Donald Trump takes his hush money case to the Supreme Court, arguing Judge Juan Mershone should recuse himself amid claims of political witch hunt by Alvin Bragg. The host critiques ABC News for David Muir's attire during LA fire reports and Joy Reid's potential pay cut following Mark Zuckerberg's fact-checker removal on Meta. While celebrating restored free expression, the segment links California wildfires to flawed DEI initiatives and concludes that media bias distorts truth regarding Trump's election loss and economic policies. [Automatically generated summary]
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Lawfare and Election Interference00:15:02
It's good to be back.
Back home.
Home, sweet home.
I gotta tell you.
I like to travel.
I like being with my family.
I love vacation.
But you know what else?
I love being back on US soil, especially on a day like today.
We got a lot going on.
It looks like Judge Mershone is getting taken all the way to the Supreme Court because you know what?
All that legal, lawfare nonsense, it.
Needs to come to an end at some point.
And the Supreme Court has already warned everybody, but you know, they had to do what they had to do.
And now, in the 11th hour, as Judge Mershon refuses to rescind any kind of sentencing, and the left is just scrambling because they want to be able to say they're sending a convicted, America sending a convicted felon into the Oval Office, they want to be able to say that.
And the Supreme Court needs to be the adult in the room jumping in to interact and basically prevent that political witch hunt, that political warfare from really coming to fruition.
So, this is a big deal, a very good day.
To be back.
We also have some things going on within, within, or within.
It must be the jet lag, right?
The media front that I want to get to with MSNBC, ABC, and of course the horrible story there as we have been watching it all unfold in LA with those horrific fires that, you know what?
I'm just going to say more could have been done, should have been done to prevent them.
I mean, for goodness sakes, you could have listened to Donald Trump back in 2018 when he was out there saying, clear these forests because they are going to be a problem.
We're going to get into all of that.
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Well, well, well.
Judge Marshawn, Judge Marshawn, you just can't help yourself.
You should have excused yourself.
You really should have when it was found out that your daughter was somehow an op within the Democrat Party because she made her living off of the emails that would generate donations.
It would have been the right thing to do to man up and say, you know what, this is a little too close to home.
We need a little more Chinese wall in this family, so I'm going to step down.
But he didn't do that.
Instead, he sentenced or is about to sentence Donald Trump in this so called hush money case, the one with Stormy Daniels, which never should have been brought in the first place.
You know why it shouldn't have been brought?
Because they don't have jurisdiction in New York.
And let's not forget that even the guy that could have brought it, that would have brought it if he could have, Determined he didn't have a case, it would be one Jack Smith.
Jack Smith didn't even take this case for it.
This was Alvin Bragg who originally thought, oh no, I can't do this because I don't have proper jurisdiction.
Well, then he decided to do it anyway because there was so much political pressure.
And then you got this guy who's a political animal, Judge Mershon, saying, okay, you know, we're going to see this one through.
So much so that he wanted this guilty conviction.
He told the jury, it doesn't matter what you think he's guilty of, just tell us whether or not he's guilty.
It was like a multiple choice exam.
Remember this?
Insane, insane.
Jonathan Turley at the time, American University professor of law, talking about this on Fox News.
Let's watch.
What happened in that courtroom became superfluous because of those instructions.
Some of us were hoping for a hung jury because we hoped that the jury might redeem the New York legal system, which is one of the greatest legal systems in the world.
And these last few weeks have left many of us shocked as to what we saw in that courtroom.
But that was not going to happen after the instructions were finalized.
And I wrote a column after I saw the instructions saying it had the feel of a canned hunt, you know, where you can shoot game in a small space.
The space was very small for the defense to maneuver, and even smaller it seemed for the jury to acquit.
So I don't blame the jury at all.
I think that what they heard in that room probably made it seem to many of them that this was a lead pipe cinch of a conviction.
You know, they heard over and over again the prosecutors say that there were election violations committed by.
Donald Trump, that he ordered Cohen to commit the violations he pled guilty to.
That totally smashed the instruction that Mershon had given.
And Mershon just sat there.
There was no response.
So, what do you think the jury's going to rule?
And then, when you tell them, just pick a crime among the three, you don't have to agree.
Just pick one of these crimes.
If you think that secondary crime was behind all of this, you're good to go.
But to this day, most of us don't know what the jury decided because we know that they unanimously voted to convict.
We don't know what they convicted him of.
They could have disagreed 444 on what occurred in this case.
That's one of the first things that I think a court will look at for reversal.
Yeah, without a doubt.
A huge constitutional issue, I would argue, a Sixth Amendment one.
Pretty messed up stuff, right?
I mean, really, really messed up stuff.
So now it's going to have to go to the Supreme Court because you see, the sentencing is supposed to happen tomorrow.
We have like less than 24 hours, and this thing is going to get shot down.
We are now in week three of Alvin Bragg's witch hunt, the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States.
It is.
I should point out, this is Elise Stefanik speaking back when this trial was ongoing.
Brilliant attorney herself.
Watch.
Crystal clear from the opening arguments and evidence that this extraordinarily weak case.
Is blatant lawfare and election interference during the height of the presidential campaign.
While the violent crime crisis rages in New York, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg brought bogus felony charges against President Trump for the non felony of booking a 2017 nuisance claim as a legal expense.
Under this bogus legal theory, this somehow impacted the election.
This theory is so baseless that it was previously passed over by the prior Manhattan DA, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney, the Federal Election Commission, And Alvin Bragg himself.
But a top political appointee in the Biden Justice Department was deployed to Bragg's office to go after Joe Biden's top political opponent and the Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump.
And the case is in front of the Democrat Judge Juan Merchant, who donated to Biden's campaign and whose daughter is raising tens of millions off this unprecedented case.
This is corrupt election interference to its core.
