1 00:00:09,579 --> 00:00:10,111 >> John: HEY THERE, IT'S ME. 2 00:00:10,180 --> 00:00:10,678 THE SHOW HASN'T STARTED YET. 3 00:00:10,747 --> 00:00:12,013 I MEAN, CLEARLY, IT'S STARTED A 4 00:00:12,082 --> 00:00:12,980 LITTLE BIT. 5 00:00:13,049 --> 00:00:14,515 I AM ALREADY TALKING TO YOU. 6 00:00:14,584 --> 00:00:16,617 BUT BEFORE THE MUSIC AND THE 7 00:00:16,686 --> 00:00:23,558 LIGHTS AND AT LEAST -- 8 00:00:23,627 --> 00:00:24,192 THEORETICALLY -- THE LAUGHTER -- 9 00:00:24,261 --> 00:00:24,826 I WANTED TO BRIEFLY TALK TO YOU 10 00:00:24,895 --> 00:00:25,393 ABOUT WHAT'S CLEARLY BEEN A 11 00:00:25,462 --> 00:00:25,726 TERRIBLE WEEK. 12 00:00:25,795 --> 00:00:26,360 THE IMMENSE SUFFERING IN ISRAEL 13 00:00:26,429 --> 00:00:26,961 AND GAZA HAS BEEN SICKENING TO 14 00:00:27,030 --> 00:00:28,129 WATCH. 15 00:00:28,198 --> 00:00:29,897 AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE 16 00:00:29,966 --> 00:00:30,965 COVERING IT IN THE MAIN BODY OF 17 00:00:31,034 --> 00:00:31,599 OUR SHOW TONIGHT, FOR A COUPLE 18 00:00:31,668 --> 00:00:32,233 OF REASONS. 19 00:00:32,302 --> 00:00:33,668 FIRST, IT'S HORRIFIC. 20 00:00:33,737 --> 00:00:34,869 I DON'T REALLY WANT TO TELL 21 00:00:34,938 --> 00:00:36,237 JOKES ABOUT CARNAGE RIGHT NOW, 22 00:00:36,306 --> 00:00:38,072 AND I'M PRETTY SURE YOU DON'T 23 00:00:38,141 --> 00:00:39,207 WANT TO HEAR THEM. 24 00:00:39,276 --> 00:00:40,708 AND SECOND, WE'RE TAPING THIS ON 25 00:00:40,777 --> 00:00:42,710 SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AND YOU'LL 26 00:00:42,779 --> 00:00:44,045 BE WATCHING IT SUNDAY NIGHT, OR 27 00:00:44,114 --> 00:00:45,680 MONDAY MORNING THROUGH AN 28 00:00:45,749 --> 00:00:47,014 ILLEGAL VPN -- I DO KNOW WHO I 29 00:00:47,083 --> 00:00:48,649 AM TALKING TO. 30 00:00:48,718 --> 00:00:51,686 BUT THE POINT IS, GIVEN HOW FAST 31 00:00:51,755 --> 00:00:53,654 THINGS ARE MOVING, A LOT COULD 32 00:00:53,723 --> 00:00:55,523 CHANGE BETWEEN THE TIME I'M 33 00:00:55,592 --> 00:00:56,157 SAYING THIS, AND THE TIME THAT 34 00:00:56,226 --> 00:00:59,827 YOU HEAR IT. 35 00:00:59,896 --> 00:01:00,495 BUT I DO HAVE A FEW BROAD 36 00:01:00,564 --> 00:01:01,129 THOUGHTS THAT I THINK WILL STILL 37 00:01:01,198 --> 00:01:02,430 APPLY. 38 00:01:02,499 --> 00:01:03,464 AND THEY HAVE TO DO WITH SORROW, 39 00:01:03,533 --> 00:01:08,569 FEAR AND ANGER. 40 00:01:08,638 --> 00:01:09,203 NOW SORROW IS THE FIRST AND MOST 41 00:01:09,272 --> 00:01:09,670 OVERWHELMING FEELING. 42 00:01:09,739 --> 00:01:11,472 THE IMAGES WE'VE SEEN THIS WEEK, 43 00:01:11,541 --> 00:01:12,106 FROM LAST SATURDAY ONWARDS, HAVE 44 00:01:12,175 --> 00:01:14,942 BEEN HEARTBREAKING. 45 00:01:15,011 --> 00:01:15,710 THOUSANDS ARE NOW DEAD IN ISRAEL 46 00:01:15,779 --> 00:01:17,445 AND GAZA. 47 00:01:17,514 --> 00:01:20,148 IT'S BEEN DEVASTATING, NOT JUST 48 00:01:20,217 --> 00:01:20,848 TO THOSE IN THE REGION BUT TO 49 00:01:20,917 --> 00:01:21,883 DIASPORA COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE 50 00:01:21,952 --> 00:01:22,383 WORLD. 51 00:01:22,452 --> 00:01:25,219 WHATEVER THOUGHTS YOU HAVE ABOUT 52 00:01:25,288 --> 00:01:26,587 THE HISTORY OF THIS REGION, OR 53 00:01:26,656 --> 00:01:27,221 THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS -- 54 00:01:27,290 --> 00:01:28,523 AND I'VE SHARED MINE ON THIS 55 00:01:28,592 --> 00:01:29,991 SHOW IN THE PAST -- IT SHOULD BE 56 00:01:30,060 --> 00:01:31,759 IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE GRIEVING 57 00:01:31,828 --> 00:01:34,262 FAMILIES AND NOT BE MOVED. 58 00:01:34,331 --> 00:01:35,730 SO THERE'S BEEN SORROW THIS 59 00:01:35,799 --> 00:01:36,898 WEEK, A LOT OF IT, AND ALSO 60 00:01:36,967 --> 00:01:39,167 FEAR. 61 00:01:39,236 --> 00:01:40,768 UNDERSTANDABLE FEAR OF FURTHER 62 00:01:40,837 --> 00:01:47,837 ATTACKS IN ISRAEL. 63 00:01:47,944 --> 00:01:48,476 AND FOR THOSE TAKEN HOSTAGE. 64 00:01:48,545 --> 00:01:49,076 AND FEAR OF WHAT'S TO COME IN 65 00:01:49,145 --> 00:01:49,677 GAZA, AS ISRAEL'S LEADERS SEEM 66 00:01:49,746 --> 00:01:56,746 INTENT ON EMBARKING ON A 67 00:01:57,587 --> 00:01:58,085 RELENTLESS BOMBING CAMPAIGN, 68 00:01:58,154 --> 00:01:58,553 MASS DISPLACEMENT, AND 69 00:01:58,622 --> 00:01:59,120 A POTENTIAL GROUND INVASION. 70 00:01:59,189 --> 00:01:59,754 I DON'T KNOW WHERE THINGS STAND 71 00:01:59,823 --> 00:02:00,388 IN GAZA AS YOU WATCH THIS RIGHT 72 00:02:00,457 --> 00:02:00,988 NOW, BUT ALL SIGNS SEEM TO BE 73 00:02:01,057 --> 00:02:01,589 POINTING TOWARD A HUMANITARIAN 74 00:02:01,658 --> 00:02:04,692 CATASTROPHE. 75 00:02:04,761 --> 00:02:06,461 ISRAELI OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED 76 00:02:06,530 --> 00:02:08,496 PLANS TO CUT OFF WATER, FUEL, 77 00:02:08,565 --> 00:02:08,763 AND POWER. 78 00:02:08,832 --> 00:02:09,263 HOSPITALS ARE RUNNING ON 79 00:02:09,332 --> 00:02:10,898 GENERATORS. 80 00:02:10,967 --> 00:02:12,033 THIS HAS ALL THE APPEARANCES OF 81 00:02:12,102 --> 00:02:12,667 COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT, WHICH IS 82 00:02:12,736 --> 00:02:15,002 A WAR CRIME. 83 00:02:15,071 --> 00:02:16,671 AND I THINK MANY ISRAELIS AND 84 00:02:16,740 --> 00:02:19,173 PALESTINIANS ARE FEELING 85 00:02:19,242 --> 00:02:22,009 JUSTIFIABLE ANGER RIGHT NOW -- 86 00:02:22,078 --> 00:02:25,379 NOT JUST AT HAMAS, WHOSE HEINOUS 87 00:02:25,448 --> 00:02:27,949 TERRORIST ACTS SET THE WEEK'S 88 00:02:28,018 --> 00:02:28,983 EVENTS IN MOTION, BUT ALSO AT 89 00:02:29,052 --> 00:02:29,851 THE ZEALOTS AND EXTREMISTS, 90 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:32,053 ACROSS THE BOARD, WHO'VE 91 00:02:32,122 --> 00:02:33,154 CONSISTENTLY THWARTED ATTEMPTS 92 00:02:33,223 --> 00:02:35,556 AT PEACE OVER THE YEARS. 93 00:02:35,625 --> 00:02:37,091 ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS HAVE 94 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:37,758 BEEN LET DOWN BY THEIR 95 00:02:37,827 --> 00:02:41,028 LEADERSHIP TIME AND TIME AGAIN, 96 00:02:41,097 --> 00:02:42,497 AND I DON'T HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF 97 00:02:42,566 --> 00:02:44,365 FAITH IN THE LEADERS CURRENTLY 98 00:02:44,434 --> 00:02:44,932 IN CHARGE TO STEER US TOWARD 99 00:02:45,001 --> 00:02:46,934 PEACE. 100 00:02:47,003 --> 00:02:50,171 BUT I DO STILL HAVE SOME HOPE. 101 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,640 BECAUSE THE EASIEST THING TO DO 102 00:02:52,709 --> 00:02:54,442 IN THE WORLD, AFTER A WEEK LIKE 103 00:02:54,511 --> 00:02:54,909 THIS, IS TO ENGAGE IN 104 00:02:54,978 --> 00:02:57,745 BLOODTHIRSTY RHETORIC. 105 00:02:57,814 --> 00:02:59,213 AND THERE'S CERTAINLY BEEN 106 00:02:59,282 --> 00:02:59,781 PLENTY OF THAT FROM THOSE IN 107 00:02:59,850 --> 00:03:01,382 POWER. 108 00:03:01,451 --> 00:03:02,750 BUT I WILL SAY, I'VE BEEN STRUCK 109 00:03:02,819 --> 00:03:06,087 BY THE MANY ORDINARY CITIZENS, 110 00:03:06,156 --> 00:03:06,687 BOTH ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN, 111 00:03:06,756 --> 00:03:08,156 WHO'VE CALLED FOR RESTRAINT THIS 112 00:03:08,225 --> 00:03:11,125 WEEK, AND NOT REVENGE. 113 00:03:11,194 --> 00:03:12,660 JUST LISTEN TO HOW NOI KATZMAN, 114 00:03:12,729 --> 00:03:15,096 WHOSE BROTHER HAYIM WAS MURDERED 115 00:03:15,165 --> 00:03:17,265 BY HAMAS LAST SATURDAY, CHOSE TO 116 00:03:17,334 --> 00:03:18,566 END THIS INTERVIEW. 117 00:03:18,635 --> 00:03:20,101 >> I'M SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS. 118 00:03:20,170 --> 00:03:22,570 >> CAN I SAY ONE MORE THING? 119 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:23,871 >> YEAH. 120 00:03:23,940 --> 00:03:24,672 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR -- 121 00:03:24,741 --> 00:03:26,541 >> YEAH, SO, WHAT I WANTED TO 122 00:03:26,610 --> 00:03:28,176 SAY IS, THE MOST IMPORTANT FOR 123 00:03:28,245 --> 00:03:29,911 ME, AND I THINK ALSO FOR MY 124 00:03:29,980 --> 00:03:32,647 BROTHER, WAS THAT HIS DEATH 125 00:03:32,716 --> 00:03:33,714 WON'T BE USED TO KILL INNOCENT 126 00:03:33,783 --> 00:03:35,650 PEOPLE. 127 00:03:35,719 --> 00:03:36,784 I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO HAPPEN 128 00:03:36,853 --> 00:03:37,952 TO PEOPLE IN GAZA LIKE IT 129 00:03:38,021 --> 00:03:39,153 HAPPENS TO MY BROTHER. 130 00:03:39,222 --> 00:03:40,321 AND I'M SURE HE WOULDN'T HAVE 131 00:03:40,390 --> 00:03:42,757 ANY -- EITHER. 132 00:03:42,826 --> 00:03:44,058 SO THAT'S MY CALL TO MY 133 00:03:44,127 --> 00:03:45,760 GOVERNMENT. 134 00:03:45,829 --> 00:03:48,696 STOP KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE. 135 00:03:48,765 --> 00:03:49,697 AND THAT'S NOT THE WAY THAT 136 00:03:49,766 --> 00:03:52,366 BRINGS US PEACE AND SECURITY TO 137 00:03:52,435 --> 00:03:53,868 PEOPLE IN ISRAEL. 138 00:03:53,937 --> 00:03:55,303 >> John: RIGHT. 139 00:03:55,372 --> 00:03:56,838 PEOPLE WANT AND ARE ENTITLED TO 140 00:03:56,907 --> 00:03:58,739 PEACE. 141 00:03:58,808 --> 00:04:00,174 AND I'M NOT GOING TO TELL EITHER 142 00:04:00,243 --> 00:04:01,509 SIDE HOW TO GET IT -- CERTAINLY 143 00:04:01,578 --> 00:04:03,377 NOT IN THIS ACCENT, WHICH HAS 144 00:04:03,446 --> 00:04:06,214 FRANKLY DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE IN 145 00:04:06,283 --> 00:04:07,181 THAT PARTICULAR REGION TO LAST 146 00:04:07,250 --> 00:04:09,750 A FUCKING LIFETIME. 147 00:04:09,819 --> 00:04:11,452 BUT JUST KNOW, IN THE LONG TERM, 148 00:04:11,521 --> 00:04:12,820 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO LIVE 149 00:04:12,889 --> 00:04:14,355 IN THAT REGION ARE GOING TO KEEP 150 00:04:14,424 --> 00:04:16,224 LIVING THERE. 151 00:04:16,293 --> 00:04:18,960 SO PEACE IS NOT OPTIONAL, AND 152 00:04:19,029 --> 00:04:19,460 WILL REQUIRE SOME TOUGH 153 00:04:19,529 --> 00:04:21,729 DECISIONS. 154 00:04:21,798 --> 00:04:23,631 AND I CAN'T SAY WHERE A PEACE 155 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:24,265 PROCESS ENDS, BUT IT JUST HAS TO 156 00:04:24,334 --> 00:04:25,967 START WITH THAT KIND OF ABILITY 157 00:04:26,036 --> 00:04:28,302 TO RECOGNIZE OUR COMMON 158 00:04:28,371 --> 00:04:30,104 HUMANITY. 159 00:04:30,173 --> 00:04:32,473 THAT'S HONESTLY ALL I'VE GOT FOR 160 00:04:32,542 --> 00:04:34,108 YOU RIGHT NOW, BUT WE DO STILL 161 00:04:34,177 --> 00:04:36,744 HAVE OUR REGULAR COMEDY SHOW. 162 00:04:36,813 --> 00:04:37,979 AND IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, I'LL 163 00:04:38,048 --> 00:04:40,148 SEE YOU THE OTHER SIDE OF OUR 164 00:04:40,217 --> 00:04:41,849 OPENING TITLES, WHEN THERE'LL BE 165 00:04:41,918 --> 00:04:43,451 LIGHTS, THERE'LL BE MUSIC AND -- 166 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,620 AGAIN, PURELY THEORETICALLY, NO 167 00:04:45,689 --> 00:04:47,855 PRESSURE ON THE AUDIENCE -- AT 168 00:04:47,924 --> 00:04:50,758 LEAST SOME SPORADIC LAUGHTER. 