>> dicky: From hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"!
Tonight, dr. Phil mcgraw. Cnn's john king.
And music from maren morris. And now, jimmy kimmel!
>> jimmy: Oh, that's me. Hi, everyone, I'm jimmy, I'm the
host. Thank you for watching.
Thank you for joining outside cma night.
A special hello to those keeping the party going after the cmas
tonight. We have something fun with chris
stapleton later on. [ cheers and applause ]
and he's going to join us tomorrow night.
Best wishes to our veterans on veterans day.
Thank you for your service. And sacrifice.
[ cheers and applause ] I hope you felt appreciated
today because you are, by us, at least.
Our president, donald trump -- this kind of tells you all you
need to know about him. This is joe biden's first tweet
of the day. Today we honor the service of
those who have worn the uniform of the armed forces of the
united states who are proud veterans.
I will be a commander in chief who respects your sacrifice,
understands your service, and will never betray the values you
fought so bravely to drend. And this was donald trump's
first tweet today. We will win.
Actually, it was a retweet of himself.
[ laughter ] it's hard to believe that in 75
short years we've gone from this to this.
But we have. Trump did emerge from his bunker
today. He visited arlington cemetery to
lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown loser -- I mean,
soldier. Those were his words, not mine.
That was his only scheduled event of the week so far.
He's busy doing everything he can to maintain his tiny
cheeto-like grip on the presidency.
Several top defense officials, our pentagon, they've been
ousted in favor of loyal trump administers.
The directors of the fbi and cia are rumored to be on the
chopping block. Some are saying that trump is
turning the administration into a banana republic, which I don't
know, to me it feels more like a baby gap.
Laugh but obviously trump installing these loyalists or
people he thinks are loyalists in key spots at the pentagon
raises fears that he's plotting something.
We may soon find out the answer to the question, can a coup be
pulled off by people who spell it "coo"?
[ laughter ] team trump continues to claim
there was widespread voter fraud even though there's no evidence
to support that. He's filing lawsuits left and
right. This is a transcript from a
courtroom exchange between trump's lawyers in pennsylvania
and the judge. The judge asks the trump lawyer,
are you claiming that there's any fraud in connection with
these 592 ballots? Trump's lawyer responds, "to my
knowledge at present, no." then the judge asks, are you
claiming that there's any undue or improper influence upon the
electorate with respect to these 592 ballots?
Trump's lawyer says, "to my knowledge, not at present, no."
so okay, then what the hell are you guys doing here?
[ laughter ] even donald trump's lawyers have
no evidence of voter fraud. [ laughter ]
but they're throwing all sorts of nonsense out there to see if
any of it floats. One of their most outlandish
claims is dead people voted in droves in pennsylvania.
The only dead person who voted in this election is rudy
giuliani, okay? [ laughter ]
and he's registered in transylvania not pennsylvania.
Election officials in pennsylvania have found no
credible instances of fraud but don't tell that to our
ex-president. His sycophants are demanding the
resignation from the republican secretary of state in georgia.
Trump himself lashed out today at the republican commissioner
of philadelphia. He wrote, a guy named al
schmidt, a philadelphia commissioner and so-called
republican, rino, is being used big-time by the fake news media
to explain how honest things were in the philadelphia
election. He refuses to look at a mountain
of corruption and dishonesty. We win.
Rino stands for "republican in name only."
that's what they call any republican who won't go along
with trump's b.S. Trump was a democrat like 12
years ago. [ laughter ]
and this guy al has obviously had enough of this schmidt.
>> I realize a lot of people of happy about this election and a
lot of people are not happy about this election.
One thing I can't comprehend is how hungry people are to consume
lies. And to consume information that
is not true. >> jimmy: Well what are we
supposed to eat? The Halloween candy is gone.
[ laughter ] we have 70 days to figure this
out. I once had a rat in my at that I
can wouldn't leave. I finally got him out by putting
an oreo in the trap. Seems like maybe that could work
here too, right? [ laughter ]
anyone phoned nabisco? You know what trump reminds me
of? That lady who claims she found a
finger in the chili at wendy's. Her name was anna ayallah.
In 2005 she was eating at a wendy's in san jose, claims she
found a severed finger in the chili bowl, it was a big story.
There was a multi-pronged investigation.
