone hated him.
So there is an account that I wanted to read, because of course there's no video.
Clinton makes sure that, according to the reports, that no one in her, no cell phones, no cameras, no recording devices.
So apparently he started off that commander-in-chief form, and then the first question was not a question that was...
Pre-approved and was on the list of questions.
Which, by the way, leads me to believe that Hillary probably had a lot more questions than just the one we know about.
And he asked about her emails.
And you could see her face just go...
So apparently she was so mad.
This was September 7th.
I'm going to read you this account.
According to an email, a technical crew member from MSNBC sent this email who produced the event is now speaking out about what took place moments after Clinton walked off the set.
Here we go.
When Matt posed the one legitimate question about the FBI investigating concerning her homemade server and the unsecured emails, we could see she was beginning to boil.
This is from the email.
According to an NBC associate producer of the forum, as soon as Clinton got off the set, she exploded.
Hillary proceeded to pick up a full glass of water and throw it at the face of her assistant, and the screaming started.
She was in full meltdown, and no one on her staff dared speak with her.
She went kind of manic and didn't have any control over herself at that point.
You really had to see it to believe it.
She came apart literally unglued.
She is the most foul-mouthed woman I have ever heard.
And that voice at screech level, awful, she screamed that she'd get that fucking Lauer fired for this.
Referring to Donald Trump, she said, if that fucking bastard wins, we all hang from nooses.
Lauer's finished, and if I lose, it's all on your heads for screwing this up!
And then here comes the kicker.
Donna Brazile was there at that forum, and Clinton walks past her and hears her quote.
I'm so sick of your face.
You stare at the wall like a brain-dead buffalo while letting that fucking Lauer get away with this.
What are you good for, really?
Get the work janitoring this mess.
Do I make myself clear?
I love that she called her brain-dead buffalo.
Well, of course you've got to question it.
She looks a little like a buffalo.
Well, it's very racial.
It's racist, actually, if you were to say it.
It's racist.
Now, I question this account.
I just question it for a number of reasons.
One, I do think Hillary could easily be bipolar and do this.
Mm-hmm.
I am just wondering why, which I mean scream and cuss like everyone says she does and go crazy.
The Secret Service says she does this and it's just, you know, at least some of them.
And I just keep asking the question.
This is 2016.
We all have devices on us that can record anything.
And nobody has recorded any one.
I just want to hear one short moment.
No, I agree.
I agree, John.
I agree.
It's been on my radar for two weeks.
I'm like, I've got to read this.
Just so everyone's heard it.
I'd love for there to be audio.
But this does give me the opportunity to play a quick clip about Donna Brazile.
Because, of course, the question is, was she fired or did she resign?
And we all know that she's pursuing outside interests.
Except this came up on CNN, and poor little Brooke.
She's the cute one there in the middays.
She does CNN. She kind of had to admit what happened, but fuzzed out.
But Donna Brazile was canned.
With regard to Donna Brazile, Donna Brazile is doing a fantastic job at the DNC now and prior to that as a great political strategist and TV commentator.
So, you know, we can talk about questions and who got what question.
You know, I think it might not have been too much of a surprise if you were in Flint that you might get a question from somebody about the water.
Then why was she fired?
All of that aside, let me finish.
Why was she fired?
All of that, she was not fired.
Why was she fired?
She was fired by CNN and they said her activities- You're going to keep saying this three times.
You can say it three times and I'm going to say three times.
She resigned on her- Just listen, Matt.
She resigned on her own.
That is the fact.
So do not spread lies about someone's- Hey, Brooke, can you help me out here?
I'm not lying.
I'm not lying.
There was some sort of termination.
That is way, way higher than my pay grade, Matt.
There was some kind of termination.
But my pay grade, I don't know.
We can't talk about that.
Everyone in these companies is a gossip mill behind the scenes in any one of these organizations.
And she knows that everyone would know that she was fired.
Of course she was fired.
Somebody would know, they'd say, oh yeah, she was fired.
Boom, the whole place would know within minutes.
Except there's always a couple guys in these operations that don't, they're not hooked into the gossip mill, but the gossip mill, which Brooke looks like she'd totally be a gossip.
Oh yeah.
Would know, she would know.
So...
What I've missed is I've missed CNN, maybe they did it and I just didn't see it, came out with a big statement and say, you know, we have integrity, this never happened, you know, the questions are under lock and key, and they never, I guess they were also afraid to excoriate Donna Brazile, because if you come out and say, we had nothing to do with this, this is all Donna Brazile, then, you know, they're pissing off their main source of everything.
Which is the Democrats and Clinton.
But Megyn Kelly had, I thought, a minor coup.
She had the former president of CNN, John Klein, on.
And he kind of said the same thing, that this is what should have happened.
Credit to Booker.
So then another debate comes out with Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, and it happens again.
They seem satisfied that nobody at CNN leaked that one to Donna, that maybe one of the questioners at the town hall leaked it.
I haven't seen any proof of that.
They think that Donna ran into one of these questioners because she spent the day handing out water and may have run into somebody.
Well, that's a possibility, but how are we supposed to accept that as fact?
Well, they are more worked up about the issue than Joe Concha is.
I mean, they have much more at stake than anybody in making sure that their reputation is pristine.
So I can only presume that they have run this down to the ends of the earth as far as they're concerned and to their satisfaction.
And I believe Jeff Zucker when he says that he finds it disgusting.
I don't think it's surprising when you've got a partisan surrogate in your midst as a paid contributor.
But you're assuming she's an ethical person.
You are.
That's cheating what she did.
But at the end of the day, I hope this can be the death knell for these surrogates that all the news networks employ because it's predictable.
As a viewer now, I've just been a viewer for six years.
It's boring.
We know what the Punch and Judy puppets are going to say every time.
Now, this, of course, is one of our main pet peeves about television is all of the pundits, they're all puppets.
They all show up.
They all have their talking points.
And he's hoping that it will finally go away.
And I have, well, I have some bad news for him.
Not only is it going away, it's going to get much worse.
And it's going to be official and above board.
Not as it's not going away, as you're saying.
It's not going away.
Sorry.
It's not going away.
It's going to increase and it'll be official and above board.
We know CIA has an entire division who write articles, op-eds, books, etc.
Books.
Books mainly.
And that's how they get their pundits on TV. The military is taking a whole new tact.
Here is defense minister, defense secretary, defense minister.
I'm sorry, it's my European vibe today.
So here's Ashton Carter, defense minister, defense secretary, explaining to us what the plans are.