169 00:04:50,827 --> 00:04:51,726 AND NOW, THIS. 170 00:04:51,795 --> 00:05:03,740 ♪ ♪ 171 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:10,077 ♪ ♪ 172 00:05:10,146 --> 00:05:14,248 ♪ ♪ 173 00:05:14,317 --> 00:05:17,185 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 174 00:05:17,254 --> 00:05:18,386 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 175 00:05:18,455 --> 00:05:19,554 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 176 00:05:19,623 --> 00:05:21,823 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANK YOU SO 177 00:05:21,892 --> 00:05:22,423 MUCH FOR JOINING US. 178 00:05:22,492 --> 00:05:24,492 IT'S BEEN A BUSY WEEK. 179 00:05:24,561 --> 00:05:25,927 RFK JR. ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNING 180 00:05:25,996 --> 00:05:26,861 FOR PRESIDENT AS AN INDEPENDENT, 181 00:05:26,930 --> 00:05:28,296 JADA PINKETT SMITH REVEALED THAT 182 00:05:28,365 --> 00:05:30,164 SHE AND WILL HAVE BEEN SEPARATED 183 00:05:30,233 --> 00:05:32,133 SINCE 2016, AND SENATOR 184 00:05:32,202 --> 00:05:33,701 BOB MENENDEZ FOUND HIMSELF IN 185 00:05:33,770 --> 00:05:35,503 WHAT'S KNOWN IN THE LEGAL WORLD 186 00:05:35,572 --> 00:05:37,472 AS "EVEN DEEPER SHIT." 187 00:05:37,541 --> 00:05:38,506 BUT WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON 188 00:05:38,575 --> 00:05:39,273 WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING ON 189 00:05:39,342 --> 00:05:40,408 CAPITOL HILL. 190 00:05:40,477 --> 00:05:41,309 IT'S NOW BEEN A WEEK AND A HALF 191 00:05:41,378 --> 00:05:42,343 SINCE EIGHT REPRESENTATIVES 192 00:05:42,412 --> 00:05:43,811 STAGED A COUP AGAINST KEVIN 193 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:45,279 McCARTHY, AND EVER SINCE, THE 194 00:05:45,348 --> 00:05:46,481 PARTY HAS BEEN STRUGGLING TO 195 00:05:46,550 --> 00:05:47,615 PICK A NEW SPEAKER. 196 00:05:47,684 --> 00:05:49,650 STEVE SCALISE WON A SECRET 197 00:05:49,719 --> 00:05:51,152 BALLOT ON WEDNESDAY TO BE PUT 198 00:05:51,221 --> 00:05:52,420 FORWARD FOR A VOTE AS SPEAKER, 199 00:05:52,489 --> 00:05:53,588 ONLY TO WITHDRAW THE FOLLOWING 200 00:05:53,657 --> 00:05:55,423 DAY, AFTER IT BECAME CLEAR HE 201 00:05:55,492 --> 00:05:55,957 WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO WIN A 202 00:05:56,026 --> 00:05:57,258 MAJORITY. 203 00:05:57,327 --> 00:05:58,359 AND ONE NOTABLE HOUSE MEMBER 204 00:05:58,428 --> 00:06:00,361 SUMMED UP WHY HE PERSONALLY 205 00:06:00,430 --> 00:06:02,163 COULD NEVER VOTE FOR SCALISE. 206 00:06:02,232 --> 00:06:03,164 >> I'VE REACHED OUT NUMEROUS 207 00:06:03,233 --> 00:06:05,333 TIMES TO CONGRESSMAN SCALISE, 208 00:06:05,402 --> 00:06:06,634 AND ME REACHING OUT AND ASKING 209 00:06:06,703 --> 00:06:07,902 HIM FOR GUIDANCE IN HIS 210 00:06:07,971 --> 00:06:09,504 LEADERSHIP AND HIM NOT REACHING 211 00:06:09,573 --> 00:06:11,539 BACK OUT, THAT'S A DERELICTION 212 00:06:11,608 --> 00:06:12,774 OF HIS DUTY AS A LEADER, SO I'M 213 00:06:12,843 --> 00:06:13,674 NOT VOTING FOR SOMEBODY WHO 214 00:06:13,743 --> 00:06:14,242 LACKS FUNDAMENTAL LEADERSHIP 215 00:06:14,311 --> 00:06:15,543 SKILLS. 216 00:06:15,612 --> 00:06:16,010 >> IS HE SNUBBING YOU? 217 00:06:16,079 --> 00:06:16,611 >> I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T CARE, 218 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,579 QUITE FRANKLY. 219 00:06:18,648 --> 00:06:19,280 >> John: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT 220 00:06:19,349 --> 00:06:24,218 THAT? 221 00:06:24,287 --> 00:06:25,987 BECAUSE IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE 222 00:06:26,056 --> 00:06:26,554 IT'S BECAUSE SCALISE SNUBBED 223 00:06:26,623 --> 00:06:26,721 YOU. 224 00:06:26,790 --> 00:06:27,355 HONESTLY, SANTOS SAYING "I DON'T 225 00:06:27,424 --> 00:06:27,955 CARE" IN A TONE THAT MAKES IT 226 00:06:28,024 --> 00:06:30,892 CLEAR HE ABSOLUTELY CARES, 227 00:06:30,961 --> 00:06:32,126 MIGHT BE THE MOST TRANSPARENT 228 00:06:32,195 --> 00:06:33,294 LIE THAT HE'S EVER TOLD. 229 00:06:33,363 --> 00:06:34,061 WHICH IS SAYING SOMETHING, 230 00:06:34,130 --> 00:06:34,996 BECAUSE REMEMBER -- THIS IS A 231 00:06:35,065 --> 00:06:36,063 MAN WHO SAID HE WAS A STAR 232 00:06:36,132 --> 00:06:37,799 VOLLEYBALL PLAYER AT A COLLEGE 233 00:06:37,868 --> 00:06:39,066 HE DIDN'T EVEN GO TO, AND SAID 234 00:06:39,135 --> 00:06:40,768 9/11 CLAIMED HIS MOTHER'S LIFE 235 00:06:40,837 --> 00:06:41,936 EVEN THOUGH RECORDS SHOW THAT 236 00:06:42,005 --> 00:06:42,537 SHE WASN'T IN NEW YORK AND SHE 237 00:06:42,606 --> 00:06:46,340 DIED IN 2016. 238 00:06:46,409 --> 00:06:48,843 FOR GEORGE SANTOS, AN ALMOST 239 00:06:48,912 --> 00:06:52,079 CLINICALLY CHAOTIC MAN, TO 240 00:06:52,148 --> 00:06:52,547 DECIDE YOU DON'T HAVE 241 00:06:52,616 --> 00:06:53,181 FUNDAMENTAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS IS 242 00:06:53,250 --> 00:06:55,883 TRULY DAMNING. 243 00:06:55,952 --> 00:06:57,118 ALL WEEK LONG, REPUBLICANS MET 244 00:06:57,187 --> 00:06:58,119 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS TO TRY AND 245 00:06:58,188 --> 00:06:58,820 PICK A LEADER. 246 00:06:58,889 --> 00:07:00,888 ALTHOUGH GLIMPSES OF CHAOS KEPT 247 00:07:00,957 --> 00:07:02,690 LEAKING INTO PUBLIC VIEW, LIKE 248 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:03,958 WHEN ONE REPRESENTATIVE WAS SEEN 249 00:07:04,027 --> 00:07:05,159 BRINGING A LASSO INTO THE 250 00:07:05,228 --> 00:07:06,427 SESSION. 251 00:07:06,496 --> 00:07:07,695 AND YOU KNOW THINGS ARE MESSY 252 00:07:07,764 --> 00:07:09,630 WHEN A U.S. CONGRESSWOMAN WALKS 253 00:07:09,699 --> 00:07:10,932 DOWN THE HALLWAY WITH SOME HORSE 254 00:07:11,001 --> 00:07:12,300 EQUIPMENT AND ALL ANYONE CAN SAY 255 00:07:12,369 --> 00:07:13,134 IS, "YOU KNOW WHAT? 256 00:07:13,203 --> 00:07:15,736 THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW!" 257 00:07:15,805 --> 00:07:17,205 MEANWHILE, REPRESENTATIVE 258 00:07:17,274 --> 00:07:19,107 NANCY MACE -- ONE OF THE EIGHT 259 00:07:19,176 --> 00:07:20,174 WHO OUSTED McCARTHY -- SHOWED UP 260 00:07:20,243 --> 00:07:21,509 WEARING A RED "A," AND OFFERED 261 00:07:21,578 --> 00:07:22,877 THIS UTTERLY INCOHERENT 262 00:07:22,946 --> 00:07:24,579 EXPLANATION. 263 00:07:24,648 --> 00:07:25,680 >> I'M WEARING THE SCARLET 264 00:07:25,749 --> 00:07:27,315 LETTER AFTER THE WEEK THAT I 265 00:07:27,384 --> 00:07:28,850 JUST HAD LAST WEEK, BEING A 266 00:07:28,919 --> 00:07:30,284 WOMAN UP HERE AND BEING 267 00:07:30,353 --> 00:07:31,419 DEMONIZED FOR MY VOTE AND FOR MY 268 00:07:31,488 --> 00:07:32,920 VOICE. 269 00:07:32,989 --> 00:07:34,088 I'M HERE TO LET THE REST OF THE 270 00:07:34,157 --> 00:07:34,822 WORLD KNOW, AND THE COUNTRY 271 00:07:34,891 --> 00:07:35,389 KNOW, I'M ON THE SIDE OF THE 272 00:07:35,458 --> 00:07:36,557 PEOPLE. 273 00:07:36,626 --> 00:07:37,758 I'M NOT ON THE SIDE OF THE 274 00:07:37,827 --> 00:07:38,392 ESTABLISHMENT, AND I'M GOING TO 275 00:07:38,461 --> 00:07:39,460 DO THE RIGHT THING EVERY SINGLE 276 00:07:39,529 --> 00:07:40,995 TIME, NO MATTER THE 277 00:07:41,064 --> 00:07:42,630 CONSEQUENCES, 'CAUSE I DON'T 278 00:07:42,699 --> 00:07:44,198 ANSWER TO ANYBODY IN D.C., I 279 00:07:44,267 --> 00:07:45,600 DON'T ANSWER TO ANYONE IN 280 00:07:45,669 --> 00:07:47,001 WASHINGTON, I ONLY ANSWER TO THE 281 00:07:47,070 --> 00:07:49,103 PEOPLE. 282 00:07:49,172 --> 00:07:51,506 >> John: WAIT, WHAT DO YOU 283 00:07:51,575 --> 00:07:52,240 THINK "THE SCARLET LETTER" IS 284 00:07:52,309 --> 00:07:54,542 ABOUT? 285 00:07:54,611 --> 00:07:55,143 AND NOBODY HELP HER, LET NANCY 286 00:07:55,212 --> 00:07:57,445 ANSWER. 287 00:07:57,514 --> 00:07:58,679 I WANT TO HEAR EXACTLY WHAT SHE 288 00:07:58,748 --> 00:08:00,515 THINKS THE 19TH CENTURY NOVEL 289 00:08:00,584 --> 00:08:03,151 "THE SCARLET LETTER" IS ABOUT. 290 00:08:03,220 --> 00:08:04,585 DO YOU THINK HESTER PRYNNE HAD 291 00:08:04,654 --> 00:08:05,553 TO WEAR A SCARLET "A" BECAUSE 292 00:08:05,622 --> 00:08:07,421 SHE GIRLBOSSED TOO HARD FOR 293 00:08:07,490 --> 00:08:09,824 PURITANICAL NEW ENGLAND? 294 00:08:09,893 --> 00:08:11,025 I'M JUST SAYING, MAYBE READ A 295 00:08:11,094 --> 00:08:11,926 BOOK BEFORE YOU TRY AND COMPARE 296 00:08:11,995 --> 00:08:13,461 YOURSELF TO ITS PROTAGONIST. 297 00:08:13,530 --> 00:08:15,596 THERE'S A REASON I WOULDN'T SAY 298 00:08:15,665 --> 00:08:16,731 I'M LIKE CHRISTIAN GREY BECAUSE 299 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,366 I ALSO WEAR A SUIT. 300 00:08:18,435 --> 00:08:20,234 THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BOOK IS 301 00:08:20,303 --> 00:08:22,203 ABOUT, AND, LET'S BE HONEST, 302 00:08:22,272 --> 00:08:24,806 THIS SUIT WEARS ME. 303 00:08:24,875 --> 00:08:26,374 BUT IT WASN'T JUST MACE AND 304 00:08:26,443 --> 00:08:28,376 SANTOS, LOTS OF MEMBERS WERE 305 00:08:28,445 --> 00:08:29,143 TALKING SHIT TO THE PRESS, WITH 306 00:08:29,212 --> 00:08:31,078 ONE COMPARING DISCUSSIONS TO "A 307 00:08:31,147 --> 00:08:32,647 MARRIAGE COUNSELING SESSION" AND 308 00:08:32,716 --> 00:08:33,648 ANOTHER LIKENING THE PARTY'S 309 00:08:33,717 --> 00:08:34,382 ANTICS TO THE TV SHOW 310 00:08:34,451 --> 00:08:36,184 "HOUSE OF CARDS." 311 00:08:36,253 --> 00:08:37,685 WHICH I GUESS IS TRUE IN THAT IT 312 00:08:37,754 --> 00:08:38,553 WAS KIND OF FUN TO WATCH AT 313 00:08:38,622 --> 00:08:39,320 FIRST, BUT NOW I'M JUST 314 00:08:39,389 --> 00:08:40,488 EXHAUSTED BY IT. 315 00:08:40,557 --> 00:08:41,823 THERE'S ACTUALLY ANOTHER WAY IN 316 00:08:41,892 --> 00:08:43,257 WHICH THIS DRAMA'S LIKE 317 00:08:43,326 --> 00:08:44,425 "HOUSE OF CARDS," AND IT 318 00:08:44,494 --> 00:08:46,494 INVOLVES SOMETHING ONE OF ITS 319 00:08:46,563 --> 00:08:47,895 KEY PROTAGONISTS, MATT GAETZ, 320 00:08:47,964 --> 00:08:49,931 HAS IN COMMON WITH KEVIN SPACEY. 321 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,699 SADLY, MY LAWYERS TOLD ME I 322 00:08:51,768 --> 00:08:52,767 CAN'T SAY WHAT IT IS. 323 00:08:52,836 --> 00:08:54,969 BUT I CAN THINK IT. 324 00:08:55,038 --> 00:09:01,275 AND SO CAN ALL OF YOU. 325 00:09:01,344 --> 00:09:02,677 [LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] 326 00:09:02,746 --> 00:09:03,244 AND TO HEAR SOME FRUSTRATED 327 00:09:03,313 --> 00:09:03,778 HOUSE MEMBERS TELL IT, THE 328 00:09:03,847 --> 00:09:04,579 FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THAT 329 00:09:04,648 --> 00:09:06,647 THEIR PARTY AS A WHOLE IS NOW 330 00:09:06,716 --> 00:09:07,982 SET UP TO REWARD BAD BEHAVIOR. 