Along the way they found out anna, like our president, had a
long history of suing companies for no good reason.
And when the investigation was finished, it was clear that the
finger in the chili, like these allegations of widespread voter
fraud, had been planted. The finger belonged to her
husband's co-worker. He lost it in an accident.
She cooked it and made the story up.
She wasted everyone's time, burned through a lot of taxpayer
money. You know what happened to anna?
She served four years in prison. Or one term as president.
[ laughter ] and on top of that, she was
banned from wendy's for life. That's what they should do to
punish trump, ban him from wendy's for life.
[ cheers and applause ] you'll never drink a frosty
again! Here's another one that gives
you an idea what was we're dealing with.
Yesterday trump supporter and former lehigh county
commissioner in pennsylvania, a guy named dean browning,
tweeted, I'm a black gay guy and I could personally say that
obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit.
I want to stop there. If you look at his profile
picture, yeah, seems like his life changed a lot.
[ laughter ] he's transformed into a straight
white man. So he posts this.
It seemed fairly clear he forgot to sign out of his real account
and into his fake account, the account he might use to comment
on his own posts, his gay black guy account, which we all have.
[ laughter ] but browning said, no, no, no,
that wasn't it. He claimed he was quoting a
direct message that was sent to him by one of his follower, dan
purdy. Dan purdy coincidentally
responds to a lot of dean browning's tweets,
coincidentally. Then, stick with me, this is one
of the dumbest twilight zones ever.
Dan purdy posted this video backing browning's story.
>> hey, guys. My name is dan purdy.
And I am indeed a gay black man. The message that you saw on
dean's twitter was posted -- I don't actually know how it was
posted but I did send it to him because I had a problem with how
people of my race and sexual persuasion are treating donald
trump. So what's the big deal?
I sent that message to dean. Dean accidentally posted it
somehow. And that's the end of the story.
>> jimmy: Right. That would be the end of the
story. Except for that person's name is
not dan purdy. In fact, there doesn't seem to
be a dan purdy. That man has been identified as
bill holty, who is believed to be the nephew of patti labelle,
of all things. [ laughter ]
this is like the time "la la land" pretended to be
"moonlight." it's a mystery.
[ applause ] nice work, dean browning.
If trump pulls this out, maybe he'll let you run the cia.
[ laughter ] this is a crazy time in history.
And good luck trying to explain any of this to your kids.
Guillermo, does your son benji have any idea what's going on?
>> guillermo: No, he doesn't have no idea.
>> jimmy: It's hard to explain the events of the past four
years to your kids so we came up with a way to do it.
We took audio coverage and paired it with an episode of
"paw patrol." this is what happens when ryder
and his teal of pups meet the big bad wolf blitzer.
>> I'm wolf blitzer in the cnn election center.
We're minutes away from the first results.
Let's go to john king. >> what we're waiting for most
is the city of philadelphia, joe biden getting 80% of the vote,
and they still have votes to count.
>> we can now project the winner of the presidential race.
Joseph r. Biden jr. Is elected president of the united states.
Denying president trump a second term.
>> but while I may be the first woman in this office, I will not
be the last. >> I will totally accept the
results of this presidential election if I win.
If you count the legal votes, we did win this election.
>> lie after lie after lie. That was a hot mess inside a
dumpster fire inside a train wreck.
>> this is an embarrassment to our country.
>> jimmy: Floating away in his own hot air, wouldn't that an
poetic ending? There's a major disturbance at
the cma awards, a number of the nominees had to stay home
because they tested positive for covid.
Lee brice, members of lady a, florida georgia line, rascal
flatts are in quarantine. Some of them had to cancel.
Usually when this many people get sick in tennessee it means
they undercooked the squirrel. [ laughter ]
but this covid-19 -- you know, chris stapleton was able to play
the cmas tonight. He's going to be with us on our
show tomorrow night. With the virus spreading, we
couldn't wait to give you a preview of his new album.
He has two new albums. "starting over" on Friday.
And a holiday album too. >> in 2020, holiday cheer unless
short supply. Until now.
♪ deck the halls with disinfect the halls until we get a cure
from pfizer ♪ >> it's chris stapleton in
quarantine. >> hi, I'm chris stapleton, and
this is "a very covid christmas."