Since advertising can't fully substitute for personal inspiration and contact, we're also going to create a DOD speakers bureau of senior leaders and experts from across our military and defense department dedicated to help educating key audiences.
Schools, parents, teachers, principals, coaches, career counselors, civic groups, cultural groups, youth groups, companies, and more on the value and benefits of military and public service in support of our mission of national defense.
And I'm the first speaker to sign up.
And I'm kicking that off right here today.
Speakers Bureau.
I thought they already had a Speakers Bureau at the Pentagon.
No.
This actually surprises me.
Because I know they have an outrageous number of public relations people that work out of the program.
Oh yeah, they have like 15,000 or something.
A crazy amount.
Some crazy amount.
I know, I know.
No, this was new to me.
Do you hear the level of who's going to be in the Speakers Bureau?
Now, in the Speakers Bureau, these people also get paid.
Isn't that the whole point of a Speakers Bureau?
Or are they just sending people out?
I think some of these internal Speakers Bureaus are just done not to get paid to promote the company.
Right.
I mean, if it's a commercial, yes, for public speakers who are paid speakers, but I think they're not going to pay any of those guys.
They're just going to maybe pay their expenses.
They might pay them.
That would make sense.
Now, they may have some stooges that speak on their behalf that get paid.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I just thought it was very interesting, so we can look forward to a lot more from the Speakers Bureau.
I think every interview on television, if they have someone, should start with, now you're from the Pentagon Speakers Bureau, I should just start with that, or it should be your lower third.
Yes, Pentagon Speakers Bureau.
It should be a disclosure, you're absolutely correct.
Yeah, totally, totally.
Okay.
That'd be fine.
I wouldn't mind if there's a disclosure.
They do it now at the beginning of these.
They say, ex-CIA agent, you know, they always do that to give us a little, at least some clue that this is bull crap.
You remember the aircraft carrier we were talking about?
The Russian one?
Yeah.
That has a tugboat.
Yeah, they brought a tugboat.
But listen to this headline, just so you know.
Belching smoke through the channel, Russian aircraft carrier so unreliable, it sails with its own breakdown tug.
So they're really throwing the F Russia out there.
Well, they are, but I did see some stuff on RT showing that thing, and they're bragging about it to being the second biggest.
It looks like a piece of garbage.
Piece of garbage, yeah.
And it is belching smoke, so it's not a nuke at all.
There's no way.
They tried.
According to my guy, they wanted to retrofit it, but it just wasn't worth it.
They're building a new one.
Well, they better build a new one.
This thing looks like a turd.
Wasn't France supposed to?
Maybe they're bringing it out there so we can sink it and then they can make a big fuss.
You thank my battleship.
Oh, wouldn't that be perfect?
Oh, what a great false flag concept.
You got this crappy old thing.
It's floating around through the English Channel.
Tugboating it into the Mediterranean.
Tugboating it away.
And then, hey, let's just blow this up and blame it on, I don't know, America.
Something like that.
Nice.
I like that.
First, you got to make sure all those SU-33s or SU-50s or whatever they are, those jets, it gets some nice jets on that thing.
Yeah.
Get those off the boat.
Yeah, of course.
And then let it get blowed up and then make a big stink.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Got to love it.
Got to love it.
Sink that dog.
Yeah.
And then leave that way.
They have it just sitting.
It has to be salvaged out of the Mediterranean.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe the Russians need scrap metal.
Right now, the scrap metal game is...
Scrap metal is cheap, so it's not a good time to scrap a boat out.
Anyway.
Do you have any more...
I got a couple more Russia things.
I did just want to discuss...
Well, let's see.
I do have a couple more.
I want to get these kind of things out of the way.
Yes, please.
Get them out of the way.
Let's go through the ABC Electoral College rundown so we can know where we stand.
We've got one more show to do before the election, but this is the way they're seeing it currently.
But amid all the excitement today, this ominous image, an African American church in Mississippi, torched and scrawled on the wall outside, vote Trump.
And Tom Yamas is with us tonight from Florida, disturbing images of that church.
And Tom, we know the Trump campaign has condemned violence before, but they're also reacting tonight to an endorsement from the Ku Klux Klan newspaper?
They are, David.
They put out a statement saying that Mr.
Trump and the campaign denounce hate in any form.
They're calling that newspaper repulsive, saying the publication does not represent the views of the tens of millions of supporters that are supporting the Trump campaign right now.
David, Tom Yamas in Florida tonight.
Tom, thanks so much.
So let's get right to the map here tonight because it's all about the battlegrounds and, of course, that path to 270 electoral votes.
Let's bring in Jonathan Karl.
The poll's tightening Donald Trump's path.
Hold on a second.
Did they just go from Trump is in bed with the Ku Klux Klan to here's how he's going to lose?
Is that pretty much what they're doing here?
They actually, the funny thing is, if you really look at these ABC, deconstruct these ABC reports, they always tend to me, I always see they're kind of twisted in a kind of a pro-Trump way, although they did leave out when they talked about the church that got burnt down.
There's no evidence that anyone from Trump's campaign burned down the church.
No, but that's hit jobs, man.
That's hit, hit, hit.
It sounds like it, but you must have let this play out.
This is kind of an analysis I think is pretty good.
And then you can back that up with the ABC back end of pro-Trump report on ABC. So they're walking a tightrope.
I'll get right to the map here tonight because it's all about the battlegrounds and, of course, that path to 270 electoral votes.
Let's bring in Jonathan Karl.
The polls tightening.
Donald Trump's pathways seem to be opening just a bit here.
and does Hillary Clinton still have a firewall? - The map still favors Hillary Clinton, but Donald Trump has momentum.
You look at our ratings, every state that we've looked at, the red favor Trump, blue favor Hillary Clinton, and two states since we last spoke have moved towards Trump.
Utah and Ohio have both gone from toss-up states to advantage Donald Trump, getting them closer to 270. - Nothing like a church firewall to throw in there.
That's always a good one.
But David, he still needs to win all the remaining toss-up states.
Arizona, Florida, North Carolina.
If he wins all three of those, he goes to 259 electoral votes still short.
Still short, so he has to pick off a couple of these blue states.
And he's got good news on that front in two states.
In the state of Pennsylvania, a new poll out today shows Trump within four.
In Wisconsin, a poll shows him within six.
And Joe Biden is going to Wisconsin on Friday, a sign that they're nervous.
But look what happens.
If he wins Pennsylvania, he wins the presidency.