331 00:09:08,051 --> 00:09:09,217 >> THESE GUYS WANT TO BE IN THE 332 00:09:09,286 --> 00:09:11,352 MINORITY, I THINK THEY WOULD 333 00:09:11,421 --> 00:09:12,520 PREFER THAT BECAUSE THEY CAN 334 00:09:12,589 --> 00:09:13,554 JUST VOTE NO AND YELL AND SCREAM 335 00:09:13,623 --> 00:09:15,189 ALL THE TIME. 336 00:09:15,258 --> 00:09:15,823 AND -- BUT GOVERNING, YOU'VE GOT 337 00:09:15,892 --> 00:09:17,592 TO WORK TOGETHER. 338 00:09:17,661 --> 00:09:18,526 >> IT'S A TOUGH SCENARIO, BUT 339 00:09:18,595 --> 00:09:19,627 THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THERE THAT 340 00:09:19,696 --> 00:09:20,795 ARE HONORABLY TRYING TO GET TO 341 00:09:20,864 --> 00:09:21,662 THE RIGHT PLACE, AND THEN THERE 342 00:09:21,731 --> 00:09:23,297 ARE PEOPLE IN THERE, AS YOU 343 00:09:23,366 --> 00:09:24,365 KNOW, THAT LIKE TO GO ON THE TV 344 00:09:24,434 --> 00:09:26,300 AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY 345 00:09:26,369 --> 00:09:27,235 NEGOTIATING FOR ANYTHING OTHER 346 00:09:27,304 --> 00:09:28,469 THAN TV TIME. 347 00:09:28,538 --> 00:09:29,070 >> HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU GUYS 348 00:09:29,139 --> 00:09:29,704 LOOK? 349 00:09:29,773 --> 00:09:30,872 >> IT MAKES US LOOK LIKE A BUNCH 350 00:09:30,941 --> 00:09:32,406 OF IDIOTS. 351 00:09:32,475 --> 00:09:34,575 >> John: YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU'RE 352 00:09:34,644 --> 00:09:36,410 RIGHT, YOU DO LOOK LIKE IDIOTS! 353 00:09:36,479 --> 00:09:37,211 AND THE FACT THAT SOME OF YOUR 354 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:38,112 MEMBERS ARE DRESSING LIKE THEY 355 00:09:38,181 --> 00:09:38,846 DECIDED THEY WERE GOING TO A 356 00:09:38,915 --> 00:09:40,148 HALLOWEEN PARTY 20 MINUTES 357 00:09:40,217 --> 00:09:43,484 AGO FRANKLY ISN'T HELPING. 358 00:09:43,553 --> 00:09:45,286 BUT THOSE INCENTIVES THEY 359 00:09:45,355 --> 00:09:46,254 MENTIONED AREN'T JUST AT THE 360 00:09:46,323 --> 00:09:46,754 NATIONAL LEVEL. 361 00:09:46,823 --> 00:09:47,789 AS THE AP POINTED OUT THIS 362 00:09:47,858 --> 00:09:48,823 WEEK, INTERNAL CONFLICTS AND 363 00:09:48,892 --> 00:09:50,391 POWER STRUGGLES HAVE BECOME 364 00:09:50,460 --> 00:09:51,793 HALLMARKS OF THE MODERN GOP, 365 00:09:51,862 --> 00:09:52,360 RIGHT DOWN TO THE STATE AND 366 00:09:52,429 --> 00:09:55,296 LOCAL LEVELS. 367 00:09:55,365 --> 00:09:56,297 IN OHIO, DEMOCRATS HAD TO CROSS 368 00:09:56,366 --> 00:09:57,598 PARTY LINES TO END A STANDOFF 369 00:09:57,667 --> 00:09:58,766 OVER WHO WOULD BECOME SPEAKER OF 370 00:09:58,835 --> 00:09:59,600 THE HOUSE. 371 00:09:59,669 --> 00:10:01,202 IN TEXAS, JUST THIS WEEK, THE 372 00:10:01,271 --> 00:10:03,337 REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL 373 00:10:03,406 --> 00:10:06,073 SUGGESTED HE'D REQUEST CRIMINAL 374 00:10:06,142 --> 00:10:07,375 CHARGES AGAINST MEMBERS OF HIS 375 00:10:07,444 --> 00:10:08,342 OWN PARTY, WHO -- INCIDENTALLY 376 00:10:08,411 --> 00:10:09,877 -- LED AN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL 377 00:10:09,946 --> 00:10:11,245 AGAINST HIM LAST MONTH. 378 00:10:11,314 --> 00:10:12,246 AND IN MICHIGAN, BACK IN JULY, A 379 00:10:12,315 --> 00:10:14,382 STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY MEETING 380 00:10:14,451 --> 00:10:15,883 DEVOLVED INTO VIOLENCE, WITH 381 00:10:15,952 --> 00:10:17,351 THIS COUNTY CHAIR GETTING INTO A 382 00:10:17,420 --> 00:10:19,454 BRAWL WITH A PARTY DELEGATE. 383 00:10:19,523 --> 00:10:20,688 >> SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM 384 00:10:20,757 --> 00:10:22,323 INSIDE THE HOTEL DOESN'T CAPTURE 385 00:10:22,392 --> 00:10:23,524 THE INITIAL ENCOUNTER, BUT IT 386 00:10:23,593 --> 00:10:25,326 DOES SHOW THE MELEE MOVING INTO 387 00:10:25,395 --> 00:10:26,394 THE HALLWAY AS DEYOUNG FALLS 388 00:10:26,463 --> 00:10:28,296 HARD ON HIS BACK. 389 00:10:28,365 --> 00:10:30,031 HE TOLD POLICE HIS DENTURES WERE 390 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:31,432 DAMAGED DURING THE FRACAS. 391 00:10:31,501 --> 00:10:32,433 >> I LITERALLY OPENED THE DOOR, 392 00:10:32,502 --> 00:10:34,602 AND HE KICKED ME IN MY CROTCH. 393 00:10:34,671 --> 00:10:35,036 >> OKAY. 394 00:10:35,105 --> 00:10:35,603 >> I -- I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A 395 00:10:35,672 --> 00:10:36,304 SECOND. 396 00:10:36,373 --> 00:10:36,537 >> OKAY. 397 00:10:36,606 --> 00:10:38,206 >> I DIDN'T HAVE A SECOND. 398 00:10:38,275 --> 00:10:39,707 >> John: YEAH, HE WAS KICKED IN 399 00:10:39,776 --> 00:10:41,309 THE BALLS. 400 00:10:41,378 --> 00:10:42,210 AND I KNOW THAT'S THE 401 00:10:42,279 --> 00:10:44,045 EYE-CATCHING PART OF THIS STORY, 402 00:10:44,114 --> 00:10:45,046 BUT PLEASE DON'T SLEEP ON "HIS 403 00:10:45,115 --> 00:10:46,047 DENTURES WERE DAMAGED DURING THE 404 00:10:46,116 --> 00:10:48,349 FRACAS." 405 00:10:48,418 --> 00:10:49,150 WHICH I ASSUME IS SOMETHING THAT 406 00:10:49,219 --> 00:10:50,451 WILL BE SAID VERBATIM AFTER THE 407 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:51,819 FANTASY SUITE EPISODE OF 408 00:10:51,888 --> 00:10:54,889 "THE GOLDEN BACHELOR." 409 00:10:54,958 --> 00:10:56,524 THE POINT IS, THIS SORT OF 410 00:10:56,593 --> 00:10:57,959 CHAOTIC REPUBLICAN INFIGHTING IS 411 00:10:58,028 --> 00:11:00,094 NOW A FIRMLY ENTRENCHED PATTERN. 412 00:11:00,163 --> 00:11:00,862 BACK IN WASHINGTON, JIM JORDAN 413 00:11:00,931 --> 00:11:02,597 WAS NOMINATED TO BE SPEAKER ON 414 00:11:02,666 --> 00:11:04,599 FRIDAY, BUT MOST PEOPLE THINK 415 00:11:04,668 --> 00:11:05,299 HE'S UNLIKELY TO GET THE 416 00:11:05,368 --> 00:11:07,535 NECESSARY VOTES, EITHER. 417 00:11:07,604 --> 00:11:08,569 MEANING WE'RE LEFT WITHOUT A 418 00:11:08,638 --> 00:11:09,170 SPEAKER, A POSITION ABSOLUTELY 419 00:11:09,239 --> 00:11:09,871 VITAL TO A FUNCTIONING 420 00:11:09,940 --> 00:11:12,940 GOVERNMENT. 421 00:11:13,009 --> 00:11:14,008 BUT I GUESS THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS 422 00:11:14,077 --> 00:11:14,642 WHEN A PARTY, FOR YEARS, SIMPLY 423 00:11:14,711 --> 00:11:18,246 REFUSES TO KEEP ITS EXTREMIST 424 00:11:18,315 --> 00:11:18,946 FACTIONS IN CHECK. 425 00:11:19,015 --> 00:11:20,414 THE SAD FACT IS, MANY CURRENT 426 00:11:20,483 --> 00:11:22,517 REPUBLICANS, AT EVERY LEVEL, 427 00:11:22,586 --> 00:11:24,085 DON'T SEEM TO WANT TO SERVE IN 428 00:11:24,154 --> 00:11:25,353 GOVERNMENT AT ALL -- THEY JUST 429 00:11:25,422 --> 00:11:26,521 WANT TO DISMANTLE IT AND STAND 430 00:11:26,590 --> 00:11:29,090 ATOP THE RUBBLE FOR A TV HIT. 431 00:11:29,159 --> 00:11:30,725 THAT'S THE KEY REASON WHY, AS OF 432 00:11:30,794 --> 00:11:32,660 TAPING, ANY HOPES OF AN ORDERLY 433 00:11:32,729 --> 00:11:34,595 TRANSITION OF POWER FROM ONE 434 00:11:34,664 --> 00:11:35,897 HOUSE SPEAKER TO ANOTHER HAVE 435 00:11:35,966 --> 00:11:39,167 BEEN -- MUCH LIKE THIS MICHIGAN 436 00:11:39,236 --> 00:11:40,434 GOP COUNTY CHAIR'S TESTICLES -- 437 00:11:40,503 --> 00:11:42,703 HUMILIATINGLY CRUSHED. 438 00:11:42,772 --> 00:11:46,908 AND NOW, THIS. 439 00:11:46,977 --> 00:11:49,210 >> Announcer: AND NOW, JIM 440 00:11:49,279 --> 00:11:50,044 CRAMER IS TOTALLY UNTROUBLED BY 441 00:11:50,113 --> 00:11:57,113 HIS HATERS. 442 00:11:58,688 --> 00:11:59,153 >> GETTING IT RIGHT MEANS 443 00:11:59,222 --> 00:12:01,122 LOGICAL DECISIONS. 444 00:12:01,191 --> 00:12:01,756 THAT'S TOUGH TO DO, ESPECIALLY 445 00:12:01,825 --> 00:12:02,390 WHEN YOU'RE DOING IN PUBLIC AS I 446 00:12:02,459 --> 00:12:02,990 DO, AND YOU'VE GOT A LEGION OF 447 00:12:03,059 --> 00:12:04,492 HATERS WHO FRANKLY WISH YOU'D 448 00:12:04,561 --> 00:12:04,692 QUIT. 449 00:12:04,761 --> 00:12:09,464 I LOVE THE HATERS. 450 00:12:09,533 --> 00:12:11,265 I WOULDN'T BE DOING THIS IF 451 00:12:11,334 --> 00:12:12,266 WEREN'T FOR THEM. 452 00:12:12,335 --> 00:12:14,735 I WOULD'VE GOTTEN OUT FOR THEM. 453 00:12:14,804 --> 00:12:15,336 I'M A SPITEFUL DRIVEN GUY TO 454 00:12:15,405 --> 00:12:15,937 THE HATERS AND EVERYONE IN MY 455 00:12:16,006 --> 00:12:16,671 PERSONAL LIFE KNOWS THAT. 456 00:12:16,740 --> 00:12:17,238 TO ALL THE HATERS OUT THERE 457 00:12:17,307 --> 00:12:17,772 FIRST OF ALL, HI, HATERS. 458 00:12:17,841 --> 00:12:18,239 HI, HATERS. 459 00:12:18,308 --> 00:12:19,240 HI, HATERS. 460 00:12:19,309 --> 00:12:19,907 NOW THE HATERS ARE COMING OUT OF 461 00:12:19,976 --> 00:12:20,808 THE WOODWORK. 462 00:12:20,877 --> 00:12:22,210 IN YOUR FACE, HATERS. 463 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:26,080 HATERS GOING TO HATE, RIGHT? 464 00:12:26,149 --> 00:12:30,218 I GOT THIS ONE RIGHT. 465 00:12:30,287 --> 00:12:30,785 MUST HAVE JUST CRUSHED THEM. 466 00:12:30,854 --> 00:12:31,586 I GOT NO HATERS ANYMORE. 467 00:12:31,655 --> 00:12:32,220 I JUST GOT PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE 468 00:12:32,289 --> 00:12:32,520 ME AS MUCH. 469 00:12:32,589 --> 00:12:33,020 I DON'T FEAR THE HATER. 470 00:12:33,089 --> 00:12:33,621 PERHAPS IT SHOULD BE THE OTHER 471 00:12:33,690 --> 00:12:36,491 WAY AROUND. 472 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:39,494 IF ALL I CARED ABOUT PEOPLE WHO 473 00:12:39,563 --> 00:12:41,929 ARE HATING ME, THEN I'D JUST BE 474 00:12:41,998 --> 00:12:47,602 UNDER THAT TABLE, JUST SAYING. 475 00:12:47,671 --> 00:12:47,969 I'D BE A LAPDOG. 476 00:12:48,038 --> 00:12:48,536 >> YEAH, THAT'S NOT GOING TO 477 00:12:48,605 --> 00:12:48,770 HAPPEN. 478 00:12:48,839 --> 00:12:48,970 >> NO. 479 00:12:49,039 --> 00:12:49,504 >> NO, YOU'D BE FEEDING ME 480 00:12:49,573 --> 00:12:50,071 PURINA. 481 00:12:50,140 --> 00:12:52,340 >> YEAH, I WOULD. 482 00:12:52,409 --> 00:12:53,407 >> NO, MAYBE SOME KIBBLES. 483 00:12:53,476 --> 00:12:56,244 >> YOU LIKE KIBBLES? 484 00:12:56,313 --> 00:12:58,246 >> I DO. 485 00:12:58,315 --> 00:12:58,880 OR MAYBE BLUE BUFF FROM GENERAL 486 00:12:58,949 --> 00:13:00,081 MILLS. 487 00:13:00,150 --> 00:13:00,515 OR CHEWY? 488 00:13:00,584 --> 00:13:01,382 YOU COULD PUT ME RIGHT DOWN 489 00:13:01,451 --> 00:13:05,553 THERE. 490 00:13:05,622 --> 00:13:06,087 >> LET'S GET TO AN OPENING 491 00:13:06,156 --> 00:13:07,121 BELL, HOW ABOUT WE DO THAT? 492 00:13:07,190 --> 00:13:09,457 >> OKAY, RIGHT. 