>> all the holiday hits you love with a bleak 2020 twist.
♪ oh cover your mouth hole I don't want your droplets ♪
♪ just put on a mask over this santa bomb ♪
>> you can't spell christmas without chris.
>> that's my name. >> country music superstar chris
same stapleton as you've never heard before.
♪ oh clorox wipes my groceries disinfected ♪
♪ my vegetables all taste like bleach ♪
>> let stapleton fill your hermetically sealed chamber with
festive covid hits. ♪ oh cdc oh cdc your website is
depressing ♪ >> plus "coughing around the
christmas tree." "it's beginning to look a lot
like pneumonia." "rudolph the red nosed reindeer
lost his taste of scent and smell."
♪ I can't smell I can't smell my scent has gone away ♪
>> and many, many more. >> no, that's actually it.
>> well, it's still a lot. 'tis the "sneezing" for chris
stapleton's "a very covid christmas."
♪ grub hub pickup at applebee's ♪
>> available on six sanitized disks for three easy payments of
$9.99. Order now and receive chris
stapleton's "hanukkah" absolutely free.
♪ eating alone in my jeans >> available at walgreens.
[ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: Thank you, chris.
You know, watching the cmas, it reminds me of when I was a young
boy. Do you mind handing me my
guitar? Thank you very much.
I've been playing the guitar, guillermo.
>> guillermo: You have? >> jimmy: Yeah, why is that
funny? [ laughter ]
you haven't known me my whole life.
But when I was young, when I was a teenager, everyone, people
would look at me and say, you should be a model.
You should be a movie star. But what I really wanted to do
was sing country western music. But then I heard a song, and it
changed the course of my life. And I decided to take another
path, a path that led here. Maybe you know this song.
And if you do, feel free to sing along.
Here we go. ♪
♪ mamas don't let your babies grow up to the cowboys ♪
♪ don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks ♪
♪ let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such ♪
♪ mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys ♪
♪ cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone ♪
♪ even with someone they love ♪
[ cheers and applause ]
>> jimmy: Sorry, I've only been playing a few months.
Picked it up in quarantine. ♪
[ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: Stop, stop, no.
That's too much. Thank you.
Oh, you did stop, okay. All right.
Thank you. We've got a good show for you
tonight. From cnn, john king is with us.
We have music from maren morris. And we'll be right back with dr.
Phil! >> jimmy: Welcome back.
Tonight from cnn, the man with the magic wall, john king, will
be with us. [ cheers and applause ]
I have a plan for tonight. I'm going to force him to call
arizona. [ laughter ]
and then you saw her earlier tonight on the cma awards.
This is her album "girl." music from maren morris from the
ryman auditorium in nashville, tennessee, a great venue.
If you'd like to help join maren and kroin royal, saving
america's favorite bars, clubs, and stages,
americanalliance.Com. Our guests tomorrow, ellen
pompeo and chris stapleton will join us.
When a divine herd of lawsuit-happy cattle led our
first guest to oprah in 1996, few could have imagined one day
he would become america's shiny-headed beacon of mental
health. He is back to work on season 19
of his syndicated show. Please welcome dr. Phil mcgraw!
[ cheers and applause ] ♪
>> jimmy: Thank you for making a house call here tonight.
>> hey, listen. Glad to be here.
Glad to see somebody. >> jimmy: Yeah.
How are you doing? Everything all right?
>> I'm doing all right, how about yourself?
>> jimmy: I'm doing well. Last time I saw you was right at
the about inning of all the craziness.
It was literally the weekend that everything closed down.
>> that's right. I think it was the last day of
production of shooting "who wants to be a millionaire?"
>> jimmy: Right, you were a contestant, and I was hosting
the show. You were the most thoughtful
contestant we've had on all -- by thoughtful, I mean the
slowest contestant we've had. [ laughter ]
that episode look one month to shoot.
>> I don't know why I come here. [ laughter ]
>> jimmy: I don't know either. I tell you, it's become --
[ applause ] >> I'm driving over here and I'm
thinking, why do I keep doing this [ bleep ]?
[ laughter ] seriously.
I feel like I'm in a "peanuts" cartoon getting ready to yank
the football away. It happens every time.
He calls, he says, come on over, we'll have a good time!