If it's Wisconsin...
269, 269, we've got a tie.
There's no co-presidency.
Congress chooses.
A nightmare scenario, which is why the Clinton team is doubling down on Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
John, our thanks to you.
Yeah, this is very good.
Because Congress then has to choose from the top three, which I guess would then include Gary Johnson.
Yes.
And if they can't figure it out, then I believe Joe Biden becomes president.
And I think he knows it.
I just got an email from Joe.
Oh, I just came in.
Oh, yes.
I got an email from Joe the other day.
Yeah?
Yeah, it seems like it came from the same server that sent me Hillary emails constantly.
Hey, real quick, Adam.
This is the last time I'll write to you on behalf of my friend Hillary before Election Day.
Promise?
The race is tight.
She needs every last one of us standing with her.
You know, I keep seeing that the Clinton, first of all, these emails are out of control.
From both Trump and Clinton, I'm getting five to seven emails daily.
Way too much.
I mean, I don't know if that works for them.
It might.
I don't know too much about it.
I do like their geo-localization.
This team will pour everything we've got left in to get out the vote all across America.
This weekend, will you be one of the 16 supporters from Austin who still needs to step up?
Yeah, exactly.
Will you be one of the people from Austin, Texas, who will be stepping up?
Are from Texas.
But here is...
Oh, man, I totally lost my train of thought.
Oh, you know what they're doing.
So they're sending out emails with the poll numbers, and they'll show a poll where it shows Trump 46 and Clinton 45.
And they're saying, we're losing.
We need money.
That's a very odd way to market it.
Do you think that's the way to do it?
I don't know.
This is a good question.
This type of marketing is a specialty.
And I think it's the way to maybe get money.
Maybe it's just a money grab.
I mean, they don't, they can't, the money's already, what they're going to spend is already spent.
Yeah, it's all committed.
But, I don't know, it's a good question.
I'd have to look into some research on whether that works or not.
I know if you went and said, we won.
Right.
You know, don't worry about it.
It's not going to work for anything.
Just for on that, and I want to get to the back end of the electoral college.
You know, that whole thing about there's a Russian server pinging the Trump organization.
That was their, you know, this is like, oh, they have direct communications with some bank and they're always, you know, the bank.
Yeah.
So this is actually the intercept deconstructed that very well.
The so-called secret Trump server is a mass email server that sends out, you know, hotel marketing 50 times a day.
And that's why these servers were communicating through DNS, which is even more hilarious.
Yes, we're seeing DNS pings.
Well, probably for an MX record to see if that's the right mail server.
It was a very simple technological explanation, but the way people ran with this was just crazy.
Oh, they got a server talking to each other!
Really, really crazy.
Crazy.
Okay, now we have the back end of the pro-Trump report.
Okay.
Any setup or we just go in?
No, this is, I just, I think that this was a long report that went on and on.
And this seemed to me to be a pro-Trump report.
And even though Tommy Yamas was the guy doing it, there wasn't, I didn't see it as anything other than pro-Trump.
Back in the headlines, Trump's new appeal to Democrats?
It's not too late to change your mind.
Wisconsin is one of several states where you can change your early ballot if you think you've made a mistake.
A lot of stuff has come out since your vote.
He's right.
People who've already voted in Wisconsin are allowed to switch their votes.
Same goes for Michigan and Pennsylvania.
It just doesn't happen that often.
On The View, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway touting our ABC News Washington Post poll showing Trump and Clinton neck and neck.
And we're loving the ABC News poll.
It's our favorite poll.
Because it shows 60% of Americans.
Because we work for ABC. Never me.
Didn't you?
Never me.
Will it be crooked again if it goes, you know, if he slips in the polls?
Are we back to crooked?
No, what I think you need to do is get ready for a chyron that says President-elect Donald J. Trump.
The campaign acknowledges Trump still has to close the gender gap.
He's still struggling with women.
So now the campaign has started to hand out these pink women for Trump signs to see him.
Just as much as any other sign now.
Supporters we spoke with, convinced he's going to win.
The media says he's losing everywhere, but this is really encouraging seeing all the people here.
So you're motivated.
I am.
We're going to wake up November 9th and the most of the country will be red.
You know, I thought that the call to go change your vote was brilliant.
I had no idea you could do that.
Yes, in fact, that information was banned from...
Somebody sent some email around, or there was some links I didn't follow up, but it was like, I think on CNN or MSNBC, they got all bent out of shape when somebody brought it up on the show.
Oh!
Well, I have Rachel Maddow crying, almost.
Rachel Maddow, there's a picture of her in the newsletter.
She was in...
She didn't actually blow any tears out, but she was on the borderline of crying like a baby over this latest thing with the FBI. Yeah, it was terrible.
She's just no good.
Well, here she is, and she was again almost crying.
Watching the video does add to the experience in the show notes, 874.noagendanotes.com.
Here she is talking about the go and change your vote.
Campaigns at every level at this point are trying really hard to get people to vote who otherwise might not vote.
But the Trump campaign instead is trying to get people who have already voted to individually try to convince local elections officials that they should be allowed to take back their already cast early vote so they can then vote a second time because maybe they will vote differently the second time than they did the first time if they can get their first vote that they already cast rescinded.
That's the plan.
Knock yourself out.
She does not think that's a good idea.
This is another one.
I just want to stick with this one second because there was something in that clip about the KKK in your first clip.
...about the KKK newspaper kind of endorsing Trump.
I got a clip from MSNBC, Lawrence Larry O'Donnell.
That guy's the worst.
Oh, yeah.
Lawrence O'Donnell.
He does not stop.
It's like, even though the evidence is presented, they disavowed this, he still needs to get a dig in.
...reported that the Ku Klux Klan was endorsing Donald Trump.
Today, your newspaper, The Washington Post...
I interviewed Thomas Robb, who's the head of the Klan, and he tried to split hairs here, saying it's not officially endorsing Trump, but we really do like his candidacy.
We like a lot of his views.
The Trump campaign now tonight, just moments ago, in fact, after we had publicly said we were going to talk about this, The Trump campaign released a statement saying, Mr.
Trump and the campaign denounce in any form this publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign.
And I'm sure that's true, that they don't represent the view of tens of millions of Donald Trump's voters, but they may very well represent the view of millions of Donald Trump's voters.
Can you believe this?
So, you know, the thing they are, they go, oh, you didn't disavow David Duke.
So they come out, they disavow, and yeah, but...
He may say that, but there's millions of Klansmen!
Right, right.