493 00:13:09,526 --> 00:13:11,192 >> John: MOVING ON. 494 00:13:11,261 --> 00:13:11,926 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 495 00:13:11,995 --> 00:13:13,361 FOOD. 496 00:13:13,430 --> 00:13:14,695 WHETHER YOU'RE A VEGAN, A 497 00:13:14,764 --> 00:13:16,330 CARNIVORE, OR SOMEWHERE IN 498 00:13:16,399 --> 00:13:17,799 BETWEEN, ALL OF IT IS EITHER 499 00:13:17,868 --> 00:13:18,399 RIPPED FROM ITS HOME OR DIES 500 00:13:18,468 --> 00:13:19,433 SCREAMING. 501 00:13:19,502 --> 00:13:22,370 FOOD IS FUN! 502 00:13:22,439 --> 00:13:22,937 SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE GOING TO 503 00:13:23,006 --> 00:13:26,073 TALK ABOUT FOOD SAFETY. 504 00:13:26,142 --> 00:13:26,707 IT'S A VITAL COMPONENT OF PUBLIC 505 00:13:26,776 --> 00:13:27,341 HEALTH, AS DEMONSTRATED BY THIS 506 00:13:27,410 --> 00:13:28,810 OLD PSA ABOUT A MILITARY BASE 507 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:30,645 HAVING TO DEAL WITH AN OUTBREAK 508 00:13:30,714 --> 00:13:31,779 OF SALMONELLA. 509 00:13:31,848 --> 00:13:33,080 >> AT MIDNIGHT, ABOUT 40 OF US 510 00:13:33,149 --> 00:13:34,182 IN THE DUTY SECTION GOT A LIGHT 511 00:13:34,251 --> 00:13:35,616 MEAL. 512 00:13:35,685 --> 00:13:37,718 IT WAS JUST ABOUT THIS TIME THAT 513 00:13:37,787 --> 00:13:40,588 THINGS WERE BEGINNING TO HAPPEN. 514 00:13:40,657 --> 00:13:43,357 IT BEGAN LIKE THIS: AT FIRST A 515 00:13:43,426 --> 00:13:44,692 FEW OF THE MEN WHO WEREN'T IN 516 00:13:44,761 --> 00:13:47,929 THE DUTY SECTION GOT SICK. 517 00:13:47,998 --> 00:13:48,663 AND IT GOT STEADILY WORSE. 518 00:13:48,732 --> 00:13:49,497 VOMITING, ABDOMINAL PAINS, AND 519 00:13:49,566 --> 00:13:53,734 DIARRHEA. 520 00:13:53,803 --> 00:13:54,936 IT WAS HARD TO TELL WHICH CAUSED 521 00:13:55,005 --> 00:13:56,504 THE MOST TROUBLE. 522 00:13:56,573 --> 00:13:58,172 >> John: EXCEPT IT ISN'T, 523 00:13:58,241 --> 00:13:59,974 BECAUSE DIARRHEA CAUSES THE MOST 524 00:14:00,043 --> 00:14:01,576 TROUBLE. 525 00:14:01,645 --> 00:14:02,143 THERE'S JUST NO DOUBT ABOUT 526 00:14:02,212 --> 00:14:02,810 THAT. 527 00:14:02,879 --> 00:14:04,479 IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN 528 00:14:04,548 --> 00:14:05,279 THOSE THREE SYMPTOMS, DIARRHEA 529 00:14:05,348 --> 00:14:07,682 IS DEAD LAST, EVERY SINGLE TIME. 530 00:14:07,751 --> 00:14:08,316 ABDOMINAL PAINS -- NOT FUN, BUT 531 00:14:08,385 --> 00:14:10,084 ALSO, GROW UP. 532 00:14:10,153 --> 00:14:10,751 SOMETIMES YOUR TUMMY HURTS; 533 00:14:10,820 --> 00:14:12,687 THAT'S LIFE. 534 00:14:12,756 --> 00:14:13,754 VOMITING -- AWFUL, BUT AT LEAST 535 00:14:13,823 --> 00:14:14,322 YOU CAN SOMEWHAT CONTROL THE 536 00:14:14,391 --> 00:14:15,823 TRAJECTORY. 537 00:14:15,892 --> 00:14:18,092 IT IS POSSIBLE TO DAINTILY VOMIT 538 00:14:18,161 --> 00:14:18,926 IN PUBLIC. 539 00:14:18,995 --> 00:14:20,661 BUT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY 540 00:14:20,730 --> 00:14:22,230 TO RETAIN ANY SHRED OF DIGNITY 541 00:14:22,299 --> 00:14:24,699 ONCE YOU HAVE SHAT YOURSELF. 542 00:14:24,768 --> 00:14:26,033 IT'S GAME OVER. 543 00:14:26,102 --> 00:14:27,468 YOU CAN'T COME BACK FROM THAT. 544 00:14:27,537 --> 00:14:28,536 YOU'RE BASICALLY AN ANIMAL, YOU 545 00:14:28,605 --> 00:14:31,305 LIVE AT THE ZOO NOW. 546 00:14:31,374 --> 00:14:33,074 ODDS ARE, YOU'VE PROBABLY 547 00:14:33,143 --> 00:14:33,875 EXPERIENCED GETTING SICK FROM 548 00:14:33,944 --> 00:14:35,510 FOOD AT SOME POINT IN YOUR LIFE, 549 00:14:35,579 --> 00:14:37,278 BECAUSE IT HAPPENS A LOT. 550 00:14:37,347 --> 00:14:39,614 EVERY YEAR, AN ESTIMATED 46 551 00:14:39,683 --> 00:14:40,214 MILLION AMERICANS ARE SICKENED 552 00:14:40,283 --> 00:14:41,015 BY FOODBORNE ILLNESS, AND OF 553 00:14:41,084 --> 00:14:43,551 THEM, 128,000 ARE HOSPITALIZED, 554 00:14:43,620 --> 00:14:45,887 AND ABOUT 3,000 DIE. 555 00:14:45,956 --> 00:14:47,088 NOW, OBVIOUSLY, IT'S IN THE 556 00:14:47,157 --> 00:14:47,855 PUBLIC INTEREST TO TRY AND 557 00:14:47,924 --> 00:14:49,357 PREVENT ANY OF THAT FROM 558 00:14:49,426 --> 00:14:51,159 HAPPENING -- WHICH IS WHY, SO 559 00:14:51,228 --> 00:14:52,727 OFTEN, YOU'LL TURN ON THE TV AND 560 00:14:52,796 --> 00:14:54,228 SEE STORIES LIKE THESE. 561 00:14:54,297 --> 00:14:55,263 >> KRAFT HEINZ HAS VOLUNTARILY 562 00:14:55,332 --> 00:14:55,997 RECALLED 7,000 CASES OF 563 00:14:56,066 --> 00:14:57,632 TACO BELL SALSA CON QUESO MILD 564 00:14:57,701 --> 00:14:58,166 CHEESE DIP OUT OF BOTULISM 565 00:14:58,235 --> 00:15:01,702 CONCERNS. 566 00:15:01,771 --> 00:15:02,336 >> AN EXPANDED RECALL OF PEACHES 567 00:15:02,405 --> 00:15:05,973 LINKED TO A SALMONELLA OUTBREAK. 568 00:15:06,042 --> 00:15:06,541 >> SEVERAL JIF PEANUT BUTTER 569 00:15:06,610 --> 00:15:07,141 PRODUCTS ARE BEING PULLED FROM 570 00:15:07,210 --> 00:15:11,245 THE SHELVES. 571 00:15:11,314 --> 00:15:11,779 >> STORES CANNOT SELL THIS 572 00:15:11,848 --> 00:15:12,380 CEREAL LEGALLY BECAUSE OF THIS 573 00:15:12,449 --> 00:15:13,614 RECALL. 574 00:15:13,683 --> 00:15:14,982 SO, IF YOU HAVE THE HONEY SMACKS 575 00:15:15,051 --> 00:15:15,750 IN YOUR PANTRY, PLEASE THROW IT 576 00:15:15,819 --> 00:15:19,320 OUT. 577 00:15:19,389 --> 00:15:19,954 >> John: OKAY, COUPLE OF THINGS 578 00:15:20,023 --> 00:15:20,488 THERE -- ON THE FIRST ONE, 579 00:15:20,557 --> 00:15:21,055 HONESTLY, I'D ALWAYS ASSUMED 580 00:15:21,124 --> 00:15:22,523 THAT ALL TACO BELL JARRED 581 00:15:22,592 --> 00:15:23,224 PRODUCTS COULD GIVE YOU 582 00:15:23,293 --> 00:15:25,860 BOTULISM. 583 00:15:25,929 --> 00:15:26,661 YOU WANT THE SPICE, YOU ROLL THE 584 00:15:26,730 --> 00:15:30,665 DICE. 585 00:15:30,734 --> 00:15:31,199 EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THAT. 586 00:15:31,268 --> 00:15:32,400 AND AS FOR "THROW OUT YOUR HONEY 587 00:15:32,469 --> 00:15:32,967 SMACKS," THAT'S PRETTY GOOD 588 00:15:33,036 --> 00:15:36,170 ADVICE EVEN WHEN THERE'S NOT A 589 00:15:36,239 --> 00:15:36,737 RECALL, BECAUSE LOOK AT THIS 590 00:15:36,806 --> 00:15:37,405 SHIT. 591 00:15:37,474 --> 00:15:38,206 IT LOOKS LIKE MAGGOTS GLAZED 592 00:15:38,275 --> 00:15:39,640 WITH SUGAR. 593 00:15:39,709 --> 00:15:40,274 AND THAT'S WITHOUT GETTING INTO 594 00:15:40,343 --> 00:15:40,575 THE MASCOT. 595 00:15:40,644 --> 00:15:42,743 WHO IS THIS? 596 00:15:42,812 --> 00:15:43,344 CEREAL MASCOTS ARE SUPPOSED TO 597 00:15:43,413 --> 00:15:44,278 BE CHARMING, WHETHER THEY'RE A 598 00:15:44,347 --> 00:15:45,780 CULTURAL STEREOTYPE THAT THIS 599 00:15:45,849 --> 00:15:47,215 ACCENT DOESN'T GET TO ENJOY, OR 600 00:15:47,284 --> 00:15:47,815 AN INAPPROPRIATELY SEXY TIGER, 601 00:15:47,884 --> 00:15:50,585 BUT THIS? 602 00:15:50,654 --> 00:15:52,286 THIS IS NOTHING. 603 00:15:52,355 --> 00:15:53,387 WHY DOES YOUR SHIRT SAY "DIG 604 00:15:53,456 --> 00:15:53,588 'EM?" 605 00:15:53,657 --> 00:15:54,088 DIG WHAT? 606 00:15:54,157 --> 00:15:55,723 THE HONEY SMACKS? 607 00:15:55,792 --> 00:15:56,991 ABSOLUTELY NOT, YOU AMPHIBIAN 608 00:15:57,060 --> 00:15:59,060 PERVERT. 609 00:15:59,129 --> 00:16:00,561 AND LOOK, WHEN YOU SEE STORIES 610 00:16:00,630 --> 00:16:01,929 LIKE THOSE, YOU'D ASSUME THAT 611 00:16:01,998 --> 00:16:03,297 THE GOVERNMENT IS CONSTANTLY ON 612 00:16:03,366 --> 00:16:04,499 THE LOOKOUT FOR POTENTIALLY 613 00:16:04,568 --> 00:16:05,700 DANGEROUS FOOD. 614 00:16:05,769 --> 00:16:07,201 BUT IT'S BECOME INCREASINGLY 615 00:16:07,270 --> 00:16:08,703 CLEAR THAT OUR FOOD SAFETY 616 00:16:08,772 --> 00:16:09,437 SYSTEM -- IN PARTICULAR, THE 617 00:16:09,506 --> 00:16:11,172 FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, 618 00:16:11,241 --> 00:16:12,807 WHICH OVERSEES MOST OF IT -- HAS 619 00:16:12,876 --> 00:16:16,043 SOME SERIOUS SHORTCOMINGS. 620 00:16:16,112 --> 00:16:17,411 IN 2016, AN AUDIT DONE BY THE 621 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:18,946 AGENCY ITSELF FOUND UNACCEPTABLE 622 00:16:19,015 --> 00:16:21,082 DELAYS IN GETTING DANGEROUS FOOD 623 00:16:21,151 --> 00:16:21,816 OFF THE SHELVES -- FINDING THAT 624 00:16:21,885 --> 00:16:22,683 IN 30 RECALLS, IT TOOK AN 625 00:16:22,752 --> 00:16:25,887 AVERAGE OF 57 DAYS FROM WHEN THE 626 00:16:25,956 --> 00:16:28,289 FDA WAS NOTIFIED. 627 00:16:28,358 --> 00:16:29,490 AND THE AUTHOR OF THAT REPORT 628 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:30,057 ACKNOWLEDGED THAT WAS A BIG 629 00:16:30,126 --> 00:16:31,659 PROBLEM. 630 00:16:31,728 --> 00:16:33,528 >> UNLESS YOU GET ALL THE 631 00:16:33,597 --> 00:16:34,128 PRODUCT OFF THE SHELF, PEOPLE 632 00:16:34,197 --> 00:16:40,768 STILL ARE AT RISK. 633 00:16:40,837 --> 00:16:41,302 IF YOU ARE PLAYING RUSSIAN 634 00:16:41,371 --> 00:16:41,836 ROULETTE, YOU TOOK ALL THE 635 00:16:41,905 --> 00:16:42,437 BULLETS OUT OF THE GUN AND YOU 636 00:16:42,506 --> 00:16:43,037 PUT IT TO YOUR HEAD THERE'S NO 637 00:16:43,106 --> 00:16:43,237 RISK. 638 00:16:43,306 --> 00:16:43,871 BUT IF THERE'S STILL A COUPLE OF 639 00:16:43,940 --> 00:16:44,472 BULLETS LEFT IN THERE, YOU'RE 640 00:16:44,541 --> 00:16:45,106 STILL PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE, 641 00:16:45,175 --> 00:16:45,706 AREN'T YOU? 642 00:16:45,775 --> 00:16:46,240 >> John: WOW, THAT IS AN 643 00:16:46,309 --> 00:16:46,974 ALARMINGLY APT METAPHOR FOR THE 644 00:16:47,043 --> 00:16:47,508 CURRENT SAFETY OF OUR FOOD 645 00:16:47,577 --> 00:16:53,314 SUPPLY. 646 00:16:53,383 --> 00:16:53,948 ALTHOUGH, REAL QUICK, IF YOU'RE 647 00:16:54,017 --> 00:16:54,582 PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE AND YOU 648 00:16:54,651 --> 00:16:55,650 TAKE ALL THE BULLETS OUT OF THE 649 00:16:55,719 --> 00:16:59,187 GUN, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH: YOU 650 00:16:59,256 --> 00:16:59,787 ARE NO LONGER PLAYING RUSSIAN 651 00:16:59,856 --> 00:17:02,990 ROULETTE. 652 00:17:03,059 --> 00:17:04,425 YOU'RE IN A COMMUNITY THEATER 653 00:17:04,494 --> 00:17:06,060 PRODUCTION OF THE SEAGULL. 654 00:17:06,129 --> 00:17:06,661 I HAD TO LEAVE AT INTERMISSION 655 00:17:06,730 --> 00:17:07,462 BUT YOU WERE SO GOOD. 656 00:17:07,531 --> 00:17:08,029 AND YOU MIGHT REMEMBER, THE 657 00:17:08,098 --> 00:17:09,764 FDA'S SHORTCOMINGS WERE BADLY 658 00:17:09,833 --> 00:17:10,398 EXPOSED LAST YEAR, WHEN ABBOTT, 659 00:17:10,467 --> 00:17:11,632 A COMPANY THAT MAKES 40% OF THIS 660 00:17:11,701 --> 00:17:13,935 COUNTRY'S BABY FORMULA, SHUT 661 00:17:14,004 --> 00:17:14,535 DOWN ITS FACTORY OVER SERIOUS 662 00:17:14,604 --> 00:17:19,907 SAFETY VIOLATIONS -- VIOLATIONS 663 00:17:19,976 --> 00:17:20,541 THE FDA CLEARLY SHOULD'VE ACTED 664 00:17:20,610 --> 00:17:20,908 ON MUCH SOONER. 