Even a former Clinton federal judge said Judge Merchant must recuse.
What was Merchant's response?
He retaliated against President Trump with an unconstitutional gag order.
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Chairman Jim Jordan, released a scathing report highlighting Bragg's political investigation and prosecution of President Trump, calling it a direct threat to our republic.
Democrats' corrupt and desperate witch hunts against President Trump must come to an end.
This is lawfare and blatant election interference, and the American people know it.
That is why today I filed an official complaint with the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility.
On Joe Biden special counsel Jack Smith for his clear and illegal efforts of election interference.
We will fight the Democrats' unjust lawfare and expose this corruption, whether it is in New York, Atlanta, or here in Washington, D.C.
This is an important responsibility of our oversight.
I wanted to play all of that for you because I just think it's really, really well said and really, really, really important to hear.
That was, again, Elise Stefanik, who now has a big new job as ambassador to NATO, taking over.
Didn't Nikki Haley have that under the Trump administration?
I'm sure Elise will do better, but she's really smart and she's quite capable and she's really outlining there just exactly what's going on and how disturbing, frankly, and perverse this entire thing is.
And yet, here we are at the 11th hour, just moments before this thing is supposed to go to a sentencing where it has to now go to the Supreme Court.
So, the adults are going to step in.
And hopefully, that means good things to come.
Marshawn's going down, okay?
Any which way you slice this, Marshawn is going down.
And the entire legal system, really, with the vitriol and the politicization of everything they did, should be going down with him.
I mean, what kind of system is that, really and truly?
I ask you, when you have the likes of Letitia James doing everything that she did, still trying to charge him nearly $500 million, a half a billion.
Billion dollars, ladies and gentlemen, because she thinks she knows the value of Mar a Lago or Trump Tower more than he does, more than his bank does.
Between that and the Fannie Willis stuff and the Jack Smith stuff, I'm sorry, you saw Jack just got basically, you know, put down again the other day because the judge is like, Yeah, you don't have a right to actually publish your report on the Mar a Lago documents.
You don't have a right to publish it because you actually never had a right to exist.
They never actually got congressional approval for you, buddy, to even have the gig you did.
So, in other words, he was operating a Effectively, illegally, without sanction, and being paid by taxpayers.
That was Jack Smith.
This is so messed up.
It's so messed up.
I'm glad I'm home and here to cover it in real time with all of you because I cannot wait to see what happens to Judge Mershon.
I cannot wait to see what happens to Letitia James.
She needs to be disbarred.
You heard Elise Stefanik talking about how she's already made a claim about Jack Smith.
She's done the same thing with one Letitia James, and I think a few more heads will need to roll.
Wow.
Okay.
So it's all coming today on the day that Jimmy Carter is being put to rest there on Capitol Hill.
Well, he's actually going to be put to rest in Georgia, but the funeral has been taking place.
We're going to go to a little bit of it later on because I don't know what really upset Kamala, but she was really angry when she saw Obama and Donald Trump talking.
So I want to show you that clip.
But speaking of Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, may he rest in peace.
He did preside over a very inflationary time.
And look, inflation is still here.
I was just looking today at the new 30 year mortgage rate, and it's nearly 7%.
I mean, so clearly we still have an inflation problem, and this is a hangover from the terrible policies and the terrible spending of the Biden administration.
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New troubles brewing at ABC News, ladies and gentlemen.
Just like one thing after another.
I mean, Disney has to be so embarrassed.
They're embarrassed, obviously, about Whoopi Goldberg.
They're embarrassed about the $16 million that they then had to fork over to Donald Trump and his library and his lawyers because of one George Stephanopoulos who said some things he shouldn't have said.
Hey, MSNBC got the memo on that one.
Wait till you see what they did after one guest went on and effectively libeled Donald Trump.
Well, Bob Iger is still struggling with a messed up network where, you know, they just can't seem to get out of their own way.
Take a look at one, David Muir.
This is the guy who moderated that debate, you know, the one that was like the three on one because it was David and somebody else and Kamala Harris all ganging up on Donald Trump.
Well, David Muir, who again is the Anchor of World News Tonight.
Not that anybody watches that, but just in case, World News Tonight, it's like their signature ABC News program.
And he's perhaps a little too concerned with how he looks on television.
You know, I get it.
I'm a girl, right?
I care what I look like on television, but not so much as maybe David does.
You see, David was out reporting on fires, but he's seemingly more worried about how well his jacket fits, his like fire retardant jacket.
Than the fires themselves, which is part of the whole problem, is it not, ladies and gentlemen, with mainstream media?
Everybody's so sick of this nonsense.
Take a look at David Muir, who is being mocked for the clothespins behind his jacket.
Watch carefully.
Okay, looking good, looking good.
See here behind me is the damaging wipe the way there are still flames burning from multiple.
Do you see it?
Oh, goodness, poor David.
Well, you know, the internet's having a field day with this.
One guy writing on Twitter fake news ABC's idiot, David Muir, the guy who had the presidential debate with President Trump, using clothespins to keep his jacket fitted while reporting on the devastating LA fires.
Trump is 100% right.
These people are sick, fake, lying all the time.
Unbelievable.
I mean, this is really embarrassing for Bob Iger, for Disney, for ABC News.
It shows where their priorities are, right?
I mean, honestly, and I'm just going to be perfectly frank with you.
The clothespin's not even going to work, okay?
So David doesn't even know how to do it.
You know, you got to get like one of those big metal, metal, I was going to say a metal clothespin, but the thing that they use, they use it in the grips for the camera gear.
You're going to get something strong, unless that's just some kind of flimsy jacket, and that's not really real either.
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But David getting caught and called out, New York Post referring to him as narcissistic.
David Muir, roasted for sprucing up svelte looks while reporting on deadly fires.