I mean, look, I think we know by now where white supremacists are going in this election now.
Yeah, there's one place to go.
Exactly, they got one place to go, and they're going for Donald Trump.
So I'm glad they put out that statement.
I haven't read the whole statement.
They certainly should have said, you know, don't vote for me.
Because that's not what you're going to, you're not going to get what you want if you vote for me.
If the statement went on and said that, then I would probably think a bit more of it than if it just said, you know, they don't represent the views of most of my supporters, but I still want their votes.
That's a bit different to me.
But they did let the story sit there for a day.
It took them a full 24 hours to get out their condemnation.
Oh, man.
Can you believe this?
It took 30 hours to find out about it.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
They took so much time.
They took so much time.
Yeah.
Because they want, you know, racists.
They're all racists.
They love racists.
KKK. Woo!
Racists.
Meanwhile, ABC, this is the polls clip.
ABC is taking a look at what's going on.
I didn't do this on the other networks.
I'm sure they're all the same.
It's like, what do we do to get the last bit of money out of Trump and Hillary?
Oh, I have a thought.
And this race is tightening tonight.
Let's get right to the battlegrounds.
New numbers from the key state of Florida at this hour.
Hillary Clinton at 46, Donald Trump at 45, a near-dead heat.
North Carolina, another crucial state, very tight, Clinton 47, Trump 44.
In Pennsylvania, considered Clinton's firewall, the race tightening.
And in Ohio, Trump in the lead, 46 to Clinton's 41.
And nationally tonight, take a look, the new ABC News tracking poll shows this race is a dead heat, 46 apiece.
Tonight here, the closing arguments you will hear from Trump's family in a moment.
Ooh, spend money campaign!
Spend money!
Yeah, you guys are gonna lose if you don't give us money!
I saw three anti-Hillary ads during the game last night.
Oh, you watched the game?
Yeah, well, while I was prepping, sure.
I know you don't like baseball.
That was a good game.
I like baseball.
Baseball can be a little tedious, but I like baseball because you can walk up, go around, and all you have to do is...
We hear the bat, you know, oh, okay, I better pay attention to what's going on.
Especially the ball's headed your way.
Yeah, no, I like the game a lot.
You know me, I'll watch a big game, especially if I'm calling it.
As we get into our...
Never hear the end of that one.
And as we get into the end of, or get to the segment, our donation segment, because, you know, we don't take advertising and we don't have to deal with, mainly, I think, We don't take advertising, so we don't have to have meetings.
I think that was maybe the initial reason why I don't want to advertise.
We have to do meetings with ad guys.
Tell us what to say.
Can you imagine if we had the pharmaceutical industry advertising?
Yes, we'd both have new cars.
Well, one of our favorites came on.
I just had to play this because they have changed the Shantix commercial.
And Shantix, we discussed in 2011, I think.
Yes, it was one of our first...
Drugs that we discussed extensively.
Yes.
And Chantix is a smoking cessation drug.
It helps you stop smoking.
And what we learned is people who get on this, a lot of them, most of them go crazy, hallucinations.
And we've had people killing people, shooting through their neighbor's doors.
They wake up two days later not knowing how they got to the side of the road, huddled in a ditch.
Insane, insane medication.
And it was never really disclaimed this way, but they're back now.
They did a big ad buy and we're seeing the stop smoking thing.
I guess this happens.
They start ramping this up around Christmas and New Year's because I know a lot of people want to stop smoking.
Yes, and the holidays make people want to smoke.
Yes, I think this is the flight that they booked.
Yeah, no kidding.
The holidays make people want to smoke.
Hanging out with family.
So here is the new Shantix ad with disclaimers, which I thought were fun.
I'm Claudine, and I quit smoking with Chantix.
By the time I was 30, I said, that's it, I'm a smoker for life.
I wanted to be a non-smoker, and I did it, thanks to Chantix.
Along with support, Chantix Veroneclen is proven to help people quit smoking.
Chantix reduced my urge to smoke.
Some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping Chantix.
Some reported seizures or sleepwalking with Chantix.
Sleepwalking, John.
Sleepwalking.
They've added it in.
Sleepwalking.
Yeah, I love it.
It's fantastic.
Suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping Chantix.
Some reported seizures or sleepwalking with Chantix.
If you have any of these, stop Chantix and call your doctor right away.
Tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems which could get worse or have seizures.
Don't take Chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it.
If you have these, stop Chantix and call your doctor right away, as some can be life-threatening.
Tell your doctor if you have harder blood vessel problems or develop more or worse symptoms.
Get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke.
Decrease alcohol use while taking...
Hey, I have symptoms of a heart attack or a stroke.
What should I do?
Should I call right away or wait for a little bit?
Maybe just hang out and see if it passes.
Get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke.
Decrease alcohol use while taking Chantix.
Use caution driving or operating machinery.
Most common side effect is nausea.
This is for real.
I'm a non-smoker.
Ask your doctor if Chantix is right for you.
But hey, I stopped smoking.
I'm sleepwalking.
I'm angry.
I'm hostile.
I'm depressed.
I remember the original ad said that it works like 10% better than a placebo.
Ooh.
Remember?
Yeah.
The placebo thing, they dropped that.
They still have these messages, but now they're written on the screen.
Right.
I don't think I have that one anymore.
That's too bad.
That was a good one.
Yeah, you weren't saving them back then.
And, you know, Jimmy Kimmel, I didn't play a clip of it.
Did you notice that Jimmy Kimmel, after the A block, before he goes into B with the guest, they're doing native ads.
Well, they're not technically native ads.
Yeah, okay, you're right.
I'm sorry, you're right.
But also Saturday Night Live is doing it.
Those are closer to host endorsement.
Well, they're bits.
They're comedy bits, and you don't realize usually until you're about halfway into it.
Oh, wait a minute.
This is a commercial I'm watching.
Yeah, I know.
No, they've all been, but that's the old tradition of those late night shows.
They just stop.
I mean, it used to be, Ed McMahon used to come out with the Pardo dog food or whatever it was.
Oh my goodness, yeah, I forgot about those.
What happened?
Why did that stop and why did it come back?
Well, it came back probably because it's effective.
Or somebody, you know, some old-timer came, I don't know, we don't do it this way.
Or some young kid said, I got a great new idea.
And it's the same thing.
I did catch a native ad on ABC. And it was a long one.
It's one of the longest.
This must have cost somebody a fortune.
I want you to guess who the advertiser is they're promoting.