665 00:17:20,977 --> 00:17:23,411 >> A SIGN OF TROUBLE CAME LAST 666 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:23,978 SEPTEMBER IN A REPORT TO THE 667 00:17:24,047 --> 00:17:28,950 FDA, AN INFANT WHO BECAME ILL 668 00:17:29,019 --> 00:17:29,584 WITH A RARE BACTERIAL INFECTION 669 00:17:29,653 --> 00:17:30,985 HAD CONSUMED FORMULA MADE AT THE 670 00:17:31,054 --> 00:17:33,354 ABBOTT PLANT. 671 00:17:33,423 --> 00:17:34,388 IN OCTOBER, AN ABBOTT 672 00:17:34,457 --> 00:17:35,022 WHISTLEBLOWER SENT FDA OFFICIALS 673 00:17:35,091 --> 00:17:37,692 THIS 34-PAGE DOCUMENT ALLEGING 674 00:17:37,761 --> 00:17:40,128 THAT LAX PRACTICES INCLUDING 675 00:17:40,197 --> 00:17:40,661 REGULATORY VIOLATIONS WERE 676 00:17:40,730 --> 00:17:44,565 CONSISTENTLY OVERLOOKED. 677 00:17:44,634 --> 00:17:46,968 IT WASN'T UNTIL JANUARY 31ST 678 00:17:47,037 --> 00:17:48,970 THAT THE FDA SENT A TEAM TO THE 679 00:17:49,039 --> 00:17:51,139 ABBOTT FACILITY TO INVESTIGATE. 680 00:17:51,208 --> 00:17:53,241 THERE THEY FOUND EVIDENCE OF 681 00:17:53,310 --> 00:17:53,841 BACTERIA IN A POWDERED INFANT 682 00:17:53,910 --> 00:17:55,676 FORMULA ENVIRONMENT THAT CAN BE 683 00:17:55,745 --> 00:17:57,879 DEADLY TO INFANTS. 684 00:17:57,948 --> 00:17:59,080 >> John: IT'S TRUE, THE FDA TOOK 685 00:17:59,149 --> 00:18:00,848 FOUR MONTHS FROM THEIR FIRST 686 00:18:00,917 --> 00:18:02,283 SIGN SOMETHING WAS WRONG TO DO A 687 00:18:02,352 --> 00:18:03,718 FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION. 688 00:18:03,787 --> 00:18:05,720 AND AT THAT POINT, AT LEAST FOUR 689 00:18:05,789 --> 00:18:06,320 BABIES HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED, 690 00:18:06,389 --> 00:18:08,055 AND TWO DIED. 691 00:18:08,124 --> 00:18:09,490 EVEN AN INTERNAL FDA REPORT 692 00:18:09,559 --> 00:18:10,591 AFTERWARDS CONCLUDED THE AGENCY 693 00:18:10,660 --> 00:18:12,326 HAD "SYSTEMIC VULNERABILITIES," 694 00:18:12,395 --> 00:18:13,761 AND A MUCH MORE SCATHING OUTSIDE 695 00:18:13,830 --> 00:18:14,362 AUDIT FAULTED THEM FOR LACK OF 696 00:18:14,431 --> 00:18:18,065 COMMUNICATION AND ENGAGEMENT 697 00:18:18,134 --> 00:18:19,467 ACROSS THE AGENCY. 698 00:18:19,536 --> 00:18:20,168 BUT THE TRUTH IS, "SCATHING 699 00:18:20,237 --> 00:18:22,303 REPORT FINDS FAULT WITH THE FDA" 700 00:18:22,372 --> 00:18:24,172 IS JUST NOT A NEW STORY. 701 00:18:24,241 --> 00:18:27,175 IT'S HAPPENED AGAIN AND AGAIN 702 00:18:27,244 --> 00:18:28,042 AND AGAIN. 703 00:18:28,111 --> 00:18:28,676 YOU CAN FIND SIMILAR REPORTS IN 704 00:18:28,745 --> 00:18:29,277 2010, 1991, AND EVEN THIS ONE, 705 00:18:29,346 --> 00:18:33,714 FROM BACK IN 1969. 706 00:18:33,783 --> 00:18:37,385 >> THE AMERICAN CONSUMER IS 707 00:18:37,454 --> 00:18:37,952 SURROUNDED BY AN ARSENAL OF 708 00:18:38,021 --> 00:18:42,690 PRODUCTS WHICH CAN KILL OR MAIM 709 00:18:42,759 --> 00:18:43,024 HIM. 710 00:18:43,093 --> 00:18:43,458 AND THE FOOD & DRUG 711 00:18:43,527 --> 00:18:44,058 ADMINISTRATION HAS NEITHER THE 712 00:18:44,127 --> 00:18:44,659 MONEY NOR THE AUTHORITY TO DO 713 00:18:44,728 --> 00:18:44,992 MUCH ABOUT IT. 714 00:18:45,061 --> 00:18:45,426 THAT'S THE GIST OF A 715 00:18:45,495 --> 00:18:48,095 CONFIDENTIAL REPORT PREPARED BY 716 00:18:48,164 --> 00:18:52,233 SEVEN SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE FDA. 717 00:18:52,302 --> 00:18:52,867 >> John: THAT'S WALTER CRONKITE 718 00:18:52,936 --> 00:18:55,403 FLAGGING THE STATE OF THE FDA AS 719 00:18:55,472 --> 00:18:55,937 A SERIOUS PROBLEM, HALF A 720 00:18:56,006 --> 00:18:58,973 CENTURY AGO. 721 00:18:59,042 --> 00:18:59,774 AND IF SOMETHING HE REPORTED ON 722 00:18:59,843 --> 00:19:00,341 IS STILL AN ISSUE, YOU KNOW 723 00:19:00,410 --> 00:19:01,709 YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM. 724 00:19:01,778 --> 00:19:02,710 I'M JUST SAYING, IF JFK WAS 725 00:19:02,779 --> 00:19:04,178 STILL REGULARLY GETTING SHOT IN 726 00:19:04,247 --> 00:19:06,881 DALLAS, YOU'D REALLY HOPE 727 00:19:06,950 --> 00:19:07,915 SOMEBODY WOULD'VE DONE SOMETHING 728 00:19:07,984 --> 00:19:09,851 ABOUT IT BY NOW. 729 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:10,485 SO GIVEN WE'VE KNOWN THE WAY THE 730 00:19:10,554 --> 00:19:14,422 FDA REGULATES FOOD IS SOME 731 00:19:14,491 --> 00:19:15,022 VERSION OF FUCKED FOR DECADES, 732 00:19:15,091 --> 00:19:15,556 TONIGHT, LET'S TALK ABOUT 733 00:19:15,625 --> 00:19:18,793 EXACTLY WHY THAT IS, AND WHY 734 00:19:18,862 --> 00:19:20,027 IT'S BEEN SO HARD TO FIX. 735 00:19:20,096 --> 00:19:20,728 AND LET'S START WITH THE FACT 736 00:19:20,797 --> 00:19:21,395 THAT -- DESPITE THE FDA STANDING 737 00:19:21,464 --> 00:19:21,796 FOR "FOOD AND DRUG 738 00:19:21,865 --> 00:19:25,666 ADMINISTRATION" -- THE TWO PARTS 739 00:19:25,735 --> 00:19:26,267 OF THAT ARE NOT GIVEN REMOTELY 740 00:19:26,336 --> 00:19:28,636 EQUAL WEIGHT. 741 00:19:28,705 --> 00:19:30,138 DRUGS ARE PRIORITIZED HEAVILY. 742 00:19:30,207 --> 00:19:30,772 FDA COMMISSIONERS ALMOST ALWAYS 743 00:19:30,841 --> 00:19:31,405 COME FROM THE MEDICAL SIDE, AND 744 00:19:31,474 --> 00:19:32,039 HAVE ALMOST NO EXPERIENCE WITH 745 00:19:32,108 --> 00:19:37,945 FOOD ISSUES. 746 00:19:38,014 --> 00:19:38,412 AND APPARENTLY, IT'S A 747 00:19:38,481 --> 00:19:38,980 LONG-RUNNING JOKE AMONG FDA 748 00:19:39,049 --> 00:19:39,614 OFFICIALS THAT THE "F" IN "FDA" 749 00:19:39,683 --> 00:19:43,317 IS SILENT. 750 00:19:43,386 --> 00:19:43,851 IN FACT, ITS OWN STAFF -- 751 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:44,485 INCLUDING SOME FDA COMMISSIONERS 752 00:19:44,554 --> 00:19:46,521 -- HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO SLIP UP 753 00:19:46,590 --> 00:19:47,121 AND CALL IT THE FEDERAL DRUG 754 00:19:47,190 --> 00:19:50,625 ADMINISTRATION. 755 00:19:50,694 --> 00:19:50,958 AND, COME ON. 756 00:19:51,027 --> 00:19:53,494 THERE'S ONLY TWO THINGS TO 757 00:19:53,563 --> 00:19:54,095 REMEMBER IN THE NAME: FOOD AND 758 00:19:54,164 --> 00:19:57,031 DRUGS. 759 00:19:57,100 --> 00:19:57,899 IF YOU NEED A HELPFUL MNEMONIC 760 00:19:57,968 --> 00:19:59,500 FOR IT, JUST REMEMBER THIS 761 00:19:59,569 --> 00:20:00,401 SIMPLE PHRASE: "FOOD AND DRUGS." 762 00:20:00,470 --> 00:20:07,341 IT'S TWO FUCKING WORDS. 763 00:20:07,410 --> 00:20:07,909 ALSO, INTERESTINGLY, THE FDA 764 00:20:07,978 --> 00:20:08,476 DOESN'T ACTUALLY OVERSEE THE 765 00:20:08,545 --> 00:20:09,110 SAFETY OF ALL FOOD IN THE U.S. 766 00:20:09,179 --> 00:20:09,944 IT OVERSEES AROUND 80% OF IT, 767 00:20:10,013 --> 00:20:10,545 BUT THE REMAINING 20% LARGELY 768 00:20:10,614 --> 00:20:13,481 FALLS UNDER THE USDA'S FOOD 769 00:20:13,550 --> 00:20:14,081 SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE. 770 00:20:14,150 --> 00:20:16,284 AND THE DIVISION OF 771 00:20:16,353 --> 00:20:18,186 RESPONSIBILITIES CAN GET 772 00:20:18,255 --> 00:20:18,686 MADDENINGLY COMPLICATED. 773 00:20:18,755 --> 00:20:19,353 WHILE BROADLY, THE USDA OVERSEES 774 00:20:19,422 --> 00:20:22,824 BEEF, POULTRY, AND SOME EGG 775 00:20:22,893 --> 00:20:29,893 PRODUCTS, AND THE FDA OVERSEES 776 00:20:32,802 --> 00:20:33,367 THE REST, IN PRACTICE, WHERE THE 777 00:20:33,436 --> 00:20:34,068 EXACT LINES GETS DRAWN CAN GET 778 00:20:34,137 --> 00:20:34,368 RIDICULOUS. 779 00:20:34,437 --> 00:20:34,869 >> TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. 780 00:20:34,938 --> 00:20:35,436 BEEF BROTH, MADE IN A PLANT 781 00:20:35,505 --> 00:20:38,973 REGULATED BY THE USDA, WHICH 782 00:20:39,042 --> 00:20:39,607 INSPECTS EVERY DAY. 783 00:20:39,676 --> 00:20:40,975 BUT CHICKEN BROTH, MADE IN A 784 00:20:41,044 --> 00:20:43,411 PLANT REGULATED BY THE FDA, 785 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,012 WHICH IS INSPECTED ONCE EVERY 5 786 00:20:45,081 --> 00:20:48,382 YEARS. 787 00:20:48,451 --> 00:20:49,016 IN THE FROZEN FOOD AISLE, CHEESE 788 00:20:49,085 --> 00:20:50,751 PIZZA IS REGULATED BY THE FDA. 789 00:20:50,820 --> 00:20:52,553 PEPPERONI PIZZA? 790 00:20:52,622 --> 00:20:54,655 WELL, THAT'S THE USDA. 791 00:20:54,724 --> 00:20:55,990 THE FISH? 792 00:20:56,059 --> 00:20:57,225 WELL, THAT'S FDA, 793 00:20:57,294 --> 00:20:58,192 EXCEPT ONE, CATFISH, THAT'S 794 00:20:58,261 --> 00:21:00,761 USDA. 795 00:21:00,830 --> 00:21:01,295 >> John: YEAH, IT'S PRETTY 796 00:21:01,364 --> 00:21:03,131 CONFUSING. 797 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:03,698 IT CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT TO 798 00:21:03,767 --> 00:21:05,333 GUESS WHICH AGENCY OVERSEES 799 00:21:05,402 --> 00:21:06,901 WHICH KINDS OF FOOD. 800 00:21:06,970 --> 00:21:07,435 FOR EXAMPLE, EGGS IN THEIR 801 00:21:07,504 --> 00:21:07,835 SHELLS? 802 00:21:07,904 --> 00:21:09,070 FDA. 803 00:21:09,139 --> 00:21:10,037 EGGS PROCESSED INTO EGG 804 00:21:10,106 --> 00:21:11,372 PRODUCTS? 805 00:21:11,441 --> 00:21:12,273 USDA. 806 00:21:12,342 --> 00:21:12,874 THE FEED THAT EGG-LAYING HENS 807 00:21:12,943 --> 00:21:13,941 EAT? 808 00:21:14,010 --> 00:21:15,443 FDA AGAIN. 809 00:21:15,512 --> 00:21:17,011 OPEN-FACED MEAT SANDWICH? 810 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:17,879 USDA, BUT CLOSED-FACED MEAT 811 00:21:17,948 --> 00:21:19,380 SANDWICH? 812 00:21:19,449 --> 00:21:22,450 THAT'S FDA. 813 00:21:22,519 --> 00:21:24,886 AND YOU SHOULD KNOW, IF YOU MAKE 814 00:21:24,955 --> 00:21:25,453 A HALF CHEESE HALF PEPPERONI 815 00:21:25,522 --> 00:21:26,020 PIZZA AND THEN PUT AN EGG ON 816 00:21:26,089 --> 00:21:26,888 TOP, THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT 817 00:21:26,957 --> 00:21:33,957 ACTUALLY EXPLODES. 818 00:21:34,231 --> 00:21:34,629 AND THE THING IS, THAT 819 00:21:34,698 --> 00:21:38,065 FRACTURED STRUCTURE CAN CREATE 820 00:21:38,134 --> 00:21:40,568 A LOT OF CRACKS FOR PROBLEMS TO 821 00:21:40,637 --> 00:21:40,935 FALL INTO. 822 00:21:41,004 --> 00:21:41,502 THEN, THERE ARE THE FUNDING 823 00:21:41,571 --> 00:21:42,270 ISSUES. 824 00:21:42,339 --> 00:21:45,540 BECAUSE DESPITE THE FACT THE FDA 825 00:21:45,609 --> 00:21:46,574 OVERSEES, REMEMBER, 80% OF FOOD 826 00:21:46,643 --> 00:21:47,241 -- THEY AND THE USDA RECEIVE 827 00:21:47,310 --> 00:21:48,843 CLOSE TO THE SAME AMOUNT OF 828 00:21:48,912 --> 00:21:49,343 FUNDING FOR FOOD SAFETY 829 00:21:49,412 --> 00:21:53,881 OVERSIGHT. 