Yeah. >> jimmy: I don't know if you
know this, but it's become like a saying on the show.
We're like, oh my god, yeah, the guy really pulled a dr. Phil, it
took forever. [ laughter ]
I was starting to think maybe you didn't want to go home, is
everything okay? >> yeah, and what's more, I
barely broke even, by the way. >> jimmy: That's right, you did,
yeah. I think --
>> my son came to watch. >> jimmy: Oh.
>> and one of your pas in the parking lot, because there's no
parking out there, he's helping park the car.
He's like, come on back, come on back -- till he hits a pole.
Then he goes, stop. The guy's got one job!
Got one job. And he takes it in to get it
fixed. $76,000.
>> jimmy: What? >> to fix the car.
>> jimmy: Did he kill the pa? [ laughter ]
why did it cost $76,000? >> I thought about killing the
pa. No, he hit one of those sensors
in the bumper which is apparently wired into the --
you've got to pull the engine to fix the little sensor.
>> jimmy: Hold on a minute. What kind of car is this?
A space shuttle? >> it was an expensive car, I'll
admit that. But my son had the good sense to
say, you know what? I'll just live with one less
sensor, screw you, and left. >> jimmy: Sounds like your son
has a lot of "common sensor." >> which is why you don't have a
claim against you for $76,000. >> jimmy: Thank you.
Thank you for not suing us, dr. Phil.
[ laughter ] okay, so --
>> it was a lot of fun, by the way.
>> jimmy: We did have a lot of fun.
You did not listen to your expert at all.
You brought an expert and you barely consulted with her.
>> gave me the wrong information, if you remember.
>> jimmy: Oh, yeah, right, she did.
>> remember? >> jimmy: One time.
>> wrong information. I said, what the hell, what are
you talking about? >> jimmy: Well, you picked her.
[ laughter ] >> yeah, well.
>> jimmy: Dr. Phil, can I ask you a couple of things?
First of all, I know this has been a tough week for you.
You're a big kanye guy. There was talk you may join his
administration. [ laughter ]
and I want to put that aside. >> well, he was the first to
concede. >> jimmy: He was.
He's the only one to concede. Do you think that if you picked
up the phone, you could call president trump and he would
take the phone call? >> yeah.
>> jimmy: He would? >> I think so.
>> jimmy: Will you call president trump?
[ laughter ] >> no.
>> jimmy: Because we -- this is where --
>> no, this is hard enough. [ laughter ]
>> jimmy: This is your -- if anyone could do this, it's you.
This is your time to shine. [ cheers and applause ]
I think he would listen to you. >> yeah.
>> jimmy: What would you say to him if you got him on the phone?
Congratulations? [ laughter ]
>> whatever I would say would be reported way differently than
whatever I said. >> jimmy: That is true.
>> you can bet on that. >> jimmy: Yeah, I'm sure, yeah.
>> so -- no. I don't think I want to chat
with him right now. [ laughter ]
of course, he's firing everybody he sees.
So -- >> jimmy: That's true.
>> a lot of people are concerned that he's packing himself with
lawyers or something, I don't know.
>> jimmy: A lot of people are concerned.
That's why I'm asking you to pick up the telephone and call.
[ laughter ] >> yeah.
>> jimmy: You will not call him, you will not help us through
this. Is there a medical term for what
it seems like he's experiencing right now?
>> well, I think he's a little upset.
[ laughter ] >> jimmy: Oh, that's it?
You really know how to boil it down.
>> I think so. >> jimmy: Make it accessible for
all of us. >> yeah, I think he's a little
frustrated right now. >> jimmy: Yeah.
>> everybody sees the world -- we don't respond to what happens
in the world, we respond to our perception of what happens in
the world. >> jimmy: True.
>> you know, really. And his perception of the world
I think is different than others.
>> jimmy: It seems like he thinks the world has been unfair
to him, even though by every measure, it has been more than
fair to him. >> well -- there's certain
things that get down to just simple math, right?
And math is math. And you read some of the court
proceedings today. I've been reading some of those
things. I don't understand.
I spent most of my professional career in litigation.
I don't understand. I always thought when you went
to court you had to have a cause of action.
You had to have a complaint. >> jimmy: Uh-huh.
>> you had to have standing. >> jimmy: Yeah.