Okay, is it in the clip?
Do I have to stop it anywhere?
It's in the clip, but I want you to just play.
Next tonight here, it may only be November 1st, but Amazon this evening is already offering Black Friday discounts long before Thanksgiving.
Deals kicking off at midnight and new ones, they say, every five minutes, right up until Christmas.
So should you jump on it or should you wait?
ABC's chief business correspondent, Rebecca Jarvis, tracking your money tonight.
The real Black Friday may be weeks away, but as far as Amazon's concerned, it starts now.
The retail giant introducing new deals as often as every five minutes, hoping to grab the attention of the roughly 41% of shoppers who start their holiday hunt in early November.
I already started.
You already started?
I'm actually a last minute shopper.
The earlier they start, the better prospects they have of trying to get that shopper.
Amazon unveiling deals like this curved 55-inch TV. Originally about $1,500, now on sale for $1,000.
And 70% off winter coats and jackets.
Online retailer Newegg and Dell also kicking things off early with their own deals on laptops and electronics.
A lot more of those exclusives are going to be coming out on Black Friday, and a lot more merchandise.
And David, if you're planning on buying any of those big-ticket items like electronics, it pays to wait.
The best selection at the best prices happen at Thanksgiving and beyond.
David?
Here we go already, Rebecca Jarvis.
Thanks so much.
When we come back...
That was a trick question.
It's like a minute and a half.
It was a trick question.
Why don't they have Crazy Eddie doing this spot?
Because Amazon's prices are insane!
You know who that is?
What's his face over there who's at Amazon?
Crazy Eddie?
No, no.
No, Crazy Eddie's dead.
No, the former White House spokeshole.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
I forgot which one, but yeah.
What's his name?
Not Kerry.
I can't remember.
Anyway, this I thought was an outrageous name.
This is not news.
This is not newsworthy.
Yeah.
Carney.
Carney, right.
Carney.
Carney.
That's the guy.
He knows how to do this.
He knows how to talk to people and get these deals cut.
And he is the PR guy at Amazon.
Yeah.
Well done, sir.
Very well played.
It's well done.
He used to be one of the editors at Time Magazine.
He was actually an actual journalist.
Oh, please.
Just goes to show.
I'm going to show myself a little by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fun.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
Okay, we have a very few people to thank for show 874, I believe.
Yep.
Starting with, and there's a few notes here that could be read.
Eric Blazinski in Chesterfield, Virginia.
Can you mention that I host a date or ditchum show, which is really awesome, and you should listen to To it.
That's what he says.
Date him or ditch him.
Okay.
I don't know what the name is.
Date him or ditch him.
Scott Porter, $100.
Lon Baker, $100.
Patrick Hamilton, $100.
And John Robinet, $100.
We do have two of the 99.99 guys, including Munish Vashist in Everett, Washington.
I have no idea.
Then we have William Machinsky in Evanston, his Machinsky home builders in Evanston, Wyoming.
And he came up with $99.99, and we can throw a penny in if we wanted to, but there's no reason.
No, I'm going to give him boobs.
Boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs.
Oh, wait.
We're not in place.
I'm sorry.
Rancho Palos Verdes, who came in with $9,601, and I should mention that he says he gave us what's left in his PayPal account.
We forgot we could always get...
Good idea.
Good idea.
Yeah, people, they have these languishing PayPal accounts, and I guarantee that if you don't do something on that account, the state will end up with the money.
Oh, yeah, we don't want that.
Boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs.
I love the jingle.
I'm sorry. Boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs, boobs.
All right, yeah, we get the idea.
Yeah, you do like the jingle. Boobs.
So boobs, $80.08 from one of the pictures that was hidden on the newsletter.
Herb Lamb came in.
John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
We got a lot of...
I can't imagine.
Every time we have a Murfreesboro.
It's unbelievable.
But we should do a meet-up.
In Murfreesboro.
Brian Rosa in Milton, New York.
And Lauren Barrett.
Part's unknown.
She has a note.
Yeah, she has a note.
Let's see what it says.
It says, please call Mike Delaney a douchebag.
Douchebag!
This was his request to me.
Michael, if you ever donate money to NoGenic, can you call me out as a douchebag?
Michael, because I haven't donated and I've been listening for like two years.
My name is Loren.
I don't know if you need to know my name to call him a douchebag.
Well, it's better.
It's always better.
Yeah.
All right.
Josh, the way I read the note makes it sound like, you know, it doesn't sound good.
No.
Josh Cox in Austin, Texas, 78-38.
Adam Wirtman, Parts Unknown.
Oh, the donation note was emailed.
Okay, we'll read it later to ourselves.
Christopher Walker in De Pere, Wisconsin, $55.
Double nickels on the dime from Stephen Chipman, Parts Unknown.
Sir Kevin Payne in Chantilly, Virginia, 5432.
It comes in every month.
Eric Hochul in Berlin, Deutschland, 52.
And the rest of these are $50 donors.
Name and place.
Justin Barber in Los Angeles, California.
Josh Daly in Portland, Oregon.
Shane Rosdilsky in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
And last but not least, Sir Allen Bean over here in Oakland.
And that's it.
That's all we got.
We didn't have a very...
Not a very big day.
Not a very low.
All right.
Well, for those who did check in, thank you very much.
We appreciate your support of the program.
Also, especially people under $50, usually for reasons of anonymity.
But it's appreciated.
And of course, those of you on subscriptions, that really does help.
So if you donated and you just want to help us out continuously, that would be fantastic.
It is your job, after all, as a producer.
I got a karma for everybody, Jobs Karma, who do need it.
And...
Remember, another show on Sunday.
Dvorak.org slash N-A. Dingo.
Boom, boom, chack-a-lack-a-lack.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, chack-a-lack.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, chack-a-lack.
We just need cash.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Well, pretty short today, only two on the list.
Josh Cox celebrates two days.
Happy birthday to him.
And just for homework, says happy birthday to Peter Weissman, 45 years old today and also celebrating today.
Happy birthday from everybody.
His best podcast in the universe.
It's your birthday, yeah.
Not easy for me today.
No nightings, no changes, no nothing.
Darn.
No nothing.
Yeah, it's a shortfall.
It is a shortfall.
I blame it on the election.
And the Country Music Awards.
Hey, how were the ratings for the Country Music Awards?
How were the Country Music Awards ratings?
Because they were on at the same time as the Cubs game.
Yeah, I think it was a mistake.
World Series score with Cubs win CMA Awards hits low.