You see, who can trust the mainstream media because it's filled with all these bells and whistles and clothespins holding the clothes together as opposed to actually being about anything of substance?
Over and over and over again, I think Americans just keep going back to they want this authenticity and they get it in streaming products.
You know, frankly, hopefully, like this one right here.
I hope that you're subscribed.
I hope that you're liking this, that you're sharing this.
All of this stuff matters.
Comment, it's really important.
But I want to remind you this is ABC News that has just been the source of so many troubles.
They really didn't want Donald Trump to win.
They really, really didn't want him to win.
And that was quite evident over on The View, it was evident at the debate.
It was evident on George Stephanopoulos' show, which is why he's now paying $16 million, and ABC News is paying $16 million in a fine to Trump after getting sued for billions.
And Trump didn't really appreciate all the lies that were being told at the ABC News debate.
You know, Kamala can say one thing and she gets a pass.
He says boo, and they're all over him.
Remember when he reacted immediately after that debate?
One of the stories covered on ABC about Kamala.
100% of the time was positive.
93% of the time when they covered you, it was negative.
So it was infuriating to watch them fact check you and not her when she brought up IVF, when she brought up Project 2025 several times, and when she brought up Charlottesville.
Here are some of the lies that she said about you.
Listen.
The detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing.
Couples who pray and dream of having a family are being denied IVF treatments.
If Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national abortion ban.
And what did the president then at the time say?
There were fine people on each side.
On that day, 140 law enforcement officers were injured.
And some died.
Donald Trump, the candidate, has said in this election there will be a bloodbath.
If this and the outcome of this election is not to his liking.
And the bloodbath, you were talking about the economy.
It's a term that's used a lot when people are talking about a bad economy.
What's your reaction to it?
Why didn't the moderators correct her?
Because they're dishonest and because I think ABC took a big hit last night.
I mean, to be honest, they're a news organization.
They have to be licensed to do it.
They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.
Bloodbath was referring to the economy.
Everybody loved the term because as soon as they heard the word, it's sort of a vicious word.
But referring to the economy, they have created an economy.
Bloodbath was the word that I used, and it was fine in that context.
And they were trying to make it sound like there was a riot or something, and it was a bloodbath.
IVF, I was a leader on IVF.
He goes on to basically disprove a whole bunch of those things that had been said that were not correct.
But what is really relevant, perhaps, in this case is.
That he said they can't even say things like that because they're governed by certain rules, right?
Certain rules that the FCC would need to enforce and that this new FCC wants to enforce.
You saw the news recently, we reported on it here on the show on the FCC sending a letter, the incoming FCC pick, this would be Brandon Carr, sending a letter to Bob Iger, blasting him for this erosion in public trust and kind of reminding him hey, You know what?
We're in control of the airwaves.
You're licensed by us.
So, how embarrassing is this?
Again, this erosion in public trust.
How is this not an erosion?
Seeing the anchor with a lousy clothespin as he's reporting something as disastrous as a fire like this.
I mean, people are like, who the heck are you?
And it comes on the heels of all the other stuff.
I'm going to get to the view in just a moment because I suspect, and I've told you this before, the view is going to be canceled.
As it should, because of some of the lies and nonsense that they've been putting on that thing.
Hey, listen, you know what?
I'm a big believer in freedom of speech.
And you can have all the freedom of speech that you want right here, streaming.
This is why you're getting the news first here, because you're actually getting truth here.
But they're spinning all kinds of nonsense over there on the FCC regulated airwaves of ABC News.
So, Bob Iger, he actually needs to look at spinning this thing off sooner or later.
Rather than later.
And I know he wants to, apparently, nobody wants the thing, so he can't really sell it.
So that's a challenge in and of itself.
But ultimately, what I suspect does happen is that they do something similar to, say, MSNBC.
If they can't actually sell this to a private equity player, to Nexstar, which I believe has looked at the company, then they're going to have to look at doing some kind of spin off because it's just not healthy for the rest of the Disney business.
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So there's a lot happening, for example, at Disney, and I think that Bob Iger.
With Brendan Carr now in the FCC slot, is going to have to say, is it really worth it to have this ABC company where everybody's embarrassing me left and right?
Is it really worth it?
Do I maybe need to think about doing something just a little bit different with some of the programming matters?
And that is why we're looking at a potential for ABC News spinning off The View in some way or making it some other kind of program.
Granted, I think they want to get rid of the network.
But the question now becomes, how long does that show, The View, stay put?
There's a new article just came off the presses here in Variety today, which is a little bit of a plant, dare I say.
Somebody at ABC News, the PR person, is calling their friend over at Variety, in this case, Juan Michaels, saying, hey, let's come up with a snazzy headline.
And they're trying to make it look as though The View is doing great, and so this is why they're putting together a weekend show that's going to stream.
But let me just assure you, this has nothing to do with the view doing great and everything to do with how do we reinvent ourselves in this new period in time when everybody's streaming.
Well, why don't we come up with a streaming product?
But what do we do for a streaming product?
Well, we've been doing all our political news on the airwaves, so now we've got to do something else.
So the plan is to do celebrity news and pop culture stuff.
I think that has a little more to do with the fact that nobody wants to actually work on the weekend, so they can't be live, so they've got a tape.
This thing after the show on Friday or Thursday or whenever it is that they actually do do this thing, and then they're going to air it on this ABC News streaming platform.
So the headline is in Variety The View to launch a new weekend edition for ABC News Live this month.
Person that's conspicuously absent.
You know who it is?
The person that I think is in danger of actually being fired from the show.
So rather telling that she doesn't get a gig on the weekend version, right?
All of you.
He's not going to be, he's not going to, you know, say, oh, you're with a white guy, I'm going to keep you from being deported.