830 00:21:53,950 --> 00:21:54,515 MEANING THE FDA ESSENTIALLY HAS 831 00:21:54,584 --> 00:21:55,149 TO MAKE THE SAME BUDGET GO FOUR 832 00:21:55,218 --> 00:21:56,551 TIMES AS FAR. 833 00:21:56,620 --> 00:21:57,185 ON TOP OF THAT, THE FDA'S JOB IS 834 00:21:57,254 --> 00:21:58,820 MUCH MORE COMPLEX. 835 00:21:58,889 --> 00:21:59,454 BECAUSE WHILE THE USDA'S WORK IS 836 00:21:59,523 --> 00:21:59,921 CONCENTRATED IN LARGE 837 00:21:59,990 --> 00:22:02,924 MEAT-PROCESSING PLANTS -- OF 838 00:22:02,993 --> 00:22:03,524 WHICH WE HAVE RELATIVELY FEW, 839 00:22:03,593 --> 00:22:08,329 AROUND 800 -- THE FDA'S PURVIEW 840 00:22:08,398 --> 00:22:10,531 INCLUDES ABOUT 35,000 PRODUCE 841 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,869 FARMS, 300,000 RESTAURANT CHAIN 842 00:22:14,938 --> 00:22:16,938 ESTABLISHMENTS, 10,500 VENDING 843 00:22:17,007 --> 00:22:19,006 MACHINE OPERATORS, AND ROUGHLY 844 00:22:19,075 --> 00:22:19,507 275,000 FOOD PROCESSING 845 00:22:19,576 --> 00:22:21,809 FACILITIES, MORE THAN HALF OF 846 00:22:21,878 --> 00:22:22,677 WHICH ARE OVERSEAS. 847 00:22:22,746 --> 00:22:23,478 VERY BASICALLY, THE FDA IS 848 00:22:23,547 --> 00:22:24,078 SPREAD EXTREMELY THIN, AND THE 849 00:22:24,147 --> 00:22:30,852 USDA ISN'T. 850 00:22:30,921 --> 00:22:31,385 AND THIS DISCREPANCY HELPS 851 00:22:31,454 --> 00:22:31,953 EXPLAIN A SHOCKING FACT THAT 852 00:22:32,022 --> 00:22:32,553 CAME TO LIGHT AFTER THAT BABY 853 00:22:32,622 --> 00:22:34,388 FORMULA INCIDENT LAST YEAR, 854 00:22:34,457 --> 00:22:35,990 REGARDING THE SIZE OF THE FDA 855 00:22:36,059 --> 00:22:36,757 TEAM THAT'S TASKED WITH 856 00:22:36,826 --> 00:22:41,028 OVERSEEING THOSE PARTICULAR 857 00:22:41,097 --> 00:22:41,295 FACTORIES. 858 00:22:41,364 --> 00:22:41,896 >> IT'S A TOTAL OF NINE PEOPLE 859 00:22:41,965 --> 00:22:44,732 WHO ARE FOCUSED ON INFANT 860 00:22:44,801 --> 00:22:45,333 FORMULA, AT THE FDA, AND THE 861 00:22:45,402 --> 00:22:46,300 BUDGET. 862 00:22:46,369 --> 00:22:46,934 WE GOT AN ADDITIONAL FOUR PEOPLE 863 00:22:47,003 --> 00:22:49,637 ALLOCATED LAST YEAR. 864 00:22:49,706 --> 00:22:50,204 BUT WE'RE GOING TO NEED MORE 865 00:22:50,273 --> 00:22:51,539 THAN THAT. 866 00:22:51,608 --> 00:22:52,206 >> John: THAT'S TRUE, THE ENTIRE 867 00:22:52,275 --> 00:22:53,574 DEPARTMENT OVERSEEING INFANT 868 00:22:53,643 --> 00:22:54,175 FORMULA WAS JUST NINE PEOPLE! 869 00:22:54,244 --> 00:22:59,180 AND THAT IS NOT ENOUGH! 870 00:22:59,249 --> 00:22:59,814 FOR CONTEXT, THIS SHOW HAS FOUR 871 00:22:59,883 --> 00:23:00,248 INTERNS. 872 00:23:00,317 --> 00:23:02,550 AND WE NEED ALL OF THEM! 873 00:23:02,619 --> 00:23:04,252 BUT THE STAKES OF THEIR JOBS ARE 874 00:23:04,321 --> 00:23:05,019 JUST NOT NEARLY AS HIGH. 875 00:23:05,088 --> 00:23:06,954 THEIR ONLY LIFE-OR-DEATH DUTY IS 876 00:23:07,023 --> 00:23:08,389 MAKING SURE MR. NUTTERBUTTER 877 00:23:08,458 --> 00:23:10,091 DOESN'T GET OUT OF HIS CAGE. 878 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,226 OH, SHIT, OH, SHIT. 879 00:23:12,295 --> 00:23:14,262 EVERYBODY STAY INCREDIBLY STILL. 880 00:23:14,331 --> 00:23:18,299 SO CLEARLY, SOME OF THE FDA'S 881 00:23:18,368 --> 00:23:18,933 ISSUES COME FROM WITHOUT, IN HOW 882 00:23:19,002 --> 00:23:21,869 IT'S STRUCTURED AND FUNDED. 883 00:23:21,938 --> 00:23:22,670 BUT SOME OF ITS PROBLEMS COME 884 00:23:22,739 --> 00:23:23,271 FROM WITHIN -- LIKE THE FACT 885 00:23:23,340 --> 00:23:24,572 THAT EVEN BY GOVERNMENT 886 00:23:24,641 --> 00:23:25,840 STANDARDS, IT HAS AN INFAMOUSLY 887 00:23:25,909 --> 00:23:26,941 SLOW BUREAUCRACY. 888 00:23:27,010 --> 00:23:28,009 TAKE, FOR INSTANCE, THIS VERY 889 00:23:28,078 --> 00:23:28,943 SPECIFIC ANNOUNCEMENT THEY MADE 890 00:23:29,012 --> 00:23:31,112 AT THE END OF 2020. 891 00:23:31,181 --> 00:23:31,746 >> A SHAKEUP FOR FRENCH DRESSING 892 00:23:31,815 --> 00:23:33,080 FANS. 893 00:23:33,149 --> 00:23:33,714 THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION 894 00:23:33,783 --> 00:23:36,951 IS PROPOSING REMOVING INGREDIENT 895 00:23:37,020 --> 00:23:37,485 REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SALAD 896 00:23:37,554 --> 00:23:40,788 DRESSING AT THE REQUEST OF THE 897 00:23:40,857 --> 00:23:41,389 ASSOCIATION FOR DRESSINGS AND 898 00:23:41,458 --> 00:23:42,590 SAUCES. 899 00:23:42,659 --> 00:23:43,224 RIGHT NOW, DRESSING MUST INCLUDE 900 00:23:43,293 --> 00:23:44,525 VINEGAR, OIL, AND LEMON OR LIME 901 00:23:44,594 --> 00:23:50,164 IN ORDER TO BE CALLED "FRENCH." 902 00:23:50,233 --> 00:23:50,932 >> John: NOW, I KNOW THAT WAS 903 00:23:51,001 --> 00:23:51,365 ABOUT AN FDA RULING. 904 00:23:51,434 --> 00:23:51,999 BUT THE ONLY THING I'M THINKING 905 00:23:52,068 --> 00:23:53,367 ABOUT AFTER WATCHING THAT CLIP 906 00:23:53,436 --> 00:23:54,001 IS THE ASSOCIATION FOR DRESSINGS 907 00:23:54,070 --> 00:23:57,205 AND SAUCES. 908 00:23:57,274 --> 00:23:57,805 I NOW WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING 909 00:23:57,874 --> 00:23:58,506 ABOUT THEM. 910 00:23:58,575 --> 00:23:59,140 I'M GUESSING RANCH AND BARBECUE 911 00:23:59,209 --> 00:23:59,974 SAUCE ARE THE HEAVYWEIGHTS 912 00:24:00,043 --> 00:24:00,741 THERE. 913 00:24:00,810 --> 00:24:02,176 MAYO TOO, OBVIOUSLY. 914 00:24:02,245 --> 00:24:02,743 AND THERE'S PROBABLY TURMOIL 915 00:24:02,812 --> 00:24:04,278 OVER THE HOT YOUNG NEWCOMERS: 916 00:24:04,347 --> 00:24:06,114 TRUFFLE KETCHUP, GREEN GODDESS 917 00:24:06,183 --> 00:24:07,448 DRESSING, ALL THE FLASHY STUFF. 918 00:24:07,517 --> 00:24:10,885 I GET IT. 919 00:24:10,954 --> 00:24:11,752 BUT WHO DO YOU THINK THE BLACK 920 00:24:11,821 --> 00:24:13,321 SHEEP OF THE ORGANIZATION ARE? 921 00:24:13,390 --> 00:24:13,688 WORCESTERSHIRE? 922 00:24:13,757 --> 00:24:14,589 MAYBE SOME OF THE MORE FUCKED UP 923 00:24:14,658 --> 00:24:16,157 MUSTARDS? 924 00:24:16,226 --> 00:24:17,592 THIS IS THE ONLY THING I'M 925 00:24:17,661 --> 00:24:18,960 INTERESTED IN TALKING ABOUT NOW. 926 00:24:19,029 --> 00:24:19,560 JUST KNOW, ANYTIME I'M TALKING 927 00:24:19,629 --> 00:24:21,295 ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE, 90% OF MY 928 00:24:21,364 --> 00:24:21,896 BRAIN IS STILL FOCUSED ON THE 929 00:24:21,965 --> 00:24:22,497 ASSOCIATION FOR DRESSINGS AND 930 00:24:22,566 --> 00:24:26,134 SAUCES. 931 00:24:26,203 --> 00:24:27,401 BUT THE POINT OF SHOWING YOU 932 00:24:27,470 --> 00:24:28,002 THAT CLIP IS THAT THE FDA MADE 933 00:24:28,071 --> 00:24:28,636 THAT ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE END OF 934 00:24:28,705 --> 00:24:29,737 2020, AFTER MY NEW FAVORITE 935 00:24:29,806 --> 00:24:30,338 TRADE GROUP ASKED THEM TO DO 936 00:24:30,407 --> 00:24:33,274 SOMETHING ABOUT THE DEFINITION 937 00:24:33,343 --> 00:24:34,909 OF FRENCH DRESSING, BACK IN -- 938 00:24:34,978 --> 00:24:38,613 AND THIS IS TRUE -- 1998. 939 00:24:38,682 --> 00:24:39,180 AND WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED THE 940 00:24:39,249 --> 00:24:39,714 DECISION, THEY DIDN'T EVEN 941 00:24:39,783 --> 00:24:40,882 EXPLAIN WHY IT TOOK THEM MORE 942 00:24:40,951 --> 00:24:43,184 THAN TWO DECADES -- SPANNING ONE 943 00:24:43,253 --> 00:24:44,585 9/11, AND THE DISSOLUTION OF THE 944 00:24:44,654 --> 00:24:46,220 SPICE GIRLS -- TO ARRIVE AT THAT 945 00:24:46,289 --> 00:24:48,589 DECISION. 946 00:24:48,658 --> 00:24:49,223 BUT ALL OF THIS DYSFUNCTION HAS 947 00:24:49,292 --> 00:24:51,559 REAL CONSEQUENCES. 948 00:24:51,628 --> 00:24:52,560 BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST BABY 949 00:24:52,629 --> 00:24:53,194 FORMULA OR HONEY SMACKS THAT CAN 950 00:24:53,263 --> 00:24:55,997 CAUSE ILLNESS. 951 00:24:56,066 --> 00:24:56,397 ONE OF THE BIGGEST 952 00:24:56,466 --> 00:24:57,598 VULNERABILITIES IN OUR CURRENT 953 00:24:57,667 --> 00:24:58,232 SYSTEM ACTUALLY HAS TO DO WITH 954 00:24:58,301 --> 00:25:00,501 LEAFY GREENS. 955 00:25:00,570 --> 00:25:02,804 THEY'RE OVERSEEN BY THE FDA, AND 956 00:25:02,873 --> 00:25:03,571 ARE A MAJOR SOURCE OF FOOD 957 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,339 CONTAMINATION. 958 00:25:05,408 --> 00:25:06,207 AND ONE OF THE KEY REASONS FOR 959 00:25:06,276 --> 00:25:08,009 THAT IS THAT LARGE INDUSTRIAL 960 00:25:08,078 --> 00:25:09,644 FARMS HAVE BECOME MORE COMMON, 961 00:25:09,713 --> 00:25:10,278 WITH LIVESTOCK RAISED EXTREMELY 962 00:25:10,347 --> 00:25:12,113 CLOSE TO WHERE CROPS ARE BEING 963 00:25:12,182 --> 00:25:14,849 GROWN, AND SOMETIMES EVEN 964 00:25:14,918 --> 00:25:17,552 SHARING A WATER SOURCE. 965 00:25:17,621 --> 00:25:19,320 AND THAT -- AS THIS EXPERT 966 00:25:19,389 --> 00:25:21,889 EXPLAINS -- CAN BE A REAL ISSUE. 967 00:25:21,958 --> 00:25:22,523 >> HOW WE RAISE ANIMALS CAN FUEL 968 00:25:22,592 --> 00:25:26,294 THE GROWTH OF THESE BUGS. 969 00:25:26,363 --> 00:25:26,861 SO, IF WE CROWD THE ANIMALS 970 00:25:26,930 --> 00:25:29,130 TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE ONE THAT'S 971 00:25:29,199 --> 00:25:29,730 CARRYING A REALLY BAD PATHOGEN 972 00:25:29,799 --> 00:25:32,066 LIKE E. COLI O157, THEN THEY CAN 973 00:25:32,135 --> 00:25:32,633 POOP THOSE BACTERIA OUT, AND 974 00:25:32,702 --> 00:25:37,071 THEN THE SHIT FROM THE CATTLE 975 00:25:37,140 --> 00:25:37,705 WASHES OFF INTO THE -- INTO THE 976 00:25:37,774 --> 00:25:44,774 STREAMS OR INTO CANALS, 977 00:25:45,182 --> 00:25:45,513 IRRIGATION CANALS. 978 00:25:45,582 --> 00:25:48,716 AND THEN THOSE CAN BE USED TO 979 00:25:48,785 --> 00:25:49,684 WATER THESE PLANTS. 980 00:25:49,753 --> 00:25:50,351 WE HAVE THIS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM 981 00:25:50,420 --> 00:25:51,452 FOR THESE PATHOGENS FROM ANIMALS 982 00:25:51,521 --> 00:25:53,888 TO PRODUCE. 983 00:25:53,957 --> 00:25:54,522 >> John: NOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF 984 00:25:54,591 --> 00:25:55,356 EXCELLENT PRODUCTION CHOICES IN 985 00:25:55,425 --> 00:25:57,358 THAT DOCUMENTARY, INCLUDING 986 00:25:57,427 --> 00:25:58,893 DECIDING TO BOTH CINEMATICALLY 987 00:25:58,962 --> 00:26:01,329 SHOOT A COW SHITTING, AND ALLOW 988 00:26:01,398 --> 00:26:03,464 SOMEONE TO SAY THE WORD "SHIT." 989 00:26:03,533 --> 00:26:04,499 I SUPPORT THAT CHOICE. 990 00:26:04,568 --> 00:26:06,100 YOU CAN KEEP YOUR LITTLE 991 00:26:06,169 --> 00:26:09,804 PLEASANTRIES LIKE "FECES" AND 992 00:26:09,873 --> 00:26:10,371 "MANURE," BUT IT'S COW SHIT! 993 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:10,805 CALL IT WHAT IT IS. 994 00:26:10,874 --> 00:26:12,206 WE KNOW IT WHEN WE SEE IT, IF 995 00:26:12,275 --> 00:26:13,908 NOT ALWAYS WHEN WE EAT IT. 996 00:26:13,977 --> 00:26:15,943 BUT THE POINT IS, THAT SHIT CAN 997 00:26:16,012 --> 00:26:17,178 GO FROM THE ANIMALS, INTO WATER, 998 00:26:17,247 --> 00:26:19,080 WHICH IS THEN SPRAYED DIRECTLY 999 00:26:19,149 --> 00:26:21,249 ONTO THE LETTUCE. 