>> and I didn't understand that complaint.
>> jimmy: Yeah. If joe biden asks you to be the
surgeon general, would you consider that post?
>> no. >> jimmy: You would not?
>> no. >> jimmy: Interesting.
You're not willing to serve this country at all, are you?
[ laughter ] >> I feel -- I feel like I'm
doing my part right now. >> jimmy: You are, you are.
Let's take a break. Dr. Phil is with us, we'll be
right back. >> dicky: Portions of "jimmy
kimmel live" are brought to you by the samsung galaxy watch3.
Manage your life in style. To learn more, visit
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♪ >> jimmy: We are back with dr.
Phil. You're back doing your show.
You don't have a studio audience.
You do have guests in studio. >> well, I have robin in the
audience. She's been there for every show,
and she's there, she's coming every day.
>> jimmy: Right. >> the rest of them are virtual.
And we're piping them in from all over the world.
And you know, it's great to have them there, but it's different.
They're behind me. I can't see them.
I use the audience as a barometer to kind of know if
I've made my point or not. >> jimmy: Right.
>> if they're getting it, you move on.
If they're looking at you like dead trout, you know you need to
work a little further, you know? So it's hard, you don't have
that feedback. >> jimmy: Right.
And as far as like the people who are on your show, did you
call them guests? What do you call them, exactly?
Subjects? Patients?
[ laughter ] what are they?
>> winners. >> jimmy: Winners, okay.
[ laughter ] [ applause ]
>> jimmy: So the winners -- by the way, you know I like to
always look through the schedule on what you got coming up.
>> oh, here we go. [ laughter ]
>> jimmy: Tomorrow's show of winners is "help, my handicapped
husband treats me like a slave." and on Friday, "my dad believes
he's married to a woman named maria he's never met."
[ laughter ] >> that's true.
And maria's taken him for a lot of money.
>> jimmy: Do you believe in maria?
>> I don't believe maria's quite real.
>> jimmy: Uh-huh. >> and in fact, we found the
woman behind the picture maria, she lives in stockholm, sweden.
>> jimmy: Wow, really? A swede is duping us?
>> no, no, she just had her picture stolen.
>> jimmy: I see. >> somebody's using it.
I usually get through to these people pretty well.
Until I brought her out for him to see the real maria, who
actually is a twin, so I brought two of them out and he was like,
whoa! He never -- he still didn't
believe it. >> jimmy: You hit him with the
double maria? [ laughter ]
>> the double maria. >> jimmy: Only dr. Phil can do
that. >> honest to god he was like, I
get that you're not her -- but would you like to go out?
[ laughter ] trying to salvage something.
>> jimmy: Yeah, why not, what the hell at that point.
Wouldn't that be some love story?
We met on "the dr. Phil show." has anyone met on your show,
fallen in love, gone on to be married?
>> I'm sure. We've had 15,000, 20,000 guests.
>> jimmy: Yeah, I bet them haven't.
[ laughter ] >> yeah, probably not.
>> jimmy: Dr. Phil, you know what's weird is they were
saying -- your 70th birthday was in September.
And you were here right at your 60th birthday.
That's how long this has been happening.
>> this has been going on -- I'm a slow lerner.
[ laughter ] >> jimmy: Which birthday was
better, 60 or 70? >> we had a lot of fun.
Then, you could get together. Here, I think I got a pair of
socks or something. 70, much recess legal.
>> jimmy: Seal performed at your 60th birthday.
>> I think that's right, yeah. >> jimmy: You had nothing for
this birthday? You watch a video of seal on
youtube? What did you do?
>> no, I just kind of like -- >> jimmy: You sat there quietly?
>> things are different now. People are really -- this
togetherness for me has been great because I'm kind of a
homebody as you know. I don't get out a lot.
But I think for a lot of people, this has been a really tough
time. >> jimmy: It has, yes, for a lot
of people. Especially outgoing people who
really need to be around others. >> yeah.
>> jimmy: Do you think that we are going to be able to -- like
when we get the vaccine, hopefully, and things calm down,
do you think we're going to be able to ever go back to the way
things were? >> no.
>> jimmy: No? In what ways won't we be able to
adapt? >> I think people are going to
be pretty intimidated. I can't imagine people rushing
out to a movie theater and sitting in a closed room
breathing in everyone else's air.