Let me see how low it was.
Oh my god.
Poor fuckers.
Let's see.
They have a...
So the game was watched by 40 million people.
Wow.
That's good.
Yeah, considering the two teams from the Midwest, nobody really cares about that much except the Chicago fans.
Well, Cleveland too.
But it's fun to watch.
It was expected to be a good game.
Doesn't even say.
The CMAs fell 24% over last year.
2.98 rating.
That stinks.
That is horrible.
12.6 million viewers overall.
That's bad.
That's very bad.
Especially for country.
It does so well.
Oh!
I think I may have found the source of my cough.
Oh?
Yeah.
There was something that cropped up that I had no idea about.
There was a news report.
And I may be suffering from NTM, which is non-tuberculosis mycobacteria.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Now, I don't fit the profile exactly of people who get this, but it sounds like the symptoms could be what I had.
And it's cropping up in the tri-state area in Pennsylvania.
Well, a medical mystery is being investigated in Montgomery County.
It's a lung infection that has been linked to water.
Health reporter Stephanie Stahl says the illness is rare, but the number of patients is growing.
The unlikely victims are white, thin, postmenopausal women.
Well, I'm not a woman, but postmenopausal for sure.
Who live in affluent neighborhoods around the main line.
It's frightening, I think.
It's a lung infection similar to tuberculosis that's caused by a bacteria found all over, in soil, the air, and mainly in water.
This is in all of our water.
We're all exposed to it every day when we take a shower.
This is being researched for...
Are you going, meh?
I'm going, nah, this is not what you had.
Okay.
Well, then I don't have to play the rest.
No, no, play the rest.
I want to hear more about it, because I have a strange disease clip to follow.
Oh.
We're all exposed to it every day when we take a shower.
This is being researched very extensively right now.
Me?
Mainline health pulmonologist Leah Landy does not want to cause unnecessary hysteria, emphasizing that the lung infection called non-tuberculous mycobacteria, or NTM, is very rare.
She treats about 100 patients a year.
Symptoms include a cough and fatigue.
All of this white area, that's all infection and inflammation.
A study from the American Thoracic Society and NIH in 2012 identified seven significant clusters of NTM around the country, one being the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area with significant clusters found in Montgomery County.
At the end of the day, you're thinking, have you hurt yourself by drinking water?
Karen McCarthy, who lives in nearby Westchester, was diagnosed with NTM in May.
Now you have to live on antibiotics.
Until next September or October.
Wow.
She's installed a special water filter, careful to avoid re-exposure.
The 54-year-old struggles with fatigue and respiratory issues, but makes sure to stay in shape, which ironically made her more susceptible.
Were you shocked when you found out that being healthy and fit put you at risk for this?
Oh, absolutely.
The NIH report also noted that most NTM patients had higher education and income levels, with the infection being difficult to identify.
The diagnosis is tricky.
It often is delayed.
I'll see patients as well as others that have been undiagnosed for several years.
Dr.
Landy says the bacteria can be especially dangerous when it's aerosolized in the shower or from a humidifier, even with dirt that blows in the air.
Now, here's why I think that could be what I contracted in New York.
You recall we were staying in an Airbnb, an old post-war building, and the owner of this apartment that we were renting had one of those, like a really cool showerhead that really dispersed and gave you a lot of, you know...
Mist.
Mist, yes, mist.
And, you know, the old building, it could have been anywhere.
And, you know, I'm in the shower and I breathed it in.
Maybe.
One of the functions they said was fatigue.
Are you fatigued?
Oh man, are you kidding?
I've been fatigued since this election started.
Yeah, well that's different.
Well, we have a...
That's interesting.
That was interesting.
I'll give you a borderline clip of the day for that as a matter of fact.
That was unexpected.
Thank you.
I'm keeping my eye on it.
I mean, it's almost gone because I took those...
Our producer recommended clothes.
But I told Horowitz to get a hold of you so he could, because he's got that same thing.
He has it too, huh?
Yeah, he got it from the Zika spray, which was your original thesis.
And Zika now apparently can make men infertile.
Yes, I retweeted that little tidbit.
That's beautiful.
Yeah, instead of getting a vasectomy, just go to Puerto Rico.
Yeah, just go walk in.
Get stung by some mosquitoes.
Baby, I did it.
I got stung.
Lay down.
Well, you got stung by me.
I'm leaving.
Try this.
This is a weird disease sweeping the country.
A weird disease.
And it's not my disease.
No.
Next tonight, we're back on the case of that mystery illness now in 33 states and counting.
At least nine cases in Washington state alone.
The polio-like condition causing paralysis.
Oh, yeah.
I heard about this.
Late for the death of a six-year-old boy.
Here's ABC's Neil Karlinsky.
In Seattle tonight, a terrifying medical mystery.
When six-year-old Daniel Ramirez first got sick, it seemed so ordinary.
He had a fever, wasn't wanting to eat.
But it quickly escalated.
They took him to Seattle Children's Hospital.
Basically, within a couple of hours, he was basically paralyzed.
Just before Halloween, Daniel died.
Doctors suspect he had AFM, acute flaccid myelitis, a rare illness that can cause polio-like symptoms, including paralysis.
Even more troubling, Seattle Children's is now seeing a cluster of cases, nine suspected so far.
Doctors now investigating why the sudden uptick in cases.
Whenever you see a cluster of illness like this, you've got to jump on it, investigate it, figure out if they're related, and if so, what you need to do to stop them.
So far this year, 89 confirmed cases in 33 states.
The cases here range in age from 3 to 14.
So far, 5 of those kids have recovered enough to go home, but doctors here tonight remain very concerned, David.
All right, Neil Karlinsky in Seattle.
Neil, our thanks to you.
Huh.
Yeah, that's odd.
I like, what was that?
Acute flaccid, what was that?
Acute flaccid bonerism, something?
I like this, whatever.
I think that was it.
I got acute flaccid.
Someone else tweeted me, said, maybe you have Legionnaire's disease.
Oh, that could be.
That would make more sense, actually, to me.
Would I be a lot sicker if I had that?
No, not necessarily.
Well, I did have muscle pain.
I didn't have a headache.
I didn't have chills.
I didn't have a fever.
Oh, you didn't have the headache and shit chills?
No, I'm missing a lot of it.
No, I don't think that's what it was.
That's still good.
No.
Wow.
Okay, I've got one.
Now, this story kind of annoyed me, and I'm guessing I have a theory as to why it was really annoying, but you hear about the engine, you know, that American Airlines plane that had the engine failure, the whole place on fire?