No, he's going to deport you and put the white guy with someone else.
The man is out there.
He's also.
JD clearly.
You've not been to one of your boss's rallies because you believe this insanity.
I mean, he has been inciting violence since 2016, telling them to beat up hecklers, threaten to shoot looters and migrants.
They have, I don't remember Bill Clinton about what was going on in his White House when it was sprayed by 29 shots.
I don't remember Obama blaming opponents when.
His White House was shot up in 2011.
You have to really take a look in a mirror to see the reflection.
One of the reasons that everybody has survived is because the Secret Service has been doing their job.
You know, just to take a little walk back down memory lane, that was when Whoopi Goldberg accused Donald Trump of being responsible for the assassination attempt on his life.
I mean, this is wild stuff.
And this is all.
Happening on the federally controlled airwaves.
She's not doing this on the streaming product.
They've got a new streaming product and she's not even part of it.
Why?
Because they want to change the vibe.
They want to get back to maybe what they once were.
They figure they can do celebrity news and stuff like that so that they don't need this woman who spits when she says the newly elected president's name.
That's effectively like spitting on America, Whoopi Goldberg.
That's what you're doing.
You're spitting on America when you do this.
Listen, take him seriously and take him literally.
I don't think that we have to, I think it would be.
Remiss of us to not say, Joe Biden knows how to do this.
Yes.
He knows how to do this.
He's quite good at this.
And, you know, you can't refute anything with him because he just, when I say him, I mean.
He rambles.
Trump.
Trump.
Yeah.
He tends to just.
But can I mention one thing?
Because Trump is out there.
No, no, Okay?
So they know they have a problem in Whoopi Goldberg.
They're coming up with some new version of the show, which they're going to test out on the streaming products because, hello, everybody's streaming, of course.
That might be the product where you actually want to have your crazy people that do things like spit when they say the president's name.
That's actually the place where you might actually have the ability to run that as opposed to the federally controlled airwaves.
Look, the FCC still has jurisdiction over those, okay?
Any which way you slice it.
And I don't think it's like freedom of speech to sit there and say the things that she has said.
I mean, it's inappropriate.
It's wrong.
You're comparing a president who, by the way, got into no war with the likes of Adolf Hitler.
You're just like smashing history and smashing reality in a way that's so crazily disrespectful to the millions and millions of Jews that died.
It's amazingly disrespectful to all of our American soldiers that died.
To all of our American soldiers that fought, and it's disrespectful to all of our allies.
Anyway, back to The View.
They're all excited.
They're telling variety.
It's an opportunity for us to extend the conversation, give viewers more of what they love from the connection they feel to this show.
Ha!
Don't you just love that show, right?
That's why it's going to weekends on streaming.
This is Karen Guilford, the senior president of digital media, ABC News Group, and Disney Entertainment Networks.
We really think the weekend view, in addition to what we've done on podcasting, It's going to have a great short form and social presence for the show.
It is the next frontier.
Okay, well, I'll give you this.
It is the next frontier.
It's just fascinating that you're choosing to ignore all political content, to not put Whoopi Goldberg on there all at a time when Bob Iger is getting blasted by the likes of Brendan Carr.
Because maybe what you realize is that the future is actually entirely.
I get it, right?
You know that the future's here and in streaming, but apparently it does not include.
One whoopee Goldberg.
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And this is authentic and this is true and this is real.
And some of that stuff over at the quote unquote networks like ABC, where they're wearing clothespins to hold up their jackets and make sure they're cinched and they look really.
Well, they're not the real news, okay?
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They're really not.
They're very exaggerated.
They're very.
Cliche, they are very artificial.
And I think that what just happened there with David Muir and the clothespin is actually a really terrific and unfortunate for him example of just exactly what they have become a caricature of themselves.
You know, another caricature of themselves would be one MSNBC, would it not be?
So Scott Galloway, who's actually a pretty smart guy, but he hates Trump like a lot of others.
I know him, he used to come on my Fox show.
He's a professor, a business professor at NYU Stern School of Business.
Well, he went on Morning Joe the other day and started talking about income inequality, which I don't dispute.
I think it is a huge problem, and I think we need to find creative ways to fix it.
It is partly why we did elect Donald Trump, and I'm confident he can.
But Scott Galloway saying something that's pretty libelous, and Mika Brzezinski having to correct him on the spot.
It shows you, it shows you.
Times have changed, and that's a good thing, right?
You shouldn't be saying stuff about a president, soon to be our next president, that is so full of libel.
But these individuals have weaponized government, and we risk revolution, whether it's CEOs being murdered in the street, whether it's a Me Too movement that had righteous components of it or Black Lives Matter.
What are these movements?
They are targeting the wealthy.
We are in the midst of a series of small revolutions to correct income inequality.
And the reason we put an insurrectionist and a rapist in office is because for the first time, In our nation's history, a 30 year old man or woman isn't doing as well as his or her parents were at 30.
Why?
Because the majority of households are having the oxygen sucked out of the room such that a small number of individuals and a small number of companies can be worth more than nation states.
Income inequality is out of control.
Our tax policy has gone full oligarch.
I want to make a comment, though, just about a word that was used in this interview.
Donald Trump was tried civilly.
And he was found liable of sexual abuse, not rape.
But the judge in the case likened his actions to rape, but the liability was officially called sexual abuse.
Coming up, Donald Trump says he will be inheriting a bad economy when he takes office.
Okay, you see what that one's about.
We know what that's about.
What it's about is they're terrified that they're actually going to get sued.
I think they are being sued, by the way.
I think he's suing like everyone I know.
CBS has been sued.
I'm sure NBC is being sued as well.
So, This lawsuit thing is becoming kind of a problem for these networks.
They're actually being held accountable.
Imagine that.
Might be actually held accountable.
You just can't make stuff up.