1000 00:26:21,318 --> 00:26:23,117 AND GIVEN THE GROWTH IN BOXED 1001 00:26:23,186 --> 00:26:24,919 AND BAGGED SALADS, JUST ONE HEAD 1002 00:26:24,988 --> 00:26:25,553 OF CONTAMINATED LETTUCE CAN GET 1003 00:26:25,622 --> 00:26:26,821 SPREAD OUT ACROSS A LOT OF 1004 00:26:26,890 --> 00:26:30,091 PEOPLE. 1005 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:30,691 AND WHILE, WITH MEAT, YOU CAN 1006 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,395 KILL OFF A LOT OF THE PATHOGENS 1007 00:26:34,464 --> 00:26:34,929 SIMPLY THROUGH THE ACT OF 1008 00:26:34,998 --> 00:26:35,229 COOKING IT. 1009 00:26:35,298 --> 00:26:35,863 WITH PRODUCE LIKE LEAFY GREENS, 1010 00:26:35,932 --> 00:26:36,464 YOUR OPTIONS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY 1011 00:26:36,533 --> 00:26:39,801 MORE LIMITED. 1012 00:26:39,870 --> 00:26:40,434 >> RINSING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 1013 00:26:40,503 --> 00:26:40,968 IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA, BUT 1014 00:26:41,037 --> 00:26:41,936 HEALTH EXPERTS SAY E. COLI ISN'T 1015 00:26:42,005 --> 00:26:46,174 EASILY WASHED AWAY. 1016 00:26:46,243 --> 00:26:46,841 >> I HAD A PROFESSOR WHO USED TO 1017 00:26:46,910 --> 00:26:47,375 SAY, "YOU CAN'T STERILIZE 1018 00:26:47,444 --> 00:26:50,945 LETTUCE WITH A BLOWTORCH." 1019 00:26:51,014 --> 00:26:51,279 >> John: WOW. 1020 00:26:51,348 --> 00:26:55,650 THAT IS A STRIKING THING FOR 1021 00:26:55,719 --> 00:26:56,617 YOUR PROFESSOR TO HAVE SAID. 1022 00:26:56,686 --> 00:26:57,585 ALTHOUGH, TO BE FAIR, IT'S 1023 00:26:57,654 --> 00:26:58,186 TECHNICALLY NOT TRUE, BECAUSE 1024 00:26:58,255 --> 00:26:58,986 YOU OBVIOUSLY CAN STERILIZE 1025 00:26:59,055 --> 00:27:04,625 LETTUCE WITH A BLOWTORCH. 1026 00:27:04,694 --> 00:27:05,359 AND THE REASON I KNOW THAT IS, 1027 00:27:05,428 --> 00:27:05,960 JUST WATCH ME! 1028 00:27:06,029 --> 00:27:06,561 SEE, I'M NOT SAYING THIS IS A 1029 00:27:06,630 --> 00:27:08,229 GOOD IDEA, OR THAT IT TASTES 1030 00:27:08,298 --> 00:27:09,497 GOOD AFTERWARDS, I'M JUST SAYING 1031 00:27:09,566 --> 00:27:10,865 THAT YOU CLEARLY CAN STERILIZE 1032 00:27:10,934 --> 00:27:15,069 LETTUCE WITH A BLOWTORCH. 1033 00:27:15,138 --> 00:27:15,269 OKAY? 1034 00:27:15,338 --> 00:27:18,739 FACTS MATTER. 1035 00:27:18,808 --> 00:27:21,509 AND ALL OF THIS WOULD MAKE YOU 1036 00:27:21,578 --> 00:27:23,478 HOPE THAT OUR PRODUCE IS AS 1037 00:27:23,547 --> 00:27:24,612 THOROUGHLY INSPECTED AS OUR 1038 00:27:24,681 --> 00:27:25,446 BEEF, BUT THE OPPOSITE IS THE 1039 00:27:25,515 --> 00:27:28,950 CASE. 1040 00:27:29,019 --> 00:27:29,851 BECAUSE WHILE THERE ARE OVER 1041 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,419 7,000 WORKERS OVERSEEING BEEF 1042 00:27:31,488 --> 00:27:33,221 FOR THE USDA, THERE ARE ONLY 614 1043 00:27:33,290 --> 00:27:35,022 FDA FIELD INVESTIGATORS 1044 00:27:35,091 --> 00:27:36,491 RESPONSIBLE FOR LEAFY GREENS. 1045 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,226 AND I'D SAY THIS IS A DISASTER 1046 00:27:38,295 --> 00:27:39,327 WAITING TO HAPPEN, EXCEPT IT 1047 00:27:39,396 --> 00:27:39,861 ALREADY HAS HAPPENED, AND 1048 00:27:39,930 --> 00:27:43,564 REPEATEDLY. 1049 00:27:43,633 --> 00:27:46,033 IN 2018, AN E. COLI OUTBREAK IN 1050 00:27:46,102 --> 00:27:47,735 LEAFY GREENS SICKENED 240 PEOPLE 1051 00:27:47,804 --> 00:27:49,203 AND KILLED FIVE ACROSS 36 1052 00:27:49,272 --> 00:27:51,005 STATES. 1053 00:27:51,074 --> 00:27:51,806 LATER THAT SAME FALL, A 1054 00:27:51,875 --> 00:27:55,009 DIFFERENT E. COLI OUTBREAK HIT 1055 00:27:55,078 --> 00:27:56,511 -- AGAIN IN LEAFY GREENS -- BUT 1056 00:27:56,580 --> 00:27:58,045 THE FDA WAS SO TIED UP DEALING 1057 00:27:58,114 --> 00:27:58,946 WITH THE FIRST ONE THAT AN FDA 1058 00:27:59,015 --> 00:28:01,115 EXECUTIVE WROTE TO HIS 1059 00:28:01,184 --> 00:28:02,250 COLLEAGUES, "I HAVE NO RESOURCES 1060 00:28:02,319 --> 00:28:03,518 TO DEPLOY." 1061 00:28:03,587 --> 00:28:05,086 AND IT'S A LITTLE DISCONCERTING 1062 00:28:05,155 --> 00:28:06,320 THAT MESSAGES FROM A MODERN 1063 00:28:06,389 --> 00:28:07,622 PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT SOUND A 1064 00:28:07,691 --> 00:28:08,456 LOT LIKE MISSIVES FROM THE CIVIL 1065 00:28:08,525 --> 00:28:11,859 WAR. 1066 00:28:11,928 --> 00:28:13,928 AND AS THIS FOOD SAFETY EXPERT 1067 00:28:13,997 --> 00:28:14,562 EXPLAINS, ALL OF THAT LEADS TO A 1068 00:28:14,631 --> 00:28:16,998 TRULY STRIKING TRUTH. 1069 00:28:17,067 --> 00:28:18,299 >> WHEN YOU EAT A HAMBURGER, 1070 00:28:18,368 --> 00:28:20,034 THE -- THE MOST DANGEROUS PART 1071 00:28:20,103 --> 00:28:23,337 OF THAT IS NOT THE BURGER. 1072 00:28:23,406 --> 00:28:24,071 IT'S GOING TO BE THE ONION, 1073 00:28:24,140 --> 00:28:27,475 LETTUCE, AND THE TOMATOES. 1074 00:28:27,544 --> 00:28:28,109 >> John: THAT NOT GREAT TO HEAR, 1075 00:28:28,178 --> 00:28:29,310 IS IT? 1076 00:28:29,379 --> 00:28:30,545 PARTLY BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO 1077 00:28:30,614 --> 00:28:31,479 LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE LETTUCE, 1078 00:28:31,548 --> 00:28:32,647 ONION, AND TOMATOES ARE 1079 00:28:32,716 --> 00:28:33,815 DANGEROUS, BUT ALSO BECAUSE I 1080 00:28:33,884 --> 00:28:35,149 DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD 1081 00:28:35,218 --> 00:28:38,186 WHERE GOING TO PANERA IS EDGY. 1082 00:28:38,255 --> 00:28:39,787 PANERA IS, AND SHOULD ALWAYS BE, 1083 00:28:39,856 --> 00:28:40,888 A MILQUETOAST SUBURBAN 1084 00:28:40,957 --> 00:28:42,123 DESTINATION WHERE WOMEN IN THEIR 1085 00:28:42,192 --> 00:28:44,759 50s GOSSIP, GIRLS IN THEIR 1086 00:28:44,828 --> 00:28:45,359 TEENS GOSSIP AND ONE VERY OLD 1087 00:28:45,428 --> 00:28:46,227 MAN EATS A BAGEL OVER THE COURSE 1088 00:28:46,296 --> 00:28:48,996 OF THREE HOURS. 1089 00:28:49,065 --> 00:28:50,364 PANERA SHOULD NOT BE EDGY, BUT 1090 00:28:50,433 --> 00:28:52,133 AS THE FDA SEEMS TO HAVE TURNED 1091 00:28:52,202 --> 00:28:53,167 A GREEK SALAD INTO A LOADED GUN, 1092 00:28:53,236 --> 00:28:55,870 I GUESS IT FUCKING IS NOW. 1093 00:28:55,939 --> 00:28:57,338 SO BY THIS POINT, IT SHOULD BE 1094 00:28:57,407 --> 00:28:57,905 CLEAR A MASSIVE OVERHAUL IS 1095 00:28:57,974 --> 00:29:00,074 NEEDED HERE. 1096 00:29:00,143 --> 00:29:01,409 AND YOU SHOULD KNOW, OVERHAULS 1097 00:29:01,478 --> 00:29:03,644 IN FOOD SAFETY CAN HAPPEN! 1098 00:29:03,713 --> 00:29:06,247 IT HAPPENED TO THE USDA 30 1099 00:29:06,316 --> 00:29:08,516 YEARS AGO, AFTER UNDERCOOKED 1100 00:29:08,585 --> 00:29:09,117 HAMBURGERS AT JACK IN THE BOX 1101 00:29:09,186 --> 00:29:10,084 RESTAURANTS LED TO ONE OF THE 1102 00:29:10,153 --> 00:29:11,219 WORST E. COLI OUTBREAKS IN U.S. 1103 00:29:11,288 --> 00:29:13,321 HISTORY. 1104 00:29:13,390 --> 00:29:15,156 FOUR CHILDREN DIED DURING THAT 1105 00:29:15,225 --> 00:29:16,090 -- SOMETHING THAT, JUST AS A 1106 00:29:16,159 --> 00:29:18,426 SIDE NOTE, JACK IN THE BOX 1107 00:29:18,495 --> 00:29:19,360 EXECUTIVES AT THE TIME COULD'VE 1108 00:29:19,429 --> 00:29:21,762 HANDLED WITH A LITTLE MORE TACT. 1109 00:29:21,831 --> 00:29:23,397 >> THE COMPANY'S PRESIDENT SAYS 1110 00:29:23,466 --> 00:29:24,932 JACK IN THE BOX WILL PAY ALL 1111 00:29:25,001 --> 00:29:26,167 MEDICAL EXPENSES FOR THOSE WHO 1112 00:29:26,236 --> 00:29:27,568 GOT SICK, AND HE URGED CUSTOMERS 1113 00:29:27,637 --> 00:29:29,570 TO COME BACK TO AVERT ANOTHER 1114 00:29:29,639 --> 00:29:31,405 BLOW TO THE COMPANY. 1115 00:29:31,474 --> 00:29:32,907 >> AND THAT SECOND TRAGEDY WOULD 1116 00:29:32,976 --> 00:29:36,711 BE LOSS OF JOBS. 1117 00:29:36,780 --> 00:29:37,411 >> John: THAT IS A SHITTY 1118 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,280 RESPONSE. 1119 00:29:39,349 --> 00:29:40,681 ALSO, HOW IS IT THE CUSTOMER'S 1120 00:29:40,750 --> 00:29:42,617 RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP YOUR 1121 00:29:42,686 --> 00:29:43,751 EMPLOYEES FROM LOSING THEIR 1122 00:29:43,820 --> 00:29:44,585 JOBS? 1123 00:29:44,654 --> 00:29:46,187 IF WE ACCIDENTALLY KILLED FOUR 1124 00:29:46,256 --> 00:29:48,356 PEOPLE DURING ONE OF OUR 1125 00:29:48,425 --> 00:29:49,991 MULTIPLE STUPID EXPLOSIONS, I 1126 00:29:50,060 --> 00:29:50,625 WOULDN'T BE BEGGING YOU TO KEEP 1127 00:29:50,694 --> 00:29:52,293 WATCHING OUR SHOW. 1128 00:29:52,362 --> 00:29:53,628 I'D BE GETTING SENT TO PRISON. 1129 00:29:53,697 --> 00:29:54,228 EXCEPT I'M JUST KIDDING, RICH 1130 00:29:54,297 --> 00:29:55,830 WHITE CELEBRITIES DON'T GO TO 1131 00:29:55,899 --> 00:29:57,665 PRISON. 1132 00:29:57,734 --> 00:29:58,866 FELICITY HUFFMAN TOOK ONE FOR 1133 00:29:58,935 --> 00:29:59,600 THE WHOLE TEAM, SO NOW WE'RE 1134 00:29:59,669 --> 00:30:01,102 SQUARE. 1135 00:30:01,171 --> 00:30:02,370 THE POINT IS, AFTER JACK IN THE 1136 00:30:02,439 --> 00:30:04,605 BOX, THERE WAS A PUBLIC OUTCRY, 1137 00:30:04,674 --> 00:30:05,206 PROMPTING A MAJOR OVERHAUL TO 1138 00:30:05,275 --> 00:30:07,675 THE USDA. 1139 00:30:07,744 --> 00:30:08,342 AND THE THING IS, THE FDA ALMOST 1140 00:30:08,411 --> 00:30:12,580 HAD A SIMILAR MOMENT. 1141 00:30:12,649 --> 00:30:13,281 BACK IN THE LATE AUGHTS, THERE 1142 00:30:13,350 --> 00:30:14,382 WERE A SERIES OF HORRIFIC 1143 00:30:14,451 --> 00:30:15,550 OUTBREAKS IN PEANUT BUTTER, 1144 00:30:15,619 --> 00:30:18,085 SPINACH, AND OTHER FOODS. 1145 00:30:18,154 --> 00:30:18,719 AND IN RESPONSE, CONGRESS PASSED 1146 00:30:18,788 --> 00:30:20,855 THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION 1147 00:30:20,924 --> 00:30:22,023 ACT, WHICH GAVE THE FDA SWEEPING 1148 00:30:22,092 --> 00:30:24,292 NEW POWERS TO REGULATE FOOD. 1149 00:30:24,361 --> 00:30:25,860 AND AT THE TIME, EVERYONE 1150 00:30:25,929 --> 00:30:26,461 THOUGHT THIS WAS A PRETTY BIG 1151 00:30:26,530 --> 00:30:27,728 DEAL. 1152 00:30:27,797 --> 00:30:28,563 >> TODAY, PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNS 1153 00:30:28,632 --> 00:30:29,964 A BILL FOR THE FIRST MAJOR 1154 00:30:30,033 --> 00:30:31,899 OVERHAUL OF THE U.S. FOOD SAFETY 1155 00:30:31,968 --> 00:30:34,068 SYSTEM IN ALMOST A CENTURY. 