In the near term. Can you?
Would you I do go sit in the middle of a movie theater?
>> jimmy: Not in the near term, but I could see it happening in
a year. >> yeah?
Maybe in a year. Depends on how the vaccine is
perceived and do people take it? And I think, you know, there's
been a spike in depression. There's been a spike in divorce.
There's been a lull in people going and getting medical
examinations and medical treatments which means there's
going to be problem with disease.
Kids out of school is creating a problem.
There's all kinds of issues that aren't going to really be
quantifiable for another year, two, five, ten.
I mean, this is a long-term impact of being in quarantine
this long. >> jimmy: Well, you've really
painted an optimistic picture of the future dr. Phil.
[ laughter ] >> I know.
But we can come back from it. I have a lot of people asking me
about it. I'm really frustrated with my
partner, you know, and I kind of give them all one piece of
advice. Before you judge, remember, you
too are probably a piece of [ bleep ].
[ laughter ] [ applause ]
getrbarings before you jump and realize who you are --
>> jimmy: Please call donald trump, please.
Dr. Phil, everybody. We'll be back with john king
from cnn! >>> next week on "jimmy kimmel
live" -- >> jimmy: Welcome back to the
show. Music from maren morris on the
way. Not since the heyday of a little
alien named e.T. Has an index finger guided us through an
emotional journey like our next guest.
He is the maestro of the magic wall on cnn, host of "inside
politics" six days a week too. Please welcome the "chart-throb"
himself, john king. Hi, john.
>> good to see you, jimmy, how are you?
>> jimmy: I love -- are you chained to that wall?
Why are you at the wall? [ laughter ]
>> the bastards put super glue on the floor, I'm stuck.
>> jimmy: It's kind of comforting to see you there.
It's like being han solo in front of the "millennium falcon"
or something. >> I'll take that.
>> jimmy: How are you doing? >> doing all right.
An exciting, somewhat exhausting, exhilarating week.
You think you have election week in america, it's normally
election night. You think election week and
you'll be done. As you noted last night, there's
the crazy guy on the subway platform who's not very good at
math and there we go. >> jimmy: You're very good at
math. Is it daunting to do math on
live television? >> I went to six years of
catholic school and I always thought the nuns were driving me
crazy, now I owe them a great debt of gratitude.
You didn'ts. At the time it might help you
someday. >> jimmy: You feel the sting of
that ruler, suddenly you know how to add everything.
Are there counties you will miss after this is done?
Are there areas of the country that you've grown fond of
pointing at them for like eight days in a row now?
>> we can both joke about this and be serious about it at the
same time, because this is the gift.
This is my ninth presidential election.
My early ones I traveled all the time.
I've been to most of these places and I love them.
But I'm a map geek because of this.
And like viggo county, indiana. I'll pop it up for you here.
All the way back to 1956, jimmy. [ cheers and applause ]
they have picked the presidential winner, the streak
is over. Donald trump carried vigo county
this year. So they gain something else for
fame now. The pence vice presidential
library, maybe, will go there. [ laughter ]
>> jimmy: Just what trump needs to hear.
If trump finds out he won in vigo county, we're never going
to get him out of the white house.
Is the magic wall really magic? >> yes.
How can I say -- that would blow up everything.
>> jimmy: I always feel like you're the only one there who
knows how to work the wall. For me, I'm the only one at home
that can get the television on, so I'm valuable.
They keep me around forever. [ laughter ]
you seem to have mastered that wall.
Do you practice? Do you dream about it at night?
>> sometimes. Truth.
[ laughter ] fact check, mostly true.
Look, we unveiled this technology in 2008, and we've
updated every cycle since. I think it's become -- you know,
to the flattery I received on social media and elsewhere, I'm
grateful for that, don't get me wrong.
But I think a lot of it is for people in a high-anxiety
election, this is a comfortable pair of slippers.
They're used to it, they trust it, I trust it.
It's a great tool. I learn a ton.
I've done this, ninth presidential election.
Every night on election night when there's live data flying
in, red one second, it turns blue, I'm meeting america right
here. >> jimmy: I didn't realize how
much you loved that wall until just now.
[ laughter ] you really love that wall.