Yes.
Play this clip.
This is the newest report.
This is the engine failure.
Apparently, one piece of this engine...
It flew like 3,000 feet into the air and over and landed on the UPS thing and busted through the roof.
Smoke.
An uncontained failure of the Boeing 767 engine.
That's the clue right there.
I'll get back to it.
That is the clue.
Uncontained engine failure.
An engine, meaning heavy pieces of metal, blew out of it, most likely ripping through the fuel tank in the wing.
One piece flew 3,000 feet, going through the roof of a UPS warehouse.
It was a part like this that failed, part of the turbine.
It spins around 10,000 times a minute inside the engine.
A similar part has failed on three other 767s in the past 16 years.
Breaking into pieces causing extensive damage and an order for airlines to change the way they inspect these parts.
But is that enough?
Sometimes this will happen because of fatigue where an older engine will develop cracks that aren't detected in normal maintenance.
Sometimes it can be a manufacturing defect.
This type of part is never supposed to fail.
American Airlines has now had two incidents.
The airline says it's cooperating with investigators and can say nothing more.
David?
David Curley with us again tonight.
Uncontained engine failure is pretty much what they explain there.
In the aviation business, that means the engine literally spun out of itself.
So the turbine is, whatever happened, the turbine just flies apart.
So the piece that went through the UPS jet window has got to be one of the fan blades from the turbine.
They should ground every single aircraft with that engine type.
Well, here's the big question.
I think this report was crap.
Why did they not?
They talk about the airliner.
They talk about the aircraft.
They never talk about the engine maker.
And was that a Boeing?
We don't know.
It was a Boeing plane.
Yeah, it was a 767.
I like how the report said, and the wing melted.
Yeah, they're made out of plastic.
Well, the 767 is not a plastic wing.
Isn't the 767 carbon fiber?
They're using the 777 or the 787.
No, you're not using the 787.
That's the plastic wing.
But they said the thing blew up and it busted into the fuel tanks in the end.
That's why the thing melted.
But why does this report not mention the manufacturer of the engine, which can be one of three?
It could be Pratt& Whitney.
It could be General Electric.
It can be Rolls-Royce.
They've used different engines on 767s.
I think at least two of those brands.
Why was the engine maker never mentioned?
Because they are big sponsors of the network.
No.
Okay.
It's because of the unspoken agreement between these networks not to speak ill of each other because they get into a feud when they do.
And this was a general electric engine.
We can't talk bad about NBC now, can we?
Wow.
Okay, you got me on that one.
I just thought it was, the report was so, I'm listening to this, who made the engine?
Who cares if it was American Airlines?
It's just who made the engine?
It's the engine that blew up, not the plane.
Right.
No, that needs to...
I mean, that was a catastrophic failure.
It needs to be investigated, and I think those engines should be at least temporarily grounded, or something has to happen.
That would take down the whole fleet.
Yeah, well...
So you know that's not going to happen.
So it was a General Electric engine, okay.
That's good to know.
Amongst all of the media furor which is going on about KGB and Trump, The Justice Department released the actual audio of the Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen.
Yes, I have that too.
Okay, I have it.
Let me see.
Play yours is fine.
And by the way, is this the negotiator?
I thought this guy's negotiating skills were poor at best.
Maybe this is how you're supposed to do it, but I don't like it.
I don't know how you're supposed to do it.
Hi there, this is Orlando Police.
Who am I speaking with, please?
You're speaking with the person who posted allegiance to the historic state.
Okay, can you tell me where you are right now so I can get you some help?
No, because you have to tell America to stop farming Syria and Iraq.
They're killing a lot of innocent people.
So what am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there?
You get what I'm saying?
Can you tell me what you know about what's going on tonight?
What's going on is that I feel the pain of the people getting killed in Syria and Iraq and all over the Muslim Umar.
I love how it says Iraq.
Iraq.
It's a very typical way of saying, we don't say Iraq.
Iraq.
Iraq.
Okay.
So, so, have you done something about that?
Is that how they're taught?
So, have you done anything?
Meanwhile, you know, guys got everyone at gunpoint.
Yes, I have.
Tell me what you did, please.
Please.
By the way, there's some vehicles outside that have been bombed, just to let you know.
Your people are gonna get it, and I'm gonna ignite it if they try to punish you.
My homeboy, Cameron Sarnayev, did his thing on the Boston Marathon.
My homeboy, Munir Abusamqa, did his thing, okay?
So now, it's my turn, okay?
My name's Andy, what's yours?
My name is Islamic Soldier, okay?
Are there other shooters?
I'm here, I'm listening.
Hello, Omar, this is Andy from Orlando Police.
Tell me what's going on right now, Omar.
The airstrike that killed Abu Wahid a few weeks ago, that's what triggered it, okay?
Okay.
Okay?
They shouldn't have bombed and killed Abu Wahid, okay?
I understand.
Do your homework and figure out who Abu Wahid is, okay?
I understand that.
that what i want to find out is are you injured let it be known in the next few days you're going to see more of this type of action going on okay where is that going to happen yeah i'll tell you on a good business.
Absolutely.
Now, this is pretty much what the transcript said, although no one really connected the timing of the attack to Abu Wahid, who he's talking about.
He's saying, hey, do your homework, do your research about Abu Wahid.
That's why I'm doing this.
And so the Pulse shooting happened on, what was that?
The 12th, I think?
12th of June?
Yeah, June 12th.
And Abu Wahid was killed in an Iraqi airstrike May 10th.
So the conclusion you can draw is, you know, when we kill someone from ISIS and we make a big deal about it, which we like to do because, you know, these guys keep coming back to life like Abu Baghdadi, you know, we killed him.
Oh, he's alive again.
We got him.
Oh, he's alive again.
That when you do that and you say it, that apparently will get people all riled up to go and do crazy things.
That connection I don't think anyone made.
I guess not.
But it's something...
I heard this.
The question on my mind, the guy goes into the bathroom, he locks himself in there with a bunch of people.
Why didn't everybody else just walk out of the place at that point?
Yeah, this I don't know.
Were they still dancing?
Maybe nobody paid attention.
I have no idea.
And the next thing you know, the cops are killing everyone.
That's the way we see it.
That's the way we see it, yeah.
And then we distracted everybody with the alligator kid.
What happened to them?
Yeah, well...
Probably burped up the kid after that.
Alright.
I got one more.
What else you got?
I got one.
Alright.
I got a couple more.
Okay.