You should never be able to make stuff up.
All they've been doing is making stuff up.
Joe Biden thinking it's perfectly fine to make stuff up.
Joe Biden actually believing that if he had done a better job controlling the narrative and controlling the media than actually, he might have won.
He literally says this in a new interview with USA Today reporter Susan Page, who went on MSNBC to promote the thing.
Watch.
Regrets.
Because he finds himself in an interesting position.
We've been talking today and been talking this week about economic numbers.
Ed Luce from Financial Times and others basically saying right now, economically, America is a colossus comparatively.
China's in retreat.
The EU is stagnant.
Britain is stagnant.
But the United States just keeps growing.
So here you have, on one hand, The data is very strong, and history will probably judge him very well on that.
And yet, there's such a sour mood, not only in America, but among Democrats, and not the exit that Joe Biden would have wanted.
What regrets?
Did he have any regrets?
Well, I think his number one regret is that he's not going to be there for four more years because I think he was not.
I had the last print interview with George W. Bush.
He was ready to get out of the Oval Office.
Not so much Joe Biden.
He wishes he could stay there.
But he named two things about this biggest disappointment.
One was the difficulty in combating misinformation, including from Donald Trump.
And the second thing he mentioned was their failure to act more quickly to get shovels in the ground from that huge infrastructure bill, because he says that would have demonstrated to Americans the value.
I don't, I'm sorry, misinformation.
So when the New York Times prints that wages are going up and we should all be happy, and Mika and Joe say, it's just in your head, the economy's doing great, and Americans are like, Gee, you know, I just don't have as much money anymore because I don't know, egg prices are up 60%.
It's somehow misinformation.
Joe's angry that he couldn't actually control the media even more than he did, which is unbelievable to me.
Leslie, good to see you here.
Yes, they are totally, totally a bunch of fools.
Piece of my mind asking if he had anything to say about Harris, and you bet he did.
You bet he did.
You're reading my mind because I was going to go to that next piece of my mind.
And sure enough, what do we see?
Joe thinks that he could have won it.
That if he had just stayed in the race, he would have actually beaten Donald Trump fair and square.
I don't think that's the case.
I think this is part of his delusion.
Maybe it's part of his age and other ailments that are hitting him.
But here he is telling Susan Page that.
Take a listen to her review.
This was published this morning at 4 a.m.
This is the first time you've talked about it.
There's a lot here.
First of all, he sat down with you for an hour.
Let me ask you the question that a lot of people would ask.
And people ask me after I talked to him earlier last year How was he?
How was he physically?
How was he mentally?
How was he as far as his attitude goes?
So, a 55 minute interview, that's pretty long for a presidential interview.
He was engaged and lively.
He was loquacious.
He answered every question I posed.
Some of them with reflection, some of them with some defensiveness.
He looks older than he did the last time I interviewed him.
When's the last time you interviewed him?
The last time I interviewed him was before the 2020 election.
Okay.
And so he's older now.
His voice sometimes dips, so it's.
Very soft, and you have to really strain to hear him.
But he seemed mentally sharp, and we had a really far ranging conversation.
So, we heard Gabe Gutierrez talk about he wasn't sure where he would be at 86 and how he'd be.
But what was the headline for you coming out of this one hour conversation?
Well, I think that was the newsiest thing he said because he had never before, to my knowledge, ever acknowledged that he.
There was a possibility he wouldn't be able to fulfill a four year term.
Also, his statement that he believes he would have won if he had stayed on the ticket.
That's not the conventional wisdom about what would have happened if he stayed on the ticket.
And we've had source reports that that's how he felt, but I think this is the first time he ever said that out loud.
What do you think?
Could he have done it?
Could he have won?
No chance in H double L, okay?
That's the reality.
But in this delusional world, For Joe Biden and his wife Jill, you know, they cannot stand Kamala.
I don't blame them.
It was not fair what happened.
It was not fair to Joe.
It was not fair to the Biden family.
And it certainly wasn't fair to the American people.
I mean, Democrats elected one guy, they put him at the top of the ticket, only to have that completely undone.
That does not exactly inspire trust, right?
What Democrat wants to vote for a party?
That is willing to yank out the candidate that they put in.
I mean, unbelievable.
This was like a train wreck in real time.
And I kept saying, you can go back and watch as I started this show back in 2020.
I mean, four years ago, I was like, there's no way they can run him.
They've got to primer him, they've got to put somebody else in there.
Not that it would have made it any better, because let's be realistic.
When you have an economy like Joe had, when you spend as much money as Joe did, he's just worried that.
Christian Education Partnership00:02:32
He didn't get a chance to spend more.
He wanted to be the next FDR, even though he didn't have the votes to be the next FDR, thank goodness.
And all the damage that was done, he doesn't really understand.
He was never much of a rocket scientist anyway.
But listen, I mean, this is why it's so important right now that we have the right kind of education, that we're looking at the right kind of things, that we get rid of this DEI nonsense, and that we focus on educating our youth.
I have more to say on that in a second, especially as it relates to.
All of these fires that are going on in LA.
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Mark Zuckerberg Fact Checks00:11:09
We were just talking about MSNBC and the wacky media.
They're making some changes there.
They've got the spin off coming, Spinko, right?
Because the parent company Comcast doesn't want to have anything to do with these clowns over there.
Certainly, the Morning Joe team is trying their best.
They went down to Mar a Lago.
They're trying to make amends with Donald Trump.
They're at least trying to avoid a $16 million hit, right?
To their salaries or to their bosses because they're saying things or guests are saying things on air that are not true.
But it looks like some of their talent may not get their shows renewed, or if they do, they're going to have to take a really big pay cut.
Oh, gee, that inflation hurts, doesn't it, Joy Reid?
Okay, here we go.