>> I have issues, yeah. >> jimmy: I remember when you
debuted the magic wall. I remember making a lot of fun
of the magic wall. And having a real good time with
the wall. And now, yeah, you're right, the
wall has become like somehow the window to the election.
And the way you handled it, I have to say, I think you did a
great job throughout the whole thing.
>> thank you. >> jimmy: You were --
[ cheers and applause ] I think you were aware of what
we, the viewers, were going through.
And you tortured us so gently. [ laughter ]
just releasing these little bits of information.
The way you were talking, remember?
These results are here. You spoke very succinctly, you
spoke very calmingly. It was like you were calming a
horse in a lightning storm. [ laughter ]
>> I like the analogy. Look, this was the most
difficult election ever. Because of the different rules.
Because of the pandemic. Right?
Some people voted by mail. Lots of people did.
Some people stood in line and voted early.
Other people showed up on election day.
What you were seeing, it's not a mirage.
People talk about a red mirage or a blue mirage.
It's not a mirage, it was real, but it wasn't contextual.
Some states, election ballots coming in first.
Other states, mail-in. I had to tell them, calm down,
we're waiting for votes. That was both fun for me, but I
got in trouble for saying it was fun, just because this thing
teaches me a lot and I want to tell people, calm down, early
innings, you've got to wait till the end.
>> jimmy: When you're on air, are you aware that everyone is
posting about you nonstop, all the time?
>> no. I don't get to see much of it on
live television, obviously. Occasionally I'll get a text
from one of my siblings abusing me.
[ laughter ] that's when I know there's
something going on, on the internet.
The first night I got home 3:30 Wednesday morning, get two
hours' sleep, come right back. But I was responding to emails
and sending out emails with questions in the battleground
states that hadn't been called. I could see some of it and I
realized, number one, gas global.
The interest in the election was global.
The most gratifying thing was the interest of young people.
I have a tiktok fan cam, and I'm on jimmy kimmel in the same
week. [ cheers and applause ]
my 9-year-old is going to think I'm cool, for about 40 seconds.
>> jimmy: I always knew you'd have a tiktok fan club.
>> I do. >> jimmy: Saturday cnn called
the election for joe biden. Are you part of that decision?
Who makes that decision? If not you?
>> we have a great team of people on the decision desk.
They're our green eyeshade people.
They're fantastic. They spend months studying the
data, preparing the statistics. I'm not part of it.
I used to do that in my old job before I switched to television.
On live television I do my thing, they're doing theirs.
I trust them. I knew Saturday morning we were
getting close. Then we had some results come in
from philadelphia and the city. I'm doing my thing and they say,
keep going. I'm like, okay, I keep going.
They say, wolf, wolf, wolf! I turn to wolf, and there it
was, the magic wolf blitzer. >> jimmy: Wolf gets to make the
call. You're not allowed to jump in
and make the call before wolf? >> no, that would be like a
mutiny. [ laughter ]
>> jimmy: Exactly. >> they frown on that.
>> jimmy: And are you and wolf privately, like during
commercial breaks, going, when are they going to make this call
already! We want to go home!
>> if you're watching you could see some of that.
I would say, I know you're frustrated, we're frustrated
too. I was not lying, that was not
fake news, that was coming right at you.
Let's do this. But for a serious point, we have
a great team. When I first came to cnn, wolf
was the senior white house correspondent, I was the new
guy. Being in this room with wolf was
actually a hoot, it was a lot of fun.
>> jimmy: I don't know if you know this, wolf looks exactly
like my father. [ laughter ]
literally, for me it's like watching my father call the
election. [ laughter ]
anyway, I think you did a great job.
I enjoyed watching you. Thanks for drawing it out so
politely and calmly. And I think you guys did a
terrific job. Now go get some sleep, and maybe
spend a week or so pointing at a cocktail menu or something on
the beach somewhere. [ cheers and applause ]
>> I like that idea. >> jimmy: John king, everybody.
"inside politics" weekdays at noon, sundays at 8:00 only on
cnn. Thanks, john.
Be right back with maren morris! [ cheers and applause ]
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[ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: Thanks to dr. Phil,
thanks to john king. Apologies to matt damon.
"nightline" is next, but first, her album is called "girl."
from the mother church in nashville, with the song,
"to hell & back," maren morris! [ cheers and applause ]
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