Well, we're good.
We're good on time.
Did I play the Mass Extinction clip last show?
No, we played it on this show.
We played it earlier.
B12, hello.
Mass extinction?
No, you played it on the last show.
Okay, well then you need the B12. Okay, here's one.
Here's part of the crappy roads in California, but there's only half of the report.
But this is the thing I've been grousing about since the show began.
...down Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard in West Oakland feels like lots of jolts and bumps, but we found out roads are even worse in Concord.
Tonight, we found Cruz setting up a massive repaving project at this intersection in Concord, which came in number one on the list for most dilapidated roads in cities with populations under half a million.
Here, three out of four streets are damaged.
They have a tendency to be really rough, especially around Contra Costa Boulevard.
Today, Transportation California tweeted about the report.
California roads score badly again in terms of pavement condition and cost to motorists from driving on a broken system.
Drivers say this isn't rocket science.
It fits all the streets.
Kristen Ayers, KPIX 5.
The study was conducted by TRIP, a national transportation research group that is a non-profit.
Yeah, that's our roads here.
Our taxpayer money.
Gasoline tax is supposed to keep these roads intact, but they don't.
Potholes!
Potholes!
He hates the potholes.
We've laughed about this in the past.
BBC is at it again.
Independent follows in the UK saying that it looks like snow will be a thing of the past with global warming.
They keep trying to do this.
Every time they do it, it snows.
Kids will only know what snow is in snow globes.
No, no, no.
Let's go to Switzerland.
Yeah, so now they're doing that again.
And I happen to have a clip from our very own Environmental Protection Agency chief, Gina McCarthy.
Ah, yeah.
Gina McCarthy.
And she really is, she has no more patience for us, John, for those who question the science of climate change.
I don't think we question the climate changes, but the science of it that's all in, and I guess you would call us deniers.
And then I fired the clip and then it didn't work.
This is just not my day.
No, apparently not.
And this is my best clip.
No!
Yes, it's a great...
But you have to fix it so we can get...
But people don't...
I got it.
It's fixed.
I got it.
Ready?
Here we go.
But people don't react well when they're afraid.
They tend to think they can't do anything.
And climate will have to not just be what government does, but it has to be what people do.
Now listen carefully.
She's telling us what to do, John, how we have to do it.
What people do.
Individual choices will matter.
Consumers can make demands.
They have always done that and changed markets as a result of it.
So people have to start living a life that's commensurate with reductions in greenhouse gases to the extent they can.
Oh, what does that mean?
No more driving, no more flying, no more fuel.
Stay home.
Yeah, apparently, just no more breathing, no more farting.
To the extent they can.
But also, as you said, demand government to be responsive to this.
But I would waste no time with climate denies.
If they haven't figured out by now, what in God's name can anyone say to them that would make them figure it out?
Mm-hmm.
The science is overwhelming.
I don't check out Flat Earth Society, and I'm not talking to climate deniers.
That's it.
Well, I got a dumber clip than that.
Oh, okay.
And this will be it for me.
All right.
Now this is, you remember, I think it was the woman of the year was the transsexual...
Oh, that was Caitlyn, Caitlyn Jenner.
Caitlyn Jenner, yeah.
Okay, well, it'd be hard to top that, don't you think?
Yeah, no.
Well, I don't, I'm not a top in general, but no.
I think it'd be hard to top.
Because she's not a woman.
Although, you know, the latest thing is with all the gender stuff is that if you say you're a woman, no matter what, you're a woman.
So we can live with that.
I wonder how this one works.
This is Woman of the Year.
There is a first on Glamour's list of Women of the Year.
It's a man.
Bono, lead singer of U2, was honored for his work helping women in poverty.
The list also includes Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Whee!
No, I don't think he's Woman of the Year.
He's invited to the ceremony.
No, he's nominated for Woman of the Year.
Unfortunately, Adam could not be here to accept his Woman of the Year award.
I would not go to that show.
That's weird.
Yeah, Bono.
Why would they do that?
That's very strange.
They would do that because apparently they don't want to...
Hillary is the obvious choice.
Yes, of course.
Hillary is the choice, but they hate Hillary, I guess, and so they're going to just say some guy should be woman of the year.
This is an insult to everybody.
Yeah.
Well, good on them.
We can do anything we want.
And Bono?
Yeah, I wouldn't want him at my birthday party.
Bono.
Bono.
All right.
I do want to mention two things to pay attention to.
A lot of noise coming out of the Gitmo Nation east of the UK's.
The Brexit vote regret is now greater than the leave margin of victory.
That's a poll.
Oh, yeah.
That's a poll.
This is how it starts.
Get ready for it, suckers.
Yeah, yeah.
Do-over.
It's going to be a total do-over.
Yeah.
That I thought was very cool.
And yeah, I think that's it.
We'll be watching, deconstructing one more show before the election.
Because the election is, what is it?
Is that Wednesday?
Tuesday.
Tuesday.
Get out and vote.
We need a birthday call.
We'll do it on Sunday for my wife, whose birthday is on the 4th.
Oh, well, happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Mimi.
And ask her how it is to be 40.
But tell her I said that.
Not sure.
Tell her I said that.
39, I'm sorry.
Her and Jack Benny.
Oh yeah, exactly.
Alright everybody.
That will be your best podcast in the universe for today.
It is a show day, so you never know what can happen.
I expect some fireworks before Tuesday.
Will they bring up the Trump rape case?
Possibly.
Oh yeah, it's coming.
It's coming.
I don't know.
It's coming.
Yeah, we will see who has the best tactics.
And we'll be here to deconstruct that for you as you do twice a week at NoAgendaShow.com.
Again, remember, that show coming up, so Dvorak.org slash NA is where you want to go.
Until Sunday, coming to you from...
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And from northern Silicon Valley, where Plato say, man who prepare venison meal every day, sure to pass the buck.
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Adios, mofos! Adios,
mofos! mofos!
Adios, mofos!
mofos! Adios, mofos!
Isis.
We will follow them to the gates of hell.
Isis.
I feel good!
Come on!
Hillary says, why don't we just tear the totem poles down?
That women love Donald Hillary Clinton.
Oh, wrong word there.
When did I say that?
You love Clinton.
Remember, not Trump.
This is the news network.
Well, oh God.
I should not come in here.
I'm not a big fan.
And I wasn't before he got in trouble.
That women love Donald Hillary Clinton.
Oh, wrong word there.
When did I say that?
Adios, mofo. mofo.
Come on!
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