1156 00:30:34,137 --> 00:30:34,669 >> IT WILL GIVE THE FOOD AND 1157 00:30:34,738 --> 00:30:35,403 DRUG ADMINISTRATION NEW POWERS 1158 00:30:35,472 --> 00:30:38,573 TO FORCE MANDATORY RECALLS WHEN 1159 00:30:38,642 --> 00:30:39,774 FOODBORNE ILLNESS OR OTHER 1160 00:30:39,843 --> 00:30:42,076 HAZARDS ARE FOUND IN THE U.S. 1161 00:30:42,145 --> 00:30:42,810 FOOD SUPPLY. 1162 00:30:42,879 --> 00:30:43,544 >> IF THIS LAW IS A HUGE 1163 00:30:43,613 --> 00:30:44,979 SUCCESS, A LOT OF THAT SUCCESS 1164 00:30:45,048 --> 00:30:47,115 IS GOING TO BE INVISIBLE. YOU 1165 00:30:47,184 --> 00:30:47,715 ARE NOT GOING TO BE SEEING AS 1166 00:30:47,784 --> 00:30:54,784 MANY PEOPLE SICK. 1167 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:57,125 >> John: YEAH! 1168 00:30:57,194 --> 00:30:57,692 IT SOUNDED GREAT! 1169 00:30:57,761 --> 00:30:58,226 EXCEPT IF ALL OF THAT HAD 1170 00:30:58,295 --> 00:30:58,860 ACTUALLY HAPPENED, I WOULDN'T BE 1171 00:30:58,929 --> 00:30:59,427 DOING THIS STORY RIGHT NOW, 1172 00:30:59,496 --> 00:30:59,660 WOULD I? 1173 00:30:59,729 --> 00:31:00,261 WE'D BE BACK TO OUR REGULARLY 1174 00:31:00,330 --> 00:31:01,129 SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING OF HAMSTER 1175 00:31:01,198 --> 00:31:01,896 LONELINESS OR, I DON'T KNOW, 1176 00:31:01,965 --> 00:31:04,031 FUCKIN' TROUT GOUT. 1177 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:05,199 SPOILER ALERT, IT'S MORE COMMON 1178 00:31:05,268 --> 00:31:05,800 THAN YOU THINK, AND CONGRESS 1179 00:31:05,869 --> 00:31:08,770 REFUSES TO ACT. 1180 00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:10,371 THERE WERE JUST TWO SMALL 1181 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:10,972 PROBLEMS WITH THE FOOD SAFETY 1182 00:31:11,041 --> 00:31:11,873 MODERNIZATION ACT: FIRST, WE 1183 00:31:11,942 --> 00:31:14,075 DIDN'T FUND THE FDA TO DO ALL 1184 00:31:14,144 --> 00:31:14,675 THE NEW THINGS THAT WE'D JUST 1185 00:31:14,744 --> 00:31:15,777 ASKED IT TO DO. 1186 00:31:15,846 --> 00:31:17,011 AND SECOND, THE AGENCY WAS STILL 1187 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:18,045 HAMSTRUNG BY ITS GLACIAL 1188 00:31:18,114 --> 00:31:20,214 BUREAUCRACY. 1189 00:31:20,283 --> 00:31:21,349 FOR INSTANCE, THE LAW MANDATED 1190 00:31:21,418 --> 00:31:22,250 THE FDA COME UP WITH A STANDARD 1191 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:24,919 FOR WATER BEING USED IN 1192 00:31:24,988 --> 00:31:25,553 AGRICULTURE -- BASICALLY, A WAY 1193 00:31:25,622 --> 00:31:27,155 TO KEEP YOUR SALAD FROM GETTING 1194 00:31:27,224 --> 00:31:28,856 LIGHTLY MISTED WITH MICROSCOPIC 1195 00:31:28,925 --> 00:31:30,191 COW SHIT. 1196 00:31:30,260 --> 00:31:32,527 THE PROBLEM IS, IT'S 12 1197 00:31:32,596 --> 00:31:33,194 YEARS LATER, AND IT STILL HASN'T 1198 00:31:33,263 --> 00:31:35,329 PRODUCED A FINAL RULE. 1199 00:31:35,398 --> 00:31:37,231 THEY DID, IN DECEMBER 2021, 1200 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:38,699 UNVEIL A PROPOSED RULE, BUT IT 1201 00:31:38,768 --> 00:31:39,567 HAD MAJOR PROBLEMS -- INCLUDING 1202 00:31:39,636 --> 00:31:40,334 THE FACT THAT IT DIDN'T MANDATE 1203 00:31:40,403 --> 00:31:43,304 ANY TESTING. 1204 00:31:43,373 --> 00:31:43,838 INSTEAD, IT ASKED PRODUCER 1205 00:31:43,907 --> 00:31:45,072 GROWERS TO IDENTIFY AND ADDRESS 1206 00:31:45,141 --> 00:31:47,074 THEIR OWN POTENTIAL HAZARDS. 1207 00:31:47,143 --> 00:31:48,209 WHICH IS CLEARLY LESS OF A WATER 1208 00:31:48,278 --> 00:31:49,977 STANDARD AND MORE OF A 1209 00:31:50,046 --> 00:31:52,013 SELF-GRADED WATER QUIZ. 1210 00:31:52,082 --> 00:31:54,081 AND WHILE IT'D BE GREAT IF 1211 00:31:54,150 --> 00:31:56,350 BUSINESSES COULD BE TRUSTED TO 1212 00:31:56,419 --> 00:31:56,984 KEEP THEMSELVES IN CHECK, THAT'S 1213 00:31:57,053 --> 00:31:58,920 NOT GENERALLY HOW THINGS GO. 1214 00:31:58,989 --> 00:32:01,689 FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS, LOOK 1215 00:32:01,758 --> 00:32:03,224 AT LITERALLY ANY BUSINESS. 1216 00:32:03,293 --> 00:32:03,891 AND LOOK, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT 1217 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,694 ARGUE THAT THE FDA SIMPLY NEEDS 1218 00:32:06,763 --> 00:32:07,295 TO BE FUNDED BETTER, AND THAT 1219 00:32:07,364 --> 00:32:08,663 ITS LINES OF AUTHORITY NEED TO 1220 00:32:08,732 --> 00:32:09,330 BE CLEARER. 1221 00:32:09,399 --> 00:32:09,931 AND TO BE FAIR, THERE HAS BEEN 1222 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,066 SOME RECENT PROGRESS THERE. 1223 00:32:12,135 --> 00:32:12,800 JUST LAST MONTH, THEY 1224 00:32:12,869 --> 00:32:15,336 ESTABLISHED A NEW ROLE AT THE 1225 00:32:15,405 --> 00:32:15,937 AGENCY, SO ONE PERSON COULD BE 1226 00:32:16,006 --> 00:32:18,005 IN CHARGE OF THE FDA'S ENTIRE 1227 00:32:18,074 --> 00:32:19,941 FOOD SAFETY PROGRAM. 1228 00:32:20,010 --> 00:32:23,277 IT'S A BIT INCREDIBLE THAT ROLE 1229 00:32:23,346 --> 00:32:25,913 DIDN'T EXIST UNTIL NOW, BUT 1230 00:32:25,982 --> 00:32:26,814 STILL, I'LL TAKE IT! 1231 00:32:26,883 --> 00:32:28,449 THE PROBLEM IS, HISTORY STRONGLY 1232 00:32:28,518 --> 00:32:29,917 SUGGESTS IT WON'T BE NEARLY 1233 00:32:29,986 --> 00:32:31,486 ENOUGH. 1234 00:32:31,555 --> 00:32:34,655 A MUCH BOLDER PLAN WOULD BE TO 1235 00:32:34,724 --> 00:32:35,189 ACTUALLY BREAK THE FDA UP 1236 00:32:35,258 --> 00:32:36,791 COMPLETELY AND IN DOING SO, 1237 00:32:36,860 --> 00:32:38,326 CREATE A NEW AGENCY SOLELY 1238 00:32:38,395 --> 00:32:39,894 DEVOTED TO FOOD. 1239 00:32:39,963 --> 00:32:41,329 NOW, THAT'S A BIG MOVE, AND ONE 1240 00:32:41,398 --> 00:32:42,130 LIKELY TO FACE SIGNIFICANT 1241 00:32:42,199 --> 00:32:43,531 RESISTANCE -- AND IT WOULD NEED 1242 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:44,465 TO BE DONE VERY CAREFULLY. 1243 00:32:44,534 --> 00:32:45,833 BUT I'D ARGUE IT MIGHT BE WORTH 1244 00:32:45,902 --> 00:32:47,034 IT. 1245 00:32:47,103 --> 00:32:48,803 SO MANY EXPERTS WE TALKED TO FOR 1246 00:32:48,872 --> 00:32:50,204 THIS STORY SAID, IF WE WERE TO 1247 00:32:50,273 --> 00:32:51,739 BUILD A FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM FROM 1248 00:32:51,808 --> 00:32:52,840 SCRATCH, IT'D LOOK NOTHING LIKE 1249 00:32:52,909 --> 00:32:54,275 THE FRACTURED SYSTEM WE HAVE 1250 00:32:54,344 --> 00:32:58,513 TODAY. 1251 00:32:58,582 --> 00:32:59,046 AND THE FACT IS, UNDER THE 1252 00:32:59,115 --> 00:32:59,814 SYSTEM WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, FUTURE 1253 00:32:59,883 --> 00:33:02,049 OUTBREAKS AREN'T JUST POSSIBLE, 1254 00:33:02,118 --> 00:33:04,418 THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY INEVITABLE. 1255 00:33:04,487 --> 00:33:05,653 AND I, FOR ONE, DON'T WANT TO 1256 00:33:05,722 --> 00:33:06,254 LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THE ONLY 1257 00:33:06,323 --> 00:33:09,624 100% SAFE WAY TO PREPARE A VERY, 1258 00:33:09,693 --> 00:33:16,430 VERY BASIC SALAD IS THIS. 1259 00:33:16,499 --> 00:33:21,202 AND NOW, THIS! 1260 00:33:21,271 --> 00:33:22,537 >> Announcer: AND NOW, CHECK OUT 1261 00:33:22,606 --> 00:33:24,205 THE SEXUAL TENSION BETWEEN FOX 1262 00:33:24,274 --> 00:33:26,140 BUSINESS'S LIZ CLAMAN AND 1263 00:33:26,209 --> 00:33:27,708 CHARLIE GASPARINO. 1264 00:33:27,777 --> 00:33:28,910 >> MY DNA CAME BACK FROM 1265 00:33:28,979 --> 00:33:34,549 23ANDME. 1266 00:33:34,618 --> 00:33:35,516 >> DO YOU HAVE SOME OF US IN 1267 00:33:35,585 --> 00:33:35,817 YOU? 1268 00:33:35,886 --> 00:33:36,317 >> I'M PART OF A TRIBE. 1269 00:33:36,386 --> 00:33:38,686 60% SOUTHERN ITALIAN. 1270 00:33:38,755 --> 00:33:40,688 30% EASTERN EUROPEAN JEW. 1271 00:33:40,757 --> 00:33:43,424 >> NOW I KNOW WHY I LIKE YOU. 1272 00:33:43,493 --> 00:33:44,225 >> I WENT TO A CONFERENCE 1273 00:33:44,294 --> 00:33:44,692 THAT HAD CHICK-FIL-A. 1274 00:33:44,761 --> 00:33:45,560 IT WAS DELICIOUS. 1275 00:33:45,629 --> 00:33:50,465 >> THAT'S VERY ALLURING. 1276 00:33:50,534 --> 00:33:54,135 >> WHAT'S THE OTHER ONE? 1277 00:33:54,204 --> 00:33:54,802 THE OTHER ONE I WENT TO WAS 1278 00:33:54,871 --> 00:33:55,069 EXCELLENT. 1279 00:33:55,138 --> 00:33:55,336 CINNABON. 1280 00:33:55,405 --> 00:33:55,670 >> OOF. 1281 00:33:55,739 --> 00:33:56,370 >> WE COULD START OUR OWN 1282 00:33:56,439 --> 00:33:57,305 EXCHANGE, 1283 00:33:57,374 --> 00:33:58,206 REDHEAD EXCHANGE. 1284 00:33:58,275 --> 00:33:58,706 >> I HOPE THAT'S RIGHT. 1285 00:33:58,775 --> 00:33:59,707 >> YOUR SHOW'S AMAZING, WHY 1286 00:33:59,776 --> 00:34:00,308 WOULDN'T THEY GIVE YOU A GOOD 1287 00:34:00,377 --> 00:34:01,442 REVIEW? 1288 00:34:01,511 --> 00:34:03,544 >> THANK YOU, GOOD TO SEE YOU. 1289 00:34:03,613 --> 00:34:04,011 >> CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND 1290 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,982 SCARLETT JOHANSSON. 1291 00:34:08,051 --> 00:34:08,816 >> YEAH. 1292 00:34:08,885 --> 00:34:09,684 >> STOP. 1293 00:34:09,753 --> 00:34:09,951 >> SORRY. 1294 00:34:10,020 --> 00:34:10,952 >> CHEATING ON ME. 1295 00:34:11,021 --> 00:34:12,487 YOU'RE NOT HERE IN STUDIO. 1296 00:34:12,556 --> 00:34:14,622 >> I'LL BE BACK TOMORROW. 1297 00:34:14,691 --> 00:34:21,691 >> I WILL SCRATCH YOU. 1298 00:34:21,898 --> 00:34:22,463 >> WHY AM I GETTING UP AT 9 TO 1299 00:34:22,532 --> 00:34:22,697 DO THIS? 1300 00:34:22,766 --> 00:34:22,997 >> OH BABY. 1301 00:34:23,066 --> 00:34:23,531 >> GET BACK IN THE STUDIO 1302 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:23,998 ALREADY, MY GOODNESS. 1303 00:34:24,067 --> 00:34:24,632 I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW GOOD 1304 00:34:24,701 --> 00:34:25,133 IT IS TO HAVE YOU BACK. 1305 00:34:25,202 --> 00:34:25,533 >> OH, THANK YOU. 1306 00:34:25,602 --> 00:34:26,033 HOW DO YOU LIKE MY TAN? 1307 00:34:26,102 --> 00:34:29,003 >> [LAUGHS] 1308 00:34:29,072 --> 00:34:29,837 >> I'M GOING TO SAY THIS, I'M 1309 00:34:29,906 --> 00:34:33,307 SORRY. 1310 00:34:33,376 --> 00:34:34,142 DID I TALK PAST MY TIME? 1311 00:34:34,211 --> 00:34:39,647 >> NO, YOU DO PERFECTLY. 1312 00:34:39,716 --> 00:34:40,882 >> YOU FINGERED OR YOU FIGURED? 1313 00:34:40,951 --> 00:34:41,783 >> I FIGURED. 1314 00:34:41,852 --> 00:34:46,254 >> OKAY, THANKS, CHARLIE. 1315 00:34:46,323 --> 00:34:46,654 GREAT TO SEE YOU. 1316 00:34:46,723 --> 00:34:47,221 >> DO YOU WANT ME TO LEAVE? 1317 00:34:47,290 --> 00:34:50,091 >> John: THAT'S OUR SHOW. 1318 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:50,658 THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1319 00:34:50,727 --> 00:34:52,927 GOOD NIGHT! 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