Here's the article that came out just a couple weeks ago in the, I think this was, it was either Raw Story or The Daily Beast.
I think this one was actually The Daily Beast.
Top MSNBC anchor Joy Reid offered a pay cut to keep her job.
Apparently, another anchor as well is facing the threat of this because you see, this is a company that's just struggling in multiple ways.
They've completely eroded the public's trust.
And Joy Reid had a rather bizarre reaction to one Mark Zuckerberg.
Now, we can talk about Mark Zuckerberg.
We have talked about Mark Zuckerberg.
Do you believe him?
Do you not believe him?
Is he just a capitalist who's trying to make his way through the storm here and so therefore wants to keep his company out of trouble?
And that's why he's doing this.
Is that why he took down Trump's page on Facebook before and then went after all of us, yours truly included, right?
With nonsense.
So that we couldn't have our pages seen or monetized.
Apparently, those days are over.
He's making a big change.
Here's Mark Zuckerberg in his own words.
It's kind of long, so I'm not going to play all of it, but let's watch it together.
And then you can see how freaked out Joy Reid is by this.
I mean, she's a complete meltdown, this MSNBC lady.
But a lot has happened over the last several years.
There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content.
Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.
A lot of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.
These are things that we take very seriously, and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly.
So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.
But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.
Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts, that's millions of people.
And we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.
The recent elections.
Also, feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.
So, we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.
More specifically, here's what we're going to do.
First, we're going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the US.
After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.
We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth.
But the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the US.
So, over the next couple of months, we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system.
Second, we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions.
And shut out people with different ideas, and it's gone too far.
So, I want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms.
Third, we're changing how we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms.
We used to have filters that scanned for any policy violation.
Now, we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations.
And for lower severity violations, we're going to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.
The problem is that the.
Okay.
So I'm like, what just happened?
I'm waking up in an alternative universe.
You don't understand, guys.
I don't think we're live on Facebook right now.
We're live on YouTube.
We'll post this after on Facebook if they let us, okay?
It has been a challenging four years.
Thank you very much with Facebook.
I mean, I had things come back to me.
I'd do a story on, say, tariffs.
I mean, really kind of wonky, boring economic stuff on tariffs.
And the next thing you know, I'm being told that somehow this is a community violation.
And I'm like, community violation?
Somebody's feelings are hurt because I'm talking about the impact of tariffs on the economy?
I mean, come on, right?
Like, that's a new one.
I mean, it was everyday something.
And so, I have like 270,000 people over there, and you know, good luck seeing my stuff.
This is going to get me in trouble for sure.
But I mean, I have been speechless.
There have been times that I'd say to my kids, for goodness sakes, I feel like I'm in North Korea because I can't say what I think.
I developed euphemisms, like I wouldn't even say COVID, I would just say March 2020.
If you hear me say March 2020, you know what I'm talking about.
So, my thanks to Everyone here at YouTube, because we have this freedom of speech, my thanks to everybody over at Rumble.
Okay, Mark, you know what?
I'm going to go with this.
I love that you're suddenly passionately for free speech.
I don't know if I believe that's where you actually are coming at.
It may just be that you're a capitalist like any other.
And so, depending on which way the wind blows and who's in charge, you're willing to do whatever is needed.
I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
So, Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, thank you.
You know what?
As an investor in your company, and you know what?
I bet you're an investor in their company too.
If you have a 401k, I guarantee you're invested in their company because they're one of the big components there of the SP 500.
Think about Mag7.
Meta is one of them.
So we want Meta to do well, all right?
Because, you know, that's a big portion of everybody's retirement.
So it's good from a business standpoint.
And so I commend him for that.
Whether he personally believes any of this, you know, I certainly have my doubts.
But Nonetheless, it's the right thing for the business and it's the right thing for our nation.
We need to be able to have this freedom of expression, and you can't clamp down on people when they're curious about stuff and they want to discuss things.
And sometimes the truth can be really ugly, all right?
And getting to the truth can be really, really ugly, but we need to have the opportunity to get there in the first place.
And he's learning a thing or two, if you would, from X and Elon Musk, but this terrifies the establishment media and the progressive elites.
Like one Joy Reid, who's in jeopardy of losing her show or at the very least getting her salary cut at MSNBC.
Look at her reaction.
I want you to see this to Zuckerberg saying, Yeah, we're going to get rid of the fact checkers that, frankly, and having lived through this myself, I can tell you we're not about checking facts and we're entirely about shutting the system down.
Now, whether or not he can manage this and deal with this, he's got a big organization, much like, say, a Disney.
Big, cumbersome organization reminds me of like GE.
Before GE went really, really south, you know, sometimes when these companies get too big, they have their problems.
So we wish him well, but in the meantime, watch Joy.
Why would conservatives think fact checking is biased against them?
I mean, what are you sharing if you keep getting fact checked for false information?
Think about it.
What were conservatives sharing on Meta that was getting flagged so much?
Are they spreading false information?
And why were they so eager?
And why are Republicans in general so eager to end the idea of fact checking?
What are they trying to share?
What is the motivation for not wanting it to be fact checked?
Remember when there was that laptop from Hunter Biden, and Republicans and conservatives and news organizations were saying, This is authentic, this is real.
Hunter Biden has some major issues which actually could compromise his dad, who's running for the presidency of the United States of America.
And remember when 51 ex spooks came forward and said, No, nothing to see here.
This is garbage.
This is misinformation.
And if you spread this misinformation, you're in trouble.
Do you remember when the New York Post got its Twitter account shut down?
Do you remember when my friends over at Babbly on Bee, a comedic website, published a story?
About the spin machine at CNN, and it was a joke, and they had a washing machine as the picture, and somehow that was fake news, along with the New York Post and the Hunter Biden laptop.
That was okay, that was totally real, and the New York Post was correct on that.
The FBI knew it, and those people way high up they knew it too, and yet they went with this oh, it's just misinformation, disinformation.
And Joy Reid, who calls herself a journalist, come on, doesn't want Republicans to be able to publish their side of the story?
That's pretty alarming.
That's pretty scary.
So, thank goodness Mark Zuckerberg is making this point.
And whether or not he believes it, I don't even care.
It's the good, right thing to do for the company, it's the right thing to do for the country.
Now, his challenge is going to be getting everybody in line because it's a very large.
Organization with a lot of people that have their own biases.
And so it takes time to shift and change organizations like this.
They were all in lockstep.
And I don't know if he's going to be like Elon and come in and say, oh, I got rid of 80% of the company.
It would be hard to do.
California Firefighter Diversity00:08:21
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So I just am dismayed by what I'm seeing out of California right now.
Horrified, absolutely horrified.
And I know it's easy to Monday morning quarterback, and I know that we can look back and say we should have, we could have, why didn't we?
But when you realize how corrupt the whole DEI thing has been, and then you see stuff like I'm about to show you with the woman who's the police, forgive me, the fire chief there in LA, you start to say, what the heck is going on?
Why are they making certain priorities?
Above others, like, you know, having water in the fire hydrants for when you need to put out the darn fires.
Here is the fire chief speaking with local news, talking about what really matters to her.
I am super inspired.
She took time out of her already busy schedule to tell us about her vision for the department's future, one that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity.
People ask me, Well, what number are you looking for?
I said, I'm not looking for a number.
It's never enough.
Of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are women right now.
She's already looking at ways to change that.
She's quick to point out that doing so has a greater purpose, attracting the best and brightest for the job.
They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part of a cohesive team.
The chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department.
She's a proud member of the LGBTQ community.
That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, wow, I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me.
Who cares, right?
Like, okay, great.
You're gay and you want more women firefighters.
I mean, look, it's like the Navy SEAL thing, right?
How many female Navy SEALs are there?
There are none because guess what?
You can't pass the physical test to become one.
And so that's the challenge of many of the women that would like to be firefighters.
Okay, you have to be able to pass certain physical barriers, and at the risk of having to bore you with biology 101, the reality is most women are just not going to be there, right?
It's the same reason we talk about women's sports and the fact that you have so many people that were born as biological men now trying to come into women's sports, and then they're blowing the women out of the water.
Okay, look, women, we can do a lot of things really well.
And guess what?
We can do one primary thing.
Yeah, we still can.
That you guys can't do.
We're the ones that had the babies, okay?
And that should get a whole lot more cred.
Frankly, than it does.
I mean, that's like the biggest thing of all, right?
Being able to have a baby.
Now they want to make it so that men can do that too, right?
Like the Apple emoji.
I'm sorry.
The girls have the babies, all right?
It's still that way.
Hate to tell you.
And guess what?
The guys are typically the ones that fight the fires.
And I'm sorry, this lady, perfectly nice person, I am sure.
And I think there's a wonderful place for diversity of thought and having women at the table to think about how you might fight the fires.
Is really important whether or not they have the physical capacity to be able to do it.
Chances are they don't, which is why you have fewer female firefighters.
All right, there, I said it.
So she's so focused on the diversity stuff that now we're looking at a situation that's pretty darn bad.
Okay, like people's lives have been lost.
The structural damage is expected to be the worst we've ever seen in California.
And you're like, wait a second, what was going on?
I mean, you got the.
Who's off in Africa, seriously, was off in Africa and had to make her way home, even though she knew there were predictions that there could be these terrible fires.
She was asked, you know, how she felt about this, and she couldn't even speak.
I mean, her political career is clearly over.
But again, like when people are focused on the wrong things, whether it be going to a ceremony in Africa or whether it be making sure that you have more diversity among your fire chief.
Personnel, your firefighter personnel, then you know you got problems.
I mean, I would just say, hey, go back to basics, manage your force.
Imagine that.
Donald Trump warned them, he told them back in 2018.
He did this appearance actually with Gavin Newsom.
I've got the tape.
This has started to go viral now because he was sort of mocked at the time for saying like this was the answer to things, but he was not wrong.
Okay, he was not wrong, not one bit.
Take a look.
Cleaned out and protected.
You gotta take care of the floors, you know, the floors of the forest.
Very important.
You look at other countries where they do it differently, and it's a whole different story.
I was with the president of Finland, and he said, We have a much different, we're a forest nation.
He called it a forest nation.
And they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don't have any problem.
And when it is, it's a very small problem.
So, I know everybody's looking at that to that end, and it's going to work out.
Well, it didn't really work out because guess what?
They didn't really do that.
And they didn't spend the time on the forest management.
In fact, there was a study that came out of the University of Chicago a couple of years ago, and this is a biggie, guys.
This is a real, you know, wildfires are a race in California's climate gains.
This is according to a study out of UChicago.
Rob at 76research.com sent me this this morning, and I think it's a relevant thing to think about here.
As wildfires rage in California again this summer, the damages are adding up.
In 2020 alone, the author writes, wildfires killed 30 people and caused more than $19 billion in economic losses.
On top of the immediate damages, the firefighters, the wildfires, led to pollution that is set to shave nearly a year off the life expectancy of residents in California's most polluted counties if pollution levels persist.
So, they're working overtime, right, with all the green initiatives.
And what do they find?
A new analysis finds the wildfires in 2020 alone make up 30% of the state's greenhouse gas emissions.
The carbon dioxide from wildfires is not counted against California's emissions targets.
So, once again, we're dealing with a situation, ladies and gentlemen, of the DEI nonsense at work.
They're so focused on DEI and green energy and this, that, and the other that they're not actually doing the stuff they need to do.
To manage their forests.
And we're seeing the results of all that now in real time.
DEI Nonsense in Prisons00:02:47
But you know, go back to Joy Reid, go back to Joy, go back to the mainstream media talking about all this DEI stuff in such a nonsensical way.
Proud, happy that everybody was going after Donald Trump.
All these diversity initiatives were coming into fruition and they were going to take him down.
You took him down, right?
He didn't get another four years.
And what happened?
We got mass inflation.
Massive problem at the border, international chaos.
It's like everything that could possibly go wrong actually went wrong.
And Joy Reid wants to celebrate it and say it's a product of DEI.
Rikers is not.
And let me just bring Joy into that as well, because we've discussed this many times.
A lot of the largest prison systems in America for incarceration are housing people who are awaiting trial, as Chris alluded to, Joy.
Yeah, absolutely.
And one of the things that Alvin Bragg has actually done that a lot of progressives have been happy about is a lot of those prisons are also housing, they're the new housing for the mentally ill.
You know, rather than having to deal, rather than actually dealing with issues of mental illness in our cities, we're using prison and jail for that.
But to the point that you all were just making, I mean, one of my favorite facts about one of Donald Trump's lawyers, Susan Michellis, is that one of her former clients was the notorious New York mobster, Benny Eggs.
And I will just assume and presume that old Benny Eggs was not attacking the judge.
So Donald Trump is at this point outdoing actual mobsters.
In his attacks on the judge's families, the daughter, and he's doing it to the point that Lawrence made.
He knows he will never spend a day, a second, a moment in prison.
But for me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact that despite the fact that even if convicted, he's not going to go to prison, the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad, the very kind of person that his former staff, the people who worked for him, Stephen Miller, et cetera, want to never.
Be at Harvard Law School.
But he was.
And he came out and graduated, and he's prosecuting you, Donald.
And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia.
And a black woman forced you to pay a $175 million fine that's now also in question because the people who put it up, that might not be legit.
Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he's trying to dismantle.
And for me, there's something poetic and actually.
Wonderful about that.
It says something good about our country that we're still capable of having that happen.
Poetic Justice for America00:02:33
Go DEI.
Go DEI is how she ended that.
I mean, as these wildfires rage, it's a different kind of really horrendous poetry when you think of that.
In other words, DEI has failed America, the media has failed America, the politicians.
Have failed America.
And January 20th can't come soon enough, right?
I mean, it really can't.
Anyway, there's someone being laid to rest, the 39th president of the United States.
He will be buried in Georgia.
One Jimmy Carter, who started as a peanut farmer, made his way to the presidency of the United States, presided over a very, very difficult time with mass inflation, of course, the hostage crisis, et cetera.
It wasn't until we got Reagan.
That things really began to turn around for America.
But I want to play you a little clip from the funeral right now, and let's take a look because just watch Kamala's reaction.
There's some beautiful classical music being played in the background.
I want you to see Kamala's reaction just as Obama and President Trump start to speak.
Here she is.
You can see her clearly just ticked off, looking at them as though, look at that expression.
Okay, can we play it?
Let's play it again.
Look at this, guys.
She's turning around.
She's like, how dare you?
How dare you talk?
How dare you exist?
I hate you.
Like, think of all the things.
What do you think she's thinking right now?
What's going through her head?
Now she's just disgusted.
She's looking down.
She can't stand that the two of them are talking.
And the disgust is really quite evident there on her face as she sits there next to her husband, the loser, by the way, in this election.
She never should have had that opportunity to begin with.
She took it from Biden.
It was the wrong thing to do.
Anyway, you can see.
The newly elected President Trump, alongside his wife Melania Trump, there for the funeral of gosh, one Jimmy Carter.
I almost said it because I feel like Biden is so frail.
Investing in MAGA Guide00:04:21
Literally, his name came into my mind.
That's terrible.
But you know, that's what happens on live TV, on live streaming.
We're live, baby.
I am so happy to be back.
I had a wonderful vacation.
It was just a little bit too long, like a little bit too long.
I have this.
Method to the madness, though.
Like, I like to take a slightly longer vacation than you normally would because then you're so happy to come home, as opposed to, gosh, I wish that vacation could have been longer.
Anyway, I went skiing with the kids, with the family.
We went to Zermatt, Switzerland, and it was amazing.
I mean, just amazing.
You guys may have seen some of the shows.
I was still there reporting every single day from Zermatt, Switzerland.
It was cold.
It was cold, but it was a great time.
I really, I just have such appreciation for this beautiful world and looking at the Matterhorn and looking up at the Matterhorn, you know, you just feel very small.
And I felt very special and very lucky to be there with my family and to be able to take that time.
And you know what else?
To be there with you guys as well.
Because in the old days, right back in mainstream media land, I wouldn't have been able to do that.
I couldn't just pick up and go.
And now I have such flexibility and There's something to that, just from my own life's perspective at this stage in my life.
I could talk a lot about how I love that I don't have to have scripts being run through all the various producers anymore and how freeing that is.
And it is.
I mean, there are no scripts on this show.
This is completely just me winging it.
I mean, I know where I want to go, I have little sound bites I know I want to get to.
I do have a roadmap for the show.
But the truth is that this is just such a free, Kind of style, freestyle, right?
As they would say in swimming.
And it affords me the flexibility of one telling you exactly what I think all the time.
And I think you appreciate that.
I mean, this is where the media is going and this is where the media should go, not like David Muir wearing the funny clothespins to make him seem a little more attractive when he's actually reporting on fires, right?
I mean, that's sort of where it has been.
And this is the future of where we're going.
And so, not only do I have the freedom of expression here, but I have the mobility to be able to be with my family in still important news cycles when I want to also be with you.
So, that was a really terrific trip, but I'm